New Music Generator HQ - 18/03/26

Tim Willett is joined in the studio by singer-songwriter Dan Sutton for a live session and we look at all the latest submissions to the inbox.

Transcript

SPEAKER_12 0:04

Regenerate.

SPEAKER_15 0:06

New platform located.

SPEAKER_12 0:09

New era initializing.

SPEAKER_15 0:12

Stand by Hunter. Norfolk.

SPEAKER_07 1:04

Get lost fine. Found for foul food. Smiling. Laugh and sharing. But you're too simple. You're just a dumb boy in a bed. I like the way that we stand. You're just a dumb boy in a bed. I hate that it made me cry. Dumb window shop. Slow down. You know how to treat me dry. You're just a dumb boy in the bed. You're just a dumb boy in the bed. Oh, how does it wish that?

SPEAKER_13 4:10

Hello everybody. Welcome to the new music generator. It is Wednesday night, and we are live this week on the what is the date today? 18th of March 2026. That is the new song from Annie Dresner. We played it on the show last week for the first time, but that is the music video uh that uh goes along with it, and that was released the other day. If you want to see her play live, she's in Cambridge on the 24th of April at the Stories Field Centre. Welcome to the show. Whether you're on YouTube, uh, Instagram, or MixCloud, we're on all three of those platforms. Fingers crossed, you can uh see and hear me okay. Um bit of a last minute.com dash back to the studio today. I've been in and around uh Cambridge today, which uh isn't isn't really a pleasant experience when you're in a car. Um but I just about made it back uh within ten minutes to let my guest Dan in to uh set up before. So Dan Sutton is on the show this week. We're gonna chat to him uh in about 25 minutes' time. He's gonna play a couple of uh live tracks for us too. Um we've also got a look back at a previous NMG Awards, because that went down well last week. We're gonna play you a live session from the NMG Awards from back in 2023 from Icarus uh that's coming up later on. Uh also lots of new stuff from the inbox that you've been sending in to us over the last couple of weeks if you would like to do that or get in touch with the show today. You can email inbox at new musicgenerator.com. Better open that inbox up screen uh screen up on the uh computer here. Verify that it's you. Yeah, okay, we'll put a password in in a minute. Um what else can you do to get in touch? You can join the chat if you want to on Instagram. Um hello to everybody who's joined on Instagram. Uh Brooks on Sixes. Hello, Brooks on Sixes. You're a Myopia fan. They're not on the show this week. I thought we'd lost you. Um thanks for thanks for still listening, even though myopia are not here or um well, not scheduled to be on the show at the moment. Mind you, I've told you that. You might decide to tune out now. I've just said that, but maybe we'll play them later. Uh you get in touch on Instagram if you want to, or you can get involved in the YouTube chat, but in order to get involved in the YouTube chat, you need to be a subscriber. Um, because you know that's the way it works. You subscribe to the channel and you can get to say hello to me. Uh we've had 158 subscribers so far, which is really good. It's shot up. I remember sitting here a couple of weeks ago saying, please get us to a hundred, and then we shot up by over a fifty in the following week. So let's see if we can get to two hundred followers, shall we? In the next week or so. That'll be very nice. Uh a few studio upgrades since that was last with you. A new branded microphone muff here, so we've got the branding on point. That's all good, the all the old uh the old muff for the old place, they've all gone on a bonfire. Um, and we've got a new backdrop coming up uh that you'll see uh behind Dan just to make things look a bit smarter. So hopefully you're enjoying the uh the bit by bit upgrades that we're doing to the studio, being that this was all thrown together in five minutes a few weeks ago. Right, let's play some more music. We played this on the show last week for the first time. It's the new single from the uh Suffolk-based group Chance for Good, formerly known as Helix. This is their song Alive.

SPEAKER_08 7:24

Have you got something to wash my life? Like you finished right!

SPEAKER_13 9:47

It is called Alive, and it's one of two singles that the band have released in quick succession over the last few weeks. Uh who else have we got in the comments? Brooks on Sixes said uh she's giving feedback on the on the lag. How do you know what the lag is between where I am and what you're listening to? You're not in the room, are you hiding under the desk? Um there will be some lag. It's fine. Um I haven't loaded up YouTube comments yet, so we'll do that in a few minutes' time. Let's play you another track first before we do that. This one comes from Conrah, uh, who is known as um to his parents as um Connor Andrews. Um he is in the band Moonlight Academy, has been in various different bands over the uh last few years across the scene. And we played his first solo uh material on the show back in January called Out of Phase. It was our one to watch at the time. And he's just released a new track, a follow-up. Um hoping that he's gonna be on the show possibly in a couple of weeks' time uh for an interview, which will be nice. He's in Spain on holiday at the moment. Uh, but we'll get him in in a few weeks. This has just been released. This is called Few Flowers from Conra.

SPEAKER_19 11:35

The flower that your head You said it would never fall out. I thought you stood by your words. You said you didn't have any doubts, it hits insights that is starting to fall. It's words I turn at all. She knows a flower, but she doesn't realize. But I don't wanna grow again again. I thought the roots are maybe it's such a day, but you don't feel the same, the same as my few flowers do, as my few flowers do pencils floated out your head by the rest were still floating on straw. But then the rain and the snow started to begin. I had my doubts about you be it wrong It hits insight that is starting to fold it's worth such at all She knows a flower doesn't feel like I don't wanna go again again I thought it would something such a day But you don't feel the same as my few flowers do As my few flowers do I love a song with a long fade.

SPEAKER_13 15:14

That's Comra and Few Flowers. I hadn't actually listened to that before I played it. It's much more mellow uh than the um out of face track that we played uh a few months ago. Like it though, like Connor's voice. I've been a good big fan and a good friend of Connor's for a while. So yeah, hopefully he'll be on the show in a few weeks' time. That is available now to stream if you would like to go and do so. Hello to Alex, she's watching on the bus. Love that. And um Brooks on Sixes is now in the YouTube chat. She's hopped over from Instagram to YouTube. Uh she says, I'm just chilling here right now. Um it's my friend's birthday tomorrow. Her name is Kat. Well, happy birthday to your friend Kat. What is your name, Brooks on the Sixes? Are you called Brooks? I'm guessing you probably are. But you let me know. I mean, I feel like we need to I need to ask your name now. It's been a few weeks and we're on first name terms. Um yeah, is Dan's birthday tomorrow as well. Let's let's speak to Dan. Hang on, let's work out which microphone Dan's on first of all. One of these two. Hello. Yeah, hello. Hi. Happy birthday for tomorrow. Yeah, that'll be fun. How old will you be? I'll be twenty-one. And my brother will be twenty-four. Oh so you have a brother whose birthday is the same date as yours, but you're not twins. Yeah. Wow. That must be quite rare. I think so.

SPEAKER_14 16:30

And my dad's is uh was yesterday, so we're quite closely.

SPEAKER_13 16:35

I tend to find that though actually. A lot of families' birthdays tend to coincide around the certain time of year. Mine's November, December, my family. Most of mine. So um most uncommon birthday months as well. What March?

SPEAKER_14 16:46

Uh December and November. Oh uh most uncommon. Yeah. Oh really?

SPEAKER_13 16:50

I think it's because February people are just sad and they don't want to Well I thought if you went back nine months from no from November, that takes you back to the beginning of the almost the beginning of the year. And people didn't have much to do back in the day, so they just made babies. Just winter, yeah. But March, when so you'd have been conceived like back end of the summer. So Yeah. Anyway. Roundabout. There's a thought you probably didn't want in your head. Um but anyway, yeah, so 21. Wow. Yeah, you're just you're just a baby, Dan.

SPEAKER_14 17:20

Are we able to drink in America? Oh yeah. Not that I'm going there for a while.

SPEAKER_13 17:24

Go to America just to get a drink and come back again. Probably not. I think I'm not welcome there at the moment. No, maybe not, me neither. That's not probably the best place to go. Anyway, now we test your microphone, that'll work, that sounds good. You can hear yourself in the headphones. It's all it's all looking good. People have had a interesting preview of the backdrop behind you. Excellent. Right. We're gonna play another track now from Gemily Rhyme. Um I like reading out emails for Baton when people send in emails. So Hi Tim. Hi. Hope you're doing well. I'm alright. Thanks, Gemily. Yeah. Um my EP, Phantom Fields, came out today. She's written this five days ago on the 13th of March. It includes three songs you previously supported. Kind of liked it, I don't think about you, and Angel. Uh, as well as two new tracks called Whatever and Drown. The lead track is called Whatever, it's a song about embracing an existential crisis to try and turn things around for the better. I've been playing whatever live for the last two years. Thousands of people have sung this song with me. It brings me so much joy to hear. And it's matter to audiences as much as it matters to me. Drown is a soft, accusing bass-driven ballad about dropping everything and starting something new. I'm attaching these two new songs to this email. Well, I've selected the first one because we want more of an audience uh new track, I think. Gemini is a French-born UK-based artist who released her latest EP last Friday on Friday the 13th. Um she's now based in Cambridge. Then this is Gemini Rhymes, a new track taken from her EP. Phantom Feels. This is whatever.

