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  • Black Water Fiend
  • In Emerald Sea
  • 3 Brothers
  • Aaron Dudfield
  • Aaron Woodhouse
  • Abi Rowberry
  • Abz Winter
  • Ace & The Oddity
  • Ace Ambrose
  • AfterKnights
  • Alchemista
  • Alex Clarke
  • Alice Hubble
  • Altum Schema
  • Alys Rain
  • Andrea Mbarushimana
  • Andrew Heath
  • Andy Beglin
  • Andy Beglin & The MG
  • Angelo Cardone
  • Anthony Gliddon
  • Antonia Kirby
  • Army of Skanks
  • Attrition
  • AutoPilot
  • Autumn Party
  • Avidfan
  • BERHN
  • Bally & Boom
  • Bar Pandora
  • Batsch
  • Besureis
  • Bethany Dyson
  • Bill Cameron
  • Blancmange
  • Blind Faith
  • Blind Orbits
  • Blue Moon Birds
  • Blush
  • Bob Cooper
  • Bob Halligan Jr
  • Brass Hip Flask
  • Bright Black
  • Brothers From Another Mother
  • Brudez
  • Burning Salt
  • But Is It Jazz?
  • Bygrave
  • Caitlin McCarthy
  • Caleb Murray
  • Callum Mckissock
  • Calton Kelly
  • Candid
  • Caroline White
  • Carrick
  • Cary L
  • Chalk Drawings
  • Chasing Deer
  • Chasing Deer featuring Ollie Hayes
  • Chessi O'Dowd
  • China Shop Bull
  • Chloë Boehm
  • Chris Gibbons
  • Chris Tye
  • Chxmpion
  • Clarkwell Rivers
  • Clemency
  • Concrete Fun House
  • Contacts in the North
  • Cov Kozaks
  • Croissant
  • Crokodile Tears
  • Cub$
  • Daffod'i'll
  • Dan Bygrave
  • Danny Ansell
  • Danny Ansell & Co
  • Darius Christian
  • Dark Sparks
  • Dave K
  • Dave Pepper
  • David Goody
  • Dean MacDonald
  • Dean Macdonald
  • Deathsex Bloodbath
  • Deep Sea Divers
  • Delia Derbyshire
  • Dirt Road Band
  • Dispensable People
  • Dissident Noize Factory
  • Diz n Rox
  • Dodgy
  • Dolly Mavies
  • Donnelly & South
  • Downdraft
  • Dr Feelgood
  • Dr.Um
  • Drop Down Smiling
  • Duck Thieves
  • Duke Keats
  • Earlybird
  • Eight Miles High
  • Electrik Custard
  • Ellie Gowers
  • Ellis Gallagher
  • Elvis Costello and the Attractions
  • Emily Burns
  • Emma McGann
  • Engram
  • Erin O'Rourke
  • Euan Blackman
  • Evergreen
  • Everything We Do
  • Ex Lover
  • Ezza Brianna
  • Fairport Convention
  • Fall Girl
  • Fallow Man
  • Filkin's Drift
  • Firedaze
  • Floating Palace
  • Flys
  • Force of Love
  • Four Kings
  • Fourth in Line
  • Frank Ifield
  • Free Galaxy
  • Freezacrowd
  • Gemma Cullingford
  • Gemma Leahy
  • Gods Toys
  • Granny's Attic
  • Grassroutes
  • Green Hands
  • Green Hands and others
  • Greengrass
  • Greg Brice
  • Gus Chambers
  • HEK
  • Hannah Woof
  • Heart of England Co-op Concert Orchestra
  • Hedcheese
  • Helen McCookerybook
  • Henery
  • Holly & the Hounds
  • Holly Hewitt
  • Holly and the Hounds
  • Honky Tonk Rose
  • Huffy Acoustic Punk
  • Hugh Cornwell
  • Hungry Ghosts
  • I
  • Ian Todd
  • In Emerald Sea
  • Irene Rae
  • Isabel Horner
  • Ivy Ash
  • Izzie
  • Izzie Derry
  • J T Wilson
  • JJ Bygrave and Brudez
  • Jack Blackman
  • Jack Blackman and the Beautiful Wreck
  • Jack O'Bones
  • Jackdaw With Crowbar
  • Jackie James
  • Jacob Neverhill
  • Jake Rizzo
  • James Summerfield
  • Jen Waghorn
  • Joe Dolman
  • John Connearn
  • John Kirkpatrick
  • John Otway
  • John Parker
  • Johnny Kowalski and the Sexy Weirdos
  • Jonny Olley
  • Jono Wright
  • Jools Street and the Tile Hill Billies
  • Joshua Bailey
  • Katherine Abbott
  • Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening
  • Katie Walters
  • Keith Donnelly
  • Keith Fabrique
  • Keltik Fish
  • Kenzie Webley
  • Kev Stanley
  • King of the Alps
  • Kirk Hastings
  • Kirsty Brewerton
  • Kirsty Clarke
  • Kristy Gallacher
  • Kyle Boswell
  • Last Man Standing
  • Lauren South
  • Lemon Boy
  • Lemon Tones
  • Letitia George
  • Levi Washington
  • Lewis Cutts
  • Liam Vincent & The Odd Foxes
  • Liam Vincent and The Odd Foxes
  • Little Girl Screaming
  • Love + Madness Music
  • Lucy Anne Sale
  • Luke Concannon
  • Luna Kiss
  • M M Gibbons
  • MINTAKAA
  • MNMLST
  • Magic Seas
  • Man Made Moon
  • Mara Falls
  • Mark Rattray
  • Martin Carthy
  • Massasauga
  • Matt Cattell
  • Matt Goss
  • Matt Waddell
  • Matty Coles
  • Maz Corry
  • Merrymaker
  • Millie Tilby
  • Mintakaa
  • Mintakaa Collective 
  • Miss Songbird
  • Miss Songbird & Chris Gibbons
  • Mister Keith
  • Molotov Souls
  • Monastery
  • Monday Nights
  • Morocco Dave
  • Mr Binx
  • Mudlow
  • Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers
  • Mugshot
  • Naomi Beth
  • Never Apart
  • Nicky Ager
  • Nigel Clark
  • Nigel Lomas
  • Nina Bailey
  • Nizlopi
  • Noah Dobbie
  • Noah Seleno
  • Noctium Theatre
  • Octogoth
  • Oliver Darling
  • Ollie Bond
  • Ollie Hayes
  • Ollie Lawrence
  • Orange River Remedy
  • Paradise of the Titans
  • Paul Brook
  • Paul Mccormack
  • Pauline Black
  • Pete Astor
  • Peter Hall
  • Polly Bolton
  • Project Blackbird
  • Project Overload
  • Prole Position
  • RSB
  • Rebecca Mileham
  • Reiss Pinder
  • Resurrection Men
  • Retroville
  • Reverend Robert
  • Rheo
  • Rheo Uno
  • Rich Keogh
  • Riizbo
  • River of the Dog
  • Rob Halligan
  • Rob Lee Thompson
  • RobinPlaysChords
  • Roddy Radiation
  • Roddy Radiation and The Skabilly Rebels
  • Rosetta Fire
  • Rosie Samaras
  • Ross Darby
  • Rowan Evans
  • Roxanne de Bastion
  • Russell Whitehead
  • Sam McNulty
  • Satsangi
  • Septic & The Tanks
  • Septic & the Tanks
  • Septic and the Tanks
  • Shanade
  • Shanade Morrow
  • Shanghai Hostage
  • Shannon Stevenson
  • Simon Kemp
  • Simon Morgan
  • Simply Dread
  • Some Kinda Earthquake
  • Sophie Hadlum
  • Souki
  • South Town
  • Spa Strummers
  • Speak, Brother
  • Spiral City
  • Ste Essence
  • Steel Pulse
  • Stegosaurus Sex Party
  • Stephen Madden
  • Steven John Birks
  • Stone Bear
  • Stone Foundation
  • Street Arts Project
  • Stylusboy
  • Søjus1
  • T8PES
  • Tattoo Molly
  • Taylor-Louise
  • Tell Tale Presents
  • The Beat
  • The Big Sugars
  • The Bodysnatchers
  • The Bonnevilles
  • The Boy Who Invented Everything
  • The Caprines
  • The Catenary Wires
  • The Clash
  • The Cult of Free Love
  • The Della Grants
  • The Dirt Road Band
  • The Ellipsis
  • The Enemy
  • The Eyes of Isabel
  • The Fallows
  • The Folly Brothers
  • The Giraffes
  • The Hansel Brothers
  • The Hatstand Band
  • The Institutes
  • The Jack O'Bones
  • The Jazz Apples
  • The Last Man Standing
  • The Loaded
  • The Matadors
  • The Mechanicals Band
  • The Mintakaa Collective
  • The Monochrome Set
  • The Muthas
  • The Old Flames
  • The Old Number 7 Band
  • The Peas
  • The Phoenix Collective
  • The Primitives
  • The Pristines
  • The Ripps
  • The Rising
  • The Rollocks
  • The Rude Mechanicals Band
  • The Ruts DC
  • The Selecter
  • The Session
  • The Shapes
  • The Silver Wye
  • The Smashed Vinyls
  • The Specials
  • The Sunbathers
  • The Undertones
  • The Upsiders
  • The Wild Boys
  • Tiernán Heffron
  • Tigermask
  • Titine La Voix
  • Titine Lavoix
  • Toby Marks
  • Tom Robinson Band
  • Trevor Babajack Steger
  • Trust Club
  • TwoManTing
  • Various
  • Various Artists
  • Various artists
  • Vieon
  • Viktoria
  • Vimal Korpal
  • Vince Hill
  • Vince Ishia
  • Voodoo Kings
  • Ward & Parker
  • Warriors of the Dystotheque
  • We Are A Communist
  • Wes Finch
  • Whizzy
  • Wild Boys
  • Wilde
  • X Ray Spex
  • YNES
  • Year Without A Summer
  • Yes Princess
  • Zoe Konez
  • annA rydeR

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I'm really pleased to be reporting on the latest single from Rheo Uno: "Dead and Done".

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As I've said before, I'm obliged that Duck Thieves provide their own self description for the aid of potential audience members & reviewers: while ...

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It's very exciting to be able to share 'Hot Music Live Presents Volume Twelve' with you: eleven more examples of how diverse & original the music ...

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This collection is the twelfth in a series celebrating the inspiring & diverse talent of Coventry & ...

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I have to confess that reviewing releases by John Connearn are among the most challenging for me.

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By now, I think many of us think we have a handle on the shape of an Eyes of Isabel release: Tony Ally conceives it, then he takes it to John ...

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Out today is the much anticipated new EP from Green Hands, whose title is (as hopefully you were already aware) ‘Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime' ...

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As you'll know from various earlier reviews, both of Street Arts Project releases & their associated launch gigs, I thoroughly support this ...

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Reviewing a band's live performance when you saw them only a fortnight earlier presents its problems of finding what new to say, but given the ...

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One of the things I do like about the musicians we feature is their sense of community and personally a fair percentage of artists whom I review ...

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It's always great to catch up with John Rivers about what he's been up to at Woodbine Street Studio in Leamington: though he's been so busy that ...

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Thankfully, reactions to all forms of art are by their nature subjective. That is very liberating for me as I can concentrate my reviewing ...

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It's been much more than a year (nearly two in fact) since our last Kenzie Webley review: it was in fact for her debut album ‘All of the Fallen ...

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There are (I'm glad to say), many great original musicians around currently in our locale & one characteristic they share is producing a ...

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A few weeks after dedicating ‘Hot Music Live Presents Volume Eleven' to "Gus" Chambers, I'm able to review a release by one of his comrades in ...

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It seems high time that we say a little about the newish band Everything We Do since it features Joe Dolman whom we have written about so often.

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Among the various categories of concerts one can go to, there exists the one where the artist can not just slip one new song into their setlist ...

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I can't imagine that any regular reader of my reviews could doubt my enthusiasm for the music of Septic and the Tanks, so after a lengthy fallow ...

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Some good news just in from Brudez (hopefully you remember his "Cold Strange World" which we featured on ‘Hot Music Live Presents Volume Six ...

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Years ago, being a reviewer may have been in some respects a little easier: music arrived as artefacts and you knew that to do so, the artist had ...

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Arriving on platforms today is ‘Rent Free On My Brain' the new EP from Euan Blackman: a follow-up to his debut ‘You Are the Rain' from last ...

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Good news for all of you who have been as excited as I have by the emergence of Green Hands over the past couple of years: their new EP ...

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A mere seventeen days after my previous review of AfterKnights (their single "Breathe Juliet") here I am writing about them again as their ...

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I'm delighted to be posting my first live review of 2024 so early in the year & indeed it's my first for quite some time: too long.

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I must say how exhilarating I find it starting 2024 with articles on so many artists I'm just learning about & then sharing my experiences with ...

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Stone Bear, despite releasing a nine track album (‘Calm The Sea') less than a month ago have already issued the follow-up today: the new single ...

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Yet another quality to admire in artists is resilience and a determination to overcome obstacles on the road to ensuring that as many people as ...

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Since our last visit to the ever-expanding catalogue of Daffod'i'll he's proceeded to add twelve new albums plus one compilation to the 123 (not ...

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Just very occasionally I experience a phenomenon in my musical experience where I hear a band play (a usually unreleased) song which so impresses ...

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Many thanks to James Knight of the Stingo Collective for alerting me to the latest band to emerge from under their nurturing umbrella: Floating ...

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I've commented often enough of late on the prevailing wisdom of our days in which discerning artists write great songs & then not only share them ...

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On reflection, I think it's an exciting thing that the first "Hot Music Live" review of 2024 should be for artists appearing for the first time in ...

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I really ought to have known better when I wrote my comments the other day about Levi Washing releasing a Christmas single after Christmas as now ...

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By now you must have some inkling for what sort of things excite my interest: a marked preference for originality over the "much as we expected" ...

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It's been some six months since we reviewed Lemon Boy's ‘Imagination' EP for you & here he is closing the year with a brace of songs: "She Makes ...

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A great many reviews which I try to write fall into a fairly regular pattern in terms of how I find out about the releases, how the artists intend ...

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Until yesterday, I honestly had no idea whatsoever as to whether I'd ever be able to write a new YNES review again.

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I'd say with certainty that every artist we mention in this magazine has a significant degree of popularity but some of them are what you might ...

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That prolific releaser of music Daffod'i'll has managed eight new albums' worth of music in the month since we last checked in on him (I imagine ...

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As  I mention from time to time in the magazine, I relish long anticipated releases (though I do get frustrated sometimes waiting to be able to ...

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If, very much like me, you've been following the release by instalments of the Monastery EP & not only enjoying the great music but also trying to ...

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The release of the Septic and the Tanks' Christmas single, "Spiders" took me by surprise this morning (I knew that one was imminent but not when ...

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Out today is the new Bright Black single called "Fire", their final to feature lead vocalist Alice Clarke who is off to pastures new (I gather ...

