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• New Music Generator • Season 1 • Episode 16

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Tim Willett introduces live stage performances and backstage interviews from last weekends Strawberry Fair plus all the latest releases from the inbox.

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From the throws of desire. In the cold grip of despair. Where I found my purpose. You become what I am and to raise what I was. In the flood I'm trolling. Do I hear your voice? Call me once again. I push my head elbow. As a child that I was to the man that I wanted away. No space in your mind. So full out of doubt. But I'm not gonna fade in you. Do you feel alone? When you play Don't scared the question, you know Both that's right, don't watch out, we are the last illustration. Waiting for the ship, we'll never make words are spoken, it never dies all the way.

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And the track is called Tempest. Hello, welcome to the new music generator. I'm your host, Tim Willett. I will be here for the next two hours playing you the very best music from artists from across East Anglia. Uh Far From Refuge are from Cambridgeshire. We'll play you music from there. We'll also play you music from Norfolk, from Suffolk, from Essex, from Hertfordshire, and also from Bedfordshire. If we don't play artists from those places, then we can do those are the artists, uh the areas that we support artists from. You're most welcome to this programme that in the words of Blue Peter has been prepared made earlier. So if you are watching us on YouTube tonight, the comments you're most welcome to get in touch, but I won't be able to respond to them because I don't have the ability to time travel. You can always email inbox at emusygenerator.com, however you're uh watching or listening to the show, wherever it may be, always welcome to get in touch. It'd be lovely. If you're listening to the show or watching the show for the first time, uh whether it be on the radio, on the podcast, on YouTube, um on Spotify, drop me a message. It's always nice to know that you're there. Hello, I'm waving at you if you're watching us on YouTube. Now today's programme is primarily a Strawberry Fair highlight special because on Saturday, me and my merry band of friends went down to the Middle Summer Common in Cambridge and took our in the 2026 Strawberry Fair. We collaborated with our friends in the report to bring you a stage jam pack full of brilliant musicians and that were on the stage all the way through today. And uh we'll be bringing you interviews and one live track from each of those artists as we go through the program. We're gonna do that in kind of the middle section of the show. The first half hour or so we'll be uh some new music from the inbox and revisiting the tracks from last week's video that I'd like to play again. And then we'll do that for the hour, and then at the end of the programme we'll go back to the inbox and uh wrap up a few other bits and pieces. So that's how things are going to look for you for today. I can't go any further without playing what is probably my new favourite song. Uh I think it might have superseded Communication by Tiny Vessels, which has long been my favourite NMG song for a few months now. This is the new track from Norwich band Pink Serene. This is dissonance. Still love it. It's the Lincoln Park stuff. I've got a bit of a soft spot for Lincoln Park. Uh do like um their music sort of uh right in the time that I was right into my music uh when they were at their heyday. Uh also a bit of muse in there as well. That track was released on the 5th of June last weekend, so it is available now for you to go and stream in all the usual places. It is from the boys of Pink Serene flying the flag for the Norwich music scene. Oh, I just rhyme I just did arrive and I didn't even intend to. There we go. I didn't even know it. Right, let's move on to some new music from the inbox. Uh disclaimer, we're not going to get a chance to get through very much of it today. So if you are tuned in waiting for your track to be played and you haven't heard from me already, then uh it'll be on next week or a week after the show, unfortunately. Uh we've got uh too much stuff to uh get through and obviously what to prioritize for while it is still fresh. This email came in came in from the band called Trigger Philosophy um last week. Uh the band uh um vocals possibly not uh birth name, judging by the way it's felt. Uh drums from Apple Gate, Andrew McElroy guitar, Marcus Thompson, and guitar Peter Throw. From Norwich and send you a couple of tracks for my album, which launched in April, where we had an epic night with some of the local bands of Voodoo, just Davy band, Black River Renegade and Crowned Hyenas. You may know Crying in Colors guitarist Marcus, he's also our guitarist. He is a busy boy. Well I know crying in colors. I haven't met Crying Colors, I don't think, in person. Tom did an interview with him on uh NMG Saturday, I think that was last year. Um but I don't think I met the band myself anyway. And lyrics that hit close to home. Loud, relentless, and built for the stage, they earn their reputation in the hard way, wet folk shows and pack rooms, winners of the Britmakers, Battle of the Bands in 2024, no polish, no pretends, just honest noise. They gave you album the self-titled Triggered Velocity does exactly what the first album should. It captures who they are without compromise. Raw direct and emotionally charged is not a reinvention, it's a statement of intent. It was a direct intent from their album. This is called Away From Me.

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Never fell the whatever I never will see the light.

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They've been going since 2018, but they've only just discovered who we are. There we go. Uh that's Trigger Velocity, and their track is called Away From Me from their self-titled debut album. They did send another track through, which no doubt we will play at some point in the future. If you are an artist from the aforementioned areas that I said at the top of the show, and you would like your music to be played on this programme, you can get in touch with us.

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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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They will do indeed. We're here every week, live, streaming on YouTube, on a Wednesday night, uh on the radio and on a podcast wherever you get your podcast from and also on Spotify. We have had a few issues with the Spotify podcast recently. Uh there seems to be a certain publisher that likes to remove our show. Um even though the artists get permission for us to play the music, the publisher says no. And therefore he gets deleted until I have a chance to go through and re-edit the show and upload it. Last week is still missing from Spotify because the SJ multimetra that we played the publisher said no. Uh and there's another one I think from a few weeks ago that I still need to do. He just doesn't like Spotify for some reason. I don't know. Right. Last week we played Retract from the Switch based group Sam Mill and the Tyrants, and very much liked it. This is artifact.

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I'm the right cave guy, second step, lost brother, lost me.

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How gina change, huggin up slow, I'll give up pray that you might be good.