SPEAKER_04 19:08

I'll never forget the tone or say it. I hope I get to see you soon when they don't mean And I die anyway It's just another day Worst comes to worst whatever worst comes to worst whatever worst comes to worst whatever Best case scenario nothing matters might as well try whatever I can find. I have been unaware of how much to spare with I'm never meant to cry so much in my life I've a fool of a load It's been like this forever I'm barely helped It's been like this whatever One bedrooms to do with nothing works Might as well try whatever Worst comes to work whatever Worst comes to work whatever Worst comes to work whatever Best is never might as well try whatever If I were flying too far from the foot of me and if I were good what I gave me I feel inadequate I start to hurry back to whatever.

SPEAKER_03 21:54

It's been like this forever. I'm fairly happy.

SPEAKER_13 22:01

It's for us to let us find us we'll try whatever it can't store Where's Call of Studies whatever Works Call Stories whatever's coming to whatever Worst comes towards whatever Worst comes to a hurt whatever Worst comes to worst whatever Best case scenario nothing matters might as well try whatever I get That is whatever from Gemini Rhyme No doubt we'll play the other track on the show maybe next week from our latest EP you are watching and listening to the new music generator live on YouTube, uh Instagram MixedCloud, the podcast available on the uh after the programme has been broadcast on Spotify and wherever you get your podcasts from. And also our radio broadcast with our friends Noggs Radio, which you can hear on a Thursday afternoon from four o'clock. Pretty sure it's four o'clock. Um let's go back to the YouTube comments. Um we've just wished happy birthday to Brooks on Six's friend Cat. We've wished happy birthday to Dan for tomorrow. Both tomorrow. Uh Brooks' name is Brooklyn or Brooke. We'll call you Brooklyn if that's alright. She says happy birthday to both of you. Her birthday's on April the 6th. Well, that's not very far away either, is it? Um Alex, we've got just gone down a rabbit hole of people's birthdays now. Alex says me and my one of my sons have birthdays three days apart. So I was in hospital for one of my birthdays, and my other son was born on my brother's birthday a week after my dad. That's too much information. That's made my brain brain spin. That one that's too many too many big dad's brothers, big sons. Uh my family's birthdays are far apart from each other, says Brooke. Alex likes the Gemily rhyme track. There we go. Thank you very much. We caught up on the YouTube comments. If you want to join uh Alex and Brooke chatting away on the YouTube comments, uh then uh go onto YouTube and subscribe to us, new music generator, and you can say hello. Alright, we're gonna play you a music video now for a track we played you on the show last week from Rob Prince. Rob played alongside Mel Holland Jive and the Frostonians at the Smokehouse in Ipswich last week. And um we didn't play the music video at the time for this new track, so we're gonna write that wrong now. Uh this track is called Dreams, and it looks a little bit like this for those of you who are watching on the YouTube Don't throw it out the way Live up today, always gonna follow dreams, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what they mean, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_18 25:41

Don't want to play today Take some time to complete Noah's gonna follow dreams Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

unknown 25:57

You know what they mean Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_13 27:09

As you may have seen on there, it's just popped up with a suggested video of watching him play that live at the Smokehouse in Ipswich, which no doubt was probably from last week, so that's available to you as well if you wish to do so. Um hello to uh Floodlit Couch, uh they are uh listening in the YouTube comments as well. Uh nice to have you along. It is uh the new music generator on YouTube, Instagram, and Mixcloud. My guest Dan Sutton will be along very shortly. We're gonna play you one more track before we hear from him. But before we do that, let's remind you if you are a musician from East Anglia, and by that I mean uh Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire or Bedfordshire, I think I've said all those right, um, then you would like your track to be featured on this particular programme, then you can get in touch with us by doing this.

SPEAKER_15 27:59

To submit your music to the show, email an MP3 or web file to inbox at new musicgenerator.com. Ensuring you include a short biography and links to your social media.

SPEAKER_12 28:11

All submissions from within our coverage area in East Anglia will be considered for airplay.

SPEAKER_13 28:18

Dan's dancing to my jingle. Do you like my jingle? I do like your jingle.

SPEAKER_14 28:22

It's great.

SPEAKER_13 28:22

Yeah. I think that's really cool. I can play it in the background of the interview if you like. Yeah, just the whole time. Yeah, just I think that'd be great. And you'll just sit there and just jig in your chair.

SPEAKER_08 28:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 28:32

Not able to hear a thing. No. Maybe not. Um, let's play one last track before we speak to Dan then. And this is from Chris Stanley, who um sent a lovely email actually uh the other day. Thank you very much, Chris. Let's just bring that up uh on the computer here. This is called Welcome to the Country. He says, Hi Tim, really glad you've managed to find a way to keep energy going. Best of luck with your new channel. I've subscribed in brackets, thank you, and thank you for helping get the word out about my singles on the show. It really helps. Please see attach my forthcoming first single of 2026, a country rock anthem called Welcome to the Country. I'd be grateful you would give it a spin. Here are the details. So it's released on the 27th of March, so that's a week on Friday. It's a story. The story behind the song is a song about getting away from it all, about leaving troubles behind and heading to a place where the sun shines across the sea with nothing but the person you love and great music on the radio. Sounds great, Chris. Where can we go? Um influences are Bruce Springsteen and Ryan Adams. If you want to go and find him, he's on Facebook, Blue Sky, and Instagram at all those strings. That is his handle on there. Have a listen to this then. This is Chris Stanley's new track called Welcome to the Country.

SPEAKER_17 30:03

You and me with half the top till the roll runs out. Relax is a high way to test. Put your feet up off the test, let the radio do the top test. I don't know the video with the top front. I'll wait. I don't need the top running. Welcome to the contradict. Let's take it to the country. I'll get it to the people. I tried to stick it in the back of my frost. We out of work, you out of money. I'm here, you're here in the past enough frost. Welcome to the top through it. Welcome to the country. You wanna get a living gas, get with me, let's take it to the country.

SPEAKER_13 33:03

Hello, if you've just tuned in, then we are now about to welcome our guest. You've already heard from him already, but we're gonna hear from him again. It's Dan Sun. Hello, Dan.

SPEAKER_21 33:11

Hello, Tim, and everyone else.

SPEAKER_13 33:13

How are you?

SPEAKER_21 33:14

I'm doing pretty good. Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 33:15

Good. Welcome. You've been here a little while, but welcome, welcome to the show officially, in terms of uh on air.

SPEAKER_14 33:23

Thank you for having me.

SPEAKER_13 33:23

Uh well thank you for coming in. I've been looking for guests to come in on the show. I've had we had Myopia, and they did an acoustic live set with a guitar and a cajon. And then last week I had a boy band. Or two weeks ago I had a boy band. So four people sat there. And now I've got Dan and his electric piano. And if we fade to that screen, you can see the electric piano. Is it electric piano, is that the correct term?

SPEAKER_14 33:46

Uh I guess so. I mean Are you offended if I call it a keyboard? No, I mean piano is sort of the more because an electric piano ha is like that, you know, Cynthia sort of sound, the quite bubbly one, whereas this is just, you know, it is a piano sound. Uh okay. So I don't know really what you'd call it. I guess an electric piano.

SPEAKER_13 34:03

Yeah, because otherwise a piano I'm thinking of like an upright piano or a grand piano.

SPEAKER_14 34:07

Proper. That's the goal one day. Yeah, yeah. Well, even that would be an electric piano shoved inside of a grand piano body, as most people do.

SPEAKER_13 34:13

That would be cool. Do you know what I'd love to see you do actually?

SPEAKER_14 34:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 34:16

I'm a big Eurovision Song Contest fan. And one of the things that they love to do at the Eurovision Song Contest is have somebody play a grand piano, but they set fire to it.

SPEAKER_11 34:25

Ooh.

SPEAKER_13 34:25

So it's like it's it's on fire, well, at the bat, obviously not near the person that's playing it, and then they're playing along and it's on fire. I think that would really suit your music and your vibe.

SPEAKER_14 34:35

I don't know if you know how accident prone I am though, but I would almost certainly catch on fire.

SPEAKER_13 34:39

I'm sure we'd have somebody in the wings with a fire extinguisher just in case we needed to put you out.

SPEAKER_14 34:43

Have my brother just stood there who's also got previous experience of being on fire. Oh really? Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_13 34:48

Not sure I want to ask any more details about that particular question. Um but um anyway, well, thank you for coming and bringing it with you, and you're gonna do um a couple of live songs for us. But first, we need to just cover um a couple of uh pressing things that have happened in the last few weeks. We are uh I think we're approaching the third heat of the Cambridge band competition this weekend, and you took part in the first. Yeah. And you won it. I did, yeah, that was really fun. So tell me about the night. How did it go? What was it like? What have you done the band competition before?

SPEAKER_14 35:19

That was my first time doing the Cambridge band competition.

SPEAKER_13 35:21

So what was that like being involved in a band competition knowing that you're being judged?

SPEAKER_14 35:26

Well, it was I mean it was scary. I was definitely nervous uh for the whole thing. But at the end of the day, you just have to treat it like, you know, any other gig. If you build it up too much in your head, then you mess up because you're like, ooh, there's people actually watching. Um but no, it was it was really, really nice. There were so many people from work that came along, suddenly like uh fifteen people or so from work who were doing Levers drinks just showed up. Um so seeing all their faces was great. Um and yeah, it was just a really, really good set. I was a little bit nervous beforehand, yeah, because um I'd been spending so much time shouting, going like, hello, so yeah, I'm I'm Dan, and you know, to all the people. That actually shot my voice before I got on stage. I was like, oh god, I can barely sing a note. So I had to do like twenty-five minutes of warming up to get myself in shape for it. Okay.

