Nick Tann - Is This Thing On?

Is This Thing On Number 18

nicktann — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:18:06 +0000

Not sure how I finished it in time but I did, just! This week I bought you (in no particular order) Menn Arsens, Amaya Huntley, Kidd Russell, Tom Bishel, Jouis and ME! A very funny new song review feature with Swineshead and Napoleon from Watch With Mothers (click their button on the right) a hastily edited chat with Matt Stevens about the delights of Soundcloud and Dropbox and an invitation for you to come up with a decent First Fifteen jungle the winner this week (or is it last week?) being the great Matt Taylor whose track “Fat Tuesdays Blue” I played in full at the end of the cast.

A little later than planned due to technical reasons, no really!

Podcast number 17

nicktann — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:33:29 +0000

In another packed cast I played Kidd Russell, The Visitors, Tom Bishel, Amaya Huntly, Menn Arsins, ME, Jouis and the winner of last weeks First Fifteen Bubonik Funk congratulations on getting 60 votes. A great piece by Matt Stevens on social websites for artists, fans and the discerning public. He bigged up Reverbnation , Jango and our tip for the top as the next big thing this year Ustream.

Click on things, listen to the cast, tell your friends, send me some tracks,join the Facbook group and by the time you’ve done all that it’ll be time for a new one!!

I should add that if you want to vote for the First Fifteen then trot along to the main blog for this cast at http://isthisthingonpodcast.blogspot.com/

Is This Thing On Number

nicktann — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:28:57 +0000

In another packed podcast I played The Visitors, Tom Bishel, Amaya Huntly, Menn Arsins, ME, Matt Stevens, Kidd Russell, Tom Caulfield, Jouis and the winners of last weeks First Fifteen Kodiak Jack.

I also mentioned Badger Madge shaving her head for pancreatic cancer, something I think we all should do. GIVE HER MONEY AT www.justgiving.com/projectegghead

Is This Thing On Number 15

nicktann — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:34:55 +0000

And what a monster it is! Heaps of great music all from independent non signed artists! You heard THE VISITORS, AMAYA HUNTLY & THE MERRY MEN, KIDD RUSSELL ft. ROSS GOLAN, a track by me called Na Na Slide and ended off with the mightY JOUIS.

Brand new feature “First Fifteen” is quite jolly. You can vote for whose track you want to hear in full by clicking on the poll on the right hand side of isthisthingonpodcast.blogspot.com If you want to take part in First Fifiteen, then email me a maximum of 2 mp3s and a link to your site. If you don’t have a cd to sell then don’t bother. The email address is isthisthingonpodcast.gmail.com. PLEASE include your name on the mp3, I’m not that organised and it makes it easier and you’re more likely to be chosen if you’re easy!

Exciting eh?

Is This Thing On Number 14… finally!

nicktann — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:51:49 +0000

At last, number 14! A bit of a shoddy one as it’s been a while since my last one, so I’m not properly back in the flow so I thought I’d better play some good music. The fantastic Tom Caulfield from Weymouth and the amazing Matt Stevens from London. I managed to slip a newish one of mine towards the end.

Hi if you’re a new listener and welcome back if you are a regular.

I’ll try and keep these a bit more regular.

If you have some music that you think I should feature, give me a shout.

Is This Thing On BBC Special

nicktann — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:01:26 +0000

This podcast is an edited version of the live session I did for South:Live BBC radio on Sunday the 22nd November. I was invited along to the BBC Radio Sussex studio in Brighton and recorded 4 songs and a short interview. I had a great time and was fortunate to meet some great people. Kairen Kemp the presenter, Natasha Wineburg the producer and Dan bridge the studio engineer. In the interview I mention The vinyl Project, Charles Olsen and Swineshead and Napoleon from Watch With Mothers To listen to the podcast you can either click on the iTunes link on the right hand side of this page, use the green and play player just under it or go to my podbean podcast site and play it from there. Normal pod-casting service will be resumed in the next 4 weeks. I’ll be focusing on independent composers and artists. Why not subscribe so you don’t miss out? WHY NOT?

NOT Podcast number 14

nicktann — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:07:07 +0000

No, just a little message to let you know that I will be back soon, very soon.

podcast number 13

nicktann — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:26:31 +0000

Here we are again. It’s been 3 months since my previous pod-cast, but I haven’t just been playing in the sun honest!

I mentioned The Real Raj, open mic nights being the new karaoke, Pure Acoustica, the vinyl project and the chance of having the next podcast dedicated to you, yes you dear listener. If you want there to be a podcast number 14 then email me at info@nicktann.co.uk telling me. Once I’ve received at least 14 requests, I’ll record it and dedicate it to the author of the 14th email, geddit?

Is this thing on? Number 12

nicktann — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:33:50 +0000

About bloody time eh? Well this one has been a fucking epic. I’ve downloaded videos from Youtube and stripped the music off it so I could play a great track from Matt Stevens, jumped through hoops to grab a brilliant track from the great Steve Moyes, had a game of email ping-pong with Joe Potter from the exquisite Jouis extracted a funny line from James Le Blond the Rambling Canadian, grabbed a familiar jingle from Watch With Mothers and I even wrote and performed a sketch. What more do you want? AND included a new song of mine, Love Lies.

Well that’s your lot for another month. I’m knackered…..

