Black Water County bought along their lively style of Celtic folk rock to the Hope FM Studio on Wednesday with the band playing four brilliant toe trapping tracks that got both myself and co-presenter Tim Heywood up on our feet moving.
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Vienna Ditto describe themselves as a “female-fronted electronic blues duo” and while this is certainly true, it doesn’t really come close to describing the beauty and oddity of their sound, a trippy and evocative combination of blues, slowed down rockabilly, electronica and country, which defies easy classification.
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The 11-track debut album from the Indie-Quirk Folk trio from Bournemouth will transport you into a place far more pleasant than the one you began in. With their unique folk sound and use of three part harmonies, this trio have created something truly uplifting.
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What we have here is some good ole metal and hard rock coming out of the big smoke. Something from a past time, but something modern, and ass kicking!
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Three years after the reformation of one of Britpop’s shining stars, Suede finally release the new album that their fans have been longing for after a string of rehashed greatest hits packages designed to keep the band in everybody’s mind.
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Released in 1987 The Cult’s “Electric” album was a complete change in direction for the band after the Goth/Rock style of “Love” and “Dreamtime”. The band had discovered America and along with Ian Astbury’s accent the whole style changed at this point forward to a more mainstream style of hard rock.
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Chaplin’s Cellar Bar, Bournemouth
On a very wet Autumn evening I find myself down at the Cellar Bar in Boscombe for an evening of two different bands, both at very different stages of their careers.
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As far as music goes there is nothing easier to listen to than Pop/Punk, the songs are catchy and get stuck in your head quite quickly. Experts at this are bands like Blink 182, New Found Glory and Bowling For Soup who seem to effortlessly create music for the masses just like that. Though the songs sound simple enough, it is anything but to create such a tune.
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This EP from the Bournemouth based singer/songwriter is packed full of passion and undeniably catchy songs. Within the four tracks on this EP, Dan Gordon displays not only that he is a fantastic songwriter, with an ability to write easy to listen to melodies, but also that his vocals are far more interesting than the majority of artists in the charts today.
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Race Car Hearts is the solo project of former Thirst member Chris Perrin, a local singer-songwriter from Portsmouth who has performed at festivals all over the country. Aches/Escapes is the follow up to his debut EP Tender/Violent, which was released in November last year.
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