Curators
Curator No. 5: Steve Lamacq (BBC)
Steve Lamacq is acknowledged as one of the UK’s most avid supporters of new bands and has recently left BBC Radio 1 where he presented for 16 years. The shows included the Evening Session, Lamacq Live and until recently one of their flagship In New Music We Trust shows.
He continues to present his popular Drivetime show, Weekdays 4-7pm on BBC 6Music and The Steve Lamacq show on BBC Radio 2 Wednesday’s 11pm-Midnight. Steve was the first presenter to present on three BBC music radio stations!
Steve is now also a familiar voice on BBC Radio 2 through a number of landmark documentaries on British music, most recently The Digital Music Explosion, Great British Music Explosion, The Creation Story and the National Great British Music Debate.
Steve is also a regular contributor for Fighting Talk onBBC 5 Live a station that also allowed Steve to bring his love of both music and football together to host his show, Rock ‘n’ Roll FA Cup.
Renowned for fronting the groundbreaking Radio 1 Evening Session for a dec...
Curator No. 4: Simon Raymonde (XFM)
Simon Raymonde is an English musician and record producer. He is the son of arranger and composer, Ivor Raymonde. In 1984, Raymonde became the bassist of the Cocteau Twins, filling the void left by the departed Will Heggie. He remained in the band until its dissolution in 1997.
Raymonde's debut solo album, Blame Someone Else, was released in 1997, and featured contributions from both Elizabeth Fraser and Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins.
Since 1997 Raymonde has been MD of the Bella Union record label, and has signed all the label's acts including Abe Vigoda, Fleet Foxes, Beach House, Andrew Bird, The Dears, Laura Veirs, and Explosions in the Sky, Midlake and Stephanie Dosen.
He has also acted as producer on many records, including Clearlake's Cedars, James Yorkston's Moving Up Country, The Duke Spirit's Cuts Across The Land and The Open's Silent Hours. He also worked on the Fionn Regan album The End of History, which was nominated for the...
Curator No. 3: Sean Adams (Drowned In Sound)
Back in October 2000, Sean - then an 18 year old in a bedroom 200 miles away from London - pulled together a bunch of music obsessives to form DrownedinSound.com, which was one of the first online music mags-slash-blogs-slash-social-networks.
Over the past nine years DiS has become, according to Observer Music Monthly "the discerning indie fan's first point of reference," and has built up a rabid and influential readership of over 350,000 people per month. The site primarily champions new, independent and innovative music - everything from Björk and Battles to The Shins and Friendly Fires - but has also managed to piss off Brian May and Ryan Adams, as well as receive [death] threats from The Ordinary Boys, Calvin Harris and Towers of London.
In 2003, he set-up Drowned in Sound Recordings. The label is responsible for launching the career of Martha Wainwright, with her critically celebrated debut long-player selling over 80,000 copies. The label also notably released the debut singles 'Oh My God' by Kaiser Chiefs and ‘The Wizar...
Curator No. 2: John Kennedy (XFM)
To put it simply, there is hardly anyone working in the music industry that knows more about new music than John Kennedy. And as if that's not enough, he's one of the nicest people you could ever have the pleasure to meet. He's been described as "an absolute oracle of the hotly-tipped, the seer of the Next Big Thing, the guru of the soon-to-be-great and you can check out the truth of the sentiment by listening in to his X-Posure show (every Monday to Thursday from 10pm to 2am), which has developed a cult following over the years.
John's show focuses on a very wide variety of cutting edge and alternative music from a wide selection of genres, so it has been the first show ever to play (and help launch the careers of) many bands and artists over the years, and lead to John being thanked at the 2008 Brit Awards by Kate Nash. The show also features 'album playbacks' where big artsts come in to talk about and play through their new album in its entirety as an insight into their most recent work.
Curator No. 1: Huw Stephens
Huw Stephens presents the BBC Introducing shows on BBC Radio 1 on Wednesday nights: Huw Stephens' In New Music We Trust Best of BBC Introducing at 9pm-10pm and BBC Introducing with Huw Stephens midnight-2am.
Huw's passion for discovering and championing new music was spotted when at 17 he joined Radio 1 for its Nations output to reflect the music scene in Wales.
Huw ran his own record label and writes regularly for various publications. He became a national presenter on Radio 1 as frontman of the OneMusic show in 2005. Huw has presented several documentaries for Radio 1, as well as regularly standing in for Zane Lowe, Rob da Bank, Colin Murray and Jo Whiley for a bank holiday special.
Huw also runs his own live music nights in London as well as hosting his weekly BBC Introducing Radio 1 podcast; more outlets for the new music he champions. His shows have been broadcast from South by South West in Texas, Sonar in Barcelona and Green Man in Crickhowell. Huw has travelled to Reykjavik, New Zealand, Nashville, Los Angeles and Manchester to see...
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