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IT has been a whirlwind few days for Nathan Evans. No sooner was he signed to a record label when the shanty singing postman then found himself at…
Grado GT220 review: What do you get for the money? The Grado GT220 retail for £250, a price tag that puts them in direct competition with the likes of Apple’s AirPods Pro, the Bose QuietComfort Earbuds and Sennheiser’s Momentum True Wireless 2. But while those similarly-priced rivals offer an extensive suite of features, the GT220 hang their hat squarely on sound quality. Grado has chosen to omit active noise cancellation and an ambient sound mode - marquee features for the majority of earbuds in the £200 plus bracket - and the there's no companion app either, which means you can't cus...
L-R: Jonathan Darley; Andy Yates; Dave Robinson; Robbie Sattin The U.K. group, whose song "Wellerman" kicked off the shanty trend on TikTok, was the subject of a transatlantic bidding war. U.K. folk group The Longest Johns, whose song “Wellerman” kicked off the TikTok sea shanty trend after it was covered by Scottish singer Nathan Evans on the platform, have signed global recording and touring deals with Universal Music’s Decca Records and UTA, respectively. The recording agreement, a partnership between Decca in the U.K. and Verve Records in the U.S., covers multiple albums, Billboard...
A sea shanty called Wellerman is rising up the UK record charts about 190 years after the Weller family settled in Aotearoa.
Olivia Rodrigo’s hot streak continues in the U.K. where “Drivers License” (Interscope) extends its reign into a second week.