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• New Music Generator • Season 2 • Episode 12

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Tim Willett is joined in the studio by song writer Ben Mulholland of Mulholland Jive for a live session, there's all the latest submissions to the inbox including new music from Tiny Vessels and Chance For Good and a big announcement about Strawberry Fair 2026!

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Generate generating initializing initializing standby Cambridgeshire Norfolk Suffolk Essex Hertfordshire New Music Generator New Music Generator New Musical Generator I try enough to listen for the world seeking now I am always on a mission to accept do it no doubt I can do this for forever That's the way that they go down I can hold it all forever That's the way that they go down there go to the way to fall I was gonna be on the show That's the way it goes down That's the way it goes down to try to remember the way it was before going on and on forever That's the way that they go down Hello welcome to the new music generator for another two hours of the best in music from emerging artists from across East Anglia and that is Myopia and the Way They Go Down.

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We premiered that track and uh the well we premiered both the track and the video actually uh on the show over the last couple of weeks, the video, the most recent thing that we premiered, and uh so I thought we'd start the show off with that today. Uh you are very welcome, uh wherever you're listening, whenever you're listening to this programme that aims, as I say, to shine a spotlight on new music artists from across East Anglia, and by that I mean artists from Cambridgeshire, from Norfolk, from Suffolk, from Essex, from Hertfordshire, and from Bedfordshire. Uh on the programme today I'll be joined in the studio by Ben Mulholland, who is the mastermind behind the music of Mulholland Jive. He is going to be talking about his music project, and he's also going to be doing some piano covers of tracks from the NMG playlist, which is something that he's posted on his social media on a number of occasions over the last well, a couple of years, I suppose. And I did throw the gauntlet down. I invited him on the show a few weeks back and said, Did you want to come into the studio and do something? And he has agreed, he's also said that he can pick things up pretty much straight away. So we can just play him something, and then he could do his own piano cover pretty much instantly. So that's coming up in about an hour's time. And just as excitingly as that, we have a big announcement to make, and that's coming up in 25 minutes' time. So uh if you are uh um tuned in at the moment, make sure you don't go anywhere because there's lots of stuff coming up on the programme today. We've also got new music from Jennifer Ness, you and Martin, Jess Davy, and her band Crying in Colour, and also um Brandy Dracks from Charles Hooker, and Tiny Vessels as well. And you may have noticed the old voices returned. We're we're 95% of the way there, I think, now. Um in fact I would say that today as I'm uh doing the show to you is probably day one that I would consider myself almost uh fully recovered. It's been a bit of a nightmare over the last um month or so, so thank you for bearing with me. And hopefully I am uh much more pleasurable to listen to today than I have been over the last few weeks. Although I haven't spoken for two hours on it um for a little while, so it might start to go as we go through the show, but we'll see how we get on. If you want to get in touch with us, you can do so via email inbox at new musicgenerator.com. That's also the address to send your new music to us. And you can also get in touch with us if you are uh watching us on YouTube by popping a little hello in the comments and hello to Brooke, who is there ready and waiting already. Right, let's get on with some new music submitted to us from the inbox. This is new from Jennifer Ness.

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It's called What If What if you woke up tomorrow morning and your whole life just turned out to be a dream? What if you could have a super power? Would you fly? Or would you not be seen? What if you could only see one color? Which one would you choose and why? If only I could stop my heart from breaking. Well, I'm really gonna try. If I could fly away, then I go back to the first time I saw your face. If I could fly away, then I go back and relive it over again. Would you eat it all or save a bit for me? What if you could tell a part to Texas? What if money really did grow on a tree? If only you could jump over a rainbow. What if the sky was never dark or gray? I wish we could play this game forever. Oh my darling, what I'd give for that today. If I could fly away, then I go back to the first time I saw your face. Or in Iceland where it's dark all day or whatever. Do you remember when you said you'd save your money in a cookie jar? Or when I'm really old, what if you could land on Mars or Venus? Or visit Jupiter for just one single day. What if I could stop this reminiscence? Then I'm guessing everything would be okay. If I could fly away, then I go back to the first time I saw your face. If I could fly away, then I go back and relive it over again. If I fly away, then I go back to the first time I saw your face.

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It is called What If. Uh Jennifer got in touch with us uh a couple of months ago because she is friends with Ross Stewart, who is an artist that we've played on the show on uh a many regular basis, M MG award-winning artist, no doubt. Um we played her song Prodigal Sun, and uh that song is the second one that she submitted to us called What If. She says it's been getting a really strong reaction. Jennifer's top of the room when I play it live, which is amazing to see. She's got a run of summer shows coming up. She's playing support for Kirsten Adamson in September, and she's on the Bill for First Live Festival in June. And it's Jennifer Ness and her new song called when we announced the other week that we were going to be going out uh on uh radio in Norwich, and it's a flurry of music from artists from that area. And uh his next artist is one of those. This is Ewan Martin. This track has been produced by Tom Joy, who is a well-known music producer in and around Norfolk. He's also previously been nominated for a producer of the year award the NMG Award. His track is out on the 22nd of May. Ewan says um the first track of his project recorded as a full band. His bandmates Connor on drums, Marco on guitar, Martin on bass, and Steven on keys. And they're play they played their first gig at Space Studios in Norwich last December and are now working on more new material. This is Ewan Martin and Burden.

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If you want the truth, then I'll leave you behind. I'd continue in silence. View, I suffer pride with violence. Driving a hide, failing a fight. I never rest until my battery's minus. Are they losing the will? Are they ready to fail? I've still got a few breaths left. They might be winning breasts. Please don't go yet. Expectations, pain it go. But my crippled health brings us to a halt. It's a cloudy future and it takes off inside. No, I don't blame you. I already hate me. Another pill. The size of changing the fly in the nest is too uncertain. I'm so sick of being the button. Oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh, oh, I'm so sick of feeling the burden. Oh, I'm so sick of feeling the burden I discover my wife. It turns out I'm not so cuss. The power you gave me bleeds out into a smile, even when I miss you. Batteries crossed, we tick in a box. One at a time, we couldn't be stopped. But there are just some up the codes. That are so beautiful. That are so beautiful. The night's so beautiful. Expectations play the gold. But my crippled health brings us to a halt. It's a cloudy future and it's tastes up and tight. Though I don't blame you. I already hate me. Another bill. It's too uncertain. I'm so sick of being the button. Oh, oh. Oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh, oh, I'm so sick of being the burden. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh, oh, I'm so sick of being the body. Where do I go? Where do I go from here? Where do I go? Where do I go from here? Keep looking back and reap from the progress. I never stood still. And I'll never stand still. There's always a place for me to go. I'll carry a trace and take it with me as I evolve. I involve me. I involve. I am a bow. I'll take it with me as I vote. I live. I take it with me. I think I'm going to be able to do it.

