Goodbye Bedroom Hour: when bands split up

I’m still shift­ing from one emo­tion to anoth­er as time pass­es and the real­i­ty of their dis­band­ing sinks in. Dis­be­lief at first, and sor­row over a band who seemed on the face of it to be mak­ing strides musically

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Top albums of 2014… and the vinyl surge continues

Year 2013 saw David Bowie and Daft Punk cre­at­ing a buzz with their new albums, mak­ing the world sit up and lis­ten. In 2014, things all seem a bit more low key – well, maybe apart from Pink Floy­d’s The End­less Riv­er. It’s been more a case of hav­ing to go and seek out for your­self what’s around. There’s a…

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Interview with Stuart Drummond of The Bedroom Hour

Inter­view: August 7 2014. It hard­ly needs to be said that I’m a big fan of The Bed­room Hour. I man­aged to catch up with their singer Stu­art Drum­mond as he was rush­ing down to the stu­dio one evening. He and the band are very busy at the moment with debut album Hin­ter­land deserved­ly get­ting a great recep­tion, a summer…

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Review: Debut album Hinterland by The Bedroom Hour

March 31 2015: This review is for Hin­ter­land by The Bed­room Hour. I’ve been made aware that some peo­ple are expect­ing to read about new album Hin­ter­land by LoneLa­dy. So, The Bed­room Hour’s debut album, Hin­ter­land is final­ly here. The band were post­ing reg­u­lar updates on its progress and suc­cess­ful­ly crowd fund­ed to help with its release. I’m feel­ing that same…

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Be part of the process: crowd funding helps artists like The Bedroom Hour achieve their goals

There are sev­er­al fund­ing sites out there oper­at­ing in slight­ly dif­fer­ent ways, but they all have the same objec­tive; offer­ing fans an attrac­tive way to con­tribute towards a cho­sen artist’s cre­ative process. This gets you, the fan, clos­er to the band. And it gives the musi­cians a chance to exer­cise their PR and mar­ket­ing skills by dream­ing up…

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Night moves with The Bedroom Hour at The Finsbury

The Bed­room Hour. It was the promis­ing­ly sul­try name that ini­tial­ly enticed me to check this band out when they popped up on Twit­ter. First hear­ing and they’ve got me hooked. There’s an inten­si­ty to this five-piece West Lon­don band, an immer­sive qual­i­ty, a mood­i­ness which draws you in. Their songs have that abil­i­ty to…

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