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• New Music Generator • Season 2 • Episode 7

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Tim Willett is joined in the studio by Suffolk duo Jess & Dec for a live session and we take a look at some of the acts announced for First Light Festival 2026

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Regenerate.

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New era initialized.

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Stand by Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire, New, New Generator, New Music, Generator, New Music Generator.

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Do some writing, screw it up, and start again. I'm a tongue on my coffee, I'm seeing real fast. Give me a cow, but don't let me down. When I try to swim, all I do is drown. Empty all my pockets, that was out, went down.

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Now I'm 29 and I'm freaking This is how it feels, you will feel this way.

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All your energy was that I've never amazed. All this time I can never taste.

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Since Jacob here it felt so nice that I sipped it twice. Sorry, girl in the front row, I hadn't seen since nine. How's your family?

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She said that they were doing five. Give me all your cover, don't let me know. When I try to swim on a good show, empty all my pockets, how I'm so feel still feel this way. All your empty words that I'm never gonna trace. Hold on this out, I can never dress.

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That was Connor Adams and his track called Freaking Out, taken from his latest released EP, uh which is called Traffic Light, and that came out a few weeks ago, March the 20th. Connor Adams music on social media if you want to go and find him on there. Uh welcome to the show. We're here for the next two hours playing you the very best in local unsigned music from across East Anglia, and by that I mean Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire, and Bedfordshire. We've got lots of brand new music to play you from the inbox editions this week, including a first play of the new single from Tiny Vessels. I'm a big fan of Tiny Vessels, and I haven't listened to this track yet. I've deliberately waited to uh play it on the show today. We've also got the uh the new single from um Marauder as well, uh which came out today, and I really love their last track, and yeah, I haven't listened to this yet, I've waited as well, so I'm excited for today's show. Um if you would like to get in touch, you can always email inbox at new musicgenerator.com. But if you are watching on YouTube, you can get in the chat. Uh Brooke is there, she says, Hey Tim, we meet again. If you are a YouTube subscriber to the channel, then you can get in touch with us in the comments box. If you're not a subscriber, then you can't, but it doesn't take anything or any money to subscribe. Um still looking to get to 200 subscribers, we're on 176 now, so we need another 24 to get to 200. So as soon as possible, that would be lovely on YouTube. We're also on Instagram, we're not on MixedCloud, we've been there off now, nobody uses MixedCloud anymore. Um but we will be on TikTok next time. Uh one of some TikTok people are giving me permission to stream, and that'll be exciting. We're also, of course, on our friends at uh Noggers Radio and on other podcasts whenever you get that and download it. Right, let's move on and play you a track that we did play on the show quite a while ago, but the band at the time didn't have a release date for it. Well, it is out now, and actually this band have also had quite a busy few weeks. They were announced as the winners of Heat 4 of the Cambridge band competition last weekend, and they have also been announced to be playing the Right in the Corners All Day festival that is happening at the end of this month, because today is the first day of April. Hollow Waves are a four-piece group from Cambridge comprising of Reuben, Oscar, Charlie, and Luca, influenced by actors such as Dinosaur Jr., Catfish and the Bottom Men and the Strokes. With members of previous bands moving away to university, the four of them found themselves in the same boat inspired with nowhere to exert their energy and their shared desire and connections to each other due to childhood swimming lessons. Brought the band together in October 2025, just goes to show you never know where you're gonna meet your next band, mate. So this is their new track. We played this first back in February. Uh it was due to be released in February, but it got delayed. But it is now available. This is Hollow Waves and Eyes Shut.

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I'm closing the tilt, nothing is wrong.

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Really like that, and I can see off the back of that one track why they uh were chosen as the judges' favourites for the Cambridge Band Competition fourth heat last week. The fifth and final heat is this Saturday at the Portland Arms and the final at the junction, I think, in a couple of weeks' time. Uh so well done to uh to Hollow Waves for getting in there. We'll give you some more details on the Bright in the Corners all day lineup that's been announced uh in the show later on. Uh next, we're gonna feature a track that's gonna appear on the new album from Dead Reynolds, Cambridgeshire Rock Group, are releasing their new album, which is called Yellow Weather Warning, on the 24th of this month. They say the album is about the battles people don't talk about when your head feels like a storm and you're just trying to get through the day without it all getting too much. They wanted to be honest about mental health, also about facing demons instead of pretending they're not there. Finding strength from deep within when everything feels like it's falling apart. At the end of the day, it's not about being broken, it's about getting back up. If people listen to this and feel understood or feel that they're not on their own in it, then we've done what we set out to do, they say. Songs from the heart with a heart of their own. We played a few tracks from this album over on the show over the last few weeks, and we did play uh the video uh for one of their singles on the show a few weeks back. Um but this, I believe, is an album only track that has not yet been played on the show. Dead Reynolds are Roscoe, Dom, Ben, Zina, and Luke, and taken from the album Yellow Weather Warning, this is the track called Drowning. That is a album track from Dead Reynolds, Cambridgeshire Group, who are releasing their new album in a few weeks' time on the 24th of April, called Yellow Weather Warning, and that is Drowning. Um that whole album has been produced by uh Jack Murphy at Crystal Sound Studios in Norfolk. Jack won the Producer of the Year award at the NMG Awards a couple of years back, and um I can hear it very highly produced, high quality, and look forward to playing some more tracks on that over the next few weeks. You are watching and listening to the new music generator. If you are a band or an artist watching and you would like to know where to send your music, thinking how can we get featured on this show? Well, I've had somebody tell you how to do it in advance because quite frankly, it saves me from doing it myself. Have a listen to this.

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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.

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

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There we go, and that is exactly what the next artist have done. Tiny Vessels have sent us their brand new track. It is out on the 10th of April. And with this track, they've worked with Mike Juice, who they worked with on their track Know That You Are Home. Now I think we've played probably four or five Tiny Vessels tracks on the show now over the last year or so. Their last track, Communication, was for me by far and away their best track today. I really love that track. Um so I'm excited to listen to this. Haven't heard this myself yet, and this is the first time it's being played anywhere, as far as I know. This song is about being caught in the middle and throwing everything you can at it to make it work whilst everyday chaos, doubt, and debris still surrounds you. It will be the first track from a new Tiny Vessels upcoming EP. More news on that very soon. Say Harry, Lee, Liam, and Emilio from Tiny Vessels. This isn't exclusive, this is Torn.

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Surrounded by the debris of everything falling away, a canvas of colour running the way down your face. I'm caught between a question as the fight, let your body know. We break the rim back, spin the wheel of foot, that the door breaks the rim back, spin the wheel of foot, push the other door, beat for being out for you what the world is touching down around us now. How do we stop it? Smile to kill the doubt. Of course, between the stars, what really wanna know the truth? So PI, you're right, you'll write the red eye, spin the wheel of foot, we die the door, the people is the pin out for the brake the red, in the wheel of foot, we try to stop the people, is the feeling out of the cut, we pray for red, and the windows are red, the window, it's that tiny vessel sound the formula that we've come to love that is torn.

