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!