When ex-Climax Blues Band member and producer Chris Bucknall received a call from Polydor artist, James Morrison, asking him to check out a young duo at Ryan's Bar in Derby he was more than intrigued.

A trip to the venue in Derby during an open mic night (where Morrison himself was discovered) led to a meeting with Hannah Garner and David Amar with whom Bucknall was most impressed.  

David Amar is a multi-instrumentalist who has been playing since he was a small child and beauty Hannah Garner had just formed a You Tube channel onto which she loaded tracks of herself singing acappella renditions of various covers into a web cam.  So well received were these little amateur videos that not only had hundreds of thousands of fans viewed them but four thousand actually subscribed to the channel.  And Hannah was only 17 years old at the time.  

Bucknall, who is responsible for discovering and producing Sony / BMG's Sam Beeton, signed them first to the Cubit Recordings label and then took them into his Nottingham-based "Nursery" studios and began recording an album for the talented duo together with co producer Robert de Fresnes and Miss 600 was born. Now nearing completion, the album showcases their talent around simple catchy pop tunes with more than a jazz twist.  Collaborations with Maxi Priest, Sam Beeton and Sonna Rele have worked well and will be included on the album when it is released later in the year.  It will be preceded by a single "Twist" which is scheduled for release in June.


Debut solo album 'Southern Gravity' in stores now! http://smarturl.it/SouthernGravity

For a decade, Kristian Bush built his reputation as one half of the multi-platinum, Grammy-winning country duo Sugarland. He wasn't the group's lead singer -- that role went to his big-voiced partner, Jennifer Nettles -- but he steered the ship in other ways: playing multiple instruments, singing harmonies, co-producing the group’s platinum-selling albums, and co-writing an award-winning catalog of songs (including five No. 1 singles and nearly a dozen Top 10 hits) about life and love in the American South. 

On Southern Gravity, his first release as a solo artist, Bush occupies the spotlight himself, juggling the roles of vocalist, songwriter, bandleader and producer. The new album draws on the 300+ songs that Bush wrote during the past two years, after Sugarland embarked on an open-ended hiatus. Included in the mix is Southern Gravity's lead single, "Trailer Hitch," written with Tim Owens and Bush's brother, Brandon.

"That song starts in your hips," Kristian explains. "It makes you dance, but after a few listens, you realize it's got something to tell you, too. The image in the chorus — I’ve never seen a hearse with a trailer hitch — is hilarious. Why do we collect so many things? We don't need them… and we can't take them with us when we go."

Anchored by a mix of groove and twang, "Trailer Hitch" rustles up memories of Bush's past hits, including the double-platinum Sugarland smash "Stuck Like Glue." Southern Gravity isn't a side project, though. It's a parallel project, a natural move for a songwriter who's been making records since he turned 13 years old. For the first time in his career, Bush is singing his own songs without a duo partner by his side, giving fans an unfiltered view of an artist who's always shared the spotlight in the past. 

"This first album is my nametag," says Bush, who recorded many of the songs in his own studio, often the same day they were written. "It basically says, 'Hello, my name is Kristian. I'm introducing you to my voice, even though you've heard it all along.' For more than 20 years, I've been someone co-creating with someone else. This time, I'm launching my own voice into the world."

Bush kickstarted his career in the early '90s, when he formed the folk rock duo Billy Pilgrim with Andrew Hyra. Together, the two released a pair of critically-acclaimed albums (1994's self-titled Billy Pilgrim and 1995's Bloom), enjoyed regular rotation on VH-1, and earned multiple Top 5 hits on the AAA charts. Bush's success continued with Sugarland, a coed country duo that formed in 2002 and sold more than 22 million albums during the ten years that followed. Along the way, Bush and Nettles launched five No. 1 singles, earned a well-deserved induction into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and took home trophies from the Grammys, AMAs, ACM Awards, CMT Music Awards and CMA Awards.

Southern Gravity will be released by Streamsound Records.

Kilburn State Records is a DIY record label based in Kilburn London releasing music by apple rabbits and J.B. Presley. Coming soon Anaglypta and the Hexham Heads.

In 1993 at the age of 23, jay Fisher was signed to Mike Howlett's (producer of Blancmange,OMD, Martha and The Muffins, Flock of Seagulls) Mauve Records, he released the Velvetine Ear Album, which was critically received and he supported John Martyn on his 1994 Autumn Tour. Projects in-between have included Canteen (Everyone else) and Dave Randall's (of Slovo, Faithless) Eight Stories album. Since 2004 jay Fisher has been concentrating on his solo projects of apple rabbits and more recently J.B. Presley.

Apple Rabbits recently performed at The Union Chapel as part of the Daylight Sessions and he was booked to play The Big Tree Festival in August however it has been cancelled. He recently played an acoustic set for Vale Fest for Birmingham university.  And is playing Brownstock at the end of August 2013

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