This is Gad-Fly

Tonight’s The Kind of Night

Last weekend I was staying in this great little hotel on looe. I had gone away to meet up with some old friends and we decided that going down to Cornwall for a long weekend would be a great idea. I always take my mp3 away with me because I love to be able to plug the speakers in and set the mood to things with some great tunes. We met up and decided to have an evening barbeque More

What is good music to you?

Good music means different things to different people just as white diesel has various meaning to those in that line of business. Good music can be the choice of genre or even how and where one listens to it. I am a fan of rock music but I do not consider a lot of them as good music. These days, most of the rock songs that can be considered as good music are those sung by the bands form the More

Gig etiquettes

There has been lots of media coverage of the Royal wedding here in the UK – and lots of talk about the correct etiquette for those “lucky” enough to be attending the happy event. Things like don’t use your mobile roaming charges to call your relatives abroad from inside the church, don’t burp in front of the Queen and definitely don’t ask Kate if she fancies any of the rugby players in attendance…
It started me thinking about gig etiquette. More

Songs from Northern Britain

True music fans should recognize that title as the name of an album by the sublime Scottish band, Teenage Fan club, one of my favourite bands from north of the border. Actually, I have quite a lot of Scottish music in my CD collection – and I don’t mean bagpipes and that hurdy-gurdy stuff that you dance around to in your kilt! It’s surprising how many great bands have come out of Scotland.
One of the most underrated is The More

Tip for the top

I can be a bit of an evangelist when it comes to my favorite bands and singers, constantly singling their praises and forcing people to listen to tracks until they admit that they sound great. Sometimes I feel like I’m just not getting my message out far and wide enough; perhaps I need to employ some sort of email marketing software to make sure I don’t miss out any of my mates when it comes to my latest musical discovery!
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5 Of My 2011 Predictions For Digital Music

Now I don’t know much about designer jewellery but I do know a lot about digital music. Here are some of my predictions for the coming year for online music:

1/ Bands will more than likely stop using Myspace as sooner or later musicians will go onto a new platform to show off their music. There is one called Bandcamp which is becoming increasing popular because this platform makes it easy to make money More

Exclusive music for products. Is this the future?

I’d been happily enjoying an evening of listening to the BioShock and Bioshock 2 soundtracks. Classic songs from the 40’s and 50’s interspersed with a modern take on that theme via it’s score. This got me thinking about using modern technology to recreate sounds from a past era, how it might be possible to emulate that sound and create something new from it.
Having done some research and deciding to take a break before a session of further contemplation I More

Extreme Climbing

The perfect thrill seekers holiday would be a trip into the unexplored, extraordinary and extreme nature - somewhere where your adrenaline lever will rise up significantly more than any other visit or action (except probably meeting your boyfriend’s/girlfriend’s parents). So a thrill seeker should always look for that dream location where there are only the nature and his pure adrenaline running throught his veins. For some people this recharges their lives, for others it gives them extreme happiness, and for More

Xavier Rudd - Gig

Xavier Rudd doesn’t come to the UK very often. His Australian heritage runs through him very strongly, and although there are people all over the globe who love his music, he tends to tour around his own Antipodean neck of the woods. So when he came to London, for one night only, earlier in the year, we were lucky even to get tickets. The gig had been hyped up for months in advance, and my friend and I were starting More

Janis Joplin was and is such an inspiration

When I first heard Janis Joplin I was very young, I still remember getting her CD in one of those metal packaging boxes from my best friend as a birthday gift. I heard her sing and was instantly captivated by her amazing voice. She has a rasp that is all her own. You are entranced by the lyrics and the melody of her songs. She sings about things that are true and real.

Her song Me and Bobby McGee is More