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Voila, ça faisait un moment que ça me trottait dans la tête, du coup c'est fait : j'ai repris la production du podcast ! L'épisode 20 est donc disponible sur iTunes, ou sur la barre de navigation à droite, ou même à la fin de ce billet.

Et j'ai également décidé de continuer le site en français, vu que le podcast est lui aussi en français. Et peut-être que du coup, cela va attirer plus de groupes ou chanteurs français, allez savoir !

Du coup vous avez déjà toutes les infos sur les artistes présent dans cette édition dans le billet précédent, je ne vais vous mettre que l'ordre de passage sur le podcast :

• Weatherstar - Believe
• JaeS - Can't Get Enough Of You
• Khalid Quesada - Proverbial Knives
• Ken Coulson - Letters Of My Youth
• Jennie Walker - Black Hat
• Ryan Star - Orphans
• Vintage Blue - Speak
• Victoria Celestine - In The Headlights

En ce qui concerne le mini album de Ryan Star, vous pouvez le télécharger gratuitement ici .

Enjoy et à la prochaine !

with tracks by…. William J. le Petomane, Barry Adamson, Nahuatl Sound System, Mystific, X-Press 2, Mr E, Tribuman, Papamobile, Leyan & Tomap, Chinese Man, Scofferlane, Noah’s Boat, Anneka, Jean Goldkette And His Orchestra.

1. We Are Not Alone, by William J. le Petomane. Rotterdam, Netherlands.  [Soundcloud]
2. Turnaround, by Barry Adamson. Manchester, England. [Central Control]
3. Amor Herido (Murder Rhythm), by Nahuatl Sound System. South America.  [Soundcloud]
4. Lazy (Mystific Remix), by X-Press 2. São Paulo, Brazil [Soundcloud]
5. Du Son Fat (feat. Mr E), by Tribuman. Strasbourg, France [LCL]
6. Stilyage Horosho, by Papamobile. Russia. [Fusion]
7. Get Up (Leyan & Tomap Remix), by Chinese Man. France. [Chinese Man Records]
8. Veto, by Scofferlane. Moscow, Russia. [AF-Music]
9. Shut Her Down (Noah’s Boat Remix), by Anneka) . Germany.  [Soundcloud]
10. Clementine from New Orleans, by Jean Goldkette And His Orchestra . Greece / Russia/ USA  [IODAPromonet]

Jean Goldkette And His Orchestra
“Clementine (From New Orleans)” (mp3)
from “The Big Blast – 100 Classic Big Bands”
(Proper Records)

More On This Album

Grumbler’s sponsorship page to raise money for Oxfam by completing the Trailtrekker challenge.  They will walk 60 Miles in less than 30 hours.

Mark Lee (of the Pocket Gods) autobiography. I plan an interview with Mark about this in a future podcast.

This podcast is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License .

Hosting success, hosting fail, a few more “different” tracks this week.

Songs played

Tenpenny Joke – Popcorn (Jamendo) (Brisbane, Australia)
Houdini Roadshow – Gimme, Gimme (Jamendo) (Düsseldorf, Germany)
Paul Shepard – Bernadette (Jamendo) (Syracuse, US)
Pete Lesperance – The Ride (etelesperance.com) (Scarborough, ON)
Crazy Quilt Bouquet – Tom the Bigamist (Jamendo) (Torquay, UK)
Magdalen Graal – Together (Jamendo) (Rome, Italy)
One Buck Music – Cotton Candy (Jamendo) (Sint Katelijne Waver, Belgium)
Obsidian Shell – Kell Még (Jamendo) (Nagykáta, Hungary)

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking
Bed: Indigo78 – They Live (Jamendo) (Wolverhampton, UK)

Topics

Bernadette Soubirous – the subject of Paul Shepard’s “Bernadette”
We hosted AMPed Show 320 last week
We’re hosting Made In The UK Show #134 this weekend
Daily Mail | Extraordinary top secret call between FBI and Scotland Yard ‘tapped’ by Anonymous
TabloidWatch | ‘Much to the amusement of those watching’
Please leave us feedback on the music or any of the topics that we’ve discussed

Coming Up

Episode 200 will be coming up at the beginning of March 2012. Why don’t you tell us, by February 26, what your favourite track has been over the last 4 years of The Bugcast, and why you like that particular track, and we’ll play it on episode 200. In fact, why don’t you also record some audio to go with it? We’ll be entering all submitters into a prize draw!

