TALENTBANQ: LIBRA LAUNCH NIGHT The Libra, Chalk Farm Road, Camden NW1, Thursday 20th February 2025

Following the extended closure of the London Irish Centre, home to the Camden Chapel, for refurbishment, the irrepressible Ray Jones and the Talentbanq team were on the lookout for a new weekly venue of similar capacity and atmosphere. Fortunately Ray discovered The Libra in Chalk Farm Road, a venue with multimedia arts potential run by two budding young female actors and so a new grassroots…

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Fresh On The Net Live: Day 2 @ The Musician, Leicester

NEIL: Sunday 1st December saw Day Two of our unique festival Fresh On The Net Live. With Day One having taken place at The Lower Third in London’s West End, we headed to the East Midlands for Day Two at The Musician on Grafton Street in Leicester; a lovely venue with a proud musical heritage. While I focused on managing the stage, liaising with sound…

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Fresh Faves: Batch 548

These Fresh Faves were picked by our readers over the weekend - and reviewed by Fresh On The Net's DEL OSEI-OWUSU this week. You can hear all these tracks in a single Soundcloud playlist here. Hey everyone! Welcome to another week of fab fresh faves! As always if you want to be featured on my Islington Radio show drop me an email with an audio…

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Live Review: FLORENCE NOON/DAISY VEACOCK/SAACHISEN Pizza Express Live, Holborn, London

Pizza Express Live in Holborn, like its sister venue on Dean Street further into London’s West End, is the perfect setting for this kind of gig. Promoted and curated by the amazing Lorraine Solomons of Success Express who has kindly invited us to join her for the show, the gig is sold out and the atmosphere is buzzing. Moreover, we get to mix cool music…

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Gig Review: High Tide Festival 2024 @ Twickenham: The Beat/Chroma/Tomas Doncker & The True Groove All Stars/Grizzlee/Rough Trade DJs

Neil March and Sherry Sahayaraj attended the High Tide Festival, Twickenham this is what they had to say about it. The 2024 High Tide Festival in the heart of Twickenham, Surrey to the South West of London offered up a refreshingly diverse selection of the old and the new. There were, of course, far more artists and stages than Sherry and I could cover in…

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Fresh Faves: Batch 534

These Fresh Faves were picked by our readers over the weekend - and reviewed by Fresh On The Net's POPPY BRISTOW this week. You can hear all these tracks in a single Soundcloud playlist here. ANDREW HARTSHORN - I Can Hear You Andrew Hartshorn · I Can Hear You This week, courtesy of composer, artist, and Monochrome Motif Records label head Andrew Hartshorn, our Fresh…

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Live Review: Daydreamers/Jacob Alon/Essence Martins

It is good to be at The Lower Third, the venue we hope to use for Fresh on the Net Live. It is the Outernet’s ‘grassroots venue’ linked to the larger venue Here. It is, however, a little annoying that ticket holders have not been told earlier in the day that Girlband!, the main attraction from our perspective, have pulled out of the gig when…

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Live Review: English Teacher/Mary In The Junkyard, Electric.

Incredibly, this is my first time at Electric; the venue that resides where The Fridge once stood. I played The Fridge many moons ago but I have to admit Electric is an improvement. Airy, with several levels, my friend and I are able to grab a perfect spot on the upper balcony. It is sold out tonight on the final date of English Teacher’s first…

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Fresh Faves: Batch 524

These Fresh Faves were picked by our readers over the weekend – and reviewed by Fresh On The Net’s Louise Toal It’s a bittersweet set of Fresh Fave reviews for me, because I’ll be slipping out the back door of FOTN HQ come the end of the month. After almost 6 years, the time feels right for me to break free from my fellow moddies.…

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Album Review: Airplane Mode by Ruinz Ason

A few weeks ago I was coming out of Costa Coffee in New Cross en route to a gig I was putting on at the Amersham Arms when a voice called my name, and there was none other than Reuben aka Ruinz Ason. I think it was literally the first time we had seen each other in about six years! Part of that time, of…

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