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And the track is out on the 10th of April in all the usual places, and the band are playing at the Portland Arms in Cambridge on the 25th of April. They were the recipients of a free gig hire at the Portland Arms at the awards last year, and they are making good use of it by having their gig on Friday, the 25th of April. Um sorry, Saturday, the 25th of April. Not a Friday. They're joined by Modern Haze and Clean as well as Support Act. So if you fancy going along, tickets available on the Portland Arms website, I imagine that's where you'll find them. And uh yeah, highly recommend you go and check out Tiny Vessels. I don't think I've seen them play live yet. We've had them on the show. We've done an acoustic session, but I don't think I've seen the full band play live yet. So looking forward to uh getting down there and seeing them on that night. Uh hello to Brooke, who's chatting away in the uh YouTube chat, and she says, I see what you mean when you said that you actually really like this band and they're amazing. I mean, I don't just say I like things and then lie, I do actually genuinely say mean what I say. Um but yeah, that's um that's a compliment. Tiny vessels can put that on their press release. I see what you mean when you said that you really like this band, they're amazing, quote unquote. Brooke from the NMG YouTube chat. Um happy birthday for you in five days, brook. I won't be singing happy birthday. Maybe Justin Deck will singing happy birthday later. You wouldn't want me to. Um they will be live, Justin. Well, they're actually here, they've been very, very good and very quiet in the corners of the studio. We'll chat to them in about uh ten minutes' time and uh have a live version of the track that we played on the show last week. Now, let's open up the inbox and read an email. This is uh from Lady Grey and the Earls, who are a female-fronted four-piece indie rock funk band. Hi, we're Lady Grey and the Earls. We've been gigging since 2009, playing our first gig at the Twist in Chelmsford, which we now believe is long gone. Over the years we've gigged The Basement, The Fiddler's Elbow, Asylum, Dublin Castle, Hot Box, The Water Rats, all of the big names in London. Um, and again, so many of those have now also closed. We have over fifteen and a half thousand plays on our YouTube channel. We've recorded eight albums worth of original material, plus an original Christmas EP, which will become a full album in time. We are currently in the studio working on two new albums, an acoustic called I See Humans But Know Humanity, and an electric album called Keep Your Coins, I Want Change. Uh the band are Amy, who is Lady Grey herself on vocals, Jay on guitar, um Papa G Graham on bass and ukulele, and Ali on drums and percussions. Our albums are out on Spotify, Amazon Music, and all the streaming platforms. I saw the new music generator, it says here, through an Instagram post by the band If not now, you've had the pleasure of gigging with. We love the site and what you guys represent. Well, there we go. We played if not now on the show last week or the week before. So just yeah, word of mouth, you found us. Well, welcome. Um and we're gonna play you a track. And I did send two tracks through. I am going for the one that has a music video. So if you're watching on YouTube, you're gonna be entertained by a music video. Uh this track is called Afterglow, and it's by Lady Grey and the Earls. And their track is called Afterglow. Uh, that is a video that's available on their YouTube channel. Uh, you can go and uh find that on there if you search for them. Film.location at Spain's Hall Place in Basildon. There we go. Um Basildon's got to mention. Right, one more track for you before we uh chat to uh Jess and Deck. This is from last week's playlist, and it is Fly Swatter by Tom Harbour. Um, Tom is um friends with Myopia, and in fact, it was Ollie from Myopia that produced this track for Tom. Um it was written originally as an acoustic pop song with a more country vibe, all about friendship, young love, and how it feels to grow up and experience the first bit of freedom. But then after he met Olly, the song took a turn and it turned into uh more of a Radio Head style track. Um in fact, that's what Ollie said when he rang Tom up one day and said basically I've just redone Fly Swatter in Radio Heads the Benz style. So this is from last week's playlist. I think it this one is available now if you want to go and stream it. This is Tom Harbour, and his track is called Fly Swatter. From Tom Harbour. If you missed any of the show, by the way, and you want to know what we play, if you miss me saying what something's called, I always post the playlist uh on social media, on Instagram and on Facebook, so you can uh check back and find the tracks yourselves. Um some of the time the tracks are already available, you can stream them as we play them. Some of the time we get exclusive early uh plays, and uh therefore you can't stream them straight away, but uh at least you'll be able to remember where they are, maybe pre-save them if that's what you want to do. Alright, we are live on this Wednesday evening, and whilst we've been live for the last few weeks, we've had different guests in the studio. We had Myopia in on the first week, we had After Drive the second week, we had Dan Son the third week, and today we have Jess and Deck. Hello, Jess and Deck.

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Hello.

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How are you both? We'll come on to you in a second. That's just the general, you know, start of the interview question, Jess. How are you, Deck?

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Yeah, I'm I'm wonderful.

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Thank you. Good, good. Um now this inter this interview, when when did I invite you to do this? A couple of weeks ago, two or three weeks ago, I think. And everything was fine in the world at that point.

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It was.

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And then Jess Blessers had a had a bit of a a medical incident involving your cornea.

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Yeah, all parts of the eye that you wouldn't think you have to sort of describe in that much detail, but yeah. Uh all the fun, important parts of your eye that you sort of take for granted all the other times.

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Yeah. Um so um I I was gonna basically I was preparing for you not to be here. So I'm super impressed that you actually have come because you're not you know I I I don't know if you are in that much pain at the moment given that you're uh drugged up to the pie heavens. I am, yeah.

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Drogged up to the eyeballs, people might say. Yeah, sorry.

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Um But you but you are you are you know got a good sense of humour about this, which is probably because of the drugs, yeah. Yeah, that does help.

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Yeah, yeah, I'm just having to laugh through the through the patch wearing. I think that's the worst bit.

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So for people who can't see, Jess, Jess is wearing an eye patch at the moment to cover up the eye that's the poorly eye, which you're on medication for, and we're hoping you'll make a a full recovery of in the fullness of time. But for the moment you're having to deal with one eye.

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Yeah, it's quite a challenge. It did make guitar playing. I was like, oh, can I actually do that? I have to just really turn my head to do it. Um but yeah, um it's it's a strange world, just one eye. Uh but yeah, hopefully it won't be too long. They did say it might be a few weeks, which I'm trying to ignore at the moment. And just think, nope.

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Yeah. We'll see. But you know, you're doing the right thing now. You're trying to get on with things as best you can.

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Yeah.

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Where you can. So that will help. It'll help pass the time a bit. It's better than staying at home feeling sorry for yourself. Exactly.

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And I think all the gigs coming up, I'm just gonna be wearing a patch and representing a pirate, basically. Yes, yeah.

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So we'll talk about your upcoming gig soon, but uh just let's just repeat what you was just telling me off air. So we've got you two today as your as your duo, but you also play in a band with a with a third troublemaker who came around last night to see how you were, and then dropped dropped a hilarious comment that you actually then took and took him by surprise with your response.

