THE VPME – One’s To Watch 2021
How can music recover in 2021? Well, that depends on our ability to control COVID 19 and then see who and what is left standing. Personally, I’m hoping the artists listed below have every opportunity …
TIPS
Hot Tips from the VPME- gigs, tickets, and more
Ones To Watch 2019
Ones To Watch 2019 Annual tipping time, it’s the law and a bit of fun to see how we do in the coming year. In the past, we tipped the likes of Wolf Alice, Dream …
Ones To Watch 2018 – No.1 – Yassassin
No.1 Ones To Watch 2018 Yassassin And at No1 it’s Anna, Joanna, Moa, Raissa & Ruth Aka Yassassin. The band whose members hail from Sweden, Italy, England and Australia have only been together just over …
Ones To Watch 2018 – No.2 – Freak
Billy Bragg was once described as ‘a one-man Clash’, similarly, Chelmsford musician Freak was labelled “a one-man Nirvana’ early on in his career. And whilst it may be a snappy, albeit re-cycled sound bite it’s a rather …
Ones To Watch 2018 – No.3 – Swimming Girls
Ones To Watch 2018 – No.3 – Swimming Girls Like last years No.1 tip, Dream Wife, Swimming Girls are another collective who started life as a ‘musical project’ before morphing into a fully fledged band. …
One To Watch 2018 – No.4 – The Blinders
Ones to Watch 2018 – No.5 – The Blinders Visceral, unhinged, thrilling and chaotic. Just four words that could be used to describe The Blinders. We caught them in a sweaty basement at this year’s …
Ones To Watch 2018 – No.5 – Miss World
Ones To Watch 2018 Miss World One of our musical highlights of 2017 was the arrival of Miss World the new musical project of London based artist Natalie Chahal (also half of Shit Girlfriend alongside …
Ones To Watch 2018 – No.6 – Bang Bang Romeo
Ones To Watch 2018 – No.6 – Bang Bang Romeo (Adopts unctuous DJ voice- ) “Continuing our Ones To Watch 2018 – in with a bullet at No.6, it’s Sheffield’s Bang Bang Romeo” Yup Liverpool Sound …
Ones To Watch 2018 – 07. Tear
07. Tear London quartet Tear (rip, not sob) are signed to Tim Burgess’ ‘O Genesis label’ and this year released their debut EP ‘VINYL01.’ It’s the perfect introduction to the band’s oeuvre and having caught …
Ones To Watch 2018 – No.8 – Yonaka
No.8 – Yonaka. Well now, it wouldn’t be a proper tips list without at least one Brighton based band in the equation. We’ve probably featured more artists from that city than any other during our ten …
Ones to Watch 2018 – 09. Pale Waves
Ones to Watch 2018 – 09. Pale Waves We compiled this list a few weeks ago and wondered if any of the artists we featured would be on the BBC Sound of 2018 list. The …
Ones To Watch – 2018 – 10. HMLTD
So we kick off our Top 10 bands to watch out for in 2018 (intro HERE ) with …. 10. HMLTD One thing you can’t accuse London based collective HMLTD of is being ‘beige.’ Because in …