Choices Of The Grasshopper August 2020

Any artist is welcome to send us a track via freshonthenet.co.uk anytime between Monday lunchtime and Thursday morning (or when we receive 200 submissions, whichever is sooner) - and all our moderators, including Tom Robinson, will listen to every track. This is our full inbox from the week beginning Mon 14 September: from around midday 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/batch377

If a track you submitted does not appear in this list, it’s probably because another of your tracks appeared in our Fresh Faves or on the BBC Music Introducing Mixtape during the last three months — we ask that artists featured on either wait three months before resubmitting to give others a chance. We also don’t accept short previews or SoundCloud GO tracks that can only be heard as 30 second previews, and tracks made private after submission, which cannot be included in playlists. You will be able to resubmit the track in future. Tracks that have been previously submitted and tracks from banned artists will also be removed.

ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 377

You're Not Around Anymore - Michael Vickers 

I've been here before all I can say is sorry
Won't do me any good, it's only words
My words, don't back up my actions
I've been here before, you'd think I'd learn by now
Pictures on the wall, they just remind me how
I let you down
You're Not Around Anymore

I'll be fine without you, how
Will I get by without you now?
I'll be fine without you

Broken promises; I lift you up and drop you down
Love don't exist, it's just a word
A word I wish that I respected
Broken promises, man I'm the worst somehow
A moment of madness, a lifetime of hurt and now
You're not around, you're not around anymore

I'll be fine without you, how
Will I get by without you now?
I'll be fine without you
Even if I won't allow me to
I'll get by without you

Spoke on the phone, you'd think that I would listen
But I'd been drinking alone and it's a curse
'Cos girl, I put my foot in my mouth
Spoke on the phone, was lost for words and how
What I planned to say, it didn't work it out
I'm certain now, you're not around anymore
And I keep pretending

I'll be fine without you, how
Will I get by without you now?
I'll be fine without you
Even if I won't allow me to
I'll be fine without you
I'll be fine without you
I'll be fine without you

Words and Music by Michael Vickers

You're Not Around Anymore

2nd single from upcoming EP titled Honeymoon Phases due out Aug 8, 2020.

Honeymoon Phases

I'll Be Ur Tramp

yllwshrk with
Angry Men on a Train (background jingoism)

PUKI

Candid

Strange Overtones

Hand Over Your Head

Get Out

Opaline

Askival (Euan McLaughlin), As The Eagles Return (Euan McLaughlin) 

Euan McLaughlin - Fiddle, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitars, Electric Bass, Keys 

Tiernan Courell - Flute, Whistle 

Stephen Henderson - Drums, Percussion 

Recorded remotely during lockdown by Lewis McLaughlin, Euan McLaughlin, Stephen Henderson and Tiernan Courell 

Mixed by Richard Werner at B&B Studios, Edinburgh 

Mastered by Chris Waite

Askival

I used to date a man who I was clearly not compatible with. It got a bit hairy towards the end. He stole some of my stuff, destroyed some of my other stuff, and was altogether a right handful. Having said that, I'm no picnic to be with either so I understand how this mess became mine to clean. Still, it wasn't ideal and this song is about figuring out that at the end of the day both of us could and should do better finding a partner.

Better (Radio Edit)

Honey

If you turn to me
I would not turn away, yeah
Come and ride the tide 
Rising up inside, yeah

Ooh, honey
Ooh, honey
Ooh, honey
Honey
Ooh now

It would be alright 
If you come tonight, yeah
Or I’ll go where you are
Forever isn’t far, yeah

Darling if you come and run away with me
Ever after happily
It would be a one-night stand like constantly
It’s true
Oh you

Ooh, honey
Ooh, honey
Ooh, honey
Honey
Ooh now

Guitars, bass, programming, percussion, and vocals by TYLS
Vocals by Jesse Taylor
Written, arranged, produced, and mixed by TYLS at His Bedroom Studio
Mastered by Dave Blackwell at Hiltongrove Mastering
Video directed by TYLS

Honey

I'm very proud to present my newest track 'Feelin' It' with https://soundcloud.com/eric-matthys 
Thanks for listening and supporting me.
If you'd like to listen to the song on another platform here's the link
https://song.link/i/1531341556

Matfroninja - Feelin' It (with Eric Matthys)

Named one of BBC Introducing in the East Midlands’ most played artists of 2019 and 2020, Michael Vickers is a British singer-songwriter from Leicester. His combination of indie-rock, folk, and heartfelt, anecdotal lyrics delivered with a raw, rap inspired vocal has had audiences describing his music as “clever, captivating, beautiful, vivacious, unique and spellbinding."

"A bit of a legend on this programme. His lyrics are clever and he’s sensational live.” - Dean Jackson, BBC Introducing.

 

Michael has performed at countless venues and festivals, including Glastonbury and 2000 Trees. As well as performing at De Montfort Hall Gardens in the summer of 2019 with his band, he has featured in promotional videos for Roland showcasing some of their latest musical equipment, signed publishing deals to BMG and has had his tracks placed in TV and Film. As part of BBC Radio Leicester’s Under The Covers show, Michael performed 'Fire' with Kasabian front man Tom Meighan.

 

Michael's latest release - Poetic Nonsense - received an impressive amount of airplay, with 2 singles (Dead & Buried and When You Said That We Were Through) being selected as BBC Introducing in The East Midlands' Track of the Week.