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Martin combines a fresh and colourful personal image with her entertainingly candid lyrics to create a fun, original and organic pop-sound. She is influenced not by a specific genre, but by the way a song can make you feel and the journey an album can take you on from start to finish – for example Radiohead’s In Rainbows, Chet Baker’s Chet Baker Sings, 2014 Forest Hills Drive by J. Cole and Fine Line by Harry Styles.

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Gabby Martin 

Gabby Martin - Alone (untitled)

Gabby Martin - Alone (Untitled)

Gabby Martin

The Lunar Towers are a three-piece garage rock/pop band from London/Cheltenham, comprising songwriters Rory Moore, Joe Richardson and Rob Sewell. The group deliver a lively combination of bright, melodic guitar sounds, 60s revivalism, and infectious three-part harmonies to form hook-filled pop songs that draw influence from some of their favourite artists including The Byrds, early Primal Scream, Teenage Fanclub, Michael Head and The Apples in Stereo.

School friends Rory and Joe met by chance at fifteen, when they found themselves seated together in a French class. During this period, they quickly realised their shared love of lyric writing and guitar music old and new, which set them on the path to forming their first band in their hometown of Cheltenham. In 2021, following the final lockdown in which they had sent demos back and forth, the song-writing pair reunited in the garden of Joe’s home in London, along with old school friend Rob. The duo had now become a trio with unique chemistry and hunger for crafting memorable pop tunes.

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The Lunar Towers // Chris Watson (The Moons)

The Lunar Towers - Wire

The Lunar Towers

The Moons

Liana Flores bio: English-Brazilian singer-songwriter influenced by bossa nova, 60s folk and the Romantic poets, calling to mind artists such as Vashti Bunyan and Astrud Gilberto. Aims to open a window to the sublime in the everyday, simplicity, emotional candour, the rhythms of the seasons.

Samuel Slater bio: Samuel Slater is a 25 year old indie artist, currently working on his second EP. Having received radio support from BBC Introducing on his first releases, Samuel continues to grow and develop within the London music scene. Drawing influences from everywhere including shoegaze, hip-hop, folk and indie rock, he often speaks on the themes of growing up and the heartbreak induced by romantic relationships and one's own relationship with the outside world. He writes and produces every song himself, describing his work as “indie rock for sexy/sad people”. So if you’re not in your sexy or sad era you can leave. Slater alligator.

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Liana Flores // Samuel Slater 

Liana Flores - rises the moon

Liana Flores

It’s that ooky spooky time of year! Come and celebrate at Next Door Records with the Dragnificent Halloween Quiz! From Harry Potter and Psycho to Witches and Warlocks, brush up on all things Halloween for this spooktastic Quiz hosted by Barbara and Nikki. Come dressed to scare and you might be rewarded! Monday the 30th of October at 8pm.

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Dragnificent Halloween Quiz!

Michael Jackson - Thriller

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Comedy

Pem is the project of Bristol based musician Emily Perry. Blending her rare husky voice with boundless vocal agility, she crafts a sound that hovers somewhere between folk and the smoky serenades of early sirens in music halls of days gone by. Fusing her stratospheric high notes and sweeping vocal leaps with husky vibrato trills, Pem’s haunting voice floats and dances up and over ethereal arrangements and intricate taletelling, lulling listeners into warm hazes of vulnerable contemplation.

Pem’s 2022 release ‘Songs About Hands’ was written during an intense year of psychotherapy training. A Diarist, dreamlike and hauntingly fragile E.P, it offers space to reflect and permission to indulge on what it means to touch and be touched.

In 2023 Pem moved to Bristol and immediately made a name for herself. She opened the headline stage at Ritual Union festival, was long-listed for the Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition and Greenman Rising and landed slots playing amongst The Last Dinner Party, Langkamer and Rozi Plain.

Melotone

Melotone are a psych-alternative band from the Black Country, more interested in texture and ambience than ego. They draw inspiration from '60s psychedelia, namely the jazz-infused Tropicalia movement, with lulling guitar play and hypnotic vocals that float freely into Portuguese.

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Pem // Melotone 

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Melotone

'Combining Jazz and Pop elements with playful and catchy lyrics, Malan is putting a new Welsh artist on the jazz pop map. With a debut sparkling enough to get a spot on Spotify’s ‘New Music Friday UK’ playlist, and to be played on radio stations including BBC 1 and BBC 6 music, Malan is excited to finally release her debut EP ‘Bloom’ in October, 2023. ‘Bloom’ was Co-Written with, and produced by Nathan Williams - a talented multi-Instrumentalist that has toured the world with the likes of Jamiroquai and Steve Winwood! If you’re a fan of the likes of Eloise, Mathilda Homer or Olivia Dean, we recommend you keep an eye out for Malan!'

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