Maverick Sabre

Maverick Sabre releases his much-anticipated fourth LP Don’t Forget To Look Up via FAMM. The follow up to 2019’s When I Wake Up, the introspective 12-track release was conceived in lockdown and sees Maverick examine and unpick love in its various iterations. Traversing recollections of previous relationships, to examining the societal pressures placed on couples, Don’t Forget To Look Up is both intimate and inquisitive at the same time.

It’s been seven years since Maverick Sabre first arrived on the UK scene as a fresh-faced Irish (but London born) rapper with a brassy singing voice. Championed by Plan B, his music drew a line between the Irish, American and UK rap scenes he grew up on and the timeless blues and trad Irish music of his family’s heritage. His debut album, Lonely Are The Brave, was a roaring success, arriving at #2 on the UK album charts and going on to sell over 250,000 copies.

As part of the ongoing partnership between Abbey Road Studios and BBC Music Introducing, we are delighted to be returning to Tobacco Dock with the Abbey Road Production Hub at this year's BBC Music Introducing Live. Returning with our world-class recording and mastering engineers, we will also be leading a discussion on the art of songwriting, sharing invaluable advice and insights for the next generation of musical talent. The panel will be moderated by Abbey Road's Jack Lintorn who will be joined by Maverick Sabre, Grime artist Novelist and British songwriter Rachel Furner. The audience will also have the opportunity to ask the panel their questions.

Multi-genre singer, rapper, and guitarist Maverick Sabre was born Matthew Stafford in the London borough of Hackney. He moved to Ireland during his childhood but returned to England for the sake of pursuing music. A modest start came with compelling, everyman-type appearances on albums by Terawrizt and Nu-Centz (Sense the Terror, 2008) and Jermiside & Danny Diggs (Middle Classic, 2009). In 2010, he was prolific: more collaborations with Terawrizt and Nu-Centz, features on Professor Green's "Jungle," and Chase & Status' "Fire in Your Eyes," and The Travelling Man, the first Maverick Sabre mixtape. In March of the following year, having signed to Mercury, Stafford released his debut EP, The Lost Words, with its remorseful and sobering "Look What I’ve Done" — a fusion of hip-hop, R&B, reggae, and folk — issued as a single. Four months later, the single "Let Me Go" was released and reached the U.K. Top 20.

Written as an emphatic celebration of difference and a coming together of cultures, styles and sounds, ‘Toast To Our Differences’ is the product of the band’s past three years of work and boasts an extraordinary list of collaborators that can now be revealed in full.

Written as an emphatic celebration of difference and a coming together of cultures, styles and sounds, ‘Toast To Our Differences’ is the product of the band’s past three years of work and boasts an extraordinary list of collaborators that can now be revealed in full.

The London based DnB and Jungle legend, producer and remixer is dropping a new album ‘Raggamuffin Soundtape’ and in support of it he’s stopping by Night Tales for a big Friday night release party. He has produced for Dizzee Rascal and Yasmin and remixed for DJ Fresh. Shy FX crashed the British charts in 1994 with 'Original Nuttah', one of the most infectious Ragga-Jungle anthems of all time, and he quickly became one of Jungle's most respected producers.

"Driven By Power Ballads gathers 100 of the most popular power ballads from some of the biggest artists of all time. The collection combines the greatest classics of the genre plus newer contemporary hits with no less than 60 air grabbing top ten singles. The classic fist-pumping rock ballads are brought to you by 4 Non Blondes, Cher, Rod Stewart, Asia, Rainbow, Kiss, Bonnie Tyler, Simple Minds, T’Pau plus many more incredible names. The excellent line-up of newer bands includes OneRepublic, Puddle Of Mudd, 3 Doors Down, Hoobastank, Hozier, Blink-182. Also included are the big pop ballads that reigned the charts from Emeli Sandé, James Bay, Ellie Goulding, Jessie Ware, Amy Winehouse, John Newman, Maverick Sabre, the list goes on. An irresistible collection of ballads that will always resonate. Includes 10 Number 1s. Over 40 Top 10s and 15 Top 20 singles. All in their original versions."

Get ready for another blazin’ hot summer as Ministry of Sound & Love Island once again team-up and turn-up the heat with the highly anticipated return of the Pool Party 2019; here to guide us through the summer with 60 essential anthems from the year’s biggest TV show extravaganza. This year’s album features 3CDs of the biggest Love Island anthems, past and present, covering party-starting upfront dance cuts, the hottest R&B club jams, laidback acoustic pop hits and a selection of classic throwback anthems, all culminating in the perfect album to soundtrack your summer. Featuring: Calvin Harris & Rag’n’Bone Man, Ariana Grande, Sigala & Becky Hill, Craig David, Mark Ronson feat. Lykke Li, Khalid, Not3s, Mabel, Armand Van Helden, Ginuwine.