New Music Generator HQ - 17/06/26

Tim Willett presents the latest releases from the very best emerging artists from across East Anglia and catches up with Suffolk band Like Optimists to find out how they're feeling ahead of performing at this weekend's First Light Festival and at Latitude next month.

Transcript

SPEAKER_13 1:10

Headway through the loom. Suffocating do we down through the stream? Losing the sinking screaming inside. That's how I help you. Now it's the breakout in control. It's really not that high.

SPEAKER_18 4:36

What have we got coming up for you today? Well, lots of music sent in by you to us, to our inbox. Inbox at new musicgenerator.com is the email address to get in touch. And send your music through to the programme. If you've never heard us before, we feature the very best music from emerging bands, musicians, singer-songwriters, producers from across East Anglia. And by that I mean uh from Cambridgeshire, from Norfolk, from Suffolk, from Essex, from Hertfordshire, and from Bedfordshire, and we will cover pretty much all of those areas in these two hours as we normally do. We'll be crossing to Lower Stoft in about half an hour's time for an interview with the Suffolk based band Like Optimists. They are one of many actors who are playing at a first light festival that's happening in Lowestoft this weekend. Um they're also playing at Latitude in a few weeks' time. So we'll talk to them about both of those topics and play a brand new track from that band later on. We've also got brand new music from Hollow Wave, Silent Rogues, Dead Reynolds, James White and the Wildfire, Ryan Redwood, Lady Grainy Earls, Grace Calvert, Solomon Smith, Dominica, Andy Griffin, and uh as much more as we can fit in basically over the next couple of hours. You might be listening to us live on the radio right now. If you are hello, thank you for listening. You might also be watching us live on YouTube, uh or you might be watching us recorded on YouTube, uh however you are uh consuming the show, whether it'd be on a podcast live on this Wednesday night as we go out for the very first time on the radio another day or uh as a podcast, then you are welcome. And if you are watching us live, then you can get in touch with us on YouTube. Get yourselves in the YouTube comments. Nice to have a little chat going on there, Brooke is there already. She's basically the uh the chat room host these days. Uh she'll be she'll be there, she'll say hello hello to you and um have a chat with you. Um but you can also get in touch with us uh whenever you like, inbox any musicgenerator.com. That is our email address. Right, let's get on then and waste no time and play you this the brand new single from Hollow Waves called Close Me Down. You tryna get almost you out, you tryna come alone, but it's bringing out you tryna get along tryna find you out, you tryna come alone I can find my fino for camp for my fino for figging me now You tryna calm me down But I'm telling you now I'm tryna shut you out Now cutting you off Cause I don't need you now You tryna get me back again Keep me quiet for days on it If I'm there or if I'm not if I'm all around I'll be there with your mind when you get in that sound so again and again and again Oh short but sweet that track Close Me Down the brand new single from the Cambridgeshire group Hollow Waves. Uh we had a chat with them at Strawberry Fair. We brought you that interview last week, and they did say they had a new single coming out, and they weren't lying. Uh there it is, uh available now. They're actually playing in London tonight uh with our friend Ned down at uh Islington Radio. They're playing a uh pre-England game uh gig along with a couple of other bands that probably be on stage right now or have already just played. Uh but that is a new track. They said they were releasing new music every six weeks, and uh yeah, that is that is what you've got to do for the algorithm. We learnt that's all be fair. You've got to release music every six weeks, and then the Spotify algorithm will um elevate your music uh and make sure it gets shared around. I think that's what you've got to do. Right, uh that's that one out of the way. Let's continue, shall we, by playing you more brand new music. This comes from Silent Rogues. I'll tell you more about it after we've listened to it. This is called Tantalize.

SPEAKER_05 9:52

Take a breakfast too, just shoot The Christmas slip at Brad's on by the point for you to make you fry with dry jazz when spirit said we'll seem to come along with so you make a black stuff, you got to stop that, you see, no surprise, you could load it something comes with two style, as a lack of me. Who knows we could load? Who knows if we like satisfied you so I know she's allowed to say no party, you know, stack, you got the state, you should be surprised, you love it.

SPEAKER_18 13:15

Drawing on influences from Primal Scream, Jango Django, Duran Duran, Kasabian, Tears Saphirs, and Jungle. We first featured them on the show back in August of last year, and that is their brand new track uh that they did ask us to send uh or ask us to play that they sent through. Uh Dan from the band that we've uh been chatting to. The rest of the band members are Matt on guitar and Cindy vocals. We've also got uh Tom on drums and Will on Face. All of their singles are available now in all the usual places, and they have Rogue and on Facebook and I believe on Friday. A leading Art and Monkey Tribut Band. Can we guess what the Arctic Monkey Tribute band might be called? Arctic roll. Arctic roll? Uh on October the 17th. There we go. Um if you want to send your music in and you are from our coverage area, here is how you can do that.

