Lyle asks:

Who are the next up-and-coming artists we should get work by now?

As I’m currently in the grips of an all-consuming obsession with Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories, which is rendering me almost incapable of enjoying any other music, you have picked a tough time to ask for recommendations. However, casting my mind back a fortnight to the pre-Daft Punk era, I do dimly recall enjoying some other stuff that was Actually Very Good Indeed, most of it from right here in Nottingham, aka The Nation’s Most Exciting And Vibrant Crucible For New Music.

With that in mind, and mindful of my civic ambassadorial duties, I’m going to confine my recommendations to Nottingham-based acts. Let’s start with the earthy hip-hop soul of Harleighblu, whose debut album Forget Me Not is due out in late summer. This is the radio premiere of her first single, “Enough Now” – so good, that the DJ played it twice.
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