Andrew Marston introduces The Grimaldi Band (Worcestershire)
Unsigned, undiscovered and under-the-radar music, as recorded at the Hay Festival.
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Underground Ocean
Not The End
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HRMX
SpanG
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Performing at Radio 1's Big Weekend
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Ellie Goulding
On My Mind
- Polydor.
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Ellie Goulding
Anything Could Happen
- Polydor.
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In session at the Hay Festival
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The Grimaldi Band
Nangle
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The Grimaldi Band
Hot Codlins
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SBLX
Rubba Devil
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Virgil and the Accelerators
Blow To The Head
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In the news
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Dodgy
You Give Drugs A Bad Name
- Strike Back.
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Nature Of Wires
Time Is Come
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Luke Menel
Unknown Reasons
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Will Champ
Girls 'n' Money
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Performing at Radio 1's Big Weekend
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Years & Years
Eyes Shut
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Years & Years
Shine
- Polydor.
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In session at the Hay Festival
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The Grimaldi Band
The Time We Share
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The Grimaldi Band
St George's Dragon
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In session
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They say it's a unique blend of vocal harmonies, tight melodic guitars and flute.
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Grimaldi was the first modern-day clown, moving away from jesters a couple of hundred years ago and performed on stage in London.
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"Great energy, great harmonies, great musicianship glued together with rock solid melodies" - Andrew Marston.
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Radio 1's Big Weekend: Ellie Goulding
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Back then she was performing at the open mic nights at Doodies on St Owen's Street in Hereford, which is no longer there, and having some of those early CDs played on 主播大秀 Hereford & Worcester.
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Fast forward a decade - and she's now a household name across the globe, with many of her lesser heard singles in Britain flying high in the US Billboard charts.
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Last weekend the 主播大秀 welcomed her back - putting her on stage at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Exeter.
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Radio 1's Big Weekend: Years & Years
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Lead singer Olly Alexander studied Performing Arts at Hereford College Of Arts and became the band's lead singer after meeting at a house party and was overheard singing in the shower!
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He then went on to support last year's 主播大秀 Music Sound Of winner Sam Smith.
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主播大秀 Introducing at the Hay Festival
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The event, which is now in its 29th year, is such a success - there are now Hay Festivals taking place all over the world.
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This year, other musicians included KT Tunstall, Suzanne Vega and Sir Tom Jones.
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Take It To The Bridge
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As part of the celebrations, unique musical collaborations took place on more than forty bridges.
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A whole host of different acts performed on the Sabrina Footbridge, in Worcester, including Connie Gordon, The Rock Choir and Megan Bradley.
Friar Fest, Droitwich
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The event, which began in 2012 as a celebration of 300 years of the Old Cock Inn, now attracts more than a thousand people with over 80 performances taking place during the day.
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主播大秀 Introducing at the Wychwood Festival
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Since 2011, we've been taking the show out on-the-road showcasing the very best musicians from our two counties.
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Our next recording session takes place on Sunday 5 June where we'll be rolling up to the to record several acts who we've been playing on 主播大秀 Hereford & Worcester recently.
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We'll bring the bands - all we need now is the fans!
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None of these artists knew they were being considered for a live session - they were chosen based on the tracks they .
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- Sat 4 Jun 2016 20:00主播大秀 Hereford & Worcester
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