Huw Stephens tonight - BBC Reading/Leeds announced

[BW MUSIC]

Tune into Huw Stephens Radio 1 show tonight to hear the acts playing the BBC Stage @ Reading & Leeds festival next month.

A couple of Reading acts on the bill, and most deservingly at that

[Velocity Recordings]

Peers, Midimidis,Mr Fogg and Amys Ghost-Club Velocity nicely represented this year
Amys Ghost August 8th at PLAY is now their Reading Festival warm up
Peers play for us Sept 11th at PLAY
Then Peers every last Friday Sept/Oct/November at Silver Street

Peers will be interviewd by Andrew Peach on BBC Berkshire 9am today

[Loz Lozza]

4 reading bands... across a 3 day.. 7 stage festival... in reading...

i'd say more reading bands played at glastonbury this year ?

anyway - how were these 4 bands chosen ? did they send off tunes ? did people vote ? come and see them live ? did huw decide !?

well done to the 4 - hope they have a wicked time.

[AmysGhost]

Amys Ghost play Reading on Friday 27th and Leeds on Sunday 29th. All the acts were put forward by the local BBC stations, many thanks to 'The Session' for supporting us!

More info: http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/introducing/ ... eeds/2010/

Be sure to check out The Eden Management Showcase night at Play on August 8th, it's gonna be great night: http://www.creativeboom.co.uk/reading/2 ... nch-party/

xx

[Simon Windisch]

Sounds great, will I have to get there extra early to see them?

Simon

[BW MUSIC]

anyway - how were these 4 bands chosen ? did they send off tunes ? did people vote ? come and see them live ? did huw decide !?

can't speak for the acts i'm not working with, but in midimidis case, its the culmination of probably a few years work, and the bbc panel can see things are 'happening for the band' therefore worth booking.

*Huw Stephens BBC Radio 1 has played everything they have released - one EP and two singles over a period of 12months or so. Huw's tastes are electronic/alternative/leftfield/folk. Don't give him an indie-rock demo. Try Steve Lamacq instead.
*I personally handed their last single (April release) to Huw back in February of this year, by going somewhere where i knew he would be - i.e at his monthly showcase gig at The Social. Much better than sending him one of 10 million emails.
*The band were offered a BBC Maida Vale live session. and gladly accepted back in Feb.
*MidiMidis have ties with both Reading & Northampton - so getting the support of both BBC Introducing stations was important. The band did live sessions on both shows and had their tracks played on both shows over the last year. Having the support of local BBC stations is paramount.
*Tom Robinson BBC6 and Rob Da Bank BBC Radio 1 are both supporters of MidiMidis also, so the national BBC profile also helps. Huw Stephens himself also put MidiMidis forward for Reading it seems, as well as BBC Introducing regions.
*MidiMidis have been building national press profile with building momentum over the last 12 months - with prominent features, reviews and interviews in Metro newspapers nationally, Q magazine, The Fly, NME, Drowned in Sound, Glasswerk, Sugar, Channel 4 Planet Sounds, Room Thirteen, Playstation Magazine, Word magazine, Artrocker, Artrocker online.. and probably others i forget
*MidiMidis played two worldwide prominent new music conventions - In The City, Manchester (2009) / Great Escape, Brighton (2010). This helps put them in the eye of bookers. BBC blog reviews of MidiMidis from these are about from national BBC journalists online.
*All the band's activity above helped draw the attention of one of London's top music lawyers to help and advise and now the band are entering the label / publishing / and full european touring phase

So they are therefore a good pick for Reading & Leeds.

Mr Fogg who i've still not seen live, could probably report a similar campaign to the one above

But at the end of the day, its down to personal tastes also. Like it is for a promoter to put a band on at a gig, a journalist to write about a band, an agent to take a band on, a manager to take a band on, a label to sign an act. If you're an act that is doing something genuinally different to the masses, and I can say that MidiMidis and Amys Ghost certainly are, then they have a good start in this horrible business.

[RIVALS]

Well done Midi's (no one can moan abou tthem either, not many bands would like to.wuld bther doing the amount of 'business' that these lads do....being hungry for fame although may sicken your peers (no pun intended) it will pay off if your willing to do it)

gutted Golden Hours didnt get on this...Reading finest if you ask me! (bar us of course lol)

talking of bbc and Jenny listren out fr Rivals on Jennys show on the 24th (interview and ep play....ep to be released Autum through your fave indie label)...im not even sorry about the cheap plug

Tom Robinson tucks me in at night and goes out dress shopping with clouds.

[Loz Lozza]

aah bbc intro picked them.. i guess they are all on the bbc intro stage ? 4 this year.. 8 would be good for next year eh !? a 'reading bands' stage would be the nuts.

that was quite some info about midimidis. a proper band. good for them. an amazing amount of work.

[Simon Windisch]

Here's more info

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/introducing/ ... eeds/2010/

Simon

[drunk on boredom]

Big love to Reading

[Jimbo]

Well done to all the bands - great to see the number of local acts go up.

Jim x

[Simon Windisch]

According to my App:
Amy's Ghost BBC Introducing stage Friday 13:20
Mr Fogg BBC Introducing stage Friday 18:30
Midi Midis BBC Introducing stage Saturday 17:40
Peers BBC Introducing stage Sunday 14:00

[Monkeysuit]

Hello,

Mr Fogg was on Huw Stephens, Radio 1 show last night!

48 mins in
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tdng2

Huw’s later, 2 hr show features more songs from Mr Fogg’s Maida Vale session plus more chit chat.

Mr Fogg tune 25 mins in and more 1 hr 20 mins in.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0081dq5