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I Can't Keep You by Ex:Re, live at BBC Radio 6 Music Festival 2019

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The Cure At Glastonbury - 1990 - Past Daily Morning Soundbooth

It just wouldn’t be a festival without The Cure. https://pastdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/the-cure-at-glasto-1990.mp3 – The Cure live at Glastonbury 1990 – Starting the morning off with a blast of The Cure, in concert from Glastonbury in 1990. The Cure (of which Robert Smith is the only remaining original member) have had a long and highly successful career. Weathering the changes of…

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New Video: London's deep tan Shares a "Blair Witch Project"-Meets-"Island of Dr. Moreau"-like Visual For "rudy ya ya ya"

New Video: London's deep tan Shares a "Blair Witch Project"-Meets-"Island of Dr. Moreau"-like Visual For "rudy ya ya ya" @deeptanyeah @practisemusic @SpeedyWunder

Through the release of a handful of singles and last year’s critically applauded creeping speedwells EP, London-based post punk trio deep tan — Wafah (vocals), Celeste (bass) and Lucy (drums) — quickly exploded into the national and international post punk scenes: The band was featured in outlets like NME, DIY, Clash, Loud and Quiet, The Quietus, So Young, Notion, Dork, BrooklynVegan, and…

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Been a little 'in the public eye' if you can call it that, in a musical context in the last few days, and as a result of that and being young, a lot of people have been asking me how I discover new music, and that's an excellent question that just becomes trickier as the age range of my questioners changes. I do have multiple sources, some of which are more analogue than others, while some are purely digital. And I do recognise that it's tricky to even keep up with some of these methods: I don't know if I can feasibly tell a 60 year old that five of the artists I played on my last show were bands I found through Instagram and gave a chance to. I can't tell a busy person to read through DIY or Dork Magazine. Bandcamp deep diving also takes its time. I know people that would scoff at the idea of taking an algorithmically recommended band from Spotify or YouTube. Picking up names from the lineups of showcase festivals (which are specifically for emerging artists) is a Task, especially since when artists are smaller, there's less available out there on them. I can't just tell them to listen to BBC 6 Music. I love 6 Music, but they're not going to tell me about the new Canadian artists who literally are touring our country and stopping by our venues. The CBC doesn't serve its mandate in that regards at all.

All this tells me if that there is certainly still a hunger for new music, and a need for someone to present it to people in a way that helps them make sense of all the noise. The over 40s are not going to comb through Tiktok's latest shoegaze revival. Radio should still play a massive, massive role in the music industry, and it's a shame that most people won't know it's out there when they really want it. Commercial radio serves advertiser interests, not that of music fans. Unfortunately that's what most people think radio is at all.

People have got to rediscover their local independent stations, whose curators are only driven by a love for exciting new sounds and acts they've found. Obviously because they don't rely on sponsors like that, they're basically always in need of donations and on the precipice, but we have ways of helping that out. The biggest perhaps is just actually listening to them, and letting people know that they're important. To you, to your friends, to the music community. When campus stations and other independent art initiatives apply for grants and funding from art councils, the work that we're doing and its impact on, and our involvement in the community is a big factor in whether we get funding or not.

I don't quite know what the 'call to action' on this post is, I'm genuinely just thinking out loud since I've been talking to people who showed up at these festival gigs drawn by a headliner but impressed by the openers and wanting to know more new bands! All I can say is show up for openers, stay tuned to the avenues bringing up new music, and spread the word about them! Music isn't dead, not yet ;)

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Earlier today I posted about John Robins' Chortle blog from the 2007 Edinburgh Festival. This made me remember that we do have other records of him around that time, when he sat in with Jon Richardson on the BBC 6 Music radio show while Russell was in Australia. And he was a guest on the Jon Richardson Show a few times, post-Russell's departure, in 2008-09. All of which I of course re-listened to a little while ago, because I've been following his other podcast/radio/TV/stand-up things alongside the radio show in chronological order, and those were rare examples of stuff from before the XFM chronology. So I listened to it a while ago, but was reminded of it today by those Chortle things, and as a result I now have a terrible song stuck in my head that I need to tell people about.

