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New ALBUM release "Land Of Plenty"

By Sherz, 2008-12-17

Well, today is the official release day of Land Of Plenty, my 9th studio album. <img src="http://forum.cubase.net/phpbb2/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif" border="0" alt="Smile" /> The idea for LOP was inspired by a song that was largely written by a friend of mine, a song which is in fact the title track. Rhys and I go way back...back to high school days. The song essentially talks about immigrants to Aotearoa, (New Zealand), back in the days when it was indeed considered to be the Land Of Plenty. My parents were amongst those immigrants that came here back in the early 60's. Well, times have changed since then of course...but it's still not a bad spot all in all <img src="http://forum.cubase.net/phpbb2/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif" border="0" alt="Wink" /> So, LOP is my musical homage, both in song and instrumental, to my home, the city of Auckland, and the country New Zealand where I have lived most of my life. (I'm a Brit by birth). I am hugely grateful to those that helped out and directly contributed to the songs: My long time collab buddy: <img src="http://forum.cubase.net/phpbb2/images/smiles/icon_cool.gif" border="0" alt="Cool" /> Wolf Menzel- vocals <img src="http://forum.cubase.net/phpbb2/images/smiles/icon_cool.gif" border="0" alt="Cool" /> Lenny Lee - vocals & bass <img src="http://forum.cubase.net/phpbb2/images/smiles/icon_cool.gif" border="0" alt="Cool" /> Nick Crosby - vocals, guitars, lyrics <img src="http://forum.cubase.net/phpbb2/images/smiles/icon_cool.gif" border="0" alt="Cool" /> Jet Crawford - composition, lyrics, vocals, guitars & bass <img src="http://forum.cubase.net/phpbb2/images/smiles/icon_cool.gif" border="0" alt="Cool" /> Nate Pike - lead guitar <img src="http://forum.cubase.net/phpbb2/images/smiles/icon_cool.gif" border="0" alt="Cool" /> Neil Bonfield - lead guitar <img src="http://forum.cubase.net/phpbb2/images/smiles/icon_cool.gif" border="0" alt="Cool" /> Geoff Van Maastricht - dobro of course!! <img src="http://forum.cubase.net/phpbb2/images/smiles/icon_cool.gif" border="0" alt="Cool" /> Vaughn Fowler - lead guitar <img src="http://forum.cubase.net/phpbb2/images/smiles/icon_cool.gif" border="0" alt="Cool" /> Wim Koopman <- no Sherz album would be complete without some Wim sax onboard!! <img src="http://forum.cubase.net/phpbb2/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif" border="0" alt="Very Happy" /> <img src="http://forum.cubase.net/phpbb2/images/smiles/icon_cool.gif" border="0" alt="Cool" /> John Wooten - drums and a couple of local friends as well, Samuel Braverman and Shaelie Kraemborg. (vocals & flute)   So, it's all duplicated and printed ready in time for Xmas pressie for the family! They're kinda used now to getting a Sherz CD for Xmas!  *** NEWS FLASH *** "Land Of PLenty" will be featured on a special segment on <a href="http://www.wtv.co.nz/" target="_blank" class="postlink">WTV</a> today as part a regular live current affairs show, simultaneously broadcast on both TV and radio. It seems the local Chinese community are quite fascinated by my musical indulgences! <a href=" http://www.blacksandsmusic.co.nz/black_sands_store.htm" title="Land Of Plenty CD"> http://www.blacksandsmusic.co.nz/black_sands_store.htm</a>

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Demand it if you want me to come to your city!

By aysha63, 2008-12-16

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Newcomer

By Thirtysilver, 2008-12-16

Hello, all!  I'm Thirtysilver. I have been writing music for 20 years.  I love music and writing lyrics.  My music is pretty laid-back and introspective, but the lyrics are often highly emotional.  I'm not signed at this point.  Enjoy! -Ryan Thirtysilver

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A song for the homeless

By selftort, 2008-12-16

Compliments of the season to all mixposure members. I had been hoping to do a Holiday message and related song, but my recorder's decided that, now that I'm going to have time to use it for a while without work pressures, it's going on holiday too. So instead I thought I'd post a song that I recently wrote about the homeless. At this time of year it's a good time to reflect about those who are less fortunate than ourselves. I've set out how the song came about in the info section of the song page if you're interested. Best wishes to all for the holiday season and for a creative and productive 2009. Cheers Brian

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Computers are a pain in the A!!!

By Milo, 2008-12-14

G'day guys, sorry I havent been around much for a while ,as in my previouse post I had a lot of computer troubles going on, so in the end I ditched my 6 year old xp pc and got a new laptop, a toshiba p4 duel core 2  2.1 ghz , 2 gig ram , 230 gig hard drive and windows vista home premium, man, getting used to vista is fun!
<div>Also on the weekend bought an external sound card for the laptop, its a zoom USB audio interface S2t, any one here got one?</div>
<div>its got a tube thingy in it and also came with cubase Le 4.. man fun times of getting that up n running, finally got it to record and play back, now just have to learn how to do some other stuff with it, like i used to in guitar tracks pro 3, this new cubase comes also with guitar rig 3, heaps of cool guitar sounds that I need time to play around with, so I'm back in a of and on thing for the time being.. </div>
<div>maybe soon I'll get up a new song once I work out  a few bugs in my learning of cubase Le 4,... </div>
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<div>so thanks every one for keeping an ear out for me, !</div>

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DAVID KIDMAN REVIEWS DELIBERATE MISTAKE

By The Rawmarsh Mashers, 2008-12-13

I'm going to be honest, when I gave David Kidman a copy of our CD to review, I did so while holding my breath.  Afterall David has the reputation of being completely honest in his reviews of material and "Deliberate Mistake" was our first venture into the world of recording.
 
