Category: Music
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The Unthanks – King of Rome (at the Radio 2 Folk Awards)
Highlight of last night’s Folk Awards for me. You can see the back of my head in the wide shots here – front right!
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In the studio with Madison Violet
This week we’ve got Madison Violet in session. Brenley MacEachern & Lisa MacIsaac play tracks from their new album The Good In Goodbye and chat to Trevor Dann about the song writing process, their audiences and the Canadian music scene.
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Lykke Li – Sadness is a Blessing
What an amazing intro to a music video. You really feel every awkward creak of each chair. Beautifully captured. Lots of debate over on the Youtube site about what it MEANS. My favourite comment so far is this one: The video is definitely about cats. I don’t get how you…
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Film Weddings with Great Soundtracks
Is that a bandwagon I see before me? The big day is tomorrow, so here’s some films with great soundtracks to make you feel warm and gooey about white dresses… (or not!) Clearly the ultimate wedding film. Full to the brim of ABBA. Getting married to The Beatles – how…
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TV On The Radio – Will Do
Is there a more compelling return to form than this? I love the layered woozy vocals and melancholy guitars. Very glad they are back from their hiatus, and getting high rotation on 6 Music. Can’t wait to get the album. I have a feeling it’s going to be all kinds…
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Record Store Day – Films Set in Record Shops
One of my favourite films, I watched this first very late at night as a teenager – they’re all so young! Plenty of thrashing guitars and querulous eyebrows in this one. And one I haven’t seen, but Google tells me is set in a record shop. I’ll add it to…
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RadioTalk with Simon Crosse, Matt Everitt and Adrian Van Klaveren
In this week’s RadioTalk, Trevor Dann talks to USP Content’s Simon Crosse, BBC 6 Music’s Matt Everitt, and 5 live’s Adrian Van Klaveren about why radio is a great place to work, setting up effective and interesting interviews, the value of “live” and the relationship between speech and music. This…
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Buen Chico – Happiness is Important
A couple of months ago, I appeared on Amazing Radio reviewing tracks from their unsigned playlist and completely fell in love with a track by Leeds-based Buen Chico called Happiness is Important. Imagine my delight when it was chosen by Team Laverne on 6 Music to be the MPFree to…
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Nancy Sinatra – These Boots Are Made For Walking
I made a prat out of myself singing this at Karaoke Circus last night. Chris Addison was on after me, I was never going to compete!
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Buen Chico – Happiness is Important
I was asked to appear on Amazing Radio’s review show, It’s Amazing, this week. My favourite track by a country mile was by Leeds band Buen Chico. It was called Happiness is Important, and it really stood out from the competition. You can stream it on the Amazing Tunes website…
Heather Davies 