Something a bit different this week. Some of you may remember that we used to publish a weekly playlist compiled from the excellent BBC Introducing shows from across the local radio stations in the region (and Cornwall, which shares a show with Devon). Unfortunately the BBC removed the ability to export track listings from their shows directly into Spotify, which meant that we would have to add each track individually. That’s rather a laborious task to do on a weekly basis, but once a year is doable. So this playlist is all the tracks from their end-of-year retrospectives, apart from the ones that aren’t on Spotify.
A plea: streaming services like Spotify don’t pay artists very much, apart from the huge superstars with millions of streams every month. So if there’s a band or artist on this list whose work you particularly enjoy. please consider buying music and merch from them, and/or a ticket to one of their live shows.
