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Nature-inspired forest-pop from Congleton's lyrical enchantress, as performed at our stadium show. Plus the Hereford super-producer shaping global dance music. With Andrew Marston.

Warning: This show may contain your next obsession! Andrew Marston introduces the best new music from our area, including:

• From Hereford to Amsterdam’s ADE, Owen Roberts - aka Bad Milk - talks about writing hits for Fisher, Afrojack and BTS, and how he’s shaping the global dance music scene.

• Mazawattee are here with their first ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Introducing play. Hear how their landed their first-ever Glastonbury gig and brewed up their new sound.

• From Maida Vale to ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Introducing Live - two powerhouse songwriters share how they turn their talent into hits for other artists.

• 50 years on from 'Bohemian Rhapsody' first charting in the UK, Lisa Ward shares her Rockfield memories - from playing rounders with Queen as a child to managing the studio where she witnessed the creation of a global rock classic.

• In our Music News: Another chart-topping act has been announced to headline Ludlow Castle next summer, more than 350 artists have applied to play the first-ever StourJam Festival and Bon Jovi have released a new collaboration with a Stoke-on-Trent superstar.

• Our Featured Artist Joe Jennings, from Lee Brockhurst near Wem, talks us through his journey from bedroom producer to the UK club charts, sharing the thrill of making funky summer floor-fillers, eerie Halloween vibes and the role ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Introducing has played in his career.

• Touring schools and festivals, we meet a Stoke-on-Trent collective using infectious hip-hop to inspire young people and discover their new app to tackle mental health, knife crime and encourage self-belief.

• Live music from Congleton’s Megan Dixon Hood, who lit up our ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Introducing takeover of Stoke City's £1.5 million Boothen Quarter with her nature-inspired 'forest pop'.

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Music Played

  • ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Introducing's First Play

    • Prophet ט Teth

      World Like This

  • Celebrating Halloween

    • Heidi Browne

      Crazy Ghost

  • Appeared at ADE (Amsterdam Dance Event)

    • Bad Milk

      Recover

  • Celebrating Halloween

    • Something Followed Me ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ

      Scarecrow

  • Interviewed

    • Mazawattee

      Waterslide

  • Celebrating Halloween

    • Rahmanzbeatz

      Ghosts In The Mirror

  • In Session

    • Megan Dixon Hood

      St Lucia (Live from The Bet365 Stadium, Stoke)

    • Megan Dixon Hood

      The Wishing Tree (Live from The Bet365 Stadium, Stoke)

  • Celebrating Halloween

    • Ease the Artist

      In The Dark

      • OuterSpace Records.
  • Recorded at Rockfield Studios

    • Bastie

      She's Got To Go

  • Celebrating Halloween

    • Micky Stardust

      Hungry For More

    • Macka Morfiss

      Split Personality

  • ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Introducing's Featured Artist

    • Joe Jennings

      Blood

  • Celebrating Halloween

    • Lazy Fifty

      Skeleton Crew

  • In Session

    • Megan Dixon Hood

      Athena (Live from The Bet365 Stadium, Stoke)

    • Megan Dixon Hood

      Mind's Eye (Live from The Bet365 Stadium)

  • Making A Difference

    • Antidote

      Uth City (Light In Dark Mode)

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