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Mark Mathews It’s a penchant that’s clearly displayed in his own work, described as Indie Pop, both his lyrics and music follow in an acoustic guitar led path. Songs such as ‘London Lives’ have a delicate Xylophone intro leading into a toe tapping strum fest. An Artist that should definitely be seen live, Mark’s personality adds a great dimension to some infectious tracks. Highlights this year have been his nomination for the coveted Indie Music Awards, the release of his five track E.P that can be purchased through his MySpace. On September 7th he playing the XFM sponsored ‘Festival 24’ (Cardiff’s answer to the Camden Crawl) and its no rest for the wicked between now and November as he completes a string of gigs along the country. Having admitted to once playing 106 gigs in one year mark can probably also be found at one of several open mic nights around the capital, I think we can safely say hes prolific.
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The Bad Robots London based band, The Bad Robots, have lots to celebrate last week, they found out they were through to the next round in the national Mobil Act Unsigned. The successful act will receive an incredible record deal with Universal’s bespoke label, A&M records and will have current acts like The Hours and Patrick Wolf as label mates. Still delivering their unique brand of happy punk at a monthly residency in The Enterprise and a welcome return to Camden’s Barfly the boys progress will be televised over 12 weeks on T4 and 4music this autumn. Come on lads in the inimitable words of your namesakes.…Exterminate. www.thebadrobots.com Rapscallion Hard to put your finger on, Rapscallion, that’s them. There’s a real wealth of musical talent and styles in this band and they waste not time in presenting you with both. After a brief period in the shadows the band have found a new drummer and are again writing and recording. Their new line up is expected to retain old favourites such as Slip Away and Come with Me Tonight while new tracks have been described as Reggae/Rootsy and Jazz/Swing, proper gallivanting if you ask me, great. The White Russians Those mirthful alt-country rockers, The White Russians, have been very busy indeed. This autumn alone they have been in the studio with award winning producer Pedro Ferreira and hope to release by the end of the year. For those of you that need something a bit more tangible they still have a heady set of gigs lined up between now Christmas, one to watch out for is Bardens Boudoir in Dalston on 18th October, the look and feel of this place can only add to the vamp of their tunes, like wine to cheese. |
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