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Friday 17 April 2020 |
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Fia Moon
FrtyFve
Released: Out now
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We say
London-based Irish artist Fia Moon offers a glimpse of positivity in this gorgeous slice of atmospheric pop. Co-written with established songwriters Rob Harvey (Clean Bandit, Jess Glynne, Tom Walker, Rudimental, The Streets) and Lewis Thompson (Just Kiddin, Joel Corry), better days is a tale of loss, self-doubt and insomnia, while also expressing perseverance and determination to never give up. From its sombre verses to its uplifting and upbeat chorus, the production is spot on, marrying light and dark tones perfectly. Upon release last week, it was immediately added to Spotify UK and Deezer UK new release programming, as well as Spotify’s Chilled Pop Hits, New Pop Revolution, Fresh Finds: Pop, and A Breath of Fresh Eire editorial playlists. Strong radio support has come from her homeland with RTÉ 2FM (Track of the Week), iRadio (First Play Track of the Week), Today FM, Spin103.8, FM104, 98FM and Cork96’s FM all giving it numerous spins. With another five singles to come this year and supporters at Clash, the Irish Times, Earmilk and Nialler9 too, Fia Moon is shaping up to have a big year ahead. One to watch. | |
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Contact
Label: Jack Haining, FrtyFve
Publishing: Available
UK Radio, Press & TV: Jack Haining, FrtyFve
Irish Radio, Press & TV: Ismay Bourke, Ismay Bourke Management & PR
Live: Available
Management: Ismay Bourke, Ismay Bourke Management & PR | |
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| HEADLINES | |
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- Live industry set to face new types of artist deals (see News)
- Labels and others increase support for the Help Musicians' Hardship Fund (see News)
- Blue Raincoat Artists partners with Major Influence managers Steve Milbourne and Teresa Raeburn (see Business)
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| BUSINESS | |
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- Blue Raincoat Artists announced a partnership with Major Influence managers Steve Milbourne and Teresa Raeburn who bring with them their roster of artists, songwriters and producers. The pair will operate under the Blue Raincoat Artists banner. (RotD)
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| NEWS AND FEATURES | |
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- Multiple sources tell Variety, guarantees — the financial commitment to an act, regardless of ticket sales — will all but disappear for medium to major touring artists as contracts are renegotiated for shows impacted by the pandemic. Any tour in which the on-sale date never came to pass is essentially considered canceled or else up for complete renegotiation of terms, says a source.
On the festival front, acts are being asked to take a 35% reduction in fees for a rescheduled appearance.
- The UK's record labels are coming together with streaming services and other parts of the music industry to Help Musicians' Coronavirus Financial Hardship Fund and to other initiatives that are supporting artists. (RotD)
- "Buy music online from record stores" - IMPALA's message for music fans across Europe, ahead of what would have been Record Store Day this weekend. (RotD)
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| DIGITAL | |
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- There have now been more than 3bn views of TikTok videos using Drake's #toosieslide hashtag.
- Now That’s What I Call Music! has released a free, ad-supported tier on its music-streaming service, the Now Music App. (DMN) It enables listeners to enjoy shuffle play, but not playlists or personally selected songs.
- Spotify now lets Premium users hide songs they don’t want to hear from playlists. (Verge)
- Live music ticketing and discovery platform Dice has launched Dice TV. It allows fans to buy tickets to streamed events, make donations and invite friends. (RotD)
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| COMMENT, OPINION AND ANALYSIS | |
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- Scott Cohen: Covid-19 could be live industry’s ‘Napster moment’. (MusicAlly)
- If consumers end up viewing an evolved Spotify as something consumed on Apple’s platform instead of looking at Spotify as a platform in of itself, Apple will have successfully countered Spotify’s evolution. (AboveAvalon)
- Can music streaming survive Coronavirus? (David Turner)
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| DEALS | |
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- Universal Music Publishing Group announced that Italian producer trio Meduza have been signed to an exclusive global publishing agreement. (RotD)
- Norwegian electro-pop singer Anna Of The North has signed with ICM Partners for global representation. (CA)
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| MEDIA | |
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- According to new research published by Radiocentre, 38% of commercial radio listeners are tuning in for an extra hour and 45 minutes each day since lockdown amid the Covid-19 pandemic. (RotD)
- Ken Bruce's BBC Radio 2 show: 'Radio provides friendship in an undemanding way'. (BBC - Steven McIntosh)
- Q magazine is offering three issues for £5 in a subscription drive.
