ROB DA BANK “Hello you, you, and you too. It’s da Bank here for the next two hours, playing the best in left field, right field and any bloomin’ field we can lay our hands on.” ... So starts a typical evening on Rob da Bank’s weekly BBC Radio One Leftfield Show, a colourful corner of the musical universe where you’re as likely to stumble into stripped down motorway techno as you are woozy weird folk or a booty electro cover of an obscure David Bowie tune ...
KITTY DAISY & LEWIS Kitty Daisy & Lewis are no ordinary band. The three siblings first came together onstage at a country and rockabilly jam in a North London pub. Six years later the 50s music, fashion and technology obsessed family have built a massive word of mouth audience through a stream of rapturously received gigs and festival appearances, three highly sought after and collectable singles, a double compilation of ‘The Roots of Rock n’ Roll’ and, of course, their acclaimed self-titled debut album...
DAN LE SAC VS SCROOBIUS PIP In constant contention with perceived wisdom and at issue with the sanctity of pop-culture’s sacred cows, dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip have become the new faces of ‘outsider pop’...
DUB PISTOLS The evolution of the Dub Pistols has been fascinating to watch since Barry Ashworth and Jason O’Bryan first bust out in 1996 as fully-formed party animals declaring ‘There’s Gonna Be A Riot’. While their live show continued to whip up unbridled mayhem and build a healthy worldwide following through relentless touring, the records took their own path...
LUCKY ELEPHANT Just in time for summer come the sun soaked melodies of Sunday Best newcomers Lucky Elephant and their debut album Star Sign Trampoline, released on 20th July 2009...
BASTILA Bastila are on the cusp of taking their horn-infused party-romping music to the next level. ‘Mariachi reggae’ one fan called them, although they’ve way too much blues-punk oomph for that description to stick...
EBONY BONES! Ebony Bones is a star. It’s as simple as that, or it can be more complex if you’d prefer. If you want to look closer, you’ll see that this south Londoner is very much a artist of our times; a self-taught bedroom musician who was among the first to share her songs over the internet, and who’s polymorphous sound reflects the pick n’ mix approach to genres the kids growing up in iTunes World have...
SPORTSDAY MEGAPHONE Sportsday Megaphone is the audio project of a young man called Hugh Frost. He has a twinkle in his eye and an aptitude for killer riffs, disarming in a man of just 22 years of age...
CHRISTOPHER D ASHLEY From the Hot Chip school of surly lyrical delivery, Christopher demonstrates his ear for a dark, hypnotic melody that sticks in the psyche and pounds away into the subconscious...
FEAR OF THEYDON Fear of Theydon is one Julian Peck, a former Sunday Best tea-boy whose ability has seen him quickly rise through the ranks in a style not dissimilar to a certain Rob da Bank all those years ago...
GRAND NATIONAL Every so often a group comes along that combines all the best music you grew up with together with a giddy hunger to push the envelope forwards into the future...
THE HAT Of a million different things to say about The Hat, it is decidedly tough to settle on a concise way to introduce them. Less a band, more a concoction of incredibly talented individual musicians, combining to make something that sounds as close to pure brilliance as is possible from only four people...
ALICE MCLAUGHLIN Alice McLaughlin writes and sings magnificent, soulful pop. Songs tinged with blues and folk, evoking the fierce and the fragile and crossing mainstream appeal with leftfield spirit...
MAX SEDGLEY Max Sedgley’s career to date has been a tale of unabashed talent, irregular bouts of what Hollywood folk like to call serendipity and bloody hard work. That the man behind Happy, one of this century’s most enduring clarion calls, is blessed with an uncanny knack for fashioning infectious, dancefloor-slaying nuggets goes without saying...
THE CUBAN BROTHERS The Cuban Brothers are unique. Born of the loins of seventies Havana, nurtured on a diet of soulful, sexy tunes and inspired by Cuban historical fact and mythology...
MISTY'S BIG ADVENTURE So where do we start with Misty's? Well, we could tell you they've been likened to the musical equivalent of the Mighty Boosh. Or that John Peel described lead vocalist Grandmaster Gareth as 'the new God'. We could subtly drop into conversation that their infectious live show has been described as 'the Muppets mixed with The Beatles'...
KISH MAUVE “...a tantalising knack for pop hooks and potential hit singles” Sunday Times
Producer and writer Jim Eliot’s emotive, electronic-steeped production bubbles and soars, while Mima’s vocals prowl over the melodies with feline grace...
DAISY DAISY Taking a break from his research into the DNA of perfect pop, Daisy Daisy leaves London for a weekend in Paris. A long time fan of underground ping pong he finds himself watching Michelle thrashing girl after girl in the early hours of Sunday morning...
LAZYBOY When Lazyboy's Rob da Bank and Dan Carey finished recording 'Penguin Rock' they returned to Dorset cliff-top Bat's Head, one of the album's inspiration points and set about climbing it once more...
SOLID STATE REVIVAL (SSR) For those of you near suicide at the thought of another skinny jeans indie band polluting the airwaves, despair no more! Relief comes from the psychedelic offerings of Des Murphy aka Solid State Revival...
PLASTIC OPERATOR Plastic Operator are the perfect pop group for our times. Internationally minded, technically savvy and, most importantly, blessed with the ability to sculpt sublimely soulful pop moments from raw digital clay...
KOMPIS Looking for an excuse to get together and have a good time, longtime Swedish friends Carl-Henrik Hallén and Daniel Nordh formed Kompis in 1999...
BOOMCLICK Boomclick are Sam Johnson, Rui Teimao and Paul Burnley, a group of musicians (and occasional DJs) with over a decade’s musical tom-foolery in house, techno, drum ‘n’ bass, reggae, hip-hop, indie and r ‘n’ b (pre-bling, of course) between them...
HOWDI Let us introduce you to our latest signing... Howdi are your new favourite band, a band that can fearlessly straddle the divide between pop and dance and still retain their credibility, self respect and above all, their own wardrobe...