Promotions

Association of Music Podcasting
Made In The UK Show

Next week

The next show will be episode 197 broadcast live in the chatroom on Friday 10 February from 21:30 UK time.

Special thanks go to

The artists for allowing us to play their music.
Everyone who joined us in the chat room for the live broadcast of this show.
Internet Archive for hosting the podcast files
Ubuntu UK Podcast and Dumbed Down Life for the use of their Icecast/Shoutcast servers
Butterflies Radio for relaying the live stream on their own service

"One man, one letter" Chris MacDonald, IndieFeed IndiePop

Erin Passmore has a voice that will drop kick your heart. She is perhaps best known for her work in the Regina indie-rock band Rah Rah, where she’s a multi-instrumentalist, contributing drums, keys, bass and her crowd-rousing vocals. Erin’s voice is not brash, booming, or overdone. It’s honest, warm and real. It’s one of those gifts you’re born with. And you can’t help but take notice when she takes the mic.

The collection of Erin’s demos, beautiful in their own right for their sparseness and jolts of Erin’s personality between takes, took her to Montreal in the summer of 2011 and into the studio under the production of Matt Lederman (Holy Fuck, Patrick Watson, The Besnard Lakes). The songs began to bloom. Friends Lowell Campbell (Wintersleep), Mara Pellerin (Gramercy Riffs) joined in alongside a chain of local Montreal-based talent in Tim D’eon (Wintersleep), Dagan Harding, Mishka Stein (Patrick Watson), Andy King, Jason Sharp, Pat Sayers (Young Galaxy) and Vid Cousins (Amon Tobin) to take the demos from charming ideas to an inspired, complete album she’s called (the) Downtown EP.

Released by: Hidden Pony
Release date: Feb 28, 2012

[Bio Via Planetary PR]

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With tracks by…. Full Dub, 1st Monkey In Space, Pama Intl, Mad Professor, Brian May ,UHT, Badaya Sound, Shan-A-Shan, The Dub Oracle, DuBoLoGy.

• 00:00  Self Fulfilling Prophecy, by Full Dub. Dijon, France. [On Dub Ground]
• 04:45 That’s The Question, by 1st Monkey In Space. Sweden.. [ReggaeDubWise]
• 07:51 Inheritance Dub, by Pama Intl meet Mad Professor. London, England.
• 12:28 Sex, Dub, Jazz ‘n’ Roll (Brian May Dub), by UHT. Berlin, Germany / Paris, France. [Soundcloud]
• 16:47 Infinity, by Badaya Sound. Galloway, Scotland. [Soundcloud]
• 20:00  Journey In Baltimore, by Shan-A-Shan. France.  [Jamendo]
• 26:17 Dubbed Babylonian (Idiot Mix 2), by The Dub Oracle. Netherlands. [ReggaeDubWise]
• 30:37 Don’t Give Up, by DuBoLoGy. Rennes, France. [ReggaeDubWise]

This podcast is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License

SHEDCASTING

From the bottom of a very cold garden somewhere in Rowley Regis, the Treadwell Homegrown Facebook Radio Hour presents the first of many broadcasts from it's new spiritual home, Kershaw Studios (Rowley Division), plauqe to soon be hastily mounted with the hope the man himself might one day pop in for a cuppa and a chat.

Music:
The Meditation Singers - Travellin' Shoes
Shubna Mudgal / Ursula Rucker / Business Class Refugees - Stranger Here
Native And The Name - Plain Song
Fil Campbell - My Lagan Love
Dana Falconberry -  "Petoskey Stone"  Buy at Amazon MP3

Bruce Cockburn - Call Me Rose
John Alexander - Going Gone
Whistle Peak - Wings Won't Behave
Songs Of The Sleepwalkers - Set The World On Fire
Franco, TPOK Jazz -  "Très Impoli"  Buy at Amazon MP3

Poetry:
Nate Maxson - Knitting & Knitting Macaroni Funeral Shrouds / Circle 2.0

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It seems like ages since I did one of these…. I mean, it is ages. A whole month of podcast paternity leave. Last year I took January off from podcasting and returned refreshed. I’m not sure if the same can be said for this year. I’ve returned… let’s just leave it at that.