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Yeah, he um because we've got a we've got a uh band gig with him uh next week. We're playing at Voodoo Daddy's in Norwich, um, supporting Triggered Velocity on on the Friday night. And he said, Oh, maybe for that, because I'll be having to wear the eye patch for all these gigs, he said, Maybe we should just all dress up as pirates and and just really lean into it. And I was like, Oh yes, 100% we have to do that. And he Tom immediately was like, No, no, no, I don't think we I was just joking, but But I I think we should make him do it. I think we should do it. Deck's down, I'm down, what have we got to lose?

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Well, I think it would be funny, and you can't do this now because I'm gonna say it, and this might get bad to him. Funny that you tell him that you're gonna do that, and then he's the only one that turns up just as Fire.

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That would be evil.

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That would have that would have been funny.

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That would have been funny, maybe a little cruel.

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Yeah.

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Nah, I don't care.

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But I do think that's that's a good idea.

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Yeah, definitely. Well we've got Tim's vote for it, yeah.

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I think so. I look forward to seeing the the video and the photo, photo evidence on your social media.

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Good.

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Right, now let's talk about um you two as as individual musicians, because I first met you, effectively I first met you separately in two different two different guises. Yeah. So we were first introduced to um Jess as Jess Davy, solo artist. Um we played your first single release, I don't know, three or so years ago.

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Yeah, it'll be three years ago this year.

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Yeah.

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Um, and um a few of your other other solo records, and um you nominated for an award in your own right and all that kind of stuff. But all the time you've been friends with Deku and friends with Deck's friendship circle, who were few's who I came to that's how I came to know DEC. You're keeping up everybody. Um and then you two have now begun writing and recording music together, but you're also in a relationship with each other, yeah. And the two things kind of happened at the same time. Well you're friends friends first.

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Yeah, and and playing music first, definitely. That's been going on for a while. Um, because that was how we met in the first place, like us as individual friends, but also with uh yeah, these other boys that were in the you know, in in the band with with Dek and Tom, our friend who's also in the band in the in the other band that we're in. Um yeah, we all we went to school together, we met in like music class at when we were like 15 and um and then when we were in the sick form, so 17 we started and and left school at 18. We you know we were playing together a lot. Obviously, you were playing with fuse in the band, but we used to play because I was playing on my own, um, we used to play together a lot and do a lot of like duets back then and then.

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We started doing some, didn't we? And we only at sort of maybe two or three gigs a year, really not not many. Or just like round each other, or just yeah, just um just for the fun of it as well.

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Yeah, and ca and kind of supporting each other's. Obviously, that was like when I first met you too. Like I was obviously going to all of like Dek's gigs as you know, roadie and friend or whatever.

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And um I didn't realise you were even a musician yourself at that point, I don't think.

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Exactly. It was because I it was something like I just sort of did casually but obviously wanted to take further. And it was through you and through like Dek and Tom Um particularly who kind of got me actually doing the solo stuff. Uh like, you know, oh come on, you really wanna you you wanna do this? It's obviously how we met, but I I hadn't ever really pursued it. So actually got me, you know, trying to like write some stuff, gave me my first ever uh like solo gig, which was you know supporting you at uh your headline at the Hunter Club, and and yeah, we just did a lot of um we used to play quite a few that's when we started playing our duets together. It was before I could even play guitar, like I used to play my like ukulele and you'd play guitar and and we'd uh and we'd sing together. It was just something that we did um as well as me doing my solo stuff and you doing the band. But yeah, we didn't do it as much, it was just like a bit of fun as a as friends. But we didn't yeah, we didn't start writing anything until we got together, which then came yeah, like three, four years later from all of this about a year ago. Uh just over a year ago.

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And with that we also kind of ramped up and decided we wanted to do even more gigs like this and take it kind of more seriously. Yeah. Um we ramped up how many we did and applied for you know anything, anything going and ended up doing um 32 gigs last year. Um as well as uh started writing and trying to do our own original material as well.

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Yeah, yeah, that I mean that was like we decided we wanted to take the duo, make it a bit more serious, and take it more like professionally uh before we were together as well. I mean that was in 2024, so that would be like two years ago. Um and wanted to make it more of a thing because we used to quite often play like at my like Jeff Davy solo geeks. Like Deck would get up and join me and we'd like play a few duets and sometimes I would get up and join you with the band. So it's we've done so many like music things intertwined as well. I mean, obviously it was Jack who like started me doing my solo stuff as well as Tom, and then because you always wanted to be a producer, that was also the thing of that was you gave it to me for my my like 18th birthday present or something, you were like, I'll I'll like produce all your music, and it was like a team thing of us both wanting to try and give all this music stuff a go, basically. So you were you were like recording and producing my stuff and and we've just done it all together basically the whole time.

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Yeah. I like that. You're kind of helping each other out because you're getting giving deck experience in producing, but also you're getting experience in in producing your own music, working on your own music as well. So it's kind of you've helped each other out and and and this this is where you are now. So you are Jess and Dek as a duo, but you're also Jess Davy band with Tom.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Um and we played we've played one of your band tracks, haven't we? Um and now we've played one of your duo tracks.

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Yeah.

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I'm just about managing to keep up with that. It it it can be a little bit. Um so let's go back then to your both of both of your interests in music and where that originally formed from. So Dek, you tell me first when what your first memories of of music and playing music So music has always been in my family.

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My dad's especially has always always played guitar um and always played bass and has been in bands since he was younger than I are now, since the age I was when I was 16. When I first got on a band, he did as well when he was and has just been playing music like that for his entire life. And um, and my mum is uh incredible music lover, so there's just a I've always been surrounded by it. Um the first experience I ever got properly with with playing outside of that was actually just um guitar lessons at primary school. Um that's what got me into actually playing properly. Um and then since then obviously going through high school, doing GCE music, forming the band, um, and just getting this whole new love for for doing these these proper, like real gigs. Um and then yeah, just just building it more and more from there, and then from that I've then kind of more niche developed the love for producing music. Um which I obviously do alongside all the all the playing. Um but yeah, it all came from it's all I've always been surrounded by it, so I think that's that's largely where it came from. And I've just grown on it in almost any way I can.

SPEAKER_12

Any way I can but what you're doing more now is singing than you maybe were before.

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I I didn't really used to sing well at all. I mean I did the occasional bit of backing in the band, and it was then when we started doing duets as friends, you kind of got me singing a bit more. Yeah.

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Um crack the whip. Yeah.

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Um and but even then it was kind of still more even backing with us, or more I'd play and you'd sing.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah.

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Um, and then as that's developed and as we've learnt more and more songs and with all of your guidance, it's actually given me an ability to sing. What can I say? Um I've yeah, I've started to sing more and more in the songs we do.

