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Cherryshoes are a five-piece experimental band from Hay-on-Wye.
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Apart from their lead singer, they all like to remain anonymous - and even wear masks, on stage, to hide their faces!
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In their own words: "We're boiling up a powerful and heady mix of magical mercurial disharmony, persistent pulsating rhythm and an extraordinary spellbinding vocal".
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The collective were united by the spirit of the singer's hill-farming, street-fighting, glam-rocking, crossdressing biker uncle - who's sadly no longer with us.
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They sing about mad pre-madonnas, real life vampires, wild horses, obsessional love and stalking, all of which will appear on their new album recorded by Jim Eliot - the man who produces Ellie Goulding, Will Young, Kylie Minogue, Rae Morris and Olly Murs.
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One of the people who helped to rescue the Upton Blues Festival from floods and the recession has become Worcestershire's Tourism Superstar.
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Festival chairman Oliver Carpenter was nominated by Visit Worcestershire to recognise the amount of people he's brought to the county.听
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In 2015, as we celebrated 10 years of supporting the very best unsigned, undiscovered & under-the-radar music, we continued to take the show on-the-road to some of the biggest events and most happening places in Herefordshire & Worcestershire.
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This week, hear some of the performances we recorded at the Bewdley Festival, LakeFest near Evesham, The Worcester Music Festival, The Conquest Theatre in Bromyard and at the Wychwood Festival - including new recordings from Bromsgrove's Alex Rainsford and Ledbury's Appleby Kinsey.
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Oh - and we've got some festival tracks thrown in good measure!
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The last series of sessions we're broadcasting this year were recorded at the Conquest Theatre in Bromyard.
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If you've only ever driven through the town before, it's on Nozstock Street!
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The Conquest has been hosting events at its Tenbury Road location for the last 21 years - but they'd been campaigning for a facility like this since the 50s, according to the records book!
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Originally, events had been held in an 'old tin hut' which had been built in 1919 by the Royal British Legion.
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But eventually they decided an all-singing, all-dancing venue was what the town needed.

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• Theo, & Soeur at The Firefly, Worcester.
• Terminal Rage & at The Victory, Hereford.
• Open Mic: , Louis Warburton, Daniel J, Toby Bowen, Jamie Carroll, Billy Francis & at The Firefly, Worcester.

As well as supporting the very best unsigned, undiscovered and under-the-radar music from Herefordshire & Worcestershire, we like to talk about our success stories too.
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Maybe even learn the odd trick, in the process, about making it big in the music business.
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Mick Ralphs is one such person - famed for his time with Jimmy Cliff, Mott The Hoople and Bad Company.
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Hear his story on this week's听show.
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• :听The Droitwich pensioner who drove his neighbours to听distraction听by playing an Animals track over and over again.
• :听What's on in Herefordshire & Worcestershire.

If you run a venue or you鈥檙e a music promoter, then we want to hear from you!
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Since the beginning of 2011, we've taken our 大象传媒 Introducing show out on-the-road to various areas across our patch to bring people a flavour of the local music scene.
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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!
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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.
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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!
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To get involved, email听introhw@bbc.co.uk