Is This Thing On Number 11

nicktann — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:45:46 +0000

Finally got round to recording pod-cast number 11. It’s been far too long but there you are. Possibly the quickest and easiest I’ve done yet. I rant about so called “acoustic” music and Pure Acoustica I played music by the amazing Julia K ,the delightful Wise Children and earworm specialist Matt Blake. I urge you to go and check out their sites and join their fan base. I also sing the praises of independent internet types including the quite wonderful Watch With Mothers I should also have mentioned W.W.M. contributor Dave but didn’t. You can access this pod-cast by click on one of links on the right. If you have iTunes then click the iTunes link if not click the widget link or click here to go straight to podbean and listen to it there

Is This Thing On? Number 10

nicktann — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:50:47 +0000

This has been one of my favourites. I interview independent artist, musician, dancer, actor and great friend Charles Olsen. He talks about visits to, the now notorious, Branstons Farm in Surrey in the early nineties. Meeting Dave, Paul and myself in the early stages of Drunk on Logic, almost winning the Saatchi prize and living in Madrid. As he lives in Madrid , the only way I could do the interview was to record our Skype conversation and it turned out pretty good.

I found myself without a clip of Charlie playing Flamenco so had to Skype him to send one, only to find that he didn’t have one either. Fortunately he was able to record an impromptu piece on the spot and email it over. What a pro!

His web presence is amazing and has many a site to see as he does so much. Including a blog written in Spanish!

If you use iTunes to download this podcast then you will also be able to see the pics I added, screen grabs showing our Skype/recording session.

I also included one of my tunes as well as a 12 year old recording of Drunk On Logic’s first paid gig.

Is This Thing On? Number 9

nicktann — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:29:01 +0000

My longest pod-cast yet! I managed to cram in part 2 of my conversation with the very successful Neil Drinkwater creator, manager and leader of The Red Stripe Band (Jools Holland on Speed!) Some interesting information on how to make it as an independent musician. A new jingle for www.youtube.com/yourenottheone. I even managed to squeeze in two tunes, both from last weeks Pure Acoustica gig at The Dolphin in St Denys. Botyov 1791 singing 17 bottles of Stella and a bargain bottle of wine and me (yes me!) singing a drunken version of Pale Moonlight. Do you, me and everyone a favour and subscribe to this loveliness by subscribing to this on iTunes. It’s the way forward plus you get to see the funky pictures that I manage to embed !!!

Is This Thing On? Number 8

nicktann — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:57:16 +0000

This podcast includes music from Pure Acoustica artists Emmy-Lee and Botyov 1791 and part 1 of my conversation with Neil Drinkwater a.k.a. Red Stripe from The Red Stripe Band. Emmy-Lee and Botyov 1791 will be joining me for the first Pure Acoustica event this Thursday the 12 of February at The Dolphin in St Denys I’ve wanted to interview Neil for some time. He has been a full-time independent musician for just over 6 years and manages The Red Stripe band a nine piece swing bamd, often compaired to Jools Holland on speed! He is also a great friend. More from him in Podcast number nine but that’s another story!

Is This Thing On? Podcast Number 7

nicktann — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:03:05 +0000

This week, amongst other things, I rant about buying a fridge at Comets, play some fantastic music by Matt Stevens and Simon Javens, a new advert for those great folk at Hayward Guitars in Winchester, talk a little about Pure Acoustica and launch the very first “Twitter News”

Is this thing On? Number 6

nicktann — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:02:54 +0000

After many failed, drunken attempts last night I have finally recorded and edited Podcast number 6 of Is This Thing On.

People I mentioned were, in no particular order Matt Blake, Matt Stevens, Bete’ deJour, Watch With Mothers, Joe Potter, Joe Woodham,

Pure Acoustica, Red Stripe (Neil Drinkwater), Emmy-Lee, Twitter, Louch Manouche and Charles “Charlie” Olsen

All information on this podcast can be found at http://nicktann.blogspot.com

Is this thing On? Number 5 Music Quiz

nicktann — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:08:06 +0000

My Xmas music quiz. Beat the intro, guess the middle and a great covers round plus some home made adverts for http://watchwithmothers.wordpress.com www.nicktann.co.uk and www.bob-baker.com

Is this thing On? Number 4

nicktann — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:51:08 +0000

Garageband, it’s the new black! Jingles, The LCD, Pure Acoustica, The New Live Album and ghostly myspace profiles, it’s all there.

www.nicktann.co.uk

Is This Thing On? Number 3

nicktann — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:24:44 +0000

Unscripted babbling this time with a song Pale Moonlight from my gig at the Edge of the Wedge in Southsea from the 25th November 2008. For information about about Pure Acoustica go to

http://pureacoustica.blogspot.com

http://www.reverbnation.com/label/pureacoustica

Is This Thing On?

nicktann — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:05:38 +0000

This time we talk about depressing songs, Tom Waits, insulating lofts and Elvis Costello.

Is This Thing On?

nicktann — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:00:38 +0000

Welcome to the first of my podcasts entitled Is This Thing on?. My name is Nick Tann and I’ll be introducing one of the tunes that I’ve recorded plus tell you a little bit about how, where and why it was recorded plus some other chitchat. In this podcast I’ll be playing a recording of one of my tunes ‘That Woman” recorded live at Chaplins in Boscombe a few weeks ago.

I also want to thank Matt Stevens for unknowingly inspiring me to do this.

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