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This week on the BBC Introducing in Oxfordshire and Berkshire podcast, Alex sits in for Dave, he catches up with Reading's The Race - back after a 16 year hiatus - and Slough's Kmo gets his First Play on the show. Plus, Lauren heads down to the Truck Store on Oxford's Cowley Road to meet up with The Howlers and the events manager Jay. Here's this week's track list: • May Kolta - Rooibos Tea Isabella Richardson - Runner Up Aruna - Missing Shape Max Riordan - Money Mazawattee - West Country The Race - Best Is Yet To Come The Race - Where You Go I Go Peach Free - What if I told you Millichamp - This Kind Of Love Willie J Healey - Benjamin Dermot Henry - I Love You That’s All Monkeys With Internet - Charming The Ghost al coffey - ghost Sharpsticks - Drive Rebecca Poole - Sweet Gene Phoebe Rea - Meet Me There Lee Switzer-Woolf - Shiplake Black Cat The Howlers - D.R.I.V.E Paraphernalia - King & Country HRTLSS - The Devil On My Shoulder SILVERPALM - BODY One Last Day - Hollow Gods Mac Adams - Happy ZURRA - Stay Right There (Radio Edit) Kmo - I Wish pecq - Freer Franz Siren - Heavyweight Sound • If you're making music in Oxfordshire and Berkshire, send us your tunes with the BBC Introducing Uploader: https://www.bbc.co.uk/introducing/uploader

This week on the BBC Introducing in Oxfordshire and Berkshire podcast, Dave's joined by Indie rock band Peach Free to hear about their debut EP. Here's this week's track list: • Mr Speed - It's Easy Dani Sylvia - The Dawn The Andals - La La Come On Gigi Wilde - do you still smell like jasmine rennie - Running From Today Martha May - ROMCOM Michael Diamond - Turning and Turning doops - witching hour Charlie Jeer - Jennifer Amber Roshni - Tell Me You Love Me Emerson - Good Man Lilith Ai - LUCKY STAR The Octavia Freud/i4M2 Complex - Craft Bowls And Mugs Julia-Sophie - Wishful Thinking KalemGR - Fortune Favours The Brave (FFTB)  Little Red - Bloom Peach Free - Misadventure HIFEELINGS - Ease The P Toby Sebastian - Light Years Will Sharpe - Indigo Natural Right - Desert Sands Sadie Fine - Just Drive inigo - What It's Like To Feel Known Charlotte Smith and David Clifton - Down By The Salley Gardens Zerowe - 4-1 SNAYX - GOLD STAR Chilltnils - Oxfordshire Village Green John Jackson - jerusalem • If you're making music in Oxfordshire and Berkshire, send us your tunes with the BBC Introducing Uploader: https://www.bbc.co.uk/introducing/uploader

This week on the BBC Introducing in Oxfordshire and Berkshire podcast, Dave's joined by indie-goth-rockers MarysGarden - hear about their new track COLOSSUS, their album Everything, and why they were covered in organic spelt flour! Plus, Alex catches up with PLAIINS at The Grace - as they bring their No Monkeys on My Back tour to London. Here's this week's track list: • YOURBOYWONDER - Keep It Sweet (remix) SISTRA - things I really meant (feat. Anatole Muster) Kanadia - The Ride Kah'Nya - ANGIKWAZI Haints - Breakdown Waiting for Smith - Skylight Dawn The Race - Family Tree Junk Whale - Old Tomato Kid Apollo - Let The Sun Back In Cheap Suits - Sucker The Afterword - Pigs Will Fly MarysGarden - Mary's Garden MarysGarden - Colossus Coraland - Coral Sky  Sophie Blyth - Better Left Unsaid PallBear - Privilege Liam Vincent & The Odd Foxes - Four Thousand Weeks D33Wain - Entanglement (feat. PYCIZ) PLAIINS - Row She Said Circus 66 - Get Outside Your Head Bruce Windwood - Comfort Of Strangers (Variation) Team V - Terrortubby Theme mondegreen - Conversation Ends Just Josh - Call My Name (feat. Chris Nichols) Mandrake Handshake - En Vol Dan McKean - Walking Backwards Tomorrow Bird - Crossroads • If you're making music in Oxfordshire and Berkshire, send us your tunes with the BBC Introducing Uploader: https://www.bbc.co.uk/introducing/uploader

