The Introducing End of Year Party with Sky Larkin, Rolo Tomassi, Pixel H8 and Mickey P Kerr was a lot of fun. It was great to be able to invite four different bands over to Maida Vale to play their own and some festive tunes. If you're quick you can listen back here, and do check out the Pixelh8 video - he's the chip tunes don!
Tonight on Radio 1 from 7pm-10pm it's the In New Music We Trust Christmas Party! Yes, deck the halls of Maida Vale with us as we bop around and enjoy some of the finest new bands we've heard this year. Glasvegas, Florence and the Machine, Friendly Fires, Chipmunk, Chase and Status and Golden Silvers are all playing - it's going to be wicked so do tune in. A feast of live music!
This Wednesday from 9pm it's Christmas eve! To celebrate, I'll be looking back over some of the Introducing highlights of the year and from 12midnight it's my Weird and Wonderful Christmas. Two hours of festive tunes and special guests Wayne Coyne from Flaming Lips, Wiley, Corey from Slipknot and Karl Pilkington.
Have a wonderful time and hope your ears are filled with good tunes over the week!
Take Care
The wonderful Little Boots is in session on the show this week. Her dancey rhythms, blended beats and sugar sultry sweet vocals make a lovely noise, as seen in her storming live shows recently. Annie Mac loves her too and her in for a mini mix a little while back, and the BBC Sounds of 2009 predicts big things for her. It's all very exciting then, and it was lovely to meet Victoria, for she is Little Boots, and have a chat before this week's session. She also posts a lot of videos online; here's just one...
Hoorah for Florence and the Machine too, who's won the Critics Choice Brit Award as the artist to watch in 09. Happy days!
The wonderful Little Boots was in session on the show this week. Her dancey rhythms, blended beats and sugar sultry sweet vocals make a lovely noise, as seen in her storming live shows recently. Annie Mac loves her too and her in for a mini mix a little while back, and the BBC Sounds of 2009 predicts big things for her. It's all very exciting then, and it was lovely to meet Victoria, for she is Little Boots, and have a chat before this week's session. She also posts a lot of videos online; here's just one...
One of my favourite new bands of 08 are in session tonight on Introducing from midnight. They're so good live, as seen on the Introducing stage at In the City in October. I saw them play in Cardiff recently too, and if I was forced to pick a band or two that should do well over the the year that is 09, I'd probably go for this band of fun-loving melody-tastic guitar monkeys.
As well as 'normal' gigs, they like playing oin lecture halls too. oh yes. A little taster?
Saw this on Drowned in Sound today, a video of anti-folk hero Jeffrey Lewis celebrating the 30th birthday of Rough Trade records, which brought us the Strokes, Smiths and the Libertines among so many more.
Hope you're all good and keeping warm.
Went to see Sky Larkin playing recently. Thy keep getting better and better too. Having heard the band from Leeds' debut album The Golden Spike, next year is going to be an exciting one for the magic three piece.
I was on Steve Lamacq's Roundtbale last week on his 6Music show, which was fun, having a listen and discussing new tunes by Pete and the Pirates, Franz Ferdinand, Wiley and loads more.
This Wednesday between 9-10pm, there's no Best of Introducing, instead it's International Radio 1. Wednesday night it'll be Gilles Peterson in New York! Tune in to hear his guide to the special city and its music. From 12-2am, Noah and the Whale are taking over the Introducing in England show. We had the band in session over a year ago now, and since then they've gone from strength to strength. So we invited them in to do this weeks show, with loads of their favourite new tunes from bands and artists they're digging at the moment. Expect the unexpected!
Yes, it's a brilliant name for a band. You'll be pleased to know that their music is even better. I've seen them play a few times now and they're never your normal gigs - in Cardiff over the weekend where my Swn festival was taking place (check the Newsbeat review here!) - and they're one the most energetic live bands around. Where other bands sometimes ask for a wall of death in their gigs, Danananaykroyd got everyone to do a wall of hugs.
They're in session this Wedensday night on Radio 1at 9pm and Midnight across Scotland and England, when the unofficial King of Scotland Vic Galloway hosts the show.
I'm in for Colin Murray for a few weeks. Next Monday I'm in the company of Fleet Foxes who've made one of the albums of the year. If not the album of the year. Last night I was in the company of Seasick Steve - see him playing in the Raido 1 studios here.
