Well...

Since I last blogged I have been a busy monkey...

I spent another brilliant week at Toast press which was exciting and fun, I heard the new Klaxons album, its literally only just been recorded and not out till February so that was pretty damn exciting, plus its really good cannae wait till its out...

Then it was my birthday! Happy birthday to me eh? Is it really a year since we were all partying our socks off? Blimey, I dont know where the year has gone, its been a pretty amazing one...

Still the lovely Donbon, the mad-dad-dancing-Paul and the boy did come to bedford and we did drink and spill drinks and generally have a great time in tha pad!





Then I landed meself a job! wooooooo! I think I would have taken anything at that point because I was literally going mad with boredom and frustration. So I am a receptioning in London just outside of Liverpool street station and a Molton Brown shop... ah the temptation! It was pretty boring at first but after 2 days there they offered me a full time job which was nice, I didnt take it though, so I will currently just be temping for them over christmas and until they get a replacement.

The deputy chairman (Geoff Morrow)is a songwriter (he wrote songs for Elvis! rock n roll eh!?!) and writer and music producer though, so he is a good person to know!

I have also started a course on saturdays at the University of the Arts in London, in Features Journalism which is good but means that I havent got so much time at the weekends now... but it is really useful and will look good on my CV which is what matters really right now.

I have also had a couple more major things published, one in The Comet, which is a local paper and then another on Gigwise both of which I am pretty pleased with.

I have also reached a breakthrough as I'm being sent CDs from record companies to be considered for review on The Scene website and have reviewed The Dykeenies and The Sounds already, which are online. The only thing is that I am now being inundated and dont have enough time to listen and review them all which is a little frustrating... there just doesnt seem to be enough time in the week!

So yes, thats me up to date the main thing is, I am getting paid for something now so christmas will be a little more fun! haha!

Messages for people!

Cath - how is everything? I AM going to write you a letter and send you a streets lighter soon I promise!

Kelly D - How is the new house? email update please!!

Rhiannon - Rhiannon! Rhi! Rhiannon!!? Are you home?! How the devil are you?! Does it feel like a tropical climate here?!? haha! email me asap tell me all, or give me a ring, I'm not too busy to catch up!

Well this will do, if anyone is passing london and wants to get some lunch or meet after work for a drink, let me know, or or or I am constantly getting free tickets for gigs that I cant go to cos I have no mates(!!) if you wanna come to any then give me a bell!

Ok ok I'm going! Bye!

Raaaaugh!

Sometimes I annoy myself!

Today I had the absolutely mental idea of doing a music search on myspace to find all the bands for each genre in every country...

So, what I decided was this. You search 'All Genres' for each country down the list, using 'Music' as your Keyword (as simple as I could think) and 'Influences' as your search criteria.... then you see what you come up with...

I started a spreadsheet and everything. But it doesnt help that bands and artists can put up to three genres on their page, which makes it harder to search. Bands regularly post that they are from completely different countries. Also what other information could you get? The amount of bands with record contracts? The number of members in a band? The number of friends? Add to this the fact that approximately 20,000 people are being added to MySpace everyday, this means that any information gathered would just be almost immediately redundant. My idea is obviously frought with complexities and I have done my head in trying to figure out a way to make it work.

I also got bored around Columbia.

I did turn up something interesting though. Searching for music in Afghanistan, there were 12 bands or artists... only 1 of which was actually from Afghanistan, 10 were from the USA and 1 was from the UK. One of these artists, from Pittsburgh USA listed their primary Genre as 'Christian'.

And I found a lovely little Rockabilly band called Adam & his Nuclear Rockets, from Croatia of all places...

I clearly have too much time on my hands.

So yes I'm still chuffing unemployed (3 weeks now!) and seem to be getting nowhere however heard I try, loads of places will give me work but nowhere wants to pay me. I cant even get a receptionist job because I'm not a "career receptionist" I mean how stupidly depressing is that?!

On the up side I am going back to Toast Press next week for a week which will be good.

I've also started writing for the holy grail of music magazines The Bedfordshire On Sunday!

Haha! Actually its quite good, I searched out a local Band who I think are going to get pretty big , they are called Look See Proof and I approached them for an interview. So on wednesday night I found myself sat in The Fly Bar in Laaahndan town with some pretty boys talking about music, bliss!

I wrote a review of their little gig and what is now on the Bedfordshire/Milton Keynes on Sunday website which has a little mini site called The Scene I am also going to be involved in that, getting albums and singles to review for them. I sourced that myself through my PR contacts and they are being sent directly to my house! (wooo free music, beautiful!) so I will actually be doing a kind of editorial thing as I will be deciding what is worth reviewing. Its a step up, but again, no pay so we'll see.

Hopefully my feature on The Rank Deluxe will be in the December issue of Disorder magazine, and I am having a short piece on Look See Proof in either the January or February issue... still writing for Gigwise.com which is good...

If anyone hears of any jobs going, my god please! let me know! I'm going kerayzeeeee!

Its my birthday next week, if anyone fancies a raucous night out in Bedford let me know! haha!