TRUE GROOVE ALL STARS ft TOMÁS DONCKER / SAM HUBER / KEITH SHOCKLEE (PUBLIC ENEMY) @ TEMPLE OF ART & MUSIC, LONDON SE1 6DR It is always a pleasure to see the amazing individual and force of nature that is Tomás Doncker, head of the fantastic True Groove label in New York. Not only a serious talent but a genuinely lovely and generous man too.…

Laura Nahr / Laertis @ The Chapel, Camden, London NW1 22-year-old German singer-songwriter Laura Nahr is currently completing a master's degree in Music Business at the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance (ICMP). She has wasted no time, already getting snapped up by Talentbanq whose weekly ‘pop-up venue’, The Chapel in Camden, provides the venue for tonight’s gig. First up though, we have another singer-songwriter. Hailing…

Mari Dangerfield / Fhur / Kingston University Stylophone OrchestraFriday 10th February 2023 @ 229, London W1 Tonight’s gig is an album launch for Dimple Discs signing Mari Dangerfield; an artist who will be familiar to a great many Fresh On The Net readers and is a regular in my Trust The Doc blog. It is just over a year since Mari played the first of…

Lafayette, London N1, Friday 11th November 2022 First a little context. In February 2021, the formerly Bucks-based South London quartet Bleach Lab had a track voted into the Fresh Faves. Old Ways was haunting, imaginative and dynamic, a real stand-out track. Within two months it had found its way onto the playlist of BBC Radio 6 Music and the rest, as they say, is history.…

The Lexington, London N1 — Tuesday, 25th October 2022 The Lexington is fast becoming my favourite Central London venue. Situated halfway up Pentonville Road between Angel and Kings Cross, it has seating around the outside of the main area in front of the stage which, as someone with invisible disabilities, is a deal breaker for me these days. The sound is always clear and well balanced,…

The Vortex Jazz Club, Dalston, London N1Thursday 9th June 2022 It is more years than I care to acknowledge since I last visited The Vortex. It has moved a short distance further towards Dalston from its old Stoke Newington site. Tonight the gig is taking place in the intimate downstairs bar which means, as it is still daylight, I can watch people milling about in…

CUISINE / FAT CONCUBINE / COSTI / PALINDRONES / KUNTESSAThe George Tavern, Shadwell, Wednesday 1st June 2022 The fourth New Posh Club night, curated and promoted by Jera and Hanja of Fat CONCUBINE, is already at its third home in five months. Judging by tonight’s gig, this is likely to be its permanent one for the foreseeable future. A packed, enthusiastic and broadly quite young…

THE BEDFORD, BALHAM, LONDONWednesday 18th May 2022 If ever you needed evidence of Fresh On The Net’s importance to grassroots music artists, The Bedford in Balham tonight would be the place to unearth it. The night is being promoted by stalwart supporter of new music Tony Hardy whose weekly blog Fifty3Fridays is permanently on my essential reading list. It is free entry and two of…