You can catch it at around 12.50pm on the Saturday Surgery with Dr Phil Hammond on BBC Radio Bristol. Or listen again to the slot along with extended versions of the interviews here on the BBC Bristol website. The feature is presented by BBC Radio Bristol presenter and musician Kate Salisbury. 31 March Meet The Francos, a local band influenced by the Liverpool sound and keen to perfect the three-minute pop song. Their first single, Mixed Up is available from their Myspace website or from Sugar Shack Records. http://www.myspace.com/thefrancos
http://www.sugarshackrecords.co.uk/ - Congratulations to Dr Meaker, the drum'n'bass outfit who beat hundreds of bands to a coveted slot at the Glastonbury Festival's Dance Village.
- The new band formed by Justin Greaves and fronted by Joe Volk, Crippled Black Phoenix are starting a tour this weekend to promote their debut album, A Love Of Shared Disasters, which is being released on the Invada label.
- Scarlatti Tilt are playing tracks from their new album, The Gathering Of The Haunted at an in-store gig at Virgin Megastore in The Galleries at 1300 today.
- Hacksaw's anthem, Go Bath City, Go has been adopted by the football club and will be played over the tannoy before their most crucial match this season.
Gigs - The Bristol Inter Faith Group's putting on a big concert at The Colston Hall tomorrow, featuring world music, Latin, swing jazz and the metallers Return To The Field.
- Eleven Eleven, Scarlatti Tilt and Bullit are playing the Louisiana on Wednesday - Eleven Eleven have a new download single out called Clear.
- My Own Flag are playing The Croft next Friday to launch their new album, I Think I'm Made Out of Robots along with 3hostwomexicansandatinofspanners and The Glee Club Is Dead
Music featured this week: The Francos: All Mixed Up
The Francos: Is It Ever Enough
Dr Meaker featuring Yolanda: Double Bass
Crippled Black Phoenix: Goodnight Europe
Scarlatti Tilt: Insects Party
Hacksaw: Go Bath City, Go
Return To The Field: Through Negative Tint
Eleven Eleven: Clear
My Own Flag: Greed For My Sanity
The Francos: Homesick More on all the above bands can by found on their myspace websites and a chance to hear more of their music. 24 March Paul Nash, the main man behind North Sea Navigator talks to us about the inspiration for his songs which explore the darkest side of human nature with beautiful melodies and compelling rhythms. North Sea Navigator's current album, Make The Blacklist is available via their website or Myspace page; and a label called Silber is releasing Edward, a duet with Rose Kemp. www.northseanavigator.co.uk
www.myspace.com/northseanavigator - Good luck to The John E Vistic Experience, Dr Meaker, Baraka and Venus Bodardus in the Emerging Talent contest for the Glastonbury festival - the prize is playing one of the festival's main stages.
- Panic Number have signed a deal with Lockjaw Records with their first album, Low scheduled for release in the summer and an accompanying tour.
- Thekla Social's announced an all-day benefit concert for the Ashton Court Festival on Saturday, May the 19th featuring Fortune Drive; Countryside; Ella, North Sea Navigator and The Counterfeits.
- Bristol Uncovered starts on BBC Radio Bristol on Friday 30th March 0100 - 0300 focusing on local music and presented by Richard Pitt and Gary Smith. The first show features a live session from The She Creatures.
Fine Tuned Gigs for this week: - Rachael Dadd, Greg Ashby and Robin Allender play the Folk House tonight to raise money for the Ashton Court Festival.
- The Pindrop Band are joined by John Hegley and Sheila Chandra at St George's tonight as part of the Festival of Birds
- Kid Carpet and Le Pants promise fun and novelty pop at The Cube next Friday.
Featured songs: - North Sea Navigator - Victor Kyam
- North Sea Navigator - Atefah
- Venus Bogardus - Safety Pins
- Panic Number - The Pinnacle
- The Counterfeits - Carry Me Home
- The She Creatures - Space, Drugs And Rock'n'Roll
- Rachael Dadd - Ships
- Phoebe Partridge - Bathed In Sunshine
- Le Pants - Disco Panties
17 March This week, Danny Coughlan from Babel talks about his music, which fuses roots, rock and danceability. Click to listen to Fine Tuned, the extended interview or to check out Babel's website. Other news this week: - Figment are starting a tour of the UK and France.
