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Stunning RnB-infused live music, from the Stafford act flying the flag for single mums. Andrew Marston presents live from The Hay Festival.

Warning: This show may contain future headliners! Andrew Marston introduces the best new music from our area, including:

• We're live from the Hay Festival where artists like Billy Ocean, Paloma Faith, West End icon Sir Tim Rice and BBC Introducing stars Outpost Drive are on the bill.

• From Bottle Ovens to Beats - a Stoke-on-Trent pottery's hosting its first ever rave! We'll be meeting the man behind the music who's fulfilling a childhood dream of performing at Gladstone Pottery Museum.

• Massive summer tours take centre stage, but behind the scenes, small venues face a crisis. While stadiums fill for iconic reunions, we hear how local venues - like Albert's Shed - are having to prioritise ticket sales over supporting new music.

• Meeting one of our area's youngest DJs, 11-year-old Couchy from Worcester, who’s been spinning vinyl since age six and is now lighting up day raves across the city.

• From under 1% year-on-year to a 50% rise - country music is making waves in the UK charts. We find out the impact this is having on our Shropshire country superstars.

• In our Music News: Previewing the final weekend of the Elgar Festival and hearing from Jax Jones, The Wombats and Ocean Colour Scene as part of the Stoke 100 celebrations at Trentham Gardens.

• The last in our series from this year's Nantwich Jazz, Blues & Music Festival with a Stafford musician who taught herself piano by ear, skipped BRIT School, and somehow landed on a Ministry of Sound album - meet the unstoppable Dottie Mai.

• Announcing which local musicians we've put forward to play on the BBC Introducing stage at this year's Reading and Leeds Festival.

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BBC Hereford & Worcester, BBC Radio Shropshire & BBC Radio Stoke

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Music Played

  • Released this week

    • Formal Sppeedwear

      Wait (Hatchet Gets A New Hide)

      • Melodic Records.

  • Featured Artist

    • Lions of Dissent

      Sirens at Sea

      • Lion Rebel Recordings.

  • Performing at the Hay Festival

    • Outpost Drive

      Rough Riders

  • Samvl

    Feel Alive

  • Ease the Artist

    The Essence

  • Nominated for Reading + Leeds

    • Little Juke

      Time On My Mind

  • In Session

    • Dottie Mai

      Hello (Live from The Nantwich Jazz Festival)

    • Dottie Mai

      New Horizon Boulevard (Live from The Nantwich Jazz Festival)

  • Introducing's First Play

    • React

      Wanna See U

  • Data

    A Better You (feat. Davina Songbird)

  • Released last month

    • Cassia

      Everyone, Outside

      • love sundays.

  • Interviewed

    • Adele & Andy

      Who's Gonna Pray For Her

  • Introducing's First Play

    • AshJam

      Magic

  • Track Of The Week

    • WOLFS

      Get It Out

  • In Session

    • Dottie Mai

      Nobody (Live from The Nantwich Jazz Festival)

    • Dottie Mai

      Good Ain't Good Enough (Live from The Nantwich Jazz Festival)

  • Hosting the first-ever Gladstone Rave & Nominated for Reading + Leeds

    • Jordan Tilstone

      Alumina

Broadcasts

  • Thu 29 May 2025 20:00
    BBC Radio Shropshire, BBC Radio Stoke & BBC Hereford & Worcester
  • Sat 31 May 2025 20:00
    BBC Hereford & Worcester, BBC Radio Shropshire & BBC Radio Stoke

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