James Sedwards News Today

Welcome to the fourteenth Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Mark Moody, and Scott Dransfield helped me decide what should make the list. We seriously considered over 20 songs this week and narrowed it down to a Top 10.

Various venues, UK & Europe 06|06|2023 – 10|08|2023

The album is her most ambitious work to date, and the singer-songwriter is justifiably proud of it. ‘Its 20 songs and you can hear that the production is quite... substantive – its not just a garage band. The former Transvision Vamp singer, Wendy James has released four solo albums ‘Theres a lot of arrangements going on there, so it just worked out that it took me a year and two months to write and then at sporadic intervals raising the money to go into the studio and then executing it pr...

November 19th, 2014 Mark Gardener has established himself as a songwriter, musician and producer of some distinction over the past twenty-five years. Recent collaborations with Robin Guthrie and Andrew Pearse have served as timely reminders of his artistry, while Gardeners technical wizardry has seen him oversee recent releases by Swervedriver and Desert Ships among others at his Oxford-based OX4 Sound recording studio. However, it was with his first band Ride that Gardener first became a hous...