Lux Lisbon is the child of Northerner, Stuart Rook. This child has been set up for some knocks. He's a bit on the chunky side, dressed in clothes a bit too small for him and he likes to write poetry, dishing out his feelings on a plate. He goes up to girls in the playground and tells them they have 'such a pretty face', only to be laughed off the hopscotch court. He's a prime victim for bullies, being tripped up in the corridor, having poster paint penises painted on his back and gets chased home from school. At [...]
The VPME Liverpool based Rash Records are acutely aware that " Britain's Got Talent," furthermore they also know that it is rarely discovered via prime time Saturday night TV. They appreciate that genuine talent is far more likely to be unearthed in tiny venues or through the medium of bedroom recording studios across the land rather than by witnessing fame hungry variety club singers being encouraged by personality vacuums to believe that all they need do to succeed is to " make that song your own." Which is sage advice when you think about [...]
The VPME As part of BBC 6 Music's 10th Anniversary we were delighted to be invited back on Tom Robinson's "Now Playing" show. Our remit was simple, to take over the playlist for half an hour and chose four of our hottest new tracks plus two "6 Music" style classics, whilst providing a commentary via twitter Below is the audio from the show followed by the text of our tweets . Track 1 - Her Way Of Praying - The Jesus & Mary Chain [...]
Howdy dear readers! Thanks to all who voted on Facebook and here for the Never Enough Notes BBC 6Music Blog Awards where our chosen category was Most Unsung Hero. We received lots of deserving nominations from festival security, festival loo cleaners (ick) and box office urchins, but we announced our winner on BBC 6Music last night as we were down at the studio, and you can see all the champions below. Read more..
The VPME A number of people have got been touch over the last few months, asking us where might be the best place to discover new music. This of course gladdens our hearts to know there are people actively seeking out new music and not accepting much of the manufactured dross that inhabits the Top 40. Our answer is of course HERE! But without being facetious you could also check out some of the other great UK blogs which are listed at the bottom right of this page. "BBC Introducing" is also [...]
We have been asked by the lovely Tom Robinson and Now Playing team at BBC 6Music to host an award category at their first ever Music Blog Awards! The ceremony will take place on Friday on 6 Music from 7pm, with Tom Robinson as Master of Ceremonies – but the categories have a slightly different slant than those handed out at the Brits, Oscars or well, anywhere else. Our chosen category is Read more..
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Tweet Do you have a sub-woofer? You may want to be careful. Icky Doome 's beats are as deep and dark as a treacle sink-hole, and if you don't watch out you might just get sucked in. Still, it happened to me, and it's not such a bad experience. In fact, other than pissing off your neighbours by shaking their favourite toy dog portrait off the wall (Did this actually happen to me? Maybe.), it's pretty great. Icky is [...]
Dead Social Club. Dead Social Club are six-piece electronic indie band formed in South London in 2009. There's certainly a vaugue hint of a less doom laden Depeche Mode in the vocal delivery combined with a dash of 802s post punk, yet they manage to make it sound fresh and vital with big chourus's that stay on the right side of epic without ever sounding over blown. Their latest single "Stockholm" (below) is available as a pay what you like free download ( just [...]
Frank Ocean is very good Recently, we've been spending the dead time between Christmas and New Year working our way through a tin of quality street and catching up on Coronation Street. While we were doing that, however, our tip for 2012 was included in Tom Robinson 's round-up of 6Music's listeners' predictions of who will be big next year in the world of pop music in his Now Playing show. We chose Frank Ocean - he's undoubtedly already made an impression with his Nostalgia/Ultra mixtape, released for free [...]
Just a quick note to let you know we'll be on Nowplaying @ 6 Music on Friday 23rd December between 7-9. Tom Robinson will be asking listeners and bloggers to suggest their musical highlights of 2011. Here's our last appearance on the show on 9/12/2011 in which we played Mode Moderne, Victoria And Jacob , Two Wounded Birds, Rebekah Delgado, Bird and Drag Your Heels Related articles Arts review of the year - Radio: The lost sons of our wars live [...]
Last month Cougar Microbes took over Tom Robinson's Now Playing @6Music program selecting some of our favorite tracks. By popular demand here is a full audio version of the show as well as the live tweets that accompanied it. Cougar Mircrobes Now Playing @6Music Takeover - "The little hand says it's time to rock n [...]
Oh my, we are currently caught up in the tinselly vortex of the festive season, what with Christmas shopping festive podcasts, Six music appearances & interviews with pop star types we are sure to be fit for nothing come the big day.. But there's just time to bring you the following musical snippets. ************************ School Of Seven Bells Free Download School Of Seven Bells return in 2012 with their third album, Ghostory , out on February [...]
This week, Veronica Falls, Howling Bells, Zola Jesus and Dirtblonde *************************** VERONICA FALLS. Veronica Falls release their self-titled debut album released 17th October on Bella Union and will be touring the UK with VPME faves Dum Dum Girls in November. "Bad Feeling" By Veronica Falls. ****************************** ****************************** * VPME – Six [...]
It's been a bit quite here lately. This was due in no small part, to a trip to Italy and a wish to never return to Blighty and her relentless grey skies. However return we did and almost immeadiately made our second apperance on Tom Robinson 's Now Playing @ BBC 6 Music If you missed us on BBC6Music you can listen again here (at 22 minutes and 53 seconds) http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/c onsole/b013z70r . We get over excited about our top tip for 2011 The Good Natured , wax lyrical about [...]
Joe writes: Skip forward to 24.30 on iPlayer to hear me, and here's an article I wrote for their blog .
Everything Everything Sunday 27th June 2011 John Peel Stage The looked like this... and they sounded like this... Everything Everything - Final Form by EverythingEverything [...]
Yes, it's back ! June's VPME podcast features classic tracks nestling coquettishly next to new and upcoming artists. Hosted by Ringo Von Pip there's surely something here for everyone, oh and keep an ear out for some special guests too. Listen below or go straight to mixcloud Related articles "Two Men Arrested In Joss Stone Murder Plot!" and related posts (backseatcuddler.com) The VPME Podcast - Episode 2- May 2011. (vonpipmusicalexpress.wordpres s.com) The Von [...]
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Tweet If you're a regular listener of 6 Music (as I am), Jukebox Collective will be no stranger to you. Amongst their 6 Music accolades are: Winner of 6 Music Rebel Playlist against Beady Eye and Carl Barat - April 2011 and Steve Lamacq Interview as "Favourite new band" in April 2011. They have also received heavy support from Tom Robinson, Chris Gorman, Frank Skinner and John Kennedy. Mind you it's not [...]
On Friday I appeared on Tom Robinson's new 6Music show, Now Playing @6Music , which was exciting. I spoke a little about CMU and what we do and then played three songs that we love. Choosing three tracks to play was pretty agonising, but I'm pretty pleased with what I eventually chose. I played clips of Cramm by Three Trapped Tigers , whose brilliant debut album is out next week, and Bridges by Fallulah , in honour of my trip to SPOT Festival in her home country Denmark, where I'm writing [...]
Possibly the best non musical use of our vinyl ..ever! Here's our appearance on 6 music via Tom Robinson 's Now Playing on 6 Music , an interactive show where the listeners set the agenda as Tom investigates what's hot on the web. We chose Sarabeth Tucek , Islington Boys Club and in a WORLD exclusive the debut single by Pris - 'The Better You Look The More You See'. Now in yet another exclusive, here's a first peek at [...]
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