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Saturday, March 18, 2006

Juanita Family & Friends on BBC Radio 1's OneMusic


Thanks to Huw Stephens at Radio 1's OneMusic for biggin' up our buddies the Juanita Family and Friends on Tuesday night's show. He announced that they are coming to UK to do a session for BBC in May, and they also have a gig in Cardiff on May 4th.
That's a must see.
Busy trying to arrange UK/Ireland more gigs as we write this.
There's a limited number of their brilliant CD in lovely cardstock cover available to buy online but it will have to be first come, first served.
Get 'em here, while they're hot. After May, everybody will want one. Hit the button below.











Friday, March 10, 2006

Peakz at the Garage

Seven-thirty on a piss rainy night in Highbury, and Arsenal are about to play Real Madrid.
Queuing at the Garage, opposite Highbury and Islington Tube Station, a few souls huddle against the wet, insignificant in the pre-match crowds and electric atmosphere.

D'Silva play first, a good set, and guess what I got the set list...

The audience they've persuaded out on this filthy night are appreciative!

Then, sorry lads, I didn't catch the name, a bright hard rock outfit playing technically competent covers and originals.

What a treat, Velvetines, next, ten songs of pulsating appeal and you wonder how does such a massive voice emanate from the tiny form of the lead singer?

They too are well received, the small venue is reasonably full, but we're 15 minutes behind the pace and they've hogged the stage (deservedly!).

Some of their following drift away in search of late buses and trains, and in the red half-light Peakz put thier gear on stage and prepare to rumble.

Big Rich looks haggard, a true rock cliche of life on the road, too many miles from Capel Curig via the Flapper & Firkin in Brum yesterday, and no sleep since Watford Gap.

His huge frame dwarfs Ed's slight figure on stage. Peakz might go unnoticed till the first six notes from Rich's bass rampage round the room.

Some people halfway down the stairs and homeward bound turn heads, hesitate, and start back in. This is gonna be worth listening to.

Drummer Deian (say it Day-ann) sits in bare-chested magnificence, displ;aying his tattoos, and the guy from Velvetines comments,

'You can tell this is all he ever wants to do..'

He plays just behind the beat, a hammering foundation for the uncompromising guitar thrash which is 'Platform 9' , a 'song about sluts' and 'Devil Eyes', a little love song.

Even the tender 'Conwy Valley Luv Song' takes on a hard edge and the guys take it to an ear-mutilating climax with 'Freeway in Texas'. The feedback effect reminds you of the Tardis dematerialising...

For the twenty or so hardy souls who stayed to listen the reward is Rich - Big Rich and the Peakz.

The album 'Lovers and Liars' can be had from
www.myspace.com/peakz
or www.audleymusic.co.uk/peakz.htm

Thursday, March 02, 2006

Get Noticed Quicker by Google and Yahoo!

Not strictly a music post, I know, but if you have band websites and blogs this is one way of getting your site spidered quickly by the major search engines.
Try searching for 'peakz' on yahoo or google and my audley music website and the blogs and podcasts associated with it come up near the top, and that's where we all want to be.
Try this, it's free, and it's better than waiting months to get noticed, or worse still, paying some scammer to get you 'instant' results.
There just ain't no free lunch, but this is a low-cost snack!

You could pay a fortune for the boys who claim to 'get you on google in days' or 'raise your ranking in Yahoo' and all that stuff. The long and short of it is it costs you, hard moolah.
However, if you take advantage of the Google and Yahoo 'personalise your space' features, just add your url or blog feed in the 'add content' sections.
Guess whose pages they index first when they send out those busy little spiders?
Why, their very own, of course!
It won't guarantee a million visitors but it will mean your pages are there for the viewing.

When you go to the Google homepage you will see a link in the top right corner called Personalised Home.
Click on that and it goes to a page with an invitation to Personalise your homepage.
Don't have a Google Account? You'll be invited to create one.
(You use you gmail settings to sign in if you have that service)
When it's done, go to the personal page and you will be invited to 'add content'
Put your personal web addresses here and your blogs and your rss feeds if you have them.
With Yahoo, it's similar.
When you go to their homepage you'll see a 'My Yahoo' link.
Put some basics on the page to get it going and then use the add content as above.

Hope you find this useful - if you have any queries email me
mike@audleymusic.co.uk