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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 21st March 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/batch191

*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 191

April 2016 Amazements

Junping songs

"Augustus Pablo nipping in to Grange Hill to play morning assembly-Tramp Pop-This is the future" -Fresh On The Net Music Blog&#13;
"9/10" Louder than War&#13;
"Let your inner tramp run wild &amp; free" BBC Introducing&#13;
"Wonderful,Wonderful sounds" Mark Ryan,Amazing Radio&#13;
"Needs to be played loudly" The Dadada&#13;
"Infectious,listen to it again &amp; again,a recipe for awesomeness" Tobi Lynn,Amazing Radio&#13;
"Euphoric" BBC Suffolk&#13;

Chancer

Pain Threshold

From Skeleton Hill by Firefly Burning
Release 9 March 2015

Words by Bea Hankey
Produced by Tim Friese-Greene
Recorded at Mount Harry House, East Sussex by Phill Browne and Tim Friese-Greene
Mixed at Toybox Studios, Bristol by Ali Chant and Tim Friese-Greene
Mastered by Denis Blackham at Skye Mastering

Bea Hankey, voice 
Jack Ross, guitar & voice
James Redwood, violin & voice
John Barber, piano & voice
Sam Glazer, cello & voice

Pioneer

Old Tramp featured on the saturday night radio show of the legend that is Tom Robinson on 19.4.14 on BBC 6 Music and Tom explains how he first discovered Old Tramp.

Old Tramp on Tom Robinson Show-BBC 6 Music

Equal Opportunities

Songs and music written by Chris Belson, also lead vocals, guitar and Wurlitzer. Drums and percussion Ben Brown. Bass, Nicholas Stevenson. Trombone, Lee Drage. 

Recorded by Simon Trougthon and Sam Beer at SoupStudios, 2015.

The Planets Align

Debut single from Liverpool writing duo 'Katie and I' 

Produced/Mixed by Mark Butler 
Artwork by Dominic Veakins

Lyrics:

Bright red cheeks and blood on your hands
Tried to run but you couldn't stand, 
The sight of her I could see, 
That the light behind your eyes had gone out, for me

Well guide me closely for I cannot see
The love you claim you hold for me
And the sight of him I could see,
Well the light behind your eyes has gone, for me

And on your side of the quicksand It don't sink so low
I'm not a fan of this movement, these to's and fro's
And I'm not here for amusement you should know, 
But on your side of the quicksand, It don't sink so low
So low so low so long

Oh lover look what you've done to my pride x4

(Ohhhhhhhh Instrumental)

And on your side of the quicksand, It don't sink so low
I'm not a fan of this movement, these to's and fros
And I'm not here for amusement, you should know,

That I'm not here for amusement.

Contact us: katieandiofficial@gmail.com

Buy on iTunes

Quicksand

Written & Produced by PJ Pearson

I’m moving my family to the end of the earth 
Near the cape of good hope
Where the blue birds are soaring 
On the thermals of love 	

And down on the beaches are statues of all
Those people you knew
But your never sure why
No your never sure at all

And I’ll never move out
No I’ll never move out of an Angel’s way

Dry cement it will not hold your heavens up 
Dry cement it will not hold your heavens in

And on the fifth of September we gathered our belongings
And we headed for the coast
To the voice of no gods  
Where the church bells were rising 
On the thermals of love
And out under the waves where the sea falls apart
Swam a mariners girl
And with her mineral eyes she said
 ‘oh your too late'
But I'm never sure why
No I’m never sure at all

Dry cement it will not hold your
Your Universal Will to become

	
   	
   	
   	
  

Cape of Good Hope

What Time Is It

Written by Sky Mouse (instrumentation) and Blue-John Benjamin (lyrics and vocals);
Vocals sound-engineered by Jon Fleming;
Produced by Sky Mouse.

Free to download from 23rd October 2015 https://blueskymouse.bandcamp.com/releases

Last of the Music Hall Comedians

I play to the autumnal auditorium—
trees heavy with birdsong and bonfire smoke.
Now, beneath them, I take my final bow;
timing was always everything to me.

Last of the Music Hall comedians—
last of the incurable romantics.
My mind whirs at seven gags per minute.
I am, at heart, a Shakespearean clown.

From Lime Street Station to the Palladium to
the last pie shop before the stadium,
when life is a comedy of errors,
keep your chin up, and let happiness in.

Not for me, the solitary meal in a tray.
Not for me, the damp chill of a bedsit.
Vaudevillian to my bones, skin the texture
of an autumn leaf,
now the time has come, I will take my final bow.

Last of the Music Hall comedians—
the last of my kind—
last of the incurable romantics.
My mind whirred at seven gags per minute.
I was, at heart, a Shakespearean clown.

From Lime Street Station to the Palladium to
the last pie shop before the stadium,
when life is a comedy of errors,
keep your chin up, and let happiness in.

A gentleman’s epitaph:
With Death he has finally consorted,
but to online dating he never resorted.

BLUE-JOHN VS SKY MOUSE – Last of the Music Hall Comedians

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

SUGARDRUM - Poppies

Released 25th March 2016.

Recorded at Lana Banana Studios, Sevenoaks, Kent, England UK. www.lanabananastudios.co.uk
Produced, Mixed & Mastered by T.Hatton-Smith, D.Whitelock, & H.Willard.

Released under Blizzard Records. www.facebook.com/blizzardrecords

We Are Bandicoot - Limitations

OLD TRAMP - Drink

Stay With Me

From the Brand New Album 'Confession Note'
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/confession-note/id1087742084

Written, Arranged & Produced by Mahoney & The Moment

Recorded at Soup Studio, London, England 
Engineers: Simon Trought, Sam Beer, Dave Holmes & Giles Barrett
Mastered at Speakersonic, New York City by Brian Speaker
Photography; Heather Rose Cahill

Steve Mahoney: Vocals, Guitar, Bass
Emily Moment: Vocals, Ukulele, Piano
Ashley Hallinan: Drums 
Barbara Bartz: Fiddle 
Jack Hobbs: Hammond Organ

mahoneyandthemoment.com

Confession Note

Anyway..

"New cut 'All In Line' is online now, and it's a wonderfully fresh introduction to their world. Tune in now." CLASH MAGAZINE

'All In Line' is from Firewoodisland's EP Dome - out now
Written by Stian Vedøy & Abi Eleri Vedøy
Produced by Stian Vedøy
Mastered by Frank Arkwright @ Abbey Road
http://www.firewoodisland.com

Spotify

All In Line

ALLIEKSTEWART-BREATHE

Dirty beats, crunchy synths & songs chock full of lyrical character.
The new album 'Tunes' is being released as a track-a-month through 2021 as a pay what you want release on Bandcamp https://snippetcuts.bandcamp.com/


"Augustus Pablo nipping in to Grange Hill to play morning assembly-Tramp Pop-This is the future" -Fresh On The Net Music Blog
"9/10" Louder than War
"Let your inner tramp run wild & free" BBC Introducing
"Wonderful,Wonderful sounds" Mark Ryan,Amazing Radio
"Needs to be played loudly" The Dadada
"Infectious,listen to it again & again,a recipe for awesomeness" Tobi Lynn,Amazing Radio
"Euphoric" BBC Suffolk

OLD TRAMP - Drink

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