The Radio Revolution
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The Radio Revolution
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On this Episode, I'm am talking to Samlow, a singer songwriter who now lives in London about starting as a solo artist. I'm also talking to Grohotski from Ukraine after his set in Music in the Park in Thame, plus new Music from Far from the City from Oxfordshire, BLDSUGR! from the west midlands John Denton a young singer songwriter from Manchester. Also featured are the Azurescens and Southpaw Grammar.
all on the the brand new Radio Revolution Podcast.
Hello, and welcome to the latest Radio Revolution Podcast. This monthly podcast is basically guiding you to the latest artists and bands that have been grabbing my attention. I'm Paul Higgs, and coming up in the next 40 minutes, we've got music from a 15-year-old singer-songwriter who has not yet done his GCSEs. He's already met the boss Bruce Springsteen, has won coaching by Johnny Ma. Also, a previous band called The Heights, and has now gone solo. Apart from his GCSEs, is there nothing he hasn't done? His brand new single, someone else's, is out now and is coming up. We have a taste of Europop as I talk to Grahotsky from Ukraine. We have some metal with blood sugar. We have the latest singles from the Deep Hour and the Zurisons. Also, far from the city, a band from Niget, my neck of the woods from Oxfordshire. And Southport Grammar from Derby. I'll also be chatting to Italy's Samlow, who now resides in London and has launched himself as a solo artist as well as playing in the band Absolute Bowie, which is a David Bowie tribute band. An awful lot to fit in on the show. And without further ado, we are keeping the Suburban Dream Alive. The new dance is the brand new single from UK Garrige producer called Southport Grammar. He is from Derby, and this is a tongue-in-cheek single which trades dance floors for school runs without ever losing its groove. It is out on the 22nd of May. This is his brand new single, Southport Grammar. This is the new dance.
SPEAKER_03Now I'm moaning about electricity costs. Anyway, listen.
SPEAKER_02Now I know the best way of cleaning. Don't wind things off my gear. My weekend used to be a crazy blurred-out mental picture. Now it's picking up my ladder from the Sunday football fixture. My easy train is fooling for the weekly shop. The only thing that's dropping is my mortgage rate and swap. I'll wear a laggy dot for a race before a meeting. I don't smoke more, I'm trying healthy eating. It's a new colour, dance, new colour by, keeping a suburban dream alive. Need to be a session now. I'm the head of the household getting paid doing the sample. From the club to the nursery. Man, it's all the same thing. Just a lot more coffee. And let's Charlie G. My classics are covered in a layer of dust.
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SPEAKER_02Why says I got a dad for the mature building? Fully filled. I'm in the fast lane of the A516. Looking for a fix. For a knife. It's a new teledance, new television. Keeping the purpose dream alive. I used to be a such and now I'm the head of the household cafe doing the dance off. From the club to the nursery. Just a lot more coffee. Used to see the sunrise and say oh what I see the sunlight and say for the blind down to rise. Different kind of speed bites. Got the job, got the kids and a lovely wife. It's another dream alive. Now I'm the head of the household game doing this household. From the club to the nursery. But it's all the same thing. Just a lot more coffee. And less Charlie Sheet. Yeah. That's it. Don't forget to put the pins out. Night love.
