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Andrew Marston with coverage of the Upton Blues Festival

Unsigned, undiscovered and under-the-radar music from Herefordshire & Worcestershire.

• It's one of the largest free-admission festivals in the region and has grown to 130 performances in three days - we're out at the Upton Blues Festival.

• It started off as a family BBQ - the people behind Herefordshire's Nozstock Festival will talk us through who's on this year's line-up.

• Nile Rodgers is on the show talking about the hits he wrote for Sister Sledge, who'll be in Bromyard next weekend.

• Catching up with one of the founding members of UB40, who now lives in Kidderminster, on the official song they've made for the Commonwealth Games.

• It's believed to the be the longest-running music festival in Europe and the oldest classical event in the world - we're talking to the organisers of Hereford's Three Choirs Festival.

• Bromsgrove's Lucy Shaw joins us ahead of her trip out to Nashville, where she'll be performing live and recording her new single.

4 hours

Music Played

  • Appearing at Bishop's Castle Party In The Park

    • Thomas Atlas

      Halfway To The Moon

      • Hillside Global.
  • Beth Prior Collective

    Lovers Come Around

  • Slippery Slope

    Wastebook

  • Sean Buckley

    Journey

  • Appearing at the Upton Blues Festival

    • Will Killeen

      Cripple Creek

  • Dan Owen

    Radio Tower

  • Lycio

    Somebody

  • Felix Weaver

    Memory Of You

  • Including Malvern's Eliza Marshall on Flute

    • Sigrid

      Bad Life (Radio 2 Piano Room)

  • Max Stockin

    One Day

  • Myles Newman

    Yesterday

  • Featured Artist

    • UB40

      Champion (feat. Dapz On The Map & Gilly G)

      • Universal.
  • Emily Ewing

    Next In Line (feat. Carol Hodge)

  • The Birthday Letters

    Retroscopic

  • The Indigo Kings

    Timeslip

  • Song Of The Month

    • BumbleWasps

      I Look Stupid

  • Released Last Week

    • Son Of John

      Feel That Moment

  • Arcadia Roots

    Where You Gonna Run To?

  • Jess Brett

    My Circus

  • Garrington T. Jones

    Chasing Feathers

    • New Tradition Music.
  • T.O.L.D.

    2 Young

  • Sarah Brown

    Living In Sin (Acoustic)

  • Aaron Yorke

    Waiting In Line

  • Appearing at the Upton Blues Festival

    • Trevor Babajack Steger

      I'm Up, I'm Down

  • Sign Of Angelo

    Long To Be

  • Interviewed

    • Lucy Shaw

      Montenegro

  • RELEASED LAST WEEK

    • Rich Watson

      Always More Than You Saw

  • Smokin' Ashes

    So Many Roads

  • In The Gig Guide

    • Gaby Kettle

      Going Back

  • Carol Lee Sampson

    Today Is A Good Day

  • Mikey Marks

    Goodbye Eyes

  • Appearing at Nozstock, The Hidden Valley

    • Josie Field

      Leo

  • Ranagri

    You Can Do Better

  • Appearing At The Upton Blues Festival

    • Kings of the Quarter Mile

      Dancing In The 70s

  • Moulin Ridge

    Voice On The Radio

Broadcast

  • Sun 17 Jul 2022 18:00