SPEAKER_21 14:52

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

SPEAKER_12 15:04

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

SPEAKER_18 15:10

Here comes a new single out on the 26th of June taken from Dead Reynolds' new album, Yellow Weather Warning. This is someone else.

SPEAKER_05 17:55

No one left to play dancing in the fire Cause I can't stay the same I don't need forgiveness I don't need your help Nobody can feel this I do this for the biggest.

SPEAKER_18 18:57

Dead Reynolds, someone else. You can next see them play. Uh at the Met Lounge in Peterborough at the Everywhere at Once Festival on the 26th of this month. They've also got dates in Hitchin at B1 in Norwich, and playing a bit further afield at the likes of Manchester Cannock as well. That's Dead Reynolds and their new track recorded by award-winning NMG award-winning producer Jack Murphy at Crystal Sound Studios. That's their new track called Some One Else. What a busy old YouTube chat tonight. Hello to everybody that's there. Brooke is there as always. Calvin popped in say hello, like Optimist, I guess you're gonna hear from in about 10 minutes. There as well. Alex is there as well. And we've also got uh Sam Mill from Sam Mill on the Tyrant who basically popped into asking if we're playing his music today. The answer would have been no, because I have played that track a couple of times now. So I said send me something new that we haven't already played. And I'll screw you into the playlist. If you're a fan or an artist that's watching on uh on YouTube tonight, then uh pop in and say hello, and maybe I'll maybe I'll add your song to the playlist because you know pressure and all. Uh but for now we'll run through what we've already pre-planned to play, and this next track comes from James White and the Wildfire. Uh with a nice comment about how much Ruby fair today from the other week and says, Congratulations on a fantastic lineup and day on Saturday. It really was fantastic. I saw you from a distance, but you look very busy. Um I was very, very busy. This is the first of congratulations on a successful event. Please see our second single of our upcoming EP attached. It's called The Ballad of Jimmy Blanco. And he didn't tell me any more than that. I don't know when it's out. Um I'll go and look that up in a minute. But while I do that, you can listen to it.

SPEAKER_22 20:57

Nostalgia is the poison. Progress, my tears. You look toward the horizon yet, you long for bygone years. These streets are paved with gold. If you'd only raise your head, it's another day of thinking you'd be better off dead. She said, The puppies watch you make it, if you better it should take it. She said, These pizza made the bread, stuck in chapter bread. Why you down if you never come around for over year now, I had a lot to steal.

SPEAKER_18 24:15

I like that. Oh, and I hadn't even finished. That's James White and the Wildfire, a psychedelic folk rock and bluegrass band with country influences. The track is called The Ballad of. Sorry if you're watching on YouTube, the title is so small because it's such a long title. The Ballad of Jimmy Blanco. He's been shooting a music video recently. That's interesting. I wonder if we can get hold of that and play that on the show at some point. It drops on Friday, taken from the band's upcoming EP. So that one is released on Friday, the 19th of June, as well. James White and the Wildfire and the ballad of Jimmy Blanco. Now we're heading over to Norfolk to play you a track from Ryan Redwood, rising indie singer-songwriter, who shares his most honest and relatable release to date called Look Up to the Sky, a soaring summer anthem that captures the confusion, self-doubt, and quiet hope that often comes with navigating your mid-twenties. Built on shimmering guitars, uplifting melodies, and Redwood signature storytelling, Look Up to the Sky disguises its emotional weight beneath a sun-soaked indie soundscape. While the track radiates the warmth of long summer evenings and open road freedom, its lyrics paint a far more vulnerable picture beneath the surface. At its core, the song explores the feeling of being left behind by life, the moment when youthful certainty begins to fade and adulthood arrives without the instruction manual you expected. Ryan says growing up is never easy and no one really shows you how to do it. That's one of the song's most striking and universally relatable lines. Elsewhere, the song dives deeper into the anxieties of a modern adulthood with brutally honest reflections, including the line, beginning to feel like my life was a waste of time. I've been having this feeling since I turned twenty-five. I just second guessing through my life. The emotional heart of the track is balanced by an expansive, feel-good production that channels the spirit of modern indie and mainstream rock, driving rhythms, bright textures, and an anthemic chorus create a sense of optimism that mirrors the song's central message. There we go. That is Ryan Redwood, another track, mixed and mastered by NMG Award-winning producer Jack Murphy. Let's do a tick on the screen because that's what we do when we mention Jake Day. Might as well start it with Jack as well. This is also out on Friday.

SPEAKER_03 26:31

It's called Look Up to the Skype.

SPEAKER_12 29:55

New music generator.

