As  a lot of you know that read the Blazing Minds Blog from time to time I like to announce events that support local bands, artists, actors and film makers etc. This is one of those times.

This is for a local event, in my neck of the woods, and is brought to you by Ocean Jam Productions, so without me banging on about the event, let me give you some details about the event first:

Ocean Jam Music Promotions are proud to present…
Dirty Static with support from
Portlights,
Vevars,
The Bluebottle Veins
and Secateurs.

Doors open at 7.30 pm on the 26th May.

Tickets cost £5 and it will cost £6 on the door.They will be available from Friday the 27th April
If you sell 10 tickets for us then you will get yours for free

Text or call 07414876536 for local tickets and they will be available elsewhere as soon as possible.

Come along and support your local music scene and have a blast while you are at it!

ANY ONE WELCOME! 16+

The night of music is being held at Connah’s Quay Labour and Community Club and it should be an amazing fun filled night with some great music, I get to go myself, but sadly I’m working that night, but hopefully local music lovers will make up for my absence

If you like the sound of a night of music then stop by the Event Page on Facebook and show your support that you’ll be going on the 26th May and most of all, have loads of fun

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Imagine you are working out to your favorite EDM. You’re running on the treadmill, you’ve got your blood pumping and you’re in the perfect rhythm. Suddenly, the song on your iPod changes to a different track that completely ruins the mood. We’ve all been there, and there is nothing worse than trying to exercise to a beat that doesn’t match the pace of your workout. However, it can be hard to find songs that are always right on target.

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Dad-Rockers will be thrilled to hear that they don’t need to stagger too far from their armchairs this year if they want to rock out to their favourite bands from the 70s, 80s and 90s.

Pearl Jam

This year the Isle of Wight Festival is entertaining two of the biggest dinosaurs of MOR and Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers. Tom Petty will be making his first appearance in the UK in over two decades while Pearl Jam’s only UK festival booking is at the festival. Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will close the festival on the Sunday night. You can see a full line-up of bands here, just click on each badge to see each stage.

The Isle of Wight Festival is one of the world’s oldest regular rock festivals but that doesn’t mean that it’s attended and run by a gang of washed up rockers still trying to make out they’re as “groovy” as they were forty years ago. This year’s line up also includes the likes of Crystal Castles, Magnetic Man, Noah and the Whale, Jessie J, and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.

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We’ve all been in the position where we’ve been taken in by a beautiful spot in the country, and want to have a weekend or a week break there – only to find it is hours away in the car. When this happens, you have to be ready to pick up the best albums in your house, load them onto your ipod and enjoy the journey.

But, what are the best albums to listen to? Are there certain picks that are better suited for travelling through the country? For example, The XX are more of a band to listen to in and around the city. Here we will have a look at a few to help you on your way when your en-route to one of the many Sykes Cottages around the United Kingdom.

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Misheard lyrics, sometimes known as mondegreens are near homophones which confuse but can be amusing at the same time. The term ‘mondegreen’ was coined in an article by Sylvia Wright in an article published by Harpers in 1954 and comes from the fourth line of Percy’s Reliques that her mother used to recite to her. The stanza should say

“They hae slain the Earl O’ Moray, and Laid him on the green.”

Dropping Phat Beats Old School

However, Wright thought both the earl and a Lady Mondegreen had both been murdered.

The best thing about mondegreens is that they are so often better than the original lyric or line. When I was a child I thought Michael Jackson went to the post office to buy himself a fizzy drink.

“Get down to the post office, don’t drop ‘til you get a pop!” whereas, rather incredibly, the real lyric is “keep on with the force don’t stop, don’t stop ‘til you get enough.”

Because we learn language not only by listening but contextualising and (usually) looking at the mouth of our interlocutor pop songs and poetry lend themselves very well to misunderstanding. Pop songs have little or no context and poetry tends to use language strangely in order to make use of rhyme, metre and rhythm.

There are of course anti-mondegreens, Steve Miller, in his song The Joker invented ‘pompatus’ because he couldn’t think of anything else that would fit, creating the line “Some people call me Maurice, ‘cos I speak of the pompatus of love.”

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Ok I promise that this is going to be the last “Top List” post that I do for updates from last year, but as a lot of you who read Blazing Minds also know me for my love of music, I thought I would do a musical based “Top List” post using my personally scrobbles via Last.fm so this is my Top Artists, Albums And Track Scrobbles list.

Ever since I got my iPod Classic a couple of years ago, my music collection has been growing and though it’s not as big as some peoples music lists, so far I have around 6,320 tracks on my iPod, it is great for me and I get  to add some amazinging unsigned artists to it quite frequently and have even had the honour of working with a few on my Remergence project.

So as you can expect I do have a tendency to play a lot of music on my iPod and when it is plugged in to iTunes it syncs up with last.fm and records what I have been listening to, though sometimes last.fm has a bit of a fit and doesn’t “scrobble” the tracks, but besides from that it’s all automatically done for me
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Ok everyone! This could possibly be the final update to this post, so lets get on with it

Now I’ve always been a fan of the TV show Monkey Dust that used to be on BBC Three some years ago with it’s quirky characters and amazing music, this is the show that introduced me to the wonderful musical talents of Goldfrapp and Boards of Canada!

So since having a trusty iPod I’ve been collecting the tracks that have been on the several series that the show ran over and when I originally typed this post I had 22 tracks, now at my most recent count I have 56 tracks that were used over the three series on Monkey Dust, yes that many!

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