Bird and The Insight

So our humble little blog gets a mention in Brighton mag The Insight, courtesy of Bird:

"Every band these days seems to have a MySpace page which includes a blog," says Joe Holmberg, research fellow at the Interactive Digital Educational Applications Lab and bassist with Brighton band Republic of Heaven (http://therepublicofheaven.blogspot.com). "In local music communities, there's no real difference between the bands and the punters who go to see them, so making communication between them can only be a good thing. It's a young medium and conventions are still emerging. You can have a post on the North-African blues-rock influences apparent in Robert Plant's new record followed by a photo of your drummer, gurning with joy, giving the thumbs-up with Nicko from Iron Maiden, and somehow it all makes sense."

And:

"We get bored at work," says Joe. "We tell each other what bands we're going to see and what we thought of last night's gig. We post pictures of which Tintin characters we most resemble. It's somewhere less formal than our official band site to deposit our brain-pickings. Do we worry about it all being in the public domain? Someone said they wanted to cover our guitarist in gold and chocolate and eat him like a Kinder egg. That was a bit worrying."

Bird's ZenderBender blog is up for a Virtual Festival award, so g'won, go and show your appreciation and vote for her :)