Endless Knot are a Coventry based celtic-folk ska and reggae band. They have a lot of members and play a mad array of instruments. Their album Streets Ahead is available now… Matt Collins: Endless Knot’s Myspace page announces that Marc is on didgeridoos, whistles, harmonica, percussion and vocal duties, which is an immediately attractive prospect. Lots...
Nottingham based four piece Cecille Grey have been together for just over a year – already a fixture on the live scene and making a noise on BBC 6Music, the panel moved in to check them out… Tom Moyser: Cecille Grey make a kind of music we are all familiar with – light string...
Folk’n'roll artist Amos Zimmerman hails from Israel and creates ‘music that wants to look you in the eye’. His debut album with handy musicians The Riverband has been playing on the panel’s stereo… Nico Franks: Curiously, Amos’ surname suggests lineage to probably the most famous singer-songwriter of all time, some guy called Bob Dylan....
From Boston, Massachusetts come from the Americana stylings of Pesky J Nixon. The panel went in to see what they could find. Alice Sage: There are absolutely no sharp corners in this band. No edges or complexity either. Just unbelievably nauseatingly uplifting knees-up country and saccharine ballads – a bit like Barenaked Ladies with...
Message To Bears are a folktronica outfit from Oxford that have been making a big furry name for themselves. The panel stepped up to check out their sound. Eala McAllister: Message to Bears is the name of Jerome Alexander’s solo project. The music is steeped in very accomplished guitar playing and can occasionally sound...
Southampton duo Freezing In Fressin bring you acoustic folk in the form of their first, self titled, EP. They take their name from a productive trip to Fressin in France. The panel dropped in for a listen. James Robinson: ’Sweetly sardonic’ might be the best way to describe the debut EP from this decidedly hipsterish...
Goodtimes, Goodtimes is the moniker of London singer-songwriter Franc Cinelli, who put out his debut album late last year. The panel went in to see if the times are, er, good. Alice Knapp: The influences of this London-based musician clearly lie across the Atlantic. His voice has the gravelly qualities of Dylan, the instrumentation...
Max Jury is a man set on a career in music. A student at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Jury is now producing some tuneful little numbers online. The panel went in for a listen. Matt Collins: Max Jury is currently attending the American Berklee College of Music, which is never good...
Adelaide’s Todd Sibbins recently put himself together a band, The Opposite Ends, and recorded an EP, Waiting For Me To Say. And then he sent it half way around the world to us. Here’s what we made of it. Matt Collins: Todd Sibbin is real blues folk. Breathy vocals and head nodding guitars are...
Ethan Ash has a couple of EPs under his belt, an iTunes Single of the Week nomination to his name, and a coveted slot on a Communion gig. So the panel went in to give it a try. Matt Collins: Ethan Ash appears to have unironically put a picture of him playing acoustic guitar...
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