SPEAKER_13 36:16

But you felt like it went well obviously before you found out what the results were, but you came off feeling like you'd done a good job and done, you know, done the best you can to to t express to the judges who you are and what you're like. Did you get any feedback as to why you won, what they liked about you?

SPEAKER_14 36:32

Um I don't think they really gave me feedback other than uh don't do a cover ever again. Oh, you did a cover? I did a cover. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_13 36:38

I think that's against the rules, isn't it?

SPEAKER_14 36:40

It it said uh you shouldn't do a cover unless it's different enough. And in my brain, I was like, Yeah, this has got electric guitars, this is nothing like the original crocodile rock. Uh but they they thought it was quite similar. Okay, fair enough. I think it was meant to be like if you did it as like a country version of crocodile rock or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_13 36:57

Well, there's there's an idea for the final. Yeah. Yeah, and then go, yeah, look, you see, you like my version of Crocodile Rock now. Yeah. Um, you didn't get disqualified then, that's good.

SPEAKER_14 37:07

That was yeah, that was it. That was the big worry afterwards.

SPEAKER_13 37:10

I was like, this went great, and then they're like, you did a cover, and I was like, oh sorry, that's it, you're done, bye-bye. Um well good, I'm glad it went well, and I'm glad you you you got through. I can't remember who else was was in the competition with you, but I remember you one definitely one of the standout names on there uh when I saw that you were in heat one, and that means you get to play at the junction at the final.

SPEAKER_14 37:29

That's amazing, I think.

SPEAKER_13 37:30

No, okay. I've never played the junction before. I didn't think you had.

SPEAKER_14 37:33

I've got a little list of uh dream venues to play, and the junction is definitely one of them. Nice. Um so that's gonna be really cool. It's a proper, you know, proper stage. I've never had something like that with a green room before.

SPEAKER_13 37:45

With a green room. I do think you might have to share it with some other people, is that alright?

SPEAKER_14 37:50

Yeah, that's all good with me. I'm not that much of a diva.

SPEAKER_13 37:52

Okay, fine. Uh you have you you obviously been to the junction before and seen other you've seen any particular memories of bands or artists you've seen there?

SPEAKER_14 37:59

Uh I met Jarrett Redick there, um, the lead singer of Bowling for Soup. Nice. Uh he was doing a set there and um I got to meet him backstage, so that was really, really cool because we had special passes for that. He's been my like idol for the whole thing, so um that's a pretty good memory. I also saw Theory of a Dead Man and uh Terror Vision there. Okay. Um so I I'm well I'm very familiar with the Cambridge Junction. Um so actually being there and being like, oh wow, you know.

SPEAKER_13 38:29

Have you got any ideas of what you're gonna do? Are you gonna change anything um up it a l a level because you're at the junction?

SPEAKER_14 38:35

Absolutely. I mean I've got to you know You don't have to share what they are, but um yeah, well I'm gonna definitely remove the cover. Uh yes. Um and the songs that went over really I did a song called Little Bit of Beautiful, which is uh I'm gonna be recording with Kyle next week. Um that one's gonna be uh more of a showstopper, I think, because that went down so well. I mean, I saw all the other bands like singing along with it after hearing the soundtrack.

SPEAKER_13 39:03

So definitely gotta do that. Nice. Anything staging wise? I don't think they'd let you do a piano set on fire at the junction. I think there'd be too many health and safety rules, unfortunately.

SPEAKER_14 39:13

Yeah. Unfortunately, I can I don't think I can afford a pack uh grand piano to set on fire at the stage. Um, you know, or even a guitar to smash. Um but maybe I'll put some like little flames on my piano. Like a candle.

SPEAKER_13 39:26

Yeah, a fake candle.

SPEAKER_14 39:28

Yeah, I was I thought it might be nice to have like an actual session drummer, but they don't let you add members in.

SPEAKER_13 39:32

Oh, do they not? No. From so what you do in the in the heat has to be what you do in the final. You can't up it. I suppose that's fair, because people could go away and you know add a this is my forty piece orchestra. Exactly, yeah. That would that would be a good luck micing them up. That would be a bit unfair. Okay. So when you played in the heat, it was just you, was it? Yeah, yeah, and my backing tracks. Right, okay. Oh, that's a shame because I was gonna ask you if you can get Jake along to play the play guitar. Yeah, well.

SPEAKER_14 39:57

I do want to get him in for something this year. Right. Uh A gig and Louis, the guy who did my drums. Um oh my god, human metronome, he's insane. Okay. But yeah, I want to have a band at some point.

SPEAKER_13 40:08

It won't be the uh the junction final. Maybe Strawberry Fair, because I guess you'll get to play there now, you're in the final of the band competition as well.

SPEAKER_14 40:14

So is that how it works? I thought it was only the winner.

SPEAKER_13 40:16

I I don't know exactly how it works this year, I'm not familiar, but in the past it used to it certainly used to be the case that all the finalists got f found homes on different stages at Strawberry Fair.

SPEAKER_00 40:24

Okay, that would be cool.

SPEAKER_13 40:25

They may have changed the rules, but um so you know, don't don't come after me if that doesn't end up being the case. But um yeah, I think I guess you've got a reasonable chance.

SPEAKER_14 40:33

Yeah. A fair would be fun, because I I've I I played Pride last year and that was like the most amazing experience of my life. Um so getting to do some more festivals would be really fun.

SPEAKER_13 40:42

Yeah, yeah. No, Strawberry Fair is a great great gig to go to. Lots of people there as well. Um so yeah, congratulations on that. So riding a bit of a wave on on that. And then uh not long before that you released your latest single that you that you produced or that you worked with Jake on producing, yeah. Um which we're gonna play in a uh in a little while's time. So we'll talk a bit more about that in detail. Um but the song for so when I invited you on, obviously I because for those of you who don't know Dan, some of his music isn't necessarily radio friendly, or his lyrics lyrics aren't necessarily radio friendly. It takes me back to when when I invited you to play the plow for us last year, it was that was you were the highlight of the evening and thoroughly enjoyed um what we were um what we were doing. Um but we were we were recording that and the intention was to broadcast it at a later date. Yeah, because luckily luckily though the recording um didn't work and and not that I'd have been able to have used much of your set um because it wasn't um it wasn't radio friendly. But I think I that's what I really like about you and your music is that I think I've said this to you before, and on it um on air as well, is your live set is generally full of an awful lot of energy. Um you are a very good showman, you're very entertaining, it just it doesn't need you don't need to have all the other people behind you because you capture capture people's imagination and attention just by being you. God blushing. Um but um but there is there is there can be quite a lot of Fs and Jeffs and even ruder words in your in your lyrics, um which we uh which we can't broadcast on the radio.

SPEAKER_14 42:18

Yeah, that's the unfortunate thing about the of the four singles that I did uh with Jake, uh two of them uh are horrible, like not even a radio friendly possibility for them.

SPEAKER_13 42:27

No, you were just saying to me the the next one that he's just literally sent you the is that the final mix of sour, yeah. Or first mix up. So we can't have a play on that, I'm afraid everybody. But well, I mean we're technically we could because I'm not governed by the same rules here anymore. But I think we should do it. Even no no no, even I know what the lyrics are, and I mean e one of those maybe, but how do you how many say like it repeats like eight times or something the same bad word?

SPEAKER_14 42:50

I think yes, uh seven.

SPEAKER_13 42:52

That might be too many times. You might have to come back and stream again at eleven o'clock or something and do a late night version, then we'll play it.

SPEAKER_14 42:58

Yeah, do you want me to just unmute it like my mum used to have to do for old songs? Yes. She'd uh she'd try and turn the volume down, but she'd miss it every time, so she'd get the swear word and then mute the word after.

SPEAKER_13 43:08

I tell I've tell I let you into a little secret. I have had to do that live on air a a few times in the past.

SPEAKER_14 43:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 43:14

When someone sent, in fact, the most recent time was Blank Talk's latest track, and they sent it to me and didn't tell me that it wasn't a radio edit. And so and luckily I was recording the show in advance, and I started playing it, and I heard the one rude word, and I thought, mmm, okay. So I then had my finger on this very fader here, and very quickly whoops down when I got to the next bit, and then made a note and edited the original swear word that did go out out of the recording, so nobody But I do think it sounds a bit rubbish when you do that, because it you can obviously say here that you're very quickly turning the volume down and turning it back up again. Yeah, I mean and then I asked them for a radio edit and they settled up the following week, so that's fine.

SPEAKER_14 43:53

The trouble I have is that you you you know, you've met me you know, you've been speaking to me today. I swear like a sailor is my problem. Uh so when I'm sitting And I have to tone that down. So I do struggle to get through a song without adding one in, and I have to go, oh no, come on, change that out. You can you can do better.

SPEAKER_13 44:09

And just throw them in ad hoc to you, willy-nilly.

SPEAKER_14 44:13

Sometimes I just throw them out like ninja styles.

SPEAKER_13 44:16

Well, apologies in advance if anything does does creep out. I'm I'm it's not I'm not gonna march you out of the room and tell you you're naughty uh as much as I would have had to have done if we were on a proper radio station. Anyway. Right. And you're gonna do two songs live. And the first one is a ballad? Yes. Okay. Tell me about the song before you play it.

