Credit Crunch and Green Festival – Stay At Home

However hard they try, music festivals are never going to be green – until now if digital radio company PURE has its way. Billed as the Credit Crunch Festival, the company encourages you to listen to the radio (a PURE one of course), invite a few friends over, sit in your garden and enjoy.

All you need to do is listen to coverage of a festival on the radio and it’ll be like you’re there. Sort of.

Isle of Wight 12th-14th June XFM London,Absolute Radio
Glastonbury June 24th-27th BBC Radio 1,Radio 2, 3, 4, 6Music, Asian Network
T in the Park 10th-12th July BBC Radio 1
Cambridge Folk Festival 30thJuly-2nd Aug BBC Radio 2
East London Mela 2nd August BBC Asian Network
V Festival 22nd-23rd Aug Absolute Radio
Reading and Leeds 28th-30th Aug BBC Radio 1
Proms 17th July-12th Sept BBC Radio 3

What The Blue Man Group Thinks About The Earth

A very quick one for you, a video of the Blue Man group “talking” about our planet.

[Via: Ecoblogs]

Teachers Launch Save The Planet Song

Two teachers from Illinois in USA, called Mike and Jeff, have joined up to record a song called Save The Planet. “We wanted to emphasize points that every person on the planet can do, such as: water and energy conservation along with recycling plastics and paper” said Jeff.

It’s available to buy on iTunes, but you can watch it in the embedded video below first. Partial proceeds go to charity, so why not give it a listen, you might like it. You can visit their website too.

Mandyleigh Storm Album Review And Free Mp3’s

Our favourite Sellaband artist Mandyleigh Storm releases her debut album Fire & Snow on March 10th 2008. So what’s the album like? To get a balanced opinion I also asked Adam to review it too. [Disclosure: We invested a small amount in Mandyleigh via Sellaband. Read about it here.]

There are many highlights of the album, to listen to some free tracks whilst reading this, you can download “Deep Sea Green”, “Cry Hard” or “Let It Go” for no charge from Sellaband and the whole album for only $3.50.

It’s not often a new artist comes along and you can recognise their voice instantly, but hers is one. A excellent opening with Deep Sea Green, followed by one of my favourites, Winter’s Day. Slightly “toned down” for the album, it’s apparently all about a relationship breaking down but you still want to save it. Love it! With strong album themes regarding depression, several tracks such as Go With It and Keep The Silence certainly don’t depress with the latter more a traditional pop song with a pop beat, that shows her versatility.

Sunny New Day is a change of pace and uptempo and is Adam’s current second favourite. My actual favourite is Grey, another song about depression. Adam had heard this one before a while ago and once it starts it was like a nice reminder of things past (if that makes sense). The simple music means the voice does a lot of work – lucky it’s a good one. Quite slow and sad but not soppy, it’s like the end of a film or something, very familiar and easy listening.

The Limited Edition CD also comes with 6 of the demo mp3’s, a video interview with Mandyleigh, and vocal .wav’s of “Keep The Silence” and “Go With It” for the remixers and mashup artists out there.

Green credentials? Well you can download the album for a start, with three tracks being free and the entire album only $3.50. Plus efforts have been taken with regards to the Limited Ediiton CD packaging to produce it in as an environmentally sustainable way as possible.

Overall, I love this album as much as I hoped I would, a stunning debut from a unique singer. Download the free tracks, and if you like them buy the album. Either way, let us know what you think!

Turn Your Dreams Into Reality

If you want it, why can’t you do it? We all want a better world, so let’s do it!

[Via: REpreneur]

Song Of The Day – PJ Harvey

Not quite so much “Song Of The Week” as “Song Of The Last Few Weeks” as we haven’t posted one for a while. PJ Harvey performs the track ‘White Chalk’, taken from her 2007 album White Chalk, on the UK’s BBC2 Later… with Jools Holland. If you like it then also try her live version of Silence. Great stuff.

Eliza Gilkyson Uses Solar Power For Her Concerts

Just a little video of grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Eliza Gilkyson as the lights and sound at her recent concerts in Austin Texas have been powered by solar power. Just a little step but it’s in the right direction. I haven’t heard it but her latest album, Beautiful World, on Red House Records, has an environmental theme that “forces us to look at the destruction we are causing to the planet, yet offers an underlying optimism that sees hope for the future”.

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