- Mea Culpa are playing tracks from their new album "First To Ripen" at The Croft on Thursday 22nd March.
- You And The Atom Bomb have just finished recording a new EP at Toybox studio.
- The next financial deadline is looming for The Junction on Stokes Croft, a favourite grass roots venue, which has been struggling to keep going. Three benefit CDs featuring dozens of tracks from local artists are available from its myspace website, from http://www.thejunctionbristol.co.uk/ or from the venue itself.
Gigs this week: - -A benefit gig for the Ashton Court Festival featuring Roger Tarry, Jhassi Eliott and Daisy Chapman is taking place at The Folk House on Saturday, 17 March.
- Eat Static are showcasing their new album, "Declassified" at Clockwork on Stokes Croft on Saturday.
- Big Joan are promising new tunes at their show at Bashout at The Black Swan in Easton on Saturday.
- Smith, Elliot Hall, Louis Malmstrom and Falling Dan are playing at The Lansdown in Clifton on Thursday, 22 March.
Music featured on this week's show: Babel - Pearl St Raga
Babel - Tell Me It's Love
Figment - Everything Is Alright
Mea Culpa - Jealousy Is Pitiless
You And The Atom Bomb - El Apacheo
Thee Go Commando - Have Love Will Travel
Jhassi Eliott - Ticking Bomb
Eat Static - The Tenth Planet
Big Joan - The Suckers Bug
Smith - Playing With Angels 10 March This week - a local lady who's been living it up with the world's hottest hip hop and soul stars, Charmaine Laudat. We've got an extended interview here on the website. Charmaine Laudat's track Sensational, featuring B-Fly can be found on her Myspace website - link below. This week's news: - Monday, 12 March, sees the release of the first Jacanda EP. Back To The Sky is a small collection of acoustic-guitar tinged pop from the band fronted by songwriter, Chris Pritchett.
- Kizzy Morrell's urban music development scheme for local young people has branched out into South Gloucestershire. Studio 7, which has already had success developing young artists like Nicole Jackson's running sessions in Kingswood every Friday.
- The Cedar and The Wraiths have both been booked to play at the Glastonbury Festival - they'll be appearing on the cafe stage in the Field of Avalon.
- Rose Kemp will to be one of the headliners at The Sunrise Festival, which takes place in South Somerset between the 31 May and 3 June.
Choice gigs: - Ashton Court Festival fundraiser at the Folk House in Bristol. It features 3D, Katey Brooks and Becky Higg on Saturday, 10 March.
- Ashton Court fundraiser: The Shrinks and Redd FM are playing on the good ship John Sebastian at Bathurst Basin. Friday, 16 March.
- Fancy a bit of jazz? Why not go and see Blessing and The Limbo at The Cube on 10 March.
- The Weary Band, Rita Lynch and Millefiori at The Junction on Friday, 16 March.
3 March This week a look into the loopy world of local pop maverick, SJ Esau. His album, Wrong Faced Cat Feed Collapse is out on March 12 - go online to Anticon Records website or SJ Esau's Myspace site to get a taste of it. SJ Esau's next local gig is at The Cube in Bristol on March 22. Also this week: - Santa Dog play at Canada Music Week. They're playing a warm up at the Louisiana on March 3.
- Fortune Drive take on Spain with a gig in Barcelona on March 3.
- Scarlatti Tilt's debut album, The Gathering Of The Haunted, is launched on Thursday, March 8 at The Croft with support from Slow and The Wraiths.
Gigs this week: - Fromage En Feu, David Sanders, Kamaldeep Sidhu and Stanley Forbes under the banner of The Anti-Society Variety Show. Saturday, 3 March at The Blue Lagoon, Gloucester Road, Bristol.
- Mankala, Jimmy Goodrich and The Hot Potato Syncopaters celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight at the Colston Hall bar on Monday, 5 March.
- First Of The Giants are strutting their stuff in support of Silver Sun at The Louisiana on Saturday, 10 March.
- Fopp in Bath is launching a new monthly acoustic night hosted by 5Unsigned. It's at the shop's Westgate cafe/bar and the first is on Sunday, 4 March and the first Sunday of the month after that.
You can hear Fine Tuned on-air on Dr Phil Hammond's show on BBC Radio Bristol every Saturday between 10am and 1pm. |
