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An independent record label based in Manchester

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Louis Barabbas joins MU Live Performance Committee and Fresh On The Net

Louis Barabbas

Louis BarabbasDebt Records co-founder Louis Barabbas now occupies a seat on the Musician’s Union newly-formed Live Performance Committee, a board that will address and attempt to rectify problems currently facing performers (particularly independent acts) working the UK live music circuit.

Louis has also recently joined the team at Tom Robinson’s Fresh On The Net, an offshoot of Robinson’s BBC 6 Music show promoting independent music making in all it forms, connecting listeners with new music and musicians with new listeners.

Five Years In Debt

Alabaster dePlume, Becca Williams, Felix Hagan & The Family, Honeyfeet, Ivan Campo, Louis Barabbas, Richard Barry, Snowapple, T.E. Yates, Walk

Five Years In DebtTo celebrate our fifth year as a label we will be putting on a big show at the Dancehouse Theatre in Manchester.

The Dancehouse was also the prestigious venue for our launch night back in 2009.

The event will take place on Friday 18th July and feature performances from Honeyfeet, Snowapple, Felix Hagan & The Family, Walk, T. E. Yates, Ivan Campo, Richard Barry, Becca Williams, Alabaster dePlume and Louis Barabbas.

Tickets are available from the Dancehouse Theatre box office.

Alabaster dePlume: “I’ll Be Here All Week”

Alabaster dePlume, Debt Radio

Alabaster dePlumeA week in the life of a music: journal from a poet in London.

Poet and saxophonist Alabaster dePlume (Gus Fairbairn) is in the capital, giving a performance in a different venue each night. At the risk of betraying a flamboyant innocence, he takes the opportunity to ask how, in the current climate, in this town, a performer manages to exist, and why.

With live performances, interviews with practitioners, music, stories and on-subject-confusion, this is a sincere journey captured by a dedicated underground artist. Acute observations, questions and chance occurrences accompany fresh, vibrant performance and human interaction alike, for a brief, touching review of life on and around the stage.

Serialised in eight parts weekly on the Debt Records radio show and also available to stream.

Walk on BBC Radio 4

Walk

Walk in session on BBC Radio 4's Loose EndsSequencer blues duo Walk have recorded a session for BBC Radio 4’s “Loose Ends” to be broadcast this Saturday at 6.15pm. Also on the show are guests Rufus Hound, Cathy Tyson, Andrea Calderwood, Paul Mayhew-Archer, Nikki Bedi and Lyla Foy.