Those reliably naughty boys La Shark have come up with a new bromantic biblical video to coincide with their appearance on the BBC Introducing stage at T In The Park this Saturday July 7th. Their Twitter feed proclaims: “POUR HOMME | POUR FEMME” which pretty much covers all the bases. And Samuel’s mid-song lapse into more »
This week:TOM ROBINSON Tom Robinson is a London based broadcaster & songwriter. Many of you will know the lovely bloke that is Mr Tom Robinson as a very fine DJ and Britain’s finest champion of new independent music artists through his work on this here blog and of course his array of warm & welcoming more »
Hello everyone – sorry, it’s time to repeat last month’s rant about the BBC Introducing Uploader. Last week about eighty people clicked on our Send Us A Track link on this blog and eleven of them have duly ended up as this week’s Fresh Faves. Every one of those artists saw a link saying: “UK more »
This weekend’s live pick from Team Freshnet’s Manchester correspondent – Tom Williams & The Boat- The Deaf Institute (Friday 8th June) In my recent years of putting together Manchester gig guides I’ve found that June is always rather light on live music events. The reason for this? Well more than likely everyone is gearing up more »
Encounter those rare moments you come across a song that is just perfect and you can’t help but have it on repeat? This happened to me today when I got an email from Birdeatsbaby‘s mailing list saying that their video for their new single ‘Anchor’ is available to watch on YouTube today. I had already more »
See the full tracklisting for this week’s Introducing Mixtape on my BBC blog. After giving a keynote talk at Unconference in Leeds the other week – as part of the Live At Leeds festival – a number of musicians came and said hello to me afterwards. Many of them had demo CDs but almost all more »
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.
BBC 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 more »
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WELSH LANGUAGE EMBARGO
Bad news for the many fine young Welsh artists currently singing lyrics in their own language, such as Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog (above). A BBC-wide directive has just been issued with immediate effect, stating that no more Welsh Language music can be played on air until further notice: This e-mail is being widely circulated across the more »