SPEAKER_13

And um we've grown up a lot like doing it in the last like four years, haven't we? Yeah. I mean, I didn't used to play guitar, you didn't used to sing as much, whereas now we we've kind of you've helped me with like the guitar playing over the years and you've helped me with guys. And now we like sing um you know together most of the time, and our main kind of I guess the main feedback we get and like positive things or thing we I guess like USP is our harmonies, which is what people always comment on, and that's something we didn't used to be able to do when we were first in it years ago.

SPEAKER_12

So fair play. Well that's something I I've noticed when I've seen the two of you. I think the first time I saw you both play together was when you play brew board, which was meant to be a band gig, but then Tom's car broke down, didn't it? So he didn't make it in the end. There's always a d some some sort of drama every time I see you, it seems.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, apparently. Yeah, really just realised. It's doubled up today as well, because I actually, as of yesterday, I don't have a car now. Oh right.

SPEAKER_12

How did you get here today then on your flying carpet? In my car, though I can't drive. Luckily that came. Right, okay.

SPEAKER_00

So there's always for some reason whenever we try and come and see you, everything goes wrong.

SPEAKER_12

Oh well you didn't let the let your car uh get you uh get you down today then. That's good.

SPEAKER_00

No, not at all.

SPEAKER_12

Um Alright, so what's Jess is what's what's your backstory of um of music and playing guitar first and then starting to well, we kind of covered the latter stuff, I guess the early the early stages.

SPEAKER_13

Well it's uh you know, kind of similar to Dex to be fair, but with a more like tragic bit in between basically. Just because I yeah, my my dad was a was a musician um very similarly and and was playing guitar, this literally this one, my guitar that I was play that with his guitar um and he was always playing he was in bands when I was growing up and it was always like going to watch him play with his band on stage um was always really cool and I used to sing with him quite often uh which is why it's really special that it's something we do because I used to go you know sing with him like in the dining room in the evening. He'd play guitar and we would both sing. But I actually started like instrumentally I started on piano because I had piano lessons when I was younger and I've just I've been sort of doing that my whole life and now that's what I teach. But yeah I always wanted to do it and wanted to be you know like him. It was like the inspiration he introduced me to all the music that I love. And then I think I was always I always would have pursued it like properly but um I lost him very suddenly when I was 15 to a heart attack and it was kind of the probably the catalyst for like wanting to do it as much I guess because it made me want to uh obviously not straight away but within the years later I you know picked up his guitar which I'd never ever thought about learning before and taught myself how to play guitar just with like the music theory knowledge that I already had um because I wanted to do that even more because like you know it sucks that he's not gonna see it but it was that inspiration of like okay I've got to do this now for me and and you know for him in a way. So yeah that was the kind of start of it um but then it's been great because obviously in the like you know you go through so many different friendships in school and stuff but then in the like more like permanent friendships that I found that you know then uh with Dek and and Tom as well growing up being surrounded by music in that new way then like you know we we even though we'd been in music class together for years I'd never really like paid attention to like Dek and Tom because they were like weird little nerds in my music class who I liked who I who I was like that I'm you know they're they're so strange. Which hasn't changed we still are well yeah um but then when we actually like became friends and you know being introduced to this world of you guys being like which again in school was quite nerd your little band but then when we left school you were actually yeah you were like doing quite well and you know and I was like coming along and it was like really inspiring especially in you guys being like you know you want to do this as well so us doing it together and this it just expanded this world since we've kind of grown up a bit of us all of us all playing in all these different ways and yeah it's great fun.

SPEAKER_12

It's it is a nice story and it's nice that you met at school and you're still you know obviously you two very much in touch with each other but you know you know what I mean. And so you know you you do do lose touch with some a lot of fruit yeah when you're when you're at from at school so friendship and it's good that that's that's carried on and music has been the the main kind of bond that's um that's that's kept you um together over those uh over those years. Not that you're that old now anyway but no we're not to be fair we do talk like we're like older but you know but now as you say you're now teaching music yeah so you're now being able to give something back and and and show show what you can do to a a younger generation. Yeah yeah so you both teach.

SPEAKER_13

Yes that's something else that we that we do together musically we also started that uh like way before we were together when we were still just friends. We both started teaching four years ago as soon as we left school literally as soon as we left sit form uh you know it was like a part-time thing first what amongst I was at uni at the same time and we were uh doing our other jobs as well um it was like another um well you know Oscar from Oscar from who's you know infused his mum was a was a primary school teacher and she sort of got us both somehow in like teaching music to children and we were like I'm not sure if we want to do that or not but but we ended up doing it and you know since then she's she doesn't even work there anymore. We've ended up going full time we teach at two different primary schools now um teaching like four different instruments between us and we set up our own uh like songwriting after school club which we run at a couple of different schools and getting the children to like actually write songs and then we record and produce them for them and um try putting on performances and it means that it's it's absolutely great. We love it so much because we wanted to try and go full time with it. And we're sort of so fast, so good like managing and it means that we are literally doing music all the time. Like we're saying it's just crazy like it just 247 because it's all through the week. And when we you know we get in from work and we've been teaching music all day and then we'll be practicing for a gig we've got at the weekend and we're just more recording and yeah saying all weekend it's just yeah just every single day just living absolutely living and everything I think we worked out we're teaching about 200 children a week music uh between us so in one way or another.

SPEAKER_12

You're one of you're one of quite a few musicians that I know that also do the same thing. Some of them some of them go into um other um secondary schools as well as primary schools but uh it seems uh there's a huge demand everybody I know is is like stacked up with work like just can't people can't people can't get enough of of wanting to learn various different uh various different instruments. I remember when I and probably well I don't know maybe not so much when you were at school I think the curriculum's kind of changed and moved away a little bit from music was we know we had we had a music teacher and we had a a dedicated music lesson as part of our timetable but now I don't know whether schools have necessarily have the funding so much to be able to do that kind of thing. So therefore it it falls to other people to come into schools from outside and do it and also do it outside of school as well.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah we have found that it's been a lot of like we have to really push for a lot of things um because it wouldn't really get the attention otherwise and luckily because we've been at one of the schools that we're at for like four years we're very involved and we we just tell them we want to you know we put on these performances and luckily they just let us like but you know I think they do see that it's because we just think it's so important for children and obviously we're biased because we love doing it but it's just so important and and they love it and the children some of them are gonna go on and be like incredible little musicians and and giving them a giving them a space to do that and a possibility but that doesn't mean you have to create opportunities like how we s we started this club as a way for them to get to create their own music.

SPEAKER_12

Well one day you'll be there at Berry Sound when one of your former former students is is in a band or performing solo and you'll be the proudest people in the room that would be the absolute dream. Yeah I'm sure it's sure it will happen at some point definitely will it may do that that would be cool.

SPEAKER_13

You've got one that's 14 so not far could be in it could be in it next year.

