Popular http://www.popularcompany.co.uk Popular Company Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:38:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING WIN BBC 6 MUSIC REBEL PLAYLIST! http://www.popularcompany.co.uk/news/public-service-broadcasting-win-6-music-rebel-playlist/ http://www.popularcompany.co.uk/news/public-service-broadcasting-win-6-music-rebel-playlist/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:33:01 +0000 popular http://www.popularcompany.co.uk/?p=839 Read more]]> Popular Radio Promotion’s Public Service Broadcasting last night won Steve Lamacq’s Rebel Playlist on BBC 6 Music after narrowly missing out on the main playlist. They received 60% of the votes! This is really huge for the outfit on their debut release ‘ROYGBIV’ coming out on march 5th through Test Card records. There will be a play of the track every day on one of the main daytime shows throughout the week in this order:

Monday – Steve Lamacq, 1600-1900
Tuesday – Radcliffe & Maconie, 1300-1600
Wednesday – Chris Hawkins, 0500-0700
Thursday – Lauren Laverne, 1000-1300
Friday – Shaun Keaveney, 0700-1000
Olly
]]> http://www.popularcompany.co.uk/news/public-service-broadcasting-win-6-music-rebel-playlist/feed/ 0 THE POPULAR 2011 REVIEW http://www.popularcompany.co.uk/news/the-popular-2011-review/ http://www.popularcompany.co.uk/news/the-popular-2011-review/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:40:42 +0000 popular http://www.popularcompany.co.uk/?p=775 Read more]]> Hello all,

Firstly thanks to everyone that came to one of our shows or bought one of our records this year. We really appreciate it!

Its been a fantastic year for us, we started the year with 3 staff and now there are 10! and we have all sorts going on next year including around five album releases, five EP releases, bi-monthly UK Tours, clubnights in Berlin, Stockholm and our very own festival on a beach in Italy called PopRox. We can’t wait!

Below is our best of 2011 lists and our tips for 2012. Enjoy.

Merry Christmas!

love from all Popular folk xxx

 

Tips for 2012
Vuvuvultures
La Shark
Blank Spaces
Montage Populaire
The Voyeurist
Citizens
Worship
The White Album
Deaf Club
Outfit
Funeral Suits
Jamie N Commons
 

Top Ten 2011 shows at Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen
1. Tuneyards – Thurs Sept 15th
2. Big Freedia – Sept 8th
3. SBTRKT – June 14th
4. Beth Ditto – August 28th
5. Caged Animals / Friends – Sept 27th
6. Mogwai – Feb 9th
7. The Drums – Sept 5th
8. Wild Palms – March 10th
9. Future of the left – Nov 29th
10. Vuvuvultures – Dec 12th

Top Ten Tracks of 2011
1. Girls – Vomit
2. The Weeknd – House of Baloons
3. Tyler, The Creator – Yonkers
4. Lana Del Rey – Video Games
5. M83 – Midnight City
6. La Shark – Magazine Cover
7. Wild Palms – To The Lighthouse
8. Hook & The Twin – We’re So Light
9. Noel Gallagher – aka what a life
10. Adele – Someone like you
 

Top Ten Albums of 2011
1. Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost
2. Tuneyards – WHOKILL
3. The Weeknd – The Weeknd
4. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
5. Wild Palms – Until Spring
6. SBTRKT – SBTRKT
7. Katy B – On A Mission
8. The Kills – Blood Pressure
9. Little Dragon -Ritual Union
10. Pikachunes – Pikachunes

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Great news for Popular Recordings, we’ve now teamed up with Tri-tone Publishing and Pias to put out a few albums in 2012. Our first release will be Blank Spaces debut EP ‘Start’ out February 6th. More news to follow.

