The Road to Musical Stardom Starts Here
Post categories: 6 Music, BBC Introducing
|17:13 UK time, Wednesday, 5 August 2009
BBC Introducing is our initiative to support "unsigned, undiscovered and under the radar music". A few weeks ago we launched a new Advice section to the Introducing website. There are dozens of videos to watch involving artists such as Chipmunk and Gossip, industry professionals and DJs all talking about getting gigs, making records and how to make sensible business decisions. Tom Robinson, who presents the Introducing show Fresh on the Net on 6 Music has written a great piece on his blog about this new venture.
The Telegraph's Neil McCormick has also recently written a blog post about BBC Introducing. Neil was on the panel to select which bands will play the Introducing stage at the Reading & Leeds festivals later this month. A long list of 65 was drawn from recommendations from every Introducing radio show across the UK and Neil, along with the likes of Steve Lamacq and Arctic Monkey Alex Turner, submitted their favourites. If you don't know much about BBC Introducing Neil's blog is a great snapshot of the artists we're supporting who just bubbling under.
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At 15:20 10th Aug 2009, Dave Cheadle wrote:I've never quite figured out which part of the BBC's remit covers 'find new bands' other than the fact that doing so must be quite a lot of fun - but I hope something comes of it :)
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At 13:50 13th Aug 2009, Nigel Smith wrote:@paulcarps - Thanks for comment. BBC Introducing's aim is to support unsigned and emerging artists across the UK, giving them live opportunities, advice from industry experts as well as possible broadcast across BBC platforms. It's about supporting the talent that is out there and giving them a platform. The BBC's public purposes include 'stimulating creativity and cultural excellence' and 'representing the UK, its nations, regions and communities'. I think it's fair to say that BBC Introducing's efforts to support emerging artists from across the UK and give them an opportunity to gain wider exposure on national radio and large events meets those aims.
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