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Touching down very soon for South By Southwest!
March 11th, 2010
Wow. In less than 48 hours, as my travel partner reminds me, we will be taking off for Houston, eventually arriving in Austin, TX, on Monday afternoon.
We have plenty of shows in our schedule, and the odd band interview – so keep coming back here for our SXSW Field Blog! We’re sponsoring One Little Indian’s SXSW showcase (link at bottom of this entry), and will be promoting our album, Southwest of Never too.
We’re going badgeless and wristbandless, so are relying on the kindness of guestlists, unofficial showcases, and generally going to see where we end up. Wild.
Sun, South By, and more ribs than Frankie Howard’s joke book – here we come!
Search for #sxswnen on Twitter to keep up!
Video Killed The Radio Star
March 4th, 2010The music world has gone mad. At the same time as stories of the new BBC building in central London being over-budget, we hear that BBC6 Music and Asian Network, alternative radio oases in a desert of dreary manufactured pop, are set to close due to cost-cutting measures to claw back £600 million, in addition to cutting back almost half its website online.
Follow the story on Twitter here #saveBBC6music. Makes about as much sense as RBS paying those bankers footballer bonuses with taxpayers’ money whilst in debt. Whinge.
South By, NEN Album Launch, Six Stages Over Texas…
February 15th, 2010Hello my lovvies!
After a brief hiatus, the blog is back.
We also have a new blogger starting soon which is quite nice. So there’ll be lots more updates as well as articles!
Lots of things in the pipeline at NEN Towers, we launched an album the other day which was a first – all profits to The Institute of Cancer Research, and all tracks are donated by artists attending the festival – how exciting is that?! Isn’t our cover beautiful? Thanks to Richard Miles for the design). You can buy it here FOR A FIVER!
Now, we’re getting ready for South By Southwest in Austin, Texas, and also the Six Stages Over Texas festival. Flights booked. Hotel booked. Passports in safe place, check. Detox, due to start. Anticipation for nicer weather and Ben Kweller – covered!
We also had our Charity Soundclash which was well-attended and plenty of fun, and is set to develop into a monthly night at The Stinging Nettle in Shepherds Bush very soon.
This week, I saw The Miserable Rich, Lisa Mitchell and The Wave Pictures at The Borderline. And am getting excited by all the festival announcements that are creeping their way into my inbox. AND I’m about to continue work on my engagement party playlist – a self-respecting music website editor has to have a cracking set of tracks dontcha know!
See this! See this! Another discovery this week is the wonderful creativity of Anika Mottershaw. Check out her cute cute cute day-brightening video for All You Need by Maria Byrne:
Maria Byrne: All You Need from Anika Mottershaw on Vimeo.
Now, a question for you – who is better?
Delphic or Friendly Fires?
This post was brought to you by Miike Snow, Ellie Goulding, We Have Band (OH!), Alessi’s Ark’s EP announcement, and Run Toto Run. But most certainly not by Frankmusik.
I promise I’ll write more!
Kim (editor) xx
Death By Xmas Songs
December 27th, 2009
Christmas is over and I’ve eaten more chocolates some dude offa Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.
Music industry has shut down for the break, giving us plenty of time to catch up on all the other projects we have up our sleeve:
A t-shirt design:
(Please vote YES!)
We also have not one, but TWO albums set for release in 2010 on our label Never Enough Records.
So excited…and we just can’t hide it….!
NEN x
