tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-276468102024-03-05T17:29:14.732+00:00Home is where the heart is
by Pedro VilaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08777175770378388841noreply@blogger.comBlogger166125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27646810.post-80127528571351868822017-10-16T15:43:00.004+01:002017-10-16T16:13:09.527+01:00<div style="text-align: justify;">
I have been working for a few days trying to come up with a new design-logo for my web design business in Sheffield <a href="http://pvvwebdesign.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="color: #999999;">PVV Web Desig</span>n</span></a>.</div>
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I thought the old one I had looked a bit dated and in need of a touch here and there. You don't have to be a marketing expert these days to know how important is a logo for brand building.</div>
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It is not an easy task I have to say as there are thousands of possibilities. If you don't want to spend any money or you are a self employed with a tight budget there are lots of free available options out there on the internet. Logo generator, logo maker...you only have to type it in google and the options are endless like I said.</div>
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After doing some extensive research I found out that <a href="https://www.canva.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">CANVA</span></a> was my best choice of weapon. I already owned an account there which it was a bonus. Its a brilliant and very easy to use software to create your own posters or make ads for your companies social media accounts. There are loads of templates and fonts to choose, from premium to free ones. And yes there is a logo maker and its pretty good!</div>
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Im pretty sure there must be dozens of other possibilities on the net but I didn't have to sign on in (yet) another account, something I personally find very tedious.</div>
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The downside is that CANVA is popular and used by lots of people so you will have to come up with something truly original! But don't let this to put you down. Just be open minded, play with it (Its just drag and drop really), add some colours you like and thats it!<br />
A good advice (At least it worked with me) its to search in other sectors that might not be too related to yours, in order to have less chances to replicate another logo too similar on the same market that your business belongs to.</div>
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So here are the results!<br />
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To be honest there is no particular motif behind it. After deliberating with 10 or 15 options (yes it really gets THAT confusing at some point!) I thought this one was my favourite. I just liked the colours and the simplicity of the design. </div>
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I believe this days logos don't have to be too complicated. Less is more! ....although that might change in the near future...as it always does.</div>
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Hope you like it.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08777175770378388841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27646810.post-89228461576767869102015-11-17T21:01:00.002+00:002015-11-17T21:03:43.593+00:00<b><span style="color: white;">Some exciting news for 2016!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: white;">Dave Fielding (Former Guitarist of the legendary band The Chameleons) will produce and play guitar in a few songs on the upcoming debut album of Sheffield's 3 piece band TWO SKIES. The recordings will take place in TWO SKIES own studios 'Skylab' and will start most probably on Jan-Feb 2016.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: white;">TWO SKIES are : Dan Cutts (Former singer of the sadly missed band LYCA SLEEP), Oliver Harrap and Jamie Cheetham. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: white;">You can listen to their songs in TS official band camp:</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: white;">Here are a few videos I ve edited on the last year from gigs here and there in the north of England so you can have an idea of what is their sound like.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: white;">And this is a teaser I recorded last October for a live session in 2Fly Studios in Sheffield- UK.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: white;">There are also talks for a second release after the success of The Red Sided Garter Snakes 'Endless Sea'. The title will be 'Blue Lake' apparently and Dave and John Lever have been working already on new songs.</span></b></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08777175770378388841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27646810.post-11058768755034619832015-10-13T22:45:00.002+01:002017-04-29T15:22:49.227+01:00My first live session in a recording studio<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last friday I had the privilege to be invited to a live session in 2Fly Studios in Sheffield.<br />
My current favourite band Two skies were playing their new songs and all the live performance was recorded for a video release.<br />
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The studio is located on an industrial area in Sheffield and I was told some other well known local bands have recorded on this place before.<br />
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I meet the band at 6 pm. To be honest I had no idea how long the session was going to be.<br />
They were supposed to play 4-5 tracks and the main thing was to capture the live sound of the band like if they were playing a live gig (no takes). But in this case without an audience! <br />
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I was very excited to be there. I have been on a studio before, last time when my friend Dave Fielding (former member of Manchester band The Chameleons) was recording early this year his new album along with John Lever with their new band The Red-Sided Garter Snakes.<br />
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There were a few camera staff and also some sound engineers working on the studio. Me and the other guests were having a beer on the next room where the sound desk is so we could only hear the band performance through the monitors and see only a little bit through a little window. Not too bad! There was also some video projections behind the band w<span style="text-align: center;">hich it gave a very nice atmosphere. </span><br />
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I loved the whole show and also the new songs they played. The band were indeed very passionated like they do on their live performances and they seemed happy with the result. They get better and better! Oh! and I got a pressie. A t-shirt from the band. The very first ones they did. There is another model at the moment and I believe is still available. But I was missing this one. Thank you!<br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1.Coalfields <span style="font-size: x-small;">Fest-Barnsley- 14th Jul 2012</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2.