On the BBC 6 Music show in January 2009, they played a song off what they referred to as his "album", and I was surprised I hadn't heard of that before. John sometimes talk about how he was in a few bands when he was young, but they all sound like very, very low-level things that did a few student gigs but wouldn't have released an album. I had no idea there was a John Robins album out there.

They then played the song, and it was really weird. It was clearly a joke, but it wasn't really comedy. I mean, I guess it's technically comedy. But it didn't seem like enough of a joke to justify how bad it was. Like the lyrics were meant to be funny, but the song itself wasn't a joke, it was meant to be a genuinely funny song. That they released on an album full of, they promised us, similar songs. As of January 2009, this was something that had just come out, and he was playing it on Jon Richardson's radio show in what appeared to be an earnest attempt to get publicity and sell it, he read out a link where people could go to buy the album (obviously I immediately went to that link and it is long dead, a quick look around the internet suggests that it is no longer for sale).

I was listening to this 2009 radio show, and I kept waiting for John Robins to make some sort of joke about it. To acknowledge that this was a really weird stupid thing he did, and they were playing it on the radio as a sort of bit. But that never came.

Here's the relevant clip from that radio show, where they talk about the album and then play the song:

So, the album is called Doing it with Women. The song they played is the title track. I can see where he was going with it. I think that kind of thing was big in the 00s, over-the-top masculine bravado where the joke is that obviously this man is not actually fucking all those bitches as he claims. Kitson used to do a lot of that, it was actually a staple of Chocolate Milk Gang humour in its day. Parody rap battles and shit like that. Obviously people still do comedy like that, but I think it was particularly big in those years. But I think that stuff only works if you make it really, really clear what you're doing. And this song... nothing was clear about it. Nothing was clear and it did not work at all. It doesn't work as comedy, and it definitely doesn't work as music.

I did listen to that episode initially and think, this seems like something I'd expect from a much younger John Robins. Like when they played those excerpts from his days as a student DJ at Oxford, and it was painfully bad but also adorably earnest and sweet and fun to listen to. The Doing it with Women song would make sense if someone uncovered a thing that John Robins made as a university student. Not something he put out in 2009, when I am listening to it for the sake of hearing young John Robins be young, but still, he was well into his comedy career and in his late twenties.

Because of this, I was quite pleased when a few weeks after listening to that, I reached the April 2017 episodes of the Radio X show, when John and Elis covered the drive time slots five nights a week, and had too much time to fill and may have been hard up for content. John Robins mentioned that he once put an album out, and Elis asked him when this was, and John replied, "Far too recently." This was a relief to me - he does know now. He might have been too old by 2009 to think this was a good idea, but at least by 2017, he was aware that not only was it a bad idea, but it was the sort of idea he really should have outgrown by that age.

John: I think it speaks volumes to how embarrassed I am of the album that -

Elis: That you've gone crimson.

John: That in three and a half years of doing this show, I've never mentioned it. Even though it would make for quite good content.

And that would be why I hadn't heard of this album before, even though I didn't listen to the BBC 6 Music stuff until I was already a ways into the XFM/Radio X show (I did break the chronology following a little bit there), and would have expected to know about something like that. Again, here's the relevant clip:

Obviously by the next day (again, they were covering the daily slots that week so they had a lot of hours to cover and really needed the content), they had procured a copy of the Doing it with Women album and played bits of it on the radio while making fun of it. It is great fun to listen to John Robins scramble to clarify that he knows this was not an acceptable thing to record and put in an album, it was a different time, 2009, he does not stand by any of this, he respects women, really, very much. He keeps going between trying to explain why this seemed like a good idea at the time, and disowning it entirely.

For those who do not listen to this radio show and don't know how John Robins' voice normally sounds, he doesn't always sound like he's about to cry. Just when he's talking about terrible albums he made not long enough ago (I mean, I have heard a few other things make his voice crack like that, but not all that many).

Anyway, the reason for this post is that reading those Chortle blogs today reminded me of this story, and being reminded of this story made me think of that song - the title track that he played on the BBC 6 Music show in 2009. And that is why, all day now, I have had "Doing it with women is my favourite kind of hobby" stuck in my head. Because as terrible as the song is, it's got a beat that can be hard to extract from your brain, and it's incredibly annoying. It's really, really annoying, and it's been stuck in my head for so long now, I try playing other songs but then that one just comes back in. So I thought I'd share this and inflict it on other people too. I can't carry this alone.