SPEAKER_18 30:23

I don't know why that's happening. That's a technical problem. Let's get rid of that and open it and bring it to you in a different format. So I did uh last night record an interview with the band Like Optimists, who are playing at uh First Light Festival this weekend and also at Latitude in a few weeks' time. Uh I spoke to uh initially three of the guys and then another one joined a little bit later on, as you will see in the um interview that we are going to bring you maybe now. You're watching and listening to the new music generator, it's time to introduce ourselves to a band that we first started playing, according to my records, in August of last year, and this weekend they are playing at First Light Festival in Lower Stoft, and that is indeed their hometown. They are like optimists. Hello guys.

SPEAKER_14 31:17

Howdy, how are you doing? How are we going?

SPEAKER_18 31:19

Very well, thank you. Um nice to meet you guys well, kind of in person. We're we're not quite in person, but zoom Zoom will do for now. Um do you want to introduce your yourselves to me and what your roles are within the band?

SPEAKER_15 31:34

Yeah, go ahead, sir. I'm Aaron. I am uh I suppose I'd say lead guitarist and back and vocalist.

SPEAKER_14 31:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_15 31:41

Very well done.

SPEAKER_14 31:42

I'm Nathan, I'm the singer and rhythm guitarist. I'm Cameron and I'm the bassist.

SPEAKER_17 31:48

Cool.

SPEAKER_14 31:49

And our drummer is on the way. Hopefully.

SPEAKER_18 31:57

That's not a very nice journey up the A12 from Ipswich to Low Start, is it?

SPEAKER_15 32:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_18 32:03

So you're talking to me now from your from where the place where you rehearse?

SPEAKER_14 32:08

Right, yeah. Yep, yep. Ink studios at the moment.

SPEAKER_18 32:11

Nice, okay. Um, well, it's it's nice to uh say, nice to chat to you. We've played a few of your tracks um on the show. Um and I wanted to get you on particularly with the timing of you've got some exciting gigs coming up, and we'll we'll talk about First Light Festival and and Latitude in a minute. But talk to me about the history of the band. Um how long have you guys been like optimists?

SPEAKER_14 32:36

Wow. So when did we start playing about 2015, wasn't it? I think so, yeah. That's when we formed. 2015 we formed. Started off as a bit of a sort of just a bedroom project, you know, with a little bit of a dream, see if we can make it happen, and then uh we started. It started originally with me and Azza writing our own songs, and uh you were starting to do your own producing, weren't you?

SPEAKER_09 32:59

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_14 33:00

So I had a batch of songs, he then said I can help you with that and I allowed him to do so, and the songs built from there, really, and we just kept on building the catalogue, and then Cam came along and joined us. Um obviously James as well, when he gets in. And uh yeah, and that's where we are today. Till now.

SPEAKER_18 33:22

So uh i it's been quite a while. It's unusual for a band to be together for such a long period of of time. I'm guessing when you started the band, you were what in your teenage years or twenties?

SPEAKER_15 33:36

I wasn't a little bit older than eleven years ago.

SPEAKER_14 33:45

I must have been about twenty-four.

SPEAKER_09 33:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_14 33:48

You're about five years younger than me, I think.

SPEAKER_15 33:51

Yeah. Yeah, something like that, yeah. Yeah, yeah, we um I I think we're very we care a lot about the environment we're working in, and we care a lot about each other.

SPEAKER_14 34:03

I think and we we really look after each other, don't we? We do.

SPEAKER_15 34:08

We do. I think that's really important. A lot of bands miss that sometimes, but we we're very um we love each other.

SPEAKER_01 34:20

Yeah, yeah. Like they're all just like you know, all we're all like mates before we're bandmates, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_18 34:25

I feel like you know Yeah, that's important. Uh I guess uh yeah, you you enjoy spending time with each other and writing and recording and performing live and all that and all that kind of thing. So whereas a lot of bands uh that well they break up for various reasons, some sometimes uh because you know they they move away or they go off to university or or you know, grow up and have a family and get you know children or whatever. Um but if you guys are friends before everything else, then I guess that that kind of underlines why why you have stood the uh the test of time, so to speak, and and it's not it's not like it's not like you're gonna fall out over musical differences particularly, I guess.

SPEAKER_14 35:10

No, no. I mean I've always said um I mean there has been rocky times, don't get me wrong, but we've always just kind of tried to push through it and keep going, you know, keep being a band and doing the best we can, and I just no I've always said never give up.

SPEAKER_01 35:27

So I think I think like when you've got that kind of friendship kind of already instilled in it. Like when you go through the tough times it makes it easier to get through and then because we all enroll in the same way then the music as well. Yeah, it kind of pushes you through any tricky time you have to. I think as well, we respect each other a lot, and we respect each other's like um craft.

