Category: Ones To Watch

EVELYN BURKE to tour Italy in April

By aaamusic on Apr 16, 2012 in 2012: Ones To Watch, News

The Dublin-born Evelyn Burke is a singer-songwriter based in the UK. Recently graduated from the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts with a 1st Class Honours Degree in Music, and won the Songlink “Best Composition Award” for her song “Walk Alone”.

Reaching number 1 in the Indie Unsigned Myspace charts helped Evelyn gain solid Industry interest. This resulted in her collaboration with chart topping songwriter/producers Paul Herman (Dido, Corinne Bailey Rae, Natasha Bedingfield, Emeli Sande) and James Bryan (Nelly Furtado, Philosopher Kings).

The [...]

Adam Ant: Dandy in the Underworld

By aaamusic on Feb 29, 2012 in News, Ones To Watch

Adam Ant: Dandy in the Underworld A Photographic Retrospective Running: 7th March – 29th April 2012

Proud Camden is delighted to present Adam Ant: Dandy in the Underworld, a collection of iconic portraits of the Post Punk star that span his extraordinary, eccentric and eclectic musical career.

This collection, co-curated by Adam Ant, brings together shots from Chris Duffy, Gerard McNamara, Jill Furmanovsky, Denis O’Regan, Chris Cuffaro, Hannah Domagala, Robert Matheu, David Corio and Janette Beckman: photographers whom each worked with [...]

Ones To Watch 2012: No Ceremony

By aaamusic on Nov 27, 2011 in 2012: Ones To Watch, Featured, Ones To Watch

No Ceremony are one of those bands who came from nowhere.

Not much has been said about them, as they like to keep a curtain of mystery around themselves, leaving the talking to their music.

One of our bands to watch for 2012, we shall leave the talking to their videos and the splendid remixes, courtesy of Patrick Wolf and Dog Is Dead. Enjoy!

NO CEREMONY/// (Patrick Wolf “Time Of My Life” Remix) by CPR Agency

Dog [...]

The Boombox Project by Lyle Owerko // Whisper & XOYO // 1st Dec – 14th Jan

By aaamusic on Oct 30, 2011 in News, Ones To Watch

WHISPER

presents

‘THE BOOMBOX PROJECT’ by Lyle Owerko

Private view on 1st December at XOYO, Exhibition from 2nd – 7th December
Exhibition continues at Whisper from 9th December- 14th January 2012

www.whisperfineart.co.uk www.xoyo.co.uk

London gallery Whisper, in collaboration with XOYO, is proud to present its new exhibition, The Boombox Project by Lyle Owerko – a vibrant look at an old-school icon, featuring contemporary fine art portraits of an array of vintage boomboxes.
Lyle Owerko is a [...]

TOP BOY MIXTAPE (HOSTED BY CHARLIE SLOTH)

By aaamusic on Oct 21, 2011 in News, Ones To Watch

TOP BOY
BRAND NEW FOUR-PART DRAMA
Tx: OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2011

On London’s Summerhouse Estate, lives are lived along lines, and challenges come in all forms, even – especially – for kids.

Thirteen-year-old Ra’Nell (Malcolm Kamulete) finds he has to “step up and be a man” when his mentally ill mother Lisa (Sharon Duncan Brewster) is suddenly hospitalized. At the same time his mum’s friend Heather (Kierston Wareing), pregnant and penniless, enlists his help in a dangerous plan she has concocted [...]

A Tribute to Bert Jansch

By aaamusic on Oct 09, 2011 in Featured, Ones To Watch

“I’m Bert” said this modest, quiet and gentle man as he began a hypnotic performance to an audience at the New Theatre, Oxford. Bert Jansch never searched for celebrity. As his wife Loren said recently, he was “not one for showing off”.

Scottish born Jansch sadly passed away on Wednesday at the age of 67 at a hospice in Hampstead. He was a prolific, influential songwriter and a masterful acoustic guitarist. His music was unique. It was distinctive and crossed genres, [...]

Introducing Beat Ratio

By aaamusic on Oct 03, 2011 in Featured, News, Ones To Watch

Beat Ratio is a musical project started as a reaction to the the endless possibilities of modern music software. Being fed up with getting lost in useless perfectionism, this past Summer Gabriele aka Beat Ratio got himself a bunch of cassettes on freecycle, a 4-track recorder, a sequencer and decided to turn the computer off and start from scratch. Working exclusively on tape; from [...]

Introducing Air Castles

By aaamusic on Aug 23, 2011 in Featured, News, Ones To Watch

Air Castles will release their new single Gold in September – if you are not familiar with them, this is a perfect excuse to go and check them out!

‘Gold’ is the brand new single from Anglo-Swedish newcomers Air Castles. It’s a striking song full of beautifully crafted intricate soundscapes with a heart melting melody and catchy vocals.

Welding guitars, synths, bass and drums with Air Castles’ brainchild Max Mansson’s unforgettable vocals, the song is equally impressive as it is catchy. They [...]

Direct Queen’s New Video!!

By aaamusic on Jul 14, 2011 in Featured, News, Ones To Watch

Introducing Bright Spark Destroyer

By aaamusic on May 03, 2011 in Featured, Ones To Watch

Bright Spark Destroyer is a five-man band with 32-bit synesthaesia. Starting as a long-distance writing and recording project between five musicians in different cities in late 2009, most of the band relocated to London following the release of their EP, Holy Yell, in June 2010.

David Adams, Ian Butterworth, James Ellis, Simon Reid, Joe Rowan exploited all the available online tools to carry on their project with passion and determination; they talk to AAAMusic about their experience:

“It’s part of our process [...]