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Mogway – Ao Vivo – BBC Radio 6 Music Festival https://cenaindie.com/album/mogway-ao-vivo-bbc-radio-6-music-festival/

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Muse headlining Oxegen Festival in Ireland in 2007, a little after their spectacular Wembley headline.

Muse accidentally announced they were playing in an interview, when Matt revealed that they'd been asked to play Live Earth, a global concert to raise awareness about global warming, but that clashed with "a gig in Ireland".

BBC News – Brit winners Muse have revealed they have been asked to play at a major gig to raise awareness of global warming.

"We've been asked. I think it will happen in seven continents around the world, all on 7 July," drummer Dom Howard told BBC 6 Music.

Frontman Matt Bellamy told BBC 6 Music they had a gig in Ireland booked for the same day as the global warming concert.

"There's an issue... we need to work out if we can make it or not, that's basically what it depends on," he told the radio station.

RTÉ's review of the festival praised Muse's "meticulous attention to detail":

To pick a highlight in a festival that boasts an eclectic mix like this is almost impossible. You marvel at the at meticulous attention to detail in Muse's live stage show, are blown away by the energy of The Twang, wear yourself out dancing to colourful performers like Mika and Scissor Sisters and feel like you're being transported to another planet as you gaze at Daft Punk in full flight on day two.

The Wikipedia page of the 2007 event notes that, "Notable performances at the festival included Muse's headlining performance on the Saturday night, complete with the sensational sound and spectacular pyrotechnics that wowed Wembley Stadium earlier this summer".

Muse headlined on the Saturday, 7 July, with Snow Patrol as "co-headliners" with Snow Patrol. Snow Patrol were listed above Muse on the bill, though Muse played after them and so were likely headliners.

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1981

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1982

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1983

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1992

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1998

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2000

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2001

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2003

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2006

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FAITH & MUSIC ITV1 18.9.2006

CHANNEL 4 PROUD PARENTS With Beric Willcox 23.10.2006

2007

BBC RADIO 2 THE SARAH KENNYDY SHOW 7.3.2007

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2008

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2009

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2010

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BBC THREE COUNTIES WITH LORNA MILTON SHOW 4.10.2010

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2011

BBC RADIO WEST MIDLANDS With Mark Regan 25.1.2011

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2012

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BBC RADIO WM BREAKFAST With Pete Morgan 16.7.2012

BBC RADIO TEES With Dave Llewellyn 27.8.2012

LOVE AND MARRIAGE A 20th CENTURY ROMANCE BBC4 2.10.2012

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BBC RADIO 2 STEVE LAMACQ’S ROCK COLLEGE 23.11.2012

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2013

BBC RADIO 4 RAMBLINGS With Clare Balding 28.2.2013

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2014

BBC RADIO DERBY With Andy Potter 29.01.2014

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2015

BBC RADIO LINCOLNSHIRE With Nicola Gilroy 19.1.2015

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BBC RADIO SUSSEX With Allison Ferns 4.2.2015

BBC RADIO BRISTOL With Calire Cavanagh 9.2.2015

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LORRAINE ITV1 13.4.2015

BBC RADIO DEVON THE RICHARD GREEN SHOW 23.5.2015

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2017

BBC RADIO OXFORD With Nick Piercey 27.2.2017

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THE MAIL ON SUNDAY EVENT MAGAZINE SHRINK RAP Inside The Head Of Toyah Willcox 6.8.2017

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BBC RADIO MANCHESTER With Becky Want 31.10.2017

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2018

BBC RADIO LONDON With Jo Good 23.1.2018

BBC RADIO 4 Woman's Hour With Jane Garvey 20.2.2018

BBC RADIO 4 Only Artists With Alice Lowe 7.3.2018

THOMPSON'S LIVE Arts and Performing Arts Podcast With Chris Goode 16.5.2018

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CLASSIC POP MAGAZINE Issue 44 September 2018

