Frome Busks 2022
A day when Frome Town Centre came alive with music - Frome College in association with Frome Town Council brought the talents of student...
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Chris Watson
- Mar 31, 2022
- 1 min
The Pilton Stage 2022 - Heat 4
Music Eye caught Heat 4 of the The Pilton Stage competition for a place at Glastonbury 2022 Festival on 5th March 22: Six bands competed,...
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Sara Vian
- Dec 1, 2021
- 1 min
Sarah Larkham's Heavenly EP!
Forget Nashville, this is Southville! A happenin’ suburb of Bristol where [country] folk singer/songwriter, Sarah Larkham just launched...
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Chris Watson
- Oct 17, 2021
- 1 min
Glastonbury Calling 2021
Music Eye's soundbytes of Glastonbury Town's own annual music festival Missed Glastonbury Calling 21? Well, Music Eye was there and...
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Chris Watson
- May 29, 2021
- 2 min
Western Electric Sound System: as cool and deep as an iceberg (New Release)
Review of Western Electric Sound System EP - What's Bred in the Bone - April 2021 Out of the mists, an iceberg of cool drifts into the...
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Chris Watson
- Mar 8, 2021
- 1 min
Dora Lachaise: The Confession
New single review: "I Confess" by Dora Lachaise, March 2021 Dora Lachaise lives in an attic overlooking Bristol's Arnos Vale Cemetery,...
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Chris Watson
- Jan 23, 2021
- 2 min
Classics 1: Message In A Bottle
"Message In A Bottle" - The Police - 1979 Loneliness is as old as the hills and it says much about our society that the UK Government...
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Chris Watson
- Jan 18, 2021
- 1 min
Stories from the Lockdown - Giles Read
London-based Giles Read has been compared with Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley, Davy Graham and Donovan and does indeed possess the magic of a...
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Lucy Hayward
- Jan 14, 2021
- 2 min
Platys Yialos - Ali George (Album Review)
Artist Ali George uses nature as a focus for his thoughts and feelings. He conjures up countryside scenes through his lyrics, whilst...
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Chris Watson
- Dec 23, 2020
- 1 min
Get into the True Spirit of Christmas!
It's Christmas! But what should be a time of colourful celebration with our loved ones is more muted this year by the harsh consequences...
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Chris Watson
- Sep 20, 2020
- 2 min
The Great Pause... The Great Vision!
The natural tendency for Sara Vian’s voice to waver across a spectrum of deep and rich notes creates a powerful backdrop to this...
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Chris Watson
- Sep 18, 2020
- 4 min
On a High... Rolling Hill!
Sara Vian interviews Ali George about his latest single releases, up-coming album and vision of success. Find out more Bio Ali George is...
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Chris Watson
- Aug 19, 2020
- 2 min
Sylvette: sonic splendour of the new
Sylvette - Stiller than Still - album released 17th July 2020 Sylvette was the name of a young woman who inspired Picasso to depict her...
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Chris Watson
- Jul 19, 2020
- 2 min
Gravity Drive: propulsion to the core of our wildlight power...
Gravity Drive: The Wildlight - album released 21st August 2020 The Dorset Coast, with its seascape of endless possibilities underlined by...
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Chris Watson
- May 15, 2020
- 2 min
The Stranglers: Punky Blinders!
A legacy in black.... Always a fan, a review was on the cards after seeing Hugh Cornwell live in December 2019 at a Jethro Tull concert...
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Chris Watson
- Mar 20, 2020
- 1 min
Fey Militia: Stylishly fresh Indie with a Blondie-esque touch
Fey Militia @ Glastonbury Calling 2020, Glastonbury, Somerset, 29th February 2020 Captured by the Music Eye emerging talent patrol, we...
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Chris Watson
- Mar 7, 2020
- 1 min
Talk in Code: new single "Talk like That"
Released 27th February 2020 TALK LIKE THAT is the first single from the band’s forthcoming EP to be released later this year. Recorded...
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Chris Watson
- Mar 4, 2020
- 1 min
Glastonbury Calling 2020: Small Town: Big Sound.....
Glastonbury, Somerset, 28th - 29th February 2020 Hats off to Ian and Karen Liversidge for working so hard to support new music and give...
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Chris Watson
- Mar 3, 2020
- 1 min
Garbage Queen: Reigning over multiple layers of sound...
Garbage Queen - New single: Reflection - released 29th Feb 2020 A post-punk track full of pain and angst but pleasantly melodious with a...
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Chris Watson
- Feb 24, 2020
- 2 min
James - The Magnificent 7 telling it how it is...
Manchester band, James, now have 15 albums, their last one, "Living in Extraordinary Times" came out in 2018. Yet live performances...
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Chris Watson
- Feb 18, 2020
- 1 min
Talk Talk: Life's What You Make It (1985) ...and we all know it! (or do we?)
Talk Talk: Mark Hollis, Lee Harris and Paul Webb "Hollis’s early songs struggle with notions of fate versus faith, with imagery swinging...
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Chris Watson
- Feb 8, 2020
- 1 min
Victors: on a mission of soulful groove
Victors @ The Pilton Stage 2020, 25th January 2020 Leeds based alternate rock band Victors came to Pilton to compete for a place at...
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Chris Watson
- Feb 4, 2020
- 1 min
Cavalcade: Indie on a roll with sparkling riffs and gritty songs
The Pilton Stage, Somerset, 25th January 2020 The Somerset mists were blown away by East London Indie band, Cavalcade, who we saw at the...
