The latest good vibes/ success headlines from the Nottingham music scene (that we know of), please drop us a line if we’ve missed anything significant (our definition of significant is something of national relevance) – nusic@leftlion.co.uk.
We thought August was meant to be quiet?! The masses may have been off for their two weeks in Skeggy but the musicians of Nottingham have kept racking up the good vibes. Things we spotted since we last spoke on August 4th:
– AMBER have just been added to the Radio One Playlist for next week (Week beg Sep 9th), BBC Introducing style.
– Big congrats to NADIA LATOYA for getting on the 1Xtra playlist!
– JOEL BAKER was the most shared artist on the BBC Reading+Leeds site!
– AMBER received their first Radio 2 play, the biggest fm radio station in the world! And old people listen to it, and they still actually buy records!
– SAINT RAYMOND got on the Radio 1 playlist, the BBC Introducing slot.
– SHIDE BOSS was actually Number 1 on the UK chart for “World” music.
– DOG IS DEAD were invited by Auntie Beeb to headline her BBC Introducing do at Leeds & Reading!
– HARLEIGHBLU named as one of iTunes Soul artists of the year so far!
– AMBER got the coveted ‘Next Hype’ slot on the Zane Lowe show!
– National newspaper love in the Independent for JOEL BAKER.
– Big congrats to AMBER on the Xfm love! Jo Good’s One To Watch!
– The magic moment! A slightly tipsy SAINT RAYMOND signs with the world famous Atlantic Records.
– Mahoosive big up to Sherwood legends GRINGO on their nomination at the national AIM Awards!
– JAKE BUGG now has 3 tracks in the top ten of the singer/songwriter iTunes chart, 4 in the top 20 and 5 in the top 25 – Thats 20%! Thanks to Ruckus for pointing this out (and doing the maths!).