2019

BBC RADIO TEES Sounds With Bob Fisher 17.1.2019

BBC RADIO LINCOLNSHIRE With Carla Greene 31.1.2019

SDE (SuperDeluxeEdition) Sofa With Simon Darlow With Paul Sinclair March 2019

BBC RADIO ULSTER The Art Show With Marie-Louise Muir 26.3.2019

BBC RADIO KENT With Dominic King 27.3.2019

BBC RADIO GUERNSEY With John Randall 27.3.2019

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BBC RADIO WALES With Eleri Sion 29.3.2019

CELEBRITY RADIO With Alex Belfield 29.3.2019

PHIL MARRIOTT MEETS 3.4.2019

BBC RADIO HEREFORD & WORCHESTER With Tammy Gooding 9.4.2019

BBC RADIO LONDON With Jo Good 12.4.2019

BBC RADIO 4 Loose Ends With Clive Anderson 12.4.2019

BBC RADIO SUSSEX With Mark Carter 14.4.2019

BBC RADIO DEVON With Richard Green 20.4.2019

BBC RADIO SOLENT With Alex Dyke 23.5.2019

BBC RADIO DEVON With Richard Green 8.6.2019

BBC RADIO 2 With Jason Mohammad 30.6.2019

CLASSIC POP MAGAZINE Issue 52 May 2019

THE C86 PODCAST With David Eastaugh 14.7.2019

CLASSIC POP MAGAZINE New Romantics Special Edition November 2019

2020

BBC RADIO YORK With Adam Tomlinson 21.1.2020

BBC RADIO WILTSHIRE With Sue Davies 8.2.2020

TOYAH TALKS SOLO The Box Set Interview 28.2.2020

BBC RADIO SOLENT With Alex Dyke 3.3.2020

BBC RADIO HEREFORD & WORCESTER With Tammy Gooding 3.3.2020

BBC RADIO NORTHAMPTON With Bernie Keith 10.3.2020

BBC RADIO SCOTLAND With Rachel McCormack 24.4.2020

PEARLS OF WISOM #notgoingoutclub With Julie Peasgood 13.5.2020

CATtales 21.5.2020

OCTOPUS TV With Andrew Eborn 2.6.2020

LOVING 80's MUSIC With Helen Barnes 9.6.2020

MEMORY LANE 80's With Hayley Palmer 25.7.2020

CONVERSATIONS With Mark Curry 13.8.2020

BBC RADIO LONDON With Jumoke Fashola 3.10.2020

BRUM RADIO THE MRS BARBARA NICE & FRIENDS PODCAST (Comedy) 13.10.2020

CHERRY RED TV With Iain McNay 4.11.2020

TOYAH TALKS SHEEP FARMING IN BARNET With Phil Marriott 13.11.2020

TOYAH TALKS SHEEP FARMING IN BARNET The Box Set Interview 11.12.2020

2021

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RTÉ ARENA With Seán Rocks 23.5.2021

REIGNITE With Cathy Grant 25.5.2021

BBC RADIO KENT With Chris Addison 26.5.2021

TOYAH TALKS BLUE MEANING The Box Set Interview 28.5.2021

PRIVATE LIVES PODCAST With Paul Robinson 11.6.2021

A WORD IN YOUR ATTIC With David Hepworth and Mark Ellen 15.7.2021

ITV UNSCRIPTED With Nina Nannar 23.7.2021

BBC HEREFORD & WORCESTER With Tammy Gooding 14.8.2021

BBC RADIO 2 With Steve Wright 24.8.2021

BBC RADIO WALES With Janice Long 30.8.2021

BBC BREAKFAST With Louise Minchin and Dan Walker 31.8.2021

BBC RADIO MANCHESTER With Mike Sweeney 1.9.2021

CLASSIC POP MAGAZINE Issue 71 Sept / Oct 2021

RECORD COLLECTOR MAGAZINE Issue 523 October 2021

BBC RADIO DEVON With Richard Green 18.9.2021

THE DYSPRAXIC HELP 4U PODCAST With Billy Stanley 10.10.2021

BBC RADIO 2 With Rylan Clark 23.10.2021

BBC RADIO SCOTLAND With Billy Sloan 30.10.2021

METRO 60 SECONDS 2.11.2021

ITV THIS MORNING With Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby 8.11.2021

