THIS WEEK: RACING GLACIERS Racing Glaciers are Danny, Tim, Simon and Matt - a 4 piece band based in Macclesfield who make gorgeous brooding landscape-filling indie-folk. Their lovely song South is a real box ticker for me and meets the criteria set by my ears and heart. It builds, glows, builds and shines. If their upcoming releases are as strong as this and Talking About…
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Hello and welcome to another edition of Six Degrees. This week I have changed the format of the section. Keeping the main structure of six bands (2 videos, 2 tracks and 2 live performances) I have removed my comments and just added the "technical data" of each band and their releases. The reason for this is just to save time while I am still subscribing…
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Each week up to a hundred tunes come into our inbox here at Fresh On The Net, and each of them gets listened to - briefly - by several members of Team Freshnet, including me. We each pick our two or three absolute favourites from that week's batch, and those tracks form our Listening Post: thirty handpicked tracks for your listening enjoyment every weekend. And…
Read MoreTHIS WEEK : ADY JOHNSON Ady Johnson is a singer/songwriter originally from Sudbury in Suffolk and now firmly based in London. This is a man with fire in his belly,poetry in his heart and a bitter sweet bite in his voice. I've had the pleasure of knowing Ady personally for a little while now & catching him live he has never been less than outstanding.…
Read MoreWelcome back to Six Degrees, our music and video section featuring 6 bands every week. Today I am writing from the beautiful city of Salisbury in Wiltshire, having some days off with the family. Beautiful city, nice people, great gastronomy and good beer! ;) Beer? Oh! This sounds good. Let's have one together! A toast for the bands of Six Degrees. Cheers! MUSIC VIDEOS Nudybronque…
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Our Fresh Faves are reviewed this week by Jim Craigen from AlternativeFriday.com An excellent and varied array of music made up the 30 tracks in the Listening Post this week. All these tracks had strong support over the weekend: big thanks to everyone who took the time to listen carefully to all the tunes and pick their five favourities. These are the 11 most-liked tracks,…
Read MoreOf all the vintage digital toys cluttering up my home studio, perhaps my favourite is the Casio Rapman, which I reviewed for Making Music magazine in 1991 (see below). Until working with Swami Baracus on last weekend's Immersion Songwriting event I'd never seen it used by a really gifted rap artist. It struck me that its collection of cheesy oldschool riffs deserved to be shared…
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Team Freshnet’s live pick for this weekend in Manchester My choice of Manchester recommended gig for the upcoming weekend comes in way of an urban festival in its second year. And what a second year it will be. This really has got to be the daddy of any two day intimate independent event. Last year A Carefully Planned Festival brought more than 60 national and…
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THIS WEEK-THE SHALLOWS The Shallows are a 4 piece straight up indie band from London. The line up is Tom Skelton(songwriter,lead vox and guitar) ,Michael Rendall (songwriter,bass, keys, bv's.),Russ Cragg(guitar and bv's) & Timmy Rickard(drums and bv's)-Gotta love everyone taking some vocal duties:). They have released a debut e.p -'About Time Vol.1' with 2 more e.p's planned in the near future. They first came to FOTN's attention…
Read MoreAnother week on six degrees and another opportunity to bring the music of the participant bands of FOTN. Every Tuesday I'll bring you six bands to enjoy a little moment of music. Two videos, two tracks and two live performances from our "fresh" bands. MUSIC VIDEOS Big Wave - Only You Big Wave is releasing their debut single "Only You" on November 5th (official release date). Nevertheless, this five…
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