SPEAKER_14 44:36

So this one's gonna be uh Childhood Best Friend. Uh it's a really sweet song. Um it was written about my friend Alex um and about just you know, that general feeling of uh growing up, you know, and you don't really notice that it happened and oh now I'm an adult and now I've got to fill up my car with petrol all the time and it's really expensive and I hate it. Yes. Um Yes.

SPEAKER_13 45:01

You when how long ago did you pass your test?

SPEAKER_14 45:03

Uh two weeks ago.

SPEAKER_13 45:04

Okay. Yeah. Not a great time to pass your test. You already had to go to the petrol station four times. Right, yes. Well, yeah, once a week is is pretty average. Well, yeah, at least that for something.

SPEAKER_14 45:13

Well, because I only ever put about five pounds in at a time.

SPEAKER_13 45:16

Five pounds is not gonna get you very far at the moment, my friend. No, I know. Welcome to the real world. It's horrible. Anyway, right, are you ready? Yeah. Okay, take it away.

unknown 45:26

Right.

SPEAKER_21 45:53

You standing there with me. Each day we play outside, let's run. We've grown up all just away the minimum stay. We have used to sort of think of to everyone again as we dream that we can fly. We are cute on the time we came back in the next day, five. We wanted to grab some bad before we even read the house. We already know.

SPEAKER_13 48:42

Hello to Simone. She's watching on YouTube. Alex is back home now, she's watching on telly. Much more comfortable than watching on the bus. I would agree. Um and oh, really beautiful song, says Brooke. It's so moving. Tiny Jules says lovely song.

SPEAKER_21 48:58

That's my girlfriend. Oh, there you go.

SPEAKER_13 49:00

Well, she would then she would have to say that. Yeah, she's obligated. What's your girlfriend's name? Uh Jules. Oh, okay. Nice. Thank you, Jules, for your message. Um good. Yes, good job. She did say something nice, isn't it? Otherwise, she'd been having words.

SPEAKER_14 49:12

Obligation, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Every post she has to comment on it as well.

SPEAKER_13 49:16

Yeah. Can you can I just posted something? Can you post on it, please? 'Cause it's gonna need the algorithm boost. Yeah, I need the algorithm boost. Exactly. Um but talk to me about your interest in music then, Dan. When when did it start? What could what do you put it down to?

SPEAKER_14 49:31

Um I I don't really remember when music like got me, but like forever. Like my whole life. Um every car ride, you know, I've been singing. Um I I remember listening to Queen, that was the very first thing I remember hearing. Um my parents raised me on music, every car ride, I loved it. Um and uh you know, from there I I I I wanted to be a guitarist. Um I got a guitar when I was seven, started having lessons with uh Ed Sheeran's guitar teacher. That's uh really fun little bit of lore. Yeah. When Ed Sheeran was my was seven, uh he had the same guitar teacher as me.

SPEAKER_13 50:08

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_14 50:09

Who was uh the guitarist of a band called Shack Attack uh from the uh Yes?

SPEAKER_13 50:13

Yes I know Shack Attack.

SPEAKER_14 50:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 50:15

What's the guitar teacher's name?

SPEAKER_14 50:16

Uh Keith.

SPEAKER_13 50:18

I can't remember his surname, but Keith. Um I don't know Keith from Shack Attack, I know Bill from Shack Attack. But uh yeah, that's that's my fun little So when he was your guitar did you did is that the reason why he was your guitar teacher?

SPEAKER_14 50:29

No, he was just the school guitar teacher.

SPEAKER_13 50:31

Oh I see. You didn't go, oh you were Ed Sheeran's guitar teacher. Please gonna have me.

SPEAKER_14 50:35

Yeah, no.

SPEAKER_13 50:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_14 50:36

Uh I don't think Ed Sheeran existed yet. Um well not when you were seven. Yeah. I don't know. When would that have been? So I'm trying to think of the man.

SPEAKER_13 50:44

Ed Sheeran, how old is Ed Sheeran? Like mid-30s, early thirties?

SPEAKER_14 50:47

Yeah, it would have been 2012, I think. He may have just started out, yeah. You know, buskin and stuff. Um true. But yeah, no, so uh then I eventually ditched a guitar for piano when I saw Rocket Man come out. Ditched the guitar after Ed Sheeran's guitar teacher taught you how to play. He didn't teach me very well. Don't need that, put that in the bin. I've never gotten very good at guitar, but piano, um, Rocket Man came out, Elton John's film, and um that was my first time. It being introduced to Elton John, I fell in love with him instantly. He was fabulous, I loved him. Um and so I started playing piano because I wanted to be like him, and um lockdown hit, and that gave me a lot of time uh to practice. Uh so I'd play like four hours a day, every day, just playing piano, uh improvising and stuff. Uh and yeah, then this all started, and it's great. Uh yeah, so I would have been 14, 15, I think. Yeah. So I I was very late to the And you didn't know anything about Elton John by that point.

SPEAKER_13 51:52

I know, I know. I don't know how Elton. I wasn't exactly around Elton John the first time, but I mean I I remember Elton John from the beginning.

SPEAKER_14 51:58

I don't know how I got through that s that long without knowing about it. You feel ashamed that you I do, because I now have his entire catalogue. I've got his a record collection of uh his songs, I'm obsessed. Uh I've listened to his audiobook uh about his life twice. Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 52:18

The big shoes, the big performances. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_14 52:21

Oh the the you've gotta you've gotta learn from the best, you know, uh from the greats. Yeah. So I watch a lot of videos of piano players playing and I'm like, what makes them look so cool? And I mean for him it's the you know, putting his foot up on the piano, but I wouldn't do that to my keys yet. Oh okay.

SPEAKER_13 52:38

Maybe when maybe when you're rich and you can afford another one. Yeah, yeah. You can you know have one that you damage with your big shoes. My big heels. Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 52:45

At the moment my biggest platform is uh two and a half inches, so I'm looking to up that to six at some point. Wow. Fly me. Well I'm five foot eight, I need to well that's not exactly short though, is it? No, it's very tall, it's very tall one.

SPEAKER_13 52:58

Yeah. Well, you can be whatever size you want to be when you sat on a piano stool.

SPEAKER_14 53:02

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_13 53:02

Just twist that as we've already established, twist it and it makes you tall or short.

SPEAKER_14 53:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 53:07

Dan brought the piano stool with him, and I said that's not gonna reach the desk, and he's like no. It does, it's fine. Just about, yeah. Yeah. I'm a little bit low. That's all good. So Elton John is an influence. Who else? Uh Tim Minchin.

SPEAKER_14 53:20

That's a massive one for me. Okay, I can see that as well. It all starts to come together. Um bowling for soup is where the pot punky element of it comes in. Um but yeah, Tim Minchin and Bo Burnham, uh massive part of um my my writing process. I tried to be uh, you know, funny like them, yeah, which is an impossible feat because they are geniuses. Um and then the other one, uh weirdly was Eminem for a little bit. Okay. Eminem st taught me a lot about rhyming uh and how to make because I started realising when I was listening to him that often throughout the s the the lines they're rhyming with other bits of other lines and the whole thing is sort of rhyming, and that's what makes it so fast and catchy. Um so I tried to capture more of that in there, which is yeah, definitely not there but I think.

SPEAKER_13 54:12

Yeah, uh I have to say, uh EM's lyrics are, if you take the time to listen to them the way that they're crafted, are very uh are very clever. So in terms of writing your own material, when did that start to happen?

SPEAKER_14 54:27

Uh so writing my own material I used to write songs when I was very little and they were, you know, about as you'd expect um from uh a s you know a ten-year-old songs. Um but then really it was in year ten when uh I started writing stuff. And sometimes I look back at the old the very first few things I wrote, which at that at that time I thought were terrible, but I just had the wrong melody for them. Right. Uh and I go, hang on a minute, that's a Dan Sutton song. You know, it it has a lot of the same patterns and uh ways that I phrase things in there. Um I just I was in a band called Red Flag uh for a little bit, and um well that before that had actually formed, I knew this guitarist called Sam, and he just went, Hey, I've booked this gig uh for June. It was January at that point. He was like, Yes, we're gonna need to do some covers and we're gonna need to put together a band, uh, and we also want to write some original songs. And I was like, uh I've not written any original songs. He's like, No, but you will. And so uh the very the first six of my songs were written because I'd just been put on the spot of just go, go, go, go. Wow, okay. So that's where um my songs like Try Harder Tomorrow, uh My Hero, Happy About Me all came from, that big burst. Oh, and your new family as well, which you played a couple weeks ago, I think. Okay.

SPEAKER_13 55:51

So the the band Red Flag, any relation to the title of the song that you have called Red Flag?

SPEAKER_14 55:57

Yeah, so we had a we we were the band Red Flag. We were gonna write a song uh called Red Flag to introduce the band. Right. Uh my brother came along and was like, that's a terrible idea. You should write it about somebody being a red flag. Um so I wrote it uh I wrote my song Red Flag about uh loosely about my uh bass guitarist's girlfriend at the time, um because there was a fair few. Okay. Um let's not mention any more personal details.

SPEAKER_13 56:23

Yeah case uh that's me. Um okay. So so you in terms of your live performances then you started by being in a band. Yeah. And then you've migrated to being a solo act.

