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This article deals with live jazz performance focused in the Midlands of the UK. The figures I quote are from personal experience and may vary from the experience of others.

I am a professional musician meaning I earn my money from music. These days it is from teaching, performing, composing and conducting. I run bands of my own including a 5-piece jazz quintet called the Andy Derrick Group – you can find out more here www.andyderrickgroup.com

The members of the ADG all derive their incomes in a similar way to me and most of the gigs we do on a freelance basis pay around £110 with some as low as £60 and others as high as you like. At the moment I am trying to secure new gigs for the band and the barriers and frustrations I have encountered have left me questioning the composition of the work scene for jazz.

It has been said that Los Angeles and San Francisco were the last major metropolitan cities in which punk music scenes developed and once it hit California, punk changed shapes numerous times, spread to every corner of the United States and became a permanent fixture in popular culture.

In 1984, a teenage Dave Travis decided to capture punk rock in Los Angeles on video tape, a fascination and hobby that he would continue until 1997, logging in hundreds of hours of Los Angeles area shows and interviews. In "A History Lesson Part 1, Travis presents live footage filmed in the spring of 1984

Me(n)tal-Meltdown was started with the primary goal of being a showcase of music reviews, musings and cartoons as written and drawn by one K. Ann Sulaiman. Because of her immense desire and love for metal (heavy, doom, death/doom, folk and so on), the blog itself is thus focused on this vein of music; with an eye to keep track of releases both new and old as well as offer commentary that is hopefully neither trite nor spouting a lot of condescending rubbish down your way.

Of course, you already knew that from the name.

Last Under The Sun European Tour December 2010

Photos of Last Under The Sun at Carlo Levi, Liege 19/09/10 by Pilule

Photos of Police Bastard at Carlo Levi, Liege 27/01/10 by Pilule

John Pilger investigates the media's role in war. He traces the history of 'embedded' and independent reporting from the carnage of WWI to the current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Channel: ITV1

Broadcast time: 14 December 2010, 22:35:00

Duration: 97 min

Days remaining: 26 days

Read the Iron Man Records December Music News mail out here.

Released 01 December 2010
All songs by Last Under The Sun

Simon Reeves – Bass
Mark Badger – Vocals / Guitar
Seano Porno – Vocals / Guitar
Simon James – Drums

Recorded, Mixed, Produced and Mastered by Simon Reeves at Framework Recording Studios, Musoplex, Birmingham, England between July and August 2010

Immediate download of 5-track album in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.

The collaboration of Chris Bowsher, word-smith and better known front man of underground pioneers Radical Dance Faction (RDF), with electro-dub rhythm section, The FACTION, has brought forth a heavy piece of musical poetry in their newly completed album

'Infinitive Splits' . . . . . . . . . . . .

TRACK LISTING

1. Smasharagga

2. RU1

3. Beat the dance

4. Landing Party

5. Chinese poem

6. The train

7. Subway 6

8. Lived, we loved