SO FLOM HQ’s new home is in the up and coming area of Clapham in South West London. A trendy area which has seen much development over the past ten years. It is fitting then that as this area develops, ‘For the Love of Music’ adds to the mix and is taking the opportunity to add a fresh and innovative touch to the local music scene. With several venues already offering occasional music evenings it is a good starting point to take live music to the next level. Venues in the area include ‘Arch 365′, a cosy bar hidden away under the railway arches close to Clapham North station offering live band and open mic nights. Also nearby is the Clapham North pub which has weekend acoustic lounge sessions. Stay tuned for further indepth blogs on a variety of these venues.

FLOM would like to introduce you to The Rose Gale Trust, a charity organisation set up in the south of England to help support and provide meaningful grants to young people. It is in honour and memory of Rose Gale a wonderful lady who worked with, supported and inspired very many young people during her life. We were very privildge to have met her and worked with her ourselves at Bass Connection in Salisbury, an organisation set up to house and encourage local young musicians.  

The ideas of the Rose Gale Trusts are the following:

A source of funding for this charity includes a variety of musical events which are organised around the Salisbury area, a few events have already taken place, but more are being planned for September 2010, so make sure you check out the website for further details of this. You can also donate directly to them and also contact them if you have any marvellous ideas which may help them out.

www.rosegaletrust.org

FLOM HQ has now moved to London, the big smoke, the land of opportunity! We realise we have been extremely quiet over the last few months, and this is justifiable with the pressures of such a big move, but do not fear as we are still here, and ready to bombard you with more musical developments. We are dividing our time between London and the South West of England to gain more scope on the music industry and also hopefully create a platform for many young unsigned artists looking to step, creep or leap into the London Music scene (or visa-versa).

We are also looking to provide you our loyal followers with more services and amenities on this website. Here are a few things in the developmental pipeline:

*Band interviews *Band Videos *Ticket purchasing *More Musical Podcasts + More Video Podcasts *Expanded Band Database *MP3 Downloads

We hope you continue to follow our journey, we are counting on you!

Adam and Mike

FLOM

We heard rumours, we heard it echoing through every pub and dark alley across the South, and now it is true. Richie Madisun has returned and he will soon be blessing us with his raw emotional guitar/vocal combination.

No one can hold back true talent…

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.

Beatbox

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