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Extreme Climbing

The perfect thrill seekers holiday would be a trip into the unexplored, extraordinary and extreme nature - somewhere where your adrenaline lever will rise up significantly more than any other visit or action (except probably meeting your boyfriend’s/girlfriend’s parents). So a thrill seeker should always look for that dream location where there are only the nature and his pure adrenaline running throught his veins. For some people this recharges their lives, for others it gives them extreme happiness, and for More

Xavier Rudd - Gig

Xavier Rudd doesn’t come to the UK very often. His Australian heritage runs through him very strongly, and although there are people all over the globe who love his music, he tends to tour around his own Antipodean neck of the woods. So when he came to London, for one night only, earlier in the year, we were lucky even to get tickets. The gig had been hyped up for months in advance, and my friend and I were starting More

Janis Joplin was and is such an inspiration

When I first heard Janis Joplin I was very young, I still remember getting her CD in one of those metal packaging boxes from my best friend as a birthday gift. I heard her sing and was instantly captivated by her amazing voice. She has a rasp that is all her own. You are entranced by the lyrics and the melody of her songs. She sings about things that are true and real.

Her song Me and Bobby McGee is More

Britney Spears will soon be on top again

In the late 1990’s Britney Spears established herself as the Pop Princess. She had many different singles that became hits. Britney began singing when she was just a young girl. She would sing to her doll babies in the bathroom. She was in the Mickey Mouse Club at the age of eleven. She performed on the show until she was thirteen years old. In 1997, Britney decided to try her hand at singing. Innosense was an all female group that More

How I Missed-Out On Dead Can Dance.

There have been a lot of different concerts over the years that I would just love to have seen. Simon and Garfunkel in Central Park would have been nice and I would have really enjoyed a Cat Stevens show from around the time of ‘Tea for the Tillerman’. Another biggie would have been David Bowie at the Ziggy Stardust farewell concert and I really wish I’d seen The Sisters of Mercy in The Royal Albert Hall.

However, most of these More

Too Old

I was a bit too old to miss the whole record-player-in-your-bedroom craze. If I’d have been born five years earlier then I would have been exposed to a sea of music that I probably missed. But I don’t mind that too much: I arrived just in time for the age of the tape and CD. Two things which made music more accessible than ever. Cheap as well as easily transportable. Not only that: the covers looked cool too; and you More

Shabby Rogue: Album Review

It is very hard to believe that a talented band such as Shabby Rogue that is a part of modern music’s fastest growing genres (art-folk) has not been signed by a major record label. What makes this even more surprising is the fact that this band is so popular and has been viewed as one of the best around.

Anyone who has attended any of their live shows will surely remember the experience with excitement and wonder. For this reason More

Is Hip Hop losing its sting?

Hip Hop, historically, has been a draw to impressionable youth because of its anarchical and anti-establishment nature. It was a way for teenagers from all economic and social classes to rebel against authority, whether that be racial and religious intolerance within the lower classes, to rebellion towards ones parents or teachers within the middle or upper classes. Hip Hop has managed to unite all youth under one flag.

However, in this new decade, Hip Hop is losing out to other More

Sad They’re Gone: The Pixies

Sadly, I was born a few years too late to see The Pixies play live the first time around; while Kim Deal, Joey Santiago, Charles Thompson and David Lovering were out there blowing minds with their progressive, mind-bendingly strange rock songs, I thought Chesney Hawkes was actually pretty damn cool. It wasn’t until The Pixies and Nirvana had been replaced by Radiohead and Muse—not really an equal replacement by any means, it has to be said—that I owned all More

Best Music Vids - Faithless.

Let’s face it; Maxi Jazz is a pretty cool guy to begin with. He’s handsome, extremely photogenic and has a great voice for singing or for speaking. But how many people could still have managed to look so cool in this music video? Sitting on a sofa with a red snuggle-blanket round you is not a traditional way of bumping up your street cred. However, Maxi carries it off brilliantly. If you watch this enough then you will learn the More