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Local rap-master Brudez is no stranger to this magazine (check out too his "Cold Strange World" on ‘Hot Music Live Presents Volume Six'), but ...

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As I neither want you to think of me as a Grinch or Scrooge figure nor to think of myself, I have had to adjust myself to special Christmas ...

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Out today is the latest Abz Winter single: "Are You Good?" is the question it poses.

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I must say that I'm intrigued and pleased not only by what appears to be a resurgence of fresh, original punk orientated music in Coventry & ...

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'Hot Music Live Presents Volume Eleven' is dedicated to the memory of Gary Kenneth "Gus" Chambers (16th January 1958 to 13th October 2008): one of ...

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Volume 11 (opens in BandCamp)

This collection is the eleventh in a series of collections celebrating the inspiring & diverse talent ...

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We are delighted to announce the release of ‘Hot Music Live Presents Volume Eleven', the latest in a series celebrating the inspiring & diverse ...

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So busy has Rebecca Mileham been with Liam Vincent & the Odd Foxes that her debut solo  EP ‘Underground' seems to have been out longer than the ...

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Today is release day for the second Bar Pandora EP ‘Recreate This', which follows her eponymous debut in that format from last summer.

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Out on Friday is the latest Euan Blackman single called "The Last One".

It's also the third track from his upcoming second EP ‘Rent Free ...

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Debut albums arrive in all sorts of contexts, but ‘Tiny Boat' by Lauren South, which comes out tomorrow, relates to an artist whose career ...

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In my regular attempts to make sense of how music works in our time (or to be more accurate, in the creative ways in which our local artists try ...

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Coming soon from Alchemista lead singer Caroline White is a new single which includes two of her own compositions, "Space In Time" and "Honey in ...

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I'm afraid keeping tabs on the output of Daffod'i'll is becoming more and more difficult.

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As promised in my review of the teaser single "Black Sheep", Tattoo Molly's debut studio album, ‘Power' is going to be released on November ...

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 In May 2021, I reviewed the debut single, called "A Friend" by In Emerald Sea within an hour of being aware of either its existence or that of ...

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Following her last single "The Model" which came out in July, and acting as a trailblazer for her imminent second EP ‘Recreate This', (look out ...

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Once again I find myself apologising to a band for their belated first mention in the magazine: this time it's the turn of Black Water Fiend whose ...

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Making their debut in "Hot Music Live" today are The Muthas: the reason being that their debut single "Circles (Tell Me Something I Don't Already ...

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I have been very pleased to reflect in my writings & compilations the renewal of the vitality of the local punk scene through newer bands such as ...

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Liam Vincent and The Odd Foxes fans will I'm sure be aware of & anticipating that band's Hallowe'en single (the lyric video will be live on 27th ...

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Out right now is the latest HEK single, namely "Cold Sweats". HEK are one of the most talked about Coventry bands at the moment (and it's ...

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At the moment, the activities of the innovative artists who've been emerging recently have almost overwhelmed my capacity to chronicle them all.

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Some years back, I was lucky enough to attend the live debut of the Folly Brothers (back when they were a duo) and in the intervening time, I've ...

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Out tomorrow morning will be the new single, entitled "Laughing Now" by the most exciting band to break out of Leamington in the past couple of ...

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Now available for your pleasure and emotional uplift is "Calm The Sea" by Stone Bear.

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Released today is the latest Izzie Derry single, which is called "Til We Reach The Sun".

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When we included the Eight Miles High track "These Days" on ‘Hot Music Live Presents Volume Three' back in 2020, it was pretty much on the basis ...

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Following the release of "Burn", the lead single from his upcoming second EP (which we reviewed in July), Euan Blackman today shares the second ...

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The latest Eyes of Isabel single (produced as ever by John Rivers with Eddy Hewitt at Woodbine Street Studio in Leamington) is called "Crime ...

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Out now is  the "Powerhouse Sessions 001: The Mintakaa Collective" which is the first in a planned series of films ...

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The first thing to note about COVtember 2023 which was held over the weekend (three days' worth) is that as ever, it raised money for Coventry ...

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Many thanks to Yes Princess  who have kindly reached out to us in advance of the release of their debut album ‘It's No One's Fault But Ours' ...

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If you've following the saga of successive singles in advance of her new album which Izzie Derry has been releasing, then presumably, like me, the ...

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Out tomorrow (scheduled to coincide with the International Day of Peace) is the new Ace Ambrose single entitled "A Town Called Love".

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Some artists develop & evolve at a steady rate. Such is the nature of music though that some are phenomena who appear as if out of nowhere ...

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Many thanks to Ciaran Corkerry  for brining to my notice the impending release of Blind Orbits' new EP ‘The Time, The Tide' on September 29th.

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One recurring irritant for me is the spread of the use of the word "iconic" when "reasonably well known" would usually be more appropriate.

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 As the follow-up to her single pushing back against HS2 ("Waking Up To Stone"), Ellie Gowers today releases "The Stars Are Ours": her first new ...

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After much deliberation & consultation with members of the local musical community, I've decided that since matters are getting worse in terms of ...

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I'm delighted to be able to tell you about ‘Recovery', the new album by the Street Arts Project, which comes out on 1st September, with a launch ...

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I'm delighted to announce the release of 'Hot Music Live Presents Volume Ten': I hope that you'll enjoy listening to it as much as I have & ...

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I'm pleased to enable heavy rock band Tattoo Molly to make their first appearance in the magazine to mark the release of their third single, ...

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The latest Stone Bear release is now out & it is called "When You're On The Run".

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Unfortunately, life intruded and my plans to attend both days of Leamington Food Festival turned into just seeing Carrick perform on Leamington ...

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For those of you following the proliferation of Daffod'i'll releases, I can report that in the last month since my previous update on the ...

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If you explored the Electrik Custard double album 'Dyslexic Mustard' which came out on Leamington's Beat Rebel Records a year ago, you'll have ...

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Here you go: the first (and hopefully not last) article in the magazine telling you about a relatively new (2022) band who are attracting more ...

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As noted previously, Jack Telford (you can hear his track "Middle of Nowhere", made by his new band Green Hands with vocals by Kate Stapley on ...

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As noted in my review of ‘Recovery', the new Streets Arts Project album, the launch event was held at Stratford Playhouse last evening & it was ...

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It's been a while since I'd seen, or reported on, the Jack O'Bones (apart from all the issues we all know about, the band are so in demand in ...

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The release date for the ‘This Is Trust Club' EP has finally arrived (I'm not sure I need to remind you of the name of the band in question), as ...

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Rather more through luck than anything else (see below), I caught excellent sets by Hannah Woof and Monday Nights on Leamington Bandstand this ...

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In my last review for Hannah Woof, I dubbed her current single "Rendezvous" her best work, and I can't be shaken from forming that opinion.

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Volume 10 (opens in BandCamp)

This collection is the tenth in a series celebrating the inspiring & diverse talent of Coventry & ...

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Do you like irony? I usually do, though this one has left me looking a bit foolish in terms with my keeping up with the zeitgeist….

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As most of you probably know from various sources, including our previous articles, the Dirt Road Band has evolved from an initial single event ...

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Out right now from Vieon (hopefully you remember their collaboration with Jenny McLaren "Transmission" which featured on 'Hot Music Live Presents ...

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You'll be glad to know that I'm keeping up my record of seeing nearly every Ivy Ash gig ever.

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Dave Pepper has form in revisiting his past bands (of which there are many) and approaches rediscovering gems from them with the same level of ...

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It's always a big moment when the national media pick up on the talent we already know has been manifesting itself in Warwickshire, so how ...

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Many thanks to that great supporter of what we do (you can find him on no fewer than four tracks on "Hot Music Live Presents"), Jools Street, for ...

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There is no "one size fits all" aspect to how I end up reviewing music for the magazine (that would be very dull): some material I have the luxury ...

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Thankfully despite the rain and despite some very disappointing sound (I made an incautious comment in the magazine some weeks ago about the ...

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Inspired by the artistic paradigm shift of Izzie Derry, I'm going to challenge the format of my review & start with a comment on the artwork.

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Following very hot on the heels of their last singles "Figure It Out" and "Higher Hopes" (it's less than a month since I told you about that one), ...

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The latest batch of Daffod'i'll albums has brought the total up to 71 (the seventy-first is called ‘IP' and contains the songs "Want To Be", ...

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Today's debutant in the magazine is Jono Wright (you may know him from the Mos Eisley Brothers) whose debut album  ‘Special Measures' came out ...

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I am fairly sure that I've never before had the opportunity to tell you about a (female) boxer's story told in song, so with this review of the ...

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Like so many of the best local original artists, releases from Man Made Moon come along insufficiently frequently to meet our wishes but are all ...

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It was fourteen months ago when I wrote an article in the magazine introducing Septic & the Tanks to our readership: looking back, I think my ...

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As previously & regularly noted, that purveyor of finely & perfectly honed gems, Hannah Woof, releases new material less frequently than perhaps ...

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Following the success of their last single "Devil's Call", Monastery will release "The Shore" on the 29th of July.

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Released today is the new EP ‘Another Life or Two' by one of the bands which has most impressed me over the last twelve months: Green Hands.

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Many thanks to  Lauren South, fresh from being a guest star on the latest Stylusboy release, for the heads-up on another collaboration of hers, ...

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Bar Pandora is not one of those artists whom you ought to second guess, unless you like being wrong.

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As promised earlier this week, Stegosaurus Sex Party are unveiling their new EP ‘Helicopter Party Trick' on Friday, following the trailer of ...

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As I often say, the Godiva Festival is an event which offers so much to the lover of local music and to the reviewer of the same.

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Do you like dinosaurs? Do you like sex parties? Then you may be interested in Stegosaurus Sex Party whose latest single "Ugotowned" is now out, ...

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Out on 21st July is the latest Euan Blackman single & this one is called "Burn", which was created entirely by Euan & his home studio & was ...

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It's been quite a while since I last wrote about Trust Club in the magazine (not since their Live EP was reviewed back in November of last year) ...

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It's asking probably a great deal more than I dare ought to, to wonder if you remember my review, almost exactly four years ago, of The Rising's ...

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It's always a pleasure to give "Hot Music Live" magazine readers my impressions of the Godiva Festival: just not quite as big a delight perhaps ...

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A theme I return to from time to time is my surprise & admiration for artists whose "prime" releases seem so rooted in their arrangements and owe ...

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I was probably tempting fate when with last week's attempted update on all things Daffod'i'll I purported to be up to date.

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In the second of my post-Godiva Festival 2023 reviews, I'm now able to tell you a little more detail about the forthcoming Stylusboy EP ‘Back In ...

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As promised in yesterday's broad sweep review of 2023's Godiva Festival, here is more detailed focus on the new Chasing Deer album ‘Diamonds in ...

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A bit of a milestone for me here: this is the first review of a Monday Nights single by me which involves a song I heard them play live before I ...

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I like artists with trajectories: apart from anything else, in my role as a reviewer, trying to write subsequent pieces on someone whose work ...

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Since my last update on the prolific releases of Daffod'i'll, at which point we had reached album number fifty five, he's managed to put out ...

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This is quite a weird one.. which suits me fine. Today I'll be telling you about the new Rob Halligan single called "Small World".

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Out now (in fact released yesterday to mark World Music Day) is the latest Satsangi song, namely "Ultraviolet".

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This is going to be another unusual review as technically the song at the heart of it has already featured in the magazine as part of my article ...

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The latest Eyes of Isabel production to emerge from Woodbine Street is called "In a Girl's Paradise".

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I wouldn't write as regularly as I do I think if it wasn't for being continually surprised by local music.

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Readers of my now several Green Hands reviews will be under few illusions as to my respect & liking for the band: I've certainly not concealed it.

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June 23rd will see the release of the new Abz Winter single "Wasted Energy" and with her usual kindness (and enthusiasm to let others hear ...

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One of my favourite bands for a long time was Batsch: both on record and as a live act.

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I've never really emphasised over my various reviews how Gemma Leahy Waddell used to share with me periodically some of the tracks which were ...

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First of all, credit to Rob Halligan for pulling the music together for Coventry MotoFest 2023 (and previous years of course) & managing it over ...

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When Lemon Boy (aka Luke Bates) tipped me off about his new EP with the title of ‘Imagination', he suggested that it might be ".

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Out right now is the latest Chasing Deer single "Orchards" which acts also as a taster for the ‘Diamonds in the Rafters' album which will be out ...

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Here we go again: I keep promising to not dub any new release as "the artist's best" but once again, with the new Jake Rizzo single "Hard To Be ...

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I have tended, while praising Massasauga singles, to warn readers of a delicate disposition of the power & impact of listening to them.

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I'm not sure I often discuss in these pages the potential problem an artist might need to address in terms of responding to success: I hope I do a ...

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After the pleasures of catching The Old Flames at last week's Open Arts Festival gig on Leamington Bandstand, the weather was even more glorious ...

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It was back last March when I was privileged to be present at the live debut of The Old Flames: as part of the Open Arts Festival on Leamington ...

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Sometimes, far too long elapses between the releases of a given artist (lord knows that COVID19 affected this).

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What an historic day! I refer of course to the launch of ‘Fabric of a Flawed Society', the debut album by Liam Vincent and The Odd Foxes, which ...

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"Allesley Park" is not only the name of a Coventry amenity, but that of the latest Eyes of Isabel single which arrived yesterday, in the principle ...

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It's not that difficult really to envisage some of the issues which specialist drummers face in putting together solo records.

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Today has for some momentous reason been a bumper day for brand new, exciting & thought provoking material to be released in Coventry & ...

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I'm pleased to report to readers that the brand new Joe Dolman single, "Sabotage Myself" has been released this morning.

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Out today is the new (Dan) Bygrave single "Long Road Home".

The follow up to "Friday Night", this one is a co-write with Ryan Stanley and ...

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You can tell that "Wasted Love", the new single from Izzie Derry which is out today, takes another huge step along her road of self discovery and ...

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Stylusboy (aka Steve Jones), whose latest single, "Fourteen Days" is out today on his own Tortoise Recordings (it is taken too from his ...

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After declaring my enthusiasm for the new Andy Beglin single "Vale of Avalon" last month, here I am telling you of another release he's part of: ...

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After a (too) long break from experiencing live music, it was a joy to be there for the sets from the ever excellent Shanghai Hostage, The ...

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I can't say that I'm surprised by the release of "Waking Up To Stone" as a single today by Ellie Gowers: it's the fourth of her ‘Dwelling By The ...

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That top & beloved local band The Primitives are currently gearing up for the shows celebrating the 35th anniversary of their debut ‘Lovely' ...

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As the most cursory reading of my articles will tell you, I like artists who are confident in standing out from the mediocrity of the crowd & ...

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I had better start with an apology: this is one of my occasional (too frequent?) articles where I realise that I ought to have written about the ...

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Like all good part works, Euan Blackman has been allowing you to build your collection of his debut EP ‘You Are The Rain' if not by stealth, ...

