Chris Mackrell

Our new single of the week is from Oxford based five piece Foals. Their brand new fourth studio album ‘What Went Down’ arrived on the 28th of August along with their new single ‘Mountain At My Gates’    The UK leg of their tour is almost completely sold out but if you want to get tickets to see them live at Aberdeen’s Music Hall in November you can visit www.foals.co.uk […]

This weekend the lovely Riva called into Sunday Lunch to chat about her new single 'Lose My Mind' future EP plans and possibly a visit to Edinburgh (fingers crossed)     'Lose My Mind' will be available to download from the 25th of September, meanwhile you can watch the video below.  

  Frank Turner’s ‘Tape Deck Heart’ was one of my favourite albums of 2013, but now he’s back his brand new 6th studio album ‘Positive Songs for Negative People’ the debut track from the new album is the brilliant ‘The Next Storm’   To celebrate the release of ‘Positive Songs For Negative People’ Frank is encouraging his fans to post random acts of kindness to the internet under the hashtag […]

  He’s probably fed up being branded a former ‘Fame Academy Contestant’....but he is. Lemar is back with a brand new single and album. The title track of his 6th studio album ‘The Letter’ is our new single of the week.   Recorded same studios in LA where Marvin Gaye made 'Let's Get It On', his latest album is a blend of soul classics and new, original tracks. ‘The Letter’ […]

I had been wondering if I would ever hear another track from Norwegian duo Yosef Wolde-Mariam and Tshawe Baqwa more commonly known (and easier to say on radio) as Madcon.    It was in 2008 when their cover version of Four Seasons song "Beggin'", earned the group several number one’s across Europe. Now they are back with another annoyingly catchy track ‘Don’t Worry’ For their new single they are not […]

Our new Single Of The Week, ‘Dreams’ is the first track released from Beck’s 10th studio album expected to make an appearance later in the year.    Beck was awarded Album of the Year for Morning Phase at the 2015 Grammys, so expectation is high for any new material, thankfully ‘Dreams’ doesn't disappoint. He’s going to have a busy year as you will also hear him featured in a new […]

  Our latest Single Of The Week is from East London based songwriter Foxes. ‘Body Talk’ is the first track taken from her as yet untitled second album, due out later this year.   It’s been a quick turnaround from last years debut album ‘Glorious’ which made it to number 5 in the UK album chart, however this track doesn’t seem to suffer at all.    If you want to […]

John Newman is back with his second album on the way, and has debuted the first single ‘Come And Get It’ Newman's last album was 2013's ‘Tribute’ which reached number one in the UK charts, so big things are expected from his latest release when it arrives later in the year. John is currently promoting his new material on the festival circuit, including an appearance at the Summer Sessions in […]

  Our new Single Of The Week is from Italian Folk Pop artist Damien McFly.    Damien first came to attention after posting videos of covers on YouTube where after one year of activity and three Cover Collections released he got more than 700.000 views and 6000 subscribers.   ‘I Can’t Reply’ is the first single to be released from his new album on the 13th of July.   To […]