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August 9, 2019
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Band Coaching – The New Approach

Band Coaching sessions can help bands make significant improvements in a short space of time. This post explains what to expect from a CME band coaching session and how it’s different from a traditional band skills workshop. Diagnoses and actions Our Band Coaching sessions offer a full day, intensive session for individual bands. A team of tutors... / READ MORE /
August 9, 2019
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5 RARE AND UNIQUE ETHNIC INSTRUMENTS

Music can be said as God’s language. Great music generally is obtained out of acute suffering and pain. Music is an art. Its medium is sound and silence. Music is present everywhere, from the drops of water to the thundering of the clouds. billyMusic is based on pitch which ensures melody and harmony, rhythm which... / READ MORE /
August 7, 2019
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Bill Drummond interview

Though there’s something to be said for the transportive power of certain recorded music and the ongoing developments in the craft of creating an artwork in the format of a music album, it’s true that with masses at our fingertips we at times flit about in our consumption of music. Reading one of Bill Drummond’s... / READ MORE /
August 7, 2019
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Slow Club Interview

The pair are back with their second album Paradise, out tomorrow on Moshi Moshi, which sees them bolster their sound as Charles goes electric and lines his guitars with fuzz, while Rebecca’s drum beats are tightened and rolls accelerated. Things have developed from the energetic acoustics and marching drums of their now two year old... / READ MORE /
August 5, 2019
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Ovation Music Showcase

What a show !!!! I’d been looking forward to seeing the Whiskey Syndicate for a while as their music is right up my street… proper dirty rock n’ roll. But to be blown away by the all the bands on the bill of the first Ovation Music Showcase was more than I had bargained for.... / READ MORE /
August 3, 2019
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Bands Confirmed For First Bitchslap-Fest

THE DOGBONES will headline the gig who were formed by members of Queenadreena, Wendykurk, Daisy Chainsaw, and Mediæval Bæbes, The Dogbones’ sound has been described as “johnnyfive playing -T. Rex’s guitar whilst cavemen beat up Barbarella with the dead members of The Beatles” and “early My Bloody Valentine as a Daisy Chainsaw cover band, downing shots... / READ MORE /
July 30, 2019
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I Like my Music With Cheese, Please ….

The 1990s and very early 2000s was a great time for pop music. It was a great time for a lot of things actually, but that’s another blog post. After experiencing quite a ‘sexed-up’ period in the ’80s, with Madonna and her ilk prancing about in wedding dresses, pop music clearly decided that it needed... / READ MORE /
July 30, 2019
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Forget Perfection

CD, or when they are practicing their instrument. Everything must be perfect and perfection (or better: degree of perfection) is the main yardstick by which a performance is judged. In classical music this is very common. A jazz performance could never be rated how perfect it was, when is an improvisation ‘perfect’? It is an... / READ MORE /
July 30, 2019
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Singer And Guitarist Of Noiseniks

Adultrock is Gavin Elsted, singer and guitarist of noiseniks We Are Losers. Still in its relative infancy, his electronica sideproject Adultrock has been gaining plaudits and fans over the last number of months. ‘Poplife’ is the first Adultrock track to feature vocals, provided by Jen Connell, formerly of Cork group Hooray For Humans. Her dulcet tones,... / READ MORE /
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