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Yo, it's the way you get it beat, stop it for the beat, don't you not break with side of this race with us Don't you don't need you, don't do this anymore. Only my chest, when you start to do it, it's a very strong team I call it trying to get you back to the last day, that you got to do it, I've done it, that it's not a good one.

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In fact, I think I like it more on the uh second or third lesson uh than I did on the first, which means it is growing on me. That is new from Sam Milne and the Tyrants, a band that are starting to make some waves in and around Suffolk. That is called Artifact. This is the new music generator where you can rely on us to suggest the very best music from up and coming artists from the local area. You will not miss out any of the biggest emerging artists if you listen to this show. A lot of which were with us at Strawberry Fair last weekend in Cambridge, and we'll bring you highlights, interviews, uh and all sorts of bits and pieces coming up from that very soon. The first track from Seasons. And I'm just trying to remind myself where seasons is placed. S E A S O N Z. Um Luke, if you're listening, remind me whereabouts in East Anglia are you from. We played this track last week towards the end of the show, so that we played it towards the beginning. That is for Treason. Very DB style is that uh available on all platforms right now.

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Finished, I'ma need a sick second third. I could say myself, I'll be too can hell and not about she be too soft upon with supply heart. Let's up in this party, pull out with a teaser. Yeah, these beanies moving naughty. Turn a ticket, baby, play my text. Oh my god, I love D B now baby season. If you get with me, then the GA's cheese. No, we don't do feelings. Baby, stick to pleasing. Turn it from into a cloud. Coffee smoke that we beat. Take it, we speed it. See, I'm a boy, cause she knows. Right hand on a stir wheel. Left hand on a Tokyo nostalgia. No, I'm not no Romo. Don't forget. Drive force, window downwards. Superstar now, it is what is across, across the list. Screaming, screaming, Samad, Samad, yeah. I told her, girl, be hey. No, you cannot stay. Do that walk a shade. Well, my foot pull on your face. I cool, my cool, my cool. Tell him I need more. Went for the duo. Now I'm handling on four. Glows, I got some super flowers. Wait away with that door. She called me, feel it, feel it, feel it. I look he need some more. Yeah, oh make up, make up, so in the bed, the table and the floor. Yeah, we don't need no handle. That's a no one make door. Yeah, you can get too. I go a bed on every floor. See how my body could she know? Right hand on the stairway, left hand on it. Cook it nasty, no, I'm not no room on the forcase. Drive force, window down, well, see must. See how my body causes Right hand on the stairwell, left hand on it. Cook it nothing, no, I'm not no room on the forcase. Drive force, window down, well, see must.

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And it's treason. And the artist name is Seasons. Available for you to stream now. One more new one from the inbox before we head over to our highlights from Strawberry Fair. This one from Joe Ash. I hope all is well and you're having a great spring so far. I see there's been some big changes with the new music generator, and I wanted to wish you all the very best with it. Thank you, Joe. I've been busy with my third solo album. Finally finished it. It's called One Way Mirror and features some guitar from Mike Wheely and bass playing from Chris Taylor, the engineer at Blue Barn Studios, where part of it was recorded. It's been another ride producing it. I'm not planning on releasing singles other than a couple of videos further down the line, but we'd love to send a track to you. I'm planning to release it on the 12th of June. So I replied and said, Yes, please do, and also send me the video, because we can obviously play those now as well. So she sent the first track from the album, which is called Wrote You a Song. She said, This one's a staple at Live Geeks now. Uh thanks for letting me know about YouTube. I'll let you have the videos when they are ready. So this is Jo Ash taken from her album. It was gonna be released on the 12th of June, so that is Friday, and this is called Roach You a Song.

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I know you can't hear it. I'll tell you anyway. It doesn't matter anymore. I always can't talk till I can't get out. I want a walk just a day for a little while for a while. I want a walk just a dog for another time. Oh the four Moving on without a one yesterday for a little while. I want yesterday for another job.

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I want to But it's Jo Ash.

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And wrote you a song.

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

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So last Saturday we gathered on Midsummer Common in Cambridge for the return of Strawberry Fair, the UK's, perhaps even Europe's biggest free volunteer organised arts and music festival. We teamed up with our friends at Brewboard and brought you nine hours of NMG backed artists, ten acts in total. We did lots of interviews backstage. We recorded all of the footage uh in audio format, and we're gonna bring you some highlights of those um artists and those interviews and those performances for you right now. First, let's get a flavour of the day. This for you people on YouTube. Otherwise, if you're on the radio, you're just gonna hear a minute's worth of nice instrumental music. Um but you go on our social media, Instagram, or quickly hop onto YouTube, you will see a video montage highlights of the day. From a track. Um with with a track, rather, by tiny vessels, who were the headline acts, I suppose you could say, the last act of our NMG bunch. And it had to be communication.

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At the tone, please record your message. When you have finished recording, you may hang up or break the button.

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I didn't touch that now.

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I didn't touch that now You burn the lines, you follow the spin, stop getting shut up, set up alone. I need the pool, I waste the time it just got creeping up and live in the silence I don't want to live in the silence, silence, I'll stop it down, stop, stop, stop now Lift your head, what do you see? Something's surreal, you don't believe. I try to do it, you don't need Stuck in a world that just doesn't care and I don't want it, stop me, stop I don't wanna live in the silent silence. Uh-oh, sorry to change the will consume your mind As the stats it kills everything it finds Your eyes grow tired of the silver screen Good evening, Shorty Fair We are tiny vessels from Cambridge It's a pleasure to be here what we've got to do.

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That was Tiny Vessels performing communication lie. That was the opener of the set at Strawberry Fair 2026. And before Tiny Vessels went on stage, I chatted with them backstage. We are backstage at Strawberry Fair 2026 with our last NMG act for the evening. Hello, hello and this is before you go on stage, we should say, so I can't ask you any questions like how was it, and we're not gonna pretend that you've just done it. Uh but we're gonna say, How are you feeling about playing strawberry fair?

