BBC Introducing in Oxfordshire & Berkshire

Tracks of The Year 2025

It's time for our annual mixtape, a back to back mix of as many of the best tracks uploaded to us in 2025 that Dave could fit in two hours! Here's this week's HUGE track list: • Only The Poets - I Keep On Messing It Up Mackenzie - Drama Queen The August List - The Duplex Phase Jessy Blakemore - with you Mazawattee - Waterslide bedd - Walkie No Talkie SISTRA - Things I Really Mean Octavia Freud - No Venue Situation Maddie Ashman - Toffee Pedro Santos - The Way You Do Unbelievable Truth - Citizens Band pecq - no more trouble Low Island - this is water Nick Magenta - Box Room Blue Bayou - Hide & Seek Kanadia - Too Late Now Cameron Hayes - The Fault Is Mine Shock Horror - Ecosystem Munboi - Get Gone (feat. Split The Dealer) Alex Blyth - Unsent Ryan Burns - Different Day Deyah - Peach Avenue Baby Maker - Rather Be in Berlin Gigi Wilde - becky The Borough - Red Light, Danger! Praise Lubangu - fair weather! Danny Mellin - Don’t Leave Me Alone Felix Ross - Blue Light Matilda Pratt - Ruin Our Friendship LASTELLE - Tired Eyes V.I.C - Wasteman Niki Kini - All Things Nice Young Knives - Your Car Has Arrived South Arcade - FEAR OF HEIGHTS Rubberband Girl - Love on the Vine Willie J Healey - Heaven Now • If you're making music in Oxfordshire and Berkshire, send us your tunes with the BBC Introducing Uploader: https://www.bbc.co.uk/introducing/uploader

Christmas special with South Arcade & V.I.C - Acts of the Year plus bedd

This week on the BBC Introducing in Oxfordshire and Berkshire podcast, Dave reveals South Arcade and V.I.C as our Oxfordshire & Berkshire Acts of the Year, plus he catches up with Jamie Hyatt from bedd and gets festive with Christmassy tunes! Here's this week's track list: • Remorae - in the bleak midwinter Dream Phone - sh*te xmas Martha and the Fairy - Wait For December Jenny Mahler - Follow the Star Ailsa Scott - More than Me Rebecca Poole - Home For Christmas (feat. Denny Ilett) Anna Log - Yule Log Circle - Nova Radast Stala South Arcade - Drive Myself Home Andy Lavery - Ghosts of Christmas Past Claws Montaigne - The Night Before Christmas V.I.C - Wasteman Selina and the Howlin Dogs - Bluesy Kind of Christmas Maddie Ashman - Carol of the Bells bedd - Count the Days Rhirhi - Here For Christmas Moogieman - Saint Wenceslas Willie J Healey - Merry Christmas Nathan Major - Christmas Time Joe Carnall Jnr - Back Home For Christmas (feat. Ed Cosens) Peaness - Sad Season Sebastian Reynolds - One Year To Go The Boudleaux Bryants - Christmas in Prison • If you're making music in Oxfordshire and Berkshire, send us your tunes with the BBC Introducing Uploader: https://www.bbc.co.uk/introducing/uploader

Clover + Beaver Fuel

This week on the BBC Introducing in Oxfordshire and Berkshire podcast, Dave introduces you to Clover, a self-taught musician who combines indie-pop with elements of celtic folk. Plus, our connections series continues - where bands recommend bands - this time Lauren gets to know Beaver Fuel, and Alex finds out about Nicole Allan's incredible Open Mic at The Butler in Reading! Here's this week's track list: • Rhi’N’B - He’s Just Bluffing White Label - Something About You Gigi Wilde - speak so much, say so little Jess Young - Guess I'll Pray Samuel Austin - Somewhere I Can’t Hear It  Loxie - If I Had a God Leonard Maassen - Rainspace Martha St. Arthur - The Wheel Cole train - Nothing to Lose Natalie Gray - Little Secrets Girl Like That - Bad Boys In Bands Justin Peng - Come Closer Grace Angelique - Out Of This World Clover - Eurydice GIGSY - The Life of a Porcupine Alayna Rich - On Fleek Dubwiser - Come Forward Sloepark - The Sherpa Beaver Fuel - Sasha's Gnashers Naked Brunch - Stretching Out Nicole Allan - Madness of Money Ameliah Jayne - Numb Lisa Kahn - Fragments Scene It All - Late to the Party • If you're making music in Oxfordshire and Berkshire, send us your tunes with the BBC Introducing Uploader: https://www.bbc.co.uk/introducing/uploader