SPEAKER_00

Exactly actually he has just um sort of in the last year he has just started writing his own music so there you go need to get him get him in Berry Sound.

SPEAKER_12

Cool right um let's get you to play your track and then we'll talk about it afterwards so if you want to get yourselves into position with your um guitars and and whatever um this is a track that we played um for the first time on the show last week and it's Justin Deck's first um single release as a uh as a duo it's called Yours in the music um the streaming version is out now it's out on Friday it's out on Friday oh yeah that's right I remember why six pm?

SPEAKER_00

That's just always what you've done yeah ever since I first released something with Fuse we decided to release it at six and and now I'm too afraid to change my mind.

SPEAKER_13

My first song that we brought out yeah like three years ago you told me you were like it comes out at six.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah I don't I don't know why I'm just set in my ways. I always raise music on Fridays at six if I'm involved in something.

SPEAKER_12

I guess it means when we get home from work then it goes well I was going to say there's more people around to listen to it at six than there is if it drops at midnight or something.

SPEAKER_00

I think that's the logic is it's a Friday night so people probably got in from work and are hopefully on their phones and won't see it.

SPEAKER_12

Yeah okay all right Friday night at six good Friday night at six exactly it's gonna be a great Friday Friday. Okay right you're gonna play it for us live so when you're ready.

SPEAKER_10

Okay one two three four years the best makes what I think with love is my silly side of the jokes and grace was always in the shell does the big we're so never shall get shades doesn't make the shadow I love that yeah those those harmonies again interestingly Jess takes more of a low harmony and yeah in that one it's actually yeah sometimes we do do that a little bit I take the more the more masculine route apparently but um yeah we sort of do some you know chop and change a little bit don't we?

SPEAKER_13

We there's a couple so a couple of our covers that we do where we do like the entire thing harmonized so we swap don't we quite often um and that's always like a bit f fun as well.

SPEAKER_12

Brooke says beautiful sounds beautiful. Oh thanks lots of love hearts in the YouTube chat for that as well. I also thought it was very sweet the the the way you were looking at each other as well. And I guess to a certain extent anybody that kind of duets they kind of have to do that because you kind of I don't know it's you need to know where you are in the song and whatever but yeah that was that was sweet.

SPEAKER_13

Oh thanks yeah it was it's one of those things because people say that to us quite a lot and it's one of those things where it was like really gross when we used to duet when we were just friends we were like ugh even hopefully people don't think like you know romantic because oh first thought because we were yeah because we were like like platonic best friends for so long well you know we thought um and so it was just like gross and if we ever did like romantic covers it was like ugh don't look at each other but now we just like yeah I don't know it's uh it still grosses me out to if we seem all in love I'm like oh no disgusting sweet so tell me about the song what's it about? Um well it's probably quite evident again um is we've said loads of times that obviously like just because we're all like gross in love playing together um we're not gonna obviously write like all of our songs about that because no you know no one needs to hear that. Um and I don't think we do either but but it it always made sense that the first song we wrote together was going to be like about our story a little bit.

SPEAKER_00

And just about just loving music together.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah and also just the fact it does seem we just I don't know we think it's really cool um the the fact that our whole friendship and then realising that actually you know we were kind of meant to be more than that like and the year relationship we've had since it that everything has come from music.

SPEAKER_00

There hasn't been a moment of us knowing each other that hasn't been through or involving music.

SPEAKER_13

We were playing together before we even like properly knew each other. I mean when we had to do like these you know in school like performances together when when we like had never spoken and you know everything that's literally how we met and then how we became friends and then how we got together it's just it makes sense. So yeah we w we were kind of like when we first got together and first started writing this it just started coming out in it where like yes it's been like over a year in the works just like gradually chipping away at it and thinking of things and adding it in like in a little notebook and like it's just been getting we've written you know other originals since then but this just made sense to be the first one to come out and the first one because it's the first thing we actually wrote together. And yeah like again it could have just been you know love but it kind of made sense to link it into the fact that it's always been about music and that that was how we actually like found each other. Um but I tried to make it not too you know like on the nose. Like kind of subtle in a way but it ended up being just very yeah like expressing all of that.

SPEAKER_12

And what is the plan next then? Obviously you've got a lot of songs in the back catalogue that you're doing live are you planning on recording and releasing more?

SPEAKER_00

Well yeah yeah yeah definitely so we've obviously we we released a cover last year of of our um our favourite song to cover which is um a song called Imposters by the Fratellies. Which we've been doing since we were 17 so far covers what we learned um and to kind of to start us off and um I don't know you know this this song that we're now releasing obviously wasn't wasn't finished and and wasn't ready. But we definitely want to keep well we are we've we've obviously got more original music written and and yeah we definitely want to keep releasing original songs.

SPEAKER_13

Sorry we've we have recorded one more as well. We've got like another one kind of ready for like once yours and the music's been out for a little bit. Another one that we wrote in a completely different kind of way we wrote in like one day when we were um in New Zealand last year. And then we've written a few others since just all started so the plan is definitely to get this next one out you know within the momentum of yours and the music. Like so within the next couple of months hopefully and then maybe sort of one more single and then we yeah we'd really like to aim for given that we have got a few originals lined up and we seem to we write them quite quickly just because of the way we we just look we love doing this duo together. It's always been our favourite and and we're just playing all the time especially because we're together we just play like every evening together so the plan is hopefully like EP at some point um at the at the earliest like in the latter third of this year. Yeah. But it depends on you know everything else obviously busy but but that would be the goal get um that's like the the main thing on the horizon at some point even if it ends up being early next year.

SPEAKER_12

Yeah. You teed me up for my next question because you just mentioned New Zealand and I was going to ask you about that. So you went to New Zealand uh was it the end of last year beginning of this year I can't remember exactly when it was spanned over the over the over the new year time. Why did you go first of all?

SPEAKER_13

Uh well I um used to live there I lived there for a year when I was about five uh because my dad's like side of the family got some family uh who were from there and and live there and so me and my family went and yeah my parents worked there and and we lived for a while. And then we've always planned on going back but just never been able to it's obviously really expensive and then like losing my dad and everything. So my mum had been like really set on going back kind of once we were you know out of education and everything you've got the enough time to go. So that was always kind of planned. So myself my mum um my auntie and my brother we went at the end of the year and then the plan was so it was just like literally just family and then dad came out and we joined Debgle I came out after joined in the new year.

SPEAKER_00

We kinda did a you kind of did a swap so your um your mum and your auntie came home as I went out.

SPEAKER_12

Right so then I was out there for the yeah I went out in the first never been there before or any anywhere anywhere near that part of the world before the the the furthest I've ever been was like Germany.

SPEAKER_00

Right.

SPEAKER_12

So it was I mean that shocks us it is it is it as long away as it feels it's 24 hours on a plane.

SPEAKER_13

Honestly that like it's such a gorgeous country and we just loved it so much and I would go back all the time if it weren't for the flights like I don't think I could do that for another ten years. Like you can see why my family just like didn't go again because it's a lot of people it's probably a once in a lifetime thing isn't it's so lovely.