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In another of those moments of serendipity which I keep finding when I review for "Hot Music Live" magazine, within a week of writing about the ...

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You never know what to expect from that restless musician Dave Pepper…. Most of the time he takes you unawares by mastering some new musical ...

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Back in May of last year when I reviewed Chessi O'Dowd's ‘Wine Glass Filter' album, I ventured the opinion that "…every track has the ...

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Here is something of another venture into new territory for me in an article for the magazine: telling you about a specific radio broadcast.

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The length of the heads up that I'm able to give you in relation to the new Duke Keats EP, ‘Dirty Glamour' while not quite a record for the ...

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Out now from that indefatigable artist Daffod'i'll is an album for Easter, (".

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Out next week (though please consider pre-saving your copy right now, as such action helps artists) is the latest Abz Winter single and its name ...

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One of the several reasons I (admire, respect & appreciate the art of Danny Ansell is that I don't know what to expect from his releases before I ...

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If there were an Andy Beglin fan club, then I'd surely be a paid up member. I often muse on why artists from the past never got the recognition ...

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I have to declare an interest, if not some downright sense of favouritism in regard to my review of "No Matter How Far Away", today's single ...

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It's yet another of those serendipitous coincidences that, so soon after telling you about the song which  Jackie James & Shanade Morrow put out ...

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How on earth that dynamo of self produced solo albums on such an epic scale as Daffod'i'll can have found the time to return to the work of the ...

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Out today is the latest single from Euan Blackman's debut EP: namely "Bad Things" (and it comes coupled with the previous releases "Busy Doing ...

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Out today from the prolific Daffod'i'll are four new albums of his original, solo, music.

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I obtained my high regard for & enjoyment of the work of Liam Vincent and The Odd Foxes only last year: I started by listening to their ...

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It's a big ask of you I'm sure to remember that back last August I mentioned, during my review of Ivy Ash's debut live performance (at ...

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It was very pleasing to report that the latest (and sadly final) collaboration between "Hot Music Live Presents" and Earlsdon Carnegie Community ...

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Reiss Pinder is what I might call a restless creative spirit: always looking to the future & not resting particularly on past laurels.

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I really appreciate the unusual in music and so reporting on the first single I can recall being released for Mothering Sunday is a pleasure & I ...

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Out right now is the latest Eyes of Isabel single, "To See The World".

As ever accompanied by an evocative video assembled by Andy McGeechan ...

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Just released by (Dan) Bygrave is "Friday Night": his first release of 2023 produced by Wigz for Beat Rebel Records.

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When we featured the 1989 track "Mean 'n' Moody Rockin' Machine" by Some Kinda Earthquake on the very first edition of "Hot Music Live Presents", ...

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Out now is the new Croissant single entitled "Shadow, Honey", the follow up to "Winter Days" (which you can also hear on ‘Hot Music Live ...

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New out from Euan Blackman is his single "Busy Doing Nothing", taken from his EP of the same name which also contains the song "Everybody Lets You ...

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Returning to the festival for the first time in 15 years, indie-rock superstars The Enemy will be headlining the Main Stage at the 2023 Godiva ...

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When I told you about the last Rheo Uno release, "Blur The Lines", I held back (so as to let the light shine on the single in question) on telling ...

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If it seems like ages since I was able to review an Izzie Derry release, that's because we are nearing the third anniversary of her last one.

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I try (when I know the date) to wish "Hot Music Live Presents" featured artists a 'Happy Birthday' on the appropriate day.

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When I reviewed "Standing In The Shadows" by Green Hands back in November, I am pretty hopeful that my own enthusiasm for the track & the band ...

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After a run of Stone Bear releases which were effectively solo releases by David John, you'll be pleased to hear that he's managed to get into the ...

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Just released by Chasing Deer is the perhaps appropriately titled "Now", which as collaborator Ollie Hayes is co-credited as a featured artist, ...

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Daffod'i'll has today announced the release of his forty-ninth solo abum ‘Dilluvian' which includes the nine songs "A Hand", "Follow", "ii", ...

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I'm sorry to say that what with other recent distractions, I failed to spot the new RobinPlaysChords single "The Dream" when it was released, so ...

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Some (many I hope) of you may follow Horace Panter's in depth & highly entertaining diaries of life on the road with The Specials and the Dirt ...

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I'm pleased to introduce another new name (to the magazine at least) today: that of Alys Rain whose ‘In Tension' EP is now out on Holy Crow ...

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Despite the official date for festive gifting being still a few weeks off, YNES' many fans will feel more than blessed this winter morning with ...

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Just when you thought it was safe… back come Massasauga with another of their tales of the predatory.

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Coming soon from Jackie James will be her Christmas single: "Lights On".

Described by its composer as a "lullaby", it features her six year ...

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Dirt Road Band gigs tend to be special affairs (please pardon the slight reference dropped in there): despite the fact that they are now gigging ...

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Today is the day on which Jake Rizzo has released his new single, "Same As You".

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Released today is the new single "The Reason I'm Here" from Jonny Olley, the follow up to "Tunnel Vision" which we reviewed back in May.

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"Hot Music Live Presents" are very pleased to announce the release of 'Hot Music Live Presents Volume Nine' today.

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Out today from Trust Club is their new live EP which, not messing around nor trying to confuse us, they've named ‘Live'.

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When you are as skilled as Joe Dolman at writing material, unusual things can happen.

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Most articles I write for "Hot Music Live" tend to fall into a few broad categories and my main job is to try to be as objective as possible when ...

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Volume 9 (opens in BandCamp)

This collection is the ninth in a series of collections celebrating the inspiring & diverse talent of ...

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So here it is: our first seasonal/festive release review of the year (and I'm glad it's coming at a sensible & tasteful date), namely "Winter ...

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As I indicated back in June when I covered a Greg Brice live performance at Stratford Playhouse Folk Club, anticipation of his debut solo album ...

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You probably haven't failed to notice that after a pretty much weekly review of the prolific Levi Washington, I haven't been able to do so now for ...

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One of the great pleasures in the reviewing I do for "Hot Music Live" is that it introduces me to original & individualistic artistic voices.

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I rather enjoy coincidences & rather too often perhaps see meaning in them where maybe there is less than I imagine.

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When I stood on top of Long Compton Hill on Tuesday, the day after Hallowe'en, the November wind whipped across the Rollright Stones & blew the ...

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Quite a few years ago now, one of the bands I'd have been raving about in "Hot Music Live" had I actually been writing for them at that time, was ...

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As a big fan of Rikki & Tyron Hansel from their days in the Hansel Brothers through to Evergreen & on to today, I am consequently one too of their ...

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The new Monday Nights single "Dorian Gray", is, I'm pleased to announce, released today.

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So.. another day, another bolt from the blue release, this time the phenomenon being "A Long Way From Home", the new Ollie Bond single.

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After something of a sabbatical from his previous heavy schedule with Chasing Deer, Rob Hodkinson has followed his "comeback" single "On Standby" ...

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There I was working on a review to appear next week and suddenly, to my surprise (but presumably not theirs) The Primitives dropped a new single ...

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Less than a week after that magnificent gig I reported on with T8PES, Andrea Mbarushimana's poetry & headliner Luke Concannon, here I am ...

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One of those artists whose work I have long desired to review is Noah Seleno and now with her single "Lips", that ambition is realised (though I ...

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Can I get through a review of "Hush! An Autumnal Celebration" (another collaboration between "Hot Music Live Presents" and Earlsdon Carnegie ...

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Out tonight from The Eyes of Isabel is their new single "Tropical Nightlife".

Recorded as ever at Woodbine Studio by John Rivers and Eddy ...

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It brings me enormous pleasure to review for you the new (and second) King of the Alps album, 'Heart of the Matter' which came out earlier today.

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One very big advantage of the community spirit within so much of the local music scene is that people help others so much & that extends ...

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We are now up to album forty three from Daffod'i'll with the release of ‘DILLUTED', ‘DILLWEED' and ‘Dillapidation'

Number forty one ...

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If you've caught Shanghai Hostage live, you may well have heard them perform a song whose lyrics are in French.

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It keeps you on your toes does this reviewing business… one moment you have the luxury of possessing an album such as Ellie Gowers' ‘Dwelling ...

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It's been far too long since I last reviewed  Chasing Deer in the magazine : I think it was their Christmas single "Together At Christmas" back ...

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During the lockdown period of the pandemic, like most people I had few inklings as to how any music scene might re-emerge assuming it ended.

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And so at long last I am able to review Ellie Gower's new album ‘Dwelling By The Weir' which is released today for you.

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It's been more than two months since Rheo Uno released "Me Without You" and this Friday (30th), she's back with her latest, "Don't Wanna Be In ...

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That incredibly dedicate & hard working group Luna Kiss hit us (and I don't use that term lightly) with yet another in their current top notch run ...

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As you might imagine with a three day  festival, my getting to see every act was always going to be difficult (I couldn't) but I'll begin by ...

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Hannah Woof singles come along too infrequently (it's been fourteen months since "My Phone" and five since her collaboration with Jake Rizzo, ...

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Some releases I write about are relatively easy to get my head around: others less so.

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Following up his "Do We Look Back?" single (which I reviewed for you back last month), Rob Lee Thompson today shares with us "In Between".

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Pandora Craig & Sam McNulty will not be unknown names to many readers in terms of issues such as their artistry (both for example feature on "Hot ...

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Out now from Jackie James is her new single entitled "That's The Way", though when you go looking for it on the streaming platforms, please note ...

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I'm most pleased to be able to inform you of the debut single by Riizbo:  "Do The Work" and it's his vocal debut too.

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While I admired their fortitude & commitment to rock, I was disappointed for Luna Kiss at the Art in the Park event in Leamington last month since ...

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Much as I (and loads of other people to) enjoy the Godiva Festival, it's not the easiest event to review in a conventional manner.

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The final preview single from her album ‘Dwelling By The Weir' which will be out on September 30th after much expectation, is "Ribbon Weaver" ...

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There should be no "rules" in rock & roll or indeed in any creative field. If you let yourself be limited by such things, it binds you into a ...

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Since the release of the interesting ‘GRANDY', his thirty-seventh album of his solo year, but his first instrumental one, which we reviewed in ...

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Sadly we don't feature too many live reviews from Rugby (if anyone based over that way would like to cover their thriving scene, please let us ...

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Abz Winter is back with a new single entitled "It's Not Your Movie" which comes out on 9th September which was co-written by & produced by Imad ...

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The Godiva Festival is many things to different people: indeed that is alone one of its glories: how is manages to cover so many bases at once is ...

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"Hush! A Harvest Celebration" yesterday was the latest in the collaboration between "Hot Music Live Presents" and Earlsdon Carnegie Community ...

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As  I indicated in last week's report on "Art in the Park" in Leamington, I was delighted, after reviewing a string of fine singles by her, not ...

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Out on the 20th, as a follow-up to "You're The One", Rob Lee Thompson's new single is called "Do We Look Back?"

It's the customary classy ...

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The Dirt Road Band's career has been one of those unpredictable ones their name rather implies, but I think it's fair to say that it has exceeded ...

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I hope you recollect the Clarkwell Rivers track "Bad Faith" on ‘Hot Music Live Presents Volume Six'?

Now he's back with two live ...

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In my latest look ahead to a major artist playing at the HMV Empire in Coventry (on October 6th), I'm pleased to say that I was able to chat with ...

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It's probably asking a bit much for even the most attentive reader of the magazine to recall an article from July 2019, but three years ago I was ...

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Thankfully, despite the circumstances, the unusual weather & the traditional/legendary/notorious event organisation, I managed to witness at least ...

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Out today from Ollie Bond is his latest single, "Loveable", his follow up to "Slipping Away" which came out back in April.

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 If you are a fan of Euan Blackman, then you'll know his mission statement is "Alt folk for kind folk"  and therefore won't be too surprised to ...

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It's been a little while since I last wrote of a Stone Bear release but here they are back with "Bay Tree".

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The release this morning of "Something Beautiful", the latest Luna Kiss single, not only evidences the hard work the band have been putting in & ...

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Out yesterday was "You're The One", the latest single from Rob Lee Thompson: released on his wife's birthday.

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I do try hard to get as much information about the new releases I review in the magazine as possible: after all the purpose is to recommend ...

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You may remember popular local band Fourth in Line whose "On The Run" appeared on ‘Hot Music Live Presents Volume Four'.

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I'm sure you appreciated the exclusive Ezza Brianna track "Disperse" which appeared on ‘Hot Music Live Presents Volume Seven' and later thrilled ...

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I am sure I'd have supported the Elevate Festival last evening regardless of the stellar lineup, as it was both celebrating fifty years of ...

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Hot on the heels of last week's Daffod'i'll solo album number 36 comes (you guessed it) his thirty seventh, called ‘GRANDY'.

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Out now is the new single "Got To Be With You" from The Eyes of Isabel. As often is the case with this band/project whose pivotal member is ...

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Out today is another new Ellie Gowers single from her forthcoming ‘Dwelling By The Weir' album which you can savour in full in a couple of ...

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Fresh out from Daffod'i'll  is solo album number 36 entitled ‘BABY!' with the now customary ten tracks, entitled on this occasion "Baby!" ...

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On an already rather hot July morning, here I find myself listening to the forthcoming (17th July) single from Rheo Uno: an artist with a plenty ...

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I think that the last few years taught us about the relativity of our perceptions of time if we had not considered them before.

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With her latest single "You, Not Me" (which doesn't actually come out until August 5th but please be ready for it because it's so good), Ivy Ash ...

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For his first single since the great success of his ‘Ecstatic Bird in the Burning' album, Luke Concannon has created "What Would You Change" for ...

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While YNES is preparing herself to play the Left Field Stage at Glastonbury at the specific invitation of its curator Billy Bragg, her brand new ...

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I'm pleased to have the opportunity to tell you of a new Antonia Kirby song: the first I think I've reported on to you since "Sides of Me" in ...

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In the relatively short period of time (about five weeks) since I reviewed the most recent single release "Look At Me" from Bar Pandora, things ...

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Last evening at Earlsdon Carnegie Community Library saw the "Hush! A Summer Celebration" event, another in the series of collaborations between ...

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Fresh out from The Eyes of Isabel is their latest dramatic piece, "Penthouse Complex".

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Thanks to (adverse) fate, I've not actually written about a live Greg Brice gig in the magazine before, which is quite embarrassing given his ...

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As you'll know from previous writing in the magazine & the inclusion on ‘Hot Music Live Presents Volume Eight' of "Wake Me Up Tomorrow", the ...

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Although after album number 34 ‘SAY AHHH!' from Daffod'i'll back in April he said he was taking a break from this deluge of releases, he's back ...

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If you enjoyed the ‘Bring Back the Sun' EP  from Nuneaton's Kyle Boswell  which we reviewed in April, you'll be pleased to hear that it's ...

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Out now from Euan Blackman is his fifth single, "LED Lights": a track from this ‘alt folk for kind folk' artist which is definitely from the ...