SPEAKER_14 56:36

Yeah, we did um I think we did eight gigs in total uh when we were red flag uh in the like three years that we were up and running, just gradually dropping members as we went. Um so when it was me and the guitarist, that was when we first started using these backing tracks systems of just drums and uh bass. And then eventually I just I swear I'm not this hard to work with, but eventually the me and the guitarist split as well and I was out on my own and I was like, God, what do I do now? So that's when we got the full backing track room that you see I bring to sets and stuff, and it's like you know, the space station comes with me. And yeah.

SPEAKER_13 57:12

So do you think you prefer being your own artist rather than being in a the dynamics of being in a band?

SPEAKER_14 57:19

No. No? No. Being my own artist works well for me because I'm quite naturally independent and I'm quite um, you know, the ADHD gets me, I'm like, oh I gotta do this now, I've got to do this now. And if somebody isn't like ready to do it now, then I'm like, fine, I'll do it myself. Yeah. Um but I I I do miss having a band, I do miss having people to play with, uh, because it's just so it's so much more fun when you have other people to So that's what I'm on a quest for at the moment is eventually finding band members. But whoever they are, they've got to come to me. Right. I I don't wanna I don't wanna go out and go, hey, do you want to join my band because I want whoever it is to not feel pressured to but want to join because they want to genuinely want to work with you and like what you're doing.

SPEAKER_13 58:00

Yeah, yeah. And that they wanna So I was gonna ask you about this. So I've seen you've been posting on online saying that you're you're looking. Um so is that that's the way around, is it? You're looking for people to join you, or you're looking as a pianist to join other bands?

SPEAKER_14 58:17

Uh looking as a pianist to join other bands. Okay. Completely separate from Dan Sutton, right? Uh all of that. I just want to get more practice playing live, more experiences, go to more venues, um, make connections at those places, whilst being in a band without having to be the guy, you know, on the stage in the big costumes or whatever. Just like to be slightly off to the side playing the piano. Off to the side, just playing piano, because I I struggle more to play piano and sing at the same time. It's a lot of stuff going on. Yeah. I'm a I'm quite a good pianist uh, you know, when I'm playing uh just piano. Yeah. And I'd like to get a chance to really show that side of it off as well. Is there any particular style of band that you would like to play in? Um pop rock. I mean, if we can get an Elton John style, you know, 70s uh stuff. Elton John covers band? Yeah, Elton John covers covers band trivial.

SPEAKER_13 59:05

It'd be covers as you're not bothered if it's covers or originals.

SPEAKER_14 59:08

Don't mind, as long as I'm playing. Um Beatles, I love the Beatles uh journey, if we can get something like that. Nice. Or pop punk if somebody wants to do you know, go for the Dan Sutton uh piano and pop punk vibe. Whatever, you know. Okay.

SPEAKER_13 59:22

Well, if anybody is watching this or listening to this and is interested, looking for a pianist or wants to start a new project and recruit Dan, then Eels, Eels, Eels, if you want me. You know, is that the your ideal, is it?

SPEAKER_14 59:34

I do love the Eels. Okay. Uh they were they were at my headline gig that I did at the Portland Arms, which was like I think my third gig. Um they were my support band, and that was their third gig as well. So that was a really nice uh introduction to them. That was before they'd, you know, come out, and now I keep seeing them, they're doing really well getting played all the time.

SPEAKER_13 59:54

They've got a gig, I think, Friday, I think. Uh um launch gig for their uh for their EP. Um got some merch for um for Harris downstairs. He wasn't home and I tried to deliver it earlier on, so I've brought it back. So if they decide they want to.

SPEAKER_11 1:00:08

I'll go ahead and do it.

SPEAKER_13 1:00:10

You never know. Um but yeah, okay, that's interesting. So obviously if peep seriously, if people are interested, then they can get in touch with you on your social media.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 1:00:19

Um dance out and music. And just, you know, have a chat.

SPEAKER_14 1:00:22

Mm-hmm. It'd be good. I mean, I'd want there to be you know, beggars can't be choosers, but like I'd want there to be some sort of um uh chemistry.

SPEAKER_13 1:00:32

Yeah, oh yeah, you'd ni uh you'd obviously need to go and jammer them and see how things went.

SPEAKER_14 1:00:38

Because I I I'm always fearful if I put out an ad that if I just don't like gel with them properly and then I go not alright for that they'll they'll get mad and I don't want them to I think most musicians probably appreciate that you need to have a connection with people on two levels, don't you?

SPEAKER_13 1:00:52

It needs to be you do you get on with them on a personal level, but do you also uh connect on a musical level? Yeah. And you need to have both of those, otherwise it's not really gonna work. I think most most musicians probably understand that. He says not being a musician. Um no, no. The only keyboard I play is this one here, and it's got letters and numbers on it. Um no, I would love to at some point, but I just don't have the time or the enough motivation to pick up an instrument. It does take a while. But if there was one I would pick up, it would be the piano. Oh, the piano's the best instrument. I had a very little experience playing it when I was much younger. Um apparently I can play by ear, although I don't know if I can still do it now, but I used to be able to.

SPEAKER_14 1:01:31

Um I know I'm biased, but I do think the piano is the best instrument. Yeah. It might also be the loneliest instrument, because it's one of the ones that you can fully accompany yourself on. Exactly. Yeah. Because you've got the bass, the full range.

SPEAKER_13 1:01:43

I could just play along and you know, put the put the the demo sounds on and play along to the uh the other instruments and things on there as well. But anyway, those though, you never know. One day I might turn up at the NMG Awards, come on stage in a cloud of smoke, and this is it there, you know, up from the bottom of your key with a with a piano or a guitar. Yeah. Have you seen Ben Marholland's guitar? I have, yes. He covered a song of mine. Yes, probably. He he does do that with songs he likes.

SPEAKER_14 1:02:10

That was crazy. I'd never seen that before. I'd never seen anyone just like do a song and post it on a story.

SPEAKER_13 1:02:14

Yeah. In fact, he was I don't know whether I should be saying this out loud, but I'm gonna say it anyway. Um, I saw um Ben a couple of weeks ago, and he was saying that um most people kind of think, you know, generally piano's not uh that's that's alright, he's playing the piano, whatever. Gets the key tar out, everyone's like, Whoa, you're the coolest dude ever, you've got a guitar.

SPEAKER_14 1:02:34

Not me. When I saw him on that piano, I was like, the audacity to play my song better than me. He is he is an excellent piano.

SPEAKER_13 1:02:39

Not better than me, he did red flag. Excellent pianist and very modest as well. Anyway, right, let's um play your latest single, which we've already played a few times. In fact, you allowed us to uh premiere this on our first show, which was I think five weeks ago. Um so it's been out a little while now. Uh this is the first product of a blossoming relationship between you and Jake Day, the producer. How did you find Jake um in the first place? What made you made you want to work with him?

SPEAKER_14 1:03:08

Um so uh when I was I I decided uh you know, I was going on the trajectory of recording everything myself and producing it uh while I was getting mixed and mastered by someone else uh in Guildford um at Goliath Sound Studios, and that was working well but everything was done as you know what I thought was best went. And that was getting a little bit stagnant. Uh I wanted to get a second uh you know, second head involved. Um so you'll love this bit. I went to the new music generator list of uh producers, the short list of the five. Okay. I went through each Instagram and I was like, which one do I like best? And I saw Jake's and I was like, yeah, alright. I know he worked with Adam Angel Kid, who was a friend of mine. Yes. Um so I was like, yeah, cool. Let's let's go with that. Um I met up with him at his studio, I played him some of my stuff. Uh he seemed to really like it. And it's just been great ever since he's so uh bloody lovely.

SPEAKER_13 1:04:08

He is. He um yeah. I well I'm glad that you found him via the NMG Awards. And um I I do joke, and it but it is true that very regularly Jake gets a mention on the show pretty much every week. Yeah. Whether it's you know, because I play something that somebody's worked on with him or when he was in um playing with Tom Lumley, he used to mention him a lot as well. Um but I've had the pleasure of of and again going back to I'm not a musician, but I have had the pleasure of actually sitting in with another band and watching him work with a band and seeing seeing what his process is like and uh giving feedback but not because it I think it's quite important when you work with a producer that you as an artist are open to them giving you some ideas and feedback and the producer is comfortable enough to be able to do that without feeling like you know they're kind of forcing ideas upon somebody or whatever. Oh yeah. Jake does that really well. Um he's got that lovely shelf full of pedals um in his studio that I mean I I think a guitar pedal's really cool, no idea what I need to do, but they just look cool. Yeah, that's about where I'm at as well. And he's happy for anybody just to you know play around and try them, and as he did with you, even play on your record.

SPEAKER_14 1:05:16

Yeah, yeah. That was the biggest selling point was that he wanted to do the guitar and the bass for me because whenever it gets to recording the guitar or the bass, I'm like, Oh, okay, here we go. Time to do this bit, and I don't enjoy it, but I can do it a bit. And then he did it, and I was like, Oh, it sounds like a record. Oh, that that's how that happens. He's a he's a very good musician.

SPEAKER_13 1:05:37

I can tell Jake played that, you can just tell.

SPEAKER_14 1:05:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 1:05:39

Um so yeah, very good. So you're very pleased with the the results of this of this track. As you say, there's another one to come um that will be what what's happening with that one in terms of releasing? You've got a timeline of when you're gonna release the the one we can't play?