SPEAKER_15 35:52

Like I and you as a songwriter, I amazing like you I can I couldn't even begin to write a song. Lyrics the way you write lyrics. No, the lyrics that you write, I'm just being honest. I couldn't even begin to but it's the way that you um imagine you just write stuff in such an imaginative way, like you just really set the scene, and it's like I'm I'm not I'm not used to praise, I apologize. I'm not used to it. I am on broadway, yeah. Yeah, I um just yeah really respect your craft and you as a person as well. Um I respect all of your personalities, your musicianships, and it's like and I think it's shared amongst every one of us to be honest.

SPEAKER_14 36:43

Uh the love for what everyone does and the band is good.

SPEAKER_18 36:46

Well the love the love and respect that you have for each other is coming through very strongly. Don't uh don't worry about that. Um so so you I say you've been you've been a band for a for a a a long while, um, but I've only known of you guys for for the last year or so. Um so what what do I need to know? Fill me in as to to some of the highlights and things that you've done as a band up until the the last year. What what what do I need to know?

SPEAKER_14 37:16

That's a question. That's a big question. So basically, I would say up to the last year, the highlight for us has been trying to build our catalogue of music at the moment. We've been working really hard on songwriting and getting everything recorded and out on you know on streaming platforms, Spotify and stuff. Um we've recently got some really good gigs coming up, so we've got like the first Light Festival in uh Lowstoff, which is our hometown. Yep, massive stage, can't we? And then we've got Latitude Festival as well, they're taking us to Latitude, so that's first Light taking us, and we're very, very grateful to those guys if you're listening, guys. We thank you very, very much. Um we've got a gig coming up for the uh the waterfront in Norwich for the King Blues in August as well, which we're very excited for. And Its Witch Music Day as well is coming up, so we've got some good gigs. We're very happy. It's been a while since we've had bigger gigs like that, so we're we're proper, we're proper proud to be part of them.

SPEAKER_18 38:17

Definitely.

SPEAKER_14 38:18

Yeah, so that's probably our next stage for us. Try and get bigger gigs when going forward, like these ones.

SPEAKER_18 38:23

Well, you're you're you're going in the right direction, and so you've got some um some pretty big stuff coming up. Talk to me about Lower Stoft and and the music scene and and everything there in general. It's fair to say that First Light Festival's made a big difference in the town over the last few years in terms of encouraging artists and giving them an opportunity to perform and looking after the the acts that are from from Lower Stoff. What did the scene used to be like?

SPEAKER_14 38:48

I mean, when it comes to Lower Stoff, the scene's always kind of been there. You know, it died off a little bit. It came back in recent years, especially when we had people sort of like Lower Stoff Live doing their thing and that, and they gave us a chance as well, bless them. Now there's uh obviously Festivals like Festival who are giving people a chance where they can, bless them. And um yeah, it's just been it feels like a comeback, you know? From when I was in a teenager when the music scene was quite good, and it's all and now it's coming back, and um it's brilliant. And there's there's a lot of untapped talent in Lower Stoft. Um, you know, you've got you've got the likes of DSL, um Ryan Redwood, you've got In Situ as well, there are other bands in the area that I like personally, I love 'em. And they deserve more recognition.

SPEAKER_18 39:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 39:38

Um so yeah, the the scenes on on the app and uh I wouldn't say skip on it. If you ever see a gig and a lot of stuff, come and come down and watch the bands that are playing because there is some good talent here that are that are missing out you're you're missing out on, you know.

SPEAKER_18 39:51

Yeah. Well, as I say, it's it's an area that uh we've only really started ha hearing from bands from in in the last couple of years. We've got we've got a tie up with First Light. We send uh one of the acts to the New Dawn stage each year. And I'm coming to First Light for the first time uh this year. I'll be uh I'll be there on Saturday. Um and I've been to Lower Stoft. I will do. What what time are you playing?

SPEAKER_14 40:14

Uh 11 15.

SPEAKER_18 40:16

Okay. On Sunday. Oh, on Sunday, okay. Um but yeah, I've been to Lowest of a few times. I've got friends that that live there now. Um and so it'll be nice to see the uh the town when uh when First Light's up and running. Um and you mentioned some of those other acts there that that you've uh that you kind of I guess you support each other, you're all from from the same area. Um and you said you got a gig in um at the waterfront coming up as well in terms of other places you you get along to. Where else have you have you played as a band otherwise outside of Lower Stoft? Oh, your drummer's just arrived. Hello, James.

SPEAKER_14 40:53

Try and squeeze in.

SPEAKER_18 40:54

Sorry, I'm I'm here finally. There we go. How how long how long was your journey from Ipswich today?

SPEAKER_17 41:03

Um about an hour and ten. I was stuck behind a horse trail at the most time.