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What a joy to tell of you of the release today of the new Ellie Gowers single: "Brightest Moon", itself one of the tracks on her new album ...

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As I've got out more in recent weeks to see live music again, I've been most fortunate to catch some artists whose reputations were made in the ...

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As reported earlier in this month, one of the world's favourite bands, The Undertones, are playing at the HMV Empire in Coventry on Saturday June ...

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As reported in the magazine way back in February, acclaimed singer-songwriter Roxanne de Bastion will be playing at The Tin on June 7th as part of ...

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As those of you who were kind enough to read my interview with Paul McLoone last week (and what an interesting one that was for me to enact) will ...

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For those who read my interview with Roxanne de Bastion ahead of her gig at the Tin on June 7th, you'll have seen that I asked her for tips on ...

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As anticipated in my interview with Bid last month, yesterday evening saw a magnificent gig at the Tin with the Monochrome Set being supported by ...

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Today sees the release of the latest Luna Kiss single which has the title of "All On Me".

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Double good news for the "Hot Music Live" community as not only does Jake Rizzo have a brand new single called "Obvious" out today, but it's a ...

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Way back in March 2020 I had just enjoyed the launch of the latest Izzie Derry EP and was looking forwards to the one for the Chessi O'Dowd ...

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Sadly it's been a couple of years since I was last able to post an article on the splendid Clemency (it was their February 2020 gig at ...

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When I reviewed Rebecca Mileham's excellent ‘Underground' EP last month, I made reference to her roles as violin player & vocalist in Liam ...

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The advent of any new YNES track is something of an event: one of the least conventional writers you can imagine, you simply don't know what you ...

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Out  today  is "Tunnel Vision", the  third single by Jonny Olley, following his debut  "Slow" (and which was featured on ‘Hot Music Live ...

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Out at 1800 today was the long awaited EP by Massasauga, ‘Exorcisms and Psychic Visions'  which is also a compendium of most of their recent ...

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It's been well over a year since Electrik Custard shocked us with "LOUD" (a collaboration with Mina Minné which also featured on ‘Hot Music ...

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Fresh out is the latest collaboration between Lemon Boy & Last Man Standing and together with their previous release, ("Starting To Fall"), ...

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The first Danny Ansell release of 2022 has been revealed as "Jericho", which follows December's "Wishing Well".

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The new Sophie Hadlum single "Watching You Fade" will be out on 15th May (though you may already have had a listen to it being played on BBC ...

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Fresh out today from Bar Pandora is her single "Look At Me".  When I reviewed her "Dear Man" (both are destined to also appear on her upcoming ...

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One band whose name seems on many lips at the moment is the wonderfully named Septic & the Tanks.

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For his first release since last year's ‘Reflection' EP (you may recall that one track from this, "Sing It To Me" appears also on ‘Hot Music ...

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When last week I told you of The Rising's collaboration with Tiernán Heffron called "Come Closer", I offered the observation that "this is a ...

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Out today is something a little bit different from The Rising: a collaboration with Irish singer-songwriter Tiernán Heffron  called "Come ...

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It was a couple of years ago that we first told you about BERHN and now Kirsty Clarke and Dean Dovey  are back with their new single "Torn To ...

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 Last evening saw the follow up to the highly successful "Hush! A Spring Celebration" collaboration between "Hot Music Live Presents" and ...

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Today sees chapter 34 in Daffod'i'll's solo album series with the release of ‘SAY AHHH!' with its tracks being "Conquer All", "Sensation", ...

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Out now from Dan Bygrave is his new single on Beat Rebel Records named "Paid".

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Last evening's Stratford Playhouse Folk Club meeting was as intriguing a juxtaposition of two talents as its predecessors.

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Eight days after my last Daffod'i'll review, here he is back with another album (just the one this time, although he apparently has another in the ...

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It's back to business nearer usual for Levi Washington with the release of "Same Ole U".

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I honestly can't say that I was too surprised by the release today of an acoustic companion  EP to Joe Dolman's most recent ‘Heavyweight' nor ...

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Today we are pleased to announce the release of 'Hot Music Live Presents Volume Eight'

It's a little different to Volumes One to Seven (you ...

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As you may know, only too recently I had to share the sad news of the serious illness of Gemma Leahy Waddell

I know you will be as saddened ...

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In the four days since I reported on the release of the  last four Daffod'i'll albums, he's back with yet another four today.

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It's great to review Bar Pandora for the first time in the magazine & I'm sure that it will not be the last time.

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Volume 8 (opens in BandCamp)

This collection is the eighth in a series of collections celebrating the wonderful & diverse talent of ...

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Out today at 8 pm is the new Massasauga single, with the sort of title you have come to expect from this band with a penchant for the darker side ...

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After releasing three more albums about as many weeks ago, Daffod'i'll  is back with three more plus another compilation ('The Best of Albums ...

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Just in from Rebecca Mileham, whom you may know from her roles as violinist and vocalist in Liam Vincent & the Odd Foxes is the news of the ...

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Out now from Luna Kiss is their new single "Lust For Blood", the follow up to the excellent "Operate".

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Fans of Kenzie Webley will, I am sure, have been aware for many months that she has been working on her debut album at 14 Records in Leamington: I ...

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Much as I get a huge amount of pleasure writing about our current vibrant & diverse local scene, I get a special thrill when one of my favourite ...

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I'd like if I may to share with you news of "Slipping Away", (madstered at Abbey Road no less) the first new Ollie Bond release since his "In The ...

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It's not exactly unknown for me to come across a track or artist unexpectedly whom I later review: it must however be more rare for an artist to ...

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I hoped that you enjoyed the most recent Euan Blackman single "HIGHHIGHHIGH" which we reviewed here (it's also to be found on ‘Hot Music Live ...

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It was grand indeed to catch up with Levi Washington live on Sunday on the Bandstand, but it's back to the weekly business as usual now with his ...

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I'm delighted to bring you a heads-up on a rather special musical event which I'll be reviewing for the magazine next month.

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I can't quite believe that here I am, writing my third live review in four days… an idea which has been unthinkable for so long.

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It's gives me a extra frisson of pleasure to be able not only to publish my second live review in the space of three days but one about an event ...

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Having reported on last month's inaugural Stratford Playhouse Folk Club gig, I was delighted to make its follow up as well.

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It's so unfortunate that it has taken a tragedy on the scale of the one unfolding in Ukraine for our first review of a Cov Kozaks record, but as ...

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For reasons which no-one reading this will fail to grasp, the thoughts of everyone at the moment are with those in Ukraine and unsurprisingly, the ...

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Although the live music scene over the past couple of years was especially hard hit, one ray of bright light for our area was the opening of Phil ...

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Following his most recent album ‘Spectrum' last month, the indefatigable Daffod'i'll returns today to his recent custom of multiple releases: ...

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I have two excellent pieces of news from Rheo Uno for you.

Firstly, she has been nominated in two categories (Best Original Artist, and ...

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Very many thanks to Michelle Bailey-Le Long for an in depth heads-up about this weekend's Boudica Festival treats at the Tin Music & ...

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I was pleased to hear that Levi Washington is managing both his health issues & his rapidly expanding portfolio of commitments running live events ...

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It's that moment for Joe Dolman which fortunately comes to some creative artists on a roll when you've last released a single as good as "The ...

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I'm sure many readers will have been saddened to hear of the illness of Levi Washington last week and his consequent hospitalisation.

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I reviewed (back in November) the most recent single from Satsangi, "World Falling Down" and mentioned a little bit at that time about their ...

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Out this morning, as a fanfare-free surprise for her fans, is a new EP from the irrepressible Abz Winter entitled ‘Just Wanna Be Me'.

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One of my favourite movies by Steven Spielberg, has always been "Duel": unfortunately as it was his 1971 feature length debut, it has been ...

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Well I honestly never thought I'd be writing an article on The Fallows again: and probably neither did the band.

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After last week's release of no fewer than four new albums, this week Daffod'i'll is back with just one album: his twenty third, namely 'Spectrum'.

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My tendency as you know is to focus in particularly on local Coventry & Warwickshire artists for my reviews: in the last couple of years certainly ...

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I must admit that the release of "Starting To Fall", Lemon Boy's latest single, took me by surprise (Luke has been sufficiently busy that prior ...

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This week's offering from Levi Washington is "If You Don't Care" and it's an acknowledgement of the date of its release, albeit, in the inimitable ...

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When I reviewed the Carrick single "Stay at Home" just over a year ago, (you can also find it on ‘Hot Music Live Presents Volume Five'), I ...

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I hope that you have been enjoying "Working On Your Chemistry" on ‘Hot Music Live Presents Volume Seven'? If so, and you've been looking forward ...

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Out right now is a new single by The Silver Wye entitled "Hitman": their first new release since "Cold Light" came out in June 2020, followed by a ...

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If like me, you've been enjoying the excellent video from Luna Kiss for "Operate" (check it out via https://www.

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After reporting three weeks ago on the release of four Daffod'i'll albums (three of originals plus one compilation), he's back again today with ...

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You can't fault Levi Washington for ambition: trying to release a new single every week against the background of organising so much live music is ...

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I've been giving little insights into what has just been released as 'Memories From The Mantelpiece' by Andy Beglin as his debut album for the ...

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If you have enjoyed hearing the exclusive Ezza Brianna track "Disperse" on last week's ‘Hot Music Live Presents Volume Seven', you probably were ...

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Just in from the newly launched Stratford Play House Folk Club:

The Folk Club will be bringing top quality live music to Stratford … from ...

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After the angst of last week when he agonised over the mix of "Carrie, Baby" until Wednesday & the existential angst of the preceding "Check 1, 2" ...

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Fresh out today: 'Hot Music Live Presents Volume Seven': seventeen more great original tracks by Coventry & Warwickshire musicians, available for ...

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Volume 7 (opens in BandCamp)

This collection is the seventh in a series of collections celebrating the wonderful & diverse talent ...

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If last week's magnum opus "Check 1, 2" gave ample evidence of Levi Washington's perfectionism then this week's single release "Carrie, Baby" ...

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That prolific artist Daffod'i'll has today announced no fewer than four new albums: his sixteenth, seventeenth & eighteenth ('Gold 'n' Sold', ...

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Like most people, I'm never averse to pleasant surprises & this track dropped so out of the blue that fifteen minutes before starting to write ...

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Many thanks to Rich Keogh for bringing the work of Nuneaton based musician  Kyle Boswell to my attention just in time to review his ‘Bring Back ...

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I'm delighted to be able to report on the brand new album by the Street Arts Project from Stratford which is released on the 14th of this month & ...

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 For his second single of 2022, following last week's "It's Cool", Levi Washington has opted for something of an epic and once again it's like ...

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As I'm sure most if not all of you are aware, Abz Winter was selected for the new television talent show "Walk The Line" at the end of 2021 and ...

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It was last April that Alchemista were last able to put together all their considerable talents and release the rip roaring pirate themed single ...

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Hopefully you enjoyed "Wasted" by Wilde on ‘Hot Music Live Presents Volume Four' and our review of their most recent single "The South" back in ...

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Last month, I caught up with John Rivers at Woodbine Street Studios and shared some of his enthusiasms with you.

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Fresh to "Hot Music Live" today is Coventry band Never Apart whose new single "Sick of It" came out today, following their previous releases ...

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I suppose with Levi Washington's campaign of releasing a single a week now so far advanced & his choice of tracks so impossible to predict, there ...

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Following the very successful release last week of a remake of "Sierra Leone", this week's single from Levi Washington is called "Here To Stay".

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As a Christmas treat for us, Chasing Deer have decided to re-release their 2015 festive single, "Together At Christmas".

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Last December, I was able to let you know about the festive version of "Silent Night" which Stylusboy released to aid the Carriers of Hope charity ...

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Only the other week I was reporting on the enthusiasm of John Rivers of Woodbine Studios for the work of YNES, and here I am, fortunate enough to ...

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Following in the impressive footsteps of Ivy Ash, Monday Nights have today released an acoustically reimagined version of their most recent single ...

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This week's Levi Washington single took me by surprise: though in a wholly benevolent way.

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For his first release since September's "Never Gone", Lemon Boy has today unveiled "Vänern" for our pleasure.

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I appreciate that one of the tasks of a reviewer is to maximise the amount of information about an artist so that the reader can investigate their ...

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This week, Levi Washington is surpassing even his prolific form of the past few weeks with not one but two new singles, "Shank" and "Above".

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I am delighted to report that this week a plaque was erected on the original site of Woodbine Street Recording Studio by Leamington Town Council, ...

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I have to confess that when I heard that the new single by The Rising (out today) was to be their version of "Have Yourself a Merry Little ...

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In the three weeks since I reviewed Daffod'i'll's twelfth & thirteenth albums, namely ‘Red Rose SPD Way' and ‘SMILE',  he has put out number ...

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Thankfully after managing to catch up with Levi Washington's weekly singles release campaign with "On The Wrong Side Of The Sunshine" last week (I ...

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When, about a month ago, I reviewed the inaugural live performance of Ian Todd's excellent new album "Seven Signs of a Soul" at the Tin, I did ...

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Following the raunch of his most recent release from earlier in the month, "Rub Rub Grind", Dave Pepper is back with his new single "Don't Stop.

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Having been too slow in my response to last week's Levi Washington single "Soph", thanks in part to a heads up from the artist himself (thank you ...

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The main problem with trying to review the more prolific releasers of new music locally is actually keeping up with them.

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You will I'm sure be aware of the debut single from Monday Nights, "Flight" which also appears on ‘Hot Music Live Presents Volume Five'.

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After the recent releases of "Real World" and "Strangers" in the past few weeks, both of which have no only been reviewed in this magazine but ...

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Last night was another little milestone for me: my first pub-based gig for two years.

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It's a rather unbelievable two years since we last covered a Jake Rizzo release in this magazine, and ironically our review on that occasion ...

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Fresh out from Satsangi is "World Falling Down", (their first since they raided their own vaults for the "Don't Want Anything But More" single ...

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Regular readers will need no reminding of my admiration for that subtle and highly original band King of the Alps.

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I got pretty excited in these pages recently as Dave Pepper turned the clock right back on his sound with that excellent song "I Need More Time": ...

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As with her debut single "Oops", Ivy Ash fashioned her most recent one, "Third Degree"  in such a way that it could be shared both in its upbeat ...

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Following July's "Rain Again" single, the effervescent Ivy Ash is back with the fourth release of her swiftly developing career, namely "Third ...

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After the double whammy of last week's releases of the singles "Shelter" & "Focus" (as reviewed in this magazine), Levi Washington has now shared ...

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It is so difficult to keep up with the prolific form of Daffod'i'll that in the three weeks since I reviewed his eleventh solo album ‘Black ...

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Sadly, my live reviews for 2020 & 2021 have been disproportionately outnumbered by my reviews of releases (and let's not forget the last word of ...

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If you are an admirer of the visual artistry of Russell Whitehead or the musical artistry of Wes Finch, or indeed of both as I am, then I'm sure ...