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Yes, yeah, very exciting. And uh yeah, it's been miserable, but I think everybody's enjoying themselves.

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We are lucky to have something like this in Cambridge. It's the biggest biggest run off. We are lucky to have it. We didn't have it last year, so we're lucky to do my expectation. I'm looking for a new winner. Communication is my favorite tonight. So I'll be definitely looking forward to that. I'm looking for the next one. I'll see if I find a new favorite tonight. Thank you for chatting, guys. And I hope you really enjoy the uh the set and the crowd and everything else. Thank you.

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This is our last single, shout on all the things, a lot of my iTunes, blah blah blah. It has been raining.

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It's been raining, it's been raining, but when summer comes, I know this land will dry, the air is a tomorrow to starve my sorrow, no smile that I cannot beat, or no tear I cannot drive. This shirt don't fit me in this city The buttons freeze, the people please There's not no room to roam, nothing moves slowly, and no one has me.

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The secrets on this street, they're not for me.

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I'm going home Cause it's been raining, it's been raining, it's been raining, but when summer comes, I know this land to dry.

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Here's a tomorrow to starve my sorrow No smile that I cannot beat, or no tear I cannot drive No tear I cannot drive Well I got scared me I got so scary Well these trees gonna make a petty For a patty and this rail it runs right through me Sox into me Oh Sub sun eyes and it's the pain once again spinning Rain Oh let's be raining some of the screen on it's not a lunch of bed Oh it's not a love to bed It's been raining It's been raining It's been raining But when summer comes I know this land attack There's a tomorrow To start my sorrow No smile I cannot beat her No tear I cannot try No tear I cannot try That was Lost Robbins and the apply titled It's Been Raining It had been Raining Thank you very much Thank you It rained quite a lot of the day on Saturday but we were very lucky that we were the largest area of covered um expanse I suppose whatever however you want to put it on the site so when it rained everybody came to see us and that was what made such a great atmosphere. I wasn't alone in hosting the stage on Saturday, I was joined by Alex Elbro and Ned Newman. Here is Alex talking to Josh from Lost Robins backstage after their set.

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So Josh, you just come off stage with the Lost Robins and the rebound energy stages to be fair. How was that? That was so good, wasn't it?

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So much energy, people jumping around at the front and yeah.

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Have you done a big as big as that?

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We have a couple of years ago we did um fix stage here. Yeah, we did a couple, but that's the first time we've done with the done it, but maybe not in the same way. That's kind of how the battle works, you know. It has. Well, I went traveling for a while and then I came back to Cambridge and we're like, let's keep let's keep this thing going. And then suddenly a couple of weeks ago, I don't know if you saw it, but we went viral on Instagram and had this whole thing shoot off. And then we've like we had a our follow- what's the word for like eight times? Are you following our following has increased by eightfold, eightfold? So it's blown up in the last couple of weeks. So from that, we're getting lots of gigs in, lots of things like this.

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And then is that across the country then? Across the country, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Someone's coming next week, someone's coming from America to come see us. They're coming to Cambridge.

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I mean, I'm not surprised. And you're still the main songwriter, are you? I'm the songwriter, yeah, yeah. The machines. You just then give it to the band and then then let me.

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I can't read music. I just I come to the band and say I do this, and then they're actually talented, and then they put it together and they're very talented in writing.

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Yeah, yeah.

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But they know they know how to bend into things.

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So, what's next for Lost Robins? So you're bringing out some, you said you said on stage you brought out you have got a new single calling.

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A new single next week. Every two months we're gonna put out a new single, they're all recorded already. We're just gonna keep doing that over the year and see what sticks. Next year we're gonna release a full album on vinyl. Lovely.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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And where do you find Lost Robins first socials? Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, it's got a website, and it's just Lost Robins. Just Lost Robins. And you're playing the phone festival. Yeah, it'll take over it, yeah. So that's gonna be really fun, as well. Thanks very much, Josh. That's absolutely bad.

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That's Josh talking to Alex backstage at Strawberry Fair 2026. Also on our line. That was Georgia Nevada. This is Stone's throw.

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Played with fire and I can't have nothing to lose. Bad for me, nothing to film up.

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Played for us in the early evening on Saturday night. That was a track from her set Stones Throw. We do have everything recorded, and no doubt we will revisit this and play you some more live tracks from those sets at some point. As I mentioned, I wasn't the only one on the hosting duties, Alex, as you've already heard. I was also joined by Ned Newman, an old NMG friend from NMG Saturday, and he spoke to Georgia after her set.

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I'm joined Fresh on Stage with Georgia Novada. How are you doing, Georgia? Very good. Thanks so much for playing. Have you been to Strawberry Fair before?

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How have you found it?

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I mean, right aside, obviously. You're quite lucky for obviously being undercolour as well. So what have you been up to? What are you what are you going to do?

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I'm not going to go.

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What have you got coming out of the other side? Where can people find uh tickets of information for these games?

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Georgia.

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Well there we go, Georgia.com. I'll let you haven't explore of Strawberry Fair. If you haven't had a chance yet, right stopping my looks of it.

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So yeah, I'll let you go on without a We were very lucky to get Georgia to come and perform for us, not just because she happened to be available, but also because every artist that performed for us did so for free. Strawberry Fair, as I mentioned, is a completely voluntary, organised event. So every artist, every musical act did so for free in the aid of Strawberry Fair, and we hope very much that it will be able to return once again next year, having had to have an enforced break in 2025. Still to come, loads more music and interviews, including some interviews from a few acts that were performed elsewhere at the fair that we would have loved to have had on our stage, but unfortunately everything got thrown together at short notice, and we didn't quite get there in time with a few of them. So we invited them over to come and have a chat and we'll bring you some of those interviews in a short while's time. This next track is from Dan Sutton, who was the second act on our stage this year. It did throw it down while Dan was on, which meant that he had a massive audience because everybody came into the tent for some shelter. We also had a little bit of a gap in the roof, and Dan had a um an un unintentional waterfall, uh water feature on stage behind him. But he carried on like a trooper, and here's his latest track, Love Sick Remedy.