This week on the BBC Introducing in Oxfordshire and Berkshire podcast, Dave meets Nayar Collective - a group borne from the belief in the power of music to offer solace and renewal in a fractured world. Plus, hear Lauren's chat with The Amazons - before their headline gig at the O2 Oxford, and Alex catches up with Mr Speed at Reading's Purple Turtle. Here's this week's track list: • Premium Leisure - Senior Emily Craig - Wildflower Sebastian Croft - Better than ever Mazawattee - Holiday al coffey - who loves you now Verdagears - Antidote Jessie Marcella - Aventurine Drez Camino - Tiny Selves The Amazons - Pitch Black Jessica Kuka - give me a minute The Samurai Seven - Make It Real SILVERPALM - BODY XO - Stacey (Take You Higher) Nayar Collective - Lullaby Isabella Richardson - First Aid Kit Maiians - Perennial Data (Go Leema remix) James McCrea - Echo Chamber Mr Speed - Rollercoaster Feeling North Atlas - Rivers MARTHA & HIFEELINGS - RUN AGAIN Benza - Heartbeats Sofia Isobel - Misty • If you're making music in Oxfordshire and Berkshire, send us your tunes with the BBC Introducing Uploader: https://www.bbc.co.uk/introducing/uploader

This week on the BBC Introducing in Oxfordshire and Berkshire podcast, Dave meets Double Yellow Lines - "a throbbing expulsion of mariachi rock, psychedelic-doom metal and Balkan Jazz" - to hear about their debut EP 'Is There Anything Further?'. Plus, Alex catches up with Nick from Riverwolf and The Bobo after her gig at Other Space Arts in Windsor. Here's this week's track list: • Mac Adams - Sunrise V.I.C - Zombie Niki Kini - Hate About Me Harvey Lodge - Cigarette Papers Garfield & Nico - The Pine Folly Oh Yes - All That I Have Shaolin Cowboy - Next Time Around P.S. Finn - This Is 30 Shiny Brain Crayons - Cutie Piece Drawing Room - Only You Finlay C & Caitlyn Scarlett - Beyond The Stars Tyler Lewis - yesterday Double Yellow Lines - King Laugh prodbear - You Gotta Work Nicole Allan - Tomorrow Comes LMNL - Venus Return Logan Cannon - The City Ricky Ensku - Just Feel the Heat Oversize - Separate porcelain angel - andromeda Rebecca Poole - In Another Life Ralph Clayton - Tenebrous (feat. Francesca Payne and Antonia Pagulatos) darqwud - No Sound Left Unturned (Vocal Mix) The Bobo - Nonsense • If you're making music in Oxfordshire and Berkshire, send us your tunes with the BBC Introducing Uploader: https://www.bbc.co.uk/introducing/uploader

This week on the BBC Introducing in Oxfordshire and Berkshire podcast, Dave meets new-wave folk-rock band Sweet Giant to hear about their debut album, SHOW TEETH. Plus, hear about Reading's DIY label Hot Earth Records, and Alex catches up with Rose Rey to review Down at the Abbey - an independent festival held in Reading Abbey Ruins! Here's this week's track list: • South Arcade - F.A.M.O.U.S Willie J Healey - S'all Good Camille Baziadoly and The Filthy Honey - A Bath For You Jess Tuthill - Play On NI.KITA - Miles From My Soul Wiiince - Living With Love Pt. 1 Jerome Price - Make It Through Poppy - Empathy Magma - Notorious D.N.D  Bertie - Nobody New Sweet Giant - People My First Time - Every Version Of You Tummyache - Porcelain Dish Brook Ellingworth - Table For Two Stuart Clark - Like a Ghost shanelle - distance Denzil Grenade - Chill & MYB Rose Rey - Last Call Lover Stephen Caulfield - Subglacial Lake  Juliet Brown - Don't Go Thinking Ralfe Band - Pale Fire Elena Piras - Baloo Balilli • If you're making music in Oxfordshire and Berkshire, send us your tunes with the BBC Introducing Uploader: https://www.bbc.co.uk/introducing/uploader

