A new CDBaby Music Player has now been added to The Blogging Musician, containing my debut album : This Is Who I Am. This is it….. No help nor hindrance, from beginning to end. Acoustic ballads to multi-layered rock and all points in between. The Blogging Musician has really taken off in the last few […]
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Part 6: Billed as “The Largest night-club in central Europe”, Karlovy Lázně was an obvious end-point for the evening. U Vejvodů has been the ideal setup, but now I was stumbling through the darkened corridors of Prague’s old town towards it. Prague’s back-streets sprang into life as the darkness fell. The lifeless shuttered windows opening out, revealing
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Desmond Rhodes is a writer and musician, not necessarily in that order. He bats around things to write on his drum throne as his guitarists fight over solo time. You can find him on Twitter @desmond_rhodes. Desmond @ The Blogging Musician : Supporting Your Local Music Scene First Show Preparedness Guide Non-Musician Skills for a
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Whether you’re an artist or simply a music enthusiast, you should know the importance of supporting your local music scene. Without it, the world would be filled with cold, calculated music played by computers and sang through heavy autotune. It’s a struggle for the little guys to keep going in the music scene. It is
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Guns N’ Roses – a hard rock group that first formed in 1985 – was one of the most successful bands of 2017, in any genre. It might not be your kind of music, and you may not personally have come across anything to do with GNR last year, but that’s really an astounding fact.
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So this week we reformed our old band. Cosmic Space Pirates. I’ve missed it, greatly, summing it up a while back in The little things I miss about being in a band. I was going to try and express my thoughts on getting back into it through the usual blog, but I came across this
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If you’re a music lover, you’ve probably experienced this scenario lots of times: you wake up early in the morning to see if tickets are on sale to see your favourite musician, but after searching for tickets, you find that they’re all sold out. The reason? Ticket touts. They have been around for decades, and
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Adam Harkus wrote a great blog recently: Is the Human Race going backwards? This exact thought has shot through my head countless times over recent years. There was a film in 2006 by Mike Judge called Idiocracy. 400 years into the future, people turned into lazy, sloth-like nitwits. They threw garbage out of their windows
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Meet Thompson Crowley: A fellow Blogging Musician, songwriter, author, traveller. A true inspiration to my own efforts. I was blessed as a child with a big garden and a mum that worked in a bookshop. That, along with many trips up to Scotland, fed my creativity. I started writing at a young age: poems,
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