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Out right now from that hard working artist Levi Washington (currently he seems to be organising around 60% of all live music in the area covered ...

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Out today from Dave Pepper is a new song called "I Need More Time" . Due to the intensely personal nature of this song, I abandoned trying to ...

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Way back in the day, Hallowe'en was a rather different sort of festival, a sort of development of the pagan Samhain harvest festival but embracing ...

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Extremely hot on the heels of Daffod'i'll's tenth solo album ‘Brown Nosey' (which I reviewed at the end of September) comes number eleven, ...

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It seems only yesterday that I reviewed Rheo Uno's single "Señorita" for you (it was about a month ago in fact) and here we are again for her ...

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If you have been reading my more recent reviews of The Rising, then it will not be news to you that they've been steadily releasing each of the ...

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Out today from Joe Dolman is his latest single which rejoices in the title of "Strangers", the follow up to the successful "Real World" which ...

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It's a great & somewhat rare privilege to give you as much notice as I am here with Danny Ansell's next release "Wishing Well" as it won't be out ...

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It was back in June that I introduced you to the debut single of Avidfan (the nom de musique of King of the Alps/Special Brew/Some Kinda ...

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I hope that you enjoyed the Maz Corry song "In This Living" on ‘Hot Music Live Presents Volume Five'?  I'd like to think that you also read my ...

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Just over a month since we told you about his "Sinking" single, Euan Blackman will be releasing his third one "HIGHHIGHHIGH" tomorrow (Friday).

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Fresh out from The Specials is a new album called ‘Protest Songs 1924-2012'.

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I mentioned as a supplementary note in my review of Saturday's gig at The Tin that I encountered ‘Hot Music Live Presents' artist Daffod'i'll in ...

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That irrepressible artist Abz Winter is back on 8th October with her latest single "Under Me", her follow-up to "Money" from July.

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For those of you who were wondering about the activities of that rapidly rising local star Kenzie Webley, I am able to bring you up to speed.

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The other day, while reviewing the new Chessi O'Dowd single, "The Pines", I commented that the first gig I had scheduled which was cancelled by ...

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For those of you following the incremental release of The Rising's ‘No Hope Without Love' EP (and I hope that's you all), you may have counted ...

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It's been above a year since I last got to review a Joe Dolman release (his collaboration with Millie Tilby "Let's Go Home") so it's good to be ...

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The last twenty or so months have to some extent made us all consider various aspects of time I think: such as how long has elapsed since we last ...

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I get extremely intrigued by what artists occasionally say about their own work.

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It was back in April when out of their "7 Nights of Terror" competition, Massasauga fans voted the chilling "Switchblade" to be their single.

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It's been nearly a year since we last reviewed a Year Without A Summer  release in these pages (and the last couple of years have come close to ...

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On 2nd September, Euan Blackman will be releasing "Sinking", his follow up to the widely praised and popular "24 Hours 7 Days" and I gather it ...

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To say that I was stunned by the new Levi Washington single "Polaroids of Yesteryear" (which you can hear at 1800 tomorrow, the first of ...

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"Never Gone", the follow up to his very well received "I Want Your Blue Sky" single from May, will be the latest release from Lemon Boy on 1st ...

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If you enjoyed "Auriga" by Mintakaa on ‘Hot Music Live Presents Volume Six' then it's a fair assumption that you'd be interested in catching ...

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On today, his birthday (not a coincidence I imagine), Daffod'I'll  has released his ninth solo album entitles ‘I Stripped Bare' (a nod I am ...

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As prophesised in our recent reviews of his singles "Don't Forget To Breathe" (in June) and "What Goes In Is What Goes Out" (last month), the ...

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I'm sorry to say that I'd never previously attended one of the summer Sunday afternoon concerts on the Bandstand in Stratford before but I'm glad ...

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Considerably less than a month ago, I was strongly suggesting to you that you should check out the new Rheo Uno single "Wife Me?" yet already the ...

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Fresh out from Free Galaxy is their latest single "Dreamstate", though it is far from business as usual for this popular band.

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True to their mission, The Rising are back with a new single "Highway to the Lost & Found"  (due out on 3rd September) just over a month after ...

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To be honest, as delighted as I was that live music in some quantity was back at an expanded "Art in the Park" (two stages rather than the usual ...

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In my recent review of the "Women Pioneers" event at Coventry Cathedral, I drew your attention to its companion event centring on the 2 Tone ...

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Springing out of the blue somewhat is the new single from YNES called "God's Little Punching Bag" which burst onto our consciousness this morning.

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The most recent occasion on which we reported on Danny Ansell and his music was back in April, with the release of his "Slice of Cake" single.

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Fresh in from Alcester based artist Euan Blackman is his brand new release "24 Hours 7 Days": just when I imagined that the products of lockdown ...

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When I wrote last month about the latest single from Tigermask, "Mirtazapine", I told you quite a lot about its parent album ‘Cocoon' which in ...

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Unfortunately, it has been over a year since I last wrote about a Rheo release in the magazine and a similar timespan since her "Down For You" ...

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Following the very successful release of "Inflamed " in late May, today, Dean MacDonald shares with us the next track from his recent 14 Records ...

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Many thanks to Fred from Molotov Souls for sending me their latest EP called ‘I Hear Voices' which they made with Matt Waddell at 14 Records.

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Saturday night was another real landmark for me: my first Saturday evening out since the pandemic struck.

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It is unfortunate that catching every artist on a multi musician event isn't always possible, but the short time I was able to be at the Record ...

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The time is rapidly approaching (16th of July to be precise) when "What Goes in is What Goes Out", the sophomore single from his ‘Seven Signs of ...

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As her follow up to the popular "B.S.", tomorrow Abz Winter is releasing "Money".

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During the last sixteen bizarre months or so, coverage of Coventry & Warwickshire artists in these pages has taken on unusual patterns.

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I'm much obliged to Rob Halligan who has been in touch with me to ask me to pass onto readers of "Hot Music Live" the details of Motofest 2021: ...

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I hope you have been following the progression of singles released by The Rising from their upcoming ‘No Hope Without Love' EP?  Following ...

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Strange and wonderful times: I find myself today writing my second live report inside a week.

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And so here we are at the third single from the irrepressible Ivy Ash, namely "Rain Again" (which is released on 2nd July) though really it's ...

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It seems almost unreal and a bit transgressive to find myself writing a live review after so many months of reviewing the recorded activities of ...

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It has been a while since we were able to feature Tigermask in the magazine (and in the interim, his standalone track "Timeless" appeared on ...

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It's been quite a while since I had the pleasure of reviewing a Taylor-Louise release: in fact it was about eighteen months ago when the title ...

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You might perhaps have spotted that the track of the week from BBC Introducing in Coventry & Warwickshire  is the new single by Contacts in the ...

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Although his spirituality informs & enriches virtually all his work, in April 2019 Rob Halligan released a very explicitly sacred collection of ...

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I have not had a chance to review a Chasing Deer release for you since "Scared" came out in December, so I'm pleased to do so now in reaction to ...

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In one of those interesting serendipities which real life offers us occasionally, not twenty four hours after reviewing the debut solo single by ...

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If you do not yet know the name of Simon Ward as well as you might do, then you could do worse than check out the credits on the various ‘Hot ...

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Fresh out today is the song "Totally Together" by Brothers From Another Mother featuring Kirsty Brewerton and recorded at 14 Records in Leamington.

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Today Paul Mccormack has a new release for us, "Gloriana", a follow up to "Thoughts" (which I advised you of last month) and which can be found at ...

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I appreciate that I've introduced reviews before saying that I'm excited about them, but I'm afraid it's the truth: I review what excites me, ...

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Today saw the release of "Hot Music Live Presents Volume Six", the follow up to the previous five albums in the series: another free download ...

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Volume 6 (opens in BandCamp)

This collection is the sixth in a series of collections celebrating the wonderful & diverse talent of ...

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I last reviewed Aaron Woodhouse back in March when he released "Fire In The Air" as a single: now, he has followed it up with "Addiction" which is ...

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Abz Winter has only gone and done it again hasn't she? I love the way that although her game has never needed raising (it's been at the top from ...

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The 4th of June marks the release date of the second single from the upcoming 'No Hope Without Love' EP by The Rising, namely "Bruise You Left" ...

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It's with a great deal of pleasure that I write this particular review. Anyone who has experienced grassroots live music in our area over the past ...

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The latest release from Dave Pepper is called "The Calm" and is now available for you too to enjoy via this link: https://davepepper1.

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Having reviewed "Hour Glass" (an hour long ambient piece ) by Ian Todd last summer, I am now pleased to say that I can return to his work again, ...

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This is exciting: we have often told you about releases from & performances by one of the area's most respected & popular bands The Session, but ...

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Here's a slightly rhetorical question: what is better than a new release by one of the most respected & popular Coventry & Warwickshire artists? ...

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"I Want Your Blue Sky" , the next single by Lemon Boy (Luke Bates) is not in fact released until 26th May, but already, thanks to some advance ...

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It's actually been a year since we shared the news about "Jump" by Abz Winter with you, a period of time between releases which would have seemed ...

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Although I have written about singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Paul Mccormack in the magazine before (in the context of a Merrymaker live ...

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An artist whose work I have not yet previously had the pleasure of describing to you is Lemon Tones (the name under which James Temple is ...

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When reviewing the last YNES single (the eviscerating "Better Job", which also featured Ace Ambrose), among several adjectives I used, one was ...

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This is probably the quickest turn around of a review I've yet managed: not only was I unaware of this song an hour before I began writing this, ...

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I have long enjoyed Firedaze  as a live act but I'm sorry to say have not reviewed any of their releases until now: I'm glad to repair that ...

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I'm delighted to report to you the release of a new single by Kenzie Webley on 21st May, namely "Loveable" .

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Any new release from Ace Ambrose must have the characteristics of creating anticipation & wonder in our minds: what on earth will she come up with ...

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Despite his skill at honing crowd pleasing anthems, the reality of Danny Ansell's songwriting is the subject matter he covers is actually very ...

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If you enjoyed Jonny Olley's debut single "Slow" which we reviewed here in January (and which was featured on ‘Hot Music Live Presents Volume ...

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For their first single release of 2021, Alchemista are offering us a tale of piracy on the high seas in the form of "Calico Jack".

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You may remember when back in February Massasauga invited you to participate in their "7 Nights of Terror" wherein they shared teasers of seven ...

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That marvellously prolific band The Rising (Chris Logan & Chantelle McAteer) are continuing their highly commendable campaign to not let COVID19 ...

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Fresh out today is a live album of the special lockdown gig which Rob Halligan played at Coventry Cathedral with the help of Ewan Cameron and ...

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Today is the release day for the new Ross Darby single "Around This Town", his first since the much applauded "Rose" which came out in July 2020 ...

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It is literally only a single month since I reviewed the most recent Shanghai Hostage single "Convent" for you, yet here today am I writing about ...

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I was delighted last month to describe to the debut single by Ivy Ash (the new sparkling pop persona of Bethany Dyson) called "Oops".

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A very recent addition to my awareness of the local music scene has been Aaron Woodhouse.

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I was always a fan of the band Bluebird Parade: a very eclectic and versatile six piece band whose combined talents were able to create all sorts ...

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Very slightly more than twelve months ago I reported to you on Wes Finch's Leap Year gig: a special event to mark the four yearly occasion & to ...

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Ollie Bond is one of those talented artists who seems capable of swerving the "quality/quantity" debut by releasing very high quality singles at a ...

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Today marks the release of the new Rob Halligan single entitled "Bigger Than Me", a swift follow up to his ‘Christmas Time' EP and as it's ...

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Shanghai Hostage are continuing their long running excellent form & defying COVID with another prime release this morning namely their new single ...

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I'm always most appreciative of being tipped off about interesting local music which I had not previously been aware of, so thank you to Ian Todd ...

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Not only did ‘Hot Music Live Presents Volume Four'  artists Wilde (check out "Wasted" if you've not already done so) manage to put together the ...

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If you enjoyed hearing the "elegant & graceful " (as our review described it) "Flamingo"  by Lemon Boy on ‘Hot Music Live Presents Volume Four' ...

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This afternoon saw the release of the brand new John Connearn EP called  ‘Is This Thing On?', his first record since "Push & Pull" which came ...

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One of the many frustrations of the past year has been the loss of momentum in the careers of various local artists who were so obviously on a ...

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Just out from local dissidents Dispensable People is their new single entitled "Class War".

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Now this is very exciting…..a most powerful & compelling collaboration between YNES and "Hot Music Live Presents" artist Ace Ambrose called ...

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Back in November, I introduced you to Ivy Ash, the sensational new pop persona of Bethany Dyson.

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After his most impressive prolific run of form since the music scene was turned upon its head, from "Self Isolation Song" (which is also on ‘Hot ...

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We are delighted to announce the release of 'Hot Music Live Presents Volume Five': eighteen more totally original tracks by Coventry & ...

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I was greatly & very pleasantly surprised by the unexpected release yesterday of a new single "LOUD" by Electrik Custard featuring Mina Minné.

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Volume 5 (opens in BandCamp)

This collection is the fifth in a series of collections celebrating the wonderful & diverse talent of ...

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Readers of the magazine will have followed the evolution of Holly & the Hounds from roots in Gloria Sunset & Retroville duo formats into a full ...

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As I'd been in contact with Nizlopi singer/guitarist Luke Concannon regarding the release of his brand new solo album 'Ecstatic Bird In The ...

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One of the most anticipated albums to be issued by a Coventry & Warwickshire artist has to be 'Ecstatic Bird In The Burning' which Luke Concannon ...

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Well that's two surprises of rather different sorts on consecutive mornings for me.

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During these turgid times when there is a distinct danger of every successive day seeming like its predecessor, it's helpful to be surprised now & ...

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Good morning to you all: I'd like to tell you today about the new album from Stratford based Maz Corry,  ‘Postcards Home' which was released a ...

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Not surprisingly, it is a while since I've been able to report to you on Rosetta Fire.

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We cover some excellent artists in the magazine who produce some great material.

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It's uplifting to start a new year by reviewing another local artist whom I've not yet written about in the magazine & on this occasion, the ...

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Good news from River of the Dog who on 29th of this month are releasing a brand new single entitled "You The Creator"  (hopefully you'll remember ...

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This morning's news is that Carrick have just released their new single "Stay at Home", which will later appear on their forthcoming second album, ...

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Today Caleb Murray releases his new single, "Another Sunset" a year & a half after his previous record, the ‘Stories From a Sunny Side' album ...

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Within a month of telling you about "Midnight" by Shannon Stevenson, I find myself in the fortunate position of being able to now give you a heads ...

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One of the key aims of both the features on artists in this magazine & by spotlighting many of them in the "Hot Music Live Presents" series of ...

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It may be something of a record for "Hot Music Live" (do let us know if you think you can beat it) in terms of gaps between featuring their music, ...

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In advance of the full release of his new album 'Ecstatic Bird in the Burning' in February, Luke Concannon is this week sharing a third single ...

