Andrew Marston introduces the Young Drummer of the Year
Unsigned, undiscovered and under-the-radar music from Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
鈥� Live tracks from Kington鈥檚 Ellie Goulding as we celebrate the 大象传媒 Sound of 2019.
鈥� Reaction as Hereford losing its key place to buy new music.
鈥� Looking back on the Independent Venue Week celebrations in Worcester.
鈥� We're at Bromsgrove's Young Drummer of the Year competition. The judges included Rita Ora, Olly Murs, Emeli Sand茅, Squeeze and Kim Wilde's drummers.
鈥� He's a teacher by day and creates soulful electronic grooves by night. Kidderminster's Andy Edwards joins us for part two of his live session.
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Stone Mountain Sinners
Fool Like Me
- Sonny Jim.
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India Parkman
Stay For A While
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The Gravity Drive
Inside Out
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Toby Charles
Shades Of Green
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Oysterband
The Soul's Electric
- Cooking Vinyl.
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Joe Mitchell
When The Sun Goes Down
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Former Artist of the Week
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The Wandering Hearts
Wish I Could
- Decca.
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大象传媒 Sound Of: Live Performance
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Ellie Goulding
Dynamite (Live from 大象传媒 Maida Vale Studios)
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Ellie Goulding
Close To Me (Live from 大象传媒 Maida Vale Studios)
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Matt Woosey
Jump Back In
- Confidential.
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Under A Banner
It's Spirit
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Ryan Sparrow
Winterfall
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Badeye
Angels & Demons
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In session
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Andy Edwards & Kundabuffa
Summer Days (Live from Kidderminster College)
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Andy Edwards & Kundabuffa
Don't Explain (Live from Kidderminster College)
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John Mosedale
The River Of Life
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Sally Knight
Yes I Do
- Venus.
Young Drummer of the Year
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Now in its 18th year, the event has grown and given the winners a chance to perform all over the world.
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Judging the competition were a group of professional drummers who play with artists such as Squeeze and Kim Wilde, and previous contestants who've gone on to star alongside Rita Ora, Olly Murs and Emeli Sand茅.
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Each drummer had 10 minutes to impress the judges by playing an original composition, their interpretation of a track written specifically for the show and performing with a band with just one rehearsal.
HMV shuts in Hereford
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The high street chain has been bought out of administration by a Canadian businessman, Doug Putman, saving the Worcester and Redditch branches.
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However, 27 stores - including Hereford's - have closed, resulting in more than 400 redundancies.
In session
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He's been a drum clinician and has toured the world with rock legend Robert Plant.
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In his spare time, Andy also plays drums and percussion with Worcestershire band Quill - alongside Bev Bevan from ELO.
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But he's an amazing performer in his own right - and joined several staff members and students of the college to reboot his old project Kundabuffa.
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鈥淎 beautiful blend of genres creating incredible soulful music that speaks right to the heart鈥� - Andrew Marston.
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Highlights: Independent Venue Week
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On the Wednesday evening, the focus was very much on the city鈥檚 Marr鈥檚 Bar - on Pierpoint Street - with Paradiddles carrying the torch for the rest of the celebrations.
大象传媒 Music Introducing in Kidderminster
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Kidderminster College, which was also the springboard of the highly successful MAS Records, has been offering students an insight into the music industry in their performance, production and technology courses.
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Alumni include Quantic, Funkagenda and The Twang.
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Ellie Goulding
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16 years later, and the aim is the same - to continue predicting some of the biggest and most exciting global superstars, including previous winners Adele, Sam Smith, Ellie Goulding, HAIM, Years & Years, Ray BLK and Sigrid.
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The acts that appear on Sound Of are all hand-picked by a panel of impartial music industry experts from around the world.
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This year - to celebrate - a special gig took place at Maida Vale studios featuring new talent and past success stories.
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Step forth Kington's Ellie Goulding...听The Herefordshire musician started singing as part of her drama classes at Lady Hawkins High School, while living in Kington, later performing at Open Mic nights while attending Hereford Sixth Form College - at Doodies (which is no more) on St Owen's Street.
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She's now Herefordshire's most successful-ever export - having achieved more top 40 records than the Pretenders and Mott The Hoople put together.
Features
- In the gig guide: The Searchers play their last tour of Worcestershire.
- In the news:听Mott The Hoople memorabilia up for sale.
大象传媒 Music Introducing in Ledbury
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The venue now holds the baton after a long history of performances in the town 鈥� dating back as far as the 19th century.
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We'll be bringing along handpicked musicians from Herefordshire and Worcestershire to record their live sessions for broadcast.
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They've all uploaded their tracks to the 大象传媒 Music Introducing Uploader - but didn't know they were being considered for this incredible opportunity!
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This free event, which is open to everybody, kicks off at 6pm and you're more than welcome to turn up anytime until 10.30pm.
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Broadcast
- Sun 10 Feb 2019 18:00大象传媒 Hereford & Worcester
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