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Writing amidst missile warnings: Evesham's Room Number 9 reflects on life in Dubai. Plus the low-down on this year's Green Man of Clun festival. With Andrew Marston.

Warning: This show may contain your next obsession! Andrew Marston introduces the best new music from our area, including:

• A chart-topping career in Hungary to raising a daughter in Evesham, Room Number 9 now divides her time between England and Dubai, a city living under constant alert.

• A near-cancellation to a thriving three-day festival, the Green Man in Clun is back, powered by community spirit and a wave of local volunteers.

• In our Musicians Masterclass: From The Underground to The Rigger, venue managers reveal how they train, mentor and support emerging artists in Staffordshire & Cheshire.

• After writing a song on a hospital floor to finding his voice years later, Staffordshire's Graham Wilkinson is finally sharing the deeply personal music he never meant anyone else to hear.

• Picking up millions of streams and a Best Producer award at the 2023 Shropshire Music Awards, we meet Joshua Cooke, whose euphoric, Kygo and Avicii-infused melodies have earned him multiple Top 10 UK Club Chart hits.

• In our Music News: Alvechurch musician Katherine Priddy reacts to her new album landing in the Official Albums Chart.

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Music Played

  • Released this month

    • All the Young

      Another Way

      • Midlands Calling.

  • Heidi Browne

    World Outside Your Door

  • BBC Introducing's Featured Artist

    • Room Number 9

      Keep Moving On

      • Ditto.

  • Cassia

    Follow The Sun

  • Appearing at the Clun Green Man Festival

    • Greysha

      Who I Am

  • Released this month

    • LMP The Rapper

      Feelings

    • Hotel Cola

      Dancer

  • Released last month

    • Louis Coupe

      Never Coming Back

  • BBC Introducing's Featured Artist

    • Room Number 9

      Never Ending Summer

  • Macka Morfiss

    My Guts Are Being Spilled

  • Interviewed

    • Joshua Cooke

      Stories

  • Released this month

    • Lucy May Walker

      20 Feet Back

      • Lucy May Walker.

  • Interviewed

    • Jack

      Slide A Little Closer

  • Released last month

    • Drew Darko

      Burning Up

  • Yogi P

    Closer

  • Winners at the Music Awards of Staffordshire & Cheshire

    • Christian Music

      Christian Music F.C.

  • BBC Introducing's Featured Artist

    • Room Number 9

      WHATTABANG

  • BBC Introducing's First Play

    • Daniel J Collins

      All Is New

Broadcasts

  • Thu 19 Mar 202620:00
    BBC Radio Shropshire & BBC Radio Stoke
  • Sat 21 Mar 202620:00
    BBC Hereford & Worcester, BBC Radio Shropshire & BBC Radio Stoke

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