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Is This Thing On Number 18

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Just a reminder that I’m still here and I’ll be back soon. Includes a little song on my cigar box guitar

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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

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

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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

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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

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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 [...]

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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”

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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