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As usual, I don't listen to stuff before I play it on air. Did catch me out last week. So that's the first time that I've heard that track. Really like it. That's you and Martin and Burden, an artist from in and around Norfolk. Well, Norwich more specifically. We're heading over to Suffolk now for a new track, an upcoming track from the Jess Davy band. This is out on the 15th of May, uh, which is Friday. It's called Electric, and it's the second original song that the band have produced. Created by Jess, her guitarist and bassist Dek and drummer Tom. It follows the band's first single, Masquerade, that came out last November. It's all about the transition that Jess took when the boys joined her and helped her transform her music from a solo acoustic project to a heavier rock direction. She's always wanted to go in for her individual original music. It's literally about me going electric, like Bob Dylan. Hence the title. That's what it's called. It features so many of the things I love about being louder and rockier with my band, she says, such as heavy guitar and explosive drum solos. I hope you like it.

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Coming back and coming for more. Coming back and coming for more. Now here it comes and here we go.

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You're listening to the new music generator, and that's the first time you're hearing new music from Suffolk band Jess Davy Band with Electric and that song is out on Friday. Just a chance for them all to show off, basically. Some drum solo in there, some uh deep grungy guitar and bass tones. Very good, very good indeed. Right, let's continue on with the music from the inbox, because we do have a big announcement to make in about seven minutes time. If you are uh listening to this back on another day or listening to the podcast, then the announcement has already been made, and you can find it on our Instagram and Facebook pages at New Music Generator. This next song was sent to us by an artist we played many times on the show, Cambridgeshire folk artist Steve Warner, who's collaborated with Julie Simpson on this record that's out on the 21st of May. It's called Hawkers, and it's inspired by the historical tragedy of the massacre of Glencoe, in which thirty-eight members of Clan MacDonald were killed. The release was conceived during a hillwalking trip to Glencoe ten years ago after climbing uh and descending into Glencoe village. There's lots of words in here.

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Shed our hearts in the command secret.

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Rise up from the ground.

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An announcement is on the way after we've played you the new offering from Norfolk band Crying in Colour. Their latest track is a punk rock heartbreak anthem and high energy from the start, embedded in a raw, emotive soundscape. This one offers all the feels, nostalgia, questioning was it real, and the bitterness that they moved on before you. Just a messy breakup song, perfect for late-night spirals and cathartic cries while you get them out of your system. Warning side effects may include bad decisions and burst eardrums. This track is out on Friday the 15th.

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On the radio, did you hear what I wrote? On my best work, oh, doesn't rhyme so and listen back, but it's catchy and it catches me. Are you living a night? Lily never existed. From the poison I dread. I guess I hope you would stay with me. My bodies are sad. Life is so that I stayed. I guess I hope you would stay with me. In the photo boot. When you made the first move, I was in you, but I played it who Somewhere in my room. There's a picture real leaning in the lean out. Now I'm in a bug, and we're making big plans with a couple phones. Try to hold and die, and I hope that When we play old tongue, you'll be in line, cause we're headlocked. I'ma live and I die Then we ever existed. From the poison I dread. I guess I hope you would stay with me. My hobbies are sad, like the songs that I said. I guess I hope you would stay. With me And just when I think I'm over this I'll do the one thing that I know I shouldn't. Then I told my friends I wouldn't let you back. If but if you reached up, I forget I decided Like you forgot we existed Lemus woke on the present patriot. I hope you would stay with me. No parties are stuck like the song that's dead. I hope you stay with me.

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Alright, time for an announcement. The first time I went to Strawberry Fair, which is held in Cambridge on Midsummer Common, was 2011. And for every year since then, apart from the two years when the fair didn't happen, I have been there, NMG has been there, showcasing some of the best artists from East Anglia on stage. And honestly, I thought this year I'd get a year off. Parting ways with the old place. But it just keeps on dragging us back in again. So it's my pleasure to announce that we have collaborated with our long-term supporters and friends at Brewboard to bring you the Brewboard NMG stage at this year's Strawberry Fair, which takes place in Cambridge on Saturday, the 6th of June, 2026. It's only a few weeks away. NMG has selected, hand selected, a really great lineup of artists. So if you're going to be in and around Cambridge or making plans to come to Cambridge on the 6th of June, then you'll be able to see our live lineup of music on stage starting from midday. Plans yet to be worked out as to uh what other coverage we'll be offering in terms of uh recordings or streaming or anything like that for this show, but we'll be there in person. So the Brewboard NMG stage has been born. You'll find it on the site where you might know of the Portland stage. We've taken over that stage. It's one of the biggest stages on the site, and we're gonna be there on the 6th of June. Very exciting. So, the only other thing to answer, I guess, is who's playing? Well, allow me the next half an hour to tell you that. This guy's gonna be there. We premiered this trap last week. Dan Sutton, finalist in the Cambridge Bang Competition, winner of the Kimberly Roos songwriting prize. This is Love Sick Remedy.

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Bunning like a fire. It's fun and battle when I'm walking by. But I know that I'll be fun. This will be the same legs when I'm here with you. I'll leave this bed with my body. Little better send on Little Beta Mean, she's a little better, beautiful, Little Better Sweet, Little Big Potion. She's a little bit of a beautiful.

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That's Tuesday, as we're uh doing the show right now. That is Dan Sutton and Love Sick Remedy, produced by Carl Willetz. Dan will be at Strawberry Fair on the Brewboard NMG stage on Saturday, the 6th of June. Also performing for us this year. Opening the stage, no doubt, will be another recent studio guest, Mr. George Bone. Very much looking forward to uh having him play live for us. Uh also on the lineup for us on Strawberry Fair Day in Cambridge on the 6th of June will be Phoenix. Um artist that you might know, long-term listeners of the show might know as Fion Rebecca. She's uh we played some of her we played one of her recent songs called Out of My Life. Um she's gonna be there for us um at uh around half past one on that afternoon. And then Lost Robbins will be joining us. So this is the band fronted by Josh Robbins, well-known singer, songwriter and performer from Cambridge. So if you like your uh bluegrassy, folky kind of music, then uh Lost Robbins will be performing for us on the stage. So George Bone, Dan Sutton, Phoenix, Lost Robbins, and then these guys. This is new from Suffolk band Chance for Good and never get old, they'll be performing live for us too.