<span style="font-size: x-small;">Coalfields Fest-Barnsley- 27</span><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup><span style="font-size: x-small;"> July 2013</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3.Water Rats -London +Goldray- 27th Feb 2014</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4.Opium n 10- Barnsley- 22<sup>nd</sup> March 2014</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5.The Plug- Sheffield- 28<sup>th</sup> March 2014</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6.The Leadmill- Sheffield- 19<sup>th</sup> April 2014</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7.Abandon (Secret gig) - Manchester 26<sup>th</sup> April 2014</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">8. O2 Academy- Sheffield- 17th May 2014</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">9.Gullivers- Manchester +Elephant Stone- 9<sup>th</sup> June 2014</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">10.The Hope & Anchor- London +Sterling Roswell- 11<sup>th</sup> July 2014</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">11.Vipers Room (Tramlines) - Sheffield 25<sup>th</sup> July 2014</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">12.Riverside (Tramlines) - Sheffield 26<sup>th</sup> July 2014</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">13.Coalfields - Barnsley- 26<sup>th</sup> July 2014</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">14.Maida Vale - Sheffield- 22<sup>nd</sup> August 2014</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">15.The Washington- Sheffield 25<sup>th</sup> September 2014</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">16.Opium n10- Barnsley- 25<sup>th</sup> October 2014</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">17-Jam Cafe- Nottingham + Psyence- 2<sup>nd</sup> November 2014</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">18-Jolly Brewer- Lincoln + Psyence- 3<sup>rd</sup> November 2014</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">19-West St. Live- Sheffield + Psyence- 4<sup>th</sup> November 2014</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">20-Castle- Manchester + Psyence- 7<sup>th</sup> November 2014</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">21-Plug-Sheffield + Pusher- 14<sup>th</sup> November 2014</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">22-Red house- Sheffield- 30<sup>th</sup> January 2015</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">23-The Leadmill + Johnny Marr- Sheffield -20<sup>th </sup>March 2015</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">24-The Washington+ Pusher - Sheffield -2<sup>nd </sup>April 2015</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">25-Fallow cafe - Manchester + Rhys Bloodjoy- 10<sup>th </sup>April 2015</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">26-Carsons Bar- Middleton (Manchester)- 21<sup>st </sup>May 2015</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">27-Two Skies + Blossoms. Opium n10- Barnsley 30<sup>th </sup>May 2015</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">28-Kraak Gallery – Manchester- 3<sup>rd</sup> July- 2015</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">29-The Viper Rooms (Tramlines)- Sheffield- 24<sup>th </sup>July 2015</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">30-Karma/Temple Of Boom + Black Delta Movement- Leeds 25<sup>th</sup> July 2015</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">31-West Street Live + Awooga + Kurokuma (Tramlines)- Sheffield 26<sup>th</sup> July 2015</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">32-2FlyStudios- Live session- Sheffield 9<sup>th</sup> October 2015</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">33-The Riverside- Sheffield- 22<sup>nd</sup> October 2015</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">35-Coastival + Cast– Scarborough- 12<sup>th</sup> February 2016 </span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">36-Milo Bar + {Retreat}- Leeds- 24th June 2016</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">37-Astral Elevator Gullivers - Manchester- 25th June 2016 </span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08777175770378388841noreply@blogger.com0Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK53.381128999999987 -1.4700850000000453.078144999999985 -2.11553200000004 53.684112999999989 -0.82463800000004006tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27646810.post-40158418801385598452015-08-18T15:55:00.001+01:002015-08-18T16:04:11.619+01:00New video from Two Skies!<br />
I have edited a new video with live footage of Two Skies I recorded in different venues in England this year 2015 : Carsons bar (Middleton), KRAAK Gallery and Fallow Cafe (Manchester), West St. Live (Sheffield), Temple Of Boom (Leeds) and Opium n 10 (Barnsley).<br />
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Its their new single FEEL which was released on a limited edition of 50 copies in a Cassette tape format (Pretty cool!) by the label <a href="https://blakhandrecords.bandcamp.com/" target="_top"><span style="color: blue;">Blak Hand Records</span></a> (obviously already sold out by the way).<br />
They keep their 'stadium like' sound and in my personal opinion the whole song has a very strong Sheffield feeling.<br />
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Also the b side (Broken Hearts) is a great song too with a very distinctive 80s guitar sound.<br />
Its a very different style from their other songs but I believe this song could be massive with the right promo and support.<br />
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I hope they release this songs again in another format that can reach a far bigger audience because they are great tracks!<br />
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I ve also been invited this week to a recording session of new songs in Two Skies own Studio (Skylab) in Sheffield. Pretty exciting to be honest.<br />
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I hope you enjoy it!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08777175770378388841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27646810.post-17909464846723586952015-08-17T16:54:00.000+01:002015-10-13T18:08:13.450+01:00Fiona Hannant Hypnotherapist Psychotherapist in Sheffield<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08777175770378388841noreply@blogger.com0Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK53.381128999999987 -1.4700850000000453.078144999999985 -2.11553200000004 53.684112999999989 -0.82463800000004006tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27646810.post-38186145153024674502015-03-31T23:34:00.000+01:002015-03-31T23:37:15.992+01:00The Hurriers Barnsley<div style="border: 0px; color: #cccccc; float: none; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.299999237060547px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 20px !important; margin-right: 20px !important; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; word-spacing: normal;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08777175770378388841noreply@blogger.com0Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK53.381128999999987 -1.4700850000000453.078144999999985 -2.11553200000004 53.684112999999989 -0.82463800000004006tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27646810.post-22218375436665618802015-03-09T15:47:00.000+00:002017-04-29T15:29:37.488+01:00Lyca Sleep-Exit Calm and Two Skies . What a journey!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's been 10 years since I saw</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the legendary cult band Lyca Sleep </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">playing live at the Dry Bar in Manchester </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for the first time</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sadly</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Lyca Sleep had a very short life and they did split a long time ago but two great new bands were born </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from their ashes</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">: Exit Calm and Two Skies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had the immense pleasure to see</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">both bands loads of times </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">all over England </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and some of those great nights will stay in my memory for the rest of my life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But back to Lyca Sleep the question is: living in Spain at the time, how did I ever find about this band?