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I'm Dan Sutton, I'm gonna play some songs for you.

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So Dan, you've just come off stage at the NMG Ruby stage here at Story Fair. How was it? You had quite a lot to contend with.

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Well, it was a little bit wet in a way I wasn't expecting war effect behind me. Watching everyone come in when the rain came down.

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I think everyone really enjoyed it.

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I really enjoyed it. Uh on Instagram and TikTok. Uh I don't really post on TikTok. It's mainly Instagram.

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Well, thank you very much for coming and probably blow away.

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That was uh Alex Elbro talking to Dan Sun. This is the news it generator. We'll be back soon.

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NMG.

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As we've been playing, it's been very nice because the sun has been getting progressively brighter and the more fog has been whifting in to make this set seem a lot more dramatic. I am a god. This next one is gonna come out on August 13th, and it's called Note in a Bottle. It's one of my favorites that I've ever written because then I can just tax expense therapy sessions and just masquerade it as music. So this is a song that I don't know if people will have these feelings that they have a look back at their life and they think, God, I wish like if only this had gone this way, if only X had happened, if only Y happened, and then the path that I wanted or the path that I thought I wanted when I was younger would have acted out in a certain way. And this is the the letter to my eight-year-old self to tell myself that it's gonna be fine, hopefully. This is called Note in a bottle.

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With the pen Mamma gave to me while we see water to us, my little couldn't throw it at five, but drifty to And I hope that it's someday. What if we do wanted to know the stories and reasons behind those? Would I be happy if I was the one the picture of the battle and everything? Would I feel guilty or would I feel proud? See the me now that I'm older, would I say a dream it is fun, but show wake up someday and run out right, but at least you can say you try Now I'm still waiting to hear reply from the bottom you threw our horse inside It's coming up so only so long to go What if the water got into the guns? But all the messages changed the purpose As soon as he threw it, something better you won't be the fix up, get a fail up she the meet me I know I be fabulous I know it looks to free from when I was make me fresh change.

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Cheers, thank you very much.

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George Bone a message in a bottle. I caught up with George backstage after his set.

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We are backstage at Story Fair 2026.

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It is the Brewboard Energy stage, and we are here with our very first act of the day is Mr. Bone. Hello, Mr. Bone. Hello Tim, how are we doing? Very well, thank you, George. How was it?

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Yeah, I think I to be fair, it was a lot bigger stage than I thought it would be. Like I thought it would be just like a smaller, like festival stage on the on the side somewhere, but in fact, it's on a day like this where it's slightly overcast, it was fully covered, the remaining was absolutely great. Um great atmosphere from everyone involved. There were some people who got very early. So yeah, genuinely really lovely experience. I had so much fun playing that.

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I'm glad, yeah. I think it's the third biggest stage on the side. Yeah, it's ten stages in total. So being in the top three is pretty good. Um yeah, it's nice, easy to say. It creates a nice atmosphere. People come along and sit down because the grass is dry under the tent because you didn't get wet in there last night. Um they can show you what you have a drink.

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What a lovely time! And your music is perfect for that setting. I tried my best for it to be so. I like I didn't want to go um fully like most recent song kind of depressing stuff instantaneously. So I was like, okay, let's play the fun stuff first, and we the meaning to meet it's like having it. It was so nice to see the um stage filling up, and I know especially as the first acting, it's always going to be slightly difficult trying to uh play to a to a smaller audience and they just get there. However, the stage atmosphere from the get-go was really, really great, everyone seemed to like it, and naturally, as people hear music, more people come and gravitate towards it. So I'm just really happy to be here performing at the stage for the very first time with energy who's supported me for the last two years ago. Um it's it's uh it's an honorary occasion, and yeah, so happy to have driven the hour and a half after.

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Well, thank you for doing that. Thank you for making the episode. I presume you've not been to Jobby Fair before.

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No, never been. I was it last year that it was cancelled or it didn't happen last year. It didn't happen last year. I know that it happened in 2024 because a few friends had you played fair, and it was a sort of FOMO situation, and I was so happy to go for it again last year, but obviously it wasn't it wasn't it wasn't existing, so very nice to uh to play in only my my second festival of the year. We think the second also in Cambridge as well. Um but yeah, it's it's such a lovely atmosphere regardless of the Kids are having fun, so I can't complain with a with a free with a free festival with a bit of live music on the side. I thought I saw some bubbles. There were very good bubbles. They're sort of blowing over from as I'm looking from the right to the left. So I can see them over there. Ironically, away from the kids' park, which is true. But yeah, so so happy to be here, happy that people like my music, and looking forward to the rest of the year. Good. And what is next? So next is uh a single coming out in five weeks' time and singles every six weeks until an EP headline show, a paper dress vintage in Hackney on the 24th of September. Uh a little plug for anyone who is watching this between that time period. Um, and yeah, looking forward to just getting more music out there, ending the 2026 on a really strong note, uh, playing as many tones as I possibly can, hoping to bring as many people in with my music as possible. Um, and at the start of the year I signed for the Cartel Music Group, which is Michael Bolton and Dodo's Dodo's label. So really excited to be releasing stuff with with them as well. Can't wait to see what the next year sort of has entail. But for now, you get that. Brilliant. Well, thank you for coming. Nice to see you play. Lovely to play here, and thank you for chatting. No worries, pleasure.

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

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Don't want you to go nowhere. Don't want you to go.

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As they told me backstage at Strawberry Fair, they played the Flying Pig stage. Would have loved them to have had them on our stage, but as you'll hear, I was a little bit too late. We're backstage at Strawberry Fair 2026. These guys, unfortunately, did not play our stage. How many days late was I?

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Two days. Two days. Two days.