SPEAKER_04That is the awesome new single from Southport Grammar. It's called New Dance. And it comes out the 22nd of May. This is the Radio Revolution podcast and the Deep Hour. It features Paul Lynham from Frank Walters on bass guitar and Wayne P. Sheehee on drums and piano. And if you've ever moved from your hometown, you know what it's like to return home after a period away. And the song sums up that feeling in spades. It's a song of belonging, balancing nostalgia, and optimism inspired by one man's return journey back to his hometown. It's an infectious up-tempo track flowing with infectious energy. You can imagine what it's like walking down those streets with this song in your head. Brand new single from the Deep Hour, These Are My Streets He walks alone Taken in the year when he was born The wind, the rain, the streets, the glass, the storm The pavements cracked and broken curtains torn's warm His friends are close Beacons in the night like Holy Ghost United in the valley to roll He's not alone It's a man street Where heroes meet With hearts on foreign seats It's your sweet We're a found feet Well your Each cornerstone The cracks the scars remain like broken bones The house his father built so long ago His schoolboy dreams and love still lives alone She's never flown These dreams are true The face has knowing who is so Create a little for me so much Well and you will eat the street See what I mean about walking down the street with that song in your head is the brand new single from the deep hour These Are My Streets and it is available to stream or download right now. And whilst you're there streaming These Are My Streets, you can look up Gohotsky. He is an artist from Ukraine, he won the voice of Ukraine back, I don't know what, 10, 11 years ago. His music is played in stations all around the world, and his music is written in his native language and also English. He has quite a few extensive catalogues to search up and is a natural performer. If you do get the chance to see him on the stage, do so. He is absolutely awesome. I caught up with him in the green room after his live performance at Music in the Park. Insane. That was an amazing set.
SPEAKER_01Thank you so much. I was so happy to be on a stage and with this beautiful public British audience, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Are you are you from this area?
SPEAKER_01No, no, I I live with my family in uh Brighton. Yeah, and I I I was performing here for one year ago. Sorry about my English, I still learn English now. When I came three years ago here in Britain, I'm I don't know any English words. And now a little bit a little bit better now.
SPEAKER_04That was a really energetic set. It's very European type, isn't it? Maybe, maybe, yeah.
SPEAKER_01I could I could actually hear you as an entry. You were really good. Uh maybe. Why not? I'm open for for for the music, yeah. And then you won. Was it you won the voice of Ukraine? Yeah, yeah, it's 11 years ago. 11 years ago now. Oh my god. Yeah, it was many times ago, yeah.
SPEAKER_04So that is uh similar to uh I guess like the X Factor that we have in this country, so it's it's a big sort of national. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I performed for 75,000 people on a big uh stadium, one in the biggest stadium in Ukraine with our legend band, Ok and Elzi, and uh I performed with with them. It it was my coach on the show, yeah, and I took part on this show for 75,000 people.
SPEAKER_04So in time it's a little bit less, but you you got everybody up moving.
SPEAKER_01Everybody moving, yeah, and I'm very happy to see Ukrainian uh community as well. Um yeah, to support them and on stage with uh with my music, with Ukrainian music, to bring some Ukrainian soul to to them.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah, yeah. And uh how can people get on your socials?
SPEAKER_01Uh Grochotsky. It's my uh musical uh yeah you can find me on a Facebook or YouTube. Okay, I have my own songs.
SPEAKER_04And then your music is available to download it for.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, of course, on uh Apple Music Sper5, yeah. Okay, search you out and then download it. Yeah, I have English songs as well. You won't read it avoided. Please play this, uh please play my song. We will do. Thank you very much, God. Thank you. That was great.
SPEAKER_07My heart is ready to fall once more. The two of us can steal this for sure. Despite water's been so high Love birds about the sea to sky day and night. Let's hear the streets being my skylight. And you want this up, and the light is ours. Silver light and shine, beautiful as a light. We dance like flowers underneath the broad colours. Squares and those brain outside. I'll beat it, but it's getting closer and closer. The light and goes, ours inside. We dance like flowers underneath the broad colours, squares and those brain outside. I'll face it, but it's getting closer and closer. The light and ghost hours inside. You are mysterious. You ma'am a hobble, big love hog nice. And now the two fast and swiftly. Love rise above the sea to sky day and night. Come to the sea to full of the sky. Let's hear this be my skylight. And you both like the size, silver light and shine, beautiful as a light and skill square, I spray the sky. Our baby bodies get closer and closer. Colliding gold stars inside. We dance like flowers underneath colours. The squares of floods rain outside. Our baby thoughts get closer and closer. Colliding gold stars inside.