I’m writing this blog entry before recording the show. Hopefully Edinburgh Man Junior (who now has a name) will have kept quiet for the duration – I do have the baby monitor right next to me – and we’ll have had some uninterrupted music and chat.

On today’s show, I needed to wake myself up to get going, so some Australian chiptune happy-hardcore was required. Obviously. There’s a couple of new tracks from Edinburgh bands – podcast favourites My Tiny Robots, and 80′s synth influenced The Machine Room. Bands who also happen to share a drummer. Oh the inscentual nature of the music scene in this city. I love it.

Edinburgh Man 81

Edinburgh Man #81 by Edinburgh Man on Mixcloud

1. Victory Road – “Success is a Sexy Mess” (Played courtesy of Victory Road / Released under a Creative Commons licence)
2. Xiu Xiu – “Hi” (Played courtesy of Polyvinyl)
3. The Machine Room – “Cost Of Progress” (Played courtesy of The Machine Room)
4. My Tiny Robots – “Zut Alors” (Played courtesy of My Tiny Robots)
5. Schwervon! – “Truth Teller” (Played courtesy of Schwervon! / Released under a Creative Commons licence)
6. Randolph’s Leap – “The Nonsense In My Soul” (Played courtesy of Peenko Records)
7. Gospel Music – “Apartment” (Played courtesy of Kill Rock Stars)
8. Former Babies – “Werewolf” (Played courtesy of Bleeding Gold Records)
9. Conveyor – “Mukraker (Single)” (Played courtesy of Conveyor / Released under a Creative Commons licence)

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This week, some really old re-discovered tracks, and of course some new ones. Suspension of accounts at Mevio, not just effecting me but a lot of other podcasters, and how I got through the anger to a karmic state with the help of Hitler.
I’m in print with a new book coming out for musicians called “Learn the right way to Get Played on Radios”, from Beathouse, I interview one of the authors Ian, who was in Switzerland, coping with temperatures below -20c. Thanks to him. If all has gone to plan, the show is now hosted at The Internet Archive, and there should be no distruption of service to you, our valued listener.

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Knights of Fudo: Nothing Unusual
Maroon Town: Are You Ready?, UK
Stony Sleep: Khatoum, USA
Tombs: Gossamer, USA
LeeLou: Kiss Like Carnivores, UK
All The Queens Ravens: Broken Man (HC Mix), UK
Deathboy: RealTime, UK
Manhunt: The Dream (Rebirth of Amen), UK
Chinese Man: Miss Chang (Remix by Tha Trickaz), France
Ribozyme: Over The Galvanized, Norway

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Brooklyn-based Australian transplants WAZU have released their first self-titled EP on Anti-Language Recordings. Described as “Neon Murder Music for the Dance Floor”, and “synth-heavy, post-apocalyptic pop that tips its hat to dark wave gothic gloom while shimmering with a healthy dose of neon (Ziggy) stardust.”

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Back after an enforced one show break due to a conspiracy of frail elderly relatives and an an unbelievably incompetent bank who very very nearly caused me to be fined or worse by the UK tax authorities for not paying on time. Santander, you owe me, big-time. Still, you know the collective noun for bank managers don’t you. It’s a “wunch”. Yeah, you know, “A wunch of bankers”.

Sub-zero temperatures, a fresh very cold wind and low winter sun show one of the old chicken sheds off in its best light!

You Jane - The Wedding Present (UK)

“The boy Gedge has written some of the best love songs of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Era. You may dispute this, but I’m right and you’re wrong!” John Peel.

The Wedding Present have had eighteen UK Top 40 hit singles… not bad for a band that has, from its inception, stubbornly refused to play the record industry’s game. That was back in 1985 when David Lewis Gedge boarded a National Express coach in London with 500 records packed into a pair of his mother's suitcases. 

