“It’s a stunning record, that. Really imaginative – never heard anything like that before. So I’m really looking forward to what they produce next.”
BBC Music Introducing

“Charged with a real intensity… such an evocative sound.”
Various Small Flames

“10 childhood nursery rhymes vividly reimagined as if through a glass darkly”
Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music

“Hypnotic…the imprint and atmosphere of a very interesting universe.”
Direct Actu

Maxim is a project born of the slow burn of remote collaboration and a shared passion for experimentation with musical heritage. From the south of Drew Worthley’s Worthing studio to No Spinoza’s northerly home of York, the two artists shaped and reshaped fresh iterations of childhood curiosities over the lockdown months of 2020. The album reached its culmination in at Echo Zoo Studio in Eastbourne, helmed by Dave Izumi Lynch (Ed Harcourt, Billy Bragg, Jake Bugg, The Magic Numbers), where the pair’s remote recordings were augmented with analogue synths, live string arrangements and kinetic drums. The result is a series of 10 reimagined traditional nursery rhymes laced with fun urgent vibrancy and an underlying dark melancholy.

samuelnicholsonmusic@gmail.com

Samuel is a neurdivergent indie rock frontman, musician, and composer from Edinburgh, Scotland. Set alight by Motown records in the car with his mother, corrupted by hard rock records handed down by his father and formed by his own journeys into Jazz, Folk & Experimental Music of decades past, he is a cathartic songwriter, an impassioned singer and a gifted guitarist. 

He is a regular on the London music scene and has enjoyed tours around the UK and Europe both under his own projects and others including Jemma Freeman & The Cosmic Something, Frankie Morrow and Jeremy Tuplin. So far, Sam’s musical contributions in these projects have been heard on BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio Scotland, Amazing Radio, Radio X, KCRW & BBC 6 Music.

His new album, Birthday Suit comes after years of searching and longing. It is a dysfunctional self-portrait and a love letter in equal parts, dancing from electrifying guitar solos to naked vulnerability as it tries to bring the love of his life into the world of someone who has recently been diagnosed with autism. 

“The subtleties in [Susan] are simply stellar, accompany that with a well-paced flow and an exceptionally pleasing layered kaleidoscope of guitars and you have a lovely recipe for success.” – Jonah Holiday, IMR  

 “With love from KCRW already in the bag it won't be long until more people fall in love with Samuel Nicholson's works of art.” – It’s All Indie

“We are in love with Samuel Nicholson’s vocal tone and nuances. This is the kind of voice that makes a song stand out both as a story and in power.“ – Where The Music Meets

We could launch into the intricate details of the droll existences that formed our lives before ‘The Doppler Shift’ took shape, but those stories are locked in vaults waiting for their release in drunken tales and Eulogies.

The important part of the story and where this particular little tale should begin, is behind the crooked blacked out windows and on the soiled shoe scuffed streets of Brighton in Sussex, where four like-minded (read: bitter, cynical and creatively frustrated) individuals of mixed stature began meddling with clicks and pops that would finally gestate into rhythms and beats.

Inspired by the broadest and smallest of life’s trivialities, our charge is to draw attention to what others might miss. Some things are too small to see, others too great, in either case we are trying with each anxious lyric and nervous melody to find a way of telling something that may have gone unnoticed.

Why?

Because often it’s hard to see things for yourself. Because the subtleties of life that are so often overlooked, bring with them the highest rewards.



Offering something for all tastes in folk, INLAY are a forward thinking trio. With the aid of fiddle, guitar, accordion, effects, loops and vocal harmonies, they blend traditional material with self-penned compositions.

“Inlay is a very impressive debut album with a visionary take on what folk music can be and where it might go.”
~ R2 - Rock ‘n’ Reel ★★★★

“Something for the traditionalist, something for the modernist - and something for you.”
~ Bright Young Folk

“Forward thinking four piece produce a full bodied sound for their energetic and enterprising own compositions that preserve traditional influences within a fluid, evolving musical landscape.”
~ fRoots

“Touching and rather beautiful modern folk.”
~ Timeout


Inlay are:

- Ross Grant – Violin, Vocals,
- James Porter – Guitar, Vocals,
- Andy Weeks – Accordion, Percussion, Vocals.

I don't post music here anymore. New stuff is live at okdoomerbandcamp.com 

Thanks for your support.

Crafter of a curious blend of cerebral indie-pop with a twist of lyrical Americana.

Regular airplay on BBC 6 Music and BBC Introducing. Sophomore record 'CRUCIBLE' acclaimed by Louder Than War as 'one of the albums of the year without doubt.'

New album 'Maxim' a collaboration with No Spinoza is a collection of, "“10 childhood nursery rhymes vividly reimagined as if through a glass darkly”, Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music

"A stellar release” Obscure Sound.

British comedian Adam Buxton talks with interesting people. The rambly conversations are sometimes funny, sometimes more serious with funny bits. Adam records the intros and outros for most episodes while walking with his dog friend Rosie in the East Anglian countryside where he lives with his wife and three children. 

Adam has appeared in films such as ‘Hot Fuzz’, ‘Stardust’ and ‘Son Of Rambow’ as well as a variety of TV shows in the UK. Since 2007 he has hosted ‘BUG’, a live show that combines music videos and comedy that became a TV series on Sky Atlantic in 2012. From time to time he also does live shows featuring just his own material. Along with lifelong friend Joe Cornish he also is one half of award winning TV, radio and podcast duo Adam & Joe who have worked together since 1995. 

You can find many of the insanely catchy jingles Adam makes for the podcast as well as amazing bonus material, beautiful merchandise and a selection of his incredibly funny and brilliant YouTube videos on the free Adam Buxton app.

Adam is writing this himself using the third person.

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