This week on the BBC Introducing in Oxfordshire and Berkshire podcast, Dave speaks to Reading duo Lost Velvet about their debut album Dark Cells. Here's this week's track list: • Joely June - Stronger Man White Label - Don't Say Goodbye Orchid - Elevator Eternal Tommy Lyon - Hotel Room (feat SVEA) Tilly Valentine - Taxi Ride BLISSFOOL - waterfool (feat. Jake St Ange) Ella McRobb - My Baby Can't Look Me In The Eye (demo) BEANIE & SHOSH - Villain Ivy Marcia - Movie Reel Slade gambit - Tango Harriet Rock - Run with the Devil Naked Brunch - Milky Eyes Jdeezy - Mrs beautiful Lost Velvet - 2003 Lost Velvet - Right Back Blockade - Pull Tyler Lewis - Yesterday Rose Rey - Baddest Habit Joshua Idehen - All You Can Do Is Try A Better Life - Under The Setting Sun (feat. Holly Taymar) Jools - WHEREVER I GO, THERE I AM Roseanna - Yes 9oetic 6ustic3 - I want Spinner Fall - While They Sleep f:sv - Advocacy (feat. kiNOTES) Dom James Jr. - High Sensory Overload • If you're making music in Oxfordshire and Berkshire, send us your tunes with the BBC Introducing Uploader: https://www.bbc.co.uk/introducing/uploader

This week on the BBC Introducing in Oxfordshire and Berkshire podcast, Dave's joined by composer Hugh Holbech to hear about his album Narrowing Winter. Lauren catches up with electropop duo Max and Harvey, and we also hear from Jaz Imsky and The HorMones, and look back on Reading Festival. Here's this week's track list: • rhys from the sticks - Coming Home Big Fear - Tide Of The Evening Joe Bray - Eternal Jennifer Lourea - Earth Breaks Into Song Conor McLain - Safe Haven KVG - Pensive Max and Harvey - Fractured Richard Neuberg - The Fever Glass Bridges - Wish Hugh Holbech - To Oxford Again Lotrax - Give Me Some Luv (Bumpin Mix) ace clvrk - I’m Fine May Kolta - Her Holly Humberstone - Cruel World Finessa - Dash MOTHER - MOTIONS JAZ IMSKY - SUPREME ARRAY The HorMones - Dirty Moonrakers - Green to Gold • If you're making music in Oxfordshire and Berkshire, send us your tunes with the BBC Introducing Uploader: https://www.bbc.co.uk/introducing/uploader

This week on the BBC Introducing in Oxfordshire & Berkshire podcast, Dave meets Maya from Swedish/Oxford indie band Monkeys With Internet to hear about her 100 songs project and debut EP Monkey Manifesto. Plus, Gavin Lombos - founder of Readipop's Yard Party - tells Alex about launching their new space with live music and studio tours. Here's this week's track list: • Baby Maker - Big I Am Remember Monday - Attention Mount St. Helen - Parusia Hannah Jane Lewis - Hey Babe! We're Getting Married! PLAIINS - Look Ma, I'm A Don Emmeline - Beetle Drive Nick Magenta - How To Be Happy Marla Kether - All That We Have (feat. Sofia Grant) Monkeys with Internet - Wear My Wolf Girl Like That - cuppa Pandar & Faro - Destination Mystery (feat. Goldbar) JAZ IMSKY - MANDELBROT Hazel - The Tide Mackenzie - Raining On My Own Parade Best Boy Electric - Reactor THE THERMS - SYNCO-PATOR Lewis Bolland - Waltz Romantique Emily Nash - Frequency South Arcade - stone cold summer [Live at TRNSMT 2026] Ulysses Wells - Snap Like a Cracker Short Notice Jazz - 7pm The Mighty Redox - Stronger Love Is • If you're making music in Oxfordshire and Berkshire, send us your tunes with the BBC Introducing Uploader: https://www.bbc.co.uk/introducing/uploader

