Andrew Marston introduces Drew Darcy (Kidderminster)

Drew Darcy is an artist and singer/songwriter from Kidderminster.

With a number of international dance singles now under his belt, including tracks with Ian Van Dahl, he is now embarking on this new vocal project with rock/pop guitar sounds.

With soaring vocal melodies over spacey guitars, Drew has taken influence from bands like U2, Keane and Nine Inch Nails with vocal ranges somewhere between Cobain, Springsteen and Bono.

“An incredibly powerful and dynamic songwriter with stadium-sized hits” - Andrew Marston.

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He’s had more than 100 top 40 UK hits, sold more than 40 million records and is estimated to have earned around £60 million pounds.

During these next two weeks, we get the secrets of writing a hit from Pete Waterman, fresh off the back of his appearance at the 30th Bewdley Festival.

As one third of Stock Aitken Waterman, Pete went on to write and produce for noteable acts such as Donna Summer, Kylie Minogue, Cliff Richard, Bananarama and Rick Astley.

Despite the reported fall in record sales, Waterman says he's now earning more money than when his songs were at the top of the charts.

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The first-ever BBC Music Introducing showcase has taken place at the Amsterdam Dance Event, this week, hosted by BBC Radio 1's Danny Howard.

ADE is a five-day electronic music conference and festival, held annually, with more than 2,200 artists from around the globe performing in 120 of the best clubs in Amsterdam. 

Our line-up, at the event, was curated by Radio 1’s Monki and Danny Howard from tracks uploaded by local musicians.

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This annual festival was first staged in 2008 by Chris Bennion, who produces Worcestershire Sauce.

He set up a website called NotJustSauce - aiming to put Worcester on the map musically.

It's been dubbed as Worcester's version of SXSW in Texas!

Taking place in around multiple venues across the city, from pubs, clubs, restaurants and cafes to historic buildings, river cruisers, record shops, on the streets and even in breweries, the festival is absolutely free to attend with hundreds of gigs to choose from from some of the best, new and emerging artists in the UK.

Throughout October, hear all of our highlights as we brought some of favourite acts to perform at Drummonds on the Sunday of the event.

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After a chance meeting in a local pub, Thom saw Ella sing and instantly knew he wanted to write songs for her.

The three-piece electro-pop unit from Evesham and Pershore describe themselves as "bored, disturbed and hoping to be heard."

Tokyo Marching Band also gained national airplay on the Best Of BBC Introducing with Mark Forrest last year.

• Tokyo Marching Band's BBC Introducing session

No stranger to Maida Vale, Kidderminster's Robert Plant first played there with Led Zeppelin back in 1969.

Fast forward some 48 years, Robert's eleventh studio album, Carry Fire, was out last week and re-unites him with the Sensational Space Shifters.

The band now includes fiddling folk star Seth Lakeman, who joins them for this performance.

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At BBC Introducing in Hereford & Worcester, we support the very best new music from across our region.

Since 2005, we've broadcast nearly 1,000 sessions, helping to showcase some of our area's most talented musicians to a massive audience.

Some of our recent highlights include Leominster’s AKA George at Glastonbury, Bromyard’s Remi Harris at the Montreal Jazz Festival and Hay-on-Wye’s Cherryshoes at T In The Park. 

We’ve handpicked some of our favourite acts to join us on stage at our next big event, which takes place on Sunday 29 October at the Phoenix Theatre in Ross-on-Wye.

These artists didn't even know they were being considered - and we hope this inspires people to keep sending in their music, because we really do listen to everything!

Admission is free and we'd love to see you anytime between 2pm and 6pm.

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