Hello Sailor!

On A New Band A Day you’ll find a new band a day posted for you to investigate and see if you like. That’s how we came up with the title of the blog. We’re not rocket scientists, you know. We publish a simple mix of brand new bands, and new music writing from new music writers.

But here’s the important bit that defines ANBAD: a core belief that there’s no merit in consistency. This is most important. We try really hard to find new bands that you don’t find on other websites. We’re proud that you won’t find the same bunch of bands here that you’ll find on a lot of other new music websites that play it safe and showcase ‘approved’ up-and-coming bands.

We do feature those bands sometimes, but on ANBAD you’re just as likely to find some brilliant, genuinely new, bedroom-recorded pop from Norway. The bands here might never show up on the front of the NME, but they do make music you won’t want to miss, possibly for the same reason.

And most importantly of all (hence the underlined bold type) we really want to hear from you, Mr or Mrs Square-Eyed Blog Reader. Tell us about bands you know that we should play, or gigs we should go to. If we like your suggestions, we’ll write about them! It’s interactive, you see, like when you vote for which slack-jawed idiot you want kicked off Big Brother.

Enjoy – and if you do really enjoy, why not subscribe to the most excellent mail-out and receive a new band in your inbox each day? Go on, it’ll be something else to look forward to in the office other than stealing those really nice gel pens.

Joe Sparrow // ANBAD // April 2010