TV
- 19.30 BBC4 Top of the Pops 1989
20.00 BBC4 How Pop Songs Work
21.00 BBC4 Top of the Pops 1989
21.30 BBC4 Sounds of the 70s 2
21.00 BBC1 Graham Norton - with Christine and the Queens
22.00 BBC4 Elvis: The Rebirth of the King
RADIO
- 06.30 Radio 2 Zoe Ball - with Sam Smith and Gareth Malone
09.30 Radio 2 Ken Bruce - with Nick Mason of Pink Floyd
14.00 Radio 2 Steve Wright - with Brian May
21.00 6 Music Tom Ravenscroft - with producer dgoHn
LIVE STREAM
- 18.00 Anna Calvi - Brewdog
18.00 Sea Girls - Instagram
20.00 Manchester Pride Live In Your Living Room with Rita Ora, Louisa and Liberty X - YouTube
20.00 Beatport & AFEM ReConnect. A Global Music Series - DJs Tiesto, David Guetta, Kaskade & more - Facebook
21.00 Baxter Dury - Facebook
23.00 iHeartRadio First Responders Fridays - with Lewis Capaldi - YouTube
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| ARTIST AND MUSIC FEATURES | |
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- How Chvrches scored the Netflix deal of the music industry’s dreams. (RollingStone)
- The collective corrective: The MPA's Lucie Caswell and Laffittes' Jane Dyball weigh in on the challenges facing the Mechanical Licensing Collective. (Synchtank - Eamonn Forde)
- Richard Russell: XL Recordings boss on Adele and Dizzee Rascal's success. (BBC - Sinead Garvan)
- From a six-strong indie household in Glasgow to a trans DJ thruple in a remote log cabin, we meet the bands weathering the pandemic with each other. (Guardian2 p7 - Kate Hutchinson)
- In between video games and bouts of her own new record, the British-Japanese pop star Rina Sawayama has been delving into Allie X, Halsey and Alanis Morissette. (Guardian - Ben Beaumont-Thomas)
- Stardust: David Bowie biopic delves deep into the genesis of an icon. (NME - Mark Beaumont)
- Following a pair of futuristic concept albums, rap’s oddest group Shabazz Palaces talk about the rise of the robots, their Sub Pop mentality and feeling like outsiders in Trump’s America. (Guardian - Lanre Bakare)
- Laura Marling: ‘I won’t be reduced to a cultural trope. I’m not just a victim’ (Independent - Alexandra Pollard)
- Ed O'Brien: 'I'm not like George Harrison in The Beatles - I've never felt stifled in Radiohead' (iNews p42/43- Nick Duerden)
- Ed O'Brien: "Music is not about perfection. It’s about being truthful. When bands don’t get on or are burnt out and not enjoying it, the music is s**t and they know it.” (Sun p41/42 - Jacqui Swift)
- The Slow Readers were about to set out on their biggest tour yet. Instead, they're finding new ways to reach out. (Metro p29 - Jade Wright)
- Donovan talks about his new album for Greta Thunberg. (Mirror p38 - Gavin Martin)
- The Lazy Eyes interview: Aussie psychedelic starlets on their other-worldly sound and influences. (Star - Rory McKeown)
- Q&A Cornershop (Sun p42 - Jacqui Swift)
- Bass Oddity: Why David Bowie’s ‘jungle nuttah’ D’n’B phase is worth rediscovering. (Independent - Ed Power)
- How rock’n’roll arrived in Liverpool by boat. (Times p3 - Daniel Finkelstein)
- What musicians are listening to in lockdown: featuring Gregory Porter and Rina Sawayama (Guardian2 p3)
- Sites and Sounds: Where to get your live music fix (Metro p28 - Sharon O'Connell)
- The Beatles: Their 10 best solo albums ranked, from Flaming Pie to Imagine (Independent - Graeme Ross)
- My Six Best Albums: Jonas Blue (Express p38)
- My Six Best Book: Candi Staton (Express p39
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| SHOWBIZ AND NEWS | |
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- The Sun has teamed up with Virgin Radio to stage three arena concerts to thank coronavirus heroes for saving lives and keeping the country going. The Big Thank You tour will kick off at London's SSE Arena on 28 October, followed by shows at Manchester Arena and Glasgow SSE Hydro on the 29 October and 1 November respectively. (Sun p7)
- bluedot has been postponed to 22-25 July 2021. The three 2020 headliners РBj̦rk, Groove Armada and Metronomy are still set to perform.
- Bob Dylan shares another new song, ‘I Contain Multitudes’. (LATimes)
- An oral history of the first visit by a Beatle, George Harrison, to the United States is to be published in next month’s issue of Smithsonian Magazine. George visited the US to see his sister Louise in Benton, a small town of 7000 in Illinois, after the release of She Loves You. (Times p3)
- Johnny Flynn proves he's a star man at pulling off David Bowie in images from the new unauthorised biopic Stardust. (Metro p16)
- Paloma Faith has had to cut herself a fringe to cover broken-down Botox in her forehead. (Mirror p21)
- Beverley Knight says she felt compelled to get involved in charity single because many of her family work for the NHS. (Standard p2)
- Rod Stewart pictured on a deserted beach in Florida. (Mirror p22)
- Reported yesterday, The UK Competition and Markets Authority said that it has started an investigation into eBay's completed sale of StubHub to Viagogo to see whether the deal will lead to a competition issue. (Mail p71, Telegraph)
- Sun Bizarre: The Strokes frontman, Julian Casablancas, has split from his wife of 15 years and has moved on with one of the band's roadies, Kaya. J-Lo dressed up as a big heart. Nicole Scherzinger showed off her upside-down splits on Instagram. Raye wore shopping bags as dresses for the latest issue of Hunger magazine. Sam Smith and Demi Lovato teased their athletics themed video for I'm Ready. Becky Hill is releasing a single with Tiesto. Noel Gallagher gave up on social media as it was boring. Paul Oakenfold is to livestream a DJ set inspired by the 1990 Spike Island show on Saturday at 11pm. 5 Seconds of Summer had to shoot their new video at their own homes. Kelly Clarkson is releasing five versions of her new single I Dare You in different languages. Yungblud will release new single Weird next Wednesday. Cheap Cuts and Pete Wentz to release Check Your Phone.