This week on the BBC Introducing in Oxfordshire & Berkshire podcast - making a mix of indie-pop, dream pop, and self-produced bedroom pop, Dave introduces you to Reuben Medlin! Plus, Alex catches up with ex-Reading Uni SU President Tiam Koravand to hear about the challenges facing student musicians and promoters. Here's this week's track list: • You Talk Too Much - Big Thing Maddie Ashman - Amber Dani Sylvia - Back To The Water Henry Grace - Things Sebastian Reynolds - Final Push (2026 Edit) Allegra - Romantic Abbie Ozard - Tyrant [tipped by Jordan Blyth at BBC Radio 1 Rock] Waves Rush In - Walkie No Talkie he didnt - Death to self Lost Velvet - 2003 916 - Rider (feat. YAS VW and Nikz & Booda) Michy Tree - Bones Reuben Medlin - Getting Me Going Victoria Jane - Holding Me Back [tipped by Jess Iszatt at BBC Radio 1] David Caswell - Aqualung Liza Xenia - Socially Awkward Extrovert Lee Switzer-Woolf - Lights Over Whiteknights Flourish - keep me sweet [tipped by Jaguar at BBC Radio 1 Dance] Narcova - Sonder Chima Anya - Sprinkling Hot Jaw - Sentimentality Bovine Boy - Shinkansen (agentCopy Remix) Beth Zero - Revenant • If you're making music in Oxfordshire and Berkshire, send us your tunes with the BBC Introducing Uploader: https://www.bbc.co.uk/introducing/uploader Photo: Lauren Skinner @laurenscaptures_

This week on the BBC Introducing in Oxfordshire & Berkshire podcast, Dave catches up with The Amazons to get the lowdown on the deluxe edition of their album 21st Century Fiction. Plus, Alex previews Reading Festival. Here's this week's track list: • Nick Magenta - Underachiever Young Knives - Everything's a PsyOp. Mazawattee - Lonely with You The Warriner Brothers - Love is the Enemy Isabella Richardson - Body Count DEE (UK) - Be Mine x Honey Grace B - Got It All kenzo jae - end of the world [tipped by Jess Iszatt at BBC Radio 1] Cheap Petrol - Great Expectations Still Pigeon - Odd Sock Headphones Wasp - Positive Veto The Amazons - One Hot July The Amazons - Blood on the Bone Little Red - The Silence Chester C - Finding Ourself Within sap green & Dolly Doo - Almost There Talk In Code - Illogical  DJ YUKI - The Baddest [tipped by Jaguar at BBC Radio 1 Dance] fliss - evil genius The Liaisons - Story of a Sorry Man Lisa Kahn - Echoes Ruled By Raptors - Algebra (Im on a Rage) [tipped by Jordan Blyth at BBC Radio 1 Rock] Natural Right - Angela (went and stole the moon) • If you're making music in Oxfordshire and Berkshire, send us your tunes with the BBC Introducing Uploader: https://www.bbc.co.uk/introducing/uploader Photo: Lauren Skinner @laurenscaptures_

This week on the BBC Introducing in Oxfordshire & Berkshire podcast, Dave introduces you to experimental indie duo Richard Lewis. Plus, Oli Steadman from Stornoway tells us about their newly announced album launch at Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre... and how YOU can volunteer to be part of their choir. And, Alex West catches up with Pete Wheeler to preview this year's Readipop Yard Party! Here's this week's track list: • Gigi Wilde - driving SISTRA - Daffodils Danny Wright - What's Left To Give? Ramnik - You (feat. Bal-T) frances willow - drive it home Stornoway - Zorbing (Radio 2 Sofa Session) Deyah - Drama (feat. Scorcher) Mona Yim - Nevermind [tipped by Jaguar at BBC Radio 1 Dance] Niki Kini - Weatherman Aggy - Are You Ready? Molly Brown - Another Man In This Generation MIÉTTE. - the rhythm. Meli Foster-Turner - Keeping score Elmiene - Why (Spare Me Tears) Richard Lewis - Levi Strauss Frozemode - viva.la.rock [tipped by Alyx Holcombe at BBC Radio 1 Rock] Asher Dust - Ranglin Roots Jessica B - Patience Puma Theory - Sobering Lights Kenei B - U Deyah Far From The City - Anyone Aruna - never enough Gregory Jones - If Not For You • If you're making music in Oxfordshire and Berkshire, send us your tunes with the BBC Introducing Uploader: https://www.bbc.co.uk/introducing/uploader