And while fenses have been mended since the Bank Holiday clash at Chapeltown, well covered at the time, and life has moved on, I would not be human if I were not just a bit worried about what David might have to say about The Mashers.
 
THE MASHERS ARE TO SAY THE LEAST "GOB SMACKED" BY WHAT FOLLOWS -  
 
The Rawmarsh Mashers – DELIBERATE MISTAKE (Own Label) 
Who on earth? What on earth? What the hell? Answers to all these and many other burning questions are available on the below-mentioned MySpace link, but as for the basics, The Rawmarsh Mashers are (is) best described as a good-time folk (-ish) duo based near Rotherham (deep in the fair Republic Of South Yorkshire), whose totally admirable credo is to play live, to entertain and to have fun. 
No fancy arrangements, no pretensions to great art or deep philosophical statement: just good honest old-fashioned fun-folk – supremely raw, loud, lively and above all ultra-enthusiastic –and yet not without a certain level of right-on political stance that appeals greatly to my own nature and sensibilities. 
Together, the redoubtable Mashers – Richard (lead vocals and rhythm guitar) and Myke (lead guitar and backing vocals) – provide the necessary antidote to the sides of folk that continually threaten to become over-serious. They've a distinct kinship with groups like the (Liverpool) Spinners or Fivepenny Piece, or at any rate how they were before they got too "popular" (and too polished and too sentimental). And although based in Rotherham, they're both exiles from further south (the Gosport and Portsmouth area being Richard's early stamping-ground, whereas Myke hails from Cheshire) and clearly they love the North (sensible fellas!). 


You might say the Mashers' choice of material is unashamedly populist, but in the nicest possible way. Aside from a host of 60s pop classics (not represented on this CD), they trade mostly in songs irreverently reflecting the vagaries and idiosyncrasies of life itself, whether directly comedic or genially wistful, and generally of the pub-singalong variety, with a smattering of crowd-pleasers (traditional fare like Two Recruiting Sergeants and Whip Jamboree, and the Dambuskers' Drink Down The Moon) nestling in amongst a deceptively canny selection of modern-day works loosely in the folk-satire category, from the pens of often underrated writers like Matt McGinn (Three Nights And A Sunday Double Time), Jon Isherwood (My Health Dear), Robb Johnson (Be Reasonable) and Tony Miles (Bloody Rotten Audience). The Mashers even have a theme song that sets out their stall pretty directly and persuasively (perhaps that should've been placed first on the CD?)! 


They also creditably exhume the traditional tale of Jessie Munroe and do a nice line in justified righteous anger with a passionate take on Peter Hames' Ordinary Man, while on the other hand who can possibly resist their customised "slight corruption" of Bernard Wrigley's The Martians Have Landed In Rawmarsh?!… 
 


And so what if some of the jokes are at times toe-curlingly predictable?! This CD, a totally WYSIWYG affair, although "produced" by Brian Bedford, is unadulterated Mashers – by which I don't mean it's childish, but that it's utterly devoid of any studio enhancements. It's exactly as the Mashers sound live, down to every last "deliberate mistake". 
 Actually (and the Mashers probably won't like me for saying this!), there's a bigger degree of accomplishment here than I've heard in some "professional" recordings, it's just that it's unassumedly worn and kept under wraps somewhat, for the Mashers' overriding concern is that both they and their audience enjoy themselves. 


They're good at what they do, they have their niche, they stick to it – and good for them! So any critical review that might castigate them for a few wrong words here or a duff chord-change there, an off-key vocal or a crap entry, is just not appropriate – and in any case, anything in the first-mentioned category (most likely mis-hearings or mondegreens!) is all part of the time-honoured folk process in the end, right? 


 And anyone who through the Mashers' brazenly brash and purposely no-frills presentation gets the impression that they're just taking the p*** and have no respect for their material or their audience, well they're missing the point entirely: they do care, and to a perhaps surprising extent. 
 


Don't expect jaw-dropping instrumental technique, cutting-edge musical adventures or sensitive expression – instead, just go with the flow (yes, there is one!) and you'll have a great time. Just like I did. And nowt wrong wi' that, guv!