SPEAKER_14 1:05:52

Um yeah, basically ASAP again. I mean, we'll I'll try and leave the actual four weeks uh recommended uh release break. We were meant to start releasing them in February, but we just had a production delay, which everything back yeah, that will come out what what month is it now? March. Okay. Yeah. Um he's lovely. He's lovely.

SPEAKER_13 1:06:21

Alright, should we play it then? Yeah, let's go for it. This is available now in all the usual streaming places. This is Dan's track, When I Still Had You.

SPEAKER_21 1:06:37

It's exactly like me to find something I need and then to throw it away. Good things that fall those away, but no it'sn't too late. Cause there's a look in her eyes that ain't for me. I wanna tell her about my feelings today. I won't develop the shit to fill up away like me.

SPEAKER_13 1:09:16

That is uh Dan Sutton's new track. We've got some messages, Dan.

SPEAKER_11 1:09:20

Ooh.

SPEAKER_13 1:09:21

From people on YouTube listening along to our chat. Uh so let's start with this. Um Simone is talking about your guitar teacher, and she says that'll be Keith Winter then. Keith Winter. Apparently he's playing with Shack Attack again now. Is he? Apparently. That's fun. Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 1:09:40

I wonder if he remembers me.

SPEAKER_13 1:09:41

Maybe. Well Shack Attack have been to my venue a few times, so if they come again, I'll I'll have to invite you.

SPEAKER_14 1:09:47

Yeah, hit me up.

SPEAKER_13 1:09:48

You'll have to come down and see him. Um Alex says, Love Tim and I saw him late last year at an album launch in Kingston, saw him in Jesus Christ Superstar 2. I also saw him in Jesus Christ Superstar and thought he was amazing. Did you see that?

SPEAKER_14 1:09:59

Uh no, but I saw him live uh this year and last year.

SPEAKER_13 1:10:02

I think he's yeah, he's been back in the back in the country recently, and then they're doing another tour. Yeah. Um Brooke says, I have a keyboard, but so many of the keys are broken with a broken heart emoji. But my guitar was recently fixed though. That's good. Very good. And we mentioned him and he popped up into the chat Ben Mulholland ace piano playing.

SPEAKER_14 1:10:23

Oh nice. I need uh I'm gonna get one of the guys from Melholland Jive to do uh trumpet on a on our tracks at some point. Nice. I mean I haven't got that confirmed, but I'm gonna approach him. Oh, okay, right. But Jake's really good.

SPEAKER_13 1:10:34

Ben there's an approach coming for somebody from your from your band. Ben's got loads of people playing Mo Holland Jive. Um I joke with him because I say he played at the um smokehouse in Ipswich. Have you ever been there? I haven't, no. It's a small venue in Ipswich, the stage is pretty small. Um and Ben Manu plays Moholl and Jive, there's normally quite a lot of them. Yeah. Um so I said you're gonna have to choose your favourites, I'm afraid, because there's no way you're gonna fit many of you on the stage. And I saw the um a video or some photos, I can't remember what it was now, of them um on last week, and I think he managed to fit I think five of them on stage in total, maybe six. The rest of the audience. And and yeah, well maybe the rest of the worms just stood in the audience playing along, yeah. Maybe. Um but yeah, it's it's very clever how he can kind of adapt that setup depending on what the requirements of the event are.

SPEAKER_14 1:11:19

I did a gig with um brass funkies, do you know them? Oh yes. Yeah, um I was doing sound for them and uh the stage was not big enough for that many brass funkies. Yeah. Um and everyone was outside because it was just such a lovely day that we ended up moving all of the the PA outside and just bombarded them out there in the sitting area. Why not? And it was just amazing, they're so you know easy to just get going. They're like a proper brass band, you know, they don't need the pool stuff, they just listen to each other.

SPEAKER_13 1:11:49

Yeah, yeah. Um Alex is also on WhatsApp, and I did notice this in your living room earlier, Alex, when I was around. Um she sent me a p cover a picture of the front cover of a book called It's Never Too Late to Play Piano. And she says I can borrow it if I want to. So anyway, if I get some more time in my life, you know, they create a 25th, 26th hour in the day, yeah, then maybe I'll learn to play the piano one day.

SPEAKER_14 1:12:11

Well I just did my grade one today.

SPEAKER_13 1:12:13

You yes you did. But you d I was hoping to have a celebration.

SPEAKER_14 1:12:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 1:12:16

But you don't know what happened, what the result was.

SPEAKER_14 1:12:18

We don't know until next week. Uh so I'll have to just pop in the chat next week and say what it was.

SPEAKER_13 1:12:24

So grade grade one is the level. How what what grade can you go up to?

SPEAKER_14 1:12:30

Uh I think it's eight. Oh, okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 1:12:32

Um So grade one, you should have smashed that really.

SPEAKER_14 1:12:35

You'd hope so, but the problem is I because of how I learned, I never learnt how to read sheet music or play things properly. So I can play things uh very improvisationally, but I can't um actually play what I was supposed to play.

SPEAKER_13 1:12:47

So is that the reason why you're going through this process of presumably you'll then do others to get to higher grades?

SPEAKER_14 1:12:53

Yeah, I'm not gonna do every single one, but I'll do like grade one, grade three, grade five, um, and just try and get you know used to being able to play exactly what I'm supposed to play, because I feel like that would just make me a better technical player.

SPEAKER_13 1:13:05

Good for you. So driving driving test passed recently. Grade one piano probably passed. Hopefully, yeah. Pass, pass, pass.

SPEAKER_14 1:13:12

Yeah, and the band competition. It's been a good month. And I mean I'm in time.

SPEAKER_13 1:13:20

What a life you're living at the moment. Like royalty. I don't know. Um let's talk a bit more about some other collaborations. We've talked about Jake, but you also dropped in uh Kyle from Voyage into the into the chat. Um how did you get to meet him?

SPEAKER_14 1:13:36

Uh through New Music Generator again.

SPEAKER_13 1:13:38

Again, I'm I'm responsible for all of these.

SPEAKER_14 1:13:40

Um well you you played one of his tracks and I was like, what the hell was that? Which one was it? Oh, I can't remember which one.

SPEAKER_13 1:13:47

One of the recent ones or one of the recent ones. Oh, so it's carousel or coconut shy.

SPEAKER_14 1:13:52

Yeah, and uh I saw them at the awards as well. Yes. Uh I shared one lovely cigarette with them outside, uh, which they gave to me, which is nice of them. Um I just needed to get out of uh being you know surrounded by so much noise all the time. Yeah. Um and yeah, I got I started speaking to them and Carl just seemed like uh he said that I I he seemed like a more poppy version of me, and he said that I seemed like an edgier version of him. Okay. Um and so I was thinking, you know, I really want to collaborate with more people, get out there, meet new people. Um who better go with than this guy who has a sound that I want to sound more like. Uh so we'll be doing a tune next week together. I'd be very nervous for that, because he says he likes to he gets it recorded and mixed and mastered in one day. So we're gonna have eight hours, and he says he likes to work quick. I'm like, okay, well let's get going then. Does the song exist? It does exist. Okay. Yeah, I've got a full demo which sounds, you know, really close to what it will sound like.

SPEAKER_13 1:14:52

Um but we'll And is he gonna feature on it in terms of any playing or singing or anything?

SPEAKER_14 1:14:57

I hope so. He's a wonderful saxophone player. I know that. Uh I'll need a drummer on it, so he he'll probably do that for. Um bass yeah, I think he can do everything.

SPEAKER_13 1:15:05

Alright, I'm I'm not I'm not yeah, I've only seen him do what have I seen him do? I've seen him sing.

SPEAKER_14 1:15:10

Guitar and sing, beautiful.

SPEAKER_13 1:15:12

I don't think I've seen him do anything else.

SPEAKER_14 1:15:13

Yeah, no, he does keyboards, he does drums, he does bass, he does piano. Um crazy man. Um so yeah, hopefully you'll hear a lot of him on there, really. Nice. Um I think it'll be released as Dan Sign and Kyle Willetz. Okay. It's a very similar surname. It is.

SPEAKER_13 1:15:29

We're not related. We have we have checked the family trees.

SPEAKER_14 1:15:32

I did think that briefly. But it's uh he's got an S at the end of the state.

SPEAKER_13 1:15:34

There are no yeah, it's it's also I think it's an A A T S um rather than E D, but yeah. There aren't very many of us with any sort of variation of that surname. Um there is a um a solicitor in um Burris Network that's called uh Willie and Co. I keep meaning to go in there to see if there's anybody related to in case I can inherit the big fan guys. Inherit the business one day. Um but uh probably not. Anyway, well I'm looking forward to hearing the results of that because I I do rate Voyage a lot. They were one of my favourite discoveries last year, um which is why I put them on at the awards. And uh yeah, the two tracks that they've done recently are uh I keep saying it, there's no other word to describe them, but they are bops.

SPEAKER_14 1:16:13

Carousel is insane. I I couldn't stop listening to that for like a whole week on repeat.

SPEAKER_13 1:16:18

Yeah, so good. I love the 80s vibe that they've got going on. Yeah, they're very good live as well. So yeah, looking forward to that. Right, let's wrap this up, because we've chatted for a long time, which is good because I think it's been an interesting interview. I'm a babbler, I can't stop. That's fine. People are still joining in the comments, so it shows that they're still engaged, yeah. This is good. That's the that's the one thing I do like about being on YouTube is I get instant feedback. You can know if people haven't just clicked off. Exactly. Yeah. Um so let's have your last track, which is gonna be Red Flag, um, which is uh one of your from your catalogue from a while ago. In fact, it probably was probably the first one I played from. Very first one I released, yeah. Um and still a very good song and a staple of your live set.

