An early broadcast of of Tom Robinson's Evening Sequence from the 6 Music studios - pic comes courtesy of a great 1932 photoset on Flickr tweeted by Jem Stone. Read more on the BBC's 80th Anniversary of Broadcasting House.
Read MoreBy Charlotte Krol Guest blogger & Friend of Freshnet Yesterday BBC Radio 1 released figures from the BPI and Official Charts Company that show a 25% decrease in CD sales from 20.5 million in the first three months of 2011, to 15.3 million this year. Digital sales are instead increasing and account for almost a third of all albums sales. Regardless of the rise…
Read MoreAccording to Wikipedia New York's Anti-Folk movement started in the early 1980s when a booker at Folk City told singer-songwriter Lach that his music was "too punk" for a gig there. Lach started an after-hours club of his own on the Lower East Side called The Fort - and since its opening coincided with the city's Folk Festival, Lach dubbed his event "The New York Antifolk Festival".…
Read MoreShow Of Hands - Steve Knightley and Phil Beer - headline the Royal Albert Hall for the fourth time tonight. Their 21 year career has taken them from playing pub gigs on the South Coast to national and international acclaim - while remaining completely off the radar of the mainstream record industry. In 1997 Steve told me about their unconventional route to success in this…
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Ey oop chucks, how's your life? I thought I'd drop a line or two on the FOTN pages about a forthcoming album that is being given away as a gift. Yep, for free - no money, no empty promises, no love ya and leave ya... Just twenty individual artists and twenty individual songs that are as warm and welcoming as a toasty fire - like summer weather…
Read MoreThis morning in the small hours (1-3am) we held a virtual party on Twitter to mark our last late-night Fresh On The Net radio show. If you'd like to see everybody's tweets, the hashtag was #FarewellFOTN However, when one door closes another opens - and from this Easter weekend I'll be involved in some new and exciting happenings on 6 Music. Firstly NowPlayingAt6Music has been…
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Lady Lykez - Not Your Hair Lady Lykez is a firecracker of an MC from north London: young, sassy, funny, quick fire rap stylings, a massive talent. TOW 'hearts' this girl (as the kidz say) and can’t wait for her to accomplish big things. This release of Not Your Hair is the remix featuring Lady Leshurr, Lioness and Stush - a veritable who's who of young…
Read MoreBBC Introducing: Fresh On The Net has been broadcast on BBC Radio 6 Music every week since 28 October 2008 and will end on 2 April 2012. It started out as a single 120 minute show that went out every Saturday night from midnight (technically Sunday morning). In June 2008 it was expanded to two shows a week which went out at 1am every Sunday…
Read MoreOn March 17th 1962, Alexis Korner & Cyril Davies founded what was to be Britain’s first dedicated electric blues club (or Rhythm and Blues club) at a basement premises opposite Ealing Broadway station. At that venue in April 1962, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards met Brian Jones which subsequently led to the formation of The Rolling Stones who would “cut their teeth” at the club.…
Read MoreMy interview last year with the London band Raven Beats Crow has been visually reimagined by... erm, the London band Raven Beats Crow. This might be a good moment to mention they'll be releasing another deranged single soon called "Second Floor" - but you don't have to wait, you can hear it streaming below. Londoners can catch them live at the following shows: Weds 22…
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