Dimple Discs Label Showcase @ The Lexington An impressively large and enthusiastic crowd braved the cold wet weather on a Thursday night to attend the Dimple Discs label showcase at the much-loved Indie venue The Lexington. They were duly rewarded with an evening of finely balanced and good quality live music. To explain, Dimple Discs is the Peckham, South East London-based independent label run by…
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Sunday 5th September saw the inaugural Tomorrow Calling Festival take place at the beautiful AMP Studios on South East London’s Old Kent Road, curated, managed and compered by Fresh On The Net moderator Neil March. It featured 13 acts performing on two stages with a mixtape playing between sets and stalls selling food and merchandise. A 14th act sadly had to withdraw on the morning…
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Beat alchemist, producer and artist Jay Flames is back with a ten track project in which he breaks into his vault of what seems to be a never ending reservoir of brilliant instrumentals. Here he presents a 10 track opus where he treats us with with different genres, from the ultra smooth “Jack Daniels” to the soulful “Keys Of Snow”. You can hear all these…
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Independent Music Venue Week 2020 A bitterly cold Tuesday night was not enough to deter an enthusiastic crowd from attending this event. I SEE RIVERS have proved popular with Fresh On The Net readers. They have also been regulars on the The BBC Introducing Mixtape with our own Tom Robinson. Tonight they are representing Independent Music Venue Week 2020 at the iconic Half Moon in…
Read MoreRegular readers of Fresh On The Net will know that, as well as being part of our team of moderators and reviews authors, JFlames is an accomplished artist; a rapper, singer, musician and producer whose album I reviewed previously on here. Well now he has teamed up with 8TRED DA GREAT on a 5-track EP released this week. And if I tell you that the…
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Saturday & Sunday 5th & 6th October 2019 @ The Half Moon, Putney. Reviewed by Fresh On The Net’s Neil March (Day 1) & guest writer PaulFCook (Day 2). The growing number of live events focused on new music artists is a welcome development. Music Makers is in its third year; a cool and diverse new music festival held over a weekend at the historic…
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The talented singer-songwriter and Fresh on the Net favourite returns with new single 'Girls' The past three years have seen Derry-born Roisin Donald’s career go from strength to strength. Better known to most as ROE, the now twenty-year old multi-instrumentalist is currently riding the crest of a wave, as she floats from one high-profile support gig to the next, shoring up the likes of Kodaline,…
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Recent Fresh Faves Kongo Dia Ntotila have been on an unstoppable momentum since they stormed the BBC Introducing Stage at Latitude last summer. Helped by a live session on Tom Robinson’s Saturday Night Show on BBC 6 Music and enthusiastic support from BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction, their star continues to rise as a packed crowd at Hoxton’s Lion and Lamb bore testament. The audience…
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Foundlings/Sister John/Cloth @ Sebright Arms, EAST LONDON Saturday 2nd March 2019 The amazing crowdfunded not-for-profit independent label Last Night From Glasgow has been around for three years. So, with their Brighton/London-based signing Foundlings releasing their debut album with the label, what better time for LNFG’s first London show featuring three flagship acts; two of whom have proved popular with the Fresh On The Net audience…
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Thanks to the awesome Jon Read (Project Blackbird/Exile FM) being their trumpeter for the 2019 tour, I had the privilege of a guest ticket to see The Dandy Warhols at the O2 in Brixton. They were supported by Indie-Dream-Pop legends Swervedriver and a young French Alt Pop trio called Juniore. Juniore are a trio consisting of two young women (Keyboards & Vocals and Drums &…
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