Honey Ryder: 'Love In Time' is a Roy Orbison cover version
Following their recent Top 40 successes with Numb and Flyaway, and their Radio 2 playlisted track Choices, Honey Ryder have announced details of their new single Love In Time and debut album Rising Up.
Love In Time, a cover of a relatively unknown Roy Orbison track which was posthumously released by Roy Orbison’s label on a compilation of B Sides and demo recordings, has since been added as a bonus track on Honey Ryder’s forthcoming debut album Rising Up.
The London-based duo, Martyn Shone and Lindsay O’Mahoney have just returned from performing at Midem in Cannes, and from Austin, Texas where they performed at the SXSW Music Festival.
Subsequent international deals have followed for the duo, with EMI Canada being the first to snap them up. News stories on them have also featured on national TV in France and Japan, where they have a growing army of fans.
There is no doubt that Honey Ryder are currently one of the hardest working bands on the UK live circuit. The band have recently played to over 200,000 people across 50 live dates, taking in venues including the Royal Albert Hall and Birmingham Symphony Hall, and performing in front of 10 million viewers on BBC TV for Children in Need alongside The Script and Enya. International interest has also been sparked in the band following shows in Texas, France and Canada.
Honey Ryder have, through lateral thought and sheer hard graft, generated considerable industry and consumer interest in their epic brand of radio friendly pop rock.
A recent full page feature in Music Week highlighted the unique funding model they have devised for the project, which involves selling shares in the future profits from income they expect to generate. The band have so far raised, completely on their own, an impressive sum of over £250,000 to fund their promotional campaign.
The band’s unique business model has, impressively, caught the eye of former EMI CEO Eric Nicoli who has taken the role of personal mentor for the duo who are proving to have a fast growing fanbase – including the likes of Annie Lennox, Terry Wogan and Janice Long. Wogan has called Honey Ryder “mean, moody & magnificent”, while Long has already booked the band for a 2nd live session towards the end of June for her Radio 2 show.
Honey Ryder new single Love In Time is to be released on 13th July. Their debut album, Rising Up is out now.
Dublin-born Marc Carroll follows his recent single, Always, with a brand new album, Dust Of Rumour, due for release on 13th July on High Noon Recordings.
The album was written in Los Angeles where Carroll now resides, and recorded by Adi Winman and mixed by Graham Sutton at Dilute Studios in Surrey.
Marc Carroll’s career has had some peaks and troughs as well as the ooccassional ‘curve-balls’ thrown in for good measure.
His previous albums Ten Of Swords (2003) and World On A Wire (2005) received high accolades from the likes of Mojo and Uncut music magazines here in the UK. He also released an album orf rarities, All Wrongs Reversed (2004) of which Brian Wilson himself was a fan.
You can clearly hear Marc Carroll’s influence on Dust Of Rumour. Brian Wilson, Bob Dylan and The Byrds are all present in large doses here.
On tracks like What’s Left Of My Heart and the current single, Always, Carroll does a perfect impression of Bob Dylan at his huskiest. While the folk pop of Now Or Never is perfectly reminiscent of the jangling summer haze of The Byrds.
Dust Of Rumour is a great acoustic folk pop album.
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Blur made a low key return to ‘live’ music with an intimate show on Sunday at The East Anglian Railway Museum in Colchester, the scene of the Britpop band’s first gig back in 1988.
Around one hundred and fifty guests made up from friends, family and fans witnessed an intimate show featuring Blur performing their greatest hits, ahead of some big summer festivals and shows, including two days at London’s Hyde Park.
Blur release a double album entitled Midlife: A Beginners Guide to Blur later this month. The album will serve as a timely reminder, should one be needed, of what to expect in the band’s upcoming summer gigs.
It’s been the best part of three years waiting for the follow up to Paolo Nutini’s sticky sweet, but exceptionally good, soul/pop album debut, These Streets and in that time Nutini has taken some giant steps-in many directions.
Sunny Side Up is the latest offering from the Scottish singer/songwriter and the album is a surprise number one in the UK album charts this week. Fans of These Streets may be disappointed that the slick production evident on that album, has given way to a more informal, impromptu, less is more, jamming session that meanders through a whole spectrum of musical genre’s.
While it doesn’t always come off, Nutini turns his silken tonsils to Reggae, Folk, Country, Soul, Rock and even a touch of Skiffle, adding something of his own to each genre.
There is distinct lack of future ’single’ material on this album, unlike These Streets, that seemed to be jam packed with them. Sunny Side up is the work of a young singer maturing fast, a vast showcase of Nutini’s unique and undoubted talent.
It is not as instant as it’s predecessor but Sunny Side Up is growing on me all the time, current stand out tracks are the single Candy, 10/10, and Pencil Full of Lead.
It’s been the best part of three years waiting for the follow up to Paolo Nutini’s sticky sweet, but exceptionally good, soul/pop album debut, These Streets and in that time Nutini has taken some giant steps-in many directions.
