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Andrew Marston introduces Liv (Evesham)

BBC Introducing Hereford & Worcester

Unsigned, undiscovered & under-the-radar music, as recorded at The Courtyard in Hereford.

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Sat 16 May 201520:00

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Liv's BBC Introducing session
Duration: 19:45

Goldman
The Fall
Interviewed
- BabaJack
  Coming Home
Romans
Gio
Gig of the week
- Puma Creek
  Cut Me Loose
In session at The Courtyard in Hereford
- Liv
  Heartbreaker
- Liv
  Falling For You
Kamos & Tripbuk
Passing By
Luke Barnett & Theone Dawes
Waiting For You
Bekki Cameron
Figured Out
Mikks Tape
Gotta Keep Moving On
Skinhorse
Hexte
James Donaldson
So High
Bleeding Hearts
Partisan
In session at The Courtyard in Hereford
- Liv
  Future Brings
- Liv
  With You

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17-year-old Liv (Olivia McLaughlin) is a solo artist from Evesham, currently studying at Leeds College of Music.

She's influenced by the whole house and soul music scene and listens to artists such as Amy Winehouse and Paloma Faith.

For this performance, she brought in the session musicians who helped her record her debut EP.

All of our live studio sessions and festival gigs since 2005...

A Malvern band have taken over the music programming of a local venue.

BabaJack, who've toured extensively throughout Europe, say they rarely play a gig in their home town and want to create an opportunity for local musicians and their fans.

Becky and Trevor, who are also married, will be staging a variety of nights at The Cube - including a headline performance from The Wonderstuff.

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He's had 15 UK number one singles, sold more than 50 million records and now a social media campaign has successfully brought Take That's Gary Barlow to Hereford.

The singer has surprised staff and patients at St Michael's Hospice after more than 500 people from the county shot a video asking him to visit.

We caught up with Jo Smith and Martha Sullivan, who started the #GetGaryToHereford social media campaign.

Read about the success stories from Herefordshire & Worcestershire...

Throughout May, all of our live sessions were performed in the studio - the Studio Theatre at The Courtyard in Hereford, that is!

As well as regular music nights in both there and the Main House, the centre is home to the Music Pool charity and hosts regular Jazz Cafe events in the bar area along with various open mic nights.

The glass-fronted building, on Edgar Street, officially opened in 1998 on the site of its predecessor and before that it used to be a swimming pool!

In the gig guide: Joe McElderry's in town!

In the news: Lionstock festival, in Leintwardine, was a roaring success.

Check out our local festival roundup...

A classical guitarist from Worcester will be making her TV debut next month as a judge on a new TV show.

The show, called Guitar Star, hopes to discover the best guitarist in the country.

Helen Sanderson is a professional guitarist, tutor and director of the World Youth Guitar Festival and tells us what it's been like working on the early parts of the show.

Hear more top advice in our Musicians' Masterclass...

This week, Andy O'Hare reviews...

Keith & The Alchemists, Institutes & By The Shore at The Marr's Bar, Worcester.
Rocky Road To Ruin at the Richmond Place Club, Hereford.
Open Mic: Enzo, Kim Rydr, Ian McRae, Chris Lewin, Red Dawe & The Merrell Sisters at The Great Malvern Hotel.

How to make it in the music industry: The Boomtown Rats

We started off the year with a brand new series of 'How To Make It In The Music Industry' with Hereford's Sean Denny, who runs his own record label at Sony Records in London.

This week, we continue to talk you through the whole signing process with a case study that is right here on our doorstep.

Gary Roberts is the guitarist and founding member of the Boomtown Rats and lives in Bromyard.

It's taken us three years to persuade him to give away his secrets of how his band attracted the attention of managers, record labels and studio producers - and how they insisted the band retained full creative control of their music.

BBC Introducing at the Wychwood Festival

We're returning to the Wychwood Festival on Cheltenham Racecourse to host a regional BBC Introducing stage along with our colleagues from BBC Local Radio.

We've been given the whole of the Sunday to showcase ten acts from Herefordshire & Worcestershire - which include the four sessions that will transmit throughout June.

As always, we invited musicians who uploaded their tracks to bbc.co.uk/herefordandworcester/introducing.