Earwormery.com is a project to try and identify the causes and traits of ‘earworms.’ Basically they are pieces of music that loop endlessly in your head or get stuck in your head for reasons you can’t always explain. The project is quite interesting as we were amazed that there was research into such a phenomenon. – Continue Reading[...]
As part of my Media Studies A Level we have to create a magazine. However, at first we have to make a questionnaire so we know who to aim it at or what they are interested in. I’ve made a questionnaire here below and would be very appreciative of any input you can give. Don’t – Continue Reading[...]
ROCK IS DEAD! Or so many will have you believe. General concern over the entire music industry has occurred recently as it seems anybody with an internet connection can become a musician by downloading some open source program. It is getting harder and harder to be noticed, alike attempting to pick out a single jewel – Continue Reading[...]
Here is an interesting tag cloud of the day. These are statistically the most pirated artists of the last 4 years. I will point out certain people (like Phish or other bands) have a larger than average dominance on the graph due to bootlegging of shows and such. Also on another interesting note, Beethoven is – Continue Reading[...]
Saturday 23rd July 2011 Line-up: Main Stage Judas Priest * Slash featuring Myles Kennedy * Thin Lizzy * Queensrÿche * Rival Sons * Skin Michael Monroe * Prog Stage Barclay James Harvest Neal Morse Anathema * Caravan Amplifier * Von Hertzen Brothers Hammer Stage Electric Wizard – Replaced by Rival Sons due to Norway incident. – Continue Reading[...]
Shepherds Bush Empire, London Saturday November 14th 2009 Well the train on the road tour finally pulled into Shepherds Bush Empire, I arrived to the gig on the tube having had a bumpy and noisy ride all the way from Epping. I got my bearings to find that the tube station is on the other – Continue Reading[...]
As soon as the dates for the 2005 tour were announced I offered to be the driver for Alan Hewitt (as he doesn’t drive or own a car) because he had been offered a position of Merchandiser on the 2005 Steve Hackett Acoustic Trio tour and so he needed to be able to travel from – Continue Reading[...]