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Bringing rap to a football stadium: Live tracks from the Biddulph rapper with R&B soul. Plus festival highlights from Upton, Ludlow, Shrewsbury and Cheshire. With Andrew Marston.

Warning: This show may contain future chart-toppers! Andrew Marston introduces the best new music from our area, including:

• Taking you back to the roots of the Upton Blues Festival which welcomed 190 acts across five days.

• Sam Ryder, Natalie Imbruglia and Sister Bliss from Faithless have already wowed the crowds at Ludlow Castle – Olly Murs is next to take the stage. But first, we'll hear from Shrewsbury’s own Cally Rhodes – chosen by us at BBC Introducing to open the show!

• What do you do when songwriting stops bringing you joy? In this week's Musicians' Masterclass, Charlieeee, Gracey, Kintish & Låpsley open up about burnout, breakthroughs and the magic of starting again.

• Twenty-five years. Thousands of bands. Endless memories. We're raising a glass at the Marr’s Bar - Worcester’s home of live music since 1999.

• Highlights from WoodShrop, at the West Mids Showground - a shining example of how passion, persistence and a love of music has helped a growing festival thrive through 2025 - while so many others didn’t make it.

• In our Music News: Details on this year's Three Choirs Festival in Hereford, Malvern Rocks, Cheshire's Dubbed Out and Together Again, plus the Gladstone Pottery Rave in Stoke.

• Lolly ruled the charts in the '90s - now the Staffordshire star is learning the new music game from her daughter, and falling back in love with pop all over again.

• We continue our summer of live music from the brand new £1.5m Boothen Quarter at Stoke City's stadium with Rebelyous - a Biddulph rapper with R&B soul, who’s shared stages with Myles Smith and studio time with DJ Ironik.

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Sat 26 Jul 202520:00
BBC Radio Stoke, BBC Radio Shropshire & BBC Hereford & Worcester

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Music Played

  • Micky Stardust

    This Is It

    • Trance FC.

  • Henry Maybury

    Lost Days (Acoustic) (feat. Ben Britton)

  • Appeared at the Upton Blues Festival

    • Chloe Mogg

      10 More

  • BBC Introducing's First Play

    • Sing£r

      Hit The Prize

  • Appearing at Ludlow Castle with BBC Introducing

    • Cally Rhodes

      Watch Me

  • Hospital Radio.

    Dreaming

  • In Session

    • Rebelyous

      Say My Name (Live from The Bet365 Stadium, Stoke) (feat. Harry Hench)

    • Rebelyous

      Vybin' (Live from The Bet 365 Stadium, Stoke) (feat. Leo Soul & Big Trev)

  • Prod. By Morg

    Try For Us

  • BBC Introducing's First Play

    • Lazy Fifty

      Wait For Me

  • META 84

    Everything You Say

  • ConceptSeven

    Sober

  • BBC Introducing's First Play

    • Beautiful Darkness

      She

  • Appeared on BBC Radio 1

    • Alex Hopkins

      House Ain't A Home

  • In Session

    • Rebelyous

      Change (Live from The Bet365 Stadium, Stoke) (feat. Kerryn)

    • Rebelyous

      Vybin' (Live from The Bet365 Stadium, Stoke) (feat. Leo Soul & Big Trev)

  • Interviewed

    • Lolly

      Only For Love

Broadcasts

  • Thu 24 Jul 202520:00
    BBC Hereford & Worcester, BBC Radio Stoke & BBC Radio Shropshire
  • Sat 26 Jul 202520:00
    BBC Radio Stoke, BBC Radio Shropshire & BBC Hereford & Worcester

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