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Chris Watson
- Jan 30, 2020
- 1 min
The Pilton Stage 2020: Battle for a place at Glastonbury Festival pt 4
The Pilton Stage 2020, Heat 4, 25th January 2020 The mists swirled around the Somerset towns, but they were dispelled by a host of...
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Chris Watson
- Jan 20, 2020
- 3 min
Massive Attack: Are You Sitting Comfortably?
Massive Attack: Out Of The Comfort Zone: The Story of a Sound, a City and a Group Of Revolutionary Artists by Melissa Chemam, Tangent...
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Chris Watson
- Jan 13, 2020
- 1 min
It's all a Highlight: Music Eye clips of 2019
Been out to see so much great music this year and its all been a highlight; it took a while but put together a few cut-down clips of 18...
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Chris Watson
- Jan 13, 2020
- 1 min
En- Meshed by the Power of the Electronic Soundscape....2020 beckons Mesh
Mesh: Bristol's synth pop heroes @ The Pilton Stage, Somerset, 30th November 2019 Ever since Gary Numan's "Are Friends Electric", the...
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Chris Watson
- Jan 13, 2020
- 1 min
The Pilton Stage: Battle for a place at Glastonbury Festival Pt 3
The Pilton Stage 2020 Heat 3, 4th January 2020 Heat 3 of this competition fired up a dark January night down Pilton way with six bands...
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Chris Watson
- Jan 12, 2020
- 1 min
The Mighty Rooster's wake up call!
Music Eye caught them @ The Cornerhouse and Box Rocks in 2019 and they will be live on Visual Radio Arts, Soundcheck on 25th January 2020...
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Chris Watson
- Jan 12, 2020
- 1 min
The Pilton Stage 2020: Battle for a place at Glastonbury Festival pt 2
The Pilton Stage 2020 Heat 2, @ Pilton WMC, Somerset, 30th Nov 2019 Music Eye is about finding emerging talent and The Pilton Stage is...
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Chris Watson
- Jan 12, 2020
- 1 min
Somerset youth emerging from the fields.....
Rural Music Network Tour 2019 @ Cheese and Grain, Frome, 15th December 2019 A massive rain storm swept the Cheese and Grain, but it had...
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Chris Watson
- Oct 12, 2019
- 2 min
Emily Breeze blowing hauntingly through your mind...
Emily Breeze @ Schtumm, Queen's Head, Box, 27th Sep 2019 Having missed the launch of her new album “Rituals” at the Loco Klub in Bristol,...
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Chris Watson
- Oct 10, 2019
- 1 min
Glastonbury FM - Songwriters Final 2019
Glastonbury FM Songwriting Final 2019, Red Brick Building, Glastonbury, 3rd October 2019 With Glastonbury FM's Ian Liversidge...
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Chris Watson
- Oct 8, 2019
- 1 min
Rivers of England...Let it flow
Rivers of England @ Cheese and Grain Roots Sessions, Frome, 25th September 2019 Maybe it was my reflective mood, but this Bath-based band...
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Sara Vian
- Sep 16, 2019
- 1 min
My Social Orbit - Line of Least Resistance (Debut Album)
A convicted and beautifully harmonic “Indie Rock” debut album that opens with passion and then keeps you engaged to the end, showcasing a...
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Chris Watson
- Sep 1, 2019
- 1 min
The Fox at Box!
Sannie Fox @ Box Rocks, the Queen's Head, Box, 26th August 2019 It was a hot day but Sannie Fox was cool and lassoed me into her world of...
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Chris Watson
- Jul 29, 2019
- 2 min
Rachael Sage and Carrington MacDuffie @ Tucker's Grave Inn
Rachael Sage and Carrington MacDuffie @ Tucker's Grave Inn, Faulkland, Somerset - 20th July 2019 Tuckers Grave Inn has a sense of being...
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Chris Watson
- Jun 28, 2019
- 1 min
The Marianas and Frontrunners: young bands budding...
Rural Music Network Tour @ Cheese & Grain, Frome, 23rd June 19: The bands Two young bands and two guitarists to savour....... The...
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Chris Watson
- May 31, 2019
- 2 min
Tulpas create an existence....
Tulpas: Hang Nail: 2019 A “tulpa” is defined as a being or object that is created in the imagination by visualisation techniques such as...
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Chris Watson
- May 28, 2019
- 1 min
Sara Vian interviews Shoun Shoun on Visual Radio Arts
Shoun Shoun’s expansive sound blends dream pop and garage rock with the urban ennui of Dietrich and the Velvets. The band's urgent...
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Chris Watson
- May 6, 2019
- 1 min
Pilton Stage 2019 Final: seven bands, three Judges and one place...
The Pilton Stage 2019, the Final, Pilton Working Men's Club, 4th May 2019 Featuring: Cosmic Ninja, IOTA, Robert J Hunter, Chrissie...
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Chris Watson
- Apr 24, 2019
- 2 min
Shoun Shoun: A Hundred Trips and going with them....
Written by Chris Watson and edited by Sara Vian, April 2019 This is an EP that may well go on a hundred trips; whether labelled dream...
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Chris Watson
- Mar 13, 2019
- 1 min
Talk in Code: bright sounds breezing across the Wiltshire Downs
Talk in Code : Resolve: album review by Chris Watson, March 2019 Talk in Code’s second album, “Resolve”, accompanied me on a lone starlit...
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Chris Watson
- Mar 3, 2019
- 2 min
Sylvette @ Glastonbury Calling 2019
Review by Chris Watson and Sara Vian The review in the Glastonbury Calling festival brochure was impressive – “Art Rock” taking...
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