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well the thing is that a good friend from Barnsley wrote a good review about them in the old (now gone) The Chameleons message board 'Wishville'. So due that my friend Sean McKernan (aka Manero) is rarely wrong with his music recommendations, out of curiosity I decided to give them a go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I couldn't believe how good Lyca Sleep sounded. I was literally blown away! They were intense but yet relaxing. They weren't post Rock nor Shoegaze or indie either. Some people quoted early Verve.... I couldn't really tell to be honest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Boy, I was instantly trapped. That was the band I was waiting for. The amazing wall of sound from the guitar, the perfect bass line, the intense drums and incredible lyrics and vocals. Everything was out of this world. It was MAGIC!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As a stubborn person I am, a few months later I was told they were about to play in Manchester on a bank holiday weekend, so I didn't hesitate for a second and booked a flight from Madrid (Where I was working at the time) to see them playing a show on a support slot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yes. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thats what you do when you love a band. For the sake of Rock N Roll!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A few obvious questions raised to my mind when I was travelling to see the show. Are Lyca Sleep as good live as they sound on a 7' vinyl? I mean, flying from Spain to England is quite a long way to see a band playing a set for barely 40 minutes. Not to mention the budget, hotels, trains, food, drinks...etc...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I remember very clearly arriving at the venue in the Northern Quarter in Manchester city center (Dry bar is located next to another legendary venue: Night and Day). There was not much people gathered in the audience to be honest (lets say about 20 or 30 souls). It did also surprise me to spot a couple of professional photographers and also a guy with a pretty big video camera (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wonder what that footage is?)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had my first contact with the band few minutes before they were due on stage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It wasn't the last time I saw Lyca Sleep live. One year later (sometime in May 2005) I did made the same route and flew again from Madrid to see them on the tour-promotion of the sophomore single 'Closer in' in the very same venue (but this time in the downstairs room). If i am not mistaken I think it was part of the Manchester music festival 'In the city'. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For this gig there was a lot more people in the crowd I have to say. They band were more experienced and their reputation was getting bigger and bigger amongst the underground music circuits in the North England. And this time Lyca Sleep also blew the rough off as expected. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During the night I bumped into Reg Smithies, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">former member of the seminal 80s band The Chameleons. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What a nice surprise! </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After the show I had the honour to introduce Rob Marshall to the legendary guitarist. What a moment!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then, a few months later (sometime in November 2005 If Im not mistaken), a bad rumour spread on the internet and we sadly found out that the news seemed to be true: Lyca Sleep split was announced with the departure of the singer Dan Cutts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I thought It was a real shame. The lads were starting to build up a loyal fan base as a result of a couple of extensive headlining tours and support slots all over England with the likes of The Warlocks, Sennen, Air Formation, iLikeTrains, Six By Seven, Oceansize, The Boxer Rebellion, Pure Reason Revolution and many many more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sometime in 2006 we get the great news. The 3 remaining members of Lyca Sleep went on to form the band Exit Calm along with a new singer Nicky Smith. And that was fantastic news! (Some legendary Exit Calm shows are well documented in this blog). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Exit Calm released two magnificent and now 'essential to have' shoegaze-indie albums which will stay with us forever. Rob Marshall meanwhile co-wrote and recorded an album with Mark Lanegan called Gargoyle (April 2017) . An amazing album with Rob Guitar signature...well worth a listen! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Meanwhile the music scene in the north of England was starting to change (as it ever does) and a new bunch of psychedelic bands were emerging from Manchester, Liverpool and other northern cities. The first edition of Cosmosis festival in Manchester this year (which I had the pleasure to attend to) was a good example of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally in 2012 a new 500 limited edition single was released on physical format: Lucky/4am. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It felt like an eternity but Two Skies were back.... and stronger than ever!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They also released their last single 'Stay' and a new single launch its been announced in Sheffield for March 2015 plus a supporting slot for Johnny Marr the 20th March in the Leadmill. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More Two Skies gigs will be announced for spring and summer so we will wait with a great excitement. The same great excitement I had with any Exit calm release, and the same excitement I felt when I flew to Manchester 10 years ago to see Lyca sleep for the first time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I can never be grateful enough to my friend Sean-Manero to expose me me to such an amazing music and I also blame him for introduce me to so many nice people, good friends and fans of the band all over the country....and even all over the world! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Its very sad news but w<span style="line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">hatever the lads do from now on I really hope they keep playing music and even better doing gigs.</span><span style="line-height: 19px; text-align: left;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am so happy its happening here....and this is not about Austin Scene, or the Seattle one, Berlin or the West Coast, they all had their day. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now its all about the Yorkshire Music Scene. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And in 2015, Sheffield its the place to be! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I really hope Exit Calm enjoyed the ride. This things happens once in a lifetime.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999;">My Exit Calm Gigography (although I think Im missing one or two)</span><br />
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Bar Manchester 18th May 2004</span></div>
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Bar [In The City] Manchester 29th April 2005</span></div>
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The Music 20th Jun 2008</span></div>
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Bar-Rugby+Dogfight Revolution +7:20s 26th Sept 2008 </span></div>
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Castle-Oldham+No Tokio 27th Sept 2008</span></div>
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Club-Barnsley+Mourning Becomes Electra 1st May 2009</span></div>
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Hall-Barnsley 26th Jun 2010</span></div>
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60 Secret Gig-Sheffield 18th June 2011</span></div>
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Academy-Islington London+ Marion Apr2012</span></div>
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Lounge-Manchester+Marion 7th Apr 2012</span></div>
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Tokyo 13th Jul 2012</span></div>
