Notts YMCA is on the look out for young musicians to get involved with the East Midlands leg of the national Peace Mix Mic relay. Like the Pied Piper of up-and-coming artists, the Peace Mix Mic relay tour offers a showcase for all forms of raw, unsigned talent from big band boppers to soulful street poets. Inspired by the New Day Foundation, Peace Mix’s aim is simple; to spread a message of peace through music whilst providing young people with the chance to explore their hometown’s musical facilities.
The tour hits up publicly funded music studios up and down the country in search for the freshest, finest new talents, giving them the chance to record their own peace song and perform live to an exclusive audience. One winner from each local studio will go on to battle it out at the regional Peace Mix Play Off final at Cornwall’s Eden Project on August 16th, competing for the grand prize of a supporting slot to a mystery headliner at the Peace Mix Presents finale on August 28th at Camden’s Roundhouse, the legendary venue which has played host to the likes of Oasis, Tinie Tempah and even Jimi Hendrix.
Exciting, no? Well it just gets better as the tour will be hitting up Nottingham’s new youth centre NGY on July 20th which, given the current buzz surrounding the city’s music scene, will no doubt be a melting pot of burgeoning talent.
‘BUT HOW DO I GET INVOLVED’ I hear you cry. Well it’s easy: If you are aged 16-24 and have a passion for music, any music, then simply:
1- upload two of your tracks (one original, one peace themed) onto Youtube and tag ‘Nottingham Peace Mix Relay’.
2- Send an email to peacemix@nottsymca.com with a link to their songs and contact details.
Just four acts will be asked to perform at the NGY and be in with this amazing opportunity, so what are you waiting for?! Entry deadline is MONDAY 9th JULY so get involved and get noticed. Visit www.peacemix.co.uk for further information. You can also check out Peace Mix on Facebook HERE.
Yours in love of new music
Maddie Hammond X
@feelthenusic
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NUSIC PRESENTS
With the support of LeftLion, DHP Group, Confetti and The Julie Cotton Foundation
The Future Sound of Nottingham Final 2012 at Rock City.
Featuring six awesome up and coming musical talents: In The North Wood, The Afterdark Movement, Crash Jacket, Tom Wardle, The Species and Joe Danks.
And special guest Indiana.
More details on ‘The Biggest Local Music Comp In The UK’ here:
Director: Lesley Elliott
Editor: Lesley Elliott
Camera: Adam Wiklo, Frazer Varney, Sarah Gilkinson & Ashleigh Bossman
Audio: Dan Berry
Runners: Maddie Hammond & Cerys Owen
Presenters: Mark Del, Tom Hadfield and Melissa Ward
www.nusic.org.uk
Nottingham music lovers, welcome to your weekly fix of gigs. We have three cracking nights to choose from here so make sure you are there. You square.
GIG ONE
Notts in a Nutshell presents… THE FREEFALL + THEM BALLOONS + NO EMPIRE + ELM TREE ROW + BRUCE MCULLEN at The Maze on Monday 25th.
THE FREEFALL sure knows how to entice their audience. Emotional lyrics, twinned with beautiful vocal harmonies is what is laid on the cards. Simulating great indie melodies/rhythm and delivering a strong live performance. Be prepared to rock along and loosen up.THE FREEFALL will most probably get you all reciting their catchy lyrics!
Feeling in the mood for some good clean fun? Let ‘THEM BALLOONS’ blow you way. Easy listening songs, synced beautifully with a feel good vibe. Having started from playing in school performances to now performing at festivals, ‘THEM BALLOONS’ has taken off on a flying start. Their performance is sure to be a banging start to your evening! We apologise for the puns.
NO EMPIRE are a fiery four piece who will rock the house. The Empire is reining high! They sure pride themselves in having a good time whilst they play their music which is the way it should be! If you are up for good times as well, then satisfy your rock cravings by immersing yourself in their self-expressing music.
