Dottie Mai in session
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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Formal Sppeedwear
Wait (Hatchet Gets A New Hide)
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Lions of Dissent
Sirens at Sea
- Lion Rebel Recordings.
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Performing at the Hay Festival
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Outpost Drive
Rough Riders
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Samvl
Feel Alive
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Ease the Artist
The Essence
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Nominated for Reading + Leeds
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Little Juke
Time On My Mind
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Dottie Mai
Hello (Live from The Nantwich Jazz Festival)
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Dottie Mai
New Horizon Boulevard (Live from The Nantwich Jazz Festival)
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Introducing's First Play
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React
Wanna See U
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Data
A Better You (feat. Davina Songbird)
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Cassia
Everyone, Outside
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Interviewed
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Adele & Andy
Who's Gonna Pray For Her
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AshJam
Magic
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WOLFS
Get It Out
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Dottie Mai
Nobody (Live from The Nantwich Jazz Festival)
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Dottie Mai
Good Ain't Good Enough (Live from The Nantwich Jazz Festival)
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Hosting the first-ever Gladstone Rave & Nominated for Reading + Leeds
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Jordan Tilstone
Alumina
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