The final line up for B-Town 5 is here!!!
Beyond proud of this gig and everything me &
@njbarl0w
are doing with it, buy your tickets before Friday to get the cheapest price 💸
RT to support live local music 🫶
100 million
1 year. Independent. No major label backing. No major radio play. No industry support.
We've never seen this in the UK indie scene before
Lovejoy are breaking the matrix
WE FUCKING DID IT LADS!
Ngl I was the first person at
@BBCR1
to follow
@lovejoy
I told
@gregjames
producer
@ahchrissawyer
they were gonna be massive & told the head of visualisation Joe Harland they are the next Beatles!
We made noise THEY took notice! Don't take it as a taunt
@KeyzPlazy
I'm a Christian and I show love to LBGT people by supporting them openly (as do my congregation) not by cowardly acts like taking their flag down. You don't get to hide behind God on this one bro, do better
My heart breaks for new artists who aren't sharp with social media and how to get big on here. There are bands out there who are musically better than almost any Reading headliner but they're not blowing up because these days you have to be a social media manager as well 😑
HEY GUYS! I'm a BBC Radio 1 Freelancer & ALSO a big twitch fanboy ⚡️
This Christmas I'm applying for the
@BBCR1
Presenter takeover & I wanna bring in
@lovejoy
to turn the live lounge into the LOVE Lounge ❤️
RT this if that's something you wanna see 🤷♂️
#freeGhostbur
i’m sorry but the statement “Matty Healy’s PR team” has to be the funniest thing i’ve heard this past week😭
y’all really think Jamie Oborne actually works and does anything except sit on the internet and repost The 1975 & Dirty Hit posts💀
Ok
@lovejoy
twitter. We are besties now. This is THE most important tweet I will ever send.
In Birmingham I'm a Gig Vlogger. I've made several documentaries for my YouTube with local bands & next year I wanna make one about Lovejoy Beatlesmania. You in?
HI EVERYONE! I've just made a sick new playlist called "I can't believe it's not signed!"
Comment anything you think would fit nicely, no clue where I got the inspiration from 👀
I am totally shook in awe and thankful to say I just won Best Radio Presenter at the
#BirminghamMusicAwards
This has been a dream for me since I started radio 6 years ago and I'm moved to tears at the support I get for it now. Thank you 💙
@DeclanMcKenna
What do you think about the car?
What do you think about the
What do you think about
What do you
What do
What
Wh
Where's
Where's the
Where's the new
Where's the new album?
This is a vital tweet for people lazily holding up Clarkson as some pro-Brexit icon. He publicly supported remain and to be honest Top Gear was always a wonderful advert for the perks of freedom of movement around the EU
Best thing about
@SWIM_DEEP
supporting
@Harry_Styles
is it's not a label thing, they're independent and started their own label for EC so this must be a mutual artist love/culture move. As per harry wearing their merch you LOVE TO SEE IT
Here is the thing guys.
Cold hard facts. I love Sam Fender. Seventeen Going Under is a masterpiece. Aye is a top 5 track of the decade.
But Lovejoy have FIVE times more twitter followers than him. An independent band with no industry backing.
This is Ragnarok.
@petefrasermusic
@johnnyquinnhaha
So nice to see plucky underdogs like them who had to battle their way up with only the support of a major label, management and Arctic Monkeys' drummer before they'd even released an album stick it to those industry pop frauds...
I honestly think if YouGov asked the British Public if we should knock down Big Ben and rebuild it from sponge cake you'd get at least 20% saying yes. There comes a point where you've got to ask what you're actually learning by asking.
Okay lads.
My next
#NewMusicMonday
Twitch stream will feature a 23 for 23 list. 23 new artists who I think will shape the landscape of UK music in 2023.
Are there any acts you think it would be EMBARASSING if I left out? Let me know x
RIGHT LOVEJOY FANS PSA CALM CALM CALM ITS NOT RADIO 1!!!
We have been mislead by a classic foolbur mistake (totally innocent easily happens) it is BBC Radio Sussex WITH the incredible
@MelitaRadio
I am sorry for fuelling this fire, I got excited too
@bradtaste
I hope this resolves soon man- the wild thing is if a random radio station no one listened to sat playing billie's album on loop for 4 hours that's legal. If you broadcast to tens of thousands of engaged music fans playing bits of the songs with commentary, that's an issue(?)
Women don't have to do ANYTHING here. They aren't the problem, the men following, harassing & attacking them are. I truly think something is rotten at the core of masculinity and it starts very early in the way we are taught. It's depressing but we can't let it be hopeless.
The only time I've heard someone speak with this much confidence, self-ease and flair is David Tennant as the Doctor from my childhood. This is going to be a magical show
And we're off! 🚀✨
Here are
@GregJames
' very first words on brand new Breakfast and the all-important first song to be played on the show...
This is going to be FUN!
