Festival season is officially upon us, folks. If you’re any kind of music fan you’ll probably be getting yourself along to some kind of outdoor music experience at some point during the next few months.
The daddy of them all, of course, remains Glastonbury. And despite all the debate about this year’s line-up and clientèle, it’s still sure to be the definitive British festival experience.
Our new friends at GaymersMusic.com have three pairs of tickets for Glastonbury up for grabs, so if you want to save yourself a packet of dosh - all the more to spend on crisp, delicious cider, see? - head to GaymersMusic.com to enter the easy-peasy competition. You have until the end of 26th May.
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Stuart Waterman on
Wednesday May 7th, 2008 at
11:45 am
While we’re on the subject of our friends at Nollie, if you’re a fan of delicate-but-not-mopey, chilled-out acoustic goodness, you might want to check out their latest comp.
They’re giving away 5 copies of the double EP from Angus and Julia Stone, Heart Full of Wine / Chocolate and Cigarettes. Er, does a double EP equal one album? Not sure of the current exchange rate regarding formats.
Anyway, go here to enter the competition - and if you’re not sure whether it’s worth it, the delightful “Just A Boy”, which you can hear/see over the page, should convince you.
You use your camera to shoot video. You use your phone to shoot video. You may even be capturing the world in high definition. Now’s the time to get your footage working for you by entering our competition and scoring a great prize.
We have teamed up with Visual Networking experts, Cisco, to offer shedloads of cool prizes and all you have to do is show us a video that illustrates ‘My Video Life’.
Moby, the man that launches a thousand cars, is getting all geared up for the release of his new album. That may not be thrilling to you right now… but it could be. The ‘intimate’ club, indigO2, will play host to one of the “biggest club events of the year” and that’s the launch party for Moby’s new LP ‘Last Night’. Joining him on the decks will be Mylo and Anders Trentemoller. Still not excited? Well, Moby-ites, O2 is offering customers the chance to host this launch party for Moby’s album.
‘Fill the Floor with Moby’ gives you the chance to host the party and essentially, get to party the night away (with 1,500 guests) with Moby and his pals. So what do you need to do to be in with a chance of winning such a prize? Well, I advise you click over the jump for starters.
Yup, you read that right. All you have to do is take part in our little survey, telling us what you think of our wee blog network - it takes approx three minutes, I timed it with my Casio stopwatch - and you could win a 16GB iPod Touch. That’s £249.99 worth of gadgetness, you know. We have the lovely folk at Play.com to thank for that one. I might order a Keane live DVD from them to show my thanks. Then again, gratitude has its limits.
ANYWAY - click the link below, answer the questions and you go into the draw. Et la. Click here to take survey
UK only. Terms and conditions apply - read them here.
Posted by
mofgimmers on
Wednesday December 12th, 2007 at
4:12 pm
Shiny Media, benevolent and delightful parent company of this very blog, is offering you - yes, YOU - the opportunity to win a prestigious internship as either a video presenter or video production wizard (I believe that’s the correct technical term).
The LG Video Media Talent Award competition closes on 16th December. So, if you want to a) bag a trip to the 3GSM conference in Barcelona, b) learn about videoblogging from the Shiny
Media team and c) win your very own LG Viewty to document your Shiny Media internship; you need to click here quick sharp.
Some eager individuals have already stolen a march on the competition by getting their entries in early - check out the below entry from Pollyanna Woodward. If you think you can do better you know what you need to do!
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mofgimmers on
Thursday December 6th, 2007 at
4:15 pm
XFM have announced the shortlist for their New Music Award, designed to recognise the best UK debut album of 2007. Listeners have been voting for their choices recently, and the shortlist is: Air Traffic ‘Fractured Life’
The Enemy ‘We’ll Live and Die In These Towns’
Frank Turner ‘Sleep Is For The Week’
Kate Nash ‘Made Of Bricks’
Klaxons ‘Myths Of The Near Future’
The Maccabees ‘Colour It In’
The Pigeon Detectives ‘Wait For Me’
The Twang ‘Love It When I Feel Like This’
The View ‘Hats Off To The Buskers’
The Wombats ‘Proudly Present.. A Guide To Love, Loss and Desperation’
Weird to see Klaxons on a list of “new” albums - feels like they’ve been around forever already, doesn’t it? Anyway, if you shuddered at the mention of Kate Nash’s name, or vomited at the thought of The Pigeon Detectives receiving an award, there may be something you can do.
We’re offering a chance to train and work with Shiny Media, the UK’s top video blogging team. This opportunity will allow unique insight into how we plan, script and shoot up to 80 videos every month. The Shiny Media videos are watched by an audience of around 50,000 every week, and this internship offers you the chance to gain skills that will help you develop your career in the video media industry.
We have two 6-month internships available starting from January 2008. One for a budding video presenter and one for a video production person. The internship provides:
The chance to be trained by top talent in video blogging and contribute to creating videos that are watched by an audience of 1,000s daily
An all expenses paid trip to Barcelona to cover the 3GSM World Congress
A blog to share your experiences while participating in the programme
The brand new LG Viewty mobile phone to help you on your path to shooting video on the go
You can also tell us which videos *you* think are best by leaving comments and ranking them on YouTube.
Here’s what we’re looking for:
Just a reminder about the fab new moblog we’ve set up in conjunction with LG, and the competition we’re running, through which two lucky UK-ites can win an LG Viewty mobile phone each. Pretty special, obviously!
We’re looking for two UK photo bloggers to help us by taking portrait snaps of people / places which they think best sum up the true essence and style of the UK. We’ve teamed up with blog networks from Germany, Spain, France and The Netherlands to create the ultimate pan-European blog City Clickers.
At the moment, our Euro-friends are totally kicking our butts in this comp, so show off your patriotic side by getting out there and snapping what you see. Basically, if you can post 10 photos a month then we want to hear from you! What’s that you say, it’s raining and miserable outside? What could possibly be more British that that? Snap it! Send it!
Winners will receive a brand new LG Viewty phone and will have their bill paid for 2 months. To find out how to enter and to see what other people have photographed, click here.
Posted by
mofgimmers on
Tuesday November 20th, 2007 at
3:29 pm
Our sister site, Available For Panto, is devoted to the modern marvel that is reality tv. It is written by the comic genius that is Leila Johnston, author of “How To Worry Friends And Inconvenience People”, and is flaming hilarious.
Anyway, if you click over there today you will have the chance to win tickets to the X Factor tour - PLUS one lucky swine (and guest) will get to have lunch with one of the show’s contestants. Why, it’s a prize any stalker worth their salt would want. Click here to see details of how to win - you only have until Sunday to enter!
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mofgimmers on
Friday November 9th, 2007 at
12:17 pm
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