SPEAKER_04Just played Yugrohotsky. He is a Ukrainian singer-songwriter. Dance Light Lovers is available to stream or download right now. I'm gonna be speaking to Sam Lowe shortly, but first, John Denton from Manchester. I've been following his career for a few years now. I find it scary, he's only 15 years old. His talent just knows no end. He writes a music, he sings the music, he plays guitar, I know he's gonna have an absolutely massive career in front of him in music. And this particular track is a one-take acoustic track about going through tough periods of time and personal challenges. It's available to stream or download from his EP, which is out now. It's called Someone Else's Game, and this track is on it, it is called You Still Stay the Same.
SPEAKER_05I used to think that the better things would come closer every day, but now the time's coming, everything's wrong, and nothing seems to change. I wanna go to the places I see every night on my TV, but I'm stuck down here with the lost and the fit and I don't know as to We go down to the underground. Cause everybody's on the way since Sarah's town. Would I still hear the sound? I've been forced in to hide and down there's another lot of people to take the blame. Will you still stay the same? I used to think that the heavy things would come lighter any day. But now the sound's past and the end's coming faster than I'm carrying that way. I wanna go to the places I see and then wake up from that train. But as the sun shines brighter and my eyes spread wider, it's just the same old scene. We go down to the underground. Cause everybody's on that way to knock us down. But I've gone down the town. I've been hiding for too long now. And there's another lot of people to take the blame. We go down to the end of the ground. I still hit the sight.
SPEAKER_04Someone else's game, which is out right now. Now Sam Lowe's musical journey started in Italy when he hired a bass guitar. And it's basically grew from there. He plays bass in a David Bowie tribute band called Absolute Bowie. And has just started writing his own material. A magazine was his first single, which was out in February. Also has two more singles due out later on this year, as well as his latest, which has just been released called Red Riot. It is a defiant anthem for those refusing to accept this latest quite. No, I'm not talking about Francis Rossi. Yes, after the single was released. Good afternoon, Sam. How are you doing? Yeah, no, no, no, really good thing. You got a new single red riot, which is out now.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's just been released like uh 8th of May. So it would be a really a good combination to be in your in your radio because it's revolutionary radio and the single is called Red Riot. So it's a kind of uh you know, kind of uh before my inspiration was like that from the nineties. Like that's the bass and like the sound that I want to play that instrument. Yeah, London before Rome because I'm from the north of Italy and then I moved to Rome and then to London. And uh as a bass player as well. But then also develop like a kind of need to write my song, which is something I always did, but now it happened with a more urgency. And then I start to transition it for bass player, which I always like, and that's my favorite instrument into songwriting and and and singing, which is uh to me like uh yeah the potential to express uh my songs basically a guitar shop in Italy that was a story it was kind of a meeting point for for teenage musicians at the time. Yeah so the story is about really small town in northwest of Italy is called Aosta which is uh in Aosta Valley is really close to the French border so you may know Chamonix which is a popular resort yeah my my birth town is the Italian side of uh it's called Aosta and uh this is where it all started basically in a starting couple days and I I remember I was like broke because I was like 14 years old a teenager and I didn't afford uh to buy a base basically that's what I remember because it was ages ago so I ended up in renting one which was uh a dress fender I mean it was a squire base no the real fender is the you know the sub thing of uh of fender which is the the squire was a dress squire bass white so all I remember is was this white bass me going around without even a case because that's that's what the moment you know you you just go and play and uh I remember I bought a case like uh two weeks ago so me and my white squire bass around the city the small city in the mountain with the playing gigs and start doing some small gigs more local band uh with a rented bass so that's where all started in this music store music shop in uh in my birth town where all teenagers used to meet up the Saturday afternoon when they were when they finished the school basically with lots of uh opportunities like you have venues that you could you could play at at the time in your in your town I say no no a lot and that's one of one of the reasons why I have to move from my birth town to to before Milan and then Rome and finally to London. Because basically changing the the the music the music journey the music dream you have to be in the place where the things happen and honestly my birth town everything is happening but not the music so that's why I have to move and to to change uh to city and now and now nation as well. Because it's really London here I feel like the things are moving and I find like I've all what happened before now make like a sense you know exactly yeah the town may you I guess in London there's a there's a lot of opportunities there's a lot of venues and to play at yeah of course it's not it's not easy because you have to commit yourself to something connection that's that's really an important part of the job to do like network and talking with people and uh not just waiting people come to your gig but go to other gigs and uh support other artists and that's the way you build the connection the network and I think uh because I always think like a music is not competition that's really something inside of me I'm most I'm morphine about music like a collaboration instead of uh competition. I mean even if you played in London you played in a view with this main mainly with the with a band called absolute bowling which is a tribute band to the bowling we play really in uh the bigger biggest venue in London like the separate blue is in fire like the O Truis Linton Academy uh not just with this band but also with other artists I play and uh and myself as well. That's the thing I like in London you know you have this kind of different different venues it's not just one market it is kind of a different level of the market.