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My friend who lives hard to make how do you smile every day. Am I selfish or am I single world? My friend, show me how to let go and stay within Before I lose my youth, before the temple shows, never get this never get, never get, never get, never get shopping, and then it just probably is now, but it's weighing us down so far down At least is what they say But we're playing now, we send me that you don't say, never see me, and I'm gonna go ahead and see never get, never get, never get, never get a little bit of a brand new from Chance for Good.

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It is called Never Get Old, and they will be joining us on our stage at Strawberry Fair on the 6th of June. I have to say, I really wasn't expecting to uh be involved in Strawberry Fair in any way this year. I was uh thinking I'll just go along and see some acts and have a nice time. And then when Ollie, uh, who's um running Brewboard, who's a big l long time uh sponsor and supporter and friend of this show, uh called me a few weeks ago and said we're doing the old Paul and Ballroom stage. Do you want to come and do it with me? I couldn't really say no, could I? Uh so yeah, we got a line up together and uh we're announcing it to you this evening. Uh so so far we've told you that George Cone will be playing for us alongside Dan Sutton, Phoenix, Lost Robins, Chance for Good. And also performing for us will be the wonderful Ross Stewart, an MG award-winning Ross Stewart. Not sure if he'll wear a kilt that day, it might depend on the weather. Also performing for us is Cambridge stalwart S.J. Mortimer, otherwise known as S.J. Morgan. She's also in Morgan Way, but she's been recording and working on brand new material for her own solo project recently, and she's gonna be playing that for us on stage. She'll be on at five o'clock on that Saturday. And then also joining us on the lineup, which is packed full of brilliant artists, are these guys. This is Passion Parade.

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It suddenly gives you too fast as good as I say. Is it what the struggle? Then I'll be what you think Suddenly you sink down, and you fall from the sofa. Some fades out your head to say There's a calmness in this water Stop for K the Ares to this room of the King Stop doing this from my strawberry, stop the King, stop to this room I can die.

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And that is their track Lost Path. And if you are uh watching us on YouTube, then you will have seen the video for that and enjoyed the uh the sound effects of the waves drifting in and out. Um very much looking forward to seeing those guys play, I've given them lots of opportunities. They perform for us at the LMG Awards, for example, and uh they are great lives, so they're gonna be on the bill uh for us at Strawberry Fair, 6th of June. We're partnering with our friends at Brew Ball to bring you music on what used to be the Portland stage. Um also joining the lineup is Georgia Nevada, singer-songwriter. Um she's recently been on a support tour around the UK of um I know I can't remember, I meant to look this up earlier, I can't remember the artist that she was supporting. But she came to the Apex where I work uh as an opening artist, and having not seen her play live before, um, but had played her music on the show, uh was really excited to see her play live and she didn't let me down. So she's gonna be there with her band. And then concluding the NMG lineup for the um Strawberry Fair Brewboard NMG collaboration, are tiny vessels, and we just so happen to have the first exclusive play of their new single, This Is Fix It Up me now, be coming back, breathing in, breathing out the pain I'm missing And I'm it's not the same Writing on the drive only you the way it lay fixed it up and just put it together.

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I don't wanna talk about it, I just wanna be together. I don't wanna talk about it, I just wanna be together. So I could fight again. I don't want to talk about, I just want to be again.

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I'm trying to come off this oyster fix it up and sing together.

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I don't wanna talk about it, I just wanna be together.

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That is the first time you're listening to the new track from the Cambridgeshire group Tiny Vessels, that is Fix It Up. Tiny Vessels will be performing for us live at Strawberry Fair this year. If you've just tuned in, this is the new music generator. We will be at the UK's biggest free volunteer-organised music and arts festival on the 6th of June 2026, Midsummer Common. Come along and see us, whether you're from Cambridge or not. Loads of people travel to Cambridge to go to Strawberry Fair. It's the first time the event's happened uh in two years, and uh it's uh it's one to really support. You must support it because otherwise these sorts of events that rely on the generosity of the public will not be around forever. Uh so very much looking forward to being there. Let's recap our lineup for you, shall we? Mr. George Bone will be performing for us, opening our stage. And he'll be followed by Dan Sutton, winner of the Kimberly Roos songwriting prize at this year's Cambridge Band Competition and finalist of the competition. He is one to watch. Make sure you're there early for Dan. It's been a while since I've seen Fion Rebecca, she's rebranded herself as Phoenix, and she'll be performing with her band live for us. Also there. Lost Robins. It's been red increasingly well-known Cambridgeshire folk route now. And suffer band chants for good. It sheer and likes the lead. Four more to go. This is a very, very old clip because she hasn't had any new original music out for a while, but she'll be performing it for us on the 6th of June. SJ Mortimer. SJ Morgan, otherwise known as SJ from Morgan Way. Joined by Passion Parade. Two more. If you like Blues Rock, choose the one for you. And rounding off our little bit, let's say little bit, it's nine hours. Tiny vessels. There will also be a Limp Biscuit tribute band if you like that. And a DJ following us from 9 until 10.30. But the NMG bit will be between midday and nine o'clock. Uh I should, if you're on YouTube, so now cut to this graphic that I spent literally five minutes throwing together earlier on. That is the poster. You can find it on our social media, you can find it on Bruple's social media, share it. Uh come along, it is uh free to come along, although a donation is encouraged.

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I've had my head and hit the gravel road. Ain't got no plan, got room to grow, so I'm as free.

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So wind blows. Wild things always get some wings off all over a treadmill.

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Through fields of older stories up melee. An uneasy destination. It likes to change its face. But I know better than anyone I know it's worth the chase. Oh, well, my tires won't touch the ground and I really just but I feel like I'll be profound. And I'll keep saying so bad.

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I'll come online.

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And I'm heading to where I'm fell, when I'm fell and for the week I travel west, hoping for easy street. Toward the flames. Maybe that's where I'll make my name.

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Oh, well, my tires won't touch the ground And I really just let I feel like I feel so we're gonna start.

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I got a mind laid out And I'm heading to where I'm fellow Where I'm fell touched the ground I need religious, but I feel like I've found that is uh Georgia Nevada.

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She'll be playing for us at Strawberry Fair on the 6th of June. This is the new music generator. We will have music and conversation from our guest Ben Mul Holland in just a few moments' time.

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You're listening to the new music generator with Tim Willard.

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In the meantime, let's revisit a track from last week's playlist. This is Circuits 2 by Far From Refuge.

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We fill a window mechanical angel, leaving everything we knew behind.

