The Magnificent are a punk rock trio from West Yorkshire, England. We sing about stuff that affect our lives. Important things like coal mining, Royal Weddings, the decline of modern civilisation, cutting down trees, playing squash and being in love. Our new album ‘Bad Lucky’ is our second full LP. There is a lot of …
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The first update for a while friends – apologies for our academically enforced absence – however we are back with sharpened intellectual knives and critcal faculties to rejoin the war on government music – if you want to be removed from the list please hit the unsubscribe button at the bottom of the page. The …
This is the new look justsaynotogovernmentmusic site and the lauch of Blackpool Rox III. This is the third incarnation of our local zine and will in time be populated with all the written words from Blackpool Rox I and Blackpool Rox II. The Summedaze section has the history of Blackpool’s longest running local DIY festival …
The second album from Bolton’s finest sons is an absolute belter. Released in conjunction with Boss Tuneage records the follow up to their amazing amazing Forever Now has songs which range from freight-trains to mid paced eulogies, yet all are drenched in the beauty of the heartfelt every-day. Their last album has recently been described …
Blackpool council have confirmed that they will not have sufficient funds to contribute towards the running of this year’s free Stanley Park Summer Daze festival. In the previous two years a big chunk of the costs of the PA and staff has been covered by Blackpool Council (for which we have been very grateful) however …
Summer Daze 6 – What are we gonna do when the money runs out ? Read More »
Apologies that things have been quiet at JSNTGM HQ lately. Blackpool Rox II fanzine is having a temporary break and our regular e-mail communiques are currently hibernated. The main reason for this is that I am in the middle of writing a book – which has been taking every waking hour for over 12 months …
A bunch of local musicians and promoters are scheduling a 2 day BLASTED festival taking place on Friday and Saturday 16th/17th of March 2007 at the No.1 Club on Bloomfield Road. All the bands playing at BLASTED will be recorded through the desk and then mixed down to provide what should hopefully be a ‘good …
Here at last!!!!!!!!!, the brand new album from The Great St. Louis entitled Forever Noworder your copy now.
Sunday 27th August Stanley Park Blackpool is the venue for the 3rd Summer Daze festival. This year there are 18 bands playing between midday and 8.00pm. Issue 9 of Blackpool Rox will be available on the day with a chance to get hold of the ‘Ugly Truth about Blackpool Volume 2’ CD
