Roxanne de Bastion at Threshold
Hit The North have rescheduled and added Pale Waves and Tim Burgess, Getintothis’ Lewis Ridley with the news as Rory Wynne releases new track Roses.
Roxanne de Bastion has this week announced she will be touring the UK, without leaving her house, as part of the new Music Venue Trust‘s campaign to #saveourvenues.
She will team up with venues across the UK to take over their social media platforms, streaming live performances into homes in the latest idea to combat the loss of gigs due to social distancing.
She’ll take over the channels of The Stables in Milton Keynes, Liverpool Acoustic, Oporto in Leeds and more from Thursday, 7 May. The virtual UK tour ends with a ‘trip’ to Melting Vinyl in Brighton on Thursday, 14 May.
The tour follows Roxanne joining us on Getintothis LIVE on Monday, 4 May, the new streaming panel show where she is joined by Ellen Loudon, Louise Evans, Peter Guy, and our host Roy Bayfield.
Elsewhere this week, Rachel Burnett has won the Liverpool Acoustic 24 Hour Songwriting Challenge 2020 Judges’ Award.
Over the Easter weekend, songwriters were challenged to write a brand new song within 24 hours inspired by a work of art in the Threshold Festival visual arts gallery.
The winner of the Judges’ Award was classically trained singer-songwriter Rachel Burnett with her song Rain, inspired by the work of Threshold Festival visual artist Nathan Pendlebury.
Second place was won by Katie Mac with her song The Fix, with Paul Henry‘s song Dancing With Our Chains On taking third place.
All of the entries were put out to a public vote which ran from Saturday 18 to Friday, 24 April. In total 2,007 votes were cast.
The winner of the public vote was 18 year old singer-songwriter Emily Callacher with her song My Circus Mind, inspired by the work of Threshold Festival visual artist Max da Silva Willis.
Second place was won by Tia Morris with her song Scars of Growth, with Sophia and Dave Criddle‘s song Flowers In Her Hair taking third place.
Away from Liverpool, Hit The North, the north-east most popular inner-city festival for emerging music, has announced a rescheduled date for their annual event.
Now set to take place on Sunday, 18 October across venues in Newcastle, the fourth festival has added Pale Waves and Charlatans’ frontman Tim Burgess to what they believe is their most ambitious lineup yet.
The festival also includes previously announced acts DMA’s, The Amazons, Fickle Friends, and many more.
Hit The North 2020
Our new track this week comes from Rory Wynne, who has released his latest single Roses.
The Stockport based artist said on the track: “It’s a chase – and all the feelings involved in that – hope, uncertainty etc. as well as regret about the mistakes you made along the way. I think everyone can relate to that, we’ve all been there.”
“I think we have to keep positive during difficult times and releasing new music is as important as ever – I
can’t wait for things to get back to normal and to get back on stage but for now, we must stay safe and
hopefully, new music will make things go by a bit quicker.”
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