You Jane is the first single from The Wedding Present's much anticipated eighth studio album, ‘Valentina’. Valentina comes four years after 2008’s ‘El Rey’ and was recorded in France, California and England during 2011 and mixed by Andrew Scheps.

Following an album launch event at the ‘South By Southwest’ music festival in Austin, Texas, the band will be embarking on a tour of North America. This tour will be extra special because, as well as celebrating the release of Valentina, the band will be playing their classic album ‘Seamonsters’ live, in its entirety. Following the North American dates the band will be moving on to Australia, Japan and Continental Europe before bringing the whole event home with an extensive tour of The United Kingdom and Ireland in the autumn.

The Wedding Present
"You Jane" (mp3)
from "You Jane"
(Scopitones)

More On This Album

www.scopitones.co.uk/

Born Whole - Doe Paora (Brooklyn, NY)

Doe Paoro’s self-described “ghost soul” music hovers on the edge of ethereal, entreating the listener to be transported to a shape-shifting, cosmic black hole of sound and anti-sound where her voice is utilized as an uncommon instrument and the space between notes shoulders as much significance as the notes themselves. And come 2/13/2011 Doe Paoro will be celebrating at the album release party for her forthcoming album, Slow to Love, at Glasslands Gallery in her adopted home of Brooklyn, NY. 

After her stunning debut performance at L.E.S. hotspot Pianos, she was officially invited to perform at SXSW. In other words, keep an eye and an ear out for Doe Paoro.

http://doepaoro.bandcamp.com

 

The Great Escape

The Great Escape’s first line up announcement has landed and we couldn’t be more excited! From Catalan garage to Australian Electro-chant, UK Surf to Canadian Blues, a staggering host of remarkable sounds have already been secured.

 Amongst the raw talent on display we have rockers DRY THE RIVER, Danish electro-poppers WHEN SAINTS GO MACHINE, Afrotronic super group AFRICA EXPRESS SOUND SYSTEM, hard-core Aussie duo DZ DEATHRAYS, Dalston outfit SPECTOR, currently acclaimed twisted pop bands ALT-J and DJANGO DJANGO, pianist PERFUME GENIUS,  contemporary composers A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN and so many more. Europe’s leading festival for new music is also bringing new Catalan Sounds to the British seaside like MUJERES, ME AND THE BEES, SEWARD and FURGUSON, as part of the lead International partnership with the Institut Ramon Llull. There are more Catalan and Balearic artists to be announced soon. You should brace yourselves music lovers because this will be a year to remember!

 CORE PROGRAMME

DRY THE RIVER  SPECTOR  WE ARE THE OCEAN  FRIENDS  HOWLER  ZULU WINTER  

ALT-J GRIMES  DZ DEATHRAYS  NILS FRAHM A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN

JAMIE N COMMONS  DJANGO DJANGO  EAGULLS  PERFUME GENIUS  COM TRUISE    

WHEN SAINTS GO MACHINE  SONIC BOOM SIX FRANÇOIS AND THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS  

BOS ANGELES  YOUNG DREAMS  DOLDRUMS  WEIRD DREAMS  MUJERES YOUNG MAGIC  

THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE MAX COOPER  JINJA SAFARI  COLLEGE GRAPHICS

SLOW DOWN, MOLASSES  MOJO FURY  MALLORY KNOX  HAWK EYES   PEACE  YUKON BLONDE  EMMA LOUISE JUVENILES  BINARY  SING TANK  THE SOFT INLAND SEA HALF MOON RUN  OWLLE PRINCESS CHELSEA  SEWARD  STRANDED HORSE  AVALANCHE CITY  FURGUSON  

TRUST THE DARCYS  ME AND THE BEES  JORDAN COOK 

... AND MANY MANY MORE

A limited number of 3 Day Super Early Bird Festival tickets are currently on sale for just £35 BUT there are only a limited number remaining.

http://escapegreat.com/

Ann Arbor Part 3 & 4 - Shigeto (Ann Arbor, Michigan and Brooklyn, NY, USA) 

Zach Saginaw consistently grounds his music in a deeply personal, familial context; his grandmother inspired two releases, his producer aliases, Shigeto and Frank Omura, both reference family names and it's not for nothing that his latest release as Shigeto is titled Lineage.

