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May 5, 2013 – 11:48 pm by Tom
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Every Sunday night/Monday morning on BBC Radio 6 Music from 2-3am you can hear a selection of my favourite new tunes from the BBC Introducing Uploader in an hour-long music mixtape. Some of the tunes are recommended by BBC friends and colleagues, others are handpicked by me from our inbox here at Fresh On The Net.
Each of these mixtapes is available free when the radio show ends at 3am via the 6 Music Downloads Page. You’ll also find archived episodes there from the previous 4 weeks. As of this week, the full tracklists and start times are now published here at Fresh On The Net with a link to each artist’s website. These are the listings for Monday, 6th May 2013 – previous mixtape tracklistings can be found on the BBC website.
Tom Robinson
NATIVE TONGUE – Between Heaven & Hell [start 00:13]
http://www.thisisnativetongue.com
“I like a good anecdote,” wrote guest writer ANDY VON PIP when reviewing this track on our Fresh Faves recently “so if you’re sitting comfortably..I’ll begin …Legend has it that Native Tongue were invited to tour with Kaiser Chiefs despite never actually having played a solitary gig before! Their drummer Josh Williams worked for a dog sitting company and as chance would have it, Kaiser Chiefs drummer Nick Hodsgon was one of the clients. Inevitably, their conversations turned from Barbara Woodhouse and Victoria Stilwell towards music and when Josh played Nick one of the bands demos he decided pretty much on the spot to invite them on tour! And if ‘Between Heaven And Hell’ is indicative of what Native Tongue have to offer they certainly wouldn’t have sounded out of place on the bigger stage! Epic and anthemic without ever sounding bombastic or trite!”
THE LOTTERY WINNERS – Elizabeth [start 03:50]
http://www.thelotterywinners.co.uk
Born in Salford and raised on romance, The Lottery Winners can be found pottering somewhere on the musical spctrum between the blithe Beach Boys and the suffering Smiths. “The songs are the most important thing in the world to me” says frontman Thomas Rylance. “I grew up listening to all the painfully miserable eighties bands like The Cure, Smiths and Joy Division, but in all honesty my desire be on stage was Freddie Mercury’s fault”. The promo clip for Elizabeth has already been featured as our video of the day on our Fresh On The Net YouTube channel – and brings out the full poignant charm of this delicious slice of quirky northern pop.
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May 3, 2013 – 7:37 pm by Tom
Earlier today at Liverpool Sound City, I chaired a discussion panel on funding options for musicians and songwriters entitled Money And How To Get It. It featured Joe Frankland from Generator, Laura Whitticase from the PRS For Music Foundation and our very own Chris Bye wearing his hat as an employee of Arts Council England. At the end of the discussion we promised delgates that we would post links to the panel’s most recommended options for funding applications.
Joe and Chris have jointly sent a first instalment: “Here’s a list of funding sources with the caveat that artists should research first…not every fund is suitable or every artist. If you can’t find any links we can send them when not on phones. We’ve not included various business grants but could if you need.
Arts Council England
Majority of bands/songwriters will want Grants for the Arts
PRS for Music Foundation
which breaks down into:
Core Funding – this incorporates Funding for Organisations & Groups and Funding for Individuals
Music Industry Talent Development Fund – a new programme to give grants of between £5k and £15k to bands and solo artists to develop their careers
British Music Abroad – the UK’s music export funding programme supporting artists for international showcasing
Women Make Music – supporting women music creator, composers and performers to make their mark
Jazz Promoters Awards – grants of between £500 – £2000 are available to support new and established small-scale jazz promoters from across the UK
Musicians Benevolent Fund
Youth Music
Ideas Tap
Sky Arts Futures Fund
BBC Performing Arts Fund
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Red Bull Music Academy
Fundersonline.org
And specifically for East Anglia: escalatormusic.co.uk
We also mentioned Umbro Music but it doesn’t appear to be active in 2013.
We hope to add a few further suggestions from Laura – and possibly also from Joe and Chris – in due course.
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April 30, 2013 – 4:40 pm by Mar
After a big break in our Six Degrees section I am back with another group of new releases of our Fresh On The Net bands. Today we are opening our section with the new video by Liverpool band Vasco da Gama. The video was released on April 29 and it is taken from the EP “Geography“.
Our second video is coming from Plymouth. Born in Launceston, indie rock trio PJP Band released their debut album “And So It Goes” with Producer Pete Miles (The King Blues, Sonic Boom 6, We Are The Ocean, Dry The River). Vicious Luck is the second single of this album.
Two tracks are featured today: “St.” from Scottish band “Holy Esque“, and “Pinhole of Light”, from Leeds band Heart-Ships. This last band will be familiar to all of you as it was featured in our Fresh Faves #50 with their song “Five Forks of Lightning” now on video at youtube here.
And to finish our section I want to remark two live sessions that really caught my attention: London singer-songwriter Zemmy Momoh (Telegraph live session) and North Wales singer-songwriter Al Lewis at St Pancras Old Church.
Enjoy and see you next week!
