Simon Neil and his Tattoos - A little update!

A report came on BBC Breakfast the other day about tattoos and whether policemen/women should be able to have them or not. I got talking to my Mum about different tattoos and why people get them and a name that kept popping up for me was Simon Neil. Simon Neil is the AMAZING frontman of Scottish...

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The Subway Violinists - I Knew You Were Trouble.

This is one of the most annoying songs ever but surprisingly nice on violins. Rhett Price and Josh Holmes are awesome  musicians who busk on the subway in New York. Give them a listen and if you like them their album is completely free! Album link: http://rhettprice.bandcamp.com/album/rhett-josh...

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Photo of the day!

As I just said on Tumblr, this photo has two of my favourite things in it: Morrissey and ca...

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Laura Marling Gig Review.

So then, here we are, my first review in 6 months. GASP! If you don't know already, Laura Marling is one of the U.K's most talented and renowned folk musicians. On her fourth album, the 23 year old is on tour in the U.K again with just her guitar for company.  This is a gig I was very excited...

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Many of Morrissey

The are my favourite photos of Morrissey, hope you enjoy them. I usually post many photos of Moz on my Tumblr: www.theelectricmangoclub.tumblr.c...

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Let's catch up!

Good day, Hope you had a nice summer and are having a pleasant autumn. You may or may not know that I now do most of my bloggy stuff on Tumblr now rather than on Blogger. That is great and all but I realised recently that all I really do on Tumblr is find photos on Pinterest and shove them on there instead rather than write all that much. I haven't written anything really since I turned 16 so I...

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Biffy Clyro - "Folding Stars" Live at Wembley.

I stumbled across Biffy Clyro completely by accident. I was on iTunes and I saw "Only Revolutions" in the chart and really liked the artwork and so bought it two Christmases ago. I listened to it and loved it straight away. Around March 2011, I was in Morrisons in West Brom and I can across the live album of the Wembley Gig in December (at this point I'd only listened to "Only Revolutions") and begged...

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Who Needs Glastonbury When You Have Hard Rock Calling?

I turned 16 in May and as my birthday present my parents bought two tickets to Saturday at Hard Rock Calling at Queen Elizabeth Park (The Olympic Village). This was my first big festival and included bands such as Kodaline, Tribes and Kasabian. I'm very tired because we didn't get back until about...

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I'm an iPhone user who hates iPhones... lock me up!!

... Awkwardly, I'm writing this on an iPhone! There are a lot of reasons why I got an iPhone: it's top of the market, loads of apps, most of my friends have one. But after a year and a half, I'm coming to the end of my contract and so am starting think what phone shall I get next? Do I want an iPhone again? The answer is NO. In fact, I'm jumping ship completely and considering Windows Phone...

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Agit8: Bring protest songs back into the public eye.

I was watching BBC Breakfast this morning and I was looking at my computer at the same time as you do when you're not doing anything but something caught my attention. It was a man talking about Agit8 which is a campaign being run by ONE trying to get world leaders at the G8 Summit to tackle world...

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What I'm listening to at the moment.

I'm writing a post about Hard Rock Calling at the minute and it should be up soon but until then here is my music for the evening! ...

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Things That Make My Life.

My life isn't all about listening to and playing music. Although that is a big part of my life, there are other things that make me get up in the morning. (Some of these will be music related!). Me at a the Hallraiser Concert at my school. Music in general - I have never thought about my life...

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New/old Twitter.

I don't like having to switch between Twitter feeds to get what I write out there so I've decided that all my twitter activity will go onto one account, my personal one. The link to that account is: http://goo.gl/J3gqn. I will keep the blog's current Twitter feed open because I've got a few contacts in there at the minute but it will go in the near futu...

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Ellie Goulding - Tessellate Cover (Alt-J)

I'm a bit of an Alt-J fan and I'm not that much of an Ellie Goulding fan but this is just great! Just thought I'd put it on as a Friday thing... maybe as track of the week? It really is top class, listen!!     Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thelecmangoc...

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Changes in music taste: Why is my music better than yours?

This is not my comment. It just got me thinking! We have all had that debate in our families - you sit there and complain that your fellow relative is playing drivel and that they should listen to decent music like you. In my family, we're ok when it comes to music taste but my brother does tend...

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Leicester Bands: Titan.

Being from Leicestershire, I thought it would be good for me to cover some local bands. Looking through my followers I found a band called Titan who are indeed from Leicester and have recently taken part in some of Leicester's biggest music venues including the Leicester O2 Academy and Glastonbudget. The...

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Top 10 Albums Of The Year So Far

This year has been a pretty good year for music so far. This is my top ten of the best albums released this year. 10. "Exile" - Hurts. I waited a long time for this album to come out and I was worried that it wouldn't when the duo said they'd forgotten how to write music but obviously, it wasn't true....

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Maintenance...

Wow... I have noticed a boom in traffic over the past day or so and I would like to say thank you to people for looking at my blog. I have just hit 10,000 page views which may not seem like a lot to you but is a lot to me. I would just like to remind people that I do this completely for fun, there...

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Want free Smiths sheet music?

http://www.smithsonguitar.com/ All musicians have been there, you want to learn a song on guitar or piano or whatever but you don't want to spend money on sheet music or online tabs are too vague. I have a solution, http://www.smithsonguitar.com/! This is obviously just for music by the Smiths...

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Iain Banks, 1954-2013

This isn't music related but I still think it's important. I have a lot of heroes and a lot of them are musicians but not all of them. Some of them are writers and one of those writers is Iain Banks. My English teacher decided to give everyone in the class a book to read over the summer last year to...

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The Smith's have regained their credibility!

David Cameron at the Salford Lads Club. Today, after a grueling few months of misery at the idea of David Cameron being a Smith's fan, the people won. It was announced today that David Cameron is looking for a new favourite band to fill the gap of his so called love for the Smiths. What I really...

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Idol Page - Laura Marling.

You know that feeling when you absolutely adore someone just because you wish you were them. This is mainly how I feel about Laura Marling. Ever since I was a little girl driving up to Oben in the car, I have listen to and been interested in folk music. I let it slip a lot until I got to my current...

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Maintenance...

Sorry I haven't been about for such a long time... I had a big coursework deadline and I'm now in the middle of my GCSEs. I've got a little bit of a break this week because it's half term and my exams will be finished on the 14th June so I should have time to write some stuff for you guys! So, since 2nd March a lot has happened... I turned 16; Tribes released their 2nd album; Vampire Weekend returned;...

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Directioners, why you so angry?

As much as I'm not fond of NME's review writing at the minute, the NME Awards are still my favourite music awards ceremony of the year. It was a good night for a lot of my favourite musicians - Biffy Clyro won best British band, Johnny Marr won Godlike Genius, Palma Violets won best new band. Although...

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What has happened to NME?

Hello all, I haven't posted in a while because I've been extremely busy with coursework but I'm back to talk about what was my favourite music magazine NME.  Now 2013 was meant to be a a year of great music and great artist and to me (even though we're only two months in) it has but apparently,...

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"Opposites" Album Preview - Biffy Clyro

"Opposites" Album Artwork. This month, Scottish rock giants, Biffy Clyro will be releasing their sixth album “Opposites”. Over the past ten years, Biffy have experimented with many different instruments and playing techniques on their albums from playing around with synths and drum machines to...

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