SPEAKER_00

But it is worth it like it is the most incredible country you've just gotta yeah you just gotta get through that flight.

SPEAKER_12

Yeah. Take some sleeping pills and uh hope that you wake up ten hours into the flight to knock some uh considerable time off. Yeah. But um yeah so you went out there on your own?

SPEAKER_00

Yes so I actually we both we both ended up flying on our own because uh because we wanted to fly back together Jess ended up not being able to get on the same flight as her mum and auntie so you so we both flew out on our own separately and had vastly different experiences. Yours was probably the worst it could possibly go whereas mine was incredible. On every single flight I had to and from New Zealand anyone sat next to me was a no show. Oh great.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah so every time I didn't have that version screaming baby next to you or something pretty much like yeah it was it was just horrible so yeah I wouldn't recommend doing that on your own unless you actually

SPEAKER_00

That was better because we were we were together. Yeah, I definitely think. Although we did have the stress.

SPEAKER_13

We did have the stress on the way back though of hoping that our guitar was making it back with us. Because we we bought a guitar out in New Zealand and um decided we were gonna bring it home so we paid a lot of money to fly it home on the plane with us. Um which was quite stressful, we put a little tracker on it in there to make sure it was great. Yeah, make sure it actually made the plane.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, we we we couldn't we couldn't phase because we had a plan, we couldn't phase not playing for sort of that long, it would have been five weeks by the time we got home. Um we were like, oh we'll just buy a like a rubbish guitar out there and because Jesse's brother's been out there for um quite nearly eight months, he's been doing part of his out there. Um we were like, oh we'll just ask him to sell it for us afterwards. And then obviously being musicians and a bit crazy. Yeah, we ended up buying quite a nice well, a nice uh guitar and yeah.

SPEAKER_13

We got it like second hand from like Facebook Marketplace, but we got all attached to it and covered it in like New Zealand stickers. Oh it's got memories to it, yeah. You could never really leave it behind. We played it on the beach, we wrote songs on it, so yeah, we paid way more money than we paid for it to fly it back.

SPEAKER_12

Um, but memories are priceless, aren't they?

SPEAKER_00

So you know it's great having you here now.

SPEAKER_12

Cool, I'm glad you had a good time. Um and then looking forwards, you mentioned you've got some gigs coming up. Just run us through the next few gigs you're playing where people can see you.

SPEAKER_13

I have to do my like think the mental poster. Um so we're next we're in Sudbury on Sunday, playing a beer festival. Um an Easter Sunday beer festival. Okay. Um yeah, uh at the brewery cap. Uh next week we're playing we're playing um for uh like a theme booked lo-fi in the library um next week, which is like uh going in like acoustic music in like different libraries and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_12

Which is a bit like so-fire sessions. Yeah, exactly, like little like live lounge sessions, yeah.

SPEAKER_13

Next week, next week, like a Haver Hill library, and then playing at records in Colchester on the Sunday. Um and then we've got like a few more hogs over the next few, like the week after that, like mentally think week. We've got quite a few different hogs and quite cool. Um and then we've got a few things. We've got a lot of like local. Um and we've got yeah, there's one quite cool one which I don't think we're allowed to say yet, but it's it is in a in a kind of Cambridgeshire like area. But the last third time he switched was we weren't last year, so I don't know if we if we are yet. But um probably better not to. Yeah, exactly. You don't want to like lose the slot.

SPEAKER_12

Um but that's quite a cool one, and uh the one you mentioned earlier, you're playing with a band. When's when's that? That's the Roodoo Daddies.

SPEAKER_13

The Roodoo Daddies, yeah. That's next Friday the 10th. Um yeah, we I think we can say about the Suffolk Show. Yeah, no. I think we have to find it I think that's fine. Yeah, we're playing the Suffolk show for the Jessica Deck, so that's very cool. That's like that. Um, like Weird and Wonderful Word again, uh Elmsfest, we're allowed to say that you know.

SPEAKER_00

Um I think all all told sort of between now and the end of June. Yeah, we've got about 20.

SPEAKER_13

We've got about 20 books so far.

SPEAKER_00

That's how many I've forgotten. Yeah, really want to beat last year. That's the goal. Even if it's 33, it'd just be so cool to have.

SPEAKER_12

I think you'll do I think you'll be smash that, to be honest with you. Yeah. Brook Brooke's comments just made me laugh in YouTube. She's gone, they're everywhere. Everywhere in capital letters. Yes. Basically. If you walk into a music venue or a pub somewhere in Suffolk, probably the chances are you might find them in their place.

SPEAKER_13

Or a library, apparently.

SPEAKER_12

Yeah, so many library. You do realise that some hilarious smart alex's gonna run up to you and go, shh, when you start playing. Just be prepared for that.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah, I'm sure. Some dad who thinks they're really funny, some of the things that's serious.

SPEAKER_12

I should find that funny.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah, definitely. Anyway.

SPEAKER_12

Alright, um, so singles out on Friday, six o'clock on Good Friday.

SPEAKER_13

Yep.

SPEAKER_12

Um, gig details are on your social media, which ha your handle is what?

SPEAKER_13

Uh it's Jess underscore and underscore deck underscore duo. So it ends up it just looks like Jess and Deck Jewish, but it has got all the underscores in. Uh but yeah, all the gigs, uh all the gigs are on there, all the all the news. That's the main like platform that we put um for everything. I do kind of fairly regular like flyers with all the upcoming things. I think we've got the next 20 gigs.

SPEAKER_12

Um, yeah, no, your social media is pretty up to date with your with your uh your your engagements.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah, so that's that's the main that's the main place. But I'll be uh we've got lots of new ones since I posted the last the last flyer, so that uh there'll be a new one of those coming soon, especially since we had a fancy photo shoot the other day, so we've got some new promos uh for that. So yeah, yeah, just indexed you over.

SPEAKER_12

Cool. Well, thank you both for coming. I appreciate the the extra effort given the circumstances that you've got too far.

SPEAKER_13

I'm sorry I can't really see, but I can hear you from over there, so yeah.

SPEAKER_12

Well, and we can hear you, and that's the most important thing, to be honest with you. I'm sorry all of a sudden I've changed to doing videos because if we were doing the old radio show, we would have we didn't even have to mention it too.

SPEAKER_13

I know, I literally said to Dek, I said we've both been on this show before, um, but it was just audio for the one time we have to be seen. But yeah, I'm glad we could still play. I'm glad that like yeah, it's not stopping me doing that so. No, definitely. Yeah.

SPEAKER_12

Alright, thank you guys. Thank you so much.

SPEAKER_13

Thank you so much for having us.