While only Saginaw could speak to the ancestral motivation being referenced on the eight instrumental songs that comprise the mini-LP, Lineage, it's easy to see it as an acknowledgement of debt to musical forebears, reverent respect due to the jazz, hip-hop, funk and folk that animates these eight songs. And while these elements aren't new to Saginaw's work, never has he demonstrated such complete command of his material. Each song is a complex constellation of sounds and ideas, but his compositional focus and restraint grounds songs that are otherwise cosmically inclined.

The album is available on the ever-interesting Ghostly International label.

http://iamshigeto.com/

High Life - Daniel Ahearn & The Jones (Los Angeles, CA, USA)

Two musicians tumbling around the dark evenings of Los Angeles. 

What if we just sang together? 

So the framework of songs written by Daniel Ahearn (ill lit) found the once in a generation voice of the beautiful multi-instrumentalist Mindy Jones and away we go.... 

All the songs are of course Love songs. 

There is, after all, only one thing worth singing about.

The debut ep 'It's not you, it's us' will be released in early 2012

www.danielahearn.com/

Daniel Ahearn & The Jones
"High Life" (mp3)
from "IODA SXSW Opening Day Bash Sampler 2012"
(ioda)

More On This Album

In The Afternoon - Pillow Fight (San Francisco)

Dan The Automator teams up with vocalist Emily Wells to give us Pillow Fight. That’s all I know at the moment. 

Pillow Fight
"In The Afternoon" (mp3)
from "IODA SXSW Opening Day Bash Sampler 2012"
(ioda)

More On This Album

New Crawdaddy Blues Club

With a bit of luck and a fair wind Jeremy Gugenheim and I are off to the New Crawdaddy Blues Club in Billericay, Essex tomorrow (Thursday) night. The Kayla Brox Band are playing this week along with one of the best warm-up bands around, The Heaters. In any other setting they’d be a headline act but as it’s their club I suppose modesty forbids!

It is a lovely friendly club run and supported by dedicated blues enthusiasts.

If you can make it, pop in and say hello tomorrow then stay for some great blues.

www.newcrawdaddyclub.co.uk/  

Hell is Callin' + Gambling Woman - Freeky Clean and Dicky F (Ukraine)

Quite a find on Jamendo although information on the site is very scarce which makes me rather suspicious, a review gives lots of information - I can’t verify everything but it is interesting:

Rock'n'roll band Freeky Cleen was started in 2004 when Ilya Polishchuk (guitar, bass, vocals, percussion and harmonica) and Alex Okhrimenko (tech) fondly decided to challenge the world’s major record labels by creating their own home studio and possibly their own label after the band had failed to get signed. They built, installed and configured their recording equipment themselves which they believed would set them apart from other recording studios in Kyiv, Ukraine (Eastern Europe) - mostly pop-oriented at the time.

Freeky Cleen's debut album "Infertility" was released in 2005. The album contained all original compositions with elements of hard rock, boogie woogie, and rhythm and blues which reflected the band's kick-ass back-to-the-roots attitude. The early hits by Freeky Cleen such as “Evil Mother” and “Dead Man’s Show” brought the band to local “celebrity” status in Kyiv and established Freeky Cleen as soul-mates to US sleaze rockers of the late 80s. Technically restricted to their own sound, the guys went on to develop better sonic concepts which led them to record a new album entitled “Augean Stables” (2006).

Few days ago boys have uploaded blistering and unbelieveable new album on Jamendo.com. The album has been uploaded under the name Freeky Cleen & Dickey F - Double Feature. 12 golden bluesy and boogie bars.

The albums Breezes of Old and Double Feature are available for free download from 

www.jamendo.com/en/artist/Freeky_Cleen_Dickey_F 

www.freekycleen.org.ua

www.myspace.com/freekycleen

LIVERPOOL ACOUSTIC AFTERNOON
- THRESHOLD PREVIEW
SATURDAY 11TH FEBRUARY 2012

Saturday 11th February 2012 is the date of the Liverpool Acoustic Afternoon @ Threshold.

