www.blackbart.co.uk/

We went to see them last week and they were one of the most organised bunch of 19 year olds I had ever seen.
The singer sounds like Mike Scott a lot, which he says everyone says to him but he is yet to hear his voice himself!
A good punchy sound, and excellent four part harmonies live.
Should be popular at the festivals next year, hits? Well, lets chuck it into the forum, I tip less and less as I get very fussy these days.
There is a myspace site as well, I found the music quite slow to load on the link above but very good streaming quality.

Took me a while to suss out how to hear the music, but then only found a rough mix of "Don't Tell Me Anymore" which did nothing for me at all.

They ought to do a song called Eat My Black Shorts

Yeah I found that, the site deliberately diverts you to a sale without a preview.

It's very well played and I'll certainly take your positive comments on their performance as fact.

However... and this isn't just about Black Bart, where is the exuberance of youth?

Too many younger bands I hear just don't seem to making music with any real passion. It's all a bit too middle of the road.

I accept that there is room for naive ranting and slick professionalism but we just seem to be getting the slick MOR. Where is the rebellion, the stance, the individuality trying to form and emerge?

Maybe the record companies only have an interest in safe music so that's what gets promoted and heard. But even on the local pub circuit I hear a bland safeness and don't hear or see an original idea bursting out demanding to be heard.

As said, this is not really about Black Bart but what I feel BB are part of, the current music scene. I'm fed up with safe, easy to digest pap. (NOT a comment aimed directly at BB)

All points taken respectfully Zoo.
Where they impressed me was utter tightness and stance, there was no individualism, just a polished young unit.
I will stress that this is not one of our acts, we still see about ten new ones a month,(well new to us anyway)in a four or five week period, and this is the best of the batch in this time scale we have caught.
I think the forum sums up pretty much what we felt, and that is, this is one to watch, at this stage, but not grab by the horns.

Zoo, I've mentioned him before but I'll rave again:

http://www.myspace.com/jamietwimbledon

Jamie T, raw, energy, passion. Originality? I think so. Most people know Sheila which is great but it sticks him in the UK rap pidgeon hole which he's not, more acoustic if you ask me.

Calm Down Dearest on ROTD recently, a lot of comments about it not being commercial enough. I hope he doesn't get anymore commercial, he could end up just like the bands you speak of.

Album out in Jan, hoo-bloody-ray! (I've been waiting long enough for f**ks sake!).

Kev, yes

I really Like the fact that they're doing their own thing.

As for not commercial, Northern Line could do it with a little (And I mean little) tweaking to make it so. The rest of it isn't too avant guarde or unusable either.

My opinion on commercial is there are two types - capital C being a style of music and lower-case being stuff that just sells.

It could be that music isn't the way teenagers identify/express themselves anymore and the market is for slick polished performance with nothing too demanding.

I liked your choice and Martin's - of the two your one certainly got more of my attention. perhaps they're two different markets and I'm an old git living in the past

I bought "Love " by the Baetles on the way to a my gig tonight, and I am going to bed with it on the cd player!
I`m glad you enjoy our tips,I have not heard this album yet..

nm