ShowBiz TV are excited to
announce BRAND NEW productions coming up in the New Year including a fresh
series of the incredible Country Sessions, back by popular
demand due to the huge success of series one, where the best new artists on the
country music scene play for your pleasure. Presented by Irish country star Pete Kennedy.
Guests will include Megan O’Neill "The Irish Carrie Underwood" and Darren Hodson (nominated for 4 awards at this years British Country Music Awards (BCMA's).
Guests will include Megan O’Neill "The Irish Carrie Underwood" and Darren Hodson (nominated for 4 awards at this years British Country Music Awards (BCMA's).
ShowBiz TV’s country
programmes include:
CM&T (A non-stop video show), CM&T Revisited ( leading USA
Country Music Videos from the last 18 months), CM&T Country Hunks, CM&T
Girl Power, Nashville Unleashed,
Country Showcase and Country Sessions.
Find ShowBiz TV on Sky Channel 266 & Manchester Freeview 80
& Online.
free-to-air channels that are currently
available via satellite from SES Astra satellites (Astra 2E/2F/2G) located at
28.2 °E. These Can be found on Freesat
free-to-air platform: Comux UK Limited; 16:9 SDTV, Astra 2G; 11082 H 22000 5/6
Megan O’Neill
We love I Wish I Could Love You More (Official Video; published on Apr 2, 2015; 33.3K views)
Megan played the inaugural Nashville Meets London festival,
on Sunday August 14, 2016 in Canada Square Park in London, drew thousands of festival goers to the
Canary Wharf estate. The event drew an impressive number of fans and left an
overwhelmingly positive response among UK-based Country music fans and locals.
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At the W21 Music
Awards (Weds 30 Dec 2015) Megan picked up UK EP of the Year 2015 with COMING
HOME
Kildare singer Megan
O'Neill revealin in Dec 2015 how love
and pain has inspired her writing, and tells of "lonely" times in
Nashville: ...Vulnerability is an essential tool for being a songwriter,
though, isn’t it? “Definitely. That’s what Adele said. She wrote a great album
because her boyfriend broke her heart. So maybe I need that for my next one!”
she laughs. Megan credits her mother as being one of her biggest influences as
a singer. “Music has been in our family for generations. My mother played to me
and sang to me when I was a child” (Interview by Bary Egan; Independent.ie)
In July 2016 Upcoming country band, Megan & The Common Threads announced a crowd fund PledgeMusic campaign as they were set to
release their debut EP, offering a wide range of rewards for pledgers. 72
pledgers successfully funded it with 165% of an undisclosed goal raised.
The band
grew from the solo project of front-woman Megan O’Neill, whose track 'Don’t
You' featured on hit US TV show Nashville.
About: Megan And The Common Threads
Members: Megan
O'Neill (front-woman) Dan Clark and Tom Smith (electric & acoustic guitars), Kesh Kanabar (bass), Alessandro
Tibaldi (drums), Mairéad Furlong
(Irish fiddle)
They weave a
unique tapestry of country, blues, folk, funk & rock’n’roll with their
distinctive Celt-icana sound.
Live shows have
included a special Oscars Week appearance in Los Angeles at the 2015 Oscar
Wilde Awards on personal invitation of director JJ Abrams, plus performances
for RTE2 Two Tube, Bob Harris (BBC Radio 2), BBC Ulster, BBC London, Irish
Independent Windmill Lane Sessions and Amazing Radio, with a live breakfast
show session on Irish national station Today FM with Ian Dempsey.
2016 has already
seen two acclaimed shows at C2C Country
to Country Festival at London’s 02 Arena, and a barnstorming performance to
a sold out 900 capacity crowd at Time
Out London’s Rising Stars of Country show.
The Threads had a
busy summer, with UK festival dates and the recording of their debut release as
a full band at Mark Knopfler’s British Grove Studios with the legendary Guy
Fletcher (Dire Straits, Roxy Music, Mark Knopfler), who offered to produce the
band after hearing unreleased original material.
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About The Southern Companion:
Genre:
UK Country/Americana | Home Town: Lymington, Hants
A
band and brainchild of Darren Hodson, a musician and songwriter from Hampshire,
England
Members:
Darren Hodson (Vocals / Guitars), Simon Johnson (Guitars / Backing Vocals),
Stuart Ross (Bass / Backing Vocals), Olly Richmond-Jones (Drums / Backing
Vocals) & Lee Maycock (Keys)
The
Southern Companion are a band fronted by singer/songwriter Darren Hodson. It's
a collaboration with his band of best friends and talented musicians. Since
honing his craft from his early teens, Darren has now been working on his music
for a good twenty years, even though his album 1000 DAYS OF RAIN was only his second record. The band’s
genre-bending sound was described by For The Country Record as being "situated somewhere in the midst of
country, folk, blues, rock and even pop – to create songs that are catchy
without sacrificing the musicality or substance. …Read More
New to the BCMA category in something of a
surprise The Southern
Companion snagged the
BCMAwards 2016 Album of the Year
especially beating out the critically acclaimed 5 STAR album (Country Music
People/Maverick) WRITING ON THE WALL from Raintown. Band leader Darren Hodson shared
with Zap Bang
Magazine: “Our new album is called 1,000 Days
Of Rain, it’s a very personal record for me and a lot of the songs sound a little
heartbroken but there’s some uplifting moments to balance things out.
They also snagged Horizon Act of the Year (sponsor FSA Presents) winning over Narn, Acoustic Journey, Samantha Lloyd and Fitzwallace.
Last year The Southern Companion camp watched
the BCMAwards from home never imagining a year later, they would have the
chance to attend and perform at the awards weekend and that they would be
nominated for 4 awards and win 2 of them!
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Companion:
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