Hosted by Liverpool Acoustic's Graham Holland, and local musician Rob Rivieres, this event is taking place at the newly relaunched Elevator Bar and Cafe on Parliament Street (next to Giant bikes) and runs from 2pm to 7pm.

Entry is by Threshold Festival tickets available for the day or weekend from tiny.cc/threshold12tickets

This preview features information about the performers, including links to their websites, plus the Liverpool Acoustic Spotlight show featuring one track from each of them.

Below is the current lineup and running order, although with a festival on the scale of Threshold this could change at any minute (fingers crossed it won't). Any changes will be updated on this post and on the facebook event page.




UPDATE - 1ST FEBRUARY
We're pleased to announce the addition of Rob Vincent from Liverpool band Night Parade to the lineup. Below are the new timings.

• 2.00 Dean Elliott [Worcester]
• 2.30 Rob Rivieres [Liverpool]
• 2.55 Leon Pearce [Jersey]
• 3.20 Oxtoby [Australia]
• 3.45 Rob Vincent [Liverpool]
• 4.15 The Big I Am [Liverpool]
• 4.40 Mary McCombs [Liverpool]
• 5.10 Robert Mulder [Canada]
• 5.35 Alan O'Hare [Liverpool]
• 6.00 James Munro [Stockport]
• 6.30 Hedda Aronssen [Norway]

Tickets for all other Liverpool Acoustic shows are available fromwegottickets.com/liverpoolacoustic - including Liverpool Acoustic eXtra on 8th March featuring Bird, The Sea Kings [London], and Thom Morecroft.

Liverpool Acoustic Spotlight #63

1. Dean Elliott - The Actress
2. Rob Rivieres - No Romances
3. Léon Pearce - Till The End
4. Oxtoby - How Am I Supposed To Believe (When All That You Do Is Deceive)?
5. The Big I Am - Dancing
6. Mary McCombs - Gaia
7. Robert Mulder - Work and Play
8. Alan O’Hare - Only Child [Demo]
9. James Munro - Reply If You Like
10. Hedda Aronssen - I Will Follow You

Listen online here
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or download the show  for free(right-click to download)
Dean Elliott Dean Elliott
www.deanelliottmusic.com
Dean Elliott is an Acoustic, Folk Singer and Songwriter from the West Midlands.

Calling influence from musicians such as Nick Drake, Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, Dean began writing in his teens performing his unique blend of heartfelt acoustic folk to the pubs and clubs of his hometown of Worcester.

After fine-tuning his songwriting and performing craft at Sir Paul McCartney's 'Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts' (LIPA) in 2003, Dean shot to fame after being asked to perform as Buddy Holly in London's West End as the lead role in the Olivier nominated hit musical 'BUDDY - The Buddy Holly Story'.

In that time he gained a rather large fanbase and exposure whilst working tirelessly on creating a repertoire of songs with which resulted in Dean's first studio album - 'Tales from Whittington Tump'. Joining Dean on the record included Accordian, Piano, Cello, Double Bass and Banjo players from across the country and also full strings. The release of the album in December 2009 was recieved with acclaim from many reviewers including the N.M.E. One reviewer quoted that Dean's lyrics "spoke directly to the heart".

Since then and since Buddy, Dean has toured around the UK performing his music in venues such as the O2 Academy - London, Liverpool's 'Cavern Club' and The Bedford, London. He has also performed in countries as far reaching as the USA, Canada, Latin America and India whilst also appearing on such shows as TV's 'Richard and Judy', Radio 2's 'Jonathan Ross show' and BBC London Tonight.

Dean has just completed a new 3 track E.P in November 2011 titled 'When the dust settles down'. 
Rob Rivieres Rob Rivieres
robrivieres.com “I always find it difficult when people ask me to describe my music. I’ve never liked the idea of putting things in a box, putting a label on something. I tend to prefer the question ‘Why do you write?’ I always try to be honest with my music and I strive to create songs that will inspire people. Music is my way of expressing something meaningful, an experience, an idea, something honest that I want to share, something that will make people really think and feel. That instant, when a song brings people together in spite of their differences to share something beautiful; it’s in that instant that music unifies us. It’s that intimacy, that vulnerability, that’s why I write songs.”

