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Luke Bastiani- Music and the environment

Friday, 23 April 2010 by LukeBastiani

Hells bells its been a while since I last did my first blog! Sorry for the lack of writing, been very ill and such like!

A bit of a tangent first! Its election time in Britain! So a lot of interesting things going on! Then the volcano in Iceland causing havoc and damage on a environmental,economic and personal scale for many people! Its all going I have been racking my head as to what to pinpoint this time as to what to write about! Its been bloody difficult I can tell you. Like I said previous I don’t want to be preachy or anything with this and therefore when researching for the blog every fact and figure that comes out only serves to frighten me,thus I don’t wish to put it up…because this is meant to be fun!

Now with the festival season approaching I started looking up ways of being greener! I found this site : http://www.agreenerfestival.com/ which supports other festivals and encourages the use of green ideas within small to big festivals and has a lot of links for  environmental groups that I have found to be useful!

I apologise for the lack of info on this blog,I thought it would be best to do something seeing as I left it so long and then get an idea and research…but least there is something for you guys to look at and get some ideas. Hope all is well!

Luke

A Starting Point…

Friday, 12 March 2010 by LukeBastiani

Who doesn’t enjoy music? If your one to listen to Radio 1 or a hardcore delver of the vinyl dustbins, we all have favourite bands, artists and musicians who we love to listen to, to go see, to buy merchandise of and wear. Music is much part of our culture as it is any other, it creates social groups, friendships can be grown and broken by music, it can evoke memories good and bad and lastly music is one of the artistic mediums that can be used to show how social and political viewpoints are shaping the world. Music allows us to party and shout our deepest desires all in the same song. But at what cost? (more…)