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  • Tune of the Week // Joshua Luke Smith // Jack of Spades

    Tune of the Week // Joshua Luke Smith // Jack of Spades

    There are some times when you meet people, they just give off a vibe, there’s something special about them.

    Before this week, I had never heard of Joshua Luke Smith. My day job is working in a media company and part of my job is to record the audio for videos for our Unsigned show which is broadcast on our two radio stations.

    So, on Thursday, there was a tube strike in London, we weren’t sure if the recording would go ahead. Joshua arrived and did an interview for the show, then myself and Adam, who was doing the cameras, went to our little studio to record everything.

    We set up and Joshua is going to perform a solo unaccompanied version of his song ‘Carry Me’ taken from his new EP, ‘Your Beauty’. I get a vocal level and Adam has the cameras set up. We go for a take and Joshua nails in in one take. It literally takes less than five minutes and he spits words and rhymes so easily, it’s like something illegal.

    I go back to my desk and check out Joshua’s EP. I see the Jack Green directed video for Jack of Spades, the production, the delivery, the words, come together for something magical.

    Joshua Luke Smith is an artist to make you sit up and take notice. Now, I stumbled across him unexpectedly and he made me take notice, I’ll pass it on. If you like what you hear, pass it on. He needs to be heard.

    You can get Jack of Spades as a free download from the No More Orphan website, which Joshua is affiliated with.

    Your Beauty is out now, you can listen on Spotify.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC4VDlGJ1ro

     

    You can check out the video we made at work for ‘Carry Me’ here.

    Pic of Joshua from his Facebook page.

  • Interview with Chris Turpin, from Kill It Kid

    Kill it Kid An alarm thankfully woke me up in time for an early morning interview with singer Chris Turpin, from Kill It Kid who easily took my early morning interview crown from Ant from Futures. Our chat took place while Kill it Kid were driving to London to take of the business side of music with a day of meetings. ‘Living in Bath it takes us a little while to get over there’ explains Chris.

    The band got together in University in Bath but they don’t have a typical university indie band sound, it’s a little bit more grown up.

    ‘It’s our influences, I guess. I was gigging on my own doing solo pre war acoustic blues, Steph was doing similar on the other side of the scale, Bessie Smith and all the early female blues. We started playing together in different little groups, I was playing behind her in some jazz concerts and she had come to see my shows. Mark saw me at a solo gig and we all decided to get everyone in a room together. That was two and a half years ago, it took a little bit of getting used to because knew early on what we wanted to do. It wasn’t an indie disco band, we didn’t want to chase any trends.

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