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11/09/2025

A big thankyou to Catherine at CJC promotions for bringing Louis McTeggart and his latest single Fool For Lovin' to our attention.

Louis is a singer/ songwriter from Inniskillen in Northern Ireland and has been writing and performing for over 20 years. His songs have been used on TV shows such as Hollyoaks and he has had exposure on BBC Radio as well.

We absolutely love this, reminiscent of Jimmy Nail and The Blow Monkeys when they were at the top of their game, Louis clearly is at the top of his game just now. It just sails along, funky, harmony laden and a fabulous interweaving of backing vocals. What is not to like. An acapella break halfway through which is soooo soulful, this absolutely deserves to be a hit. Its straight onto my personal Spotify playlist and believe it or not is an absolute 11/10 from us, we don't give 'em away lightly and to get two of this calibre this month is an absolute treat.
Louis back catalogue is available on Spotify but I'm betting you won't get past this one for a while.

So where will it appear on our September Chart which will be revealed on September 30th . Well that's up to you the reader. The more shares, likes, loves and engagements this original post gets the further up the charts it will appear. We have generated over 22500 engagements, likes and shares for just 52 single reviews already this year, so get all your friends and fans on board and get it out there.

10/09/2025

Big thanks to Phebe Pang at Alternative Twist Radio for introducing us to Delta High and their brand new single I met A Girl. The band are based just down the road from us in Norwich, England and here’s the line up for I Met A Girl.

Band:
Written by Neil Jackson
Guitars & Hammond Neil Jackson
Guitars & Bass Sotos Yiasimi
Drums Frankie Sticks
Lead Vocals Charlotte Joyce
Backing and Harmony vocals Charlotte Joyce

So.....I Met A Girl is the lead single taken from the forthcoming album “ The Vault" ”. as Delta High continue their quest to create 60’s and 70’s music with a modern touch and to reach out to fun loving people with a taste for the vibe of yesterday.

But does it work I hear you say. Answer, its a big yes on every level. Just the tonic as we move into autumn a bouncy, catchy, singalong song that sticks with you long after its finished. Running at 3 mins and 10 secs it bounces into life with a fabulous guitar hook and vocals reminiscent of Belinda Carlisle (that's a compliment by the way). The guitar features heavily again just over halfway through and makes a statement as it takes over from what is a very strong chorus.

It is a very clever but very simple song, two verses, two chorus's and a guitar break in the middle, a proper song which absolutely deserves to be a hit. It is of course a 10/10 from us, and you can of course find music from the band on Spotify.

So where will it appear on our September Chart which will be revealed on September 30th . Well that's up to you the reader. The more shares, likes, loves and engagements this original post gets the further up the charts it will appear. Remember last year we generated over 69,000 engagements for just 75 Album reviews, so get all your friends and fans on board and get it out there..

09/09/2025

A massive thankyou to Danny Watson for introducing us to Oxford retro indie rockers, Jody And The Jerms and their new single A Different Place.

Despite only forming in Oxford, England, in the Winter of 2020, Jody and the Jerms have already released their third album Wonder and played countless gigs across the UK. With clear influences from great bands of yesteryear like REM, B-52s, or the Darling Buds, the band’s sense of fun and nostalgia resonates today - with Rolling Stone magazine calling the Oxford band's latest album, Wonder, ‘remarkable’

Now over 100 gigs into their career, the Oxford sextet continue to build on a reputation as one of the UK’s most exciting live bands

Jody and the Jerms are:
Jody Jeger – sings and lyrics
Salma Craig – harmonies and guitar
Niall Jeger – guitaer – guitars
Rob Anwood – piano and synth
Steve Clark – drums and backing vocals
Sam Hutchinson – bass

There is a lovely touch of Ska to this, its a light touch and it blends in so well with Jody's vocals. It positively bounces along and sticks with you long after it has finished. The production is very tight and the general tone mirrors The Selecter and Fun Boy Three, its fun and two tone as it used to be. Running at just 2 mins and 53 secs it is a mini classic in the making. We love it and its a 10/10 from us. Its on Spotify along with a fair bit of back catalogue stuff as well which is worth a listen.