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Two days late. It's hollow waves, although we've only got three of them because the other ones disappeared somewhere. Can you introduce yourselves? Because I only know one of you, I don't know the other two. So explain what your name is and what you do.

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I'm Charlie, I play bass for the band. I'm Luke, I play drums. I'm also an I play guitar.

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So you can answer this question, Luca, because I know you from your previous band.

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How did Hollow Wave perform? Um I got in contact with Ruben the singer, who I don't know where he is, but I remember I got in contact with him, and um and yeah, we just I then Ruben Charlie, who was native originally. Um Oscar was in Cairo as well, so we started together, and then yeah, we wanted to start something new. Um that just kind of folded because of people having different interests about the uni and stuff like that.

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So yeah, you're you're at that age where you form a band and then people go off to uni and then you're gonna stay together. So you guys are all in Cambridge, yeah, Cambridge uni basically. So you're you're gonna be here for a while in terms of committing to the band. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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We have uh Ruben will be going off to uni, but we're still coming into the band because he's not too far away. Alright.

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So how did you meet each other?

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How did you meet these guys? Well, uh, like Luca said, um, I went to 64 with Ruben, um, and we were sort of mutual friends um in a few different bands at the time. Um and then we left 64, and he got in contact with me saying he was working on a new project with two of the guys from Encairo. Um and I thought, yeah, we're gonna go here.

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And it seems to be going very well for you guys so far. Very well. We've been playing quite a lot of games. You were in London a couple of weeks ago, um, and you've got obviously you just played over on the flying pig stage you played on. How did that go? Yeah, really well.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I think there was a couple hundred people there.

SPEAKER_37

Um you were also in the Cambridge Bank competition. We were how was that as an experience? Because that was I guess you were pretty new. You hadn't played many gigs if any of it by that point.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I think our second gig was the first gig, uh the heat. And um that went really well. Um and then obviously the final it was great fun. And yeah, we had a we had a really good time. Yeah, that's a nice band. It's a good introduction to the local scene, and getting to meet other bands and other places.

SPEAKER_37

And talk to me about your recorded music, because I played a couple of your tracks. We're working with Jake Day. We actually had him on uh Alex's show a couple of uh last weekend talking about some of the acts that he enjoys working with, and he chose one of your songs. So what's it like working with Jay?

SPEAKER_33

Yeah, I mean he's fantastic, but he couldn't quite like anyone else. Obviously, he is an unbelievable um like job, but he's a lovely person as well, which is we can all do really, really well. Um yeah, we recorded four tracks of him and then we're recording again in July, so yeah, just kind of piling them up before the UD and then. Two of these can and two weeks ago. Are you releasing one every six weeks like everyone else is telling me that? Yeah, I think so. That's why we're gonna come in, Ruben. What was the release?

SPEAKER_00

Uh 15th of June, uh our next single Close Me Down is out. And that that was recorded with Joe recently. March. Yeah, that was good fun. I really enjoyed that.

SPEAKER_37

Pass the mic over. We've not met. Oh I'm late, guys.

SPEAKER_34

Where have you run from? Where have I run from? Uh I ran from the flying pig stage and I needed to get my stuff so they could go home. And they were leaving, and then I got a call from Luca and he said, Oh, we're doing the interview, so I had to run. Sorry, sorry about that.

SPEAKER_36

You're either incredibly unfit or you really did run.

SPEAKER_37

I absolutely dashed it.

SPEAKER_34

I can I can assure you.

SPEAKER_37

Fair enough. Thank you for coming over and saying saying hi. We're pretty much doing it.

SPEAKER_34

Um anyway.

SPEAKER_37

I've asked all the questions. Uh the gigs you've done, the band competition, uh, the singles you've got out, you've got a new single coming out, you had a good gig on the flying big stage. What is next for you? What's the next gig you've got coming out?

SPEAKER_00

Um the next gig that we've got coming up is uh 17th of June in London, Archway, the dance hall support in the Rolling People, which is way too big for us, but we're quite happy to be there.

SPEAKER_37

Nice, nice. I look forward to playing the next track. Thank you, Drew. Um nice to meet you guys. Yeah, you too. Yeah, have a good rest of Strawberry Fair. Thank you. If you're watching on YouTube, I feel like we owe Luca an apology because uh the way that he's standing in the order there, he uh he looks very short uh compared to some of the other guys uh in the band. That is Hollow Waves, and we'll play the new single on the show next week, all being well. Back to Strawberry Fair highlights. Here's a track from Phoenix. This is called Just Me.

SPEAKER_14

I heard that she's so sweet.

SPEAKER_20

She's something I could never be, not completely, and she knows the words to all twins that we used to sing to I still play or you can sing on you when we won't do that.

SPEAKER_21

Just watch your boy What that just means What's that just me?

SPEAKER_20

Don't let the eye what you think helped, I'm a big cat, she's so perfect, I can I can help my camera.

SPEAKER_14

Now he holds me when I'm only as he likes when I walk in the room the way I used to. Thank you so much. Thank you, Strawberry Fair.

SPEAKER_37

Thanks, Age of Strawberry Fair twenty twenty-six, and here's an old well, you're not old, you're not old. Here's an old friend. I don't know when the last time was I saw you. A couple of years ago.

SPEAKER_08

It's got to be an NMG award, surely.

SPEAKER_37

Probably, yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Well it wasn't because it wasn't the last one, maybe the one before.

SPEAKER_37

Maybe the one before.

SPEAKER_08

It's been a long time.

SPEAKER_37

Yeah, a little bit of red. I have.

SPEAKER_08

This is the vibe, it's like fire playing. Exactly, yeah, that's kind of the idea, yeah. Yeah, it's like rebirth, it's like new genre, new sound, new just before.

