Warm handshakes and hearty congratulations to Secret Rivals, who have just signed to Kittiwake Records, home to our fair town’s own Alphabet Backwards amongst a brace of other artists. There will be a single from Secret Rivals out on Kittiwake in the near future, which will hopefully see the band ‘step up in the industry,’ ‘shift some units’ or whatever. It’s good to see yet another Oxford band getting the recognition they deserve.
More excitement for Secret Rivals follows in the form of Tom Robinson’s BBC 6 Music Fresh On The Net show. The Rivals will be paying the show a visit on 2 March to do some recording. If you’ve not come across it before, Fresh On The Net is a show for independent recording artists, backed up by an excellent website full of resources and ideas for said artists. Check it out, innit.