Sharon Van Etten The Other Woman has a new home! We’ve moved to 9pm on Sunday evenings, as the new short series Festival Pass is going to be aired on Saturdays at 5. Check it out for your chance to play on a festival bill and to win tickets. On the last two shows on …
Ruth Barnes and Howard Monk are focusing their attention on two of London’s finest festivals in Meltdown at the Southbank Centre and Field Day in Victoria Park on Festival Pass. To help us tell the story of these very different events we’ve enlisted the help Jane Beese from Meltdown and Tom Baker from Field Day, …
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BBC Radio 1 DJ, label boss and festival organiser Rob Da Bank gets things moving for my new run of shows entitled Festival Pass, on Amazing Radio, with agent and promoter Howard Monk (The Local). Rob gives us a unique insight into the UK festival circuit, what it takes to be successful as an independent …
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Described by Amanda Palmer as sitting somewhere between Cat Power, Nick Drake and Scott Walker, London based Bethia Beadman reveals her new video for Mary exclusively here on Amazing Radio. The new album Chinatown is soaked in Phil Spector-esque production and big, strong melodies. There’s no acoustic noodling here, this is the sound of a …
On first hearing Bird to Beast’s single Elephant, you cannot help but break out into a joyful whoop and start singing along like a maniac. It’s *that* catchy, it’s *that* beautifully crafted and honed, it’s worthy of the great pop masters, I reckon Lennon would have been envious. Married couple Sam and Hannah Hird are …
I’m very excited to be putting on three fantastic bands in association with The Local. On April 27th – London experimental quartet Collectress headline, with a new album to plug, then using electronics, harp, cello and more there’s TOW favourites Talk in Colour and taking a break from TV soundtracks and Levi’s ad campaigns we …
Over the next 6 weeks I’m hosting a new show on Amazing Radio with agent and promoter Howard Monk (The Local) – Festival Pass. We’re getting under the skin of our favourite festivals and asking the organisers how they do it, but more importantly how do YOU get to play on the bill. Do you …
Our guest on The Other Woman to celebrate International Women’s Day was Victoria Hesketh aka Little Boots. The electronic musician and On Repeat Records founder has been on a whirlwind trajectory from Brit’s Critics Choice nominee (and major label deal) to true independence. Little Boots has railed against the misogyny she experienced in the industry …
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The gorgeous Sephine Llo is in session on this week’s The Other Woman on Amazing Radio – the sound engineer turned awesome songwriter and musician is facing 2014 full steam ahead with her new EP Flame, out on Tape Club Records, and has an album set for later this summer. With an interest in weird …
This week we chat to Howard Monk who runs brilliant live music nights and manages talent as The Local. He bigs up some artists he’s loving right now including The Other Woman favourite Sophie Jamieson, New Zealander Tiny Ruins, Rachael Dadd (a new single!) and introduces us to Catalan singer and musician Clara Sanabras. We’ve …