SPEAKER_18 41:09

I tell you what, fair play for your commitment, because I I've done that journey a couple of times when I've been to latitude and it's not fun. So I'd hate to have to do it on a regular basis. I feel I do feel like Lower Stoft is in the middle of the middle of nowhere in terms of distance distance from everywhere. It's not really in terms of miles, but there aren't really any great roads to get there, unfortunately, so it makes everything a bit slower. But um anyway, when you do get there, it's uh it's it's worth a journey, as I say, it's somewhere I've been to a few times lately. Um so outside of of Lower Stoft, you said you've got a gig coming up in Norwich, where else uh have you played before, or would you like to play slightly further afield?

SPEAKER_14 41:46

Um we played London a few times, but I would love to go back to like Camden and stuff like that. Um have we ever been to Camden? Um I think we have, have we? That's what I'd love to play.

SPEAKER_15 41:59

We have O2.

SPEAKER_14 42:01

We did do a short. Oh yeah. That was a few years ago now, forgive me. Um I've been looking further afield, like Manchester, Liverpool, even Scotland. I've been trying my best to get gigs, but um it's hard to get people to reply. But we're trying. We are trying to get gigs further afield now, yeah. So anywhere beyond Norogenics, which really is I'm now Well, keep trying.

SPEAKER_18 42:31

I know it's really difficult to get gigs and get promoters to reply to you, particularly when you're a band that's not from the place that you're contacting, and they don't it feels to me that people don't want to take a chance on out-of-town bands as much as maybe they used to. Um so yeah, keep uh keep on going. I think that the way to do it is probably to befriend a band from somewhere else and then offer a some sort of gig swap or something. That's probably the best way, uh the best way to do it these days. Um but coming back to First Light then, tell me what what how's your what's your relationship with them? How did how did you um come onto their radar for them to give you the opportunity first of all at playing the festival this year? But then how did that develop into latitude?

SPEAKER_14 43:10

Oh yeah, cool. Um so I've known Helen who who runs it for a while now, and uh she's always been really kind to me, bless her, and again, if she listened to this, I thank you for choosing us to play. Um and we applied and they just approached us to play and we said, Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_15 43:30

Basically. Also, we we played on the old BBC Introducer, didn't we? Oh yes, that was that was helpful. And then Jell said, Have you applied? Because this was last year. Have you applied this year? Well I don't think we had.

SPEAKER_14 43:42

We didn't borrow last time, did we? But we did this year and it and it paid off. We got lucky, but she put it in work for us.

SPEAKER_18 43:49

Maybe so you have so you haven't played First Light before. This is the first time this year.

SPEAKER_14 43:55

This is our first time.

SPEAKER_18 43:56

Okay. Well, you yeah, say you've got a bit of catching up to do, considering you're a You want it to be a little bit like you're not going to be able to do that. You'll have to make sure you know where you're going by the time the weekend comes around, Aaron. So you'll end up wandering on the wrong stage in the middle of somebody else's house or something. Um eleven fifteen on uh on Sunday. Um we'll go through some of the other acts that I'm playing first like in a in a minute. And then the latitude of opportunity. So you obviously you said Angela, maybe we think you're using she helped uh with that as well as as Helen. Um tell me what the recognition was like when you found out that you were getting that opportunity. Well you you you will be in for a a very pleasant surprise. It is one of the biggest stages at the at the festival. It's sort of up in the in in the woods area. It's like almost like a big circus type. It's open at the sides. Um big stage in the middle of it. I went to see um I've been lucky enough to go to Tatushi the last couple of years and were there for radio and I went to see a band, I don't know whether you come across them before a band from Ramlingham called Icarus and they played there two years ago, um, local band. Um and man, it was packed, people were spilling out the sides. I mean, I don't know what the capacity is there, but hundreds of people were there. And they were on a similar time in the morning. Um and uh you you uh you guys are afternoons, I'll probably be even busier, but they were on quite early in the morning. Um so you are in for treat when you when you play the Sunrise Arena as uh Latin. That is uh that is a that is a big deal. Um I I'll try and make sure I come up and uh come up and see you if I don't get to see you at the time we're gonna play a track for you for me. Um this is your next thing. Would you want to tell me a bit about that? All right, well we're gonna play the track in in a second. Uh reminder, like often playing at first light festival on Sunday. Uh we'll go through the rest of the lineup surely, and then you can see them play at Latin G in a few weeks' time as well. Enjoy both of those experiences. You have a ball of both of them. I'm sure that with the weather for this weekend looks like it's gonna be perfect, which is also really good. Um the sun rises first and lowest often uh out of any other part of the country. So it'll be a nice sunny day, um, and you'll be there on uh on the Sunday, and um and yeah, if I don't see you at uh first light, then I'll definitely come and say hi at uh latitude in a few weeks' time. Thanks for sparing the time to chat, and um you better get on and have a rehearsal now.

SPEAKER_14 50:01

Yeah, we shall do that. Thanks a lot, man.

