Blueskies

Blueskies Supporter of original music - Radio presenter and lyricisit Past organiser of gigs and live local events - comercial and charity.
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Now focus on looking for interesting new music/musicians

30/08/2024

Finally completed my first set of poems for release, but I need to find an illustrator - near to me in York preferably- if anyone is interested then DM me.

24/08/2024

Discovering 'new music' that you missed when it cam out is weird. Makes me wander what I was doing, judging by the year I was 'sweating' like a dog to hang on to my job, now there's a lyric.

17/08/2024

So before the radio show can launch, a new website will have to be created.started enquiries for ideal festures but I think likely to be 2025 before ready.

29/07/2024

Bringing back the radio show in 2025. Work to do before that, a new website, I expect this to arrive around the end of November, depending on the features I can get. I have to confess I will not be doing the work myself! As a Blueskies thinker I'm an ideas guy, so it will be down to the team to let me know how much of that is simply over ambitious relative to other things. I am excite thought o be planning again to bring it back in some form. Will gigs be an option? At the moment that remains an aspiration. The website is the first target. moves will be made in the next couple of weeks.
In the meantime as York is the closest 'home territory' where does the new talent and the current crop of original singer/songwriters hangout?

24/07/2024

2025 seems a long way off, but it'll be here quicker than expected, before I can get the radio show on the go, have lots to do. Why so quiet and disengaged? - Just life, nothing exciting, the rather ordinary situation of resources, time, experience, other things to do and of course money, simply not enough of that to indulge in this hobby. On the plus side, I'm still here and things will begin to look better soon.

14/07/2024

Hello, not posted for a long time as you know. My aim is to bring back a radio show in 2025. I will keep you posted as the details emerge. :)

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These days, talented musicians can find it tricky to find the time to create great music while also juggling the booking and promotion of gigs on an ongoing basis. Blueskies are here to help relieve some of that burden by offering quality acts the opportunity to play paid gigs which compensate them fairly and help to bring their talents to a wider audience. Since starting out formally in 2011 with an open mic Blueskies is now involved with two local annual music festivals; Staxtonbury www.staxtonbury.com and Lendal cellars https://www.greeneking-pubs.co.uk/pubs/north-yorkshire/lendal-cellars/ ( as a charity fund raiser event). Whilst Blueskies still runs some open mics it’s early function to help local musicnas set up their own has been achieved, the Blueskies format is frequently copied as a good working model. Blueskies now has Lendal’s Lounge - nights of originals attached to a live broadcast with local community radio, Two Rivers Radio www.tworiversradio.stream iRreGuLaR FiDaY’s - an infequent informal event where covers and originals are played sometimes attached to a live broadcast. Both these events are used to introduce acts to venue managers and Blueskies, also vice versa, finding the right connections is very useful. In addition Blueskies has helped artists get recorded, supported them at gigs and helped book gigs at venues in and around York. With it’s Visit York membership Blueskies promotes York as a destination by encouraging visitors to come to venues where live music is being played. These currently include Lendal Cellars and Ye Olde Starre Inne on Friday nights and a monthly acoustic event at The Golden Lion, some events details can be found either at www.blueskiesam.co.uk or https://www.visityork.org/whats-on A new addition to the platforms from Blueskies is a collaboration with Two Rivers radio, already working togehter on outside broadcasts with the Blueskies roadshow from the end of July there will be a new fortnightly radio programme broadcasting original music from local artists, the music might have been released in previous years and could be any genre yet largely unheard as it is very difficult for bands and acts to get airtime. Breaking York is that radio show that aims to provide air time for artists/bands old, new and emerging from 23rd July you can tune in at 3pm on www.tworiversradio.stream and hear something original.

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