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1. On the playlist: Ady Suleiman - Why You Running Away

   Tuesday 18 June 2013, 17:34

   Tom Young Introducing online producer

   This week's BBC Introducing spot on the Radio 1 playlist is taken up by Ady Suleiman and his track Why You Running Away. Ady, an artist familiar to regulars on the BBC Introducing website, will have his track played across BBC Radio 1 daytime all week and feature in Huw Stephens' FREE DOWNLOAD too. See what you think...
   Hometown: Ady is a singer songwriter from Nottingham.
   Style: Ady's style is very easy on the ear to say the least. Like many of the tracks we've heard so far, Why You Running Away leaves most of the room for Ady's awesome tone to fill - he's left to his own devices over a strutting bassline and an understated acoustic guitar section. Plenty of space for his joyous vocal riffs, then.
   You need to know: Ady is playing the BBC Introducing 
   Supported by: Like fellow Nottingham singer Indiana, Ady is a proud find by Dean Jackson and his team at BBC Introducing in the East Midlands. He also has plenty of fans at BBC Radio 1Xtra including MistaJam and Trevor Nelson.
   Find out more: Take a look at his recent BBC Introducing session from Maida Vale and then hunt Ady down on Facebook and Twitter.

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2. From Stoke to Ibiza with TCTS

   Friday 14 June 2013, 15:23

   Rob Adcock BBC Introducing presenter

   Welcome to flight FR2712 from Ibiza to Birmingham International Airport.
   As you can imagine there's a subdued, ‘tired and emotional’ atmosphere on board as groups of friends, stag and hen parties with red, sunburnt faces and bags under their eyes return from the White Isle after a few days of escapism. The flight out last night was anything but quiet. 
   Our reason for being on the plane was to finish off a promise we made back in 2010. 
   One Thursday night, a young electronic music producer from Stone came into the studio. We'd known Sam O’Neil for a while for his roles in other local bands but now he'd started concentrating on his new project. 
   He'd taken the name TCTS - the initials of one of his most successful local music projects - The Clock The Storm. They'd had a fair amount of success including being played on Tom Robinson's BBC 6 Music show. But it was music he'd been making in his bedroom which was going to be his new focus. 
   'What would be a success to you for this?' I asked. 
   'I'll know I've done well if I get booked to play in Ibiza. That's the dream', he replied. 
   Just over three years later, he's achieved that dream. 
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3. Huw's BBC Introducing Discovery: SHY NATURE - Deadly Sin

   Thursday 13 June 2013, 12:35

   Huw Stephens DJ

   This week’s tip comes from Jacob Rickard at BBC Introducing in Kent. This is the debut single from the London five-piece SHY NATURE and it creates a real summer feeling through its energetic bounce. 

   You can get hold of the track on my free weekly download here.

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4. On the Radio 1 playlist: Man Can’t Fly – Don’t Waste My Time

   Tuesday 11 June 2013, 13:09

   Tom Young Introducing online producer

   This week we have Man Can’t Fly taking the BBC Introducing slot on the Radio 1 playlist. They’ve already been played by Sara Cox (twice) and will also be heard on other daytime shows including Greg James, Dev and Scott Mills. Listen to the track Don’t Waste My Time below, share your verdict and find out a little more about the group too.

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   Hometown: Man Can’t Fly are a four piece group (Ben Wadsworth, James Waterhouse, Sam Connor and Oliver Cottenham) from Bradford.

   Style: For a group that only came together in the autumn of 2012, Man Can’t Fly have already settled on an assured sound...

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5. Huw's BBC Introducing Discovery: Spotlight Kid - Sugar Pills

   Thursday 6 June 2013, 13:37

   Huw Stephens DJ

   This week’s tip is another one forwarded to us by Dean Jackson at BBC Introducing in the East Midlands. Spotlight Kid are a band from just outside Nottingham, whose new single Sugar Pills is a fine example of their lush shoegazey sound, with thick layers of guitar and synth wrapped in warm distortion and reverb.

   Spotlight Kid have played live alongside The Joy Formidable, and their work is produced by Todd Howe who’s worked with The Boxer Rebellion, so they’re already in good company for the release of their forthcoming album 10,000 Hours which comes on St Marie Records this September.

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6. T in the Park 2013: BBC Introducing Stage line-up revealed

   Thursday 6 June 2013, 12:24

   Lynda Davies Online content producer

   Last night Huw Stephens announced the BBC Introducing Line Up for T in the Park, and it’s a good one.

   The stage will see a headline set from Discopolis, who wowed on the BBC Introducing stage at Reading and Leeds in 2011.

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   They are joined by Saint Max and the Fanatics, a 18 year old singer-songwriter committed to quirky melodies who impressed with his session for BBC Introducing earlier this year. 

   Also on the line up are Story Books, who will play T in the Park fresh from supporting The Rolling Stones in Hyde Park.  

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7. On the playlist: If You Like To Dance - Skin & Bone

   Tuesday 4 June 2013, 19:00

   Lynda Davies Online content producer

   On this week's Radio 1 playlist  is If You Like To Dance with Skin & Bone. Their synth-filled indie pop will be heard across Radio 1 daytime shows such as Sara Cox, Dev and Greg James after being selected for the BBC Introducing spot on the playlist. Have a listen below and let us know what you think in the comments.

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   Hometown: An alternative dance duo, Chris and Andy hail from Warrington.

   Style: We do like to dance to If You Like To Dance. Their guitar driven tracks were influenced by Bloc Party and Two Door Cinema Club giving us bonafide reason to bop.

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8. Huw's BBC Introducing Discovery: Joel Baker - Further Than Feelings

   Monday 3 June 2013, 11:19

   Huw Stephens DJ

   This week my BBC Introducing tip is Joel Baker and it comes from BBC Introducing in East Midlands. He’s born and raised in Nottingham but now lives in London and manages to juggle a burgeoning music career alongside a day job as a “parliamentary bag carrier”! His debut EP, ‘Long Sleeves’, has just been released and maybe he’ll soon be sitting alongside fellow Dean Jackson-tipped successes: Indiana and Jake Bugg.

   Why not also subscribe to Huw's free download here, to get your mitts on all the good new music before anyone else. 

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9. On the playlist: Gerard i2 - Mash Em

   Monday 20 May 2013, 11:16

   Tom Young Introducing online producer

   On the Radio 1 playlist this week is Gerard i2 and Mash Em. Gerard i2 played BBC Introducing Live in Derry~Londonderry last week and will now be played across Radio 1 daytime shows including Scott Mills, Dev and Greg James after being selected for the BBC Introducing spot on the playlist. Check out Mash Em below and tell us what you make of the track in our comments section.

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   Hometown: Gerard i2 is a rapper from Strabane, Northern Ireland.

   Style: Mash Em is a hard hitting hip hop track with a funky centre. With his distinctive accent and gruff vocal delivery, Gerard i2 raps over a mix of old skool...

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10. In session for BBC Radio Scotland: The Deadline Shakes

    Friday 17 May 2013, 17:29

    Vic Galloway Presenter

    For my third BBC Introducing session spectacular, I was delighted to welcome a musically-ambitious but down-to-earth Glasgow band into Studio 1 at the BBC Pacific Quay buildings in Glasgow. On the strength of two phenomenal but fairly low-key singles on the fledgling label Flowers in the Dustbin (named after a Sex Pistols lyric, fact-fans!), I was intrigued to see how The Deadline Shakes' progressive arrangements and close-harmony singing would work in a live setting, and I was pleasantly rewarded.

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    The Deadline Shakes - Boy
    Admitting to their love of rock-opera and dismissing any pretensions...

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