Yo flom’s kicking back into action. For the moment providing you with interesting musical news and features, and this months feature - Beatboxing. Check out the link which shows magnificant action from last years Vauxhall UK Beatbox Champs London Heat competition below from some of the best Beatbox artists including our friend Dus-T - who will be a FLOM feature soon.
Preparations for Crispystock 09 are well under way, the annual rockfest in memory of Christopher Vearncombe who died in 2006.
This years festival is being held at a new venue ‘The Lights’ in Andover on Saturday 12th September with acts performing on the main stage and acoustic stage. Some of the performers include Sion, Plastic Toys, Run The Division and Sir William Moonhead.
All proceeds from the event go to the charity Headway, an organisation which helps the survivors of brain injury lead their day to day lives. Crispystock is open to the public, and will have a full licensed bar and catering facilities.
Come along and support this fantastic festival in memory of an awesome guy who are proud to say was our friend. For more information please visit www.crispystock.com
Peace Crispy x
We’ve added a handful of new musicians to our artists section of the website, expanding our community and promoting these talented people for the greater good of the unsigned artist! Make sure you take a look at their links and support them at their next show. Among others we have The Legendary Matt Britton - local acoustic musician from Salisbury, The Widowmaker aka Ian Easton a talented folksy blues artist and Plus Andy Reilly a singer songwriter with a great raw energy and catchy tunes.
We hope to provide all these musicians and others with that extra online coverage they deserve, by expanding our community to create something more fresh, real and interesting than the mahoosive corporations that suck us in to the mainstream namely Myspace. So please join us, make comments, tell your friends and help us bring back music to a new level.
Well the weather is pretty crazy at the moment so with the more of you at home doing nothing but surfing the net, some might say it would be convenient to write a blog so here you are, happy snow day! ooh don’t people get so excited
Anyhow we bring you some relevant news, well its kind of news.. we are in the process of organising our next show, an acoustic event at a currently undisclosed venue in Southampton. So while we confirm the details and recruit some musicians from the FLOM circle of friends, it gives you time to build up that excitement and save those pennies.
Preparations are also taking place for our music festival this summer so if you have the time why not give us suggestions on anyone you think would go down well at this summer event, or who you’ve seen recently and your general thoughts on this subject.
Be seeing you soon.
Adam
Hey guys, here is another Podcast from the FLOM boys, giving you an update of whats been happening over the last few months. Also including a feature interview and performance from Darrell J Ford local hero and friend of ours. Accompanying the podcast some photos from the last year including some from Crispystock 08!
We’ll be back with more music news soon, Enjoy!
So Flom productions were at Richie Madisuns last ever show! He is now calling an end to his solo career! Its a sad time but we put on a brave face to attend his last ever show.
So it was an all dayer @ The Globe in Andover, a quirky little pub with an upstairs called ‘The Blue Room’ which had great lighting and it was the perfect setting for an array of acoustic acts to perform to the local Andover crowds. The event started at 2 with Richie taking to the stage and performing some of his classics including ‘Scarborough’ and ‘Festival Whore’. He put on a typical Richie performance with solid vocals and his witty charm.
Also on the bill was Darrell J of Harris n Ford who put in a dedicated set, following him included Talicza Stevens, Adam Taylor, Ian Easton and Plus Andy Reilly who all put in solid and fun filled performances.
There was a good mood in the air and as the night went on more drinks were consumed and there was even a little dancing to the tunes in between acts! It was a great event and has linked us to more musicians who we will be plugging on our website and hopefully to getting along to play at a show soon.
To see photos of this event check out here - local photographer Nick Tynan was there to capture all the best bits! And also check out Richie Madisuns page to see the man who was! Rico
Ok so we have taking a little while to work out where we want to go with FLOM and have been traveling around looking for new artists to join our ‘collective bow.’ Ad and Mike are now looking to put a mini festival on next summer. We wanted to do something big and fancy a challenge. So suggestions on bands and themes welcomed! It will be for the fans of FLOM and of the bands around the South West so lets get the ball rolling. This doesn’t mean that gigs have stopped we are going to have a few in your local area soon!! Keep the Love Of Music, cheers.
So guys, things are coming together behind the scenes at Flom productions and we will soon be unveiling some new shows for you with some fresh new musical acts and familiar faces!
Crispystock was a great weekend and a huge success, many people flocked to The George Pub in Andover to see acoustic acts perform during the day and then the main bands rocking it up in the evening. Our friends Harris n Ford also made a last minute appearance on the Saturday which was a welcome delight, you can check out their profile on our artist page.
So stay tuned, check out for the messages on Myspace/Facebook which will direct you to this website and save those pennies for our next show!
Crispy Stock is the musical celebration for the life of Crispy Verncombe the UK Air Guitar Champion who was tragically taken from us in September 2006. Every year his closest friends organise a music festival in memory to him held at the George Pub in Andover, and this year is no different with two days of belting rock music being performed to the masses.
Even though this isn’t our own creation we thought we’d create a blog about this event as it is a great story of dedication and celebration, as well as extreme rocking over the two nights, which suits us down to the ground! As well as the main stage bands performing across the weekend, there is an acoustic stage in the bottom part of the pub where acts will perform throughout the daytime. So you can enjoy a soothing pint and listen to some strumming, which should lead you in nicely to the evening’s entertainment. Richie Madisun will be playing on the Sunday acoustic stage, and some of the main bands playing include Bad Love and Licker and the yearly reforming Swedish Student.
Further details, and also pictures of the past events can be found @ www.myspace.com/crispyairguitargod
We will most certainly be there, Rock on Crispy!
The summer may be coming to an unfortunate end, but the music doesn’t stop. We are in progress of organising our second event which should be the next step up for Flom productions. We are getting out there and meeting new people, going to shows and spreading the word about For the Love of Music. We are building up the contacts and recruiting people in the organisation to come add their own spice to our recipe of music production, from musicians and DJ’s to camera men and general socialites.
The next 8 months will be an exciting progressive time as we lead to next summer, where the shows can only get better and we will stage our first Music Festival. Join the bandwagon, tell your friends and keep checking back for our updates. If you’re a musician and want to play at our shows and also have your own profile on our website contact us via email @ flomproductions08@googlemail.com or add us at myspace www.myspace.com/flomproductions.
Speak soon guys!