Any artist is welcome to send us ONE track via soundcloud.com/groups/dropbox anytime between Monday lunchtime and Thursday morning - and all our moderators, including Tom Robinson, will listen to every track*. This is our full inbox from the week beginning 22 February 2016: from mid-day on Friday you'll be able to hear our shortlist and pick your favourites on this week's Listening Post which will appear at freshonthenet.co.uk/batch187

*Note: we don't listen again to tunes we've already heard, and automatically block artists who send more than one track a week (our moderators can manage to work their way through 150 tunes overnight, but 300+ would be impossible!)


ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 187

The Devil Inside

“Kicks”-Debut Album from Irish Musician "The Vinylheads"-Out Sep 1st 2015

"Kicks" is the debut pop/rock music project of Irishman Col Patterson. 

Col is influenced by Paul Weller, The Kinks, The Killers, The Doors, The Stranglers, among others.

Reviews:

Frank Hughes of GoldenPlec.com said of Kicks: 

 "Over the course of ten songs, The Vinylheads take elements of Brit pop circa The Boo Radleys mixed with the Americana tinged rock sensibilities of The Hold Steady. The melding of both styles from opposite sides of the Atlantic is largely successful. 

 At times, it’s perky and bouncing like a kid on a sugar rush on If I Should and Dream Speed Away before changing gears to more anthemic, atmospheric tunes like To Kill A Giant." 

 Colm O'Hare of Hotpress Said: 

 "Strong Debut By Irish Outfit-"Kicks" -Patterson's commanding voice comes across as a blend of Paul Weller and Psychedelic Furs' Richard Butler...the energy of Punk and classic Rock, all imbued with a distinctly Irish Flavour...it all adds up to an impressive debut by any measure" 


 In December 2014, the title single, “Kicks” was chosen by BBC 6music for airplay by Lauren Laverne, Steve Lamacq and was Legend Tom Robinson’s Recommends “Pick of the Week”. 

Danny Gandolfi from Musicnews.com described another single "Pear" as… 
.."a catchy pop song, with great jangly melodic guitar and neat, clever chord changes (reminding me of ‘The Undertones’), slowly building up, veering towards a rousing chorus and uplifting close." 

 Col hopes to play tracks from the album live and release his second album in 2016. 

“Kicks”, Recorded by Martin Quinn of JAM Studios Ireland, is out Sep 1st 2015 on all digital platforms.

Bio:

In 2012, supported by his Monaghan and Roscommon cousins, a wedding jam session turned into regular practice sessions and eventually, some original tracks. Recorded at JAM Studios in Co. Meath by Producer Martin Quinn, “Kicks”(The Album) is the result.

In December 2014, the title single, “Kicks” was chosen by BBC 6music for airplay by Lauren Laverne, Steve Lamacq and was Legend Tom Robinson’s Recommends “Pick of the Week”.

Danny Gandolfi from Musicnews.com described another single "Pear" as…
.."a catchy pop song, with great jangly melodic guitar and neat, clever chord changes (reminding me of ‘The Undertones’), slowly building up, veering towards a rousing chorus and uplifting close."

The Vinylheads supported Midge Ure at the Fortstock festival in Co Monaghan June 2014. Col hopes to play tracks from the album live and release his second album in 2016.

“Kicks”, the debut Album is out Sep 1st 2015 on all digital platforms. 
Lead Track is “To Kill A Giant”, deals with Col’s personal experience of a “One Punch/Coward” Attack, the aftermath of which caused him many years of mental distress. 

