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Yes a fine evenings entertianment from all acts Friday 24th January, was the start of the monthly band events put on by, Chris Oakes, of the Strummer Room Project. I was down there, broadcasting and filming. I did manage to interview one of the bands, Eagle and Weeks, but i didn't realise there was going to be a DJ playing inbetween bands, otherwise i would have inbetween bands interviews on the broadcast The Castle House is run by Suzette Nepture and Jake Pell, who refurbished and opened, what used to be TJ's for 15 years. They opened the "Hub" in August 2013 This was a great night with three Acoustic and one Punk/Psychedelic act on for a few hours Bradly Taylor First on was  front man and guitarist of, Punch Drunk Monkey Club, with a solo performance. Combination, of his solo and band songs and covers.  I have to say, he was very impressive on his own. I like the original song after, what i believed he said was a cover of a, John Mayer, cover? Aside fro...

This January, Chris Oakes has begun a series of end of month events at the local venue, Castle House. This is nicely laid out Pub in Banbury, who are doing many things for local talent. I have been invited down by, Chris, to broadcast live and film the performance( If i have a hand free), I will be interviewing the band, depends what happens on the night One of the guests of the evening, Simon Dwight, i already had the pleasure in having as guest in August 2013. A fine, Acoustic artist from, Milton Keynes. We always said we would do a sequal Headlining, all the way from Southampton is Eagle and Weeks Depends what happens with the first one and if the owners want me down for more,this will be monthly To watch. Simon Dwight, he performed in August a few weeks after Bodfest , go to this page on my website Bradly Taylor, is a member of local Indie band, Punk Drunk Monkey Club and Spinner Falls is the Punk band for the evening Aside from Bradly and Simon, have no...

When i first saw them on a net poster i thought, great another act i have not seen. I find it amusing that a lot of electro acts, either i have met or just got music from are duos. Spacebuoy are, yes a duo. Jez and Howard. Before you see an act, you do not know what their like. I had heard, Breathe, which the duo sent me to play on the radio. Damn good, Space Pop, kind of the only tag i could put on them at the time. First time seeing them live was at the, Actress and Bishop, venue in Birmingham. You first thought is, being a duo with synths, not much is going to happen, but i was wrong. Howard is one of the most energetic performers on stage and really gets the crowd going and great sense of humour to go with it. He is the singer of the duo, great voice and he goes with music. Hes dances like he's 15 at a rave That was the first time and managed to have chat with Howard after. He was pouring with sweat. The second time, was at the London gig in December. I wanted to see t...

Since i have interviewed one artist more than once in my radio life, i thought i put a number podcasts from one artist, together The first in the series THE NOIR TRILOGY 1st: Promotioning her solo album, Emotion Chees accompanied by Tony Mayo 2nd: More about Naked Lunch with Jet Noir and Tony Mayo 3rd. Jets involvement in promotion record label, Subculture Records. With live chat from Jet and label owner, Per Aksel Others to Follow: Lee Negin, Cult with no Name and Maini Sorri, More to come

The Journey Train, coach and Taxi and we got to our hotel. Saturday morning, all fresh, ready to see four great electro bands. First piece of advice, only take the train straight to London. Coach in Oxford, although it is a good service, has way too many stops. There is no such thing as NEXT DAY RETURN to Oxford from Banbury, Anyway, got on the Oxford Tube coach, After loads of stops and loads of people, we made to Marble Arch.  We got some food from Sainsburys and by chance, outside, was a cab. We were going to take the Tube, but it's not as simple as hoping on a train. It's very confusing, if you are not used to it. We decided to take a cab to the hotel. This was not cheap, but, direct, took about 40 minutes. Roughly £1 a mile. The hotel is on the London Docks, which is nice, the area is half under construction. The room was nice and great of Lee Sargent (SDs manager) to reserve a room for us. The next mission was getting to the venue which  was as far as Marble Arch ...

It appears, after 3 years, the chart show on Music World Radio, has ground to a holt. 2013 saw the demise, mainly due to lack of interest in the running of the show. The show has become popular with listeners, but not with presenters. You need people to work behind the scenes and a presenter or three overlaping each other or guest presenters to make it work The chart has is a fine promotion. Got a lot of bands involved, some more that others.  This chart is run down every week from 20 - 1, which not many do with a chart. The advantage here, is you can listen to music from all over the world and some in non English speak  The idea of having an internal voting system was a great idea, rather than an open Facebook voting, which has it's own problems. The chart is not direct sales, although people viewing and listening via links and when show is broadcast, could generate sales, it is possible The chart has two pages, one for displaying the top 20 and the nominations, with...

Based on what I have seem with two major " Getting this song to number one for Christmas to beat the X Factor" campaigns on Facebook, i thought, wouldn't it be great for this was a general promotion, not just Christmas? There are only so many sites that register their mp3 sales for national chart count. The last campaign in Christmas 2013, was for the dance tune, Activ8 by rave legends, Altern8. It got to number 33 after a long campaign. They generated 9.000 sales  It takes over 100,000  sales to get into the top 10 from what i was reading on their Facebook. As far as i am aware, the main sites are Amazon, Itunes, Digital7 and Google Play.  Mp3 are tagged with information, thats how the sales count.  CD and Vinyl new release sales i am not too sure on, although they are both usually barcoded. Wav files, can't be tagged, which is a real shame, as like vinyl, their uncompressed sound and would be good for more numbers Altern8 This gave me the i...

Its strange what can happen in one day Filming Local film maker Simon Bastock, who i got to know as i used to garden for and his wife, came round on New Years Day, to talk about working together on music. I had no idea what he had done or what he could do. From the meeting,  he has filmed a documentry for British Gas and about to film a multi camera Indian Wedding ion a few months His three avenues are Corporate, weddings and music He was very impressed with the footage i took in 2013, after a mentioned it some time ago. Even more suprised how stable videos were and thought i had taken the music from a mixing deck We are teaming up on various projects. Guests who come down for radio shows, and going to gigs. He is going to Birmingham in March when we see 4 electro bands strutting their stuff Broadcasts After all the trouble with laptop and driver issues, my broadcasts are now back to normal.  The main issue was my Toshiba laptop not accepting the stereo driver n...