These Fresh Faves were picked by our readers over the weekend - and reviewed by musician, broadcaster and Fresh On The Net founder Tom Robinson this week. You can hear all these tracks in a single Soundcloud playlist here. So here we are at the end of 2018 with our final set of Fresh Faves as democratically elected by over forty of our readers this…
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Here’s the new single from enigmatic steam-powered beat maestros The Gaslight Troubadours - which features a spoken-word guest vocal from, er, me... It comes from their second album Stranger Swings, which is due for Halloween release on 31 October 2018 via their own Purblind Productions imprint. One Big Con features a wild sonic and visual collage of samples, clips and conspiracy theories. The lyric's my…
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These Fresh Faves were picked by our readers over the weekend - and reviewed by musician, BBC Radio 6 Music presenter and Fresh On The Net founder Tom Robinson this week. You can hear all these tracks in a single Soundcloud playlist here. BEATS & PIECES BIG BAND - Nois Blimey. Working in the jaded world of music radio at the age of 68 it's…
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Sorry - another piece from me that isn't anything to do with music. But several people have asked for more info on Finchden Manor - mentioned last week in my piece about mental illness. So here's an article I wrote for The Times in 2003 about the the visonary educationalist George Lyward who founded it... One night in the winter of 1966 I swallowed a handful…
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Photo and text from Mind Out for Mental Health‘s 1 in 4 project, 2002. One way of looking at mental health problems is as a gap between the way we view the world internally and the way we experience it externally. If there’s too big a gap we get into trouble. I went to a co-ed boarding school in the 60s and fell in love…
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These Fresh Faves were picked by our readers over the weekend - and reviewed by musician, BBC Radio 6 Music presenter and Fresh On The Net founder Tom Robinson this week. You can hear all these tracks in a single Soundcloud playlist here. AILBHE REDDY - Nothing To Doubt A trance-like mood runs through Nothing To Doubt from start to finish - from the dreamy…
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These Fresh Faves were picked by our readers over the weekend - and reviewed by musician, BBC Radio 6 Music presenter and Fresh On The Net founder Tom Robinson this week. You can hear all these tracks in a single Soundcloud playlist here. ADAM WEIKERT - Sloth Earlier this year Adam Weikert gave us I May Be Some Time - a poised, enchanting 83 second…
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This is a quick heads-up to artists and bands that I'm going to be away from Fresh On The Net until November. Next week I'll be co-hosting the BBC Introducing 10th birthday party at Brixton Academy and presenting two sessions at The BBC's Amplify event in London next week, and hosting my weekend radio shows. But after that I'm heading out on tour with my…
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Once again, Monday finds me sitting down to build next week's BBC Introducing Mixtape, and as usual it's a case of trying to cram a quart into a pint pot. That's the expression we used in the old days before decimalisation: somehow trying to cram a litre into a half-litre pot doesn't quite have the same ring. But you get the idea. Each week I…
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The KLF – The White Room
The KLF - or Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu as they've always preferred to be known - are simply unique. That said, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty always had that anarchic Malcolm McLaren vibe of “destroy, subvert and undermine expectations…” and of simply improvising their strategy in response to each new idea or opportunity as it cropped up. That's why The White Room - far…
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