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Fest-Barnsley 14th Jul 2012</span></div>
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2-Leeds 12th Sept 2013</span></div>
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Lounge-Manchester 19th Sept 2013</span></div>
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Social Club-Sheffield 27th Sept 2013</span></div>
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Bar-Middleton+Rise+Pusher 16th Nov 2013</span></div>
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Control-Manchester 29<sup>th</sup> Jan 2014</span></div>
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Club-Barnsley 31<sup>st</sup> Jan 2014</span></div>
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Standard-Sheffield+Velcro Teddy Bears 19<sup>th</sup> Sept 2014</span></div>
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Control-Manchester 20<sup>th</sup> September 2014</span></div>
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Social Club-Nottingham 23<sup>th</sup> September 2014</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5.The Plug- Sheffield- 28<sup>th</sup> March 2014</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">9.Gullivers- Manchester +Elephant Stone- 9<sup>th</sup> June 2014</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08777175770378388841noreply@blogger.com0Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK53.381128999999987 -1.4700850000000453.078144999999985 -2.11553200000004 53.684112999999989 -0.82463800000004006tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27646810.post-61273496106570042232014-10-22T16:40:00.004+01:002014-10-22T16:51:22.665+01:00Paul Leal The spanish-Jim Morrison Young Lion<div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #888888; font-family: ralewayregular, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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Sometime in 1967 a young photographer who worked for Elektra Records in NY city called Joel Brodsky did a photo session for the singer of the band The Doors. This iconic pictures later became the most widely and well known photos from the bare chested iconic singer.</div>
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The first photo shoot was the Grammy nominated back cover photograph that is used on the 60's american band’s self titled debut album. The second gave birth to the Lizard King. </div>
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In this second session its well known the fact that Morrison was highly inebriated (Why he doesn't looks to me?). The famous photos are known as ‘The Young Lion’.</div>
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Its funny because being a massive Doors fan as I am, I always thought that this photos never portrayed the real Jim Morrison. I mean, on his short career with the band (barely 4-5 years) Morrison changed his appearance and physical features and personally I think he never looked again like he did in that day anymore. He went through different periods with his image: short and long hair, with and without a beard, the leather trousers years and also due to his well known drinking habits he did gain more and more weight over the years. But like I said he never had the same look again like he did on The Young Lion photo session. That was not Jim Morrison. Funnily enough it became the most iconic photo from the lead singer.</div>
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A few years ago while I was living in Madrid, me and my good friend Pedro Leal and his wife Laura Beatriz Suela, we had the idea to do a kind of Young Lion photo Session but this time we will do it to their eldest son Pau Leal. The idea was basically to replicate the original Morrison’s ‘Young Lion’ photo session and Pau would be our best model.</div>
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Just for fun! and (Who Knows?) give something original to remember when the lad grows old.</div>
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It was a project we had in mind for a little while so we waited a few months for when the kid’s hair had a similar length like the legendary Doors singer.</div>
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I also supplied a necklace I bought in Venice Beach on my first trip to Los Angeles in the early 90's to try to make Pau look even more like Jim Morrison in the original poster.</div>
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We were unsure what the outcome was going to be like…but we had to give it a go!</div>
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At first it was not easy (It is never easy when you do this kind of things with kids) but I have to say Pau acted like a real professional Model. Nice one lad.</div>
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My photo session lasted almost a whole morning and we took loads and loads of photos to be able to choose only the best ones for our poster. I also thought to let the parents choose the photos they thought that would be the best ones so we could all have our share in the project.</div>
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The second stage would be to edit the photos and make them look as much as possible as if they were original from the 60s. We had a great fun and also a good laugh mainly because the kid didn’t know what he was doing. But I have to say Pau seemed enjoying it too.</div>
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At the end we were pretty pleased with the results and Im honoured to say that the poster hangs framed in the lads bedroom.</div>
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The first one is obviously the original Jim Morrison one and the second our very own ‘Young Lion’ replica.</div>
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<span style="color: #888888;">See also in my </span><a href="http://pedrovila.com/2014/10/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Profesional Portfolio</span></a></div>
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Rob Mc Cleary Model Morning</div>
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Friday 11th July 2014 Sheffield finest Two
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It was my first visit to this place. I was told
The Sex Pistols played in that venue The Stranglers, U2, Stray Cats and
many many punk acts of the 70s and early 80s. Even Ian Curtis of Joy Division had a fit there. A
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Apparently the pub had for a while the
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do it anymore. Its a small downstairs club so you can be literally
inches from the stage. So pretty intimate and good if its not too
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Nice to see in first hand London music
history. More interesting than visit boring museums and shitty art
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Two Skies played new songs. 'Ocean',
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There is a 7 inch vinyl release in
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The opener act was an acoustic set from
Sterling Gloswell the bloke from Spacemen 3 and the last band was
'One Unique Signal' with members from the Telescopes which I saw in
Cosmosis festival in Manchester last March. Rosco (Gloswell) said there was a
party in Hackney Wick later but we somehow forgot about that.</div>
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Saturday was Model Morning and
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The Victoria its an old traditional
english pub in Hackney London, usually frequented by old Jamaicans
clients. Some nice fellas there. And the venue is pretty decent. If only we
could bring Sheffield pint prices over to London with us ;-)</div>
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Model Morning did split a few years ago