 

]]> http://www.popularcompany.co.uk/news/popular-team-up-with-tri-tone-pias-for-2012-album-releases/feed/ 0 KOWALSKI INTERVIEW ON RADIO 1! http://www.popularcompany.co.uk/news/kowalski-interview-on-radio-1/ http://www.popularcompany.co.uk/news/kowalski-interview-on-radio-1/#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:50:21 +0000 popular http://www.popularcompany.co.uk/?p=711 Read more]]> Saturday (19th November), Louis from Popular Radio Promotions Kowalski was interviewed by Huw Stephens on his Saturday afternoon BBC Radio 1 show right before he played their debut single ‘Outdoors’.

The play was the penultimate play in what had been a exceptionally great week of exposure for the band after being added the BBC Introducing Playlist for the week! Daytime plays of the single came from some of the stations biggest names including Fearne Cotton (Mon 14th), Scott Mills (Tues 15th), Dev (Wed 16th), Greg James (Thurs 17th), Huw Stephens (Sat 19th) and Nick Grimshaw & Annie Mac (Sun 20th)!

Grab a listen to the interview and play on Huw Stephens here and also follow links to the other shows on the Radio 1 website to listen back:

Kowalski – Huw Stephens, Radio 1 (19/11/11)

]]> http://www.popularcompany.co.uk/news/kowalski-interview-on-radio-1/feed/ 0 KOWALSKI ADDED TO BBC RADIO 1 PLAYLIST! http://www.popularcompany.co.uk/news/kowalski-added-to-bbc-radio-1-playlist/ http://www.popularcompany.co.uk/news/kowalski-added-to-bbc-radio-1-playlist/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:38:21 +0000 popular http://popularcompany.co.uk/?p=681 Read more]]> Popular Radio Promotion’s Kowalski get added to the Radio 1 BBC Introducing playlist today, Wednesday 9th November 2011 with their debut single ‘Outdoors’. Great result, tune in to daytime Radio 1 all next week, w/c 14th November 2011 to hear the track!!!

Check out the playlist here:

BBC Radio 1 Playlist November 9th 2011

Listen to the track here on Popular Radio Promotions Soundcloud page as well as the remix by Two Door Cinema Club whom the band have toured with:

http://soundcloud.com/popular-radio-promotions

Olly

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www.blankspacemusic.com

Leon

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]]> http://www.popularcompany.co.uk/news/popular-recordings-set-to-release-brand-la-shark-new-single-magazine-cover-on-nov-14th/feed/ 0 WORSHIP’S SINGLE LAUNCH ANNOUNCED! http://www.popularcompany.co.uk/news/worships-single-launch-announced/ http://www.popularcompany.co.uk/news/worships-single-launch-announced/#comments Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:39:20 +0000 popular http://popularcompany.co.uk/?p=635 Read more]]> Surely one of the gigs of the year!

We’ve just announced Worship to play St. Pancras Old Church on Thursday 1st December with support from Alpines.

Check out the video for the single here: Worship – \’House of Glass\’

and buy tickets for the show HERE.

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]]> http://www.popularcompany.co.uk/news/worships-single-launch-announced/feed/ 0 FLASHGUNS ADDED TO XFM EVENING PLAYLIST! http://www.popularcompany.co.uk/news/flashguns-added-to-xfm-evening-playlist/ http://www.popularcompany.co.uk/news/flashguns-added-to-xfm-evening-playlist/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:36:51 +0000 popular http://popularcompany.co.uk/?p=614 Read more]]> Popular Radio’s Flashguns have been added to the XFM Evening Playlist this week with their new single ‘No Point Hanging Around’ released on Monday 10th October through Humming Records. This is on top of the spins already gained from XFM’s own John Kennedy, Radio 1′s Zane Lowe and Radio 2′s Dermot O’Leary. Debut album ‘Passions Of A Different Kind’ is released on October 17th, for more info on this and the band head over to their page under Radio Promotions Roster.

XFM Playlist: xfm_playlist October 3rd 2011

Olly.

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And get yourselves down to their single launch at Electricity Showrooms on 13th October: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=221900544529282

You’ll be in for a treat!

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