Over 50 weeks, 150 acts gave us interviews and all of them were in the very long shortlist for our 5 th annual Band of the Year vote. It was run over 11 months and won this year by Scarlet Rebels – twice voted band of the month during 2019 and also Album of the Month during the summer. This audio clip includes the moment they were announced on air and the interview we did the following week. A write up on all the awards is on the awards page of this site.

NEW HORIZONS 2026: THE WORLD CUP, CARD GAMES AND JOLLY JASPER: NEW ALBUM NEWS FROM VIOLET BLEND
Audio feature interview #1,712 in an ongoing series. Every year since 2015, I’ve run a ‘New Horizons’ series to allow us to check-in with rising bands and hear