SPEAKER_37

You had a great crowd, you had your band with you, and you did a new sound, you started playing your um you really should tracks under Phoenix recently, and we played out your life, which is the first one we played. And that one I listened to that, and I thought, wow, this is this is different. This is good, I like this. This is funky. So when I invited you, I said, that's what we want, and you brought the band and you delivered it.

SPEAKER_08

Oh and I'm very glad that you're happy. I'm really glad we loved it. It's really nice to be back and like great to be doing it. This is kind of where I started, isn't it? Cambridge and 105 and all like everything, and just and energy and it's just so nice to kind of come back out always loved this festival. It's my favourite festival. So it was really nice to be out, and it's a really cool stage.

SPEAKER_37

It was alright. It was a really cool stage.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_37

And um yeah, you had a good crowd, they all lied on you.

SPEAKER_08

I was really lucky because I mean it it's not raining, the sun came out, but they stayed.

SPEAKER_37

Some people came here earlier just raining.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Very exciting. Yeah, I know if you had a few of my fans in the crowd.

SPEAKER_37

But you probably haven't played at home here much recently.

SPEAKER_08

This is my actual tenicity, this is my debut gig as phoenix. This is my first probably gigas phoenix. Yeah, so I haven't been around here and done that sort of stuff for a while. But I'm wanting to do a lot more, I want to do junction, I want to do Portland. Start walking my old footsteps like I used to do it.

SPEAKER_37

Where are you based at the moment?

SPEAKER_08

So I'm actually based at the moment. Um but I come back all the time sort of my family is a little based in here.

SPEAKER_37

So you're on the way to London now for another gig.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, we're gonna be shooting off straight to London. We got a gig in Soho, um, which I'm really, really excited about as well. And we're working with a really cool charity called Tot Box. Um, and they put artists on for the Isle of White and everything like that. So fingers crossed it goes well. We'll see. Yeah, no, it was it was it was amazing. I loved it. It felt really good. I was really worried originally for the rain on the stage, but other than that, you didn't have your own waterfall, like I'm kind of upset about that.

SPEAKER_37

It made a nice feature, but it's probably not safe the next year.

SPEAKER_08

No, probably not. I think the boys would have been upset.

SPEAKER_37

What's the next tip of Phoenix in terms of you've got more releases coming? I do.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, I've got one coming at the end of the month. Yeah, so I played it today, it's called Just Me. Um and that's coming out towards the end of the month. Yeah, I'm really, really excited about that one. And I'm I'm planning on releasing every six weeks now, so there'll be one.

SPEAKER_37

Is that an industry thing?

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, so anywhere between six to eight weeks, it triggers the algorithm on Spotify. So, I mean, if you're watching this and you're like a new artist, that's a very big tip I give anybody, is that if you want to release music, try and get out as much as you can between eight six to eight weeks because it triggers the algorithm on Spotify, and it basically like pushes it further to like playlists. It shows that you're consistent, it shows that all socials that you're consistent, so it just kind of pushes your profile a lot further. Um it's just better for the industry, I think.

SPEAKER_37

Very good advice. Very good advice. Alright, we'll look forward to playing the next track. See you again soon. Hopefully, not as long as it was this time.

SPEAKER_08

Yes, let's not leave it as that.

SPEAKER_37

And enjoy the London the London gig.

SPEAKER_08

Thank you. Yeah, we've got to rush up and get there now. Fingers crossed.

SPEAKER_37

Nice to chat to you, Phoenix, and that was really useful advice as well. And obviously something that other artists are taking on board, because George Bowen and Hollow Waves all said they would be releasing tracks every six weeks, and that track, Just Me, is the next single, and that was the one we played you alive. Right, moving on to Passion Parade now. This is their track called Shoot You Down.

SPEAKER_20

You've always had a cut show in the time as coach chill down, what sound when the day is done, and it all works out. I love to do it and you know you've always had it come out. It'll all work out and when the thing is done, it'll be had more fun, it'll all work out. Now the time has gone, it will work out.

SPEAKER_37

They perform for us at Strawberry Fair. This is highlights of the Brewboard NMG stage at Strawberry Fair 2026. Here they are in conversation with Ned.

SPEAKER_27

Hi my name is Ned Newman, and we're here at Strawberry Fair 2026 with NMG and Brewboard, and I'm joined by Passion Fray. How are you doing, guys?

SPEAKER_07

Hello, how are you?

SPEAKER_27

Fresh off stage, fresh on stage. How do you think that went?

SPEAKER_07

Oh honestly, it was such a cool audience there. I feel like everyone was at the perfect level of day drunk to just be like screaming.

SPEAKER_27

It's a good time for now, later after the day, like you're lucky with the weather as well. It's not raining, which is what we want here today.

SPEAKER_21

So yeah, I just loved it.

SPEAKER_27

It's been a little while since uh since I last saw you. What was it? It was the start of the new year, I think, wasn't it? When you came to the studio, what have you been up to since then?

SPEAKER_07

Oh, a lot more writing and production and recording. Yeah, we've had a few games as well in since then. Honestly, my brain has rambled over which what has been since January? We've definitely done so I can't remember.

SPEAKER_27

Okay, more importantly, what have you got coming up then? What have you got coming up?

SPEAKER_07

Okay, I can't say we have got coming out, and I was like, they just came back to me. I'm so sorry they came back to me. Go on, go on, that's uh we did a gig um supporting feet, which was in uh really cool.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07

I mean that's a very good highlight to be fair. Now back to you. Um well, we've got some music coming out, which we're we're just very excited. We've been working really hard in the studio, um, getting a lot of new music ready. So as soon as we start releasing it. Basically gonna be like why is there such a big gap between us and why we also have a queen eye in London? There we go. Together again July, July.

SPEAKER_27

Well, where can people find out all this information of what you've got coming out? When is announced?

SPEAKER_07

We technically have a we're we're we don't need to be.

SPEAKER_37

We need to teach Ned how to use a microphone and not to sound like he's eating it. Uh that's uh Passion Parade talking to Ned Newman. You're listening to the new music generator with Tim Willet. More live music from Strawberry Fair from Suffolk band Chance for Good. Here's six text.