SPEAKER_14 1:17:00

Yeah, I play it at the end of every single show. Um people have always gotten a massive kick out of it since I first did it, so you're ready.

SPEAKER_21 1:17:35

Who swept me off my feet She talked so long and talked so fast, I couldn't even speak I should have split right then, turn a more to week Just one night for three weeks on still coming back again She's a walking red flag, baby, she makes me call a mime Motda tried to run for my life, but my love didn't touch a ticket Maybe red flag, baby, but that's just my meat Cause every gonna looks the same with a face full of double dish of known from the start that something wasn't right She thinks the balls have got some fire in the sky control her lives She's a walking red flag, I must admit that's closed Cause she talks so much about her ex I begina miss him too She's a walking red flag, baby, she makes me colour blind Mata tried to run for my life, but my love didn't touch the size Maybe a red flag, baby, but that's just why by me Cause every gonna looks the same with a face full of double tears Like a red rack to a bow She's a red flag to a foo And I try hard not to fool But my face just hit the floor and I'm backing for more Gimme She's a lucky red flag, baby, she makes me colour the blood Mata tried to run for my life, but my love to touch the sight Maybe a red flag, baby, but that's just fine by me. Cause every colour, every colour, and I just looks the goddamn same to me. She's a walky red flag, baby. She makes me colour blind. Might have tried to run for my life, but my life didn't touch a tight. Maybe a red flag, baby, but that's just fine by me. Cause every colour looks the same with a face full of double D.

SPEAKER_13 1:20:32

Nice little flourish there at the end. Yeah. Thank you very much. Um Thank you, Dan. Yeah. That was fun. I enjoyed that. Yeah. Cheers, Jim. You got through the whole thing without saying a single swear word. Yeah, I'm impressed. Well, I can relax in a minute. Um so let's just remind ourselves of the things we need to remind ourselves for of stuff coming up. Um Cambridge Band Competition Final, do you know what the date is off top of Cam?

SPEAKER_14 1:20:56

April 24th.

SPEAKER_13 1:20:57

April 24th at the Cambridge Junction. Uh so good luck with that. Um, and if people are uh interested in you joining them as a pianist, then they can get in touch with you on your socials and also generally just finding out about what you're doing and gigs and things your socials are.

SPEAKER_14 1:21:12

Dan Sutton music in most places. Cool. If not, it's just Dan Sutton. Easy to remember. Um anything else coming up you want to mention? Um there will be more tracks coming out uh shortly. Um as I say, end of April will be uh Carefree Destruction, which is a very uh heavy song for me. Uh so that'll be quite fun. Other than that, you know, uh just stick around. Hope you see me throughout the year. This is um this is gonna be a good year, I think.

SPEAKER_13 1:21:40

Cool. Alright, let's move on with a track by Loom. This is called Let You Know.

SPEAKER_08 1:21:45

I gotta let you know.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:53

I gotta let you know. Just a design drive from where I met you at an imperfect time. You got me feeling just a little bit well Then you go go go dance to the radio Whoa whoa whoa I'm thumping to the stereo Oh no, no, no I'm falling like the domino and I know I gotta let you know Tell me how you feelin' Maybe I'll know we I gotta let you know Not sure what you feelin' Maybe we could be friends I gotta let you know We were always chasing pain split at one time in the back of my mind All our friends know exactly what it link is to universe Just humor and tiny go go Jesus do the video Whoa woah woah I'm bumping to the stereo Oh no no no I'm fallin' like a domino I know all I can't let you know Tell me how you feel it maybe I'll know it I gotta let you know Now show how you feelin' Maybe we could be friends I gotta let you know Wrote you a letter Didn't even send it You a Jesus that I get to heaven Love Sing you a lot so Guess I got the words wrong and I thought you an age or love could be so faithful I know Yeah Tell you how I'm feeling with me on the week I gotta let you know Don't just I'm feeling when I gonna be friends I'm gonna let you know I gotta let you know Oh and I'm gonna be friends I'm gonna let you know That is uh the new single from Loom.

SPEAKER_13 1:24:54

It is called Let You Know You with a uh letter U because uh Loom is cool like that. Uh you're watching the New Music Generator, listening to New Music Generator, it's 25 minutes past eight if you're watching or listening live. If you're not listening or watching live, then it can be whatever time you want it to be. Uh but we'll be here for another 35 minutes or so. Still got lots of some music to play, so I better get on with it, I suppose. Um this next track is by Liv Blur. Uh, we've played some stuff from Liv previously. She sent us this new song, which is called Her Flowers. She says, Thank you so much for the support of my releases so far, it's much appreciated. This track is for fans of Ethel Kane, Phoebe Bridges, Wolf Wolf Alice, and Mitzke. Uh it is an ethereal folk song growing to Spacey Shoe Gay's outro. It's about girlhood and focusing on my experiences with queer love and grief. Um this track is available I think it's out now, yes, it is out now. It even says out now in Capital Letters in the subject line. So you can go and stream it now if you want to. This is new from Liv Blur. It is called Her Flowers.

SPEAKER_08 1:26:11

I've been thinking about flowers The Petals that she gave me to keep The words that were whispered after hours, tights that we waited need. The pollen in my throat is turning sour It's running down my cheeks into my palms. Until so many months have passed after that April shower when she left me with an arm full of her flowers she left me with an arm full of her flowers And I've been thinking lately about pictures on a grim with a cheek meeting the foot fingers. And also many minutes of birds after that. She lifts me. She lifts me. About flowers. Purtals that she gave me to keep. Words of the title. I water the pollen that I came in my eyes. The flowers that she loved died in my tree.

SPEAKER_13 1:31:10

Live Blore and her flowers. Beautiful track. Alex says beautiful track as well. And someone on Facebook Facebook, I'm not even on Facebook. Someone on YouTube says I like her voice. And uh Floodlit Coucher we're gonna play a track from in just a second. Also really enjoyed Dan's session. Yeah, if you missed it, then you can go back to rewind back if you want to, or when we're finished, you can watch it anytime you like. We'll also clip that out and post um some on our Instagram and bits and pieces like that. Um as well, presuming that Dan gives permission. Do you get permission? Yes. Okay, excellent, good, good, good. Um so we'll uh do that so you can uh watch that back uh when you want to. Alright. New music generate. Uh here is Chris from Floodlit County she says, please find attached to a track called Find Your Way. This grungy alternative rock track dives into the frustrations we all face at times. Trying to control a world that doesn't always bend to your will and realizing that sometimes you have to move first to find your own way through it. It explores the tension between external pressure and inf internal reflection. It'd be great if you could give it a spin on the show. So let's just do that now. This is Floodlit Couch and find your way. And I think Chris from Floodlit Couch was in the chat. So hope uh that's all good for you. Any more comments in the chat? Let's have a quick look. Uh uh, we're all good. We're all good for that at the moment. That's good because we've got some more music to play. Um now let's go off that screen for a second just looking back for the first time and message the show. Um Annalie has been in touch. Annalie is a singer-songwriter who also used to be based in uh in Ely. Um bit of an Ely love in today. Um last week or the week before, when we were live, we played a music video of one of Annalie's tracks in a lyric video, and she sent in another one. This is the second track of a three-track UK, which I'm releasing later this year. You've already played I'm not the one, but somebody like me has a second track and I've won more called Sacred of Love. No, scared of love for the Sacred of Love. Uh this is more contrasting for the lyric video here. Um doing some filming a minute, we'll send you the videos with me.

SPEAKER_20 1:37:57

Now you say you want me. You need somebody like me. Now you say you miss me. You need somebody like me. Somebody died, you need somebody like me. Somebody died, you need somebody like me when the day is over. I think it is without you such. Now I can go. Somebody like, you need somebody like me. Somebody like, you need somebody like me. Cross my mind, I can't deny. If I knew you would be a night, now you say you miss me. You need somebody like me. Somebody like me. Now you say you want me. You need somebody like me. Now you say you miss me. You need somebody like me. Somebody died, you need somebody like me. Somebody die, you need somebody like me. You need somebody like me.

