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Andy Von Pip is overlord of the award winning Von Pip Musical Express website, which has been nominated for numerous blogging and music journalism awards in the UK. He has appeared on national radio on respected stations such as BBC 6 music, BBC radio Merseyside and Amazing Radio. His passion for discovering new music is second only to his well documented love for Lush and The Jesus & Mary Chain. He was recently spotted doing cartwheels around his home town of Liverpool after being thanked on the sleeve notes of the recent reissues of the JAMC's seminal classics "Psychocandy" and "Darklands." His speaking voice is so deep that he has been compared to "Ian McCulloch trapped down a well or even a bizarre cross between John Lennon, Ringo Star and Eeyore the donkey."



Andy's show invites you aboard his musical express as he journeys into the darkest corners of cyberspace in a quest to unearth new musical treasures from the UK and beyond... with the odd classic thrown in occasionally

Strangeways Radio Von Pip Promo

One of the albums of 2014 on http://www.thevpme.com/2014/12/17/the-vpme-albums-of-2014-part-1-20-to-11/

Half Man Half Biscuit - The Bane of Constance

Black Box Recorder- Keep It In The Family.

New Interview With Nigel here

http://www.thevpme.com/2012/03/08/risk-it-for-a-biscuit-half-man-half-biscuit-interview/

Half Man Half Biscuit - Rock And Roll Is Full Of Bad Wools

The School - Never Thought I'd See The Day

The Hundred In The Hands can now announce the release of the first single taken from their upcoming album ‘Red Night’. The 12” single is due out on   May 28th via Warp Records. The vinyl will include an original B-side, ‘Mountains’ as well as remixes from Andy Stott, Patten, and two reworks from JD Twitch. The anthemic “Keep it Low” has a driving rhythm that underpins Eleanore Everdell’s seductive and wistful vocal turn and Jason Friedman's echoing guitars and spiraling atmospherics building the song from its melancholy beginning to a fever pitch.
 
The Hundred in the Hands chose remixers who’ve inspired them, the band says “We were listening to Andy Stott’s ‘Passed Me By’ and “We Stay Together” EP’s a lot as we started the record. So many good ideas and textures, with low end in the extreme that kind of rattled our minds a bit. When it came to looking for people to remix, he was first on the list. The legendary Optimo duo have been such an influence on so many artists in recent years, and in maybe too many cases we end up liking their versions a bit more than the originals. We just had to ask. JD Twitch turned in two versions, each unique and equally epic. We couldn’t make up our minds so, we stuck them both on. We’d been hearing bits from Patten and got excited. It’s hallucinatory, uneasy and fractured. Pretty much everything we like. “Mountains” was a track that was written totally in the flow of the album but still just couldn’t fit in, it just wouldn’t play nice with the other tracks and just became its own beast of a thing. This seemed like the best place to let it out.”
 
The band are also due to showcase their new material at Hoxton Bar and Kitchen on 31st May.
 
Tickets:http://www.hoxtonsquarebar.com/music-events/2012/may/the-hundred-in-the-hands
 
The new album ‘Red Night’ is released on June 11th.
 
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The Hundred In The Hands - Keep It Low

From the forthcoming debut album, streamed with permission of Memphis Industries 

Interview here http://vonpipmusicalexpress.wordpress.com/2010/09/10/frankie-rose-interview/