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After our frustrating experience with the little (or none) interest from the Koh Rong Diving center for our waste management (and very much needed) volunteer offer it was time to go to the 2nd island Koh Rong Sanloem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Marine conservation Cambodia has the same meeting point to go to the boat in Seahoukville city center than the Koh Rong one, in order to go to the island (They are one in front of the other). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This time it was just a tuk tuk who gave us the lift to the 6 of us, unlike the last time when we went to Koh wrong which it was a rammed little bus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The guy who was supposed to come with us from the conservation center wasn't coming on the last minute (I think I realized pretty soon why) so we were on our own with the staff of the boat who were a couple of Cambodian kids and the captain, a very gentle Cambodian man with a huge smile on his face </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(No one spoke any english)</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A soon as we got on the docks I could see that it was a very windy day, and that wasn't a good sign.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And how right I was!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And that was only the start!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once we left Sihanoukville harbor the waves were getting bigger and bigger and I could tell by the faces of the staff there (even being locals) that things were not looking good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our little boat was going up and down like in a sea roller coster and things were falling all over inside the boat, and the waves were getting higher!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a hell of a trip and to be honest the only comfort I could find was when things were really nasty I looked at the captain to see what were his reactions and the only thing I could see every time was a big smile….like if he was enjoying it !…or maybe he was trying to keep us calm and make us feel like everything was under control?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(you can see the waves as we got in the island in a video I edited below)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The thing is that after the 3 hours trip (with a similar route we did before to go to the other Island) we managed somehow to get to the closer to the shore….well, not really. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The waves were so big that there was no way we would be able to get close to the pier, let alone jump out the boat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So there we were stuck, about 500 or 600 meters with the shelter of another small island nearby (Ko Khong) waiting for the weather to change or at least for the waves to be a bit smaller.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As time passed by and things didn't seem to change the management of the Marine conservation center decided to send a smaller boat to pick us up and so we would be able to get to the shore. What an odyssey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It wasn't easy I have to say as the boat was going up and down like mad and things got a bit dangerous to be honest but finally the nightmare was over and we could get out safe in the pier. And intense arrival for sure! ….and not recommended for those who get a bit sea sick.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paul (the owner of the cambodian conservation center) came to welcome us and he proceed to show us the bungalows were we were supposed to stay and also showed us the Conservation center premises.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The place was ace! Literally a few yards from the sea and all surrounded by jungle. And i could see Koh Rong on the distance. The huts were small but very comfy. They had a double bed with mosquito nets. That was all we needed after such an intense (and scaring) day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had the best sleeps in all my travels in Asia while we were there, with the gently sea breeze coming in every night (Which it means no mosquitoes btw). What a fantastic place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have to say that the attitude from Paul and all the staff in the island from the very first minute we arrived was completely different from our previous experience in Koh Rong. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was far more positive and they proved us a more honest an altruistic interest in the conservation of the island.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paul told us us how he arrived to the island a few years back, broken and with barely no possessions with him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The local fisherman's gave him a very warm welcome and he is been living there since, helping the community and trying to manage the Conservation center and organizing and programming activities for all the young volunteers. He even married a local woman and had a child with her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can tell Paul has put a lot of soul, time and love in there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first days we were hanging around and exploring the island. It was very easy to fit on the place. People was so over friendly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We also went fishing with the local kids. God they were good…and we were crap!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They fish just with a string and an empty can of soda but when we gave them the fishing rod they were total pros.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So how could we give Paul a way to thank him his hospitality in Koh Rong Samloem?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Coincidentally walking to the recently build local school my friend Joel saw some big puddles of mud in the way . </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He thought the mud was brilliant to make bricks (old style) so we suggested that we could build a playground for the kids on the school yard with the sun dried bricks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So on the next days we spent the early mornings and late afternoons (Don't forget is a tropical island and it gets very hot there) making the bricks with some molds we previously made with pieces of wasted wood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At night there isn't much to do in the island. Power generators work from 6 to 12 am so the best recommendation is to pay a visit to Hua`s Bar. She is a vietnamese woman who owns a little bar near the beach in the center of the village. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hua is a local legend although I was told the locals don't like her very much and try to boycott her due to Cambodian-Vietnamese local issues.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hua is really funny, she speaks very little english but she seems to get more fluent as soon as she drinks some of the local rice liquor that she offers for free to every on the bar. It was pretty strong I have to say! So you are warned!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On her behalf I have to say that she spoke Vietnamese with his husband ( The man was always sleeping in a hammock) and also perfect Cambodian with the locals. She also speaks chinese as seems her daughter lives in China. Wow!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hoa will cook nice local meals for us every night…there is no menu though so you have to eat whatever she has. But everything was so fresh and delicious, but the best of it…dead cheap! There is also a pool table and sometimes parties last there until silly hours in the morning with the locals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He even keeps the prices from the conservation center restaurant a bit higher to encourage the visitors to go to the local places. I thought was a nice and very convenient idea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Its a beautiful little secret spot and i have to say it does beats hands down the beaches in Koh Rong. It had a unique kind of beauty. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately this is going to change the view from the beach for ever. I really hope they stop building there so the place doesn't gets too spoiled.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An important warning though, don't stay in M Pai Bay Beach after 4 pm when the sun starts to go down as its sand flies O clock (Thats why you don't see locals at this time), and they seem to be pretty vicious . We were fine but I saw other western volunteers badly bitten. One girl had to go back to the mainland for medicines as she seemed pretty bad. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But like I said you do as told and you will be fine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a fantastic experience to chill out on the island with the so nice and humble locals and also going fishing with the kids. We also did some great snorkeling. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One day we did an excursion all around the island in a small boat. What an exciting day it was.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We finally got something to eat (Delicious Pasta with seafood) and after playing some pool we went back to M' Pai Bay. The sunset was amazing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The last days we were there we didn't see much of Paul as he was busy in the capital Phnom Pen dealing with some government issues. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I really hope he manages to carry on with his project as he looked to me as a good and man with a lot of love to the place. He didn't seem to lack of the energy to me. So all the best Paul!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Koh Rong Samloem was, as he told us, his life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a month our visas were almost expired so sadly we had to return to Viet Nam, where more exciting things were awaiting to happen. But that belongs to another chapter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I really hope to go back one day to Koh Rong Saloem. I truly had one of the best days of my entire life in there which allowed me to meet amazing people and some other mad Cambodian locals.</span></div>
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/NC9f5WEhWNQ" width="560"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08777175770378388841noreply@blogger.com0Koh Rong Sanloem, Cambodia10.5886219 103.2952096000000210.4637539 103.13384810000002 10.713489899999999 103.45657110000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27646810.post-14952385882991109362014-01-22T13:38:00.000+00:002014-01-22T14:01:41.912+00:00Koh Rong Island in Cambodia. Another eco tragedy about to happen? Part 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a month staying in Otres Beach in Cambodia doing absolutely nothing, just chilling, hanging around on the beach, eating delicious Cambodian food and enjoying fantastic sunsets, it was about time to do something positive for the first time of our time staying in the SE of Asia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And why not to do some volunteer work?. We were traveling together 2 couples and two kids from Spain. We stayed in Viet Nam initially for a few months and despite we did some little efforts here and there to help the local communities we wanted something more. A few days before we were cleaning the beach in Otres (freaking out the locals btw) picking plastic bags and another little rubbish. but like I said that wasn't enough for us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sihanoukville wasn't our scene (lets put it that way) and we did heard of a couple of islands that were located not far from Sihanoukville: Koh Rong and Koh Rong Samloem (also called Saloem I believe).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were told both islands were amazingly beautiful unspoiled places, a real wild experience in the tropical nature far from the commodities that the so called civilization offers you in your daily routine. No roads or cars, no Internet coverage, no TV as the islands are not connected to any power grid (They use power generators a few hours on the evenings)…It was all about to experience the nature on its most pure ( and tropical) state.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It did sound all very promising to be honest as our goal in this trip was to try to go to places where the tourists never reach to see and if so…we wanted to be the only tourists there!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was about time we stopped acting like spoiled tourists and try to do something useful for the people in the area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our catalan friend Ari, who was traveling with us all the way from Viet Nam, has a master degree in waste management and our plan was to show the islanders a very much needed (so we were told) waste management project and also try to offer them some other fresh ideas for the conservation of the island, as on the last couple of years the number of visitors have been increased exponentially, mainly due to the diving activities from the boats which depart almost everyday day from Sihanoukville. Everything was like I said on a volunteer basis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Koh Rong, which is the bigger one, is known for its beautiful stunning white sand beaches. Its also called Monkey Island. It has 4 little fisherman villages and about a dozen guesthouses spread all over the island. There is also a plan from a Russian resort investor to build a high end very posh resort right on the other side of the island. Airports, roads…the whole lot. Its on the cards but no one knew when it would start.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But for the moment thick vegetation and wild nature was everything you could find inside the island. No road network at all!. We can say that Koh Rong still remains practically unspoiled. Just jungle and the sea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Koh Rong Saloem, which is the smaller one, is a bit more hilly and has a small village too called M' Pai Bei (which means 23 in Khmer by the way). To me here I could feel more the fisherman Cambodian atmosphere to be honest. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are about a hundred fisherman living in M' Pai Bei with their families and for the rest of the island you can't find much more than jungle, 4 or 5 small eco beach resorts&guesthouses , a remote light house and a very little navy base. Pretty much like its bigger neighbor Koh Rong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like in Koh Rong, there is no electricity, you only get some power a few hours on the afternoon thanks to the noisy generators, and there is no Internet coverage and nor roads neither cars or bikes to be seen. Something very hard to find this days. Paradise indeed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Needless to say the beaches in Samloem were stunning but slightly different than in Koh Rong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While in Koh Rong they were more like white sand caribbean type of beach, in Koh Rong Samloem they were more beautiful pale yellow sand and it had a completely different feeling. You can see it on the photos here which explains it better really.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a conservation center in Koh Rong Samloem and its manage it by an English guy called Paul who lives there. But I will explain more about this later on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So one morning we rang and talked on the phone with the management of the scuba dive centers in both islands and they both agreed to have a meeting with us to discuss in which degree we could be able to give some volunteer help while we were visiting the places.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had a very pleasant trip that morning as the sea was pretty calm and there was barely no wind (it wasn't the same when we went to Koh Rong Saloem but i will explain that a bit later).