ELM TREE ROW will bring to the table soothing vocals, beautiful ukulele instrumentals and a whole lot of folk-iness !! A lot of folk driven melodies. ELM TREE ROW ‘showcases their ear for melody, emotive and musicianship’. Their emotional lyrics adds lots of colour and texture to their folkness. One minute, you’ll be thinking of lullabies and the next, you’ll be dancing to the strummy pattern of the good ol ukulele. Folking Hell this sounds good.
DOORS: 7:30PM
TICKETS: £3 OTD
GIG TWO
Bringing you a wealth of Nottingham culture on 28th June all in the heart of one of Nottingham’s most unique gig venues The Bodega, UNDER THE TREE is the perfect event to sink into a selection of the finest performers, poets, beatboxers and everything else inbetween. For the bargain price of 3 quid this is going to be one hell of a night!
ONE HOT SLICE – 7.15.
Kicking off the night and setting the tone are bluesy four-piece ONE HOT SLICE. Vocals from frontman Mikie Howard range from subtly delicate to powerful and intense, with slick lyrics and tight instrumentals. The perfect way to begin a night of folksy antics!
LISA DE’VILLE – 7.30.
With comparisons to the likes of folk heroes and heroines JEFF BUCKLEYand JONI MITCHELL, LISA DE’VILLE‘s brooding melodies and romanticised lyrics are a beautiful combination and a dark force to be reckoned with.
RED BEAR – 8.20.
RED BEAR is the solo project of Adam Clark, aka lead singer of CAPTAIN DANGEROUS. Drawing on the bristling energy and richness of sound that CAPTAIN DANGEROUS embody by the bucket-load, RED BEAR plans to take his own brand of ‘Forest pop’ to the stage; complete with a mix of melodic piano and rhythmic guitar this performance will enchant you from beginning to end.
DEB HAYES + DOM LEE – 8.45
As well as producing beautiful original songs, these two blew the crowd away at the UNDER THE TREE launch night with covers of popular classics. Perfect way to continue the warm-up!
ADAM PETER SMITH – 9.00.
ADAM PETER SMITH is ‘an acoustic artist with a big sound.’ Check out our Future Session Here.
LEE TABIX – 9.30.
A regular at local venues The Golden Fleece and The Maze, grungy beatboxer LEE TABIX is set to blow your mind with his incredible array of vocal capabilities. Having stormed Acoustic Rooms at the Rescue Rooms last week with clever modern mashups, LEE TABIX isn’t afraid to work up a crowd and you’ll no doubt be incapable of standing still to this pro’s infectious beats.
FRAZER LOWRIE – 10.00.
Steadily climbing his way up the gig ladder, FRAZER LOWRIE is making a name for himself on the Notts acoustic scene with his give-it-all-or-nothing approach to performing, proving that for an electrifying set all you need is a bit of gusto (although a powerful voice and effortless charisma obviously help). If you haven’t heard this guy before check him out – his catchy upbeat tracks are bound to win you over! Our first attempt at a Future Session went a little bit tits up, so look forward to round two coming to a screen near you!
WILL JEFFERY – 10.45.
If you like your ready-made folk served with dollops of ‘smokey shambolic vocals’, then verteran gigger WILL JEFFERY is the order of the day for you. Backed by his backing band THE WILD GENTRY, Jeffery’s live performances are a sight to behold and a treat to the ears.
GEORGIE ROSE – 11.00.
Having stunned many a crowd into awed silence recently with her beautiful LAURA MARLING-esque vocals and slick guitar skills, GEORGIE ROSE is steadily making her voice heard on the Notts acoustic scene with regular appearances at gig hotspots The Maze and Acoustic Rooms. At only 17, this talented folk songstress may be young but embodies a wealth of talent that is exquisitely executed on stage. Watch her Future Session HERE.
PRICE: £3
DOORS: 7pm
GIG THREE
On June 30th, our lad KURT MARTINEZ returns to Rescue Rooms to play his only home show this summer. Having been described as ‘electro’s answer to Mcfly’, his synth-pop and dance-floor friendly tunes will raise your spirits and get you groovin’. Blending all the fun and energy of power-pop with the beats of electro mark KURT MARTINEZ is something special, and following the release of his acclaimed debut album ‘The Idiot’s Guide to Breaking Hearts’ last year and his triumphant set at 2011’s Future Sound of Nottingham final, it seems the sky’s the limit for 2012.