Frankie Rose and the Outs - Frankie Rose and the Outs

Frankie Rose has a reputation around here. And by here we don’t mean here, we mean Brooklyn. And by reputation, we mean her minimal, Maureen Tucker-like beats and iconic presence in such buzz-stirring bands as Crystal Stilts, Dum Dum Girls, and Vivian Girls. Those groups spearheaded a scene that mixed the sounds of lo-fi garage, big reverb-drenched Phil Spector-produced 60s girl groups, the noise aesthetic of the Jesus And Mary Chain with a touch of Velvet Underground and a strong DIY ethic to create a sound that’s influenced a new generation of bands around the world.
At least that’s what she’s been known for up until now. As you’re about to hear on her new group’s self-titled Memphis Industries debut, Frankie Rose and the Outs have their heads in the clouds a bit more than Rose’s previous projects. Listening to the ghostly golden-oldie grooves of songs like “Girlfriend Island,” “Candy” and the pedal-pounding “That’s What People Told Me,” it’s as if the Cocteau Twins and Shangri-Las tracked a split LP with the help of a time machine and a freshly-acquitted Phil Spector.
“I tried to make this album as hi-fi as possible while sticking to the sounds that I’ve always loved,” explains Rose. “I grew up listening to a lot of musicals and Gilbert and Sullivan operas, so harmonies are a given. I also was drawn to anything spooky as a kid-’Good Vibrations’ still kinda scares me. Reverb puts a haze on everything, you know?”
Oh we know. And you will too, as the singer/guitarist/drummer-aided by fellow Outs bassist Caroline Yes, guitarist Margot Bianca, and drummer Kate Ryan- explores her dream-pop side on the album’s darker numbers, from the oscillating organs, spooky sleigh bells and melancholic melodies of “Hollow Life” and “Lullabye For Roads and Miles” to the disembodied balladry of “Save Me” and “Memo.”
All in the name of making “beautiful, serious music” that reaches well beyond simple Wall of Sound nods. That’s because Rose is more concerned with maintaining a specific mood than rehashing the hooks your parents lost their virginity to. Sometimes that means channelling the psych climaxes of Spacemen 3 (the chord-gnashing lead guitar of “Thee Only One,” Rose’s solo single from 2009), and sometimes that can mean fusing a rickety rhythm section and galloping riffs with the spectral trails of Julee Cruise (the Rose-penned Vivian Girls cut, “Where Do You Run To?”).
Frankie Rose and the Outs is full of such lovely juxtapositions. From the galloping reverb symphony of “Little Brown Haired Girls” to the tough garage swing of “That’s What People Told Me” and “Don’t Tred” to the soaring chords and angelic harmonies of the well-chosen Arthur Russell cover “You Can Make Me Feel Bad,” it’s clear that Rose has finally found the perfect vehicle for her musical inspiration.

Frankie Rose And The Outs - Girlfriend Island

From The Cloud 9 EP - Release Date: 6th August 2012

Holly Drummond - Royalty

FROM :  A CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR YOU FROM 
ELEFANT RECORDS  http://elefant.com/en/noticia/696/

Streamed with permission (Paul Court)


The Primitives - You Trashed My Christmas

Sarah Nixey’s seasonal offering is a Christmas single with a defiant and steely
message. Everything you would expect from this unyielding songwriter.
‘Think of me this Christmas/When the fire is burning at night/I’ll be dancing strong
and vibrant/Like those flames and the flickering light/I’ll wrap up in feathers and
furs/Head to toe in diamonds and pearls/I won’t miss your disapproving looks/When I
throw away my shoes and dance…’
Available as a prompt and splendid download on 3 December 2012 from all digital
outlets.

Release date: 3 December 2012
Label: Black Lead Records (distributed by Cargo Records)
Catalogue No: BLRS006

*Streamed with permission of Black Lead Records*

What the press said about Sarah Nixey’s 2011 album Brave Tin Soldiers:
"she could easily find a wider audience" ★★★★ Sunday Times
"Nixey’s breathy vocals lure you in” ★★★★ Scottish Sunday Express
"a thing of subtle gorgeousness" The Independent
"understated triumph" Uncut
www.sarahnixey.com
www.blackleadrecords.com

Sarah Nixey - Christmas Without You

Streamed with Permission Of Damaged Good Records 

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Helen Love, Ricardo Autobahn - And The Salvation Army Band Plays

Liz Kershaw Interviews Nigel Blackwell.MP3

Andy Von Pip from the VPME introduces Run With Me By Coves and  tells Tom Robinson on BBC 6 Music Now Playing why Coves should be bigger than.....

Coves - Run With Me ( BBC 6 Music - Blog Tip - The VPME.COM)

‘Get Well Soon’ is the title track from Sarabeth Tucek’s new album of the same name released via Sonic Cathedral in April. 

Sarabeth Tucek - Get Well Soon

LET'S BUY HAPPINESS	
	
Devil Show (acoustic) 03:14
Fast  Fast' - new single released on Ghost Arc Records on February 28th, 2011.

Soon available to pre-order with b-side 'Devil Show (acoustic)'


Lets Buy Happiness - Devil's Show (Acoustic)

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