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I am very grateful to Toni Peach who frequently plugs the magazine on her HillzFM show, plays "Hot Music Live Presents" tracks and when ...

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"A Rather Silly History Of Coventry" Press Release

Local singer-songwriter David Goody can't resist writing songs about Coventry.

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Coventry singer-songwriter Shannon Stevenson has decided to take the positive road of uplifting us with her end of the year release "Midnight" and ...

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When I interviewed Kenzie Webley the other week for the feature in the magazine, she was busy at 14 Records laying down some brand new tracks for ...

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Relatively hot on the heels of October's ‘Clear Skies To See' EP (certainly rapid by the standards of what is possible in 2020) Alchemista have ...

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I wonder if you recollect Paul Englefield's review of The Empire at the Zephyr Lounge back in February 2016? Well two of that band are now in ...

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If, like me, one of the things to look forward to & keep me relatively sane during the depths of lockdown was Jools Street's weekly bluegrass live ...

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If you enjoyed "Wasted" on ‘Hot Music Live Presents Volume Four' (I'm sure you did), then you'll be as pleased as I was to hear their new single ...

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It was only yesterday when Facebook reminded me that it was exactly twelve months since I had last see King of the Alps play live.

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I'll hold my hands up & admit that back in March my expectations for having much to write about in this magazine were low and so they have been ...

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In my interview with Roddy "Radiation" Byers of The Specials etc earlier in the week, I observed how the pandemic has cut a swathe through the ...

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To make up for not being able to gig, Luna Kiss have released a new single "You Are (Live Studio Session)" which is intended as a gift to their ...

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Christmas should involve thinking about others (and goodness knows everyone around us has need of our love & support currently) so I am ...

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We are definitely finding ourselves in the festive release period now & if the cover art for the new single from The Rising "This Special Time Of ...

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So here we are, as we always knew we would be, at the final instalment of the "Reconnect" project by The Upsiders, the single "Intermission" which ...

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One of my personal sadnesses (among several) for our local music scene was  that Danny Ansell's long awaited ‘As It Goes'  album came out ...

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A mere three weeks after I reviewed "Ready" by Ollie Bond, here the man himself is back again with his more seasonal release, "We Still Have Next ...

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I am pleased to be able to announce to you that Stylusboy has just released a seasonal single for us, being a cover of "Silent Night" and that all ...

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May I take the opportunity today to introduce you to the work of Steven John Birks? Unfortunately I'm jumping aboard the musical train of this ...

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Most readers of "Hot Music Live" plus countless others around the world, will know Roddy "Radiation" Byers best as the lead guitarist with the ...

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Local singer-songwriter David Goody is no stranger to a Christmas song having provided bizarre festive cheer each year since the 2016 release of ...

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Although  Chloë Boehm has only appeared in "Hot Music Live" for under a year, she is already one of the local artists on a particularly steep ...

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It's been a few months since I reviewed "Open Your Eyes" by Bethany Dyson in the magazine  the follow-up to "Just You & Me" which also features ...

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Jack Blackman is not only on a rich run of form at the moment (the pandemic seems to be inspiring him to express his feelings through the medium ...

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I feel a little sad now we suddenly find ourselves at the penultimate instalment of The Upsiders' "Reconnect" project: today's new single "Heading ...

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Unsurprisingly, I've not had the chance to review a new Chasing Deer release since their "Bad Decisions" way back in February.

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I'm really pleased today to be able to review the brand new single from Man Made Moon called  "Where The Stars Fall": my first since ...

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Rob Halligan is another of our local musicians who could certainly be described as "prolific" in terms of just how much excellent music they are ...

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It's been a little while (I think we might guess why) since I last reviewed Free Galaxy  (whose "Leave Me" appears  on ‘Hot Music Live ...

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Today I can report to you on the new single by Kirsty Clarke, called "Don't You Close Your Eyes" (hopefully you'll have read my review of her ...

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As usual, starting a Dave Pepper review with a list of his musical projects & genres mastered would in itself make an article too long to hold ...

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I suppose that by now I should be used to how Ollie Bond is managing to create, record & release so many high quality tracks despite the current ...

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I must say that much as I like the music of Brudez and respect what he does & says in his work, his new single  "Cold Strange World"  (out today ...

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A moment of pleasure, the more appreciated because it was unexpected, hit me last evening with the news that Stone Bear have released a new album, ...

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Today, we reach episode seven (of nine) in the "Reconnect" project of The Upsiders: "Bobbie Boat".

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If next February seems still an awfully long way off to wait for the release of 'Ecstatic Bird in the Burning', the next album from Luke ...

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If you enjoyed the most recent single by Ollie Bond, "I'm Not Coming Back" which was reviewed in the magazine last month, then you'll be pleased ...

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It is always exciting to review a new Ace Ambrose release & today really is no exception to that pattern.

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For those of you who have been deprived of hearing the music of Ellie Gowers (I was fortunate enough to catch a live set on February 29th, but ...

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At the end of a month which began with the release of his excellent single "Hard Place to be Be", Jack Blackman is showing no sense whatsoever of ...

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Today, I'd like to draw your attention to a new single to be released on October 2nd from across the Atlantic: quite an unusual review for an ...

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During the last eight months, I have reviewed releases I had some inkling of in advance, a few well in advance, some complete surprises & some ...

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If I was forced to list the artists based locally whom I most enjoyed live, I should without question include the Voodoo Kings.

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It's proving a year when most of our expectations have been torn up & scattered on the winds.

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There is something of a tightrope for artists to navigate: on one side the peril of producing so diverse a range of music that people can't join ...

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The last chapter of The Upsiders' "Reconnect" song cycle, "Ooh Na" (reviewed in the magazine last month), found protagonist Kenny, while at least ...

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Given the overwhelming feeling of claustrophobia engendered by the current situation, it is a corrective to share evidence that we are not all ...

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How Ollie Bond does it I simply cannot begin to fathom. While most if not all artists have found the past few months constraining, many have been ...

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I really hope that like me, you enjoyed the popular track "A Place To Hide" on ‘Hot Music Live Presents Volume Four'? If you haven't heard it ...

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Barely a fortnight after his last release, the chilling  "Empty Beretta", Jack Blackman (who is also represented on ‘Hot Music Live Presents ...

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This is in many ways an unusual review but definitely one I have very much looked forwards to writing for some time.

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Now we are in the heartland of The Upsiders' "Reconnect" project, not only are the cumulative emotions of the arc of protagonist Kenny's journey ...

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After the misfortune of having the dreaded lurgy delay the anticipated & planned release of her new EP "Sides of Me", Antonia Kirby (whose ...

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Normally the autumnal equinox is precisely the time we'd look for a new release from The Silver Wye.

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Somewhat to my surprise, yesterday afternoon I found myself enjoying live music in the actual physical presence of the musicians creating it for ...

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As I'm sure that you are aware, we were fortunate enough to be able to include the debut single of Chloë Boehm "Dare You" on ‘Hot Music Live ...

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I hope you have been enjoying the track "Flamingo" on ‘Hot Music Live Presents Volume Four'? I'm pleased to share with you now the latest single ...

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There is some good news for Wes Finch fans awaiting the release of his Leap Year gig live album (as (p)reviewed in this magazine last month) He ...

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Rob Halligan fans will have felt blessed over the past week with two separate releases which I hope you won't mind my telling you about in a ...

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If you recall, like many of us, The Rising entered 2020 with high hopes & plans.

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We were greatly pleased to be able to feature the zeitgeist tapping "Self Isolation Song" by Jack Blackman on ‘Hot Music Live Presents Volume ...

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If, like me, you enjoyed "Safe With Me" by Ollie Bond  on ‘Hot Music Live Presents Volume Three', you'll be as pleased that despite the ...

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Lots of things make writing reviews of great local music for "Hot Music Live" pleasurable.

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I do hope that you have been following successive instalments of The Upsiders "Reconnect" project as they release them & we review them in the ...

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For those of you who have already downloaded  "Hot Music Live Presents Volume Four" 

(if not, please check it out ...

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I must have been a bit naive when back in late March I assumed that my articles in the magazine would become more infrequent: obviously there has ...

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Some six months ago, I wrote what to date is my penultimate live review for the magazine: concerning Wes Finch's Leap Year gig.

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Volume 4 (opens in BandCamp)

The fourth in a series of collections celebrating the glorious & diverse talent of Coventry & ...

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It was barely a fortnight ago that I was telling you all about The Upsiders' single "Worth A Million" which I'm delighted to see has been welcomed ...

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It was only last week that I was telling you about the new Stylusboy single "This Is Where I Belong" which was released in advance of its parent ...

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You'll no doubt have enjoyed that masterpiece of Stylusboy, namely   "For the Souls of My Brothers" on ‘Hot Music Live Presents Volume Two' ...

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This is rather an unusual release to be reporting on. Firstly because the publicity seems surprisingly low key considering the magnitude of one of ...

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In my latest feature on how local music related businesses are coping with, adapting to & evolving through the current circumstances, I am looking ...

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I've said it before, but I'll say it again, I especially enjoy (and enjoy writing about) music where it touches base with other art media.

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I really haven't concealed my admiration for the solo work of Henery in this magazine have I? Starting with live reviews which not only revealed ...

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Satsangi, never a band to shirk a challenge nor to be meekly led by fate nor wander aimlessly down roads many others have trodden previously, seem ...

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As I write, the very first  shoots of live music performance recovery seem underway: a few people including members of Evergreen & Chessi O'Dowd ...

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A strange one this, the latest single release from Rob Halligan: "Promised Land" which comes a month after his previous one, "The Other Side" was ...

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I am pleased to report that despite all the obstacles being placed in their way since their decision to launch a single a month in 2020, The ...

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When I reported mere days ago that one of the artists who had recently been recording at 14 Records with Matt Waddell was Ross Darby, I certainly ...

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One of my favourite local bands (and I am far from their only admirer) has long been Little Girl Screaming, a band I came to via their incendiary ...

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It was April when I wrote about the "Colour of Love" single by Batsch in the magazine.

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After the pleasure at being able to review "Lullaby For Lucas" by Katherine Abbott last month, I'm delighted that so little time has elapsed ...

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In my most recent article, I focussed on how local business Dr.Um were emerging from the restrictions of the last few months.

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Back in March, I shared some of my reflections, fears & thoughts about the impact of lockdown on the local music scene & more or less left it on a ...

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Keen readers of this magazine will recollect the February feature  of Ian Todd & even keener ones will have spotted his name amongst the details ...

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One of the many disappointing aspects  of lockdown (and I write this on a day when I would otherwise have been anticipating Leamington Peace ...

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I do like being taken be surprised by music (to be honest I'm not sure I enjoy reviewing music which fails in some way to do so) and I hope I am ...

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Another first for me: my debut review of Stratford singer songwriter Katherine Abbott & my apologies as I'm arriving quite late at this particular ...

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Last night was another Full Moon (and a strawberry one at that, with an added penumbral lunar eclipse) and that these days means a new single ...

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When I reviewed the current TwoManTing single "Gbangbaode" for you last week & at the end advised you of their upcoming live album, I really ...

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"The Other Side", the new single by Rob Halligan, will be released on all major download and streaming services on June 22nd but don't worry, you ...

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This review  concerns something that manages simultaneously to be compassionate, passionate, challenging, exciting and accessible & above all a ...

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This is an interesting one: with quite a nuanced tale to be told.

The album ‘Nizlopi Live' was recorded over two (sold out) shows in ...

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Today I'd like to share with you the latest single (out today) by Antonia Kirby whose"Labour of Love" appears on ‘Hot Music Live Presents Volume ...

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Did you enjoy the sumptuous, popular & acclaimed track "Just You & Me" on ‘Hot Music Live Presents Volume Three'?  If, like me, you did, you'll ...

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Chloë Boehm has very rapidly gained a highly positive reputation on the local music scene: it is mere months still since she first acquired a ...

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I last reviewed TwoManTing for this magazine in a live context back last November & I trust you'll recollect my sense of enjoyment of that ...

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Lord knows this lockdown life can seem like "Groundhog Day" when you are inside it.

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I feared that my reviews for "Hot Music Live" might dwindle during the current situation, with no live performances on which to report & the ...

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You might very well like to check out today's release of a charity single appropriately called "Isolation" by ‘Street Arts Project & Friends', ...

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As I said the other week, being surprised as a reviewer is part of the pleasure of doing it.

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A few weeks ago, on the recommendation of Callum Ward of ‘Hot music Live Presents' artists Free Galaxy, I reviewed the Kenilworth based musician ...

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Reviewing obviously excellent artists is always a pleasure, but there is an extra frisson in writing about a release or performance which takes ...

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Well life under lockdown continues to evolve doesn't it: even, or perhaps especially, our musical life.

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Just as the initial curtailment of live gig opportunities saw many of the artists we report on in "Hot Music Live" upskill themselves to be able ...

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Thankfully despite the complete lull in gigs to review, the flow of releases continues (though I suspect we are going to reach a point when ...

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It was a pleasant surprise to learn that one of our area's most dynamic & exciting bands The Session have managed to unleash a new single called ...

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All credit first of all to "Hot Music Live Presents" artist (and one of the key people whose idea that project was) Fall Girl (Michelle ...

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It was virtually a year ago that I wrote very favourably about a live performance by Batsch (who are Mason Le Long, Joe Carvell, Matt Rheeston & ...

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As with their last single, the brooding & allegorical "The Getting Place", The Silver Wye are releasing their latest track "Just My Luck" to mark ...

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One great thing about "Hot Music Live" is the sense of community & so I'm indebted to Callum Ward of "Hot Music Live Presents" artists Free Galaxy ...

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Volume 3 (opens in BandCamp)

The third in a series of collections celebrating the glorious & diverse talent of Coventry & ...

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Pleased as I undoubtedly am to be reviewing "As It Goes", the brand new album from Danny Ansell & Co, there is no getting away from the facts that ...

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In February (and how long ago that feels today), I had the pleasure of telling you about "In The Moment", the debut single by singer-songwriter ...

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The latest single from Belfast founded & now Leamington based "fresh-faced Pop/Rock with Modern Country Stylings" duo The Rising is "Just Another ...

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It's good to be able to report to you that Abz Winter is following up her very well received (not least in the review in this magazine) single ...

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If you look at the "front page" of the magazine, you may have noticed that the most recent article always comes under the banner of "Fresh & ...

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An artist who has been steadily making an impact locally in recent months, Chloë Boehm, today has released her first track "Dare You".

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For the past three years, former Gods Toys & I vocalist Dill has been making up for the time lost out of music for personal & health reasons by ...

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After the success of my recent features on Ian Todd & Chloë Boehm, here is another one I think you'll find interesting & I think topical.

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Last week I wrote a piece for "Hot Music Live" looking at some of the (negative) implications for the music scene during the current crisis.

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So, another day in lock down, another day I can't be writing about the great gig I went to last night.