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April 29, 2013 – 8:00 am by Andy Von Pip
This week’s Fresh Faves are reviewed by special guest Andy Von Pip from The Von Pip Musical Express:
Hello! Thought I’d better quickly introduce myself, I’m Andy from the Von Pip Musical Express Blog. We’ve been around for about five years and spend most of our waking hours immersed in new music! We’re based in Liverpool, but the music we feature pays no heed to post codes or lines drawn on maps – our ethos is simple if we love it, we feature it. This coming week you’ll find me wandering around Liverpool Sound City festival, so if you are attending do say hello, I won’t bite (unlike a certain footballer) ! But that’s enough about me let’s get down to this week’s Fresh net faves
CLASSIC PLASTIC – Bucket and Spade Escapade
Apparently, this track was already featured as a Fresh Fave back in November last year and it’s somehow managed to creep back in its stocking feet again! Saying that it’s obviously popular and the people have spoken. I’m getting a definite XTC, Electric Soft Parade feel here, plus a bit of early Blur Brit pop, and even a dash of The Dandy Warhols. Although it’s a tune that wears its influences on its sleeve, it doesn’t actually sound retro in the slightest!
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DARK DARK HORSE – Mercury Nevada
Not to be confused with Brighton’s enigmatic Dark Horses, Dark Dark Horse have already previously impressed Mr Freshnet himself, Tom Robinson, and on the basis of ‘Mercury Nevada’ the reason why is fairly self evident. This is quite simply a wonderful dark, slow building elegiac electronic symphony with a vocal that manages to sound pragmatic yet wistful.… Whoever said electronic music was cold and unemotional was clearly a buffoon.
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April 28, 2013 – 9:00 pm by Tom
Download or subscribe to Tom’s BBC Introducing Mixtape
Every Sunday night/Monday morning on BBC Radio 6 Music from 2-3am you can hear a selection of my favourite new tunes from the BBC Introducing Uploader in an hour-long music mixtape. Some of the tunes are recommended by BBC friends and colleagues, others are handpicked by me from our inbox here at Fresh On The Net.
Each of these mixtapes is available free when the radio show ends at 3am via the 6 Music Downloads Page. You’ll also find archived episodes there from the previous 4 weeks. As of this week, the full tracklists and start times are now published here at Fresh On The Net with a link to each artist’s website. These are the listings for Monday, 29th April 2013 – previous mixtape tracklistings can be found on the BBC website.
Tom Robinson
ELIA & THE LOW TEARS – Sweet Lies [start 00:13]
http://www.facebook.com/eliamusic
Last August we played a great track called Violins by Elia & The Low Tears – who are more than happy for you to think of them as a pop band, so long as you agree that “pop” can incorporate funk, soul and electro and the likes of Joni Mitchell. Their eponymous front man Elia Rulli is the son of renowned jazz musicians who played with the likes of Duke Ellington and Quincy Jones. And while he belives that jazz musicians should not – on general principle – be allowed to raise children, he did at least get to tour and perform all over the world as he was growing up. Last year he formed Elia & The Low Tears with a gang of like-minded obsessives who reflect the diversity Elia loves – girls and boys, gay and straight, black and white, English, German, Australian… Elia & The Low Tears are currently supposed to be recording an EP but that seems to be turning into a mini album verging on not so mini! This new track of theirs recently proved so popular with listeners here at Fresh On The Net, I can’t think of a better way to open this week’s mixtape.
FERAL BROOD – Machine [start 03:42]
http://feralbrood.bandcamp.com
FERAL BROOD are a Sheffield based 5-piece formed in 2012 by Phil and Tom Goodwin, Dan Williamson, Russ Frisby and Eric Mille – and already have a selfproduced album in the bag. Their biog is short on facts and high on hyperbole “armed to the teeth”, “crammed into the cockpit of a supersonic jet”, “missiles of sound”, “inimitable style” – that sort of thing. Apparently their keyboard player “comes straight from Hollywood Boulevard, with Manzerak-esque electric piano right through to nauseating, candy floss induced fairground blasts, a whirlwind of hair and showmanship” ensuring he is “unrivalled to watch and to listen to”. Enough already. Feral Brood are tight, great sounding rock band with songwriting chops that place them well ahead of the pack. Come on guys, your music deserves much better than to be surrounded by this kind of PR guff. For instance how about mentioning in your biog that said excellent selfproduced album is called Balloon, was released on April 10th 2013 and can be streamed in full on your bandcamp page?
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April 24, 2013 – 9:00 pm by Johnno Casson
THIS WEEK: LAISH
Laish are folk rock heroes from Brighton and we think they’re great. Above all – above the dancing folk rock musical interplay, the madcap lyrics and the playful nature of their songs – above all it was Daniel Green’s voice that hooked me good, like a salty sea bass. Voices as rich and engaging as this don’t sprout from the earth daily.
It was their song Carry Me (below) which done jump up and grip me. I cannot stop playing it: it’s become an obsession (not the Calvin Klein kind) that I’m more than happy not to be able to shake off.
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April 24, 2013 – 8:26 am by Tom
Every Monday morning from 2-3am on BBC Radio 6 Music you can hear a selection of my favourite new tunes in an hour-long music mixtape. All the audio is sourced from the BBC Introducing Uploader – some of it recommended by BBC friends and colleagues, some from the inbox at my own Fresh On The Net blog.