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The journey took about 3 hours and coffee and biscuits were provided for free. Nice. As soon as we were getting closer to the island I realized how beautiful the place was. There was jungle all around and I could see (</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">even from miles away) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a white thin line, like a strip all along the coast line. I was pure white!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The atmosphere was pretty much of young people I have to say, also few lost hippies but mainly scuba divers. We had a drink and some breakfast in one of the bars and we waited for our contact to appear... but sadly after an hour or so no one turned up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At this point we started to be a bit concerned as we didn't have much time and we were supposed to get the same boat back to Sihanoukville the same afternoon. We didn't wanted to waste all day there in that bar. We didn't have the chance to see a bit of the island yet!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So we asked the staff on the bar and we were told the person from the management who was supposed to meet us (Someone called Pierre If Im not mistaken) was busy that day with a diver course so they told us someone else would come instead. Right. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a couple of drinks more on the little wooden bar in the beach, this young english guy from the Diving center shows up finally and introduces himself as a diving monitor. He was nice and polite. I forgot his name but I remembered he first apologized as he told us he knew very little about waste management (obviously) but he agreed to listen to us and also get us on a little tour around to show us the place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As soon as you walk behind the beach strip, all the sudden you realize how the locals really live. There was dirt everywhere, plastic thrown everywhere, rubbish, etc…. and the waters from the little pond where they were living were very filthy (to put it nicely). They just seem to toss everything there. There wasn't any kind of control with the dirt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It felt pretty sad. A mixture of dirt, neglect and extreme poverty. Far from the paradise promised a few yards away. What a contrast indeed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The only solution is to install eco toilets she said. That would make the difference as they didn't have a septic tank on the area (If they had one at some point It was obviously not big enough).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ari kindly did offer the guy to hand made a real size wooden prototype of those eco toilets and we told them it would be no problem to show it to them sometime in the next days when we were supposed to be back on the island. She also offered to do some lecture about the whole project to the local staff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And that was it really. The week after my friends bothered to make a prototype and they tried to contact the Diving center again. But they seemed to be very busy with their diving activities and nothing more came out of it. We felt somehow a bit frustrated with the lack of interest shown from the Diving management, even more considering we were willing to work for them for free.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I really hope they show more interest on the future and they focus their energy a little bit more in the 'Eco side' (as they are advertised as) than the business side and I also hope the so neglected Koh Rong natives find a decent way of living complementary to their traditional duties. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Its no joke the impact of those increasingly crowded groups of people visiting the island on daily basis. As it is the boats and all the things people carries around. Plastic bottles, petrol, not to mention the beautiful coral reefs on the area and the fish resources.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08777175770378388841noreply@blogger.com0Koh Rong, Cambodia10.7290832 103.2317224999999310.6042692 103.07036099999993 10.8538972 103.39308399999993tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27646810.post-56820737369472938332013-12-22T20:49:00.000+00:002014-01-21T22:20:24.587+00:00Tandle Hill - A View from a Hill. An Odyssey from Sheffield to Middleton with The Chameleons<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">We got a train in Sheffield very early in the morning (Sometime about 7 am) and after dropping off Hisaaki's luggage at his hotel in Manchester Piccadilly, we went to meet our good friends</span><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=837184777&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/cathaubergine" style="cursor: pointer; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Cath Aubergine</span></a><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span style="color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">and </span><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1474217497&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/nick.harrison.378" style="cursor: pointer; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Nick </span></a><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1474217497&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/nick.harrison.378" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Harrison</span></a>. </span><span style="color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Then we jumped on the 17 bus and headed to Middleton.</span><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Once you cross the bridge and a few yards away you will bump into the Tandle Hill Tavern which is when you have to turn on your right and start climbing to the top (another 1</span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18px;">0 minutes).</span><br />
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Good show of The Boxer Rebellion last friday 11th October 2013. They are a London based band I am following since they released their brilliant single 'Code red' sometime in the mid 2000 (By the way, I wonder what happened to that song? and why they dont play it live anymore?).<br />
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The venue was almost sold out and the band played a good set list ('Diamonds', 'All you do is Talk', 'We have this place surrounded', 'Step out of the car' amongst many others). The ballads from the last album were a bit of a down in my opinion ('No harm' ,'You belong to me' and probably another one). Not a big fan. But overall it was a good show with an intense and great end: 'The Gospel of Goro Adachi' with the singer Nathan (Followed by the lead guitarist Todd) jumping into the crowd.<br />
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They are currently touring England and Scotland and there are also strong rumors of an inminent european tour. Its only uphill from here.<br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">I had the pleasure to see the band on the last week in Leeds, Manchester and Edinburgh (and hoping to make it to Sheffield and Nottingham on the upcoming days) and I can confirm they are more electric and tight live than ever! Brilliant bass driven songs directed by Simon Lindsley strongly backed up with the shimmering and hypnotizing wall of sound of Rob Marshall electric guitar topped with the skilled solid backbeat of Scott, always working his arse off and last but not least the vocals of Nicky Smith, a very talented lyricist and a better singer.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">They have already a couple of brilliant singles released '</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The rapture</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">' and '</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">When they rise</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">' (both also available as 7 inches format) and seems the track '</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Promise</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">' sounds like a contender for an upcoming one. Couldnt think of a better choice to be honest. Along with '</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Higher Bound</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">' are indeed my favorite songs on the album.</span><br />