SPEAKER_04Exactly yeah because it's venues I just not really expect sometimes in some you know in the bottom of like coffee shops and things a a basement at the bottom of a coffee shop and there's a there's a sort of a venue I've been in a few in London that that are like that and yeah it is it's an amazing place isn't it for for artists to perform and you talked about absolute bowie so you actually went on tour to Australia with absolute bowie as well.
SPEAKER_00Yeah I got a the chance lucky enough to play three three tours three tours in in Australia in the last three years. And going back to the random base this is something you can I can even imagine when I was renting a base that it was ending up in three tour in Australia later in 10 years. But that's that's a life and uh and that's why I'm grateful always when I think to my journey. David Bowie was he one of your heroes with uh listening I mean the major hits but also some some some obscure songs I always like it bowie as I can remember I was a teenager and my probably my first girlfriend at the time we were listening that we bowie so that's a kind of memory about about Sarman about life of Mars about all the hits that I really discover during the 90s or that's that's like a decade or even more 15 20 years after the the song has been actually released but that's that's that's the way I've discovered Bowie and I remember me with the war command in my own town stories.
SPEAKER_04Again you you discover these artists and part of the beauty is going through that bad catalog and discovering music that that you that perhaps you wouldn't have listened to before had you not have been listening to that particular artist.
SPEAKER_00I mean amazing thing in discovering artists later in respect to the biggest moment of the artist, you know because it's kind of doing a kind of back journey to the artist and to the catalogue for instance I was discovering the always runs around even other bands like let's say all the rock from from the 70s they were not major things during the 90s, the nineties but then you go back in the catalog and doing your own research and you become a fan of something that is not popular at the moment. This is something this is the kind of feeling I always have.
SPEAKER_04But that's the beauty of music isn't it there's so much of it out there to discover and nowadays it's so easy with YouTube and other platforms. You got a big concert coming out of Fulham jazz was it on the London on the 21st of June I've already played there last year.
SPEAKER_00So it would be like second time there I can wait for this and uh also some other things line up for the for the summer and um also working in studio for uh new singles as well. That's why I'm in today.
SPEAKER_04And so you got new music you out in the summer and autumn I believe as well this year and a couple of singles that you've actually been quite busy because that'll be at the end of the year what four singles you've had this year?
SPEAKER_00Yeah that's that's the plan we just already recorded three singles, release the two and planning to release other between now and the end of the year. Always always with the same production that's also making the things easy and and quick because we say okay now we can we can focus on like four or five singles to release in the next uh during the year. So it's uh kind of ongoing process but already material let's say yeah what's the sort of plan concert wise what have you got coming up I know you we got the 21st of London the 21st in London full and jazz but have you got any other concerts lined up yeah I was thinking um not not really planning so far but uh because also I'm I'm really busy with the with the band I'm telling you about the absolute all we so we have regular gigs and tour with with them and uh so I'm trying to find spaces uh working around the calendar but something other will happen during the summer definitely you are certainly pretty busy by the sounds of it's a good way good way to be busy yeah it certainly is and a good way to enjoy it Sam I wish you all the best I also get people to check out magazine as well which is your first single this year that was out in February that's absolutely awesome I love that one thank you thank you for calling out your new single Red Riot which is out now uh so you can check that out on on all good streaming platforms and we look forward to hearing uh more of your music later on in the year of course and thank you for awesome me uh for every me today Paul it was a pleasure This is a warning to you and I don't get me wrong you wanna simplify and that's why we won't be stopped I like how a volcano erupts and the we'll be less black we take the wall in the floor take some water break to take it's gonna stop what it can we rough and we'll be let it's best the key cutting colors the key coming and that is Red Riot more music to come from him later on this year.