SPEAKER_21 50:07

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

SPEAKER_05 50:23

Six feet underground as the flowers lay around. Picture on a stone made just for you. I remember cause in my impatience to go hold. I regret the last thing that I said to you. So what if you're lonely? I got better things to do. And if you even cared, you would give me the space to move. Your affectious ways are strangling me. So tonight you'll have to be alive. I woke up to see a face in the mirror of my love. I missed the feeling, the feeling of us. We have the moments we never discuss. Big the best and they never bagged. I get the biggest never big space. The echoes about the coming from you. I'm never questioning why oh why I couldn't see the water signs. Now my gotta take care of what was once mine.

SPEAKER_14 52:45

Did I see you in that dress? The dress you wore when we first met, and from the door of the funeral home, I cried alone. And I reflect on the last thing that I ever said to you So what if you lonely had got better fixed it in?

SPEAKER_05 53:10

And if you leave it, can't do it, give me the space too You don't expect it's drive to have to be subtle You'll have to be sub that is the brand new track from Lycoptimists, so you just heard in conversation there like that.

SPEAKER_18 53:45

Uh that is called You'll Have to Be Alone. This is the new music generator. Here's a trap from Tiny Vessels.

SPEAKER_05 54:21

Breathing in Breathing out the pain I'm missing I know it's not the same Why can't I fix it up I just don't be together I don't wanna talk about it, I just wanna be together I just don't be together. I don't wanna talk to them, I just want to be together. I just don't care, I don't want to talk about it, I just want to be the game.

SPEAKER_16 56:55

I have to try to call this print So now I'm just gonna Lakes are suffering from tiny vessels fix it up I don't wanna talk about it.

SPEAKER_05 57:14

I just wanna be together This is the new is a generator, we'll be right back. I never saw the light never fell the way I never was by the stone.

SPEAKER_10 59:58

Never found the world I'm never seeing the light.

SPEAKER_18 1:04:57

Dissonance from Pixarine This is the new music generator. Thank you for lending us your ears this evening. So the car music from Grace Calva, Solomon Smith, Dominica, Andy Griffin, Lost Without Cause, Alex Wilkinson, Kinliss. Loads of good tunes coming up between uh now and the end of the show. We're here for another 55 minutes. Uh just a couple of housekeeping bits. I saw in situ were in the chat a minute ago while we were playing the Like Optimist interview, uh, made me think when was the last time we played something from those guys? It was a while ago. So hopefully we hear from them again soon. Uh I've just chased Sam Milne up because he comes in asking us to play something, then he disappears out of the chat. Uh his drummer's in there, but he's not. Um and now I don't know what's going on. So you're running out of time, Sam, if you want something on tonight. Uh and First Light Festival, if you want to see who's playing, go to the website firstlightlowest off.com. Uh there's loads of acts performing over the two days. Uh I'll be there on Saturday afternoon. Um probably gonna wear my NMG hoodie or t shirt. Somebody wondering another track called show. So let's play this track called Freak Show. And then we'll tell you what Lady Grey and the Earls have got coming up on the nineteenth, which is a Friday night. This is Freak Show.

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One, two, four, two, four, two, two, four, five, away from here.

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The Essex Arms in Brentwood. If you are in and around the area and you like the sound of that band, then head over to go and see them play live. They are Lady Grey, Grey spelt G-R-E-Y, and the Earl's band on Instagram. Now, something that's just popped up on my Instagram feed is Mr. Mulholland Jive who's listening this evening. And he heard us play the Ryan Redwood track on the show earlier on. He liked it and he's already done his own piano cover of it. I've only played it once. He's literally soaked that into his brain, sat down at his piano, and recorded it. Man, you are such a talented person, Ben Moholland. Thank you for doing that. Uh Ryan, when he sees that he is gonna go crazy. He'll love that. Um, I can make it. Right. We have to get through now, and the end of the track from crazy. Have you ever had a huge crush on someone who doesn't pay any attention to you? I wanted to catch the fun life feeling of having a crush, but then getting a bit scary when you actually have to do it. The song is led by confidence. Imagining my future with this person with her producer. And of course, Lillian and Kate Nash. Grace is playing at First Light Festival this weekend. This is her new track. It is called New Shirt.

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You are everything I need.

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Every time you look at me, you can make my life complete. Sweep me off my feet. You don't even mean to stay.

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I heard you were going out tonight. Didn't plan on staying up, but I guess for you I might leave shirt, short skirt. I might be overdressed. Our friends are in their dreams, but I'm trying to impress. You often iron light, and you look me in the eyes. All of my social skills, they die. Here come all those butterflies. Go to the bar to kill some time. Cause I'm too nervous to say hi. I'll hide behind my glass of wine and hope that you will know. You are everything I need.

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My heart will still be. Every time you look at me, you can make my life complete. Sweep me off my feet.