OK MAGAZINE Issue 1315 22.11.2021

2022

MY TIME CAPSULE With Michael Fenton Stevens 24.1.2022

ON RECORD | IN CONVERSATION With Satnam Rana 12.5.2022

METROLAND MAGAZINE @ CHILFEST With Sue Archer 2.7.2022

CHOOSE 80s @ CHILFEST 2.7.2022

WOMEN'S HEALTH BREAKING THE TABOOS With Cherry Healey and Dr Dawn Harper 27.7.2022

HOW TO BE 60 With Kaye Adam and Karen MacKenzie 29.7.2022

RETROPOP MAGAZINE August 2022

LOUDER THAN WAR With Nigel Carr 9.8.2022

BBC RADIO 2 THE BREAKFAST SHOW With Gary Davies 16.8.2022

XS NOIZE PODCAST With Mark Miller 25.8.2022

BBC RADIO SCOTLAND THE AFTERNOON SHOW With Nicola Meighan 7.9.2022

TOYAH TALKS ANTHEM The Box Set Interview September 2022

2023

MY 80s PLAYLIST VIRGIN RADIO With Steve Denyer 5.5.2023

POP, THE HISTORY MAKERS With Steve Blame 8.5.2023

BBC RADIO MANCHESTER With Mike Sweeney 31.5.2023

VECTIS RADIO ISLE OF WIGHT With Nik and Kieren 18.6.2023

BBC BREAKFAST With Jon Kay and Sally Nugent 21.6.2023

ABSOLUTE 80s With Chris Martin 22.6.2023

BBC THREE COUNTIES RADIO With Babs Michel 24.6.2023

TOYAH TALKS THE CHANGELING DECEMBER 2023

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Ivan Moult shares new ‘Out Of Time’ single and Announces new LP

Ivan Moult is set to release his third album, 'Songs From Severn Grove', this Spring on independent Welsh record label, Bubblewrap Collective. His previous albums have received radio support from BBC Radio 6 Music and BBC Radio Wales, and have been featured on Folk Radio UK. Ivan's second album, 'Longest Shadow', released in 2018, won him festival slots at Cornbury Festival, Folk on The Dock, and Festival of Voice, as well as support slots with This Is The Kit, Becca Mancari, and Willy Mason. For this new album, Ivan played, recorded, engineered, and mixed all of the instruments himself at his home studio in Cardiff. The album charts a journey of growth and change, beginning with the lockdown during the 2020 pandemic and continuing through Ivan's experiences of fatherhood and the development of his love and relationships. The album showcases Ivan's voice front and centre, with layered harmonies and a soundscape of delay-soaked electric guitars, drums, and bass. The music draws from influences such as J.J. Cale, Nina Simone, and Tim Buckley, creating a fusion of 1960s/70s folk and blues with a contemporary sound. Ivan's unique and original style remains recognisably present throughout the album. The first track to be released from the album will be 'Out Of Time' and will be available across all digital platforms on March 29th. Ivan explains: “Lyrically it’s a song reflecting on the nature of life and finding meaning in making the most of things and living in the moment. Sonically the song started off after I’d been listening to Paul McCartney's ‘Ram’ album and it was quite driving whilst also relaxed but in production it ended up more reverb washed and dreamy.”

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this is literally just for me to have something as reference lmao

2017-2018:

🗓️5.12.17 📍the sunday times magazine

🗓️9.22.17 📍iheart radio festival

🗓️10.29.17 📍london

🗓️11.30.17 📍melbourne

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🗓️5.5.18 📍hong kong

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what kind of promo do you think he will do? or do you want to see him do? obviously he’ll be on radio stations again but i would hope he’d be on a few talk shows - i cant speak for the US ones but maybe some of the UK ones like graham norton even liam has been on that multiple times

Hmmm so far, BMG hasn’t shown their cards really. It seems that at least internationally, Warner Music will be distributing and promoting FitF.

(There are lots of pieces to this album release, so a mistake anywhere along the chain could have resulted in the Amazon leak.)

