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Andrew Marston with Malvern TV composer Dave Lowe

Unsigned, undiscovered and under-the-radar music from Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

• Catching up with the Malvern TV composer whose current work includes the theme to this year’s General Election and the Celebrity X Factor.

• Meeting the Ross-on-Wye musician whose new album was inspired by her battles with anorexia and depression.

• More of your memories of the Malvern Winter Gardens, including the time the organisers pulled the plug on Motorhead and nearly ended up in a fight!

• Our month of live music relives some of our highlights from the last 12 months.

2 hours

Last on

Sun 8 Dec 2019 18:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Hereford & Worcester

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Music Played

  • The Lewis Boulton Trio

    Superman (Live from Gordon Bennett's, Hereford)

  • Quill

    Gorden's Jig (Live from Kidderminster College)

  • Mae Bradbury

    Here I Go Again (Live from the Norbury Theatre, Droitwich)

  • Carmen Lees-Green

    Part Time (Live from the Hay Festival)

  • Badeye

    Give That Back (Live from The Railway, Redditch)

  • The Fireside Family

    Ever Wanted (Live from the Market Theatre, Ledbury)

  • Garrington T Jones

    The Lonely Diner

    • New Tradition.

  • Damian Lewis

    I Don't Know You (Live from HopFest, Bewdley)

  • Muddy Summers & The DFWs

    Hungry Little Humans (Live from the Malvern Cube)

  • Lucy May Walker

    Safety Net

    • Grizzly Records.

  • Lucy Angus

    In The Sky (Live from HopFest, Bewdley)

  • Artist of the Week

    • April Shipton

      One More Mountain

  • Fault Line

    Victoria

  • Robby Toner

    Reverie

  • Imaner

    Strong Ones (Live from the Market Theatre, Ledbury)

  • Kingh

    Correct Myself

  • Cabin Music

    Mine (Live from the Worcester Music Festival)

General Election

When you think of the most played artists of all time on British television, you could be mistaken in thinking it's the Beatles or the Kinks from the '60s, Elton John or Stevie Wonder from the '70s, The Eurythmics or Wham from the '80s, Blur or Oasis in the '90s, or Eminem, Adele, Ed Sheeran and Lady Gaga from this side of the millennium.
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But one artist from Malvern surpasses possibly all of those artists put together - yet nobody really knows who he is.
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Malvern composer Dave Lowe is all over the news - for all the right reasons...he's the man behind pretty much every TV news theme on the planet!
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And this week, we catch up with him about his latest work - the X Factor and the General Election.

The Live Music Advent Calendar

Throughout the whole of December, we're looking back on a year of live music.
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This month, hear tracks performed at the Worcester Music Festival, Ledbury's Market Theatre, Kidderminster College, Gordon Bennett's in Hereford, Malvern Cube, The Railway in Redditch, Lakefest at Eastnor Castle, The Norbury Theatre in Droitwich, The Hay Festival, HopFest near Bewdley, the Conquest in Bromyard and at Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Maida Vale.

Malvern Winter Gardens

Malvern is well known for its classical connections, but many people are unaware of the town's other musical story.
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From the early '60s, for a period of around 30 years, Malvern Winter Gardens rocked to the sounds of bands such The Jam, The Kinks, The Who, Pink Floyd, Motorhead, Hawkwind and many more, some of whom were in their infancy at the time.
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Local charity Rock Around the Hills created an interactive exhibition, thanks to a Β£60,000 grant, celebrating the story of rock, punk and progressive rock at the Winter Gardens from 1961 to 1990.
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The display features more than 400 posters, tickets, flyers and fanzines, as well as recorded memories from audience members, musicians and promoters who were all part of the scene.
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Having already been at Malvern Library and the Hive in Worcester, the exhibition has now moved to the airwaves - and we're broadcasting some of those memories every Sunday, from 6pm, here on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Hereford & Worcester.

Artist of the Week

We're catching up with the Ross-on-Wye musician whose new album was inspired by her battles with anorexia and depression.
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April Shipton is a 26-year-old Christian singer/songwriter from Ross-on-Wye.
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She started taking singing seriously in 2016 when she released three singles and launched a campaign against modern day slavery, where she highlighted that the average age of a sex traffic victim in England is 13.
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The inspiration for her music came as a teenager when she experienced some incredible healing from anorexia and depression and is influenced by The Black Keys and Taylor Swift.
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Having recently moved to Malvern, her new album, 'Panoramic', centres around the theme of mountains.

Features

  • In the music news:ΜύA Bewdley singer to appear on Top Of The Pops on Christmas Day.

Broadcast

  • Sun 8 Dec 2019 18:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Hereford & Worcester

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