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But you don't even notice me. Oh wow, I found you standing next to me. Asked how I was said that you heard my song on the BBC. You talk, I thought this is my dopamine. You smile and touch my hand. I forget how to breathe. I've got your number in my phone. And I'll be waiting for your call. Even if there's other plans, I'm prepared to drop them. My friends will think I've lost my mind. Cause I keep laughing at your jokes. They're not that funny half the time. I just want you to know you are everything I need.

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My heart gets a beer. Every time you look at me, you can love my life calmly. Just give me off my feet. You don't even notice me.

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Love it when you smile at me, break this when you look at me. I think you should be with me, be with me, marry me. Love it when you smile at me. Breakfast when you look at me. I think you should be with me, be with me, marry me. This is kind of stressing me, giving me anxiety. I think I should stop this now. Stop talking, stop talking.

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Stop talking, I've said enough. That's Grace Calver and her new track called New Shirts. It is available now, and if you want to see Grace, she's playing at First Light Festival this weekend, Saturday at five o'clock. She's also got gigs coming up in Norwich at the waterfront Hay Hill Takeover on the 12th of July. She's playing the Baths with uh Andrew Cushion in Ipswich on the 24th of July. And the Toy Market and John Peel Center on the 1st of August, as well as Rock and Roll Circus and Alan Park on the 22nd of August. She's got some good gigs coming up. She's got some good merch as well from here. Right, let's play you this new track from Solomon Smith. Here and MG here we have a final track from my new album, Revolving and Rotating, which will be everywhere on the first of July. I hope you'll give it a listen flash play. Cambridge is single songwriter, Solomon Smith releases his new studio album. The album is an evolution move away from his impulse and album. The new album sent it around the second transformation and relentless transit. Revolving and rotating promises to be an album that invites the stories and questions to be a little bit more than a little bit. Revolving and rotating is a new country.

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Get lost and never be found. Past, present, future you decide. And for a penny mountain to climb. Look for the line, it's deep inside, and go map ali. Tides will turn you and seasons change you, years will age you, and memories make you. Don't let it all go past you by. And footprint No second thoughts, no regret, you want. Take a spin and see every sinew, with every last drop. Blood, sweat, and tears, give it all you've got. Be beautiful, misunderstood. And mean it every time. Stones in the room gotta follow that path. You gotta seize the day, you go and take that chance. Step out of the dark and dance in the light. And hold out for a truth. Seasons change you. Years will age you and memories make you life will gestion. You see cancer. You find love God, which revolving. I'm broke. Keep revolving. I'm protecting the microphone.

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Featuring as a uh vocalist on the song Arrat. Through her um choir. Oh, Paul's on there as well. Very good. Solomon Smith Revolving and Rotating. Now comes a new track from Andy Griffin, who we last played on the show in February, uh based near Saxted. Uh in Thaxted, near Safra Molden. His new album is called The Happiness Illusion. It came out on March the 5th, and we played a track called AI back in February. His new one is called Cafe Del Europe, which comes out on the 26th of June. It's taken from the same album. Um, that also comes out on the 26th of June. I thought the album came out in March. The album is out on the 26th of June. It's not out yet. He says it'd be great if you could play this on the show as always. Cafe del Europe is basically a metaphor for the world that we live in today. That's how we listen.

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Spinning on it, rapid, broken up seeds. And what is it we got? Two hundred thousand people and that is nothing we got down. We got down to the left, and I don't know. We all speak the same language. We have all the same girl.

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Cafe del Europe from Andy Griffin, available as part of his new album. Coming out on the 26th.

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Hear a story about a girl With big dreams, bigger than her. With high hopes, higher than her. And she ain't gonna stop. She'll never stop. She had life try to bring her down. Mm-hmm. She's fell herself. Strong as she's ever been. All the night she stayed away. Hold on the hill. Every second button. Yeah, and my book. Yeah, yeah, and I do. Yeah. Now she's steppin' and high. Got the fire in her With dreams coming to her. With bright light shining for her. She's rising to the top. Ain't no way she's gonna stop. She had life trying to bring her down. F her's gonna make a sound. She's fellows like hell. Strong as she's ever been. All the night she stayed away. Every second perfect time. Fruits deep up feeling now. Fruits deep, I won't back down, fruits deep. I made them pray. They're married, yeah.

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Track's available now, it's from Dominica. It's called Roots. This is the new music generator. Broadcasting live on the radio across Suffolk on DAB. Uh across Norwich on DAB and FM. On the podcast, on the Spotify, on the YouTube and on the Instagram as well. Hello to anybody who's watching or listening on any of those platforms.

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Then the words you use to say and display the In the night time, then the brightness of the day.