Let's not forget
@claraamfo
has kept up a near daily schedule of live national radio shows alongside training for Strictly, mad she's picking up these complex routines as well as she is- a legend always 💫
#StrictlyComeDancing
I'm BEYOND thrilled to say this Saturday I will be hosting
@bbcintrowm
🤯 I've been presenting radio free for 6 years and this is my first EVER paid show
My brother
@AlexNobleTweets
is sadly ill & I owe him so much so thank you firstly. This is for the WM/0121💙 It's an honour
@wilbursversion
The whole of I'm sorry Boris is just perfection. He sings abour leaving London like he's leaving an abusive relationship and that's such a genuinely true parallel that matches my experience of the city
Can't quite believe it but just had the total pleasure of interviewing
@producerSX
for
@bbcintroducing
💥 This guy is a next level legend behind
@KSIOlajidebt
's recent musical success and he's set the go stratospheric solo anytime WV represent 🚀
Interview coming Sat 15th Feb🎧
BREAKING: We're looking for an all new schedule of presenters to take over our airwaves this Christmas🎄
Do you have previous radio experience and fancy broadcasting on Radio 1? Apply here 👉
Press release with all the details:
So today I received my first ever payment as a BBC freelance boi. Safe to say I nearly cried, I'm only 22 but since graduating uni 2 years ago I've been waiting for this day and now it's here I just feel overwhelmed. Here's to the future 💙
I live in Birmingham UK and openly worship as a Christian every week without any discrimination. We love the multiculturalism in our city, leave your misinformed hate out- it's not welcome
If anyone needs some weekend motivation I'm nearing 10 months of freelancing with Radio 1 (dream job can't lie) and this is what my BBC Careers hub profile looks like 😓Persistence is the one haha
Well you guys just made my life.
Never had a reaction like that in 10 years of YouTube, Radio, anything really.
From the bottom of my bread filled heart thank you 💗
More vlog out now:
Swell 2019 news for you pals, I'm delighted to say I'll be once again contributing to the
@bbcintrowm
show with weekly updates on the Birmingham Music scene (and its unstoppable path to global domination)
Big love to
@AlexNobleTweets
for inviting me back, it means the world 💙
Hey friends, it's been a while. At the start of the year my mental health crashed & I had to step away from social media & radio to heal.
Thanks to my incredible friends I'm back feeling better than ever & excited to say I have a new dream: to become the Zane Lowe of Twitch...
Guys I'm watching Panic At The Disco from the back of Birmingham Arena & it's just awe inspiring.
I want every unsigned band out there to DREAM of playing a headline to this many people. It's not impossible, panic started where you are now 🥺💗🎸
I'm SO ectastic to say this Saturday I'm presenting
@bbcintroducing
on
@bbcwm
😭🥳
It's an honour to sit in for
@AlexNobleTweets
whilst he walks half the length of the country for charity- this scene & this region mean EVERYTHING to me so let's do this 8pm 20th 😎💙
@knivesandspoon
Having a 24 hour bus home in brum when I was 18 honestly saved me so many times with a dead phone, this should be a nationwide rule for key routes
Chris Moyles on one of the biggest alternative music breakfast shows in the country engages in an empassioned rant about why it's not his job to play new music, saying his own show being expected to play it is like expecting a butchers to sell books...
@RadioX
state of industry
And look at the mutuals. I'm at the heart of UK radio. All my friends know Sam, he's a legend but NO ONE knows Lovejoy in that circle. We have a band who could sell out arenas 1 year into their career and they are totally unknown. Gen Z Beatlesmania is inevitable.
@yugiohtas
I think what people sometimes miss are that YGOTAS is actually the biggest love letter to the anime & dub. The playful digs only work because you're a fan of the original so kmow the plot inside out, some sequences especially slifers summoning on the zeppelin are inspired
2 years ago today I lost my Dad to cancer.
I deliberately kept this quiet on social media so I could process my emotions and work through grief with my closest friends & family but today I'd like to share a bit about who we was.
Starting with this video of him playing organ!
& I am d e l i g h t e d to say I just got asked to do a few more shows next year 💙 You can check out the last one and critique that decision on
@BBCSounds
rn 😉⬇️ (joking aside im so happy i think I'm a professional presenter now)
I'm BEYOND thrilled to say this Saturday I will be hosting
@bbcintrowm
🤯 I've been presenting radio free for 6 years and this is my first EVER paid show
My brother
@AlexNobleTweets
is sadly ill & I owe him so much so thank you firstly. This is for the WM/0121💙 It's an honour
Today is the day man 😢 Been waiting my adult life for this,
@bbcintrowm
myself in the hotseat joined by
@HarryBRadio1
with the West Midlands biggest new talent 💙
Live on
@bbcwm
&
@BBCSounds
, please please lock in if you rate what I do 📻
You always wanna be careful throwing out this comparison as a big bombshell but I don't think we've seen a comeup like
@TheLathums
since Arctic Monkeys