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Bad Money's ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Music Introducing session

Live music from our socially-distanced virtual festival at Nozstock, near Bromyard.

Bad Money are an alt-pop band from Redditch, made up of Ben Williams, Jacob Jenkins, Kieran Smith and Tommy Francis.

Influenced by HAIM, Maroon 5, The 1975, John Mayer, INXS and Pale Waves, they've mix funky rock guitar riffs with hard hitting pop production and catchy melodies to create their first singles - in 2020.

"A band who are on top of their game; pure pop/rock that is a sure fire contender for being one of my artists of the year." - Andrew Marston.

**How was it recorded?**

The stages at Nozstock are permanent and well away from any public right of way. With no pre-publicity, we risked no audience gathering and ensured all acts were six or less (even though the rules say β€œworkers” can be groups of more than six). Nozstock normally takes place in July, so nobody expected anything to be happening on that site in October (and the site is owned by the farmer who puts on the event).

Acts arrived on-the-hour, every hour, in separate vehicles and were called forward, had their hands sanitised and checked in with Nozstock's own Test & Trace QR code.

Whoever had to handle the equipment was the person providing it – so there were no back lines and mics/stands/cables were provided by the band. Once they were set up, the band left the stage and Andrew (the only person from the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ) then mic’d up the guitars, drums and fed the stage monitors (while wearing a face mask!). The stages were marked two metres apart – and, after the bands used their own mics for an interview, they got back into their vehicles and left. A couple of people from Nozstock then sanitised the whole stage before telling the next group it was safe to leave their vehicle and set up. Any band members wanting to watch/listen to the performance would have to virtually.

To keep staffing to an absolute minimum, these sessions were audio mixed and video edited remotely.

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20 minutes