We’ve all been there right, you go to your CD/mp3 library to pick something to listen to and you realise you’ve listened to them all a million times already and you really fancy finding something new to listen to.

If like me you and your friends/band members all have similar tastes in music and your cd/mp3 collection is so similar they could be called twins so their no help to you.  I suppose you could listen to the radio but that doesn’t help you find some of the great bands that are not so radio friendly. 

Luckily your not alone some others marek gibney faced a similar problem and came up with Gnoosic.

Gnoosic

It’s a simple concept really you provide the site with 3 bands that you already know and like and it will go through and suggest other bands that you may like, and then for each one you select whether you like, dislike or do not know them.  Then when you’ve done this for all the suggestions you are taken to a summary so that you can research the suggested bands.

The greatest strength of this system is that the more people that use it, the more accurate it becomes as it begins to build relationships between the suggested bands and whether people like or dislike them, essentially learning from peoples tastes.

The system has also been employed for books (Gnooks) and movies (Gnovies)

We are all eagerly awaiting our next rehearsal session so that we can rock our socks off like we’ve never rocked our socks off before.

Unfortuantly due to other commitments we were not able to all get together and practice last week but this week should more than make up for it as Ben has gone a purchased himself a nice new axe.  He is now the proud owner of an Epiphone Les Paul Custom.

Epiphone Les Paul Custom

I’ve not heard it yet but I’m assured its amazing and lets face it, its got to be better than the Ibanez he was playing before

Also watch this space as fingers crossed we will be going into Studio 91 in the very near future to record our very first demo (With a proper studio tech).

Just a heads up chaps and chapesses if you happen to be in London Town on the 10th April head down to Bar Rumba on Shaftesbury Avenue as the fabulous V.i.Ps will be playing their very first gig.

The V.i.Ps

10/04/2009 19:45 at Dead or Alive @ Bar Rhumba
36 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W1D 7EP
Cost: £6 (£5 with flyer)

Check out their stuff on Myspace

Ok I think I’ve finally settled on the design for the website, after coming up with a new band logo the whole thing needed redoing.

So hopefully you’ll see the nice spanking design with the funky handwritten titles etc.  This are not images they are flash files that are generated on the fly using javascript.  If anyone is interested in doing this I suggest you look at sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) it really is fantastic.

So apart from small updates to the layout every now and then this should be it, please let me know if you have any issues with any parts of the site.