<a href="http://www.myspace.com/therawmarshmashers" title="http://www.myspace.com/therawmarshmashers">http://www.myspace.com/therawmarshmashers</a>
DAVID KIDMAN
To be published on  <a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3Lm5ldHJoeXRobXMuY28udWsv" title="http://www.netrhythms.co.uk/">www.netrhythms.co.uk</a>

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Artist Page Changes

By Admin, 2008-12-13

In an effort to reduce the load time of your artist page, since it housed not only artist comments but fans as well, we had to make a change. You will see your first 9 fans on the page with a page next to see subsequent friends/fans. The music page was also changed as you will notice. Granted before we had it set to 10 or 15 songs per page so it was not bad but when there were many songs plus reviews there, it loaded a bit slow also. So anyway there are some changes there and we will probably doing some tweaks over the next few days. Thanks! Dazed

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EPK Information

By enterlaruche, 2008-12-13

You can find Seven Car Pileup's Electronic Press Kit (EPK) online by clicking <a href="http://www.sonicbids.com/epk/epk.aspx?epk_id=173900" title="Seven Car Pileup EPK">here</a>.

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MIX Radio Rebroadcast of SNR with Joseph Rodriguez

By iMS Radio, 2008-12-13

Another great Saturday Night Rocks show has past and with it, another great Mix Radio's Center Stage Presentation with our special guest <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/Joseph_Rodriguez/">Joseph Rodriguez</a>! Joseph was not able to be in the chat during the show, because he was doing what he does best: play music - yeah - live gig!!! Can't beat that! But, we enjoyed his CSP very much!!! We thank the listeners from Cygnusradio.com for tuning in and thanks to the iTunes listeners as well! I hope, you enjoyed the show! Once again, if you missed this last show, please download it to your iPOD or whatever means to listen to a rebroadcast of this great show via the following links (or, you can just listen - no need to download - just right-lick and open!): <a href="http://www.guitaristworks.com/iMSRadio/20081206CSPJosephRodriguez.mp3">December 13, 2008 SNR - featuring Joseph Rodriguez</a> The complete playlist of this past Saturday's show is <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/index.php?c=saturday_night_rocks_dec_13_2008">HERE</a>. Here is Wave Roofer's show from this Sunday: <a href="http://www.guitaristworks.com/iMSRadio/20081214SundayVibeWithWave%20Roofer.mp3">December 14, 2008 A Sunday Vive with Wave Roofer</a> Last, but not least, here is Kephas' last show: <a href="http://www.guitaristworks.com/iMSRadio/20081211ThursdayNightOutWithKephas.mp3">December 11, 2008 Thursday Night Out with Kephas</a> For all other re-broadcast links, please visit the <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/MixRadio/blog.php">Mix Radio Blogs Page</a> I hope to see you again on Saturday, December 27, 2008 for another exciting Mix Radio Center Stage Presentation via Mixposure.com - "Interactive Radio" at its best! And for those of you who want to play the guessing game as to who the next CSP will be, join our <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=104&sid=dbbca20e97ffd01dbc7482fd0579f5dc">Mix Radio DJ's Corner.</a> For our LIVE DJ schedule, please vitit <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/index.php?t=mix_radio_dj">this page</a>. Until next time - your Host, <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/Mike_Kohlgraf/">Mike K</a>

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MIX Radio Rebroadcast of SNR with Joseph Rodriguez

By iMS Radio, 2008-12-13

Another great Saturday Night Rocks show has past and with it, another great Mix Radio's Center Stage Presentation with our special guest <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/Joseph_Rodriguez/">Joseph Rodriguez</a>! Joseph was not able to be in the chat during the show, because he was doing what he does best: play music - yeah - live gig!!! Can't beat that! But, we enjoyed his CSP very much!!! We thank the listeners from Cygnusradio.com for tuning in and thanks to the iTunes listeners as well! I hope, you enjoyed the show! Once again, if you missed this last show, please download it to your iPOD or whatever means to listen to a rebroadcast of this great show via the following links (or, you can just listen - no need to download - just right-lick and open!): <a href="http://www.guitaristworks.com/iMSRadio/20081206CSPJosephRodriguez.mp3">December 13, 2008 SNR - featuring Joseph Rodriguez</a> The complete playlist of this past Saturday's show is <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/index.php?c=saturday_night_rocks_dec_13_2008">HERE</a>. Here is Wave Roofer's show from this Sunday: <a href="http://www.guitaristworks.com/iMSRadio/20081214SundayVibeWithWave%20Roofer.mp3">December 14, 2008 A Sunday Vive with Wave Roofer</a> Last, but not least, here is Kephas' last show: <a href="http://www.guitaristworks.com/iMSRadio/20081211ThursdayNightOutWithKephas.mp3">December 11, 2008 Thursday Night Out with Kephas</a> For all other re-broadcast links, please visit the <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/MixRadio/blog.php">Mix Radio Blogs Page</a> I hope to see you again on Saturday, December 27, 2008 for another exciting Mix Radio Center Stage Presentation via Mixposure.com - "Interactive Radio" at its best! And for those of you who want to play the guessing game as to who the next CSP will be, join our <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=104&sid=dbbca20e97ffd01dbc7482fd0579f5dc">Mix Radio DJ's Corner.</a> For our LIVE DJ schedule, please vitit <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/index.php?t=mix_radio_dj">this page</a>. Until next time - your Host, <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/Mike_Kohlgraf/">Mike K</a>

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