Jody & the Jerms

This week on the BBC Introducing in Oxfordshire and Berkshire podcast, Dave catches up with Jody & the Jerms to hear about their new album Love Descends. Plus Alex meets Brad from Hot Cake, an independent world-wide merch company based in Reading, and there's tips from Jess, Jaguar and Alyx at BBC Radio 1. Here's this week's track list: • CECIL- Zonin pecq - no more trouble Split The Dealer - Venomous  Frannie B - Warning San Demas - Borrowed Time Sweep - swings and roundabouts PLAIINS - Sports Bar  Hannah Jane Lewis - Navy Blue Lucy Leave - Steve Lamacq Wants To Know Storm Mollison - UR ALL MINE [tipped by Jaguar at BBC Radio 1 Dance] Matty Twigg - Black Hole BMW (Boon, Mew & Wooster) - Who is Having Who? Jess Fitz - Miss Romantic TigerFoot - Fairytale Number 4 Jody and the Jerms - Divine Jody and the Jerms - Winter Heart Avaxx - Kinetic Slow Hunch - Albion and On and On  Archie Holmes - If They Only Knew [tipped by Jess Iszatt at BBC Radio 1] iiis - Chairs Coraland - Flower The Foam Heads - It's Alright Mister Speed - That's Something Wretch - SCREAM OUT [tipped by Alyx Holcombe at BBC Radio 1 Rock] Dada Paradox - World of Illusion • If you're making music in Oxfordshire and Berkshire, send us your tunes with the BBC Introducing Uploader: https://www.bbc.co.uk/introducing/uploader

May Kolta

This week on the BBC Introducing in Oxfordshire and Berkshire podcast, Dave introduces you to May Kolta, a pop musician inspired by classic hooks, electronic production and world music. Plus Alex meets Caversham-based music merch producers Allotment Productions, our Connections series continues - where bands recommend bands - this time it's Indica Blues, and Nightshift Music Magazine editor Ronan Munro's here recommending a track from In-Flight Movie. Here's this week's track list: • Isaac Stuart - Window Shopping Empress Linoleum - Life Your Way Henry Grace - California Rain Young Knives - Your Car Has Arrived In-Flight Movie - Passenger Sim Anya - Breathe Just For Fun - Paris [tipped by Jaguar at at BBC Radio 1 Dance] Eliza Flynn - Cherry Gasoline prodbear - Flippin Legend 916 - Miss That Thing (feat. Nikz and Nayyah) Tomay - I See Colours  Mackenzie - Soul Wounded May Kolta - Empress (NKK) Toby Sebastian - Eyes Light Up Lewis Bolland - Sunday reDifine - Time & Space  Manpreet Kundi - closure HUTCH - Never Like The First Time [tipped by Jess Iszatt at BBC Radio 1] Indica Blues - The Raven Milli Muzik - Tax Sylosis - The New Flesh DREAMA - Crazy (For You) Autumn Fires - Fall For You [tipped by Alyx Holcombe at at BBC Radio 1 Rock] Nev Scott - Keep A Goin' On Bobbi Lu - Surgical Love • If you're making music in Oxfordshire and Berkshire, send us your tunes with the BBC Introducing Uploader: https://www.bbc.co.uk/introducing/uploader