Rob Rivieres is a twenty-three year old acoustic singer-songwriter from the north west of England.  Crafting conscious lyrics with soft vocals and simple melodies Rob creates a minimalist yet deeply soulful sound.

His debut EP, Before the Dawn, was released online in May 2011 and offered as a ‘name-your-price’ download. As well as building and managing his own website he regularly posts videos on Youtube and strives to maintain a direct relationship with his fans using several social networking sites.

Drawing on the ‘the delicate moments, dramas, dilemmas and dreams we all find ourselves drifting in and out of’, Rob writes conscious tales to inspire and intrigue. He is currently writing material for a new EP whilst gigging in and around Liverpool.


Léon Pearce Léon Pearce
leonpearcemusic.co.uk Influenced by the great songwriters, Paul Simon, Nick Drake and The Beach Boys, Léon is constantly writing new music and improving his material.
The Jersey-born musician frequently draws on personal experience when it comes to crafting songs about love, friendship and heartache, and the raw intensity of emotion that we all feel in the Spring of our lives. With a single set for release on Valentine’s Day, and plenty of gigs coming up, this emerging artist is one to watch. 
Oxtoby Oxtoby
OxtobyMusic.com
Science by day. Music by night. Neil Oxtoby is a an Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist, as well as being a qualified physicist. Oxtoby usually performs as a solo artist, but also invites friends to join him on stage so you never know what to expect from any given show. Currently in the process of recording his first full-length album at Parr Street Studios, Oxtoby will be performing new original songs and a cover song at this year's Threshold Festival after enjoying last year's festival from the audience. You can help to write Oxtoby's Threshold setlist by requesting songs via his Facebook page facebook.com/OxtobyMusic


The Big I Am The Big I Am
facebook.com/thebigiam
Liverpool duo The Big I Am are Colin Heaney and Peter McPartland..  These fine musicians have created a glorious blend of acoustic folk-pop.  At its core the tenor ukulele and cuatro. They have become favorites of Tom Robinson BBC 6 Music who describes them as being "…subtle, melodic and mysterious…sounds like Peter Gabriel and Steve Reich having an acoustic jam."  The BIA will feature on an album curated by Tom Robinson and will release another two albums this year. Collecting Skies can be bought from Rash Records.


Mary McCombs Mary McCombsmyspace.com/marymccombs
reverbnation.com/main/music_artists#!/marymccombs
Mary McCombs formed an Indie band in the early 1990s, writing and performing their own material which was influenced mainly by Cocteau Twins and The Sundays. McCombs was the lead vocalist of the band which performed at many Liverpool venues and several in London and various University campuses nationally. She is a regular performer with the ‘Sense of Sound’ singers, and performs as a solo artist on the local acoustic/folk circuit which includes the 2012 Threshold Festival where I also played in 2011.
Mary is currently hosting a folk night at The Cornmarket in Liverpool city centre and will be performing at the Wirral ‘Folk On The Coast’ Festival in June 2012. She is also a member of Dave Jackson and the Cathedral Mountaineers as a backing vocalist; who will also be appearing at Threshold 2012. She has recorded a CD called ‘Selling Flowers’; 10 self-penned songs available at ‘News from Nowhere’ in Bold Street. There’s another CD coming soon.

Robert Mulder Robert Muldermuldermusic.comRobert Mulder is a 20 year old Singer/Songwriter from Canada, currently studying songwriting at LIPA.
He has been performing as a solo artist for over 5 years and recently assembled an eclectic international ensemble from Singapore, South Africa, Jersey, and Norway to add a special touch to his catchy indie/folk tunes. They are currently working on an EP entitled "Across the Plastic Pond" scheduled for release in September 2012. His music is simple, yet powerful; a clear and unique voice with poetic lyrics that reflect a resounding wisdom of everyday life.


