Hello lovely people,how is summer treating you? This is the latest Prick and Ding interview in what has become a somewhat intermittent service lately — oh life, you time-sapper you — but it's no less flavoursome let me tell thee as the 2 and a half minute interview returns. Oh no sweet children, we still like to deliver blessed goodness to your eyeboxes and eardimples as often…
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Hello lovely people,how are your lives? I haven't posted a Prick and Ding interview for a fair while as I have been busy building Warm and Toasty Club futures but quality music told me it was time to get back in the saddle and interview some great emerging artists again so here goes.... THIS WEEKS-THE SON(S) The Son(s) are from Leith - the dark soul of…
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Bill Greenhead is good people! Bill is an animator,illustrator and video maker based in Maidstone. He's talented,he's super creative and full of idea's,he's kind to children and small animals,he's funny,he's real good at drawing and animation and he totally gets the concept of a caring & sharing creative online community. I've been meaning to write about him for ages because I think he's ace and…
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THIS WEEK:WORDS AND NOISES Words and Noises are a Manchester based pop duo Chris Selman and Simon Williams. I mean this as a compliment but people with quirky or different voices often really do very well in the pop game,history is littered with them but in a modern setting I'm thinking of acts like Alt-J or Jake Bugg,they are not the run of the mill voice…
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THIS WEEK :THE WHITE BICYCLES The White Bicycles are a 3 piece from Falmouth,Cornwall. Hello lovely people,how's your lives? I've not had the chance to publish Prick and Ding interviews lately,I've been otherwise engaged with a Snippet release & accompanying gigs and lots of work on The Warm and Toasty Club that has kept me very busy indeed.Accordingly I have a number of artists who have…
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THIS WEEK:COLORAMA Colorama is an alternative pop group formed by Welsh singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Carwyn Ellis. Photo © Chiara Meattelli. They have a lovely vibe to their music that attracted my ears like a bee to pollen. They have that late 60's/early 70's infused songwriting style that served The Divine Comedy so well.I can see they operate in a similar field - in the…
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THIS WEEK:DOUGLAS DARE Douglas Dare is a London-based singer-songwriter, originally from the coastal town of Bridport, South West England. Douglas sings quite unlike anyone I've heard before and thats the joy of the human voice,'Lungful' jumped out of the speakers and at once I was lost,all at sea,yet wrapped in the warmth of home.With a sweet piano refrain that promises new beginnings & wonky claps &…
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THIS WEEK:THE LAKE DISTRICT The Lake District is Trevor Ransom from Seattle & currently living in Los Angeles. The sun is shining,the bee's are a buzzing and I am looking out into a garden full of colour(Thanks Mrs C) whilst I listen to the gorgeous music of The Lake District,yep sometimes life really is a bowl of cherries. I would never have guessed in a…
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THIS WEEK: STEVE DAGLEISH Steve Dagleish is a singer/songwriter based in Saltburn by the Sea. He makes wonderful acoustic music that has an orchestral undercurrent running through it. I met Steve at Folkstock Festival last year when he joined in the banter whilst I was on stage after playing a set on his own. We exchanged pleasantries and he struck me quickly as not only…
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THIS WEEK:TWIN CAVERNS Twin Caverns are Louise Millar and Michael Macias from Sydney, Australia. They make delicious world wide music that swoops & shifts in all the right departments. In writing up these regular interviews with great new music artists I often ponder-Does it really matter nowadays what genre an act works in? If you are here,you are likely here because at Fresh On The Net we…
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