SPEAKER_04He's also playing Fulham jazz on the 21st of June this is the Radio Revolution podcast and we've got Blood Sugar a female fronted band known for their unique blend of shock rock gothic punk and doom metal they are from the West Midlands and if you love Royal Blood Susie and the Banshees then this is for you they've got big plans later on this year. The single I'm about to play you is out now another due later on this month and more is on the way blood sugar this is mania's wrist in it's pulling me in my team pacing it's a box win And when it's all done I'll be left twisted I cannot take it bringing me up so high I'm strong I'm so high like you'll never see And there is no place no place for refree The swimming takes me knocks me up with me And there is no escaping my way you come in your state no escape broad meal no escape road and it goes and it goes and it goes and it goes and it goes And it goes and it goes and it goes and it goes and it goes my brain is present no silence for me body I'm aching crawling in my skin I don't I'll be in a heap I cannot take it it's keeping me up at night It's like I'm scrapping a spider No getting up this very girl Come force me to walk a spine looking down you skip no escape broke you with no escape profits and it goes and it goes and it goes and it goes and it goes and it goes and it goes and it goes and it goes and it goes and it goes and it goes and it goes that it goes that it goes and it goes and it goes and it goes and it goes and goes that's Mania from Blood Sugar Scratch, ache and bleed is gonna be the next single which is due out to the end of May and I'll be catching up with them in a future podcast. Just two more artists to go and we're off to Westlothian in Scotland. Other bands from the area include the Snuts and LF System but the band I'm gonna play are called the Azuricons they are a five piece indie rock band blending Brit hop attitude with psychedelic textures. This is very much a Kings of Leon sound to it and feel about it. It's comfortable yet catching it's the brand new single from the Azuricans it is dance into the night store you just want the rain up on the store you just want to pay no loud five steps to the night to the night Dance into the night is the latest single from the Zuricens bringing to a close the Radio Revolution podcast for this month. Check out for another podcast due out at the end of June and I have been Paul Higgs don't forget though you can tune in to Radio Charwell every Saturday evening to keep up to date with the latest indie and alternative music that is between 8 and 10 pm it's the Radio Revolution on radiocharwell.com Now the final band is Far from the City they are a band from Tame in Oxfordshire they are absolutely fantastic live and they have the swagger and confidence that just gel as a band and I will be chatting to them on the next edition of the Radio Revolution podcast but for now I'm gonna leave you with the latest single from Far from the city this is no writ so I will catch you on the next Radio Revolution podcast I turned around I said feel what's going on I had a couple of shots leaving confidence If only I knew on the second floor it went so far to who did with your beauty If only ever was my depth is day fair my death is day fair wrap it sounds up your voice the beautiful day fair over the top of the boat
SPEAKER_08I held your hair while you were sick. Waiting round since half past six. Oh my darling This ain't the bridge I turned around and said, B, what's going on? I had a couple of shots, leave me confidence. If only I knew In the second bar, it went so far. We could deal with your safe beauty. If only it was real The legs are shaken, my neck is aching. Maybe you can save me over the trouble, it would fall in the World C me now. I held your hair while you were sick, waiting round since half past six. Oh my darling, they say through it, my legs are shaking, all my neck is aching. Oh on the trouble, it would double in view up. See me now. I held your head while you were sick. When it rounds it's half past six. Oh my darling, the Saint Thurish.