From 3am each Monday the latest mixtape is available free via the 6 Music Downloads Page – where you’ll also find archived episodes from the previous 4 weeks. All the tracklists and start times for each track are published here – together with a link to each artist’s website. These are the listings for Monday, 22nd April 2013.
Tom Robinson
WEIRD SHAPES – We Need This [Start 00:13]
http://www.weirdshapes.co.uk
“All we’ve done for the last 12 months is bang our metaphorical brains against every literal piece of studio equipment that we’ve amassed during numerous recent ebay scouting missions” say Weird Shapes (above). The first product of this technological rampage is this track We Need This. As always its a self assessment, against the backdrop of an escapist eulogy written in the confines of British heavy industry. We Need This is the first in a long line of tracks that we’re going to be releasing on different blogs over the coming months. It got its first play on KYEO/Narc and is available to download for free from our Soundloud page (sounclound.com/weirdshapes). So if there are any bloggers out there who might want to feature some exclusive Weird Shapes material, plus an interview with the band, please get in touch dan [at] weirdshapes [dot] co [dot] uk.”
JESS HARVEY – Don’t You Wonder [Start 03:35]
http://facebook.com/JessHarveyMusic
A new discovery – whose music forwarded to us by Kelly Betts from BBC Introducing in Beds, Herts and Bucks – Jess Harvey is an 18 year old songwriter who plays keyboard and guitar. Her debut studio EP, “Heard if not Seen” can be heard and downloaded online, along with various live recordings and her latest original tracks. Experimenting with genres such as pop, jazz and acoustic, her aim is to blend “mellow jazz vocals, intricate piano parts and layered vocal harmonies”. She can regularly be found performing around Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire, and you can catch up with her on Facebook, Bandcamp, Youtube and Soundcloud by googling “Jess Harvey Music”.
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April 22, 2013 – 7:02 pm by James Robins
It’s Monday and once again it’s time for our weekly ‘Fresh Faves’ round up. As always we’d like to give massive thanks to all the artists who submitted their tracks and to all the Fresh On The Net listeners who dropped by to hear them.
EVIL REGENT – You’re So Strange
Hook laden, with a suitable drenching of fuzziness, it’s nigh on impossible to resist tapping your foot and nodding your head to this immensely catchy and resolutely upbeat tune. There’s a real festival vibe to this and if you close your eyes and you’re almost there, sunglasses on and cider in hand, with the early afternoon sun streaming down. On their Facebook page, Evil Regent describe themselves as, “Leeds’ finest reclusive four-piece”, and they’re true to their word as information on them is scant. However it looks like they’re building up a dedicated following in their native Leeds and on this evidence they won’t be able to maintain their life of anonymity for too much longer.
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THE FIREWORKS – All The Things That You Said
There must be something in the air this week, as continuing the summery feel are The Fireworks, with a solid dose of stomping, scuzzy garage rock. Lurching along in slightly tipsy fashion, this track pulls off the trick of being free, loose and a little bit shambolic, whilst all the time maintaining a drive and purpose which holds your focus right to the last chord. The band started life in 2011, with guitarist and vocalist Matthew singing his songs down to phone to friends. However they’ve since developing into fully-fledged four-piece and show of sign of letting up any time soon. ‘All The Things That You Said’ is taken from the band’s recently released self-titled EP, which is available via their website.
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April 19, 2013 – 7:00 am by Tom
In the small hours of a Monday morning from 2-3am you can hear a selection of my favourite new tunes compiled into an hour-long mixtape of nonstop music. All the audio is sourced from the BBC Introducing Uploader – some of it recommended by friends and colleagues and some discovered via Fresh On The Net.
From 3am each Monday the latest mixtape is available free via the 6 Music Downloads Page – where you’ll also find archived episodes from the previous 4 weeks. All the tracklists and start times for each track are published here – together with a link to each artist’s website. This is the mixtape for Monday, 15th April 2013. Pictured above: John Smith.
BODY IN THE THAMES – Disconnect Yourself [Start 00:13]
http://bodyinthethames.bandcamp.com
Body in the Thames is a single human male making musical type noises with analogue synthesizers and drum machines, sometimes ‘singing’ and making occasional use of guitar. He reserves the right to stumble blindly from one subgenre to another along a broad path that might be described as dance music. The limitations of being a solo artist – along with the sheer lack of portability of analogue musical equipment – means that he very, very, very rarely plays live. Though it has been known.
GEORGIA RUTH – Week Of Pines [Start 04:43]
http://www.georgiaruthmusic.co.uk
Raised bilingually in Aberystwyth, Wales, Georgia Ruth says her harp playing is inspired more by the guitar styles of Bert Jansch, Meic Stevens and old folk revivalist records than by the classical instruction she received as a child. This Spring she releases her debut album on Gwymon Records, entitled Week of Pines and featuring various musicians including members of Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog. Georgia plays with ex-Gorky’s member Richard James in his new project Pen Pastwn and also presents a weekly music show on BBC Radio Cymru.
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