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In light of major artists cancelling shows, aka. “Blue Dot Fever”, in an article for Hybebot, I discuss, and propose, that virtual events and gigs should co-exist alongside the physical. It would benefit artists, and music fans…

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Hope that you are keeping remarkably well.

I'm in full sorting out mode of the final pieces of the 24:1900 jigsaw. For what it's worth, I don't like jigsaws. 

Anyway, just wanted to confirm that I have scheduled…

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We hope that you had fantastic weekends, and that Monday isn't biting too hard.

As of last night, you will find a mini-preview of this year's festival on the home page (up there 👆). It doesn't feature all…

We have updated our Bandcamp playlist to represent the change to the 24:1900 music festival line-up.

It is still genre-fluid; post-rock to electronica, indie to dub, and all stops in between. All from artists from Bolivia to the UK, Taiwan…

We are extremely happy to hear that Érico Moura (Brazil), one of the 24:1900 acts from 2024, has been nominated for a prestigious music award (Prêmio Açorianos de Música) in Porto Alegre. 

In the category for best producer…

Call out to all independent musicians, artists, in fact, anyone working independently or as a small business.

Over 6-7 December, we will be hosting our virtual music festival, 24:1900. It is a groundbreaking 24-hour online music festival championing independent…

Happy Mondays to you

Tickets, and tignets, are now officially on sale for this year's 24:1900. 

https://youtube.com/shorts/InJHgzvyWJI

Wishing you all a fine day and week ahead.

We are delighted to announce that Illya deTorres (U.S.A.) will be playing this year's 24:1900.

Illya deTorres creates music that is rooted in folk and singer-songwriter traditions, blending introspective lyricism with elements of indie rock and acoustic storytelling.

With a…

We are delighted to announce that Luckas O. & Los Charros Semifenomenales (Mexico) will be playing this year's 24:1900.

For this delight, we have to thank last year's Mexican partner, Eliud Fernandes (CIAN) for his recommendation. 

As soon…

We are delighted to announce that Cialyn (France) will be playing this year's 24:1900.

Atmospheric electronic landscapes, often blending retro synth tones with modern sound design are at the heart of Cialyn’s music.

There are also elements of hauntology in…

We are delighted to announce that LEIGH (New Zealand) will be playing this year's 24:1900.

So what type of music is LEIGH then? Soul? Ska? Pop? Rock? Jazz? Electro? Glitched up indie? Who the fuck knows?

What we do know…

We are delighted to announce that Posh Inverse (Taiwan) will be playing this year's 24:1900.

Posh Inverse is a post-rock band. 

Blending rock with indie in an experimental way, their music has a cinematic quality - atmospheric instrumentals and emotive…

We are delighted to announce that Jānis Ruņġis (Latvia) is joining this year’s 24:1900.

He is an amazing musician/multi-instrumentalist, an astute composer of a number of film soundtracks. What we're particularly enjoying though are his indiepop meets singer-songwriter pieces; melodious…

We are delighted to announce that Sloe Jean (Republic of Korea) are the first band to sign up to this year's 24:1900.

Representing K-indie v. K-pop, their music is lush orchestrated indiepop with hints of dream pop tinged with indie…

A warm welcome to a new supporter of 24:1900 (music festival) for this year, The Zine.

Like the zeenagers they are, The Zine have been up to (no) good for some time. Their support of grassroots music has been…

We have been busy the last few weeks, listening to an extraordinary amount of music from across the globe. To try and narrow it down to artists who are independent (and preferably unsigned) takes a lot more time than you…

Happy Saturday everyone

I just wanted to update you quickly about a couple of artists who have agreed to participate at this year's 24:1900. We will be posting introductory clips in due course.

First off, from Northern Ireland, we have…

It has been a busy old week in 24:1900 land.

As well as confirming a couple of artists for this year's event (more to come later), we are delighted to have brought on board 3 supporters whose work we love…

For this year’s 24:1900, we are partnering with Byline Times. 

In these times of severed disinformation, where it’s getting harder to discern what is genuine news (be it on Fox, BBC, social media via AI bots, or elsewhere), there…