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Music By Magpie • Cover Art by design

July 30, 2018
Music By Magpie • Cover Art by design • Pink Floyd The Dark side of the moon

Although we have been told time and time again, not to judge a book by its cover, yet we still do. The meaning of the phrase “Never judge a book by its cover” is that One should not form an opinion on someone or something based purely on what is seen on the surface, because after taking a deeper look, the person or thing may be very different than what was expected. In this day and age visual representations of things are what first make us stand-up and take notice. Say what you will, but we are all more likely…

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Music by Magpie • Is Musical Talent Hereditary?

June 19, 2018
Music by Magpie • Is Musical Talent Hereditary?

I like to think that musical talent sort of runs in my family. My grandfather, my dads Dad who turned 90 this month always had a rather good voice and used to take the lead singing in church. He sees himself as a bit of a Sinatra and often turns a sentence into a little tune. Closer to home, my Mom frequently tells tales of her pink record player and her Bob Dylan LP’s and my Brother plays lead guitar in a band called “The Grumpy Old Men”. They’re quite famous in Clarens. And then there’s me, the girl with…

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Music by Magpie • Did you know 1988 was the coolest year in music?

April 23, 2018
Music by Magpie • Did you know 1988 was the coolest year in music? Smashing Pumpkins

Did you know that 1988 was 30 years ago… and did you know that 1988 was a REALLY big year for music? In February of 1988 The Beatles, the Beach Boys, The Drifters, Bob Dylan and The Supremes were all inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In March “Man in the Mirror” by Michael Jackson from the Bad Album toped the Billboard Hot 100. It was the first time in History that a Solo Artist had four Number One singles from the same album. Later that year he broke his own record with a 5thNumber one from the…

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Music by Magpie • So why Spotify?

March 28, 2018
Music by Magpie • So why Spotify?

Is being late to the Party a bad thing? On 13 March 2018 Spotify finally launched in South Africa, just in time for OFS Birthday Month, coincidence? The question on many lips though is whether the 10 year wait will be worth it? Or is Spotify just late to a Party jam-packed with other guests who are just as worthy? I was first introduced to Spotify a number of years ago by a friend in the tech industry who’s colleagues in New York and swore by this APP. Tragically it wasn’t officially available in South Africa at the time, and…

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Music by Magpie • My Favourite Christmas Albums

November 28, 2017
Music by Magpie • My favourite Christmas Albums

The end of the year is hurtling to a finish. It’s almost a month before Christmas and Michael Buble has popped out of the cave where he spends 10 Months of the year. The Shopping malls are filled with decorations and annoying Christmas elevator music is being projected from every speaker imaginable, it even snowed in November, so it’s official, the silly season is here..! My fellow Events Industry folk will agree that most of us are less than jolly at the moment, we work hard this time of year……….  September, October, November and December sort of morph into one…

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Music by Magpie • New Album Releases for the Fourth Quarter

October 17, 2017
Music by Magpie • goldfish-live

2017 has been a roller coaster of new music AND one Blog Post will not do justice to all that has been and all that is to come, however I have filtered out the new album releases in the last month or so that had piqued my curiosity, three albums from three rather diverse genres that left three most different impressions.   The Killers • Wonderful Wonderful Frankly, I am rather disappointed by this record which isn’t as Wonderful as the name suggests, not even remotely. Although the pre-released single ‘The Man’ perked my interests, the rest of this album is very…

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Music by Magpie • No Matter the score, Music is always a Winner

October 18, 2016
Music is a winner

Comparing music to sports probably isn’t the best idea ever, although a music chart can be compared to a Rugby log, in the music industry sales determine stats, charts are a good indication of what the masses are listening to. As a girl with an old school soul and an indie/alternative rock heart, my favourites don’t often make it onto the leader board and for me there is seldom a home final. I like to scratch beneath the surface to find what else is fresh, or which of my favourite artists have released a new album. The last month or…

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Music by Magpie • Is local music lekke enough?

August 9, 2016
Local South African Music

Earlier this year local broadcaster, the SABC made a somewhat radical decision (or rather one of many) to enforce a quota system across their  +/- 18 Radio Stations, this would involve these local station’s having to play 90% local content each and every single day. The question is do we have enough really good local music? 90% local content would mean 21.6 hours of a possible 24, taking into consideration talking and adverts, let’s say there would be about 16 hours to fill (that’s about 960min), the average song is about 4min long at most, so that’s on average 240…

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