Elles Bailey

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09/25/20 • 40 min

This week we’re heading down the road of blues rock and welcoming the award winning, super smoky voiced Elles Bailey.
Bristol based Elles carved a name for herself in the blues rock and country music scene when she won Artist of The Year and Album of the Year at the UK Blues Awards, and UK Song Of The Year at the Americana Awards UK.
Her albums, Wildfire and Road I Call Home were both recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, with Road I Call home reaching number 1 on the Amazon Blues Bestseller Chart.
Album number three was in the works, with Elles due to fly out to Nashville again this year, however the pandemic put a halt to that.
Elles has worked with the likes of Memphis and Nashville giant Bobby Wood and Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys, she's shared the stage with The Temperance Movement, Beth Hart at Ramblin’ Man and has toured with the Kris Barrass band.
Elles spent most of 2019 and early 2020 touring The UK and Europe until the COVID-19 pandemic started sweeping the nation and she was forced to cancel the rest of her 'Woman Like Me' tour dates.
In this interview Elles talks about the moment she knew herself and her band couldn’t carry on with the tour and how she had to break the news to her fans on her birthday.
She talks about how the pandemic has been a stark reminder of the childhood illness she had which left her with the smooth smoky voice she has today and explains what she's been doing during the lockdown to help support her band and touring family.
When myself and Elles got together via Zoom we started chatting about females in rock music and the lack of recognition there is for new female artists...
https://www.ellesbailey.com/

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South Of Salem

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If I had two pennies to rub together right now, I would place a bet that in the next 3 years this band will be playing the main stage at Download festival... Pandemic Dependant.
It's a bold prediction for a band that currently only have three singles out and are about to release their first album, but I guarantee you, once you’ve listened to The Sinner Takes It All, you’ll see where I’m coming from.

South Of Salem are a five piece hard rock band from Bournemouth that popped up on the UK music scene in February 2020, bringing all the modern day Motley Crue, Billy Idol and Alice Cooper vibes with them.

After releasing their first song, Let Us Pray, and playing their first show together in their hometown, the boys had to put their plans on hold and ride out the lockdown as the Covid-19 pandemic kicked in.

Their album, The Sinner Takes It All, had been recorded in 2019 and was being patiently(ish) sat on until lockdown restrictions eased and the band could get together to record the music video for their second single, Cold Day In Hell.

Fast-forward to July 2020 and the release of Cold Day In Hell, suddenly the South Of Salem name spread like wildfire and streaming numbers for the song began to soar.

Demons Are Forever, their third single, was released last week on World Suicide prevention day, with both the song and music video sending a powerful message to anyone struggling, that you are not alone.

With The Sinner Takes It All, due for release on September 25th, the South Of Salem boys joined me at a TV studio on the south coast to film their first studio interview and make an exclusive announcement about their album launch.

As a filming first for The Road To Rock Podcast too, it is with great pleasure I introduce my hotly tipped ones to watch... South Of Salem.
This episode of The Road To Rock is also available to watch on YouTube, click here to watch it now - https://youtu.be/jiA3K1MpHvw
https://www.southofsalem.com/
WARNING - This interview contains sensitive content some listeners may find upsetting

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Seven Webster - 7PM Management

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Calling all fans of Reef, Skindred, Andy Taylor (formally of Duran Duran) and Michael Munroe (formally of Hanoi Rocks)... This week's guest on The Road to Rock is Seven Webster, the man who manages those artists and more.
Seven is the manager and owner of 7PM Management, a company which has launched the careers of many musicians through a whole host of music genres.
From world renowned dance music DJ's Carl Cox and Sasha to the likes of Dido and hit producers Stonebridge... Seven has worked with an impressive range of artists and now boasts a healthy roster of rock music clients.
He's worked in a variety of areas in the music industry including publishing, sales, event management and also as a musician himself.
He's the man behind the Global Rock Summit Music Expo in LA and was responsible for booking bands for the early Hard Rock Hell festivals.
Remember the time Twisted Sister played at Butlins? That was thanks to Seven!
I caught up with Seven a few weeks ago when he was working from home.
He told me how he's seen a different side of Covid-19 and lockdown as his partner Katy is on the front line for the NHS in London, and has been working grueling shifts all through the pandemic.
We chatted about how two of his artists, Reef and Andy Taylor, have worked together during the lockdown and what happened when Skindred and Reef had to cancel their Drive in Concerts back in August this year.
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