SPEAKER_12

We're gonna play uh this song now by an artist that you might remember. We've played loads of her songs on the show over the last few years. She used to be known as Fion Rebecca. Well, she's had a she's had a bit of a an identity change, and she's now known as Phoenix, spelt double F I N I X. And this is her debut track under that moniker. This is called Out Your Life, spelt out O U T. Uh, U R Life L Y F, just 'cause you know she's cool or she can't spell one of the two.

unknown

I will say that I was fine. When you don't pick up the cry, I will tell you what I need when it's gonna die.

SPEAKER_20

But I think that's all I think that's got me on the one you love. Oh smell to it, you know, you know, you just don't think that's gonna be a big deal.

SPEAKER_12

That track is by the artist that we used to know as Fion Rebecca, uh now known as Phoenix Double F I N I X, and the track is called Out Your Life, and is available now if you would like to go and stream it. You are watching and listening to the new music generator. We are live on YouTube on this Wednesday evening. We are also on Instagram, and we are also available as a podcast wherever you get your podcast from, uh Spotify or from any of the other places. Uh, you can find us on there as soon as the show goes out, we'll upload that and get it there for you. And we're on Nogs Radio on a Thursday afternoon from four o'clock as well, with more information about where you can hear us and some new places coming up, probably on next week's show. Um now, another track that I was very excited to listen to today, this is the new single from Mara, who are a group of 15, 16 year olds from Cambridgeshire, but their last track really wowed me. It was one of my favourite tracks of last year. Uh, they've been back in the studio again with Jake Day to put this track together. Available today, this is Back to You.

SPEAKER_18

We used to have a castle in Royal Tea. Now are we outside your door, knowing you walk We could have had it all, we didn't feel cool, we didn't feel lovely through the door. But when you wait outside my shrug, music we listen to it back, and back when the ring is a big one.

SPEAKER_12

Like this. That's Murada and Back to You. We had an interview with them in the summer uh back last year, and um they won the 18 and under award at the uh the NMG Awards, uh, and you can see why, definitely doing very well for themselves at the moment. That song is available as of today. If you want to send in a track, you are a band or an artist from East Anglia, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire, or Bedfordshire, get in touch, inbox at new musicgenerator.com, send through your latest track as an MP3 or web format attachment, and also include links to your biography and your social media. That will be lovely, and we'll get you on the show very soon indeed. Still to come, we've got music from the Dead Colours, the Portland Vintage Rec, Jamie Wiltshire as well. Uh but now another track from Iona Sky. We've been playing quite a lot of music from them over the last few weeks because they have released a new EP as of a couple of weeks back, and so this I think is now the last track from that EP that we have not yet played. This is called Everything I Got.

SPEAKER_11

It's a couple of your last time. But I'm working my way up now. I want to know what that life means, but you like one of them.

SPEAKER_12

Uh, Justin Deck reminded me, uh, that I haven't mentioned today that uh we are fast approaching the deadline now for the NMG Awards. If you want to be in with a chance of being nominated at the NMG Awards uh this year, which are back on the 11th of September, uh then you have to have had your track played on the programme uh between the last event and uh the 31st of May. So we are now uh less than two months away from that particular deadline. Uh it must be an original track, covers do not count, and you must be from our area of uh coverage, which I've just mentioned is Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire, or Bedfordshire. So basically anybody that's being played on the show at the moment, anybody tonight, uh, or anybody that gets featured between now and um the 31st of May and has been featured up to now, uh will be considered to be included in the long list of nominations. It doesn't guarantee you a uh a nomination, but it stands you in good stead and say the awards are on the 11th of September at the Apex in Berry St. Edmonds once again this year. Um here comes a track from Dead Colours. Um I'm struggling to find the information on this because the Gmail is handily just decided to log me out of the inbox on my computer, so let's go on to the phone. This is a track that they sent through uh a week or so ago and uh just missed out on last week's show, so I said we would definitely play it today. So let's do just that. Uh Dead Colours are a electro indie synth duo from St. Albans, and they're excited to share news that their latest single. Traveling, taken from their EP, Emotional Corrosion, is out now. Traveling captures the push and the pull of wanting to move forward in a relationship whilst grappling with the fear of being tied down. This is part of their EP, as I say, which is available now. We've got a gig coming up on May the 14th at Club 85 in Hitchen, if you are in and around that area. Uh nice venue. Um, if you uh would like to find out more information about the band, you can on Instagram they are Dead Colours Music. Let's have a listen to this then. This is Dead Colours, and the track is called Traveling.

SPEAKER_04

Cause I'm gonna be a show. Now it's gonna add a hate low. Now we're gonna wanna get the data. Don't I don't wanna hold on? You never gonna let them get my time.

SPEAKER_16

I just keep happening. I know you felt it. I just can't help it.

SPEAKER_10

I feel like that's listening to the new music generator that's Dead Colours and their track called Traveling.

SPEAKER_12

Now we're gonna play you a recorded version of a track by the Portland recorded live at Drip Dry Productions. This is Blooms.

SPEAKER_15

Beyond the horizon, or I can see the truth behind your eyes, or it gets me down. I can't get through with all of the questions and I wanna know Am I way around this?

SPEAKER_07

The world I move goes beyond the raster. So I just don't do that, get me top get on.

SPEAKER_12

If you want to go and see them play live, then the next opportunity is at the Apex in Barry St. Edmunds, a week on Friday, for Club Columbia. A night that some music industry experts uh who know what they're talking about have uh worked out four local bands that you really need to see before they uh become big. Uh one of those musical experts might be me in Advent Commas. Um so the Portland are gonna be on the bill alongside Icarus, chest, and jaded teeth. Uh it's £12 if you want to come along on April the 10th to see each band play live. The Portland are also playing alongside chess at the waterfront in Norwich on the 22nd of May. They're both supporting World News. Then they're playing their own hometown headline show at 33 and the third in Peterborough on the 26th of June. That's 60% sold out already. And on the 4th of July, they're playing at Deadwax in Norwich with Pink Serene and Sicener. Um later this month they'll be recording their new single with engineer and producer Brett Shaw of 123 Studios in London. He's previously worked with Florence the Machine, Falls, and Gorillas. So the Portland exciting band that came on our radar about a year or so ago now, uh continuing to go in one direction, which is good. Looking forward to seeing them play live again on April the 10th. That is a week on Friday. More details on that gig on the show next week. Alright, so we have twenty-five minutes left of the programme, and still lots of new music to play you, and we need to go through the artists that are playing the Bright in the Corners All Day Festival in Ipswich on the twenty-fifth of April, and also First Light Festival who have announced the bulk of their lineup this week, and that's in June. Uh now though, it is the moment you've all been waiting for, and it's time for a new track from Vintage Rec. We haven't heard anything from for a little while, but it's nice to hear that they've got a new track, and it is also out on April the 10th. Um Vintage Rec is a dynamic indie rock band in Cambridge, formed by five young musicians, namely Lewis, Josh, Isaac, Ellis, and Frank. Ranging from 17 to 19 years old, these up-and-coming artists bringing high-energy performances to captivate crowds wherever they go. Drawing inspiration from legendary acts like Red Hot Chili Peppers, Radio Head, Block Party, and Two-Dor Cinema Club that sound blends catchy hooks and memorable lyrics, creating a modern and vibrant take on indie rock and pop. This is the new track from Vintage Rec out next Friday called Fantasy, come try and talk to me.