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So you're promise of a new foundation, a kiss done paradise, big person got our massage We're born from the dozen mind navigating new diamond shines Through with King's Office I can set the park concentration We fall There has to be a reasonable eyes on the box I don't like the dogs on the board and why God's following has to be a big one we came so far to mouth but it's got this I never tried to see a face and all the stones I can't see pictures and come straight and go I can such a far constellation before nice my life has to be a reason for why we came so far That is a track from last week's playlist and it is from Far From Refuge it is called Circuits 2 Timelines and I believe it is out now. You are uh listening to the new music generator and uh every other week, every few weeks, I like to have a guest join me in the studio, and this week is no different. Please welcome today's guest. It is Mr. Ben Moreholland. Hello, Ben.

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Hello Tim. How are you?

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I'm very well, how are you? Well, actually, I know I can say that now. I am very well. I'm glad to hear. I'm nearly very well.

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But um welcome, thank you for coming in. Thanks for having me. This is my first time I've actually been in your studio. Um it's it's a bit surreal being here because I watch it most weeks. And it's now like I feel like I'm I'm I'm in the internet somehow.

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Yeah, you walked in the room you walked in the studio and was like, ooh.

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Yeah, it's like I recognize everything. We did it, we did it. An interview a few years ago, but it was an online thing. So I never actually got to come to the studio. So yeah, it's a whole new experience being here.

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So have I not actually done an interview with you in person? Not in person, no.

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It's the first time we've we've been here. Okay. It's very cool though. I also I think I'd like to say I forgot this was being broadcast on YouTube because I kind of figured, oh, it's the int it's the radio, I don't need to worry about what I'm wearing or anything. So I haven't made an effort for you, I'm sorry. I didn't think anyone would see, but um yeah, hopefully it's alright. I like that you've got a bit of um a bit of uh low-level lighting in here. I think that's the work. No, it's fine. Thank you for that. That's fine. What have you got in your bear on your jumpers? I've got a bear, yes. Most of my most of my jumpers have bears on them. Have you seen me before, yeah?

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Actually shows up more clearly on the camera than it does actually in real life. Oh which is interesting. Uh didn't plan that, but thank you, that's great. No. Um so um thank you for coming in. This is this you're kind of here because of a challenge that I set you uh on the show a few weeks ago when I had who was it? I had in, was it Dan? Um I think it was Dan.

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It might have been Dan, yeah. I can't I can't remember exactly who it was, but uh I think I came up because I think I'd done a cover of one of their songs. Or was it George Bone? It was yeah, it was George Bone. George Bone, okay. And I think complete coincidence, I had done a cover of whatever his least most recent song was. Yes. Like literally a day or two before, um, and you got talking about me, and it kind of all escalated from there, and now I'm here.

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Well, so you are an artist in your own right, and we do we do play your music, we have played your music a lot recently. But what you started doing, and I don't know whether you remember where this started or what it started with, was on your social media you would just film a little clip of you doing just a piano cover of a track that you'd heard on predominantly a track that you'd heard on the show.

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Yeah, but that's exactly it. I think um when I started releasing the more holland jarg stuff, um I quickly got to like get in contact with lots of local musicians. And like it's lovely to get to go to gigs and like buy merch and stuff, but unfortunately there's just not enough time in the day to go to everyone's gig or like there's not enough money to buy everyone's merch. So I was trying to think of a way that's quite straightforward for me to support other artists in quite a different way, I think, quite quirky way. Um and yeah, being able to pick up other people's songs I can do fairly easily. Um I started posting them online thinking that no one would really take much notice of them. But it's really nice because I post the videos and then the original artist usually comments and reposts them and says something nice. And yeah, it's quite a nice way of supporting musicians without you know having to go to gigs and stuff like that, because there's just you can't always do it. Um yeah, I think you know, as a lot of um uh unsigned musicians, I'm sure, would agree, uh we all just want people to listen to our music and hopefully engage with it and and you know enjoy it. And I think when people hear me do the cover of their song, it's for them, usually it's probably something that hasn't been done before, or if it has, it hasn't been done very often before. Um so it's quite a nice thing to think someone's listened to my music and learnt it and put it online, and then their fans see it, hopefully some of my fans see it, and it's it's it's a really nice thing. And I definitely didn't mean for it to become a thing, but I've definitely done quite a few now. Um I was trying to work out how many I've done, but I lost count. I I couldn't keep up with it. Um so it's a really nice thing to do. I really enjoyed doing it, it's nice.

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Oh, and and I think you you probably or maybe you do realize this now, but underestimate how much it means to some of these artists that you've actually taken the time and the trouble, and you'll say, you know, it it it didn't take me very long, I'd pick it up pretty quickly or whatever, it's probably not much time out of your day. But just the thought and the effort, and I'm sure if the foot the boot was on the other foot if somebody was to do a cover of of your music, and maybe they have. Any day now, I'm waiting for it. Um then you know, and how much that would mean to you to have that recognition.

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Yeah, yeah, I'd be lovely. I mean, I keep joking that someone's gonna do it. It hasn't happened yet. Um, but but maybe one day actually I tell a lie. I did a gig with Fred's house about a year ago, and during soundcheck, uh Vicki Jones, uh singer and piano player, she did a little bit of one of my songs uh for about three seconds and then stopped. But you know, that's the closest I've got to it, so so it was lovely that she tried, so it's very nice. Um but yeah, it's it's it's a really nice thing to do. And I think definitely with you know social media and stuff, I do connect with a lot of bands, but I don't know them, I don't actually get to meet them a lot until I go to the MMG Awards and stuff like that. Um so it's nice to get to connect a bit more in that way and be like, oh, I've listened to your song, here's a version of it. Yeah. Hopefully they like it and recognize it. They usually do, that's really nice. No one no one's ever said anything bad about them. So that's that's a lovely thing.

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No, no, no. No, I'm no, I'm sure they're absolutely delighted. As you say, if they repost them or whatever, then that that kind of backs that up, doesn't it? Um for people who are watching and listening that don't know the backstory of Mo Holland Jive, just explain to us how this all began.

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Um so uh I mean a bit like the covers, it was kind of a an accidental thing. Um I'm uh a secondary school music teacher by day, um, and several years ago I was tasked with setting up a jazz band for some very uh talented students, much more able students. Um and we did the usual stuff. We did uh like Jick Ellington, Harry Hancock did a bit of Stevie Wonder, which was great, but they knew quite a lot about music, and I wanted to bit challenge them a bit. So I thought I'd try and write something, which at the time I thought was either a great idea or a stupid idea.

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Is that something you'd ever tried to do before?