By going with an early November release, my bet is that BMG is willing to put some money behind the promo. It’s a good release date for winter/ holiday considerations. As I said before, it also dovetails into the Walls January 31, three-year anniversary, which could increase sales of Walls too (a nice gift to fandom would be a deluxe edition of Walls with live remixes and additional tracks like Copy and Change … I’m just saying).

Pre-release promo will be centered around the singles. Ideally they’re spaced 4-6 weeks apart with room for charting and growth. I expect another single after the album release, around end of November/ early December 2022.

I would LOVE to see some long, serious interviews about the album-writing and recording process. I want to hear about the fun things Louis did during the pandemic, the shows he binged, his inspirations, ways he dealt with boredom, where he traveled, books he read, music he listened to, stuff that inspired him. Why does he like BVG so much? Why did he grow his hair long, when Eleanor’s best friend’s boyfriend is a professional barber?

I also want to see really fun segments like Hot Ones and Louis playing with puppies on Buzzfeed.

I know this will probably not happen but … Louis doing comedy skits (and performing music, of course) on UK television. He would feel at home and it would BUST the internet! Completely. I know he never looks comfy in USA TV, so he should do whatever he likes.

Louis invited to perform on SNL. Again, this is not likely, but it would give the album great exposure.

BBC Live Lounge. Isn’t it about fucking time.

Holiday festivals 2022.

Photoshoots… we’re all waiting for model Louis to slay. I hope he’s able to have exposure on bigger media platforms - all of his previous magazine shoots sell out in a matter of minutes, no matter who the photographer is or how he is styled (my favorites from Walls are Cosmo, 1883, and TMRW which was so classy to have an entire zine for him). The portrait photographers adore him.

A serious journalistic profile (NYT, Slate, Vice, Pitchfork, Village Voice). Unlikely but a girl can dream! Maybe for LT3.

Louis plays a small but sentimental NY venue in December 2022. For indie cred!

Headlining India Lollapalloza January 2023.

Lolla Argentina March 2023.

Glastonbury 2023.

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9 Years Of "AM"

In celebration of the 9th anniversary of the release of "AM" by the band Arctic Monkeys, we brought in today's publication a little bit of the history of this incredible band.

9 years that we have the acclaimed "DO I WANNA KNOW".

The band's history happened as follows, after getting their guitars for Christmas 2001, neighbors Alex Turner and Jamie Cook formed a band with their school friends, Andy Nicholson, who played bass, and Matt Helders, who was left to be the drummer.

Under the name Bang Bang, they played covers of bands like Led Zeppelin and sang with a Sheffield accent. After Alex took over the vocal and songwriting task (he actually already had a few), they changed the band's name to Arctic Monkeys.

After some of the first concerts, in 2003, they started recording demo CDs and distributing them to the public. As the offer was limited, fans copied the songs and made them available on the Internet. Even a profile of the band on the MySpace website was created, all without the members themselves being aware. Thanks to this viral dissemination by the great network, soon not only friends, but hundreds of people sang all the lyrics at the concerts.

In 2004, her popularity caught the attention of BBC Radio One and the British press. Mark Bull, a local amateur photographer filmed a live performance and made the music video for "Fake Tales Of San Francisco", releasing it on his website, along with the compilation Beneath The Boardwalk.

In May 2005, the band released their first EP, Five Minutes with Arctic Monkeys, with only 1500 copies on CD and 2000 on 7" Vinyl, but also available on the iTunes Music Store. In June they signed with Domino Records and soon then they played the Carling Stage, the venue for the Reading and Leeds festivals reserved for lesser-known bands. In October, Domino's first release, I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor, went straight to number one in UK singles sales. United, with 38,962 copies.In the same month, they appeared on their first cover of the New Musical Express magazine.

The second single, When The Sun Goes Down, came out on January 6, 2006 and sold 38,922 copies, again reaching the top of sales. Even with the leak on the Internet and intense file sharing, the debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, released in 2006, achieved record sales figures. The 120,000 copies in the UK on the first day alone surpassed the sum of all other "top 20" albums in the country on that date, and the first week closed at 363,735 copies.