SPEAKER_27

How are you doing, guys?

SPEAKER_00

Fantastic.

SPEAKER_27

Refresh your stage from your uh performance. How do you think that went?

SPEAKER_21

I thought it was good. It's a good little thing, huh?

SPEAKER_27

Have you performed at Strawberry Fair before?

SPEAKER_31

First time hopefully we've back next year.

SPEAKER_27

How are you finding the day so far? Have you got to explore any of the other areas?

SPEAKER_31

Yeah, we've been around, we've seen some stuff. So we've been releasing quite a lot of singles this year since we've released five singles. We're working on uh lots of new music. Lots of new music in the world.

SPEAKER_27

I'm looking forward to seeing have you got any gigs coming out?

SPEAKER_00

Have you got uh a gig next week out? Um and then after that we'll play some of you on the June's pretty busy always. Oh, I'm very much looking forward to seeing it.

SPEAKER_27

I'm sure we'll be playing your new tracks on the radio when they come out as well. Have a good rest of the day, guys. See you soon.

SPEAKER_37

Ned chatting to chance for good boys from Framlingham in Suffolk. This is the New Music Generator. We are coming to the end of our highlights of 2026. You can follow us on Instagram uh at New Music Generator. There are lots of uh photos and videos and bits and pieces that you can uh find if you want more Strawberry Fair. An upcoming single from him. This is Brother in Arms Live.

SPEAKER_02

There's no bullets, there's no bomb rage piece, there's always someone looking for the mind when I need it to go.

SPEAKER_37

Without wishing to uh give you too much, Ned Newman. Here he is again with Ross.

SPEAKER_27

So I'm here at Strawberry Fed 2026 with NMG and Brewboard, and I'm here joined by Mr. Ross Stewart. How are you doing, Ross? I'm fantastic, Ned. Thank you for having me. Oh, it's fresh off stage.

SPEAKER_26

Fresh very fresh off stage, yeah.

SPEAKER_27

How was that, Ross?

SPEAKER_26

Oh, it was brilliant. I mean, I uh honestly I woke up this morning and looked out the window and I was thinking this is gonna be a nightmare, and then come to the only game with an actual So we knocked out with the rainboard and it was very busy. It was great.

SPEAKER_27

Normally everyone says it's raining that's the officer locking out of weather.

SPEAKER_26

Yeah, I could not be happier with trying to put it that way.

SPEAKER_27

Have you played a show before? No, first time how you find it. Have you got to explore anywhere else yet?

SPEAKER_26

Not really. We sort of just landed and then sort of just ended up straight on stage.

SPEAKER_27

Are you planning on sticking around?

SPEAKER_26

For as long as I can, yeah. My um my my bandmates actually have to go very quickly. Um they've got another gig tonight in Orange, so we need to probably go quite quickly.

SPEAKER_27

What have you got coming up?

SPEAKER_26

Um tomorrow, uh Sunday the 7th, I'm supporting my good friend Holly Rogers at her album Mond show uh in uh Harlington in Fleet. Um I've got various gigs here and there. The one I'm really excited about is Festival 2 in Kingland on uh July 11th. Sharing a stage with the proclaimers is kind of I think the last time I saw you I remember you covering the proclaimers. I haven't played that song since I was like 12.

SPEAKER_27

Weird. Well, where can people find out where to get tickets for all these events that are coming out?

SPEAKER_26

Um those ones are free. I mean the best place to find anything any information about me is probably uh my Instagram, which is Ross Stewart Official. Um and while I'm at it, I fortify as Ross Stewart. Yeah, I don't know how much chatter is.

SPEAKER_37

Ross Stewart talking to Ned. Right, our last track, live track from Strawberry Fair, was S.J. Mortimer, who hasn't released any solo music for nearly ten years, I think she was saying. We'll have an interview with her when she chatted to Alex after her performance, but first this from her set, this is Blackout.

SPEAKER_21

This song's from Blackout All the Magic And all the days there's gone, and my choice rolling along to nowhere I've been losing trash down the world's best, and I need to get back to somewhere, somewhere need a black house right now All this noise shouldn't be a hack You know I'm back out Gotta slow down for second chances Baby I can use the blackouts No there's no space left in my head a wreck sleep sleep when the day I'm dying When I'm already I had a need a black house around Oh this noise It just shouldn't be holding I'm for as hell I gotta I gotta slow down a launch on the both the kitchen I can use the next oh yeah oh yeah I need the black house right now Oh this noise I need to tune in You know this dog else I'm gonna break down a drive on second chance I just need some kind of lens Don't know it or what the blend is But maybe I can use maybe I can use a black A black cow I can use a blackout Beautiful SJ Mortimer and Blackout and she caught up with Alex backstage Hello So I'm here with SJ Mortimer I'm here with SJ Mortimer backstage after your brilliant set on the Brewboard NMG stage how was that?

SPEAKER_06

Amazing uh loved it, loved it so much. Um it was so fun to just get to play to a big Cambridge crowd again after after many months and uh playing these new songs uh just recorded over an international show um yeah it's a fun to be able to play them live.

SPEAKER_05

Um this is the first time you've done some solo work for a long time really solo music Yeah the last the last solo album I recorded ten years ago.