Alan O'Hare Alan O’Hare
twitter.com/thetrestles Alan O'Hare is a singer-songwriter, and lead singer of The Trestles. Only Child is a demo recording for a future project

James Munro James Munro
myspace.com/jamesmunromusic James Munro is a Stockport based Singer/Songwriter whose influences include artists such as Bob Dylan, David Gray and Morrissey. He began to share his songs when moving to Liverpool - the city where his family are from – in 2006 and since then has immersed himself in both the Liverpool and Manchester music scenes. Along the way, James has supported Ocean Colour Scene on their 2011 UK acoustic tour and later that year earned himself a mention in the NME magazine when playing as part of the NME Sunday Sessions with the Morrissey approved, The Heartbreaks. 2009 saw him record a demo CD entitled The Impression On Me which was followed by the 2011 home recordings, The One Take Shake. Now back in Stockport, Munro performs regularly in Manchester and Liverpool and looks to record and release his first EP very soon. Stay tuned for news on recordings and forthcoming gigs.

Hedda Aronssen Hedda Aronssen
heddaaronssen.comsoundcloud.com/heddaaronssen Hedda Aronssen writes pop-music with memorable melodies, honest lyrics and dynamical arrangements. The Norwegian artist has together with her 4 piece band made their unique sound, with a a variation of influences. After 2 years of gigging in Norway and the UK, she is now in the progress of recording her first EP, Unread Letters, to be released in June 2012.


Liverpool Acoustic Spotlight #63 - February 2012 (Threshold)If you get the chance, please support your local artists by emailing them, joining their mailing lists, leaving them comments, going to their gigs, and buying their music direct from them where possible. The Liverpool Acoustic Spotlight is produced and presented by Graham Holland on behalf of the Liverpool Acoustic website. It is also available on the Internet courtesy of Art In Liverpool FM (Defnet Media), and is a proud member of the Association of Music Podcasting. The theme music is King of the Faeries by Andrew Ellis from his CD Midnight On The Water.

Formados com ex-membros dos Cyclefly, os MAKO tiveram direito a figurar na lista de melhores novos artistas na NME, Rock Sound e Kerrang!
As letras e melodias fazem desta banda franco-irlandesa uma das grandes surpresas de 2011 e sem grande hesitação foram escolhidos para artistas do mês de Fevereiro no Cowboy Cantor.
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2 Hearts and Chemicals is a band comprised of musicians Eli Lhymn (based in Los Angeles) and Stephen Biebel (based in New York City).  The band compose, record, and rehearse all music remotely from these two very different cities. Originally hailing from Pennsylvania, the duo met when they were just 13 years old.

That’s what this EP is. 2 Hearts and Chemicals have created something that is bigger than the cacophony of sounds. It’s sweeping and cinematic, a soundtrack for some grandiose scene, if only in the bedroom dreamer’s eyes. (1146 Miles)

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Hello ! And sorry for the late update, due to a very good week-end spent out of my appartment. Everyone should try that sometime, get out, go far, stay there for the week-end ! Anyways, here are the height great tracks that joined Euterpia Radio's playlist this week. Enjoy !

• JaeS - Can't Get Enough Of You
  JaeS
• Wearherstar - Believe
  No album
• Vintage Blue - Speak
  Strike The Mics
• Jennie Walker - Black Hat
  Night Flight To London
• Ryan Star - Orphans
  The America EP
• Victoria Celestine - In The Headlights
  From the Outside
• Khalid Quesada - Proverbial Knives
  On The Verge Of Context
• Ken Coulson - Letters of my Youth
  Gatsby's Green Light

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Throughout this year Sydney, AUS musician Fronz Arp will be releasing his new songs as they’re written and ready, instead of the traditional album release route. The project name is entitled ‘FRONZ ARP IS A TINY CROOKED ORCHESTRA’, and he aims to release a song every 2 weeks; so basically an ongoing project through the course of this year.

His latest song for 2012, ‘Just Because You Want it All’ has arrived, on the heels of a national tour with Australia cabaret singer Emma Dean – another excellent artist which we first heard about through ERK FM, a main project our our IR Australia host.

Please help support this great new artist via the links below.

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"DC Songsters blend the latest electro-funk"  Chris MacDonald, IndieFeed Electronica

"Tall corageous cresting instrumental"  Chris MacDonald IndieFeed Alternative and Modern Rock

"Dutch popist's latest"  Chris MacDonald, IndieFeed Indie Pop