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Andrew Marston introduces Ollie Gray (Bircher Common nr Leominster)

Unsigned, undiscovered and under-the-radar music, as recorded at The Courtyard, Hereford.

2 hours

Music Played

  • Partyline!

    Big Bad Wolf

  • Performing at the Hay Festival

    • Sasha McVeigh

      Someone To Break My Heart

  • Sub-Tastic

    Callin' 4 U

  • Sam Eden

    Aviator

  • Reviewed

    • Chevy Chase Stole My Wife

      Electricity

  • ´³Ã¼±è¾±³Ù°ù´Ç²Ô³ú

    Curse of the Green Monkey

  • In session at The Courtyard in Hereford

    • Ollie Gray

      My Life

  • Sundays Child

    Lipgloss

    • MAS.
  • Lucia Nicole

    Just Stop

  • T-Minus

    Pure Fury Pt.1 - Force A Smile

  • Matt Envy

    Keep On

  • STUBBS

    La La Lay

  • AKA George

    Return Of The Fever

  • Terence J Hughes

    Strange Attraction

  • Natalie Holman

    Heart Of Stone

  • Maiday

    Wish You'd Met Me First

  • Gig of the week

    • Barefoot In Baltimore

      Paradise For The Living

  • In session at The Courtyard in Hereford

    • Ollie Gray

      False Fantasy

  • Featured track

    • Hereford Cathedral School Cantabile Girls Choir

      The Skylark

In session

In session
Ollie Gray is a 17-year-old singer/songwriter who can just about play every traditional instrument known to man!
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He makes all of his recordings at home and spends the rest of his time studying music at the Hereford College of Arts.
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He lives at Bircher Common near Leominster and his live session was to celebrate the launch of his debut EP.
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The Hay Festival

The Hay Festival
Thousands of people will be flocking to Hay-on-Wye from across the globe for their annual festival.
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All subjects will be tackled by some of the world's greatest writers, comedians and actors.
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There'll be live music too from Nigel Kennedy, Frank Turner, Texas, Tinariwen & King Charles.
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Our reporter Nicola Goodwin's been along to see how the preparations are going.
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Features

Features
  • : We have details of The Hay Festival, HowTheLightGetsIn, Asparafest, Breaking Bands and Severn Sounds.
  • : Details of a new festival near Kidderminster and celebrating 300 years of the Three Choirs.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ Introducing in Hereford

Â鶹ԼÅÄ Introducing in Hereford
Throughout May, all of our live sessions were performed in the studio - the Studio Theatre at The Courtyard in Hereford, that is!
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As well as regular music nights in both there and the Main House, the centre is home to the Music Pool charity and hosts regular Jazz Cafe events in the bar area along with various open mic nights.
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The glass-fronted building, on Edgar Street, officially opened in 1998 on the site of its predecessor and before that it used to be a swimming pool!
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Reviews

Reviews
This week,Ìý
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  • Mark Leedham, Mike Skilbeck, Some Old Git, Terry Walls & at The Goodrest Tavern, Worcester.
  • The Ernie Chattaway Memorial Gig: , Rock-A-Hula & Station Break at The Marr's Bar, Worcester.
  • & at The Victory, Hereford.

How to make it in the music industry: The Boomtown Rats

How to make it in the music industry: The Boomtown Rats
We started off the year with a brand new series of 'How To Make It In The Music Industry' with Hereford's Sean Denny, who runs his own record label at Sony Records in London.
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This week, we continue to talk you through the whole signing process with a case study that is right here on our doorstep.
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Gary Roberts is the guitarist and founding member of the Boomtown Rats and lives in Bromyard.
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It's taken us three years to persuade him to give away his secrets of how his band attracted the attention of managers, record labels and studio producers - and how they insisted the band retained full creative control of their music.
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Songs Of Praise: Choir Of The Year

Songs Of Praise: Choir Of The Year
Last weekend it was the final of the Songs Of Praise Choir of the Year - and the Hereford Cathedral School Cantabile Girls Choir carried off the title.
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The piece they sang was called Skylark.
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The words were written by the Herefordshire 1st World War poet and former Cathedral School pupil Digby Haseler.
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100 years on, his son Nicholas visited Hereford for the first time to walk in his father's footsteps with our reporter Nicola Goodwin.
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Â鶹ԼÅÄ Introducing at the Wychwood Festival

Â鶹ԼÅÄ Introducing at the Wychwood Festival
We're returning to theÌýÌýto host a regional Â鶹ԼÅÄ Introducing stage along with our colleagues from Â鶹ԼÅÄ Local Radio.
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We've been given the whole of the Sunday to showcase ten acts from Herefordshire & Worcestershire - which include the four sessions that will transmit throughout June.
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As always, we invited musicians who uploaded their tracks toÌý.

Broadcast

  • Sat 23 May 2015 20:00

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