SPEAKER_06

Um I was uh teachers basically recorded that album I went to record with the same guy now in Nashville he's like an old friend of uh here in my house and um they went to school together and then he moved out to Nashville when he was eighteen and he's been there every since and then he's he's now playing with all the big things um so it was amazing to get to uh record with him and he produced everything and he basically recorded all the implementation and that was within two weeks that he recorded I was out there for about two and a half weeks and um in the weekdays I was in Nashville doing writing sessions um which was scary going into rooms with people that are like Grammy nominated um so I had to like really side myself up to get in the room um but every s every session I had was really good and we'd like writing music celebrations yeah but um what was cool was a lot of songs I wrote in in those um weeks in Nashville and then recorded at the weekend in National Show where soul is um so it was about a two and a half hour drive that I did at the weekend to go and record. So we did about ten tracks in uh two weekends and they're gonna be coming out eventually. Yeah so you sing them out this weekend yes the new single Late Ring just came out um and I thought it was a perfect kind of start to this new project because it's like you know after ten years um you know finally releasing some kind of stuff again you've been playing with the people the way yeah so it's not like you haven't been doing anything you'd rather do them and you were in New Orleans with them. Yeah yeah earlier in the year to America a few times yeah I mean the the music um the musicianship over there is like it's really inspiring because you can't hello a New Orleans uh whiskey flask. But yeah um yeah Morganway is uh is is such a great man to be in and we've been we've been going for about eight years three albums we'll get another album going next year but it just felt like the right time for me to finally release some like really personal music uh some songs I've had for many years and then and others written out in Nashville and the same trick that I recorded so I don't know it was just great to be creative and free and and and just really kind of find myself the cage audience really loved it.

SPEAKER_37

I thought the vibe in there was just absolutely brilliant yeah I thought it was a really fun vibe um yeah after so long I think um it's made me really excited to do more shows so where do people find your your phone easy then yeah so hmultima.net is my website and that takes you to everything um everything sjmultima related and um and yeah I've I've just announced today as well my EV launch which will be at the Cambridge Junction Two in uh on September the 12th so I'm really excited for that that's gonna that's gonna be a great night and um I'll be playing with a full band of Cambridge Bay ever so much that's absolutely brilliant and I look forward to seeing you at the junction thank you so much it's always a pleasure chatting to you Alex likewise as Alex talking to uh SJ Mortimer uh must make sure that we call her SJ Mortimer for her solo material she's SJ Morgan by marriage and she's got married in the last ten years since she produced any solo music hence my confusion uh I wasn't sure what name she was going by uh but uh it is Mortimer. So there we go some interviews if you're watching on YouTube you'll be able to see all those apologies if uh you noticed some uh technical uh small technical issues as we were playing those through with the uh videos popping up in different sizes but I think we I quite got there in the end. Uh just keep me on my toes. Uh if on the radio then um apart from uh Ned eating the microphone and um some uh background uh uh stage noise coming through then uh I think uh I think we did all right given that we're in the middle of a field to be honest. We got managed to get all that material for you. Um say follow us on Instagram uh you'll be able to find a bit more as we go through the next few days. Let's go back to the inbox for the last bit of the program. This next track is from Edward Young. His new EP is called The Way I See You Now, and taken from it is this track, which is called Wonderful.

SPEAKER_21

She's Win. She's Win. Candle flickers as shadows dance round the room. The whites of her eyes sparkle like the crescent. There is a magic in the air that pulls us close with magnet's eyes. Revealing a part of herself on the local key. She's wonderful. She's wonderful. And she's thinking my breath, thinking my breath. Selflessly kind of compassion sparks world. I'm maybe in for a chance. Truly wonderful. And she's leading me on. Leading me on. She's wonderful. Truly wonderful. Enchanted by her stay inside her she drives away till she's out all sight. Till she comes back around. I know I'll be all right. But I count the days till I see her again. Oh yeah, I can't wait. Cause she's wonderful Truly wonderful And she's taking my breath Taking my breath Everclever skies of Cause I need to taste of her So many eyes for now I know I know it is new from Peterborough based artist Edward Young.

SPEAKER_37

It's called Wonderful. If you want the full track listing of the music we played on the show today at New Music Generator on Instagram. If you haven't already followed us, go and follow us on YouTube. At the time of recording, we are three subscribers away from 250, which is my uh target. And don't forget on YouTube on Sunday, it's the second episode of Alex's Behind the Music series. Luke James Williams is our guest this Sunday, 8 o'clock, streaming on our YouTube channel. Available as a podcast thereafter. Thanks for listening this week. Fairware the Sun away from June that is tomorrow. As we're going out on Wednesday, it's called I Choose Love. Uh it features his usual Americana and grungy vibes. It's definitely positive uh in a world of chaos. This is Fairware the Sun and the track is called I Choose Love.

SPEAKER_10

Everything on fire. I choose love I too.

SPEAKER_37

I'll leave you with this from Katie Richards.

SPEAKER_12

New music generator.

SPEAKER_22

Closing myself off from the rest of the world. They don't gotta see how I feel. I push you away in the name of staying safe. I find it hard to admit this is real. Cause if I start imagining what life with you could be, I'd find it hard to let it go if it's taken from me. Always watching from the sidelines as the others get their turn. I'm let down and discard it, Buddha never seems too life. I'll show you the stars you have never seen. Open up, trust me dear.

SPEAKER_21

Hold my hand, and you will have no fear.

SPEAKER_22

I want to send a belief because you're holding me some kind of You've got the word to throw my heart stainless It's only part I thought that staying away was my best chance Of making sure my heart stayed intact But then you took me in the palm of your hand My was first come true I don't know how I'd like As if I start imagining what life with you could be I'd find it hard to let it go if it's taken from me Always watching from the sidelines as the others get their turn I'm let down and discard it, Buddha never seems to lie. Take my hand and suddenly you feel touched warm sand, look in your eyes, it feels like home.

SPEAKER_21

All the moments of a life I trust, I wanna say I feel like you're holding me so carefully. You've got the warms, the mind's all the masking You don't leave it in past So when you hoard me You said it hold me Uh no Cause when I'll never let you go I'll try not to get in my head When I'm lying in dread Can see the road ahead I'll think of a stand Follow me I'll show you the stars you would not see Open up, trust me dead Hold my hand and you will have no fear So now we'll say I really because you're holding me so carefully You've got the walk to throw my tall mask You don't leave it in fughts