- Star Wired: Lawson are back with new single Lover, their first single in four years. Twinnie says she had to 'do back-up jobs to support music, but now I don't have to if I don't want to'. David Guetta to stream a two-hour set on Saturday in support of the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. Pete Wentz is so much in love with his mobile, he's written a song about it with London duo Cheap Cuts. Ed O'Brien's debut album was inspired by Foals rather than his own band Radiohead. Fatboy Slim is set to perform a free concert for NHS and frontline workers at the Brighton Centre on 28 October. Now That's What I Call Music is giving away unlimited shuffle-play access to its catalogue and weekly charts. Bubblin' Under: Lauren Jauregui's 50ft, Kelly Clarkson's I Dare You feat Zaz, Sam Smith & Demi Lovato's I'm Ready, Kelly Rowland's Coffee, Disciples' Only The Gods and Tiesto's Nothing Really Matters feat. Becky Hill.
- Metro Guilty Pleasures: Raye is gutted to be single at the moment, but admits she has high expectations in the latest issue of Hunger. Jessie J wept as she vowed her latest split from Channing Tatum would not dent her baby dreams.
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| REVIEWS | |
| ALBUMS
- Fiona Apple (Times2 p9 - 5* Will Hodgkinson, Telegraph - 5* Neil McCormick, Independent - 5* Alexandra Pollard, iNewsp43/Artsdesk - 4* Nick Hasted, Guardian2 p9 - 5* Laura Barton)
- Ed O'Brien (Times2 p9 - 3* Will Hodgkinson, Mail p48 - 3* Adrian Thrills, Star p15 - 4* James Cabooter, Mirror p38 - 3* Gavin Martin, Sun p42 - 4* Jacqui Swift)
- Ezra Furman: Sex Education OST (Times2 p9 - 4* Will Hodgkinson, Sun p42 - 4* Simon Cosyns)
- Lido Pimienta (Times2 p9 - 4* Will Hodgkinson, Mail p48 - 4* Adrian Thrills)
- Enter Shikara (Star p15 - 4* James Cabooter, iNews p42/Artsdesk - 1* Guy Oddy)
- Shabazz Palaces (Guardian2 p9 - 3* Alexis Petridis)
- Waxahatchee (Mail p48 - 4* Adrian Thrills)
- Rina Sawayama (Independent - 4* Elisa Bray)
- Ron Sexsmith (Mail p48 - 4* Adrian Thrills)
- Hodge (iNews p42/Artsdesk - 4* Joe Muggs)
- Gerry Cinnamon (Sun p42 - 3.5* Simon Cosyns)
- Twinnie (Star p15 - 3* James Cabooter)
- Shelby Lynne (Sun p42 - 4.5* Simon Cosyns)
- Cornershop (Sun p42 - 4* Jacqui Swift)
- Ashley McBryde (Sun p42 - 4* Simon Cosyns)
- Peggy Lee (Mirror p38 - 4* Gavin Martin)
- Eileen Rose (Mirror p38 - 4* Gavin Martin)
- Elbow: Live at The Ritz (Star p15 - 4* James Cabooter)
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| INTERNATIONAL NEWS | |
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- Roc Nation, the multifaceted management-label-publishing company, was hit with multiple furloughs and pay cuts last month that extend across as much as half the company, multiple sources confirm to Variety.
- AEG Presents will offer fans 30-day windows to receive refunds for concerts impacted by the coronavirus, starting 1 May. (Billboard)
- Warner Music Group announced Oana Ruxandra has been appointed Chief Digital Officer & EVP of Business Development, based in New York. (RotD)
- Andy Ma has been promoted to the new role of CEO of Warner Music Greater China. (RotD)
- A new fund to support Irish music creators has been set up by the Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO), the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) and First Music Contact (FMC), who will administer the fund. (RotD) Spotify is making a donation and is also matching donations.
- Spanish Rights Society SGAE President Pilar Jurado was given a motion of no confidence during a board meeting, having been accusing of a “lack of transparency”. (Billboard) Playwright FermÃn Cabal is its new acting President.
- Reported yesterday, new restrictions on mass events in Germany see the banning of all large public gatherings until at least 31 August. (Billboard)
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| THE BIGGER PICTURE | |
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- Night Time Economy businesses are being denied valid insurance claims. (RotD)
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