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Although I really enjoy writing reviews for "Hot Music Live", I also like telling you about the artists & hopefully during this strange period, ...

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Two apologies to you all.

If everything had gone to plan, you would have been reading my review of Chessi O'Dowd's  ‘Wine Glass Filter' ...

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A mere few hours ago, on the stroke of midnight in fact, Hannah Woof released her new single, the zeitgeisty "Self Care", her first since her ...

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Today I'm pleased to be able to draw your attention to a new release by Rob Halligan, namely "Come Take Your Place", his first since "Nothing Good ...

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Well this is something of a milestone: my first review of the new order. As I expressed in my last article, I'm not anticipating live reviewing ...

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On Sunday morning, I began writing what will obviously now be my last live review for quite some time.

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If you are anything like me, among the myriad challenges to our communities currently being presented, the probable curtailment of live music for ...

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Once again, I am in the happy position to write about a band who have hitherto yet to appear in "Hot Music Live".

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February 29th is an unusual date. A rare date even. I rarely attend gigs on that date nor write reviews.

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There are many aspects of our ‘Hot Music Live Presents' project of which I am very proud.

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If you as big a fan of The Caprines (Ed Kimberley on drums, Dave Toulson on lead guitar, John Lindley on vocals and on rhythm guitar and Curtis ...

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It's really good to return to "Hot Music Live" regulars Chasing Deer after a while.

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One of my occasional delights in writing for "Hot Music Live", as regular readers may have spotted, is when art media converge: that applies for ...

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Having reviewed them live previously, I am pleased to now tell you of the brand new single from Autopilot: "Brain Cell".

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It seems so recently that I was telling you all about the debut single by John Connearn, the appropriately entitled "First Things First" and ...

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Today I am pleased to be able to tell you about a new release from Rob Halligan: "Nothing Good Is Wasted" which is a taster for us from his ...

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We cover so many multi-talented artists in "Hot Music Live": not just musicians but the photographers, visual artists & producers whom they work ...

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Today I'm really pleased to be reviewing the new, the brand new, single by Shanghai Hostage within minutes of its video being publicly released ...

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The Silver Wye, like any great river, rolls majestically on, picking up speed in the release of its songs.

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One conundrum I face with reviewing the calibre of artist I tend to focus on (it's an enjoyable challenge really) is how to handle it when people ...

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I have recently accused Joe Dolman of being prolific in his output and here he is again with a brand new release a month since I last reviewed him.

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I first reviewed Henery & his music for "Hot Music Live" eleven months ago when I saw him  supporting Ellie Gowers: "Henery was a revelation.

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I expect we all agree that music can actually do things to us & for us: improve our mood & morale, lift our spirits, transform our psyches.

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I must admit to being a little low when I woke up this morning. Partly due perhaps to a personal event from yesterday & partly due to national ...

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As promised, after my review of Kirsty Clarke's new track, "Greatest of Partners", I thought you'd like a piece on her other venture, another of ...

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Welcome to another of my series of reviews of Coventry & Warwickshire musicians whom I hold in very high regard yet have hitherto failed to review ...

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It has been far too long since I had last caught a full Titine La Voix live set.

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I do hope you enjoyed the Stone Bear song "Bring A Little Love" which appeared on ‘Hot Music Live Presents Volume One'? Now Jeff Dennis (drums) ...

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When recently I reviewed no fewer than three Daffod'i'll albums in one fell swoop in a catch up exercise, if you looked at the photos you'd notice ...

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When I saw the Old Number 7 Band at the Railway Inn in Leamington on Saturday, while they were not playing, the venue piped music was some of the ...

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What a great way to start off 2020. The Old Number 7 Band gig at the Railway Inn in Leamington has set a very high bar already in so many respects.

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‘Satellites'   is the most recent single by Danny Ansell & Co (Danny Ansell on vocals and guitars, Roger Greasby on drums and Patrick Beard ...

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Back when The Clash began, their manager, Bernie Rhodes, instructed them to "write about what you know", advice which took them along the route we ...

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I find myself mentioning ‘artists on a roll' increasingly frequently these days: not every artist works to the same pace & lord knows many ...

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It's odd: the more reviews you write, the more patterns emerge. Sometimes they are pretty obvious ones like when you spot how certain artists are ...

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December 12th is a date many people have possibly been looking forwards to or dreading for various reasons.

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Some excellent news for lovers of music which dares to be a bit different. After the closure of the Zephyr Lounge, the mighty APE nights organised ...

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Something which as a reviewer I am keenly aware of is that so many artists are releasing their material in the form of EPs currently.

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I think that we can all by now agree that Joe Dolman is one of the most talented & popular artists from Coventry & Warwickshire & to that add "one ...

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Déjà vu: again. Sorry if I'm making your heads swim sometimes these days: lord knows mine does.

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We live in exciting times! I have never known such a great time for local creativity and for some reason there has been a large number of gigs & ...

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It is always a challenge finding the right words for any review: trying to describe one medium in another is itself tricky & then if you review ...

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John Connearn will be a name already well known to the aficionados of the local music scene & as the new decade dawns, will become better known to ...

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A couple of thoughts occurred to me as I started this review. Firstly (and I am sure you've spotted this too), I can't remember ever experiencing ...

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I'm sorry but I'm afraid I'm going to have to instil a touch of déjà vu in you.

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I trust that you have, by now heard the last Speak, Brother single "Even Though We Are Strangers"   (reviewed in the magazine on 30th September).

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In terms of the tracks on ‘Hot Music Live Presents Volume One', some were great tracks from today & others rare & unreleased gems from some of ...

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I do hope that you have checked out "Leave Me" on "Hot Music Live Presents Volume Two" by very fast rising Kenilworth band Free Galaxy? If not, ...

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Today I have the opportunity to repair another omission in my reviewing history for "Hot Music Live":  to be precise until this moment, I have ...

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My apologies to Bethany Dyson whose latest single "Just You & Me" has been out several weeks: I suppose one defence for my delay in reviewing it ...

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I have to admit from the start that I found writing a review which captures the essence of Tigermask adequately, having seen him play at the Town ...

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As 2019 winds down, it occurred to me that one of the names which has been cropping up very regularly during the year, namely Abz Winter, would ...

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One of the final formal gigs I shall attend in 2019 was also one of the best: the highest possible levels of musicianship but even more ...

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Hopefully, I do try to capture the best of Coventry & Warwickshire music (or at least such as I encounter) in my reviews but from time to time ...

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I hope that by now, many of you will have downloaded, played & enjoyed "Hot Music Live Presents Volume Two" (https://hotmusiclivepresents.

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There have been more "blues revivals" than there are blues standards (possibly.

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What a fiesta of an evening on Friday at St Patrick's Club in Leamington.

Organised by Taylor-Louise as a launch evening for her "Black ...

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Volume 2 (opens in BandCamp)


The second in a series of collections celebrating the glorious & diverse talent of Coventry & ...

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If several of my more recent reviews have been of songs previously unheard by me & some even caught me by surprise with their release, the new ...

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Watching TwoManTing last night at the Town House in Leamington, one of my immediate thoughts was "it's been too long" since I last saw them live.

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This review in some ways is able to address an omission among my pieces for "Hot Music Live": although I have alluded to Will Ball in respect of ...

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Occasionally I've been able to review for "Hot Music Live" an event which involves but is not limited to music: a particular pleasure.

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Every so often, I enthuse in a review for "Hot Music Live" over the privileges of being able to do so: fairly obviously hearing wonderful & ...

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Happy New Music Friday to you all!

To celebrate the day, Joe Dolman has a brand new single "Better By Now" out for your delectation.

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I find myself here writing a review which I had never anticipated. I kidded myself that I had a reasonable understanding of an artist whom I had ...

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I wrote last week of the issues & tensions which must exist around even the best artists as they develop their individual voice & sound yet need ...

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Some of the records I review for "Hot Music Live" come to me out of the relative blue.

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Although I have seen them play before, and greatly enjoyed their performances, I have not actually ever given them a full review for some reason ...

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It is said of several aspects of life that "a week is a long time" within them: to the list we might now add the career of Jake Rizzo.

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It is always a great pleasure to review excellent music, but to focus on a debut single is that extra bit special as you feel like a traveller ...

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One element which seems to play a part in making the difference between local artists with bags of talent & original ideas whose careers seem to ...

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This review is extremely fresh being of a debut single by a band whom I've not yet seen live yet and ironically I have seen more great photos of ...

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Last November, in "Hot Music Live", I reviewed a song called "Pick Me Up" by an entity calling itself The Silver Wye.

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It's ironic that in such short succession I should write song reviews for bands whom I hold in high esteem yet whom I have only previously written ...

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One of my very favourite of local bands happens to be Coventry based four piece The Caprines (they comprise Ed Kimberley on drums, Dave Toulson on ...

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I think that I can safely say that I have not before reviewed a more eagerly anticipated debut single than "Sunny Lady" by Evergreen.

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I've said it before, but reviewing for "Hot Music Live" is a real privilege in so many ways.

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It is entirely possible that although this is their first review in the magazine, you may already be aware of Fourth in Line.

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Well here I am again, this time reviewing not one but two artists on whom I fear I may have already used up my supply of appropriate superlatives ...

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Few "Hot Music Live" readers will need introducing to the name nor talents of Sam McNulty.

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One of the issues which is a perennial worry for me in writing for "Hot Music Live" is how to cover even the most excellent of artists, the ones ...

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The gig at the Magic Lantern last night was described by venue creator & owner Adrian Gains as "one of the best nights we have had so far.

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It all seems such a long time ago, so many & so powerful have the subsequent performances at the Magic Lantern been, that it is an interesting ...

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By now I'm sure you'll be aware of the many bees in my bonnet as I tend to repeat  much the same obsessions in most reviews, so when I rave on ...

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There are a handful of great locally based artists not so much emerging (how can they be just "emerging" when they have spent time honing their ...

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I am a big fan of the performing & writing of Ross Darby so it was a big pleasure to get another chance to review him for this magazine on the ...

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Once again I can write up for you something rather special: two performances which were pretty unique for our area & which again I felt so ...

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Last night was one for the connoisseurs: a whole evening of nothing but top class original music written from personal perspectives & played with ...

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I should really like first of all to voice my appreciation to the members of both Shanghai Hostage & Brass Hip Flask.

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I could, I suppose, run through every act I saw & enjoyed at the 2019 Godiva Festival in detail which would give them the credit they thoroughly ...

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I hope that you recall my review in "Hot Music Live" of Caleb Murray's  ‘No Congregation' EP?

 If you have listened to & downloaded "Hot ...

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Wow what a night! On a sweltering June evening, maybe going underground was the best option, even though the Magic Lantern had to deploy extra fan ...

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Another cracking evening which saw the grand musical talent of Warwickshire displayed on several levels.

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I have reviewed the consummate musicianship of Holly Hewitt & David Page for "Hot Music Live" on several occasions, though it isn't, I admit, ...

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If you are counting, you'll have spotted that the new single "Gone" is the third single to be released from Taylor-Louise's stunning "Black Heart" ...

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At a dozen tracks, ‘Ticket To Nowhere', the new album by local singer-songwriter Matty Coles to which I've been listening, provides excellent ...

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Here I go again: another evening spent in the company of really talented musicians who not only perform in a way that touches my soul but ...

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Last week, I had every intention of writing a review in this magazine of the gig I was intending to attend at the Zephyr Lounge by The Ellipsis, ...

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Warwickshire singer song writer Simon Morgan has a long & distinguished pedigree for producing music from the "heart on the sleeve" school of ...

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As promised in my review of their performance at Sunday's BBC Introducing Coventry & Warwickshire showcase, what follows is my review of the ...

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"Hot Music Live" tries really hard to do many things. One is to reflect what is going on locally in terms of stories, releases & gigs, regardless ...

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I flatter myself that some of you may remember my reviewing the Hansel Brothers in the past for "Hot Music Live" (most recently on February 10th).

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With 2019 marking his 85th birthday, singing star Vince Hill will be heading home to Coventry next month to perform a special farewell concert at ...

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Another  emotionally rewarding night at the Magic Lantern, savouring two of the finest & most individual of the many great local performers & ...

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Another wonderful night of song writing craft & passionate performances at the Magic Lantern last evening & two more great local musicians who ...

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As explained in the preview in "Hot Music Live" on February 1st, yesterday there was a special screening of the acclaimed documentary "Stories ...

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What a beautiful evening's entertainment & soul sustenance of original music at the Tin.

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As previewed in "Hot Music Live Presents", last evening Izzie Derry, who has several times been reviewed in the magazine & is part of the "Hot ...

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As promised in my review of Rob Halligan's recent gig at the Magic Lantern with Kristy Gallacher, here is my review of his most recent album, "We ...

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What an interesting & subtle band Burning Salt are. No wonder they are getting a lot of attention, though like me, much of those recognising their ...

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In 1996 Elvis Costello held an event he called "A Case For Song" which was filmed for the BBC: collaborating with a range of other ...

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When is "easy listening" not easy listening?

Possibly when it is one of those quite rare songwriting approaches where the composer ...

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Writing for a music magazine in Coventry & Warwickshire, which is let's face it pretty landlocked, I don't expect to review many maritime themed ...

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Do you like your blues authentic & raw? I do. That's why I've been enjoying the new single "The Mountain" (available on all the usual major ...

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I have often written about the wonderful, in fact the weird, thought provoking & wonderful evenings Johnny Satsangi puts on at the Zephyr Lounge ...

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Isn't it a real boost when a local musician whom you've seen often playing the open mics & the local venues & whose work you've appreciated since ...

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A real headache for me is trying to express my admiration for work I consider is an artist's best so far without sounding like I didn't like their ...

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Isn't the artwork for the new Man Made Moon single "Weightless" great?  You'll be pleased to hear that the musical content rises to the challenge.

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I don't usually review artists' websites (in fact I don't think I ever have before?) but why not? They are a crucial method of keeping them in ...

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I haven't yet reviewed Coventry band The Institutes for "Hot Music Live" so it's good to have the opportunity to repair that omission when I have ...

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I'm going to go with "spell-binding" as my key word (two words?) for last evening's gig.

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It is always really great to have new talent introduced to you & it is a clear & highly  admirable feature of much of the music scene locally ...

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It is a particular pleasure to report a gig which features not only artists who are as important in the history of popular music as Fairport ...

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Another great upcoming release which I have had the pleasure to have been able to listen to for the last few weeks has been the new, Leamington ...

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This gig was, for me & I know many others (the venue was packed), including the star, an eagerly anticipated one.

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In an interesting coincidence, it is a year & a week since I reviewed the album ‘Grand Union' by Chalk Drawings in ‘Hot Music Live'.

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I am indebted to Heather Kincaid of the Belgrade Theatre for her heads-up on the news that local singer Letitia George (who previously appeared on ...

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Who likes being out of their comfort zone? As reading my reviews in "Hot Music Live" will show, I can mostly find some words (if any words can ...

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Congratulations: you are about to get a double review. Since the Mechanicals Band kindly played the entirety of their new "Miscellany #1" EP (in ...