SPEAKER_01

I mean I'd written a lot of my own stuff before, but I hadn't given it to students, right? You know, teenagers stuff. Let's let's let's you know let's not get get get in their way too much. Um but I wrote this tune uh called Funkasaurus Flex, which was as ridiculous as it sounds, um and I gave it to them and like they loved it, they thought it was really great, we played it, they very much wanted more, and like to cut a long story short, I ended up writing quite a few things which you know they ended up playing um and did a really good job of, it was great. And then unfortunately, um COVID happened and everything shut down and like gigs we were planning on doing and and making it a bigger thing kind of didn't happen, sadly. Um but it was the students who said to me, Why don't you record these and like release them? And kind of like I kind of just like joked with them, like, yeah, sure, one day. But then of course with COVID I had nothing else to do. No. So, you know, armed with with um Logic Pro at home and a keyboard and not much else to do, um, I started recording things properly. Um uh lots of phone calls and emails to friends saying, Will you play a guitar part for me? Will you record some trumpets? All that sort of stuff. Um and we sort of cobbled together some versions of this. Um and I got in touch with Jake Day, who I know gets mentioned a little on this year.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, that's today's mention.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, and it kind it was kind of a COVID thing. I think he was trying to get some business because obviously things weren't great, um and he was offering some discounts and stuff, and I was like, hey, try this out. Um and he did a great job on stuff, and I decided to have a go at releasing it, very much thinking this will be a one-off, like I'll do it just to say I've done it, sort of thing. Um very much aware that like the students like it, but that doesn't mean the wider audience is gonna like it. Um I stumbled upon something called a new music generator and was encouraged to send it to the how did you stumble across us? I thought it might have just been a genuine Google search, like music on the bridge.

SPEAKER_08

Good to know that my search uh engine uh results are good.

SPEAKER_01

And I think it it might have been also I mean, again, mentioning people at Fred's house and stuff, heard you were already doing that sort of thing. And they sort of said, oh, send it to Tim. But I mean, for people who haven't heard the Maholland Jive stuff, it is all instrumental, it's it's very lively, it's very funky, I think it's very listenable, but I think when you say instrumental, some people maybe switch off a little bit. So sending it to you, I very much thought that, well, either you're gonna say yes or no, please leave me alone. Um but thankfully you were very supportive of it.

SPEAKER_08

Well, I normally play something at least once.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, you're all yeah, you're not gonna be able to do it.

SPEAKER_08

A kind of a peep behind the curtain is if I play something once and then don't play it again, it normally means I don't really like it, I don't think it's gonna go anywhere. That's very flattering. I won't I I I rarely don't play anything whatsoever.

SPEAKER_01

Because you you've played my stuff quite a lot.

SPEAKER_08

I don't listen to stuff in advance anyway, but so I did like it and did carry on playing it and encouraged you to continue and then things continued to you know spiral from there, I suppose.

SPEAKER_01

So the very first thing I sent you was a tune called Adrenaline Junkie. Yeah. Um which um yeah, it's this like lively, funky, piano heavy track. Um and I sent you, and I wasn't sure if you were gonna play it, um, and I was listening out, and you did play it, and I think you said something like, Oh, I don't listen to these in advance. Yeah. And I was like, oh my gosh, she's gonna hate this. Um and it got to the end of the track, and I was waiting for you just to be like, well, that was different. But you said, I can't remember the exact words, but you said just something really lovely, like that was that was you know really different, really interesting, really loved that. And I think hearing you say that, I was like, well, maybe there is a bit of an audience in this somewhere. And so I kept um releasing them. And it's become a much bigger thing than I kind of ever expected it to be. Um we've done some really great things. We've played at the NMG Awards, we've been nominated for multiple of your awards, which is lovely. We've played Chatham Jazz Festival.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, that's um that's really impressive.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, it was cool. We did that twice, which is awesome. Yeah, um, we've done like Strawberry Fair, we've headlined John Peel Center. Um I'm kind of giving you a whistle stop tour of North Holt Mall. But we've done loads of things that that like it was definitely never the plan. The plan was just to release something on Spotify. So the fact you know we've had all this support, um, not just from you but from the the sort of wider music community, is really lovely. And you know, going back to the covers thing, it's nice that there's a lot of local musicians who I think if they don't know me personally, they know me as like the piano guy who does the cover stuff and also has a band that plays things. Uh so yeah, it's really lovely. It's a it's a really cool hobby that I didn't think was going to become as big as it has.

SPEAKER_08

It's really lovely that it has, and it's something that's well it that that is nice, the fact that it has organically grown like that and and to you know not to any uh degree of your expectation. And you just kind of you know jump on that journey and see where it takes you, and as you say, it's it's offered lots of opportunities. I remember the first gig I came to see you play at was Competon, and I think that was with some of your students, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_01

It so some of the students were in the audience, definitely, um, but it was all it was all adults in the band. Okay. But that was the first like proper Mohammed type gig where it was just adults because I had done things with with the students before. Um and that was the first one with adults.

SPEAKER_08

Um, I've seen you continue a number of times. I think the last time I saw you play with the full band was um when you did that show at um John Peel's Centre with Fred's house, which was probably a year before last now.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, as well.

SPEAKER_08

But um yeah. You played round the corner from the studio. You played in um in the bandstand, haven't you?

SPEAKER_01

I didn't realise you were here, I would have popped around.

SPEAKER_08

Like this is the Yeah, I wasn't here that day, otherwise I would I knew you were playing, otherwise I would have come and said hello. This is very convenient, but you probably sit somewhere out there and like watch from your house. I can hear it, definitely. I would have been able to have heard you if I was here.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Um but I wasn't here that day, otherwise I would have definitely come and said hello. I wouldn't have uh I wouldn't have ignored you. It's been literally stones throwaway. Um Yeah, so obviously you said you've recorded how many tracks have you got now that recorded? Do you know? Have you lost count of that?

SPEAKER_01

There's quite a few, and there's more coming, which is lovely. Um yeah, there's there's been quite a few. There's been I think four EPs and one live EP with accompanying videos on YouTube. Um and we're recording some more stuff at the minute, and we're gonna release some more, so it's it's it's kind of an ongoing thing. Um and what's really nice about uh being you know an unsigned artist is I can just do it as and when I please. And I try to I don't leave it too long, but you know, if I need to, I've got a job obviously, uh and and a young child, so you know if I need to take some time to to do all that, I can and then come back to this, which is really lovely. Yeah. Um so yeah, it's a nice thing to do.

