Under the Radar selects its top tips for the New Year Dec 19, 2020 By Dom Gourlay Photography by Natalie Kerr Web Exclusive
As 2020 draws to a close, it’s time to get our collective crystal balls and look to see whose future shines brightest for the twelve months ahead. It’s been a difficult year for the music industry in general due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Thankfully, that hasn’t stopped a surge of incredible new music greeting our eardrums throughout the course of this year.
So without further ado, Under The Radar asked its contributors to pick 21 of their hottest tips for 2021 and here are the acts we’re most excited about over the coming months ahead.
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Well, that was a laugh wasn’t it?
Officially The Worst Year Ever (at least we could drown our sorrows and sing aloud in 2016), 2020 has turned everyone’s lives upside down and still has the capacity to do so, but we know all this.
It wasn’t just COVID-19 that caused such a year of great upheaval. In Sean Connery and Diego Maradona, the silver screen and the beautiful game lost legendary figures, so much so that we should perhaps start checking up on soon-to-be octogenarian Bob Dylan (although, given he’s now $300m richer, he’ll probably be alright). Meanwhile, in the UK the agonising, incessant stench of Brexit lingered on.