Youtube link: https://youtu.be/VFz0bjpF_iU


@thevinylheads on Twitter
www.thevinylheads.com
thevinylheads@gmail.com





TO KILL A GIANT

Somber Party EP out now https://theboyiusedtobe.bandcamp.com/album/somber-party

The Only One

Rising Star [Nice EP]

On And On

http://robertnashmusic.com/index.php/music-2/

From the album 'The Ghost of Your Old Love' - released January 22, 2016


Fairground

Figure It Out (Demo)

SPOTIFY - https://open.spotify.com/track/1Lybu7Zu4C4lmTDnzWMzgO?si=UoNS1pIaQE-9KW1fwi9tVw

Twitter/Instagram
@BLAKE_PWRXP

'I AM PAIN'
Motivation Spoken Word Power Piece by Big V
Epic Background music 'Fallout' by Rodney Spence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM5cBju2Mbc



Birmingham UK

I AM PAIN (Epic Power Piece - Music By Rodney Spence)

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Eat Him

New single from Dutch trio Snowapple about the desperation of the business commuter rat-race, taken from upcoming train-themed mini-album TRACKS.

SNOWAPPLE - Businessmen (Single Edit)

Lyrics:

Lies, flies, octopi, oxygen commoditised
Arms all open wide, love can be a prison too
And so can be your ever-present gratitude
Ingenue, great exchange rate for April fools
Out to do another new taboo
Another Sunday, another shade of gloom

It's never far away
Sleeping in the waves
What better time to wear your shade
The sucker pulled astray
Sleeping in the waves
Another shade of gloom to make your day

Brass upper-class, celebrant to circumstance
Said to say she believed in that old romance
And now she's making love in an ambulance
Up to you what you do with your afternoon
Second chances abounding two-by-two
Can always count on the ignorance of youth

THE STARLING RADICALS - Another Shade of Gloom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ami5GjCZnYk

Featuring Ben Ottewell on guest vocals, Chris Boot on drums, Jamie Patterson on bass and Tim Bidwell on this and that. 
'Keep Holding On' is the first single from Mara's debut album, out May 2016. The song was inspired by the city of Berlin, the people who live there, and a woman named Freida Schulze who, aged 77 in 1961, climbed out of a window, to freedom.

Photo credit: Emelie Flood http://www.emelieflood.com/

MARA SIMPSON- Keep Holding On

Bad Ideas - Give Up (2016)

I have spent the first few days of this year 
Calling everyone I know 
I am hopeless, I am hopeless - give me hope 
My friends, they've spent the first few hours of this year 
Along with me as we repeat ourselves 
Coming up and staying in 
We're old 

And you have spent the first days of this year 
Along with people I don't know 
In the places we would go and in our homes 
And I'll resent the time you'll spend without me 
And the fool you'll find to keep you sweet 
The ground you'll grace beneath your feet 

I've been living out of the back of my car 
I have got the feeling I could be a while here 
Pack my things away and wonder where you are 
What to do with all these bags of clothes and old guitars 

And if this was the start, the way I mean to go on 
I just might give up on this year 
And if this was the start, the way I mean to go on 
there is oh, so little hope for me

Production: Jamie Lockhart and Lee Smith
Mixing / Mastering: Bob Cooper
Artwork: Steven Haddock

www.badideasmusic.co.uk 
facebook.com/badideasmusic
twitter.com/badideasmusic

Give Up

Schizoid Personality

Butterfly

Times Are Strange

Fugitive

GET DOWN WITH THE JIGGY-MEISTER!

Enter the world of JessyJiggy,

"Baby Mama Drama 3000" is the latest single of the FOREST LUXURY EP. The single is a tribute to the legendary "Ms. Jackson" performed by Outkast . Time to get serious..

DOWNLOAD JUPITER FLIGHT
jessyjiggy.bandcamp.com/album/jupiter…ights-ep-2015

Follow the Jupiter blog on tumblr:
jupiterflights.tumblr.com/

View the Jupiter video on youtube:
youtu.be/EA0Mye195G8

(mickey vandross is now jessyjiggy)
jessyjiggy.tumblr.com/

06. JessyJiggy - Baby Mama Drama 3000 (Crunch Edit)

COLLI

From the forthcoming Sugardrum album "Postcards", released 25th March 2016

Buy on iTunes

SUGARDRUM - Motorway Song

BLUEBIRD PARADE - Crossing The Border

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