Without letting the dust settle, in April 2006 they released a five-track EP, Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys?. Despite the high sales, the songs' foul language resulted in low radio plays, which did not bother the band. Shortly after the EP's release, the band introduced a new bassist, Nick O'Malley. Initially, Nick would only replace Andy on the US tour, but it was later announced that he had left the band permanently. In August, they released Leave Before The Lights Come On, the first single not to reach number one. Shortly thereafter, the album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not won the Mercury Music Prize, leaving behind albums such as The Eraser by Thom Yorke, The Back Room by the Editors and Black Holes and Revelations by Muse.

In April 2007, the Arctic Monkeys released their second album, Favourite Worst Nightmare, which on the 29th of the same month already appeared at number one in the UK charts. From this album came three singles, "Brianstorm", released in April, "Fluorescent Adolescent" in July and "Teddy Picker" in December, ending the album's tour. In 2009, the band released their third album, titled Humbug, with some tracks produced by Josh Homme from Queens Of The Stone Age. Additionally, The Kills singer Alison Mosshart shares vocals with Alex on the track "Fire And The Thud".

Suck It and See, Arctic Monkeys' fourth studio album, came out in June 2011. In February 2012, the band released the song "R U Mine?", which was included on the soundtrack of the video game Forza Horizon. The song was also featured on the group's fifth album, AM,, released in September 2013.

In 2018, the band surprised everyone when they released Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, an album that caused a stir among their fans. Mixing elements of lounge pop, space pop and jazz, the Arctic Monkeys' sixth album was compared to the work of artists such as David Bowie, Serge Gainsbourg, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, among others.

We hope you enjoyed today's post and, if you didn't know the band, you were wasting time, the boys have amazing songs.

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Pritt

Pritt is a CM Bath Spa graduate from 2019, born in Denmark with Eelam Tamil Heritage. Starting her musical journey with YouTube covers she has since gone onto work for the BBC with her own radio show “The Pritt Show.” She is also a critically acclaimed artist who has gained much media attention with her music and focus on her background and culture being key parts to her music.  

Whilst at university... 

During her time on Commercial Music at Bath Spa, Pritt was a part of 2 bands/ acts called “Tiger Trail” who went on to do a tour of the south-west and “Life Under Water”. She also ran an events platform called “A Collective: Soul” hosting music-based events in Bath. She released her debut single ‘Deja Vu’ in 2017 followed by two more singles and her debut EP in this time hosting her listening party for the EP in Second Bridge in Bath. In her third year of university, she joined a mentorship program called NEXXT STEP which was all about celebrating 100 years of women's rights in the UK allowing her to create an EP with 10 other female artists in London and network with industry people. 

Later, she became BBC Asian Networks Future Sounds Artist being the first Tamil woman to do so which really helped progress her career. On 31st December 2022, her cover of one of her dads' favourite songs ‘Unakkul Naane’ started to blow up on Instagram then gained a lot of traction on Spotify becoming its number one viral global song as it went from one million streams to fifty million in roughly 6 months. This opened many doors for her with festivals and show opportunities leading her to be featured on a double page spread in Hello magazine as one of the ‘rising stars of 2024’. 

In her talk she discussed the pros and cons of suddenly going viral and how this affected her. She stated the positives were: 

• GLOBAL recognition 

• The numbers = good revenue which is great for an independent artist 

• Labels will LOVE you 

• Coat hanger effect (people continuing to search through your other songs since they like the viral one) 

• The song will continue to do well for a long time (currently on 250,000 streams a day)   

And the negatives of this she felt were: 

It is a little difficult to steer away from what people "know" you for. 

• If your intention was never to go viral with this song, then it is peak. 

• Burn out 

• People will tap you on the shoulder while you are on a stair master and ask you if you are Pritt.  

She discussed how overwhelming her sudden rise to popularity affected her in many ways. One issue she found was she felt a lot of pressure for her other songs since ‘Unakkul Naane’ to live up to the same hype as that and how her other songs not doing as well made her feel that she needed validation as these songs had more meaning to her and how it limited her creativity as it was a cover that blew up which made feel like she had to stick to that style of music otherwise she would lose the popularity she gained.  

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