THE BANDS OF THE YEAR 2019 – THE FULL RADIO BROADCAST: PART 3 of 3
For the fifth year, we concluded 2019 with our national awards. More than 150 bands were on the very long shortlist. Having revealed the Top 40 the previous week on 22 November we counted down the top 20 bands from listener votes during the course of the year. Also revealed were Live Act, Album, Single […]
THE BANDS OF THE YEAR 2019 – THE FULL RADIO BROADCAST: PART 2 of 3
For the fifth year, we concluded 2019 with our national awards. More than 150 bands were on the very long shortlist. Having revealed the Top 40 the previous week on 22 November we counted down the top 20 bands from listener votes during the course of the year. Also revealed were Live Act, Album, Single […]
THE BANDS OF THE YEAR 2019 – THE FULL RADIO BROADCAST: PART 1 of 3
For the fifth year, we concluded 2019 with our national awards. More than 150 bands were on the very long shortlist. Having revealed the Top 40 the previous week on 22 November we counted down the top 20 bands from listener votes during the course of the year. Also revealed were Live Act, Album, Single […]
2019 WINNERS INTERVIEWS: TAROT RATS – LOCAL HEROES AWARD
Tarot Rats came 3 rd in the big Band of the Year vote and started the year as Band of the Month. As the highest charting regional band, they also win our special #southeastrocks award which brings with it a package a practical support for 2020. With a debut album landing soon, 2020 could well […]
2019 WINNERS INTERVIEWS: AS SIRENS FALL – SINGLE OF THE YEAR
You just can’t argue with a song that’s had a 40 consecutive show run on my Friday rock show (breaking the previous record of 19 weeks). Good songs get pushed hard by pluggers – but the great ones have a life of their own – it’s as if there’s a magic chemistry within the song […]
2019 WINNERS INTERVIEWS: LYNNE JACKAMAN – LIVE ACT OF THE YEAR
A feature of what we have done since the beginning, and twice voted Artist of the Month during 2019. For us Lynne’s milestone during the year was the statement she made as a live artist. She can sing anything, share a stage with anyone and few people can do what Lynne did in just one […]
2019 WINNERS INTERVIEWS: MELISSA ETHERIDGE – ALBUM OF THE YEAR
A big year with us for Melissa. With ‘The Medicine Show’ many of our followers and the radio show listeners reconnected with Melissa’s catalogue. An album of the month earlier in the year, ‘The Medicine Show’ was chosen from our 12 Albums of the Month for 2019 to be our Album of the Year. This […]
2019 WINNERS INTERVIEWS: SCARLET REBELS – BAND OF THE YEAR
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 […]
SHORT INTERVIEW: JOHN ILLSLEY – NOVEMBER TOUR
From Dire Straits to solo frontiers, John speaks about his solo music and November 2019 tour dates, where he reflects on his memories of the Dire Straits story and revisits the music.
FEATURE INTERVIEW: THE SWAMP BORN ASSASSINS
From the mountain at Wildfire immediately after the band’s main stage set, an interview that captures well the warmth and friendship from the band. Also chat about the Run to the Wildfire song and its genesis – and also the appearance of the rock xylo on stage that very afternoon! Swamp Born Assassins had album […]