Blog posts by year and monthAugust 2012
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Tip of the Week: Deaf Club - Sunday
Those who caught Deaf Club on the 主播大秀 Introducing Stage at Reading or Leeds at the weekend will now be well aware of their powers. Their 25 minute set (highlights of which can be seen here) brought a stormy, bewitching atmosphere to the festival that swept far beyond the reaches of the Stage's ...
Tip of the Week: Dear Prudence - Coming Apart Again
This weekend, Dear Prudence play the 主播大秀 Introducing Stage at Reading & Leeds festival. Not an ordinary week for the Brighton band and made even better with a spot on the 主播大秀 Radio 1 playlist for their track Coming Apart Again. Coming Apart Again is a brilliant piece of gothic pop that's dark,...
Huw's Label of Love: Distiller Records
This week's Label of Love is Distiller Records. Fiercely independent and proud to support their artists, their roster is jam-packed full of powerful, exciting artists: Funeral For A Friend, Sound of Guns, St Spirit and Fridge Magnets are just some who have the Distiller stamp on their sleeves. R...
Tip of the Week: Chutes - Brighten Up
Everyone seems to be scratching around for post-Olympic hangover cures this week. Well, good news, we have one too - the cheery sounds of Chutes and their single Brighten Up, currently all over 主播大秀 Radio 1's playlist. Despite the regular repitition of the lyric "the weather's been cold outside...
Huw's Label of Love: Peski Records
This week's Label of Love is Welsh label Peski Records. They've brought us great releases by Cate Le Bon, experimental melodist Jakokoyak and Radio Luxembourg (now known as Race Horses) over the years, and are now stepping up a gear with records by Pippette Gwenno Saunders and Plyci. Rhys Edward...
Tip of the Week: Paigey Cakey - Hood Swag
One of the stars of the 主播大秀 Introducing Stage at Hackney Weekend, Paigey Cakey is an exciting new rapping talent from East London. No stranger to the fame game, Paigey (real name Paige Meade) starred in Joe Cornish's Attack The Block last year and will soon be on your screens in Waterloo Road. ...
Huw's Label of Love: The Leaf Label
Bringing a world of music to our collective ears, The Leaf Label has quietly but assuredly released quality records for the last 17 years. Caribou, A Hawk And A Hacksaw and Efterklang have called Leaf home, and current signings Volcano! are the latest toasts of Leaf HQ. Tony from the label expla...
What can the Performing Arts Fund do for you?
The Performing Arts Fund is a 主播大秀 charity committed to developing new performing arts talent from across the UK. Previous winners of the Fund have gone on to produce a Mercury Prize winning album, perform at the Glastonbury Festival, work with likes of Kanye West and Flo Rida and land starring r...