THIS WEEK:ROADIDENDREN Roadidendren is a rapper and songwriter from London and Luton (she says she basically rents the Tardis and splits her time between the two). For the first Prick and Ding of 2014 it is a pleasure to share the crazy good new talent of Roadidendren and her delicious Pop culture mash up.She describes what she does as quirky, opinionated, poetical rap based on…
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BBC Introducing: Fresh On The Net shows (2007-2012) My first BBC Introducing: Fresh On The Net shows began on 6 Music in October 2007 and over the next four and a half years we gave national airplay to over ten thousand tracks by independent artists across a wide variety of genres. In April this year Fresh On The Net moved online here as an independent…
Read MoreThose reliably naughty boys La Shark have come up with a new bromantic biblical video to coincide with their appearance on the BBC Introducing stage at T In The Park this Saturday July 7th. Their Twitter feed proclaims: "POUR HOMME | POUR FEMME" which pretty much covers all the bases. And Samuel's mid-song lapse into French to sing about "la petite mort" will hopefully avoid…
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This week: TOM ROBINSON Tom Robinson is a London based broadcaster & songwriter. His 2015 album Only The Now can be heard on Bandcamp here. Many of you will know the lovely bloke that is Mr Tom Robinson as a very fine DJ and Britain’s finest champion of new independent music artists through his work on this here blog and of course his array of…
Read MoreHello everyone - sorry, it's time to repeat last month's rant about the BBC Introducing Uploader. Last week about eighty people clicked on our Send Us A Track link on this blog and eleven of them have duly ended up as this week's Fresh Faves. Every one of those artists saw a link saying: "UK artists: be sure to submit your latest tracks to the…
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This weekend's live pick from Team Freshnet's Manchester correspondent - Tom Williams & The Boat- The Deaf Institute (Friday 8th June) In my recent years of putting together Manchester gig guides I’ve found that June is always rather light on live music events. The reason for this? Well more than likely everyone is gearing up for the summer of music festivals. I’ve even heard on…
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Encounter those rare moments you come across a song that is just perfect and you can't help but have it on repeat? This happened to me today when I got an email from Birdeatsbaby's mailing list saying that their video for their new single 'Anchor' is available to watch on YouTube today. I had already heard the song as it is on their latest album…
Read MoreSee the full tracklisting for this week's Introducing Mixtape on my BBC blog. After giving a keynote talk at Unconference in Leeds the other week - as part of the Live At Leeds festival - a number of musicians came and said hello to me afterwards. Many of them had demo CDs but almost all were nonplussed by the question "where can I hear your…
Read MoreAn early broadcast of of Tom Robinson's Evening Sequence from the 6 Music studios - pic comes courtesy of a great 1932 photoset on Flickr tweeted by Jem Stone. Read more on the BBC's 80th Anniversary of Broadcasting House.
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WELSH LANGUAGE EMBARGO
Bad news for the many fine young Welsh artists currently singing lyrics in their own language, such as Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog (above). A BBC-wide directive has just been issued with immediate effect, stating that no more Welsh Language music can be played on air until further notice: This e-mail is being widely circulated across the BBC in order to ensure that the BBC does not…
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