MATTHEW SAXON performs Jóga from Björk's 1997 album Homogenic. Matt Saxon - frontman with Newcastle's Grandfather Birds and drummer with NWKS (Nateley's Whore's Kid Sister) - has given us the exclusive first view of this live performance video: his radical re-imagining of the Björk classic Jóga as a delicate acoustic guitar ballad. "Apart from looking up the lyrics online I arranged this version of Jóga…
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Contrary to all the current doom and gloom in the music industry, it's my belief there's never been a better time for a genuinely talented new artist to get heard. This workshop sets out the many reasons to be cheerful, and how far the rules of the game have changed in 2013. It's packed with first-hand tips on finding and building an audience without the…
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"So what did you do on Bi Visibility Day 2013, Daddy?" Um, I spent the whole of Monday 23rd September compiling a bi-themed YouTube playlist and embedding it on a page here at Fresh On The Net. It's my favourite 29 suggestions made by 6 Music listeners over the weekend on Facebook - here's a preview: PEACHES – I U She LIVING COLOUR – Bi…
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On Thursday 19th January 2012 I hosted a live performance workshop called Stand & Deliver for the 2012 BBC Introducing Masterclass at Abbey Road Studio 2. Video of the full session can still be seen here: the climax was a short set by my special guest Frank Turner which starts at 1:02:00. However that video is now quite hard to find from the BBC Introducing…
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I've lost count of all the pushy parents who have nagged and mithered us at BBC 6 Music over the years to play some selfreleased record by their gifted offspring. Such projects are inevitably driven more by the parents' dreams and ambitions than by those of the young artists themselves. When it's mum or dad who's making the running, we very seldom get to hear…
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This weekend's live pick from Team Freshnet's Manchester correspondent My recommended gig for last week was unfortunately cancelled, so I’m hoping for Manchester’s sake that the same doesn’t happen to this week’s choice. It’s been a while since Chew Lips have been up this neck of the woods and I was rather gutted to see that at last week’s London gig they had support from…
Read MoreThis weekend's live pick from Team Freshnet's Manchester correspondent Well here I am looking for another gig to recommend if you're at a loose end in Manchester this weekend, and to be honest, there's not that much to choose from. Well that was until I stumbled across some bloke called Rough Fields playing at one of my favourite local venues, The Castle Hotel. (more…)
Read MoreNormally I would use this space to tell you about a gig that I’d recommend for the weekend in my city of Manchester, but with this month being a bit shy on shows I thought I’d give you a video to watch of a band I managed to miss a few weeks back. Gutted. (more…)
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Pisces - Voodoo Sarah Negahdari is the guitar-toting frontwoman of LA psych-rockers Happy Hollows who themselves have a new album on the horizon but more on that later. This is her side project, more whimsical folk and psychedelic than what she does with HH, Pisces is what you'd get if you stripped back the noise and chaos of HH with Sarah's voice fore-fronted. Beautiful stuff.…
Read MoreGaggle - Army of Birds Gaggle are an all-female alt choir led by songwriter and arranger Deborah Coughlin. They're signed to Transgressive and their debut album From the Mouth of the Cave is out next month. It's hugely gratifying to see this genre and boundary defying group of singers get the attention they deserve. Already in just this first taster from the record it's proving…
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