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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