SPEAKER_05

There ain't no one around me, no happy fantasy. Spun around in circles under the palm of feet. Don't make your feelings happy, just try to be discreet. Cause I feel feeling lonely. I just don't know what to do, just don't know where I'm wrong. I'm putting a letter or a poem or song. Just fun around in circles, I'm gonna fall my fleet. And I made my feelings obvious, I wasn't so discreet. Cause I feel feelin' lonely.

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That they are playing at the uh Junction Fiverr night next Friday. Uh, if you want to go along to that. In fact, let's have a little look while we're here at the other bands that are playing the Junction Fiverr Knight so we can give everybody a mention. Hold the line a moment, please, call it. Friday the 10th of April. It's the April Fiverr. I think it's rarely a fiver. Uh who have we got here? With theory, the Hits Monkeys, Vintage Rec, Heroic Dragon, Eduardo and S.A. And Jalee. Okay, well you can probably hear by the my recognition. I I we're not familiar with any of those bands. Which is a shame. So Vintage Rec, your um mission if you choose to accept it, is to tell those bands about us and if they have any recorded music to get in touch, and we'll play it on the show. Um lots of exciting things bubbling away in the background here at NMGHQ, none of which I can tell you about at the moment, but there will be an announcement of uh something exciting happening next week. And also hopefully on the show next week, I'll be able to tell you something else. Um but there's plenty of things working on the background. It's not just this Wednesday night show on YouTube. Um we're gonna be out and about at events, we've got more uh content coming to this YouTube channel, and we're gonna be uh available to be heard uh in more places than we currently are at the moment, and uh that's probably all I should say. On that. But if you would like to be featured on the programme, you can also get in touch at inbox at new musicgenerator.com and we'd love to hear from you. Still got music left in the inbox, we won't get the chance to play this week. Here for another twenty minutes. If you missed any of the show, you can rewind it on YouTube, back to any part that you would like to uh watch again. It's available there forever. And the podcast will be available straight after the show as well, and we broadcast at four o'clock tomorrow on Noggers Radio, uh, which is uh my good chum Neil Whiteside's uh uh online radio station. Jamie Wilcher's been back in touch, and whenever Jamie sends us his music, I must play it immediately. I love Jamie's stuff. This is out on the 2nd of April, so tomorrow it's called Better Man, and it's a heartfelt guitar-led pop rock anthem that captures the struggle to break generational patterns while stepping fully into fatherhood. Let's have a listen.

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The cracks in the floor, the ghost I once knew, a shadow gone, but then still I swore that cycle would end somehow. I'll be a better man, better than the other child Hold that little head, stay right by the side, no matter the cards, be up in I care for my daughter I'll be a better man with a cry at night I'll pull them back. Don't do it, we'll just die I'll break the head I'll let the stuff I do the boy, get the foe, be the brother. I'll be a better man, better than he ever tried. Oh the little hound devil if the style no matter the cards, we are better for my daughter. I'll be a better man.

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Love it. Another brilliant track from Jamie Wiltshire available tomorrow. That is called Better Man. Alright, time for a new track from the Dutch House. Hi Tim and NMG team. I hope you're having a great week. This is Anna from The Dutch House. We recently released a single called Canterbury Tales and we thought we'd send it over for your consideration. Well, thank you very much. Let's have a listen to it. This is the new one from The Dutch House, Canterbury Tales.

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Where the same you know we are when the sun is gone, please. I remember the places, so you ask. What's a few eyes? It's a different places, I thought seasons when the sun is gone. If you want to make sense, we say why now you die.

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Just looking at the playlist, which you can find again once I post it online, uh, if you missed any tracks, as I mentioned earlier on. And just notice that we happen to have just played three tracks from Cambridge bands or artists in a row. Well, would you look at that? But somebody write that down, make a note of the time. 8 47, 1st of April 2026. Must be an April 4. You're uh listening and watching the new music generator here for another 13 minutes, and uh it's time to mention some events that are happening over the course of the next few months. Brian The Corners is an annual music festival that takes place in Ipswich, and they have announced details of an old day out that is going to be taking place on the 25th of April across the seven venues in the town. It's a grassroots music festival in celebration of emerging regional artists. It's free to attend thanks to funding from Ipswich Central, the business improvement district, and will be hosted by a variety of town centre venues, including pubs and community hubs. The seven venues taking part are the three wise monkeys, studios, arcade tavern, Halbert Inn, Thomas Woolsey, the empty super dry unit in the buttermarket, and the Brighton the Corners Run Venue, the church, which are all located in the central Ipswich. The lineup is uh and a lot of these we've played on the show. One Lemon, we've played a different kitchen, NMG Award-winning artist, Arthur Black, Bank of Cans, Wonuru, uh British, The Bungie's, Chance for Good, Jess, Dean Frost, The Detour, Dollface, Done with Waiting, Dream Houses, E. Martin, Eve's Delight, The Feather Thorns, Gasoline Green, Girl Guide, Holloway, we played earlier, I am Affia, is gone, Jade Teeth, Joe Gray, Juliet, Samuel, Carrie Kera, Lume, Lottie Brazier, May Gabriels, New Jen, like The Rabbit, Radhead, Robin Forbidden, Rice, Sam Milton, the Tyrant, Samuel Taylor, Calvin, Decader, and the Mani. I think we played about two-thirds of those artists on that playlist. So hopefully we'll introduce some of the others in the future. Forty plus artists playing an episode on the 25th of April. It is free to go along. And if you would like to volunteer, you can go to the right in the corner. So from that long list, let's play you the detour. We played this uh again last week because it's just come out. This is obsolete. One of over 40 artists playing in the Bright in the Corners all day are in Ipswitch on the 25th of April. That's the Detour and Obsoletes. Quick word on upcoming guests. The Detour will be on the show. On the 22nd of April. On the 15th of April, we'll be joined live in the studio for a live session by Essex singer-songwriter George Bone. And next week on the show, on the 8th of April, I will be joined in the studio by a new co-host. Somebody will be co-hosting the show with me next week. You can all start wondering who that might be. Next Wednesday from 7 o'clock. First Light takes place in Lovest on the 28th and 21st of July. And amongst the artists are performing Harrison, John Segod. John the recipients of the NMG Award Price Elsewhere in the Festival on the A promenade. I think it's a safe bet to say that it's called Midnight, don't you? That's Moira Someone and the track is called Midnight. Thanks for your company this week. Do it again same time next week, shall we? I'll leave you with chance for good and stick around. Good night.