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Two Skies is a 3 piece band from Sheffield UK. On the last 3 years they released a couple of eps and singles.<br />
They have been touring and playing for a while now in small clubs in the north of England and also in London. They are about to release this 2013 their very anticipated debut album. I saw them playing live last weekend in Coalfields Festival in Barnsley and they were in top form.<br />
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Dan Cutts was the singer in a band called Lyca Sleep (Nowadays called Exit Calm) before he joined Two Skies. What we didnt know is that Dan can also play the guitar, and he is very good by the way.<br />
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To give an idea of what they do I would define their music as a sort of Indie Psychedelic Rock and I have to say they are brilliant live.<br />
Two Skies already supported bands like Six by seven, Ultrasound, Toy and Wooden Shjips.<br />
Keep an eye on this band, you wont be disappointed.<br />
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Dan Cutts/Vox, Lead guitar<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08777175770378388841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27646810.post-47385188024117707762012-08-24T10:33:00.000+01:002013-10-15T15:42:28.964+01:00Simon Madrazo Rotger<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: blue;">Simon Madrazo Rotger</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"> RIP</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">10/07/71-23/08/12</span></div>
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Last night I lost my best friend Simon Madrazo.<br />
He was like a brother to me. We lived countless experiences together since the 80's until this very day. He was my teacher in life, my mentor, a great soul and one of the most altruistic and charming persons I ever meet. We both shared a big passion for music and that keep us for decades always together.<br />
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He lived the life he wanted 100% and always was there when needed with a huge grin on his face. The best friend of his friends...... intense, sensitive,bright, very intelligent... and god he knew how to party!!<br />
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Gracia neighborhood little plazas here in Barcelona will not be the same anymore without you Simon. </div>
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I consider myself a very lucky person to have crossed paths with you in my life and to have shared some many many great times together.<br />
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Thank you Simón. Thank you for show me what true friendship means.<br />
I have been asked by your family to choose the music for your funeral and I promise I will not disappoint you a tiny bit.<br />
You will be sorely missed but never, never forgotten.</div>
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Me and all your friends we will raise a Voll Damm beer in your honour my friend.</div>
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Love you brother. may you rest in peace.<br />
Now you are finally free.<br />
Rock on!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08777175770378388841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27646810.post-46596538762103934572012-08-01T00:04:00.000+01:002012-08-27T20:57:25.529+01:00Two SkiesTwo Skies is a 3 piece band based in Sheffield, England. I've been looking forward to see this band playing live for a while now. Last 14th of July they performed a top live set in Coalfields festival in Barnsley.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Dan Cutts-Two Skies</span><br />
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The singer and guitarist Dan Cutts used to play in a band before called Lyca Sleep. I saw them in Manchester sometime in 2004-5 and they blew me away. He has a new band now and he hasnt disappointed a bit. They play a sort of Psychedelic/alternative Rock and I personally believe Daniel has a great and a very powerful voice.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Jamie Cheetham-Bass</span><br />
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They have a new single released (4.am.)you can purchase in the official website:<br />
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Jamie, Oliver and Dan-Two Skies<br />
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Here is the official video of the new single:<br />
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I don't do big crowded music festivals anymore although Primavera Sound in sunny Barcelona has to be the exception. His great location in the mediterranean sea (Parc Forum), great atmosphere and terrific line up of bands from all different genres make the perfect cocktail for us obsessed gig goers.<br />
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There were about 250 bands playing this year (Top acts from Hardcore Punk to Dance, hip hop, metal, Techno, Goth, indie etc...) so you really need to have planned before which bands you want to see each year.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Primavera day 1: Reignwolf, Mudhoney, Rats on Rafts, Refused, Bombino, Spiritualized and Wolves in the throne room</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Primavera day 2: Liturgy, Napalm Death, Dirty Three, M83, Main and Death in Vegas</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Primavera day 3: Beach House, Demdike stare, Shellac, Godflesh, The Pop Group, Washed out, OFF!, Mujeres.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Plus Richard Hawley and The Wedding Present as opening/closing acts.</span><br />
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One of my favorite gigs was Reignwolf. What a great find!. This Canadian lad (here we go with the lazy comparisons although always gives a rough idea) sounds like a good mix of Jack White of the White Stripes plus classic Led Zeppelin 70's sort of thing. A man his guitar and a drum bass.<br />
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One not to miss has to be is his Fletwood Mac's rendition of 'The Chain' played with a electric mandolin. Here is a good clip video proving what Jordan Cook (aka Reignwolf) is capable to do:<br />
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<a href="http://www.jordancook.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">http://www.jordancook.com/</span></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08777175770378388841noreply@blogger.com0Barcelona, Spain41.387917 2.169918741.292614 2.0119902 41.48322 2.3278472000000003tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27646810.post-34195148721808795462012-05-21T20:44:00.002+01:002012-05-21T20:57:58.167+01:00Exit Calm &The Reegs HD videosHere are two more videos I ve edited with iMovie.<br />
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The first is a rare The Reegs song 'Jesus Came To Manchester' from Dave Fielding former guitarist of the 80's band The Chameleons. Reckless Robbie a missed Manchester is featured on the song. I added bits from unseen video footage I had on VHS.<br />
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The second one is live footage from the band Exit Calm that I personally recorded on their last tour last april supporting 'Marion'. Videos are from Manchester Ruby Lounge and O2 Academy in London.<br />
The band had planned to release this 2012 an EP but last news seem to confirm the recording of a full album. We will wait with great anticipation.<br />
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Exit Calm -With Angels<br />
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