SPEAKER_08

So talk to me about uh in terms of how it evolved and and the various people that you've had in the live lineup, because you've you've had quite a lot of people. Yeah, yeah. And the I guess the beauty of it is that you can interchange if someone's not available, you you've probably got somebody else you can call on to fulfill that role. Yeah, I don't know. Um but you know, would you want to just uh name some of the people, some of the people that we that we might know of that are in the band or people uh how you came across them?

SPEAKER_01

So Moholl and Jive is a band. Essentially, I write all the music and arrange it, and I'm I'm you know the go-to person, I suppose, the the face of Moholl and Jive and lead it all from all the piano stuff. But there is definitely an army of I call them superhuman musicians who basically play my stuff for me, because without them it wouldn't really work. It's it's really nice that you know tonight I'm gonna do some solo stuff, but Moholl and Jive isn't usually isn't a Sulu thing. So it's gonna be a bit different. Um but yeah, usually there's quite a lot of people who are involved in in the performance. Some people you'll know who are kind of regulars for us. Um so we've got uh Lochlin Golder, who's uh predominantly a guitarist with Fred's House. Yeah. He's played lots of our gigs, um, and Adam Munsfield, who's our usual drummer, who's basically been involved with every band you can possibly think of in the local area. Um lots of trumpeters uh like um so Fallon Howe, Jake Hatter, um Roger Chinnery, um we've had saxophonists like all the names are escaping me now. Uh Stephen Achilleus, Steph Reeve, um Liz Mitchell. There's just like basically the the best musicians in Cambridge have come and played.

SPEAKER_08

So how do you come to find these people? I guess some of them that you knew, and then they're other people, they're friends of friends and word spreads. Yeah, definitely.

SPEAKER_01

So a lot of people I I knew kind of just you know these people, musicians all know each other. There's kind of a running joke that all the musicians in Cambridge are connected, and we are, we really are. Um But I think from doing the Mulholland Jive stuff, and I'll contact someone, ask them for a gig, and they'll say, Well, unfortunately I'm not available, but have you heard of X, Y, and Z? And it's really nice to then meet other musicians that way and they usually come on board. And there's just I mean the lineup does change regularly in terms of gigs and stuff like that, but there is definitely a core group of us who who who play regularly together and record regularly together. Um so so yeah, it's quite nice. It's it's uh it's a really nice way of meeting other musicians uh uh doing something that we really all enjoy, yeah.

SPEAKER_08

No, definitely. And you want to give a mention to one of your musicians that you've sadly. Yeah, I did lost.

SPEAKER_01

So I mentioned um Falan Howe just a second ago, um one of my good friends, and and a really big part of Moholl and Jive. She's played uh so many gigs with us, she's done so many recordings for us, um, she's in all our videos. Uh you'll have seen her live multiple times. Um very sadly she she lost her battle with cancer um at the end of last month um and she was no longer here. And it's it's incredibly sad, and we're all we're all still dealing with it. And I was actually uh deciding what I was gonna play tonight. Um and there's lots of things I could have done, but I think there's only one tune that feels most appropriate, and I know she really liked it, and she's definitely played on it before. Um, it's called Levitate. Um and yeah, I'm gonna do a solo piano uh version of it, um, and I'd like to dedicate it to Fallon.

SPEAKER_08

All right, okay, well, off you go. Levitate from Moholland Jive, which is what EP is that on?

SPEAKER_01

Um that's from our debut EV. That is from Intergalactic, uh, released back in I want to say April 21. Uh so it's quite a while ago back now. Um and that was kind of the the first Moholland Jive tune that definitely became a lot bigger than I I had um anticipated. Um it got nominated for your track of the year at NMG. Um it got um it got into the finals of the UK songwriting contest, which is lovely. Oh really? Um yeah, it's definitely one. I think it's a bit different from all the other Moholl and Jive ones. It kind of sticks out a little bit. Yeah. Um and definitely when we play it live, there's always always a really lovely reaction to it. Um yeah, I really enjoy playing it. It's a lovely piece. I really like it.

SPEAKER_08

I enjoy the titles that you give your music. Thank you. I've just literally run a search on Moholl and Jive and I've come up with there's probably about a dozen songs on this screen here. Um I think the most recent release, Jurassic Shark, has to be up there with one of the cleverest titles you've got. But just looking down, like Adrenaline Junkies and mentioned Kryptonite, Bad Moon Rising, Metamorphosis, Levitate, Gravity, there's some themes in there.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, definitely. I mean, uh I don't mind saying I'm a massive geek, um particularly a massive Star Wars geek. So so anything that's a bit sci-fi, all that sort of stuff, I'll definitely do that. And I think also, you know, trying to link it back to this was all originally written for some very talented teenagers, and you know, it's it's meant to be fun, it's it's not meant to be overly serious and very sort of like overly emotive. So so the fact that it's got slightly silly titles works quite nicely for it. Um and they definitely like them and I like them too. So it's me.

SPEAKER_08

So is Jurassic Shark a uh a sign that uh the the next couple of tracks are they all like movie movie title themed? Um there's definitely a few, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Um you don't have to give anything away if you don't want to, but just so yeah, the the other ones have definitely got a theme with them.

SPEAKER_08

Um so yeah, look out for that. Alright. So in terms of what you say, are you at the recording at the moment with Jake finishing stuff off?

SPEAKER_01

So so we recorded it's kind of an ongoing thing. We recorded some um stuff back uh at the end of 2025, so it's before Christmas. And then um he's currently working on some things now. Um we've also got uh some collaborations coming up, which is quite cool. So Vicki Jones, who I mentioned earlier, yeah from Fred's house, she sung a song for us. There's actually going to be a Mulholland Jive song with lyrics in it, which means I need to send you an email to confirm that there's no bad language in it, which I always think is really funny when everybody would say, Yeah, there's no bad language in that.

SPEAKER_08

I wouldn't, I'd be very surprised if there's a bad language in anything you did.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, so there's there's uh something with her coming. We've done like a mashup of two very well-known pop songs and Mulholland Jivified them uh and put them together, and yeah, it sounds it sounds quite cool. I'm really looking forward to hearing it. Jake's actually working on it as we speak, he's probably um and then Melody Calls, uh, who's uh a regular uh person on NMG. Yeah. Um she's written a song that I've done a piano part for, and uh she's working on that um currently, and we're going to uh hopefully have that out at some point soon. So yeah, there's a few things coming up, and then we've got our new single um it's called Mojo, uh, which is coming up uh on I want to say the 26th of June. Uh maybe rubbish remembering dates, but that that sounds about right. Okay. It's it's it's you know imminent, yeah. Nice. And any live performances coming up? Yeah, so with complete coincidence, on the 27th of June, uh we're playing uh The Plough in She's where I saw you. Um yes, we're doing a full band gig there. Um check in the diary. So it's Saturday the 27th at the plow, and I believe it's a free gig, so so come along.

