my wee cousin, lisa mitchell played king tuts in glasgow last night. it was an awesome gig. the crowd were right up for it! I met her on friday night in glasgow, went for a few beers and some food, then headed to king tuts to see the bands that were on. it was a [...]

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my wee cousin lisa mitchell is touring the uk to promote her new album (which just went gold in australia!!) she is doing a lot of gigs – just now she is touring with newton faulkner =)
once she is done with that she is doing her own tour
Here’s the list of tour dates along with [...]

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I went to see dizzee rascal in edinurgh on sunday night. I was pleasently surprised. I’m not usually into that kind of music, but I do like dizee rascal, especially his older stuff. Edinburgh was expensive. very expensive. it always is. I stayed the night at my wee borthers flat in dundee and took some [...]

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Well, I’m sitting now, listening to the news, apparently Michael Jackson is going to announce a comeback tour this afternoon. Should be good =P
Apart from that I have been training up to do a 900 mile cycle round Europe in the summer  -you can find more details about it at europe-cycle.com
Its only half planned so [...]

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SO, I signed a petition to stop the government forcing venues to turn down the volume
I got an email this morning with the response.
It is as follows

Thursday 19 February 2009
Nonoisecontrol – epetition response
We received a petition asking:

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I got an email from the ppl this morning, it goes as follows -

Dear Colleagues 

Do performers deserve copyright on a par with other creators? We think so. So does the European Commission. So does the French government. So does the German government. But the UK government is not supporting the legislation [...]

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well, Ive been trying to get this setup for a while – playing my ableton in a band.
so far we consist of a drummer, a bass player, two guitarists and me =)
we used to be a band before where i played bass, but i’d rather do this
anyway, we are going for a jam tomorrow – [...]

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i just got back in from t in the park, im charging my fone up so that i can put the pics up later on.
all i have to say is that Rage Against The Machine are fucking amaising !
by far the best band that i have ever seen. ever ever ever.
what makes it even better [...]

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i just stumbled on a cool article and a video of a guy who has wired up the keys form an organ to play different things in a warehouse – there are motors inside pipes and motors that hit iron bars and radiators and things, its kinda weird

watch the video and see some cool pics here

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well, it seems that more bands are releasing their cds for free download….
the charlitans are doing it aswell…
You Cross My Path is released on 12th May 2008, pre-order the deluxe CD version of the album, featuring a bonus disc of live and studio recordings plus poster, at www.recordstore.co.uk/charlatans.
The CD is available to pre-order individually or [...]

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