SPEAKER_13 1:40:39

That is Analy and somebody like me. And uh that's gonna form part of an EP that Annalie's gonna be releasing later this year. If you want to send your music through to us, inbox at new musicgenerator.com is the email address. If you are an artist from Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire. Um I think I've mentioned everywhere. I keep thinking I've missed one out, but I don't think I have. Uh, then uh feel free to get in touch. Please send your track as an MP3 or waveformat attachment to an email. Please don't send we transfer links. Uh case in point, a couple of weeks ago somebody sent a wee transfer link and also put in there saying, I know you don't like we transfer links because they expire. And I replied seven days later and guessed and went, guess what? It's expired. Can you send it again, please? Um so yeah, um uh no the show the the show gets prepped on a Monday or a Tuesday. So if you send something through to me on a Wednesday or a Thursday, or probably even a Friday on we transfer, chances are it's expired by the time I get to it. And then the trouble is I doubt I can't download the track when I'm prepping, so then you miss that show, and then sometimes we end up in a vicious cycle where you then resend the track again on like a Thursday, and then by the time I get to it again the following week, it's always expired again. There we go. So please don't use we transfer unless you absolutely have to. Uh Simone says, Enjoying the great tunes tonight. Thank you, Simone, thank you for watching and for your support. Um we're gonna stick with the electronic theme now and play you a track from an artist uh that we've played on the show before, but under a new alias. Uh this is Philip Rodak uh who's an artist based in Colchester. Um but he's not known as Philip Rodak anymore. He is known as this new moniker, which is called Kinless. And uh he's been in touch and sent through this track recently begun a new project called Kinless after dropping my old moniker. I've just released my debut single Way Out on the 27th of March. It's a track I'm very proud of and will be super duper appreciative. I love the word super duper in there, Philip. Uh, if you could give it uh some radio play before the release day, I've attached it as an MP3 far to this email, as I requested. Thank you so much for paying attention, young man. Uh, this is called Way Out from um McKinless. I've not heard this yet. I love Philip's previous stuff, so let's have a listen. What you may not know about me is that one of my favourite musical genres to listen to is electronic dance music. So if somebody sends me a track like that, I'm all over that. Love it. Thank you very much, Philip, for sending that through. That is Kinless, K-I-N-L-A-S-L-I-S. And uh that's his new track, and it's out in a week or so's time. We'll play that again next week. Um I was gonna read something out. Oh yes, Alex has messaged me. We're talking about the Cambridge Band competition, um, and Dan won Heat 1. The winner of Heat 2 was Daria Maria, who's also an artist that we've played on the show a lot, so that's good. Um I don't know who's in Heat 3, perhaps we'll have a look at that and mention that in a minute. But before we do that, let's play this from Taylor Made. Um Taylor Made's a Cambridge-based artist, collaborated with quite a few different uh artists from the scene, people like Jamie Wiltshire. Um, and this is the new release that doesn't tell me much other than um just released the new track, Could You Play It? It's called Know No Better, and I Know No Better, so let's play it. This is Taylor Made.

SPEAKER_01 1:47:36

D D like I know no better. Quick key like I know no better. 30s like I know no better, 13 with a dream. Cause I knew no better. I mean on this B, man, I know no better. This T man I know no better. TBX size, cost me. That's it's 23, man. I know no better. Big kid with a stiff wrist, tryna monetize all the things that I've witnessed. Best bits of existence in this instance of the times that I've misbehaved. No hard to get 10 pence for your two cents, you're a new sense, incense rage. Just looking for a two-step, wanna get loose to the tunes, wanna vibe in the rave. Come alive on the stage, never died on a page. I'm writing away, then my mind can escape. Gonna lie, what I say, you're invited. I stay when you're engaged. No way, there's a smile on my face. I'm embracing the fragrant fruits of our labor. Mind I would tune with respect from a stranger. The boots, the shoes, the shirts, the suits, the work in the booth. Gonna need you a tailor. D D like I know no better. Quick key, like I know no better. 30s, like I know no better. 13 with the dream. Cause I knew no better. I'm mean on this speed, man. I know no better. This T man I know no better. TBX size, plus me, that's S23, man. I know no better. Ten fashion hours are mastering. Mixed up the mark like I'm plastering. Chap GPT said I'm on my way, but I ain't no G, so I'm asking him. Ego scream, me fastening. He's wanna be G's lead fartherin'. Playing past the parcel five years ago. When I get out, like you're harder than half the gym. I'm rinsing, not watched. Late not lost, raise no cost, so I ain't got no sh. Cambridge raised in a place, not push, but my neighbours' favourite sayings, good gosh. With a wire picket fence, Porsche Rabbins. Two minute walk on the corner. My friends gone four in the tens, and we're causing events. No wonder we love broke forced off the edge. D D like I know no better. Quick key like I know no better. Thirties, like I know no better, thirteen with the dream. Cause I knew no better, I'm mean on this speed, man. I know no better. This team and I know no better. T B X size cross me, that's S twenty three, man. I know no better. D D like I know no better. Quick key like I know no better. Thirties, like I know no better, thirteen but the dream. Cause I knew no better, I'm mean on this speed, man. I know no better. This team and I know no better. T B X plus me, that's S twenty three, man. I know no better.

SPEAKER_09 1:50:11

All those people laughing everything they say to them All those gamens said in everything they stole to them All those children eating everything they're told to hate All those poets rhyme in everything they failed to feel And the sky fell down like a vibe excuse And the dark sky chant in the ministry a truth and the band play loud and the singer just wept and the crowd threw shoes and the concept of death and I'm gonna be able to do that. All those leaders taking everything they didn't believe All those lovers promise everything they'll never kick All those heroes drowning in the lies they couldn't kick And the sky fell down like a bad excuse And the dark sky jumped in the ministry entry And the band played loud But the singer just wept and the ground threw shoes at the concept of death The Dark Sky The Dark Sky The Top Sky That is Das Capitains And uh that is a video that you will have just been watching if you are watching on YouTube that um has been created by an artist.

SPEAKER_13 1:52:52

I'll tell you more about it. Because it's not like a typical music video that features actual people, it was like drawings and stuff like that. Uh Das Capitains, here we go. Uh a quick one to let you know about our new single, The Dog's Got Jobs, that was what the song was called. Uh it's taken from their upcoming EP, which is out on the 3rd of April. Um the music video uh was with um a Norwich artist called Sam Cox, who they asked to create a video based on his interpretation of the lyrics. So that is a visual representation of the lyrics of that song, if you're watching the video, which is quite interesting. Alright, uh we are nearly at the end of the show, but what we haven't done yet is go back in time to the NMG Awards from time gone by. Uh which is what we're gonna do pretty much every week now, because I have an archive of NMG Awards material that we have not um really replayed or haven't replayed on the show at all, to be honest. Um and now we have it in video format we can uh relive some of the best sessions um from the NMG Awards from the time last week I drew the twenty five NMG awards, which is very good. Uh this week we're gonna bring you a session from Columbia. They're gonna play all the money and they're trying to read the uh you can um watch the uh the audio and the video on YouTube if you would like to do that. Um you can just listen to the audio on the um on the radio or the podcast or however you are watching this evening. We'll do this and then we'll come back and play you one more track before we go. Uh so this is from the NMG Awards from 2023 The Icarus Live. Introduced by me.

SPEAKER_08 1:54:59

Good evening, NMG, the sound single for the money. My phone is making me run away from the focus when I'll do your time. I'm on a drink, hold the drink, night loads, all this money.

SPEAKER_16 1:55:13

Yeah, for my money I drive that food on four tonight, I don't fight my time, no more, oh my god, what you want to do, and we so we finished the money when I see money, you'll be so money, money, for the money when we so for the money, money, you got me working in soon for the money, the people talking in soul for the money, money, you got me working in soon for the money, money, the people talking and soon for the money, money, you got me working in soon for the money money, you got me working in soon for the money, body, you got me working in soon for the money, money, you got me working a dead shoot, I did it water, you're gonna buy, you come and full out, no, oh, you're for the water, you come in the soul, for the party money, for the party for the water, no, you come in the soul, for the party, for the party one with so Thank you, energy. You're loving a nice evening, yeah. Those good reds, we gotta move on. Free the poor, let the old man have his way. Let me see those hands, demonstrate you gotta help me out, and I do the freaks, don't we got no lexicon? Don't keep it going with the shape, body, books, before like, we got a little man how we all mind you outside the light, you gotta take it before you get You gotta take the light now, see the light, I guess, once you like your light, yo, I'm gonna go ahead and do it. Have a lovely evening.

SPEAKER_13 2:01:48

There you go, that is Icarus live from the NMG Awards in twenty twenty three, and they are playing Club Columbia at the Apex in Barry St. Edmunds on April the I shouldn't know because it's my event. April the tenth. I think it's available now if you want to come along. Also playing on that night uh Barry Sam winners, JDT, uh the Portland. Very good night. Alright, that pretty much does it for this show for this week. Thank you for watching and listening. Thank you for your comments. We've had loads of YouTube comments this week, uh which I really appreciate. Thanks to Dan for coming in and uh playing live interview and session as soon as we finish. I'm gonna leave you with a track from last week's playlist which comes from the man that we mentioned earlier on. I can find the track in my playlist. It is Eels, Eels, ELI. Last week was a song called Owl. There it is. And if I go to the screen and flying eels, I'll be able to tell you about their EP that they are releasing on the 21st of March. And they're having a launch at the Blue Moon on the 21st of March alongside Grace Calvert and Crying in Colour. If you want to go along, you can do so. And if um they come in color and emerge from my house before then they'll have some t-shirts to sell as well. Um thank you very much once again for watching. We'll be back again next week, same time. And uh leave you with this from Eels, Eels, Eels.

SPEAKER_05 2:03:53

I'm not feeling so great. I'm manufacturing And those thoughts are played Because it's half past yeah I'm giving it all I'm giving it all I've leaving it all I've given it all Look to the stars, they're out tonight, and come and come on into the light, but you say I'll turn it suffer to some furious You've got the crush that's now I've given it all, you've given it all I've given it all, you've given it all Look to the stars, the Rats Come and come on, pretends I've given it all, I've given it all I've given it all, I've given it all.

SPEAKER_00 2:06:11

I've given it all, I've given it all, I've given it all, I've given it all.

SPEAKER_05 2:06:21

You come and come on, it's in a last tonight. You come and come on, it's a last year.