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The Saturdays Prepared to do Battle with Boy Bands

August 13th, 2010
THE Saturdays say they’re armed and good to go into chart battle with the new super-charged boy bands. Since the feisty five-piece were last in the reckoning, Robbie Williams, thirty six, has rejoined Take That, JLS have scored a massive No one and The Wanted rose to the apex of the bill from nowhere. But the women Una Healy, 28, Mollie King, twenty-three, Vanessa White, twenty-one, Frankie Sandford and Rochelle Wiseman, both twenty-two are odds-on to score their first number 1 this weekend with new tune Missing You.Mollie told me: as far as I am concerned girls are dominating and will for an extended period of time.
The fellows have still got a good way to go. I am an exceedingly girl power person and love Katy Perry and Girls out loud. When Girls out loud return to the scene which will hopefully be shortly then there’ll be totally no competition. And the perky popstrels are upping the stakes by stealing concepts from the late King Of Pop, Michael Jackson.
Una, whose glam crew release new album News the week after next, exposed : We are always having dreams about what we could do as a band. I was watching Michael Jackson’s This Is It yesterday evening and that would’ve been one hell of a show. Like MJ showed, it should be all about the vision. He will not use them now, so perhaps we will be able to pinch his ideas. She added : it does not feel just like we are anywhere near where we would like to be. Our journey is only halfway thru. We have already started writing songs for album 4 and our plan is to make at least 5 albums.
In the meantime , the news the girls are about to land their first number 1 single is a sublime two-fingered salute to their doubters. Mollie asserted : We read a tale about our next single being make or break and how things looked very bad for us. Not one of us knew where that had come from, particularly as our last single Ego had been in the Top forty for something mad like half a year. As you can clearly see, we are really in a fairly good place. There is not any stopping us. Go, girls.
The saturdays missing you

Live Music Event of the Year

July 8th, 2010
The onstage music event of the year occurs in War Commemorative Park at the weekend as Basingstoke Live gets going and it’s all free. Make preparations for a couple of days of onstage music across 4 stages, spanning each music genre from blues to rock, reggae, metal, dance and pop, displaying the breadth of talent of usually Basingstoke bands and vocalists. However it is so much more than just a music event. Entertainment on the primary stage gets moving at 1pm on Sat. with Fairfield’s humanities Center’s World beat program, featuring a variety of dance and some music performances celebrating the various cultures and communities that contribute to Basingstoke.
Filling the primary stage’s headline spots are DJ crew Scratch Perverts on Sat., at 9.30pm, and Fortunate Soul on Sunday at 5.30pm. The 4 music promoters behind this year’s Dawn Stage are presenting a variety of MCs, DJs and other artists, and the 100 percent Tent is back with seventeen bands new to Basingstoke Live. The acoustic tones of budding artists will arise from the Unplgd! Stage, which is once more backed by Basingstoke’s youth volunteer program involved. The holiday, now in its 4th year, attracted about fifteen thousand folks last year and is funded by Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council.
For the 3rd year running, the stages, promoters, artists, volunteers, sponsors and traders are being co-ordinated by Drum Runners Trading, with some help from fellow members of the Basingstoke Live Forum.
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December 8th, 2009

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Children Proven to High Higher Self Esteem after Taking Singing Lessons

November 5th, 2009

Self esteem is a hot topic for parents of teens, and many have found that enrolling their kids in singing lessons for children or other kinds of music lessons can be a real boost to how kids feel about themselves. There are several advantages for teens who get involved in these types of activities. Whether it is the ability to meet new people, or the pride that comes from learning a new skill, singing lessons have been shown to make a difference in how kids see themselves.

Singing lessons offer teens a way to get out and meet new people, which can be key to expanding their social circles and helping them find new ways to “fit in.” They are often able to meet other teens who also have an interest in music, either through the singing lessons or by joining a choir or chorus. In addition, the confidence that comes as a byproduct of public performances can do wonders to improve self esteem. Both being part of a group and having individualized attention during lessons can bolster a teen’s self esteem.

Surprisingly, becoming more educated in the musical arts can spill over into other aspects of a teen’s education. Numerous studies have shown that kids who learn how to read music actually have an improved ability to understand mathematics. The result is a deeper understanding of other school subjects, and therefore the potential for higher grades. Again, this type of scholastic improvement has great potential to impact the teen’s overall sense of self.

Finally, singing lessons have the ability to improve self esteem in teens by the very virtue of being fun. Kids who discover that they have musical talent also find that they have a new-found source of pride. Even those who are not concert-ready often enjoy the process so much that it can help to bring them out of their shells and to enhance the way they see themselves. For those who have the opportunity to enjoy singing lessons, it seems that the outcome includes a whole lot more than just a better singing voice!

Deal Reached to Allow Music Videos to Be Shown Again

September 21st, 2009

YouTube UK has put the plug back in on music videos on the streaming service, after brokering a deal with the PRS for Music group, meaning full official videos, rather than dodgy radio recordings thwacked up there by teens, will return. Huzzah! Read on for the full info.

Cast your mind back to earlier this year when YouTube unceremeniously stopped streaming thousands of music videos online from popular music acts after a clash about royalties due. For a long time it appeared as if that really was it, but YouTube has been hard at work striving to get them back amongt the prat falls and keyboard playing cats.

According to the BBC, YouTube is paying a sum of money to PRS covering January 2009 all the way through until 2012, although how much it’s coughing up remains to be known. Still, the PRS now says that it and YouTube can “be friends again”, so expect plenty of Calvin Harris videos and no takedowns for some time to come.

Google, owner of the video-sharing website, has signed a deal with PRS for Music, which collects royalties for songwriters and composers for music played in Britain.

A previous licensing agreement expired in December, and YouTube tried to put pressure on PRS by removing music videos from the site.

Although PRS had offered the website a choice between paying 0.22p per song played or 8 per cent of its UK music turnover, it is understood that the new deal is a one-off lump sum. Neither party would reveal the figure, but it is thought to run to tens of millions of pounds.

The new agreement is backdated to January and runs until June 2012. It covers not only official music videos, but also user-generated content and music played in the background of television shows uploaded to the site.

Andrew Shaw, managing director of broadcast and online at PRS for Music, said: “It is important that those who are creating music the writers and composers we represent be rewarded when their works are used.”