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[email protected] HELLO EVERYONE And a very Happy New Year to you all. January is, traditionally, a pretty quiet time for live music, but in the absence of many big-name touring bands, why not go out and catch a couple of new local acts instead. The rewards can be great and when the band you’ve just watched playing in your local pub venue are headlining the Academy in a year’s time, you can brag to your mates you were there at the beginning. We do it all the time and it really gets on people’s nerves. The New Year is a great time to think about new bands. As well as this month’s cover stars, we’d heartily recommend you checking out the likes of Hreda, 50ft Panda, Elapse-O, Traktors, International Jetsetters, Eduard Sounding Block and Raggasaurus, amongst the many great new bands in town. And of course, we just know that in the next few weeks we’ll discover a great new act who’ve barely played a handful of gigs yet. Last year we discovered Little Fish and by the end of the year they were supporting Supergrass at the Town Hall, a superb talent who look set to follow in the footsteps of Foals, and Young Knives in the coming months.