So where will it appear on our September Chart which will be revealed on September 30th . Well that's up to you the reader. The more shares, likes, loves and engagements this original post gets the further up the charts it will appear. We have generated over 22500 engagements, likes and shares for just 52 single reviews already this year, so get all your friends and fans on board and get it out there.

08/09/2025

A big thankyou to Catherine CJC promotions for introducing us to Alcàntara and their new single Distant Star.

Alcantara is a sound collective founded in Catania, Sicily, by Francesco Venti and Sergio Manfredi Sallicano. It blends psychedelia, progressive rock and atmospheric blues into an intense and cinematic musical experience. Their sound is layered, visceral and constantly changing: reverberating guitars and slides intertwine with slow, deep rhythms, while the vocals — sometimes narrative, sometimes dreamy — move between Italian and English, evoking remote places and suspended inner states.
...and we absolutely bloody love this!!!!!!

Being absolutely honest we popped a dozen new tracks on our Spotify playlist last month to work out which ones we were going to review and at the time this one this one didn't make the cut only because we normally only review six each month and this one sat at the end of the playlist and didn't even get played. Unusually we didn't delete the playlist and I am so glad that we didn't because this is the epidemy of a real slow burner.

Taken from their new album Tamam Shud this is one of the most hypnotic, haunting and certainly the longest single that we have reviewed this year. There is a constant guitar riff that runs through almost the whole 5 mins 32 secs of it, and it really works on every level. There is so much going on between the exquisite vocals, lush production, crystal sharp guitar work and dead stop ending, it is a smorgasbord of sound. One and a half minutes in that guitar riff sits by itself daring the rest of the band to join in and sure enough as they do and build up a crescendo of sound powering it forwards once more until that sudden stop.

We only do this when we mean it, its a fabulous 11/10 from us. Its available on Spotify, as is the whole album. Go get it you won't be disappointed.

So where will it appear on our September Chart which will be revealed on September 30th . Well that's up to you the reader. The more shares, likes, loves and engagements this original post gets the further up the charts it will appear. We have generated over 22500 engagements, likes and shares for just 52 single reviews already this year, so get all your friends and fans on board and get it out there.

06/09/2025

Here at Waveney Valley Radio we receive requests to review around 100 tracks a month. Unfortunately we can only review between 6-8 in any given month, the reason for this is that if we were to review say 10-12 per month the chart would lose its credibility as two thirds of it would change every month giving each track less exposure as they dropped out of the chart potentially after just one week. This is why we changed the Top 20 to a Top 30 earlier this year so that we could push the number of reviews up to expose more artists.

We focus exclusively on new artists and artists who have been around for a while who have not yet had mainstream top 50 success in national charts. Artists and bands who have already had success or are reforming to do it "one more time" are not featured and these are deleted from the incoming mail.

Last year we featured album reviews and most of these were brought to our attention by some of our amazing media partners CJC promotions Pluggin' Baby Wormholedeath Kick Down The Doors PR to name but four. This year we have added some new media partners Geert Hakze Atomic Stuff Epictronic but also are reviewing songs from independent artists who are not signed to a media company as yet, so far we have had music from pMad Tweener HOOK and Red Ant Band to name but another four. The process is completely random, we listen to around 20 - 30 tracks a month, shortlist them to a dozen and then pop them on a playlist which we listen to for a couple of days before deciding which six go forward for review.

We try to review a cross section of genres each month so there is something for everyone to explore and so far this year we have been incredibly successful averaging over 27000 visits a month to our page reading the reviews we post.

If you have new music you want us to review please send it to [email protected] Please also supply a short bio and an image of the band and the artwork for the song you want us to review, it makes it easier for us to assemble and we can spend more time reviewing and less time researching. Please keep it coming we get so much pleasure from seeing the numbers climb for each review and compiling the chart at the end of the month. Remember if we publish a review of your song please share share and share it again, get all your friends to share it too and see if you can get to the number one spot.

05/09/2025

Way back last year we featured an album A Sense Of Unease which achieved the number 39 position in our Top 75 Album Chart of 2024. It was written, performed and produced by a dear friend of ours Daniel Kiffie. ..a creative and fascinating singer-songwriter, composer and producer of electronic music based in Norwich, England.

