Sharp tongued, high energy, social surrealist rebel poet and songwriter. My themes are topical, my words hard-hitting, my politics unashamedly radical, but I aim to make you roar with laughter as well as seethe with anger…… Inspired by the spirit and the ‘Do It Yourself’ ethos of punk rock, and above all by The Clash […]
Ungagged Bands
Ms Mohammed
Ms Mohammed, aka Dana Jade, was born on the island of Trinidad, spent her teenage summers in NY, and finally moved to London Town to pursue her rock n’ roll ambitions. This unique blend of influences is evident in her music. From classic punk to riot grrrl and NYC queercore all the way to the […]
Grace Petrie
Grace Petrie is a folk singer, songwriter, and activist from Leicester, UK. She first exploded on to the national protest scene in 2010 with the emotive anthem Farewell to Welfare, which captured perfectly the spirit of the new wave of dissent in austerity Britain. Since then, she has written, recorded and toured relentlessly. Her unique […]
Pauline Bradley
Pauline Bradley an Irish born singer/songwriter who has travelled extensively, picking up musical tips, styles, songs and tunes on the way. She writes songs about social issues, love, pain, injustice, human struggle, poverty, happiness, joy and everything else! Pauline sings songs from artists who may not be well known as well as classic sing along […]
Victoria Långstrump
Victoria Långstrump is a Karelian folk singer-songwriter. Born in born October 1988, Victoria started write her songs at early age, when she was 14. Her music is inspired by Russian North, beat generation ideas and awareness of lost time. Every day, after she finishes working in flower shop, she comes home, takes her guitar and […]
Jackal Trades
Jackal Trades bring you Hip Hop, Electronica, Acapella and interpretive dance. With Scottish subtitles. Their album, Need the Character, has been described as “lyrically and poetically inventive” and “in no fear of holding a black mirror up to our post-truth society” You can find Jackal Trades on facebook, soundcloud and bandcamp
Roy Møller
Roy Møller was born in Edinburgh in 1963 and started writing poetry in his teens. He moved into songwriting and performing in his twenties, eventually releasing seven solo albums, playing a session for Marc Riley on BBC 6Music and one as a member of Jesus, Baby!, a group put together by Neu! Reekie’s Michael Pedersen […]
Steve White and the Protest Family
The media are lying to you. They’re telling you that the era of the protest song is over. They’re telling you that folk music is what Mumford & Sons do; cuddly, commodified, unchallenging and sanctioned by the Prime Minister, no less. They are wrong. Steve White & The Protest Family are East London’s favourite […]
The Girobabies
Girobabies give you baffling grunge soul music with a dollop of psycadelic dystopian elbowgrease and a pinch of gutter-rock utopian lyricism. The Glasgow based band have just released their offical debut album ‘Who Took Utopia?’ to critical acclaim. This was a self-produced and self-released follow up to Two mini LPs ‘Bus Stop Apocalypse’ & […]
Milton Star
Milton Star’s wonderfully atmospheric guitarscapes paint vivid images of love, loss and regret lived out in one no-hope town to the next, in the bars, in shady motels and the highways and byways inbetween. Like other plumbers of emotional depths, The Bad Seeds, Mark Lanegan, Elliot Smith, Alex Chilton, even the darker side of […]