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

Hello fellow bloggers, readers and all round amazing people visiting the Blazing Minds blog, now if you’ve been reading the blog recently you will have seen the post I did about the Blazing Minds Twitter finally reaching 15,000 followers and the mention of a new contest, well here it is!

I put the call out the other day for some sponsors for to donate to the contest and I’m glad to say that the call was answered and so I’ve now got some great prizes in the new contest including advertising, a cash prize, blog promotion and copies of the brilliant Blogging The Essential Guide (Which I reviewed here on this very blog)

The Great Blazing Minds Contest Is Here!

As I mentioned earlier there are some great sponsors for the contest and you never know there may be some more as the contest rolls along, so there will be even more great prizes for you to have a chance at winning.
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OK so this may not mean a lot to everyone, but it means a heck of a lot to me, over the last few months I was running a slight Twitter Contest, to finally break that 15,000 followers on Twitter that seemed to elude the @BlazingMinds Twitter for a while.

I tweeted out to my followers asking to RT a tweet about a draw which will be made when the Blazing Minds Twitter finally broke the 15,000 mark, quite a few followers ReTweeted the tweet and several ReTweeted it several times.

We Did It! Did What? We Finally Broke 15,000 Followers On Twitter!

So I’ve sorted out who has won an Exclusive Blazing Minds T-Shirt, which will be specially customized for the winner, the winner has been chosen from the 15,000 followers and it is someone who is still following and has done the most Tweets in promoting the contest and believe me it’s taken a while to sift through all the entries, but I’ve finally got down to a winner who has put in quite a lot of tweets and is a loyal follower.

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So It’s now official Vue has acquired Apollo Cinemas for the massive some of £20m, meaning that Vue will now have 85 cinemas across the country. The news spread across several newspaper websites such as The Financial Times, The Independent to name but a few the other day.

Vue Acquires Apollo Cinemas For £20m

Apollo Cinemas is smaller than some of the bigger cinemas franchises such as Odeon, Cineworld and Vue. Apollo Cinemas are also equipped with State of the art Sony 4K digital projection, 3D and some amazing Dolby Digital 7.1 surround systems.

Simon Gregg From Apollo Cinemas said: “I believe that the sale of my late mother’s company to Vue will place the circuit in good hands. We are very proud of what we have achieved and wish all our employees even more success in the future. Being part of Vue allows them new opportunities to progress their careers with the UK’s leading cinema company.”
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So as a lot of you who have read Blazing Minds since day one, you will probably know that I have worked in to the twilight hours with many posts including the music reviews.

A little while back my good friend Dan (@danmillerr) who I met at @ApolloCinemas kindly took a lot of the weight from my shoulders, by becoming the Resident Music Reviewer here on Blazing Minds and believe me when I say it’s very much appreciated.

Today I’d like to introduce you to Dan and let you know just how you can get your music and band reviewed by Dan here on the blog.
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A bit of a short post from me today, it’s really a public announcement for all you  film fans out there that are in the vicinity of my local haunt, @ApolloCinemas Rhyl.

Myself and the cinema have got together for  fun night for all of you who do adore movies and would like to meet up, talk about films that you love or hate, have a laugh, meet new friends and more.

Almost Time For The Blazing Minds TweetUp / Facebook Hook Up

The event will be held on 1st May at the Apollo Cinema in Rhyl in the sea-view bar, you will have a chance to grab yourself a drink in the licensed bar, with 20% off your first drink, while chatting with everyone.

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So last night was the night that I had tweeted, facebooked and generally shouted about from the roof tops, the night when David Bolton would be performing live on stage at The Apollo Cinema in Rhyl.

All I can say is to those that refused the invitation to come to the show, seriously missed out on an amazing show from David Bolton, as he hypnotised members of the audience to do some really funny things, such as rowing a boat, being a super spy and even a nit nurse!

David Bolton Performed HypnoMagic Live @ApolloCinemas Rhyl

So the night kicked off at about 7:45 with David Bolton explaining to everyone a little bit about hypnosis and what he does in his show and the safety aspects on who can and shouldn’t come up to the stage to be hypnotised.

Then after a little coaxing of the audience several of them took the plunge and took to the stage for the night of fun to begin.

Now I do have to say that I was little sceptical at first, as I am probably one of the few people who can’t be hypnotised and believe me I have tried it to help with the habit of biting my nails, but nothing,  so I wasn’t really sure that this was going to be a good show or not, oh how wrong I was.

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