Whilst nothing has officially been confirmed yet, planning is underway for Newbury to host its very own large scale music festival in the shape of Lilo Festival, previously known as Newfest.

http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/News/Article.aspx?articleID=9841

The festival management team which includes former Snooty Fox events manager Matt Sutton and Pig and Paper owner Martin Kavanagh (2 of Newbury’s leading live music venues) are currently working hard to secure an event license.

There has been a huge interest from the facebook and myspace communities and over 150 bands/artists are interested in playing at the event.  Whilst I would love to add us to that list, I think the other band members would prefer to get a couple of smaller gigs under our belt before we rocked such a large audience.

For more information be sure to check out the official site:

http://www.newfest.org.uk/

As posted last month the V.i.Ps played their very first gig at Bar Rumba on Shaftesbury Avenue last Friday (10th April 2009). Unfortunately I was unable to attend myself but Stuart Timm’s from You In Colour assures me it was a great gig.
Here are some pictures snapped at from the gig:

V.i.Ps Bar Rumba, Fri 10th April

V.i.Ps Bar Rumba, Fri 10th April

Also someone present also had a video camera and managed to capture a couple of songs.

Happen:

Crash And Burn:

If you’d like to hear more about The V.i.Ps check out their myspace page The V.i.Ps

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)