THIS WEEK: THE FOLK The Folk are a 3 piece all girl acoustic pop group from Hertfordshire. The Folk should be familiar to regulars of Fresh on The Net as they have twice had songs featured on our Fresh Faves & in turn been played by our own Tom Robinson on his BBC 6 Music shows After hearing them on FOTN I approached a lovely lady…
Read MoreTHIS WEEK: WEIRD SHAPES Weird Shapes are a 5 piece indie rock band from Stockton-on-Tees. A great band that have featured on these very pages through their fine songs & have been championed by no less than the Fresh On The Net head honcho Tom Robinson Don't take your eye off this band for a minute, they are on a upward trajectory that will likely end…
Read MoreThis Week: STICKBOY Stickboy is Macclesfield-based multi instrumentalist composer/songwriter Craig Edmondson. He has selfreleased three albums and a handful of EPs which have all sold out and are now highly sought-after. I was knocking about on Soundcloud the other day (as you do - coffee in the morning, a little music to help it down) and discovered for myself a brilliantly talented composer/songwriter called Stickboy. I say…
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This week: TOM ROBINSON Tom Robinson is a London based broadcaster & songwriter. His 2015 album Only The Now can be heard on Bandcamp here. 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…
Read MoreThis week:POLARSETS Polarsets are a three-piece from Whitley Bay making blissful indie dance music with a summer vibe at its core. Friends from school, Polarsets are Rob (vocals/guitar), Mike (keys) and James (drums) who make sweet music that could easily save you the expense of forking out on a summer break. Tropics by Polarsets Just pop on any of their songs on the iPod and you…
Read MoreThis week: KEVIN PEARCE Kevin Pearce is a singer/songsmith of great potential from a ramshackle corner of Essex who makes wonderful heartfelt music that feels folk at its heart - yet has a great big dollop of pop sensibility flowing through its veins: It was not only Kevin's skill in writing a well turned-out tune that grabbed my ears and said "LISTEN Johnno!". It was…
Read MoreThis week: LODEKKA Lodekka is London-based funked-up dub multi-instrumentalist Stuart Dace. He makes gloriously dubbed up funky jazz music that wouldn’t sound out of place on a Mike Leigh soundtrack - if he happened to making a film about the cross-pollination of dub, funk & pop music on the streets of working class Britain: Lodekka makes a unique blend of music with a nod to…
Read MoreThis week: THE BIG I AM The Big I Am are a duo from Liverpool making thoughtful folk music with a seam of pop running through the middle. They are Pete McPartland and Colin Heaney - and I think they are rather special. On a stage they rock out like they are playing Axes of the finest rock variety - but actually they favour the…
Read MoreThis week: SCRIMSHIRE Scrimshire is from London and makes blissed out soulful jazz music with a sprinkling of folk. Adam Scrimshire is a songwriter, multi instrumentalist, DJ and producer. He is also one of the men behind independent record label Wah Wah 45s. I fell in love with the music of Scrimshire after catching a fleeting moment of his song A Promise Was All It Was…
Read MoreThis week: TOM ROSENTHAL Tom Rosenthal is a singer/songwriter from London Town who makes lovely new world folk music. I first came across Tom Rosenthal after a tip off from a friend (thanks Lewis) a couple of weeks ago. My late night slumber was perfectly soothed by his melancholy song ‘The Depressed Milkman’ so I wrote a little FOTN piece about it here. Tom’s sound has been described…
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