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This week I present a Wonderland of music, yes a WONDERLAND! Never mind…
Bela Takes Chase – Collide click here to watch the new video , Come The Spring – Maps, xx_JTX_xx – Color, Salme Dahlstrom – Rockin The Spot, The Cadbury Sisters – You Choose, Nick Tann – Don’t, Lucy Kitchen – Tide, Anja McCloskey – Words, Chris Cava – Climb The Red Sky
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Hello ducks, cool tunes this week.
Graces Collide – Run and Hide, Rayne – The Great Burden, DRLNG – Icarus, Ashbury Keys – Do You Know Who You Are?, Hidden White Noise – Hallelujah and an old track from PEOPLE my old band.
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It’s all good people Andrew Foster – Memory Maze, Baiki (who I now know are Belgian , so take back all I said about their name. It is pronounced “Buy-Key”sorry) – Walks The Line, Crumb Catchers – Burgers, Rayne – The Great Burden, The Glass Child – The Fall, David Garlitz – Blue Skies, Nick Tann – Don’t
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Hiya and here we all are full of the joys of spring!
I actually DO play Al Goodwin ~ The Stone That Brought The Girl, Dan Whitehouse ~ They care for You, Indigo Earth ~ Forces Shatter, Richard Maule ~ Circles, WoodenBox ~ Courage, Sigurdòr Guomundsson ~ Gengio à Gutunum, Calvin Roche ~ Show Me How To Breath, Welcome Pariah ~ Neither Here Nor There, Sunna Gunnlaugs ~ Anima, Juana Ghani ~Raise Your Glass, Nick Tann ~ Crazy Momma, Will Kriski ~ Metal Mahem, Presley Johnson ~ Anita’s Last Dance
Hopeful see some of you at my gig in Reykjavik at the Ob.la.di. Ob.la.Da. Bar next Saturday the 4th May.
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At last! bit late but no matter.
Great music this week in the shape of Kay ~ Mumbai, Formby ~ Black Hole King (and NOT Black Hole ~ King. This is why I ask bands to follow the simple instructions here ), Joey Suave ~ Hokum, The Procession ~ Cease and Desist, Kidd Russell ft. Homeless DJ ~ Broke DJ, The Dots ~ Love Divine, Calvin Roche ~ Fly To You, Silver Street ~ Angeline, Nick Dot & Frankey ~ Watching Time, Burning Shapes ~ Someone Else’s Words, Nick Tann ~ Life Is a River, Cuddly Shark ~ The Devil In You, Churn Milk Joan ~ Until Djuna Barnes, Bear Trap ~ Buzzards.
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Yes, I don’t understand the picture either but hey ho!
Some amazing music this week from in no particular order Lanre ~ Ma Gbagbe, Lucy Kitchen ~ Autumn, Bad Belly ~ Runaway Train, Sam Page ~ I don’t Want To Think About Her Anymore, The Random Few ~ Headphones, The Travis Waltons~ The Antagonist, Race Car Hearts ~ Diesel Dawn, Plumerai Mondegreen ~ 13, Greg Anderson ~ Run For The Hills, The Little Unsaid ~ A Piece of Fruit, Flaming June ~ Nerves of Steel, Nick Tann ~ Sadder than Sad, Arnold Lane & Steve Moyes ~ Ph1
How about that?
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The “Is This Thing On Productions” event at the Attic Bar in the Railway pub in Winchester
As some of you may know, I am a working musician and have played most of the venues in the Southampton area from the pub open mics in the city to some of the biggest music venues.
I am organising the first of what I hope to be a regular event, which on the face of it, appears just, like a normal gig in a normal venue but I assure you is far from it.
I’m aiming to create a community of music fans who are passionate about music and who want to support and be part of the underground music scene. A network of people that will help spread the word about local unsigned artists. I do my best to support the scene every week via my Is This Thing On Podcast, playing independent unsigned music from around the world.
One of my bugbears are venues where artists have to sell tickets and collect the money, handing it over only to receive a small percentage IF they are lucky enough to have sold enough tickets.
My event, the Is This Thing On Productions event, aims to be different. Firstly I am selling the tickets, asking the artists simply to help publicise the event via their mailing lists, Facebook page, Twitter etc. The artists will get a fair share of the ticket sales as well as 100% of the proceeds of the raffle.
I will also be acting as compere for the event, talking to the crowd and introducing the acts so that they don’t have to walk on to an empty stage. The show will be in two halves with the artists playing two short sets separated by an interval.
So as you can see this is more than just a gig in a pub. I am creating an event that is entertaining but also pays the artists fairly without them having to knock themselves out trying to collect money for tickets. I have done a lot of work so far, I have built the website, the Facebook page, booking the acts months in advanced, printed the tickets as well as invested my own money in hiring the venue. This is the first of many shows that I hope to put on so I need you to help me make this first one a success.
So how can I get tickets?
If you want to buy tickets fill out the contact form on the website https://isthisthingonproductions.com/ I will email you telling you how to get them. Margins are tight and I can’t afford to use PayPal so I won’t be selling them on-line. I may suggest that I deliver the tickets in person or that you can pick them up from certain shops that are supporting me.
But if I don’t want to go, how else can I help?
Simple publicity. You may have your own mailing list, blog or Twitter account and a mention on one of those about the event website would be a real help. Even mentioning it to anyone you think might be interested is something. Nothing like word of mouth. I have created a press release on the website https://isthisthingonproductions.com/ as well as profile pages for the artists that are playing at the first event on the 13th October, feel free to copy and paste anything from the site.
PLEASE HELP SUPPORT LOCAL UNSIGNED MUSICIANS
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When in doubt, play songs by your mates. That’s what I did this week so tracks by Grant Sharkey ~ Lullaby for Baxter, Philo Sinnet ~ Can’t Mend a Broken Heart When Mine is Broken To, Woven Bird ~A Curse Heaven Sent, Jess Vincent ~ Sally in the Woods, Marvin B Naylor ~ Alice and Maryanne, Doyle and the Forefathers ~ Every woman that you’ve Me, Gray Smith ~ When I Reveal, The Cherry Bluestorms ~ 4 Here, Tom Caulfield ~ Good You Got Away, The Glass Child ~ I’ll Never Tell, Acrington Stanley ~ Midlife Crisis, Stone Pony ~ Across Town, Liz Longley ~ Unraveling, Contact ~ Starshaped Dreams and a track by me from my Vinyl Project album.
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What a week for marvelous music. In no particular order I played Nick Bowen ~ Heart Attack (sorry again mate), Melissa James ~ I Need You Here, Indigo Earth (probably) ~ Forces Shatter, Emily Wolfe ~ Lion Heart (the album version), Charley Macaulay ~ Foolin, Captain Backfire ~ Double Kidd, New single by Cut Corners ~ Real, Paul Lane from Unplugthejukebox.com came and talked about Stanley, Kid Russell ~ Juice and a live rendition by me of 3 am which I play on my new album The Vinyl Project that you can buy on a name your price basis if you Subscribe to my Newsletter
This is what Gary says about the Vinyl Project
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What a great week for new music!
In this episode I play Wise Children ~ Inters Wall, Stone Pony ~ Across Town, Bob Dean ~ Forest of Fear, the Rhys Anslow Project ~ Acid Dance, Paul Liddell ~ Monsoon Rain, Marvin B Naylor ~ “Track no 6”, Seán McGowan ~ Life ~Dead Social Club ~ Syrian Kiss, Jebo ~ the Greatest Day, my favourite American Daryl Shawn ~ When Pennies Go To Heaven and a track by me How Do You Sleep from my vinyl project.