Record collector / DJ / Broadcaster / Producer / Brownswood Recordings boss / occasional remixer

One of the UK’s most interactive and creative festivals, Standon Calling is a three-day party with musical icons, breakthrough acts, a swimming pool, themed fancy dress, an on-site nightclub, bars that never seem to close, sprawling arts installations, roaming interactive theatre and much more besides. This year's festival is over the weekend of August 3-5 in Standon, Hertfordshire, just 45 minutes away from London. 

Singer Songwriter / Producer that makes melancholic and dramatic sounding hopeful music. I Left A Light On EP Out Now

The Last Men. Indie/electro/experimental act based just north of london: 
"The Last Men
LESS than 12 months after forming, Stortford electro-indie gang The Last Men have capitalised on some spellbinding gigs with the release of their debut EP.
The Last Men
The eponymous four-track effort, which is out now on iTunes, is a thoroughly polished vehicle for their songwriting and sets one heck of a benchmark for new unsigned acts to meet.
With its lumbering, insistent guitar groove and rousing singalong chorus, opener Fuzzy Cuzz wouldn’t sound out of place as a summer hit on alternative radio, while vocalists Alex Bayly and Bella Chipperfield duet sublimely on the more atmospheric, laid-back Hold You There.
Since forming late last year, the quintet have made a sizeable dent on Stortford’s live scene and in the capital. On top of packed gigs at Club Blub and this year’s Stortford Music Festival, they’ve played The Monarch, Nambucca and the Camden Crawl festival.
They’re playing at Cazfest this Sunday (July 3) and are even booked in for a second BBC Introducing… live radio slot following an impressive first outing.
To find out more, see www.thelastmen.co.uk – and visit our Observer Sessions music channel for video from their Stortford Music Festival set."
HERTS ESSEX OBSERVER
"Music, just like life itself, evolves. Moving freely from genre to genre, form to form. In the early years of this decade if you weren’t wearing skinny jeans and a low-cut vest top, hanging round Camden nightclubs, smoking roll-up cigarettes you weren’t a cool band. Countless bands sounding like The Strokes and The Libertines started to emerge and soon took over the whole music scene. But like I said, evolution soon kicked in. From the roll-up cigarette smoke a new type of indie music started to surface, it was more dance-able and had strange beautiful noises, oooh!
I logged on to the online unsigned-music streaming sensation that is Myspace (and a little bit of Facebook) to hear a band from down Essex/Herts way. Misleadingly called The Last Men, this 4 piece Indie electro band comprise of four last men and one last woman and, from what I’ve heard, are making fantastic music!
So what have this new, cool band got to do with that old-timer rant you had at the beginning of the article? I hear you shout. Well, their music is a new twist on that danceable-indie loveliness we’re used to from bands such as Bloc Party and MGMT which is the way indie music started to go. I only got to hear two tracks up on their profile, the track Napalm dream offered everything in the way of effect-filled guitar and fast rhythm that gets your head bobbing and although it was well written and well produced it wasn’t anything I hadn’t heard before. But before I discarded them as another band joining the dance-indie movement a few years too late, I listened to their other track they have available The Cycle, which really made me sit up and listen. Following this up with a video on their Youtube page of a live performance of the song New Life I started to see The Last Men as very accomplished songwriters and musicians with an interesting sound that I’m starting to love.
The Last Men could be Fantastic! I wanna hear some more!
I can see they are really interested in writing good music. I can see obvious influences, bands such as Bloc Party, maybe a hint of The Yeah Yeah Yeahs but also influence from legendary songwriters such as Bruce Springsteen. Their songs have this delightful way of drawing you in before erupting into an explosion of sound. They’re a promising band with brilliant song-writing skill. A quality that has also been noticed by Absolute radio and BBC introducing radio – just a couple of places The Last Men can boast about having their music played.
They’re doing everything right for the current music environment, they’ve found a new interesting sound and manage to perform it better than most bands I’ve heard of this nature. They’re promoting themselves well, with professional photoshoots and online presence. With the opportunity of playing on larger stages with some bigger names I think The Last Men could be Fantastic! I wanna hear some more!"
NEW BEATS MEDIA



Angry Vs The Bear is frantic. It's noisy. It's fizzy electro punk-tinged pop. The female fronted group have been together 3 years and have released 2 singles in the UK. The first 'Show Emotion' was picked up by Radio 1 DJ Huw Stephens who made it his Record Of The Week.

The band showcased twice at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas to unprecedented sold out crowds and Gibson named them their band of the festival. AVB have toured the UK 3 times including numerous festival slots and supported many bands such as Florence And The Machine, The Futureheads, Juliette Lewis, The Hoosiers, Dirty Pretty Things, Twenty Twenty, Neon Trees, Ben's Brother etc.

The Band's music is currently the title track on a global TV advertising campaign for Investec bank which is being shown on channels worldwide and in Odeon Cinemas.

AVB have also seen their music used in online campaigns for Karen Millen and River Island aswell as a national TV ad campaign for Chappelfield Shopping Village.

The band are fiercely proud of their live performances and use innovative technology to ensure their original sound continues to grow with them. This no doubt helped them beat off 100's of other bands to win the 'Best UK Act' award at this year's Rock The House awards ceremony, a Government run initiative judged by top UK major label A&R, Live Nation, Raw Power Management & The Cavern Club, Liverpool. This also made them the first band in history to play a gig at the House of Commons.

New single 'London Town' out soon.

 

"It's a synth-tastic slice of retro pop, sounding rather like the Gossip might if all guitars were suddenly outlawed." BBC Radio 1

"Their music bursts with punky energy and irresistible new-wave fizz." Gibson

"Angry vs. The Bear, who sound every bit as good as they look - raucous, glitzy, and unashamedly fun" The Fly Magazine

"Best half-hour set I've ever heard. When their album drops, we owe it to our rear ends to buy it." Punkass Blog.com

"Angry Vs The Bear chuck out buckets of bravado. Definitely one to watch" BBC Manchester


Cardinal Jack are a trio........ Cardinal Jack are not a chocolate confectionary bar........ Cardinal Jack's music goes BANG, BANG, BANG, SHOUT, BANG, SING, SING, BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG, FALL OVER..... Cardinal Jack are Cardinal Jack

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