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Forthcoming radio sessions: 18th Sept LBC 8.30pm 97.3FM or listen online at www.lbc.co.uk Thursday July 3rd 2003 BBC Radio Cumbria, 6.30pm Tue 3rd June 2003 Mean Country 1035am 7.20 P.M 12th Jan Jackie Clune show, BBC London Live (94.9 FM), 12 noon 20th Dec BBC London Live 4pm Sat 7th Dec BBC Radio Merseyside 9.20am news One of Rosie Wilby's new tracks I'd Rather Not Be Saved has been selected for inclusion on a compilation CD being released on May 31st 2004 by internet radio station Spydaradio. Other artists on the CD include Chuck Prophet, Robyn Hitchcock, Steve Wynn, Tom Ovans, Ezio and The Redlands Palamino Co. www.spydaradio.com Rosie Wilby has been selected as one of the emerging artists to be featured in the City Showcase event at the end of September. See www.dotmusic.com/cityshowcase for details. The event is part of the Mayor of London's Totally London Tour. 2002/2001 news Wilby has been invited to support Bob Geldof on some of his dates on his Nov / Dec tour... check live page for details Wilby's track 'This Time' has been selected to appear on a compilation CD of great established and new female artists, which comes free on the cover with September's Red magazine. 'Red Hot & Feeling Great' also features Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Beverley Knight. Weds 31st July - 'This Time' appears at number 3 in music writer Kristian Barford's Top 10 favourite tracks on Teletext on Channel 4. After the huge success of the Girls Cross Country tour in March featuring Wilby and Virginia MacNaughton, the girls will be at the Gilded Balloon venue during Edinburgh Festival... they are looking for Edinburgh-based female singer/songwriters to join them for short guest spots... you must have a following in Edinburgh ... email wilby@wilbymusic.freeserve.co.uk Rosie Wilby will be on tour around the country in March as part of Girls Cross Country, a project funded by the Arts Council and Generator to promote indepedent female singer/songwriters. Rosie will be backed by Dave Weightman and Paul Eldridge from her band, and will be co-headlining with Virginia MacNaughton (see www.virginiamacnaughton.com). See 'Live' page for tour dates or see www.girlsxcountry.co.uk. 25 November - Wilby's new single Be There tops the peoplesound charts ....see http://www.peoplesound.com/top20/ To write and post your own review of Wilby online go to: www.peoplesound.com/artist/wilby Recording begins in January on Wilby's second album which will feature new songs What Kind Of Friend, It's Not That I Need You Back and Go along with recent single Be There. The album should be out in May on Catflap Recordings. Any suggestions for an album title should be emailed to wilby@wilbymusic.freeserve.co.uk. If yours is used, you win a free signed copy pre-release. Wilby's debut album Precious Hours is currently available on Catflap, with UK distribution through Prime Distribution. Track listing is This Time, Take My Hand, You Amaze Me, Your Ghost, This Love, Dreams, I Want You, You Were Loved, The Day That Stephanie Jumped and Lifeline. It is available in branches of Virgin in all major UK towns, and the major branches of HMV. If you can't see it, ask for it and they will be able to order it... Also available at News From Nowhere, Bold St, Liverpool Borders Books, Churchill Square, Brighton, Borders Books, York and Fopp, Byres Road, Glasgow, RPM, 25 High Bridge St, Newcastle Upon Tyne Rockaboom, 4 St Martins Square, Leicester, LE1 5DF. Roots Music , 67b Westgate Road , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , NE1 1SG Precious Hours gets Australian distribution through Pandamonium... |