The Music Venue Trust, the independent charity that represents the interests of almost 1,000 independent music venues across the Über Kingdom, has this evening (Sunday 4 October) issued a statement in response to the announcement that the Arts Council of England is to delay decisions on the distribution of its Cultural Recovery Fund.
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It’s hard to believe it’s been a fortnight since the Singles Club opened its virtual doors and we fired up the death decks with a selection of the finest single-track releases to have come our way in recent weeks. Yet, here we are again with another bumper pick of the crop – actually, for the second successive iteration it’s one of our biggest clubs in a long time, with just shy of two dozen tracks for your aural and visual delectation, whittled down from the almost 450 submissions which have come our way over the past 14 days or so, and once again hopefully containing something to tickle almost everyone’s musical taste buds as we traverse multiple sub genres of the glorious art form we like to refer to as rock ‘n’f’n’ roll…
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It’s hard to believe that it’s been seven whole days since we last awarded our coveted ‘Video Of The Week’ title, and, despite the ongoing, and some cases renewed, lockdowns in many parts of the Überverse, we are still receiving a healthy bundle of submissions for our coveted ‘Video Of The Week’ title. Many of them are produced against the background of continuing quarantine conditions in some countries, while others reflect artists being able to return and flex their creative muscles once again.
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Northern Ireland NWoTHM power trio Rabid Bitch of the North are to infect the world with ‘Heavy Metal Rabies’ when they release their second album in May.
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Flicking through some of the press releases for upcoming albums, Jonny B came across one that listed a few fun facts about the band. Intrigued, he decided to read through the list to see what the facts were, and lo and behold something caught his attention. “Often at shows and in music videos they have ‘beer maidens’… who come out on stage and pour willing audience members beer from a sacred Viking horn.” Well, this sounds exactly like our resident beer connoisseur’s kind of thing, so it looks like we’re in for some folk metal with a new release from Toronto’s Protokult!
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