He draws from a wide range of music genres including electronica, hip-hop, rock, folk and classical, his songs are inspired by current events, as well as the oft-covered topics of love, lies and betrayal..." He has just released an EP titled Justice which has four tracks (three songs+ one instrumental) which he recorded over a 24 hour period This EP was made entirely on 21st August 2025 using three main instruments: Roland JX-08, Roland TR-08 and his voice

We are reviewing the lead track Still In Your Name. This is a very strong track, instrumentally it creeps up on you slowly and grows in its complexity. The lyrics are quite simple but easy to pin on any of the tragic events that are going on in the wider world this year. It points the finger (s) very clearly at the misdoer's, no need for verse, chorus, verse on this one, just a very clear and stark message against a menacing synth laden accompaniment. Daniel has taken no prisoners with this one, but the really clever thing is he's done it in 3 mins and 35 secs. Sometimes less really is more. Its a 10/10 from us.
Unfortunately he is not on Spotify which is a shame as he has an amazing back catalogue which really deserves a wider audience. I totally respect his reasons and the good news is that you can get it all on bandcamp. Alternatively if you would like to know more about the man and his music got to kiffie.info.

So where will it appear on our September Chart which will be revealed on September 30th . Well that's up to you the reader. The more shares, likes, loves and engagements this original post gets the further up the charts it will appear. Remember last year we generated over 69,000 engagements for just 75 Album reviews, so get all your friends and fans on board and get it out there..

04/09/2025

A big thankyou to Stevil at Angels PR Worldwide Music Promotion for introducing us to American hard rockers Veritas Rock Band and their new song out on Wormholedeath Wormholedeath Label Japan called Limit which is from their new album Silent Script.

Founded in 2012, Veritas is a hard rock/metal band with a classic sound and a bit of prog.

The full line up is;

Denny Anthony -Vocals
Greg Wenk -Guitars
-Bass
-Drums

This is a cracking song to start our September reviews off. At 3 mins 47 secs there is a touch of all that is great about metal in this one. Saxon, Iron Maiden, and many more greats ooze out of this stunning piece of songwriting. Staccato guitars, thrashing drums and a guttural scream gets it going and Denny Anthony's vocals just pulls the whole thing together. harmonies abound as its relentless pace never lets up until the 2 minute mark where there is a slight drop in tempo but then Greg Wenk gets busy with some fabulous guitar work and it all leaps off again.

We love this, it hits the spot its a 10/10 from us. Hear it and other tracks from the boys on Spotify.

So where will it appear on our September Chart which will be revealed on September 30th . Well that's up to you the reader. The more shares, likes, loves and engagements this original post gets the further up the charts it will appear. We have generated over 22500 engagements, likes and shares for just 52 single reviews already this year, so get all your friends and fans on board and get it out there.

31/08/2025

So, here it is our Waveney Valley Radio Top 30 "Hot Traxx" singles chart for August.

Massive congratulations to HOOK for holding the top spot in our chart for a second successive week. Not only are they still at number one they have also received a Gold disc for over 5000 reaches, interactions and shares. New Entries at numbers two three and four from Euclid Pires with Summers Here, John Smyths Music Now I'm Wiser and Tweener with Dancing. Sue Skinner Music drops to 5 pMad climbs to 6, Bastion Rose is in at 7, Stryfe drops to 8, then 2 new entries Nightblade at 9 and Carmen Toth at 10.

11-20 is Calum Blane Dawn Rix Wild Planes Bobby Cant Paul Etterlin That Dance Grits and Bourbon Guy Surtees Music Red Ant Band Animal Rage

21 - 30 is Beta Trip Ginger and the Peppers -geitz Sonic67 Cool Million David Connor Chloe Sweeney

CJC promotions Natasa Pribac Wormholedeath Wormholedeath Label Japan Pluggin' Baby Kick Down The Doors PR SBM Global Media Atomic Stuff No Rules PR Epictronic Geert Hakze BBM supporters abra chapter Bad Monkey Promotions

21/08/2025

We were delighted to receive an e-mail from Gezi and Laci introducing us to three of their songs. Their band is called Tweener and just for a change I will let them introduce themselves to you as they did to me by publishing their original e-mail to us onto the review.

