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Jakey Harrison

South West

 

Jakey Harrison makes intimate indie-folk music rooted in storytelling and live performance. Raised in Cornwall and now based in London, he’s earned BBC Introducing support, 60,000+ streams and a growing online following. 

 

The project is to record a debut EP. Funding will also support studio time, mixing and promotional costs, followed by a small tour of shows.

 

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Jack Garrity

North East

 

Jack Garrity is a genre-blending musician based in the North East. The NextGen Fund will allow him to create his debut EP which explores the concept of expression without language, and features lyrical themes of alienation and absurdism.

 

Glossolalia is a Debut EP project based around non-verbal musical expression, communicating his perspective as a neurodivergent person exploring the absurd. 

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Isaac Neilson

East Midlands

 

Isaac Neilson delivers gritty storytelling through the lens of a working class artist from The Midlands.
 

His project will be the creation of an EP, channelling the momentum he is generating now into a substantial release.

 

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Heroic Dragon

East of England

 

Heroic Dragon is an 18-year-old Asian-British independent rapper, with authentic lyrics about motivation and being young on grime/uk rap instrumentals.

 

This project will involve the creation of a 3-track EP, with music content shared across all platforms. Never Broke Again is a project about the conflicting struggle to make your passion into profit and the overwhelming loneliness of the journey. 

 

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Freddy Forbidden

London

 

FREDDY FORBIDDEN is an alternative solo artist from East London. FREDDY’s journey in music began after a life-changing incident in 2018 when he was robbed, run over, and left for dead. A second chance at life.

 

The aim of BREACH is to introduce the world to Freddy Forbidden and 'Afrocore'. It's a surge of ancestral African energy, offering listeners the opportunity to restore their power. 

 

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Eve Buckley

Yorkshire and The Humber

 

Leeds-based singer, songwriter, and guitarist Eve Buckley combines a rich hybrid of Alternative Soul, Jazz, and Pop. Her debut EP ‘Some Kind of Solace was released last February.

 

Her project involves creating her sophomore EP, a 5-track exploration that maintains her jazz, soul, and pop foundations but expands to more alternative and experimental territory. 

 

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Elina Lee

Wales

 

Elina Lee is an Indie-pop Alt-R&B artist based in the Cardiff. Born in Thailand and raised in Stockholm, Sweden, her music is shaped by her multicultural upbringing and the pulse of big-city soundscapes.

 

The NextGen funding will support the recording, production, and release of her debut EP. She will also use the funding to buy a synthesiser, allowing her to recreate the atmosphere of the recorded songs into an authentic, cityscape-inspired live set.

 

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Eddie Doyle

North East

 

Drawing from her hymn-heavy childhood and classical roots, Eddie Doyle is an exciting new voice in experimental rock. Blending electronica, ambient and her self described 'post-Catholic post-rock'.

 

'Don't Look' is a confrontationally vulnerable anthem of self-revolution, rooted in post-rock and art-pop. It's accompanying music video, strange and unnatural, yet deeply human, brings the creative vision of 'Eddie Doyle' to life. This funding seeks to record, film and promote the single and its genre-defiant music video.

 

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Ding Frisby

Yorkshire and The Humber

 

Ding Frisby is an intergalactic, guitar-wielding drag-thing writing songs for queer aliens everywhere. 

 

Ding Frisby on Disc will enable the recording and special edition release of intergalactic drag thing Ding Frisby’s debut EP, ‘Ding Frisby’. This cosmic, cabaret-inspired concept collection tells an origin story of growing up alien on Earth, or more precisely, growing up queer in Huddersfield.

 

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Dia Day

London

 

Hailing from Croydon, Dia Day fuses South London’s rap & hip-hop influences with neo-soul & jazz elements. This, with flavours from her Polish heritage makes for a gritty and raw cross-genre sound. Dia's debut album “Letters to L” is set to drop later this year.

 

She will create a 12-track album exploring loneliness across her life, told through vivid storytelling. It fuses UK rap, neo-soul and jazz, with live instrumentation and stacked choir vocals from the FLAMES collective. 

 

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