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Andrew Marston introduces Under A Banner (Worcester)

Unsigned, undiscovered and under-the-radar music, as recorded at HopFest near Bewdley.

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Music Played

  • State of Ember

    New Day

  • Lil Dre & Diggy Stylus

    One Night Stand

  • Gnatmusic

    A Bigger Spalsh

  • CW

    Fly With Me

  • Interviewed

    • Rinaldi & Venom

      Dare To Dream

      • Positivity Records.
  • Michael Knowles

    Feels Like 成人快手

  • In session

    • Under A Banner

      We Want Hope (Live at Hopfest 2018)

    • Under A Banner

      Light Breaks Through (Live at Hopfest 2018)

  • Last Tree Squad

    We'll Be There For You

  • Idle Hours

    Power White

  • Emily Nash

    Stars

  • Wisenheimer

    Can't Pay

  • Interviewed

    • Mitch Loveridge

      On My Way

  • Norbs

    Pure Me

  • Myles Gordon

    So Fine

  • Robby Toner

    Test Of Time

  • In session

    • Under A Banner

      Out Like A Light (Live at Hopfest 2018)

    • Under A Banner

      Last Orders (Live at Hopfest 2018)

  • Interviewed

    • Jakey Boy Hughes

      We're Gonna Win The World Cup

      • Everybody On The Shore.
  • Flatline

    Bitterness & Envy

  • ADjected Deleted

    Locked & Stocked

In session

In session
Under A Banner have been making powerful, passionate and poetic alternative rock for more than six years.

The last couple of years has seen the band support New Model Army; have their music be played on dozens of online and FM radio stations; be featured in multiple blogs and magazines while taking the festival circuit by storm.

Taking influence from听The Levellers, Tori Amos and Joni Mitchell, the members of Under A Banner are scattered across the Midlands, including Worcester, and during the day work in teaching and computing.

鈥淔olk giants of the festival circuit with equally massive tracks that are right on the cutting edge" - Andrew Marston.

Ibiza DJ

Ibiza DJ
A Worcester DJ has landed the opportunity of a lifetime; a residency in Ibiza.

Rinaldi Positivity, who also produces his own music, started off in heavy metal, punk and ska bands - but his real love for electronic came at the age of 14 after watching somebody on the decks.

He now runs his own events across Worcestershire - and speaking about his productions, he says: "I've been suffering with major depression and this tune was made to inspired those that also suffer or don't understand."

From Rag To Riches

From Rag To Riches
A Redditch singer's on his way to a dream rags-to-riches story by releasing his own album after sleeping rough on the town's streets for six months.

Mitch Loveridge's debut EP '12 Years In The Making' is out in August and he hopes he may even get an iTunes advert on TV with a number of record labels chasing his signature sound.

Mitch had been living in the town's bandstand - but is now hoping to return to the stage having turned his life around.

"We're Gonna Win The World Cup"

"We're Gonna Win The World Cup"
It's coming home - possibly in a bucket of vindaloo!

But those England anthems are soooo old!

One musician, from Hay-on-Wye, however - aims to change all that.

"We're Gonna Win The World Cup," says Jakey Boy Hughes - who we've championed lots on this programme.

His England anthem has already amassed a huge following online after it got posted on all of the major football pages on Facebook.

UK Charts

UK Charts
Hereford pop star Olly Alexander has welcomed changes in the way the charts are made up.

Video streaming and downloads are now being included in a song's chart position.

The new rules mean watching music videos on sites like YouTube will now count towards the charts.

Olly Alexander, from Years & Years, says this will go a long way to reflecting a band's overall popularity.听

A separate tweak to the chart formula will see paid-for music streams carrying more weight than "free" ones.

Under the current system, every 150 streams of a song is counted as one "sale".

100 streams, via a subscription service, equals one sale, but it'll take 600 "free" streams to have the same impact.

成人快手 Music Introducing at HopFest, Bewdley

成人快手 Music Introducing at HopFest, Bewdley
This was their eighth annual event, featuring tonnes of local bands.

This year they extended the festival to three days - so on the Sunday, we were there hosting a stage dedicated to Herefordshire and Worcestershire artists chosen from the听.

The event, run by a group of volunteers, is paid for by ticket sales alone.

Musicians' Masterclass

Musicians' Masterclass
It was the biggest new music business gathering to ever to be held in the UK, with more than 100 sessions and 250 speakers ensuring every aspect of the music business was covered.

Held across three days, Amplify offered exclusive access to the UK music industry鈥檚 biggest names through intimate talks, music masterclasses and recording workshops.

This week, we hear about the importance of collaborations,听with听,听who say it's "surprisingly easy" to get 'big names' on your records.

Features

  • : Details of Bromsgrove Folk Festival.

Monthly roadshows

Monthly roadshows
If you run a venue or you鈥檙e a music promoter, then we want to hear from you!

Since the beginning of 2011, we've taken our 成人快手 Introducing show out on-the-road to various areas across our patch to bring people a flavour of the local music scene.

Every month, we rock up at a different venue with a pile of microphones, cables and recording equipment along with several vans full of enthusiastic musicians!

As well as the bands being able to invite an audience, we also bring along a number of music industry professionals to comment on the live acts.

We tend to host our sessions on evenings/weekends is because it's normally a quiet time for venues - so effectively you get a free gig curated with the best bands (from the thousands who have submitted their music to us), full tech provided, plus听听- so effectively you just need to open your doors!

To get involved, email听introhw@bbc.co.uk

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  • Sat 7 Jul 2018 20:00

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