SPEAKER_08

Will you be finished by nine o'clock?

SPEAKER_01

No.

SPEAKER_08

England World Cup game that night.

SPEAKER_01

Well, I don't know. You don't care about that being in English, but I'm I'm sure I'll uh I'm sure I can come along. Yeah, you can make that excuse.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Definitely be worth it. Come along, it'd be good fun. How many of you can fit on that stage? Well I've I promised nine of us can definitely.

SPEAKER_08

Okay, no, I reckon that's doable. It's it's quite it does go back a bit.

SPEAKER_01

It's a kind of a corner shape uh I mean nine is definitely like the number of people in Bulholland Jive. We do not have any more than that. And we've definitely turned up at venues where they've said, Oh, we didn't realise there was nine of you. And it's been it's been cozy. Thankfully we all get along very well. So so that's not a problem. But yeah, I'm told we should be absolutely grand. And actually seeing it, yeah, it's fine.

SPEAKER_08

So is nine the biggest number you've ever done?

SPEAKER_01

Um nine, but then sometimes we get people to come up and like sing with us or something. So we add a few other.

SPEAKER_08

And what's the smallest number you've done?

SPEAKER_01

Um so I think uh I think at one of the NMG sessions, quite early on in Maholl and Jive, we did something at the Portland Islands. Oh yes. I think there's maybe five of us there. Yeah. Maybe six, five or six, but it was fairly small. Which is fine. We just have to adapt the parts a bit, and and I end up playing a bit more. Yeah. Sometimes Lobby ends up playing a bit more on guitar, but but we can adapt it. It's fine.

SPEAKER_08

Any ambitions to do more than twelve people, nine people? I mean sure, the sky's the limit.

SPEAKER_01

Let's do a whole thing. Yeah, with my school, we did a massive collaboration last year with students, my band, a massive local choir as well. Um, and there was yeah, there was I would say there was well over a hundred people involved. Um and it was really good fun. It was really awesome. It was lovely having so many people just making music together.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, really cool. Are there any venues or locations locally that you would love to play? Oh, having just been at ED Cathedral.

SPEAKER_01

Well, I mean, ED Cathedral would be lovely if they if they want to start.

SPEAKER_08

That would be amazing.

SPEAKER_01

It would just it would just, yeah, it would be phenomenal. I mean, one day the Apex would be lovely to do our own gig there. Uh I realize I need a bit more of a following before we do that. But we played the guys for the Energy Awards a couple of years ago, and it's such a cool venue. Um and an orchestra last year actually played one of my pieces there, which was very surreal.

SPEAKER_08

Oh yes.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, um the Very I don't want to say very friendly original. Yes. I think that's what they called it.

SPEAKER_08

I remember that.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I knew the conductor and playing all the and they messaged us saying, Would I mind if I if I dated one of my songs? I was like, yes. Okay. And then we went along to hear it. And it was I mean it was amazing, but it was very surreal sat in the audience hearing other people play my stuff. And I'm not involved, because usually I'm involved in some way. I didn't invite you to come and the actual screen, so they didn't they didn't need it. Um but it was really nice just to go and watch and hear it. They did an amazing job. It was a very like different take on Trip tonight. Um I really like it, really cool.

SPEAKER_08

Nice. Right, um I think we're I think I'm gonna play Jurassic Shark, now I mentioned it. And then we're gonna come back. Now, if anybody watching on YouTube would like to make a request for anything that Ben would uh can cover, um now I I did uh our regular listener Brooke did say earlier at Muse, and I said no, you it's gotta be NMG stuff and not play Muse. I mean I'm sure you can play Muse, but that's not the idea of it. Um if anybody's listening, other other bands, artists, pop up in the YouTube chat. If there's any, you know, you'd like to hear your uh song Cupboard, maybe Ben knows it, or we can play like a a little extract and then you can kind of pick it up. We'll see where we go.

SPEAKER_01

I feel like you need to lower your expectations for this.

SPEAKER_08

You've obviously not been listening to the show tonight, so there's probably maybe nothing on the playlist that we've played so far that you could pick up, but there are some that you've probably got in mind that you've done before that you can do. So definitely.

SPEAKER_01

I'm gonna be 100% honest with you. Haven't entirely planned what I'm gonna play for now.

SPEAKER_08

No, no, no, I'm not I'm not expecting polish. I mean it it could be carnage, so I don't mind which way it goes, to be honest. Great.

SPEAKER_01

I'm glad you said that.

SPEAKER_08

Um glad that's been recorded. You know, just thought just thought it'd be fun. It's not something I can do. I'd just take my hat off to you to be able to play anything on there, never mind something that you've just listened to five seconds beforehand and replicated.

SPEAKER_01

We'll have this again after I play it.

SPEAKER_08

Okay. Right, let's have a listen to this then. This is Jurassic Shark, the most recent release from Maholland Jive available now. If you are watching us on YouTube, then you can see our guest, uh Mr. Ben Moholland. You can't actually see the the piano, it's not uh in shop, but uh you can see his hands moving effortlessly across the uh the keys. Um so as we were saying at the start of the interview, um Ben did some covers, piano covers of various songs that uh took his fancy um on the from the show, uh being a regular listener to the show, and posted them on his social media and various people have picked up on it and been very appreciative. And when we had George on a few weeks ago, um I'd mentioned you, I think I said that you were listening and George's eyes lit up um uh that uh that thought and um mentioned that that you did one of uh a cover of uh of one of his songs. So uh Ben's gonna do a medley of various just bits and pieces to whatever comes to your mind really. It can it can be as it can be as long as short as you want it to be. I'll have a look at the comments in a minute and see if we've got any uh uh any requests. Otherwise I'll just um mention a few other songs from the playlist from the last few weeks, and if there's anything that uh takes your fancy, then I can play a bit and you can relay it, or you if you know it already, you can just go for it.

SPEAKER_01

I've gotta be honest with you. I listened to like a couple of seconds of a few things in the car on the driveover. Okay. So I got a rough idea of what I'm gonna do. All right, then this this is gonna be hopefully you recognize some of these.

SPEAKER_08

If not, oh that's a quiz for me now. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, Mega.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah. That went better than I was expecting.

SPEAKER_01

Me too, honestly.

