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  • Free Music Monday: 20/06/2011

    The KnocksThis week’s recommended Free Music comes from The Knocks who gave Alex Winston a helping hand when she was starting off. They have also produced and done some remixing for Katy Perry, Britney Spears and Marina and The Diamonds.

    Ben “B-Roc” Ruttner and James “Jpatt” Patterson are now making their own music and shared stages with the likes of Sleigh Bells, Ellie Goulding, M.I.A., Chromeo and Big Boi.  Definitely an act to keep an eye on.

    This is from their Facebook page, for an email address you get their super funky version of The Temptations’, Ain’t Too Proud To Beg.

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  • Interview with Alex Winston

    alex winstonLast night, Alex Winston played her first Irish gig in The Sugar Club. She plays a type of 60’s Motown tinged pop and has been compared to Lykke Li and Feist. Her song ‘Choice Notes’ is currently being used by two companies in their advertising campaigns. I caught up with a very smiley, chatty, Alex just before soundcheck.

    This is third gig on your tour and you’ve already played in a library in Lancaster and are now about to play in an old cinema theatre. How are the gigs going and what’s the strangest place you’ve ever played?

    ‘It’s been going really well, I think the library had to be the strangest. When you think of playing in a library, well, for my personally, I think of being in High School in Battle of The Bands and four of your friends out there clapping and the lights are on and they’re like ‘Hurry Up! Be Quiet!’ but this was really fun. It was an awesome sound system and everyone came out from the town. It was a great time. We were drinking whiskey in a library, which seemed very unnatural (laughs). It was definitely the most interesting place I’ve played this far.’ 

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