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I get that now. It's almost like an angry teenager saying, I get that now. Shut up, leave me alone. That's uh Lost Without Cause, and I get that now. Right, so let's move on to this track from the Mortis of Tillula. It's him, I'm pitching the new single from the Mortise of Tillula title. So yeah, an electronic heart track filter radio and the old dance floor. Driving drums and hypnotics in the face line, creating immediate momentum to the song, which is essentially about positive relationships and infatuation. The track is called So Yeah. And we'll stay on an electronic theme with this track from Kinless, who sent us Motion Blur as a follow-up to the single Way Out. This is out tomorrow as you listen to this live, the 18th of June. Written about moving on into the future whilst reminiscing about the past in a positive and hopeful manner. I began writing the track all the way back in August of last year. It's a really summary sound, so I thought finishing it and releasing it around this time would be really fitting. Well, we are expecting some good weather. So this should sound good in the sunshine. Thank you, Philip, for sending this through. This is Kinless and Motion Blur.

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It's kind of funny how we got this far, not knowing who we are, but we still chase the stars near. We always wanted it to make us laugh extra while we dance, live with purpose, not chance here. Going towards the light, no fear, take my hand to ignite. Brings our love near. So hold me close and so let go. Tell me, is this feeling real? Because from my side it heals. Can we both know the deal? Show off us gods when revealed. It's time to lower the ship. But shall we run through the field? So in love with you.

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I'm in love with you. So in love with you. I'm in love with you.

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I'm in love with you. I'm in love with you.

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It's kind of funny how we got this far, not knowing who we are, but we still chase the stars near. We always wanted it to make us laugh extra while we dance, live with purpose, not chance here. Going towards the light, no fear, take my hand to ignite. My trust in you brings our love near. So hold me close and so let go. Tell me, is this feeling real? Because from my side it heals. Can we both know the deal? Show up our skies unrevealed. It's time to lower the shield. Fresh year we run through the field.

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So in love with you. I'm in love with you. So in love with you. I'm in love with you.

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I thought we'd uh pair another EDM track with the Kinless one. That was from a playlist from a few weeks ago. Red Moose and Ignite. Next up, this uh email came in from Alex Wilkinson. She said, My name is Alex Wilkinson. I'm a singer, songwriter, and front woman based around the Saffron World and Cambridgeshire area. Been performing in and around the local area for the last 10 years in various formats, both as solo artist and in bands. My backing band are called the Time Wasters, and in that time we've been together, we've taken part in Heat 5 of the Cambridge Band Competition last year, supported Odie Bruce at the tram depot, had a sold-out gig for Ickle Gigs at the Equalton Social Club in April, and played a string of local festivals such as the Bell Bash, Gaynorfest, and the Saffron World and Fate de la Musique. I've been looking forward to being able to send this email to NMG for a while, as myself and my band are finally in a position where we can begin to share our music after having spent the past year in a recording studio. I'm emailing to submit my release When the Sun Comes Up, which will be officially released on the 19th of June. The track was recorded in our makeshift home studio that we have come to affectionately called Shabby Road. Nice. So this is new from Alex Wilkinson and the Time Wasters. Twenty-six-year-old singer-songwriter based in Essex.

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And this is called When the Sun Comes Up Just My Zoom. And I love with the snow But I am so wooden you did Oh if it's just tonight I'll be telling the things that today Yeah bit the forever That's why I do I will be gone by the time if it's just tonight I'll please have mercy on me and my brother guys I never thought of fall So please are you just too open I really like that.

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And it also means a lot when I get an email from somebody who's genuinely excited to be sending their music to us as well. So thank you, Alex, Alex Wilkinson and the time wasters. So earlier on, Sam Miln popped into the YouTube chat and said, Can you play one of my songs? And I said, Yeah, okay. About an hour and a half later, we got sent something, not by Sam, don't know where he's gone, uh, but by his drummer. Uh this is Window, uh, which was released as the band's debut single on the 5th of November last year. Uh it was the lead single for their debut EP of the same name. The EP was released in January of this year. This is Sam Mill.

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And the Tyrants with Windows Will I know we got our differences recently. Well I know there's no vibe, but you never want to fight me. It's been a long time since I've been home, so you can think my purpose I do So many hopes and you don't miss me I just really hope that you must punish me up school sleep by the pain I was the reason from around it, TV's broken out of me, kind of face I'm a little both do you want to get a little bit more side. Let's be honest, you wouldn't go with me. I've been crying in my room ever since you told me to go scrolling through the side of my crying.

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Sam Mel and the Tyrant, some window. Nice, like that. Thank you, Sam, thank you, John. That concludes this week's program. Triple track listing on our social media page. Next week you can join me. We'll be talking to Crying in Color. Because they are playing at Future Fest in Origin in a week. Thank you for your company.

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Oh, I knew I was away. We were immense. I guess we just needed some alone time to rest. Cause that's what worked before. I guess this is one time too many. So good getting your carbon drive so far away. And now even the memory of you starts to fade, and now you're out of sight, and the silence is definitely for me.