"Hello Waveney Valley Radio,
We are Géza and Laci, writing to you from a small town in Transylvania, Romania.
Our two-piece music project's name is Tweener and we record original music by ourselves just for fun as a hobby in our free time.
Came across the page of your radio today in a post by Paul/pMad while searching online for foreign radio submission opportunities, hoping to spark a little interest in our music as the affirmation possibilities for us over here where we live are pretty limited.
We don't know if you ever got a request from this part of the world or if you accept submissions but if it's okay we would like to send you a couple of our songs in english, maybe we're lucky you would consider playing one of them on the show. If you enjoy listening, of course. 🙂

Thanks for the opportunity, have a great weekend!
Geza & Laci (Tweener)"

What a fabulous e-mail to receive and of the three tracks which they sent us we are reviewing "Dancing". You will note in the e-mail a reference to Paul from pMad and whilst their music style is not dissimilar there is a very nuanced electronic European sound to it. Released in February of this year and running at 3 mins and 49 secs there are all sorts of influences tucked neatly away in this little masterpiece. Kraftwerk, Blue Nile, Soft Cell et al. Instantly catchy, with a soft keyboard intro it soon bounces into life and within a minute its totally in your head and impossible to shift. The vocals are perfect and there is a point at around 2 mins 40 where all the accompaniment drops away leaving drums under vocals which is absolutely sublime. We really love this and its great to have a track from Transylvania to review, its a 10/10 from us and it is of course available on Spotify along with more of their music..

So where will it appear on our August Chart which will be revealed on August 31st . Well that's up to you the reader. The more shares, likes, loves and engagements this original post gets the further up the charts it will appear. Remember last year we generated over 69,000 engagements for just 75 Album reviews, so get all your friends and fans on board and get it out there..

20/08/2025

A big thankyou to Jenn Barker at No Rules PR for introducing us to Carmen Toth and her new single called Pretty Dresses.

Carmen is a Toronto-based singer-songwriter known for her hook-driven power pop, heartfelt storytelling, and retro-influenced sound. Drawing inspiration from artists like Stevie Nicks, Kate Bush, Cyndi Lauper, and Sheryl Crow, her music blends vulnerability with classic pop-rock grit.

Over the past two decades, Toth has evolved from solo acoustic sets and her early duo Social Potion into a fully realized indie artist, performing in both band and solo formats and building a loyal following through regular livestreaming. Her 2018 EP Safety Net, produced by Derek Downham, marked a shift toward a modern pop sensibility.

In 2020, Toth began work on her most ambitious project to date - Fix the World, an 11-song album co-produced with Joel Wasson and John Critchley (13 Engines). Featuring performances from members of The Discarded, Lowest of the Low, and Ace of Wands, the album captures Carmen’s growth as a guitarist and vocalist and cements her identity as a powerful voice in Canada’s indie rock and pop landscape.

The new single is quite simply exemplary, it is a proper pop single sung with delightful vocals that merge brilliantly with all the magic poppy stuff that's going on around it. Add a splendid sugar coated production on top of it and you have in our humble view a massive hit on your hands.

As we slip out of summer and canoodle up to autumn this is the perfect tonic, one last hurrah before the nights draw in. A song to rock down to the beach with, to dance on top of a table to quite simply its a belter. Carmen's inspiration comes from many great song writers, this should put her right up there with them. Its a 10/10 from us, Jump onto Spotify and find her, along with the current single is a 6 track ep which is also well worth a listen. you can also find out more about carmen at her website http://carmentoth.com

So where will it appear on our August Chart which will be revealed on August 31st . Well that's up to you the reader. The more shares, likes, loves and engagements this original post gets the further up the charts it will appear. Remember last year we generated over 69,000 engagements for just 75 Album reviews, so get all your friends and fans on board and get it out there..

08/08/2025

Congratulations To Hook for receiving our first Gold Disc of the year for over 5000 reaches and interactions of our review of their single Go Away. The review has now been viewed 17,591 times since its publication on the 2nd July.

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