To further the hype of this gig, support comes from the charismatic SAINT RAYMOND. Just one man, his guitar and bags of talent, SAINT RAYMOND’s acoustic indie pop is simply compelling.
So if electro pop rock and silky vocals are your kind of thang, then bop on down to the Rescue Rooms on the 30th, two cracking artists for the low low low price of £5.
PRICE: £5
DOORS: 7pm
Yours in Love of New Music,
Tom Hadfield, Cerys Owen, Maddie Hammond and Ashleigh Bossman x
@feelthenusic
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And the FSN 2012 winners are….THE AFTERDARK MOVEMENT! Big thanks to all those who turned up, it was the biggest and best final yet. This weeks podcast features a post-results interview with the champs, (Warning: Excessive screaming may harm eardrums) news on the best Notts media day EVER and, as always, the freshest new Nottingham tunes.
NUSIC New Music Podcast 029 (85) TRACKLISTING
THE FOUR COMMANDMENTS 
KAPPA GAMMA – Just Another (Incorrectly titled on the podcast, sorry)
M.I.K – Do It (The Elementz Remix)
ESTHER VAN LEUVEN – High for This
THE ORANGE FANDANGOS – Magic
REWIND: LONGFELLOW – Thorns
PRUGA P ft. RANDOLPH & Z – Superfunk
BACK TO THE FUTURE: FRAZER LOWRIE – Words of a Coward
DENY THE LIE – Alright Now
CHRIS MCDONALD – Butterfly Fly
FALLING OFF MAPS – The Redeemer
THE AFTERDARK MOVEMENT – Since I’ve Been Here
A further breakdown of the results from Sunday, we only publish the Top Three because nothing positive comes from finding out you came last.
RESULTS
PUBLIC VOTE OVERALL (Positions in each of the three audience votes in brackets):
1) In The North Wood (1st, Joint 1st, 4th)
2) Tom Wardle (5th, Joint 1st, 2nd)
3) The Afterdark Movement (2nd, 4th, 3rd)
JUDGES VOTE:
1) The Afterdark Movement
2) Joe Danks
3) Tom Wardle
OVERALL:
1) The Afterdark Movement
2) Tom Wardle
3) Joe Danks
The Afterdark Movement will get to play WIRELESS FESTIVAL (Thanks to DHP and Tuborg) and the SPLENDOUR FESTIVAL main stage.
LESSONS LEARNED
Every year we get some grief about the competition, normally from two ironically contrasting perspectives:
P1) “It’s a stitch up having ‘experts’ choosing a winner everyone could see our mate/ lover/ cousin was the best, let the pubclic decide.”
VS
P2) “FSN is nothing more than a glorified battle of the bands popularity contest, get rid of your naff cheer-o-meter and let the experts decide.”
Which is why we try and compromise and have an element of expertise and democracy, a full breakdown of the rules and the reasoning behind them is online HERE.
So are we going to make any changes or are we just here to pontificate about how we know best and the comp is amazing? Nope we are going to make changes for next year (as we have done every year) or at least one change.
We have never had an artist win Round One with the expert judges so clearly as Indiana did this year, she was a stand out discovery and for her not to get through the public vote really made us question the current system, we want it to be fair, just AND ‘accurate’. Now in it’s defense we ended up with a consistently worthy winner. The Afterdark Movement finished second to Indiana in Round One, then won Round Two before winning the final overall with a victory in the Judges category and a third in the public vote. But Indiana didn’t so what are we going to do about it?
NEW RULE FOR 2012 – The winner of the Round One ‘expert vote’ will get an automatic pass to the Final.
The other change we are considering we’re really keen to hear your thoughts on. We are wondering whether we should tweak the 50% judges/ 50% public vote of the FINAL? Email us on nusic@leftlion.co.uk if you want to share your thoughts.
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