SPEAKER_08

Do you know what? Now I feel like I let myself down because I started writing down on my phone the songs I recognized. I've only got three. So can you can you remember can you remember what they all were? The first one was George's most recent single.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, they only played that just because you mentioned it. Okay. So there was uh George Bowden was the first one. And then I think I tried to play a little bit of I think more than once by Melody Calls. Alright. So like a I think it was her new single, like. I played a bit of Carousel. Carousel My Voyage, I got that. Um I did a little bit of Jurassic Shark Academy. Oh right, yeah. Um I did a bit of um uh Friends House, Walls and Ceilings.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01

I did going back a bit. I did literally coming to Everett's in my head. Um I did a bit of Circuits 2, which he just played, by So I was playing Far From Refuge when Ben walked in and he was like, oh, what's this?

SPEAKER_08

I was like, yeah, do a cover of that.

SPEAKER_01

Great, so I've done that. Um I did a bit of Well, I think I did a bit of a song by James White and The Wildfire. Oh yeah. I think it's called Bonfire. Yes. I mean I think I played the right chords, I'm not sure I played the right tune, but I definitely played the right chords.

SPEAKER_08

Yes, we played that two or three weeks ago.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then last week finished with a little bit of Red Flag by Dan. Red Flag to get that. I mean I think you might listen back and be like that was not that long. Well, you listen back and send me the send me the track list.

SPEAKER_08

I might listen back and be like that was not that song. Well, even if it wasn't, everybody liked it. Everybody liked the comments or Brooke saying on uh here we go. Oh, we've got a few comments. I'm loving this piano cover. Um, someone's messaging, not really a cover since Ben is here, but what about hearing adrenaline junkie? Can you do a a a a piano only version of the job?

SPEAKER_01

There we go. It's not really meant to be a still piano piece, but yeah.

SPEAKER_08

No, but but that that bit works. Yeah, that it is. Yeah, that bit works. Anything coming up with a guitar? I mean, people love the key tar.

SPEAKER_01

The the next Mahology I tune Mojo has a substantial key tarot. The key tar was meant to be a joke, but I feel like it's become a bigger thing than it's meant to be. If you don't have it with you, people are disappointed. Yeah, it it gets the biggest cheer at gigs. And I think I was saying to you before, if I ever post a video of me like playing the piano, I'll get the likes, I'll just love it. Yeah, if I post a key target, it does it better. People just love it. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Well, Ben, thank you for coming in. That was a pleasure. Alright. Um I really enjoyed that, that worked well. Uh thank you for that. Uh I'd always admire what you do and uh your your musical talent. You'll never be uh so uh outrageously uh honest or not honest, but you know what I mean in terms of uh saying that you are uh agreeing with me and uh picking yourself up. You are uh you are one of the most talented musical people I know. Um you don't know how many people don't know. No, I know I know I know a lot of people. Um remind me of the date. 26th of June.

SPEAKER_01

26th of June The next song, which I will definitely send you.

SPEAKER_08

Um and then the gig on the plow on the 27th of Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

You're so good at like remembering all these data. Yeah, thank you.

SPEAKER_08

I was gonna just put it in my diary and I remember you saying the track was out the day before the gig, so I didn't want to ask me again in five minutes, I'll never gone.

SPEAKER_01

Um social media? Yeah, so mostly Instagram, nullholland. Mulholland is in M U L and then Holland. Um and then the same for Facebook because people still use that.com um YouTube channel. There is lots of videos on YouTube and also on our website, um, and then the usual Spotify Amazon Musical. Um please do that and please enjoy brilliant.

SPEAKER_08

Alright, thank you very much. If you missed any of that, you can uh find it again. The podcast will be available. The visual podcast and the audio podcast. Um we're gonna play a few more tracks before we uh head to the end of the programme. This is brand new from uh Lost Without Cause. They are a three-piece alternative rock band uh with a passion for creating unique and memorable anthems across the genre.

SPEAKER_06

Uh this new track is uh one that they sent us um a couple of weeks ago now, but it's available now, and it is called the back do what you need to say, don't you late, say, I can do the way to late, you know.

SPEAKER_08

The track is called Dark. This is the new music generator, and we've still got a few more tracks to squeeze in before we go. Um, if we don't manage to squeeze everything in then apologists, we will definitely get these tracks on next week. This next one is from Moira Someone. Uh she's just released her new song called Creature of the Night. She's an Essex-based indie folk artist. We did play her on the show a few weeks ago uh with uh her track what was the track we played before it doesn't have a title on it. Uh no, I can't tell you, but we did play her a few weeks ago, back in March. This one does have a title, it's called Creature of the Night.

SPEAKER_06

Could there be a way to wake you up at night? The sharks are running around my head. Could they be a way to stop the night? Could they be away to her? I need to come back. So I can see. Could there be a way to stop the name? Could there be a way to stop the pain? Could there be a way to do that? I love to see that. I love to see the night.

SPEAKER_08

From Essex, that's Moira Someone and Creature of the Night. Moving on to 17-year-old Tom Arbin, who is an alternative indie singer-songwriter from Norfolk, carving out a distinctive sound with a heartfelt uh with heartfelt songwriting and multi-instrumental talent. Tom regularly takes the stage in and around Norfolk. He's played the Royal Norfolk Show. And he's also done a solo showcase at the Banham Barrel. Tom got in touch with us when he found out that we were gonna be going out in Norwich. He's also playing at First Light Festival and the new noise stage at the Royal Norfolk Show. He's got a new EP coming out on the 26th of June. This is a track from it. This is Unchanged Heart.

SPEAKER_03

If you left the bed past behind Gazing at sign, but it's so so away. Guess I'm a city boy now with a vision to the sun. Queuing up on these gigs when all the world wants to do is stop And I am streaming with times I'm going through those me. Eventually the whole always will see You in a pitch a frame and me by your side. Queuing up amazed games when all the world wants to do is stop.

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Strawberry Fair lineup is on our social media. We'll continue to bang on about that for the next few weeks. Next week I will be joined once again by Alex Elbro. She'll be co-hosting the show with me and will be announcing the um guests that she's gonna be having on her new program Behind the Music that we revealed uh a few weeks ago, and also um revealing the first time or the first broadcast date of that series. So that's gonna be on next week's programme. I'll leave you with this from Taste, and you must spell Taste T-Y-S-T-E. Uh this is um Taylor. Uh hope you're well. I've recently been told in more detail by a close friend, and we don't know who the close friend is, uh about NMG, and thought I'd ping a track down to submit to listen to at your convenience. Uh my artist name is Taste. I'm a Suffolk-based, Suffolk, Norfolk-based electronic DJ producer, producing songs under the umbrella of hyper pop and dance music. So we'll finish with this. This is Taste, and hit the floor. Goodbye.