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 Last evening was one of local music's most anticipated gigs of 2019 so far. Ellie Gowers is one of our area's most talked about & admired ...

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The keynote description being used at the Calton Kelly gig last night at the Magic Lantern  was "lush" and who am I to argue with that? I could ...

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It's great to preview the 2019 SHOOT Festival which offers "a platform for Coventry & Warwickshire's emerging artists to shoot from".

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Many thanks to Stuart Smith of Leamington's Seismic Records for a heads-up about an upcoming show he is promoting at The Zephyr Lounge on Saturday ...

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This is something of a record for me (pun intended): I am reviewing an EP which I have been enjoying for over four months & now it is on the brink ...

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As I was sitting watching Clemency last evening at the Magic Lantern, the thought which went through my head was ‘how lucky I am' to be there in ...

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I started composing this review while last night's concert was still in progress & after a while realised that it was in danger of becoming a list ...

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 Leamington music lovers will need little reminder of the virtuoso skills of John Parker which he has displayed to chart topping success and ...

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We are lucky to have more than our fair share of excellent blues practitioners locally: not only do they all possess an obvious love of the form ...

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I suppose that a very traditional & perhaps sometimes overlooked route to discovering new favourite music is by going to see an artist you admire ...

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What a difference a day makes: after the intimate & cool jazz I experienced on Friday night with the Jazz Apples at the Magic Lantern, ...

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I'll start with a personal observation: I enjoyed last night: my first time seeing the Jazz Apples (I hold my hands up on that: I'd certainly ...

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I feel doubly privileged in that I had the pleasure of hearing Taylor-Louise play her forthcoming single "Blessed With A Curse" at her recent ...

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Under normal circumstances, reviewing, or attempting to review, precisely the same musicians I had less than four months ago (see my ...

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It isn't particularly unusual of me to review acts playing at the Town House in Leamington: Jonny Roden often puts on top acts (looking forward to ...

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What a treat last evening at the Magic Lantern venue at Temperance. Three sets: one by Naomi-Beth (whom I had not previously heard) and not one ...

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When the full horrors of the behaviours which got tagged as #MeToo began to become apparent last year, like many others I was appalled to hear ...

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Since I've promised myself & my readers to leave off describing gigs at the Magic Lantern as "magical" (however apt) I'm going to settle for ...

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It was nearly a year ago (January 28th 2018) that I reported in the pages of "Hot Music Live" that Holly Hewitt & David Page of Retroville were ...

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One particular joy in writing reviews for "Hot Music Live" is that it almost certainly introduces me to artists unknown to me at a ...

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Readers of "Hot Music Live" will not, I imagine, require reminding of my admiration for Rosetta Fire: so equally they'll not be surprised to hear ...

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Every Yuletide, Johnny Satsangi of APE Promotions gifts to us is a multi artist gig at the Zephyr Lounge under the "Wrongmas" banner, always ...

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I find myself drifting into describing gigs at the Magic Lantern as "magical": unfortunately the label is accurate.

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Volume 1 (opens in BandCamp)

The first in a series of collections celebrating the glorious & diverse talent of Coventry & Warwickshire ...

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I do hope that you'll remember about two years ago Paul Englefield interviewed one of the most exciting local bands from our area Chasing Deer on ...

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I imagine many "Hot Music Live" readers have seen Caleb Murray play live over the past few years: maybe at one of his frequent open mic ...

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You can keep your headphones & your immersive sound systems. There is no better musical experience than sitting four feet away from a top quality ...

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There can be no doubt that anyone who loves local music is united in recognising one of the fastest emerging significant artists from Coventry & ...

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I'm delighted to be able to review here in "Hot Music Live" the brand new single "Trouble" by one of Coventry & Warwickshire's most respected & ...

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If like me you enjoy the music of Wes Finch you have already heard, maybe one of his solo albums, his work with the (Rude) Mechanicals which I ...

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I imagine that I speak for many when I say state that the new Satsangi album has been greatly anticipated by the local music ...

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Welcome to my first film review for "Hot Music Live". If you enjoy music & you would like to have your heart warmed, then I thoroughly recommend ...

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There are few finer feelings than being immersed in the finest music in an intimate setting so it not merely impacts on your hearing but defines ...

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So here it is, the fourth solo album by former Gods Toys/I singer & front man Dill (now performing as Daffod'i'll): ...

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I hope that many of you will recollect the words of "Hot Music Live's" Paul Englefield in July when he reviewed the ENGRAM track "Karl Marx" (a ...

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I had already had every intention of popping along to see one of my all time favourite bands, Dr Feelgood at the Assembly last evening but it was ...

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(Musical) plays constructed from a selection of songs not originally written to tell a coherent narrative have a very chequered history.

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Collaboration is of course great in music and when like minded people work together, real magic can be catalysed.

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Honky Tonk Rose always promise their audiences "three chords & the truth" but on this occasion they also served up, appropriately for the ...

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Firstly an apology: this is not & cannot pretend to be a broad overview of the 2018 Godiva Festival (the 20th in fact): I think that is beyond ...

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I am obliged as ever to Heather Kincaid at the Belgrade Theatre for her heads-up on a new music centred production.

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The APE Promotions nights organised by Johnny Satsangi can be very loud, powerful & even raucous affairs.

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While everyone at "Hot Music Live" is getting excited about the "Hot Music Live Introducing" night at the Zephyr Lounge on 20th October in ...

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If you like your music of the blues kind, you may well have seen Chris Gibbons play live.

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Tell me: are you "Old Skool"?

Crokodile Tears  have been releasing albums now for some 33 years since their eponymous debut when they were ...

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Firstly a caveat: this is not (unfortunately) a comprehensive review of both days of Leamington's 2018 "Art in the Park": personal commitments & ...

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What a great combination: the launch of a great new book on the history of Leamington & area music in a wonderful new venue accompanied by some ...

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Cary Lord's musical career has touched the lives & ears of a great many people, even if her name is scandalously less known to some of them.

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If people think that the closure last autumn of Leamington's HEAD Records was a blow to the music lovers of Leamington: they were wrong.

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The purposes of this event were several: having released a four track EP and two 21 track albums of "the cream of Coventry & Warwickshire music, ...

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If anyone remembers my article of July 10th in which I looked forward to the Belgrade Theatre's takeover of the former "Coventry Evening ...

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I thought that I'd share with you hot news (within the last hour) from highly rated local duo Blind Faith (John Garrett on keyboards & Faith ...

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A couple of weeks ago, I was mourning the loss of the former "Coventry Evening Telegraph" building as a venue (though looking forwards to the ...

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In its relatively short lifetime, the former "Coventry Evening Telegraph" building has become a superb & iconic venue with a tremendous momentum ...

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With my involvement in the "Alternative Sounds" project, quite a few of my pieces tend to reflect that side of music: the artists of quality but ...

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We remain so fortunate to have in our area the Belgrade Theatre with its superb history of promoting innovative new work, fostering new talent & ...

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It is a very busy time for cult local band Crokodile Tears. They are excited to be playing Leamington's newest venue, the Magic Lantern on Friday ...

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I hope anyone reading this remembers my April 6th review of Chalk Drawings' current (concept) album 'Grand Union'? Perhaps that's a bit ...

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It is a huge shame that the superb opportunities for performance that the CET Popup has offered are only lasting a short while: though plans for a ...

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It has been such a privilege this morning to get an exclusive preview of the new single from one of our area's top talents, Fall Girl.

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As we wait for hard copies to go on sale of "Alternative Sounds: Volume Two", the "Alternative Sounds" team have turned their attention to the ...

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I recently greatly enjoyed the "Remembering Coventry: Ghost Town Haunting #1" event at the Shopfront Theatre in Coventry, watching carefully ...

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I have seen locally based Country supergroup Honky Tonk Rose several times since their formation.

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Many thanks to Heather Kincaid of the Belgrade for the heads up that Europe's premier touring Taiko ensemble will be bringing their explosive live ...

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It was several years ago that I first saw the excellent trash/garage/rock & roll band the Dirty Robbers & frankly loved them.

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One of the local bands once tipped with a lot of confidence by many people for stardom  was Gods Toys: despite radio play, TV performances and ...

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Keith Fabrique is a name familiar to very many local music lovers: not least because with the many roles he plays in our music, he has so many ...

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Another very proud moment for the team at "Alternative Sounds" who  can now announce the tracklisting for Volume 2 of "Alternative Sounds": more ...

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As a taster to the extremely imminent release of "Alternative Sounds: Volume Two", the latest compilation showcasing "the cream of Coventry & ...

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Years ago, I am not sure I could imagine myself reviewing a concept album. I guess the concept of a concept album has been around a long time ...

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It is good, so soon after reviewing a live Blind Faith performance when I saw them collaborating with Chalk Drawings at APE Promotions' "Surreal ...

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What on earth do you expect from a debut album from a band comprising (a) a drummer from various acclaimed local bands who now plays guitar (b) ...

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I've said it before, but it bears repeating that the APE nights promoted by Johnny Satsangi represent the best musical value for money around.

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It is a real privilege & pleasure to be able to review the new EP by Ross Darby entitled "Down the Rabbit Holes" which will be released on Friday ...

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This was something of a coup for Jonny Roden's "Tunehouse at the Townhouse" night: a really interesting specialist musician from Charleston, ...

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Readers may well (I hope) remember   from an earlier review, my enthusiasm for the live act of Stone Bear.

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A whole lot of great news just in from Ross Darby I'd like to share with you.

 

He is releasing his solo EP (via 14 Records) on 30th ...

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The law of averages suggests that many "Hot Music Live" readers will have seen & heard Holly Hewitt (vocals) & David Page (guitar & vocals) ...

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Readers  of "Hot Music Live" will recollect my previous article (September 21st )  on the launch of the "Alternative Sounds EP", a 7" vinyl ...

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There can be no better value for money gigs locally than the ones Ape Promotions put on at the Zephyr Lounge.

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It was most interesting to catch a bill at the Zephyr Lounge featuring two bands which are being so hotly tipped by the local musical cognoscenti.

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Most readers of this piece will know of Joe Meek & his revolutionary production techniques, but fewer will be aware of his work with one of the ...

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The practice of universities awarding honorary qualifications often seems to result in the famous, rich, powerful & previously honoured getting ...

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 Between 1979 & 1981, Martin Bowes created & published eighteen copies of the highly influential fanzine "Alternative Sounds" which chronicled ...

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Suddenly, Coventry Music Museum found itself celebrating its fourth birthday on Saturday 4th November 2017.

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"Tunehouse at the Townhouse" is on a fine run of form at the moment: after superb recent gigs by the Folly Brothers, the Doc Brown Trio, Stone ...

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There can be few contemporary musicians who are held in as much affection by audiences as John Otway who performed at the Zephyr Lounge on ...

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After the superb Stone Bear gig at Tunehouse at the Townhouse last week, this week saw another top notch act, namely the return of the splendid ...

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It is not easy to think of a musician who has graced so many bands of such quality & influence & featuring such diverse styles over 40 odd years ...

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Some of you may have noticed a gig on at The Squirrel in Coventry on Saturday 21st October entitled "Anthony Harty featuring Sam McNulty ...

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The Ruts DC are not admittedly a local band (so please excuse that aspect of this review), but they certainly played a local venue (the ...

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The most looked forward to of nights in the Leamington music scene is arguably (well I'd argue that way) the "APE Promoters" nights organised by ...

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On Thursday 21st September 2017, Coventry Music Museum officially launched its own eponymous record label, the first release being a limited ...

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On Saturday 16th September 2017, Coventry Music Museum hosted the latest Heritage Lottery funded "Sounding Off" session with a local musician of ...

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Since I don't work for a commercial music magazine, I have the luxury of being able to review whom I choose.

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One thing which I guess always gets the pulse of a reviewer speeding up is the chance to write about someone whose musical career is just ...

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This review I suppose is something of a series of tip offs to Hot Music Live readers: to be honest, my main reasons for originally attending the ...

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On Saturday 6th August 2017, the latest Artist of the Month was unveiled at Coventry Music Museum.

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Readers will recollect how in 2016, Leamington's favourite punk band The Shapes reconvened from around the world to celebrate their 39th ...

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I have spent a couple of weeks trying to figure out how on earth to capture my Godiva Festival 2017 experience in one concise article (I was there ...

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On Saturday 22nd July 2017, Neil Sheasby (bass), Neil Jones (guitar & vocals) and Rob Newton (percussion & backing vocals) from one of ...

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It will not surprise you, i imagine, to learn that a talk by one of our area's most individual & quirky musical talents would be both highly ...
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Happy tenth birthday to top local band The Loaded, comprising Paul Quinn on vocals and guitar, Jon Harte who plays lead guitar, Jez Hanley on bass ...
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Coventry's Belgrade Theatre has an enviable track record of launching great new pieces & especially in recent years ones with a local focus of ...
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Friday 5th May 2017 would, in a perfect world, have been the day Delia Derbyshire celebrated her birthday.
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The latest Coventry and Warwickshire artist to be selected as "Artist of the Month" at Coventry Music Museum is Leamington based singer-songwriter ...
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It was a real privilege to be present today at the Big Lottery funded "Sounding Off" session at Coventry Music Museum by local legend Stephen ...
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Saturday 25th March 2017 saw the latest Big Lottery funded " Sounding Off" event at Coventry Music Museum.
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Saturday 26th February 2017 saw the latest Lottery funded "Sounding Off" session at Coventry Music Museum.
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This month's Artist of the Month at Coventry Music Museum is rapper Whizzy (Damon-Lee Smallridge) and as is customary, he came into the Museum today ...
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Thursday 19th January 2017 saw the official launch of the new Coventry Music Museum exhibition "Live & Die: A Celebration of The Enemy" which will ...
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After the tremendous success of the 2016 exhibition, "On Bass, Sir Horace Gentleman" at Coventry Music Museum, 2017 will see an amazing new one "Live ...
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After a campaign led by Pete Chambers BEM, Director of The Coventry Music Museum & top Coventry and Warwickshire music historian, a new road is to ...
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Today the Museum hosted a celebration of its Third Birthday with a special guest in Mark Rattray who kindly agreed to be guest of honour and took ...
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Just to remind you that if you have not yet visited Coventry Music Museum's amazing & extremely popular temporary exhibition, "On Bass, Sir Horace ...
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Coventry Music Museum, the museum celebrating Coventry & Warwickshire music, is celebrating its Third Birthday on Saturday 12th November.
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Many of you will already have sampled parts of the great new "Articles in Sound" history of Coventry & Warwickshire music project, which was created ...
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Saturday 30th July 2016 witnessed the long awaited "Articles in Sound" project launch at Coventry Music Museum.
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For the last year, Pete Chambers, foremost local music historian & creator of the Coventry Music Museum, has been leading a team creating a Heritage ...
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It has been quite a few weeks for legendary Leamington band The Shapes. With customary disdain for convention, they have been celebrating their 39th ...
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