THIS WEEK : SONS BETWEEN GUNS Sons Between Guns are a duo from South East London making electronica with a tinge of folk & a splash of indie.To be honest its hard to pin them down to any particular genre and its all the better for that imho. This is music for the soul with sounds for the heart thrown in for good measure. (more…)
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MUSIC VIDEOS THE SCHOLARS – Love The Thunder This video was directed and edited by Sam King Recorded. The Scholars’ music was performed live. The Scholars are an indie rock band from Banbury, Oxfordshire. With influences by The Boxer Rebellion or Twin Shadow, The Scholars formed in 2008 and they have been supporting bands like Two Door Cinema Club, The Boxer Rebellion and Chapel Club.…
Read MoreAnother week, another bumper crop of great independent music springs forth from the Listening Post. Thanks to all the artists who took part this week and made my job easier by writing great music and - to the other artists on this weekend's Listening Post - we very much salute you. Here are your Fresh Faves, Batch 47: AMY SPENCER - Reverie To start us…
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Dear Pariah - So Close The Divide Charlotte Hinchcliff is Dear Pariah a London based singer, songwriter and musician with a voice that will honestly send shivers down your spine. If not, well then you're soulless I'm afraid ;) Originally from Somerset but now based in the big smoke, Charlotte's donned her mantle as she says, when she was at University making music, she felt…
Read MoreTHIS WEEK: ROSE BETTS Rose Betts is a singer/songstress based in London Town. And what a great pianist,songwriter & singer she is. Its my humble opinion that her song Dreamland would be praised to the roofs across the lands if it was Regina Spektor's latest single so why shouldn't we praise it anyroad up as its that good! New talent right here with fine work,worthy…
Read MoreTHIS WEEK: LONESOUND Lonesound is an Indie Guitar Pop act based in Dalston, London - in which James Ewers writes and arranges the songs - and also plays everything, bar the drums. James is blessed with a gift of a voice that sounds great on record, on radio and (alright, this is an educated guess) live too, I'm willing to bet. It sounds like The…
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I worked on a Kent farm for six weeks as a hop picker to buy my first professional guitar - an Epiphone Texan advertised in melody Maker that cost the huge sum of £78. Unfortunately there was no money left over for a padded case, and in my rush to take it over to Queensway and show it to my mentor Alexis Korner, I slipped…
Read MoreBack around 2001, it must have been, Miles Hunt from The Wonderstuff told me to come and see a new American singer-songwriter at The Borderline in London with him. To be honest, my heart sank - with the mental image of yet another dreary troubadour plucking lifelessly at the strings of an acoustic guitar while sat on a stool and warbling about man's inhumanity to…
Read MoreVideo tutorial on how to play the Tom Robinson Band song 2-4-6-8 Motorway on one acoustic guitar. It comes from Anyone Can Play Guitar - part of BBC Radio 6 Music's The Axe Factor series - which also features Bernard Butler and Huey Morgan You can hear the above technique in action on this live acoustic duo version recorded at a gig in Flanders circa…
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THIS WEEK-THE SHALLOWS The Shallows are a 4 piece straight up indie band from London. The line up is Tom Skelton(songwriter,lead vox and guitar) ,Michael Rendall (songwriter,bass, keys, bv's.),Russ Cragg(guitar and bv's) & Timmy Rickard(drums and bv's)-Gotta love everyone taking some vocal duties:). They have released a debut e.p -'About Time Vol.1' with 2 more e.p's planned in the near future. They first came to FOTN's attention…
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