BY GUEST CONTRIBUTOR CHAS DE WHALLEY Another favourite to scoop this year’s SSC honours is multi-instrumentalist Jake Shaw, who arrived here from the Forest of Dean shortly before Christmas but already professes to being blown away by just how much music there is in our valleys. Keen to enter into the spirit of things Jake …
BY GUEST CONTRIBUTOR CHAS DE WHALLEY And if you tune into ‘Round And Round’, this year’s SSC entry by Slad’s top tunesmiths The Many Coated, then you’ll hear some palpable pop sensibilities at work too. By ‘pop’ we don’t mean ‘smooth’ and ‘sweet’ and ‘safe’ since the sound this harmonising duo (or Dan and Robbie …
BY GUEST CONTRIBUTOR CHAS DE WHALLEY Well oh well oh well oh well! Not only is The Stroud Song Contest (SSC) back again for a fifth glorious year, but, if the first handful of entries is anything to go by, then the songs themselves are going to be even better than ever! Always quick off …
Congratulations to 3.0L Capri for being the first entry into Stroud Song Contest this year! You may remember 3.0L Capri’s irreverent enviro-techno banger, Global Warming which finished 8th in our Grand Final last year. This year, Dr. Gonaz of 3.0L Capri joins forces with a posse of contributors, including none other than James from EMF*, …
We’ve had some really creative song submissions so far. Check out our entries page to hear, among others, a song about the experience of trying to hold music sessions online via Zoom (song 1); a song inspired by the local elver men and women who work the banks of The Severn (song 3); a thought-provoking …