This week on the BBC Introducing in Oxfordshire and Berkshire podcast, hear backstage interviews and live music from our BBC Introducing stage at TRUCK. Including: INDIYA, Bear Trap, Frannie B, Suspire, Josephine Illingworth, Mount St. Helen, Abi Farrell, Mazawattee, Tino, Kanadia, Getdown Services, Barricane, Danny Mellin and more! Here's this week's track list: • The Dreaming Spires - 21st Century Light Industrial Adult DVD - Do Something Danny Mellin - Tagliatelle Josephine Illingworth - Black Rabbit (Live at Truck 2026) Premium Leisure - Water Pistol Mazawattee - Animals (Live at Truck 2026) Westside Cowboy - I've Never Met Anyone I Thought I Could Really Love (Until I Met You) Abi Farrell - To Be Happy (Live at Truck 2026) Getdown Services - The Radiator (live on Later... with Jools Holland) Tino - No Boy No Girl (Live at Truck 2026) Willie J Healey - Ditch [tipped by Jess Iszatt at BBC Radio 1] Kanadia - Where's Your Friends / Wild (Live at Truck 2026) Mr Fogg - Close to the Surface Frannie B - Got a Feeling (Live at Truck 2026) SLAG - Face Off Mount St. Helen - Zurich (Live at Truck 2026) Barricane - Moon CMAT - Stay For Something • If you're making music in Oxfordshire and Berkshire, send us your tunes with the BBC Introducing Uploader: https://www.bbc.co.uk/introducing/uploader

This week on the BBC Introducing in Oxfordshire & Berkshire podcast: blending jazz, R&B, and pop - Dave introduces you Mac Adams ahead of releasing his new single GOLF. Plus hear what Lauren got up to at the Rusty Bicycle Street Party in East Oxford, and Alex is live at Truck as the festival gets underway! Here's this week's track list: • V.I.C - Best in the World Frannie B - So High rennie - Travelator Sundaughter - Silver Park Motive - Buried Folly Oh Yes - Out In The Sun Oscar Scannell - DO 4 YOU Go Leema - Rattled mustbejohn - Get The Time Back [tipped by Jess Iszatt at BBC Radio 1] i4M2 - Lear Jet Charis - Shadow Pulse Mac Adams - GOLF Yxng Dave - LOCO Kiimi - Taste [tipped by Jaguar at BBC Radio 1 Dance] FAWLERS - in the sun Lizzie Esau - Day in the life The High Life - Honey JuuL - Like I Do Forever Autumn - LET ME GO [tipped by Alex Holcombe at BBC Radio 1 Rock] ruth gitau - ugly Sparky Bosque - Still Living Here • If you're making music in Oxfordshire and Berkshire, send us your tunes with the BBC Introducing Uploader: https://www.bbc.co.uk/introducing/uploader

This week on the BBC Introducing in Oxfordshire & Berkshire podcast, blending cinematic pop, warm emotive vocals with sharp lyricism, Dave meets al coffey! Plus, celebrating Oxford's music scene in the 90s and beyond - hear about Sounds of the City at the Museum of Oxford, Alex previews our excellent line up at TRUCK, and we take a deep dive into one musicians journey with BBC Introducing, this week Lauren Loves... SISTRA. Here's this week's track list: • Willie J Healey - Ditch The Samurai Seven - Duck and Cover Wiiince - Seagull Season (Cool Summer) Genevieve Miles - cinnamon Civil Villains - Canvas Stretcher The Pink Diamond Revue - She Is Kloyd - Far From Us Mia Mirch - If I Had My Way Lost Velvet - Right Back Adam Reds - Out of Love Harrison - Lonely Road HENKA - Sukeban al coffey - nice meeting you, again 4BEL - Miami Heat Jody and the Jerms - Some Day Wolf Cutt - STARSEED Veridian - The Other Side SISTRA - In Two Nicole Allan - Put 'Em Up Eds - Late Night Josephine Illingworth - The Mythical Toby Sebastian - Oona Cheap Suits - Come To Mine Erin Snape - Happy • If you're making music in Oxfordshire and Berkshire, send us your tunes with the BBC Introducing Uploader: https://www.bbc.co.uk/introducing/uploader