If you’ve ever been to a festival, chances are you’ve come back with some pretty “interesting” photos. Which you have then “shared” on Facebook and “tagged” with the names of your pals.
(I’m using quotation marks here because we all know, deep inside, that photographing your friend tripping his nuts off up a tree, and then publicising the incident on a huge online social network, is essentially a very, very wrong thing to do.)
Well this summer Kickers are giving you the chance to use your embarrassing photos for good, kind of - they’re asking you to upload your best festival photos to their Facebook page, with the winner receiving a free trip to Lovebox Weekender, which takes place on 18th & 19th July, for them and five friends. Five runners up will win a pair of Kickers footwear.
So logic would suggest that if you went to a festival and took some great group shots, ask your buddies to submit snaps as well and you immediately boost your chances of winning by ICan’tWorkOutHowMuch percent. Be quick, mind you - the contest ends on July 12th.
Honestly though, the chances of you beating that shot of my friend hallucinating on a branch are pretty slim.
What it says up there, really. Cicada are having a rather good 2009, and David Guetta can be relied upon to bring the bang - as well as Kelly Rowland for their big old smasheroonie collabo “When Love Takes Over”. Mark Knight will be there as well, but I don’t know who that is.
I’ve got a pair of tickets to give away to the gig, takes place on Wednesday 8th July at the Roundhouse in Camden, London.
For a chance to win, you’ll need to know the answer to this insultingly easy question:
What group was Kelly Rowland in before she went solo?
Sent your answer with your full name, phone number and the subject line Row Row Row Your Land to stuart@mychemicaltoilet.com by 5.30pm on Tuesday 7th July.
One entry per person. UK entrants only, sozzyplops.
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Stuart Waterman on
Sunday July 5th, 2009 at
2:20 pm
If you know what’s good for you, you’ll watch this bladdy video by Wave Machines. The song it accompanies, “I Go I Go I Go”, is quite the finest thing you will hear today unless you encounter, I dunno, a puppy who can whistle:
I’m right, amn’t I? If that hasn’t made your day slightly better I think you are legitimitely allowed to go back to bed, because you’re beyond help.
“I Go I Go I Go” was first released last year, but now it’s been all polished up ready for a release people might actually hear about. It will be available from 1st June, with their debut album Wave If You’re Really There out a couple of weeks later on 15th June.
My Chemical Toilet has a pair of tickets to Wave Machines’ London show on Monday 18th May up for grabs, you know. Check out how to snag ‘em after the jump. Continue reading »
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Stuart Waterman on
Thursday May 14th, 2009 at
10:15 am
Pete - sorry, Peter - Doherty is playing a couple of gigs at east London’s Rhythm Factory this weekend.
Friday’s show is a charity bash to commemorate London promoter Johnny ‘Rhythm’ Sedassi, who died earlier this year. That one sold out quick smart, but Doherty is playing another show the following night, known in the biz as “Saturday 16th May”. Tickets are available from Ticketweb, but My Chemical Toilet has a pair to give away to one lucky blighter.
Pete”r” Doherty shows tend to be unpredictable, guest-festooned affairs, so who knows who may end up joining the larrikin onstage. Graham Coxon, who played on his recent well-received album Grace/Wastelands? Carl Barat? The Gin Blossoms? It is just impossible to tell with Pete”r”.
It is also impossible to tell what time he will show up, and at this point I should probably point out that My Chemical Toilet PROVIDES NO GUARANTEE AS TO THE QUALITY OF PETE”R”‘S PERFORMANCE.
With that proviso taken care of, on with the comp.
‘Citing news now for impoverished shut-ins and moneyed out-and-abouters both, as My Chemical Toilet offers you the chance to win a bunch of music-related “swag” with a total value of approximately £200. To put that in perspective: if we were working with Zimbabwean dollars the booty would be worth so much you wouldn’t even know where to put the commas.
This box o’ lovelies, donated by EMI to celebremate the launch of their actually-quite-good new website, will suit you whether you’re an on-your-arse crisp-muncher or a sun-worshipping park-frolicker. It features t-shirts* from LCD Soundsystem, Iron Maiden and Pet Shop Boys alongside CDs and DVDs from artists including John Lennon, David Bowie and Depeche Mode. There is much more than what I’ve listed here, I just can’t be bothered writing it all down. Suffice to say it is all “quality merchandise”.
A more random collection of goodies it would be hard to find, but that’s rather what you’ve come to expect from this domain, no?
Are you a student? Do you like to find yourself? Are you a friend of the trees? If you answered yes to any of these, then chances are you’re a fan of Australian best selling singer and master of many instruments, Xavier Rudd (and cursing me for my stereotyping). If you’re not - get on it dooode.
Recommended to me by my surfy, dready and folky friends (that’s THREE whole friends!) I concluded the time was right to find out what all the *ahem* Ruddy fuss was about.
Now, you have the chance to check out this festival favourite too. FOR FREE!! Being the generous creatures we are, we have TWO pairs of fabulous Xavier Rudd tickets to give away for next week’s gig in Bristol. All you need to do is click below and answer our simple question.
The Mighty Boosh Festival, at Hop Farm in Kent on Saturday 5th July, is shaping up to be quite the summer music n’comedy jamboree. And we have a coupla tickets to give away.
The bill at the festival will see the Boosh themselves, The Charlatans, Gary Numan, White Denim, The Kills… well, maybe just go here to see the whole bill.
Check out how to win after the jump…
You know festival season’s upon us when sites like this very one start giving away goodies related to sleeping in fields. However, we do things a leetle bit differently round these parts - which is why we have hooked up with none other than ANN SUMMERS for our latest competition. Oh yes. Oh yes. Oh yes.
Because, in case you didn’t know, festivals aren’t just for sweaty, cider-soaked blokes in dreadlocks (thank God).
SO! LADIES! AND GENTS! BUT MAINLY LADIES! We are giving away a bumper pack of naughty goodness. Check out the video above, or read below, to see what and how you could win.
If you’re anything like me - or, in fact, any of the new media nerdoratti that makes up Shiny Media - you’ll be pretty into your online video. Whether it’s shooting drunken escapades and flinging them onto Facebook to embarrass your (ex-)friends, or entering some of the many contests you can find on YouTube, these days the shooting, editing and watching of video online plays an increasing part in people’s leisure time.
Why, even bona fide internet superstars are a bit obsessed with it. Take Gary Cutlack, the special boy behind Idiot Toys and UK Resistance, and writer for Tech Digest. Below is Gary’s portrait of his video life.
Why not tell us what your video life entails? Just shoot a video and send it in, basically, and you’re in with a pretty decent shot at winning either some Dabs.com, TopShop or Nike vouchers to the tune of £500. There are also eight £50 vouchers for runners-up. Not bad for a few minutes work, huh? You’ve got until May 19th. Get more information on the “My Video Life” competition in association with Cisco by clicking here
Now, over to Gary:
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Stuart Waterman on
Tuesday May 13th, 2008 at
3:13 pm
We mentioned the groundbreaking news that BT had been announced as the sponsors of the Isle Of Wight festival a little while back, and now I’m pleased to be able to point you in the direction of a competition to win tickets.
If you head to our friends at Shiny Shiny, you’ll find, like, the easiest question ever. All you do, right, is answer it. And then, right, email it to them. And then, yeah, wait. And then, maybe, you’ll be lucky and be on your way to see Iggy the Pop. And if you don’t win, what have you lost? Nothing but time. Enter the Isle of Wight competition at Shiny Shiny
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Stuart Waterman on
Friday May 9th, 2008 at
12:23 pm
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