Fran Houghton is a girl from Blackpool who not only has a beautiful voice but is also a mean guitarist. She's played in rocky punky bands but also has a nice selection of her own acoustic music. With influences including John Mayer, Hanson and more her music really sends shivers down you spine.

She's not particularly well known and she doesn't even have any gigs listed on her myspace page, however hopefully that will be rectified in the future as I would love to see her play. She has recently released a new track on her myspace and I've managed to get hold of a copy so I had to link it here for you all to hear. I hope you all like it and will go and support this amazing artist! The track is called "Let Me In" and here it is...

Let Me In - Fran Houghton

Visit Fran Houghton's mySpace

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So, i'm sure you've all read my problems ordering tickets for Green Day thanks to ticket touting. This is an issue, which i'm sure many of you will agree, needs to be fixed! There's lots of different 'solutions' that companies have tried to solve this problem ranging from Limiting the amount of tickets per person to needing a utility bill when you go to a gig. However this isn't solving the problem. In the first case, ticket touts clearly just purchase less tickets on more cards! In the second case touts tend to just provide a utility bill when you purchase a ticket from them. Both of these 'solutions' do just add more effort to the legitimate purchases like myself.

So the solution has to be in our faces. Photo identification is required almost everywhere from Passports and Driving Licenses to a simple club membership card. So where is the problem with printing a photo of us onto our ticket?! Companies like ticketmaster already have a nice back ends for clients so they already have our name and other such details on file. So with a quick modification to the code we have something like the following...

Now the photo that's on my profile then gets printed directly on to my ticket. This would be done during the normal printing system so we don't have any issues with laminating and touts being able to remove the picture. Then through the post we get tickets that look like the following..

Right, so now we have a reasonably fool proof way of proving that I ordered the ticket, it has my face on it! There's a few provisos on this though. The picture on your ticket MUST be the one that was registered on your profile at the time of ordering. This would mean that touts couldn't simply replace the picture in the profile depending on who bought the ticket. The name of the person the ticket was ordered for would also be printed under the photo so extra proof of ID could also be asked for.

In the admin section of the ticket selling website we could have a list of all photos used previously, what tickets they were used for and a way to upload a new photo like the following...

Finally, this system would also mean it would be possible for you to remove the limit on ticket ordering. Ticketmaster could use people's profiles almost like a facebook friends list. This would mean Chris, Del, Feeney etc etc could add me as friends on ticket master. Once this has been done I am then free to order tickets for them through my account and card but their photo would be printed on their ticket.

Yes, this system would mean that if someone decides they cannot make a gig their ticket would be useless, but it should certainly cut down the number of tickets for sale on ebay and mean that the true fans can actually see bands they like without having to buy tickets for 2+ times the price from touts on ebay.

In March 2006 DJ Grimly Fiendish started a night in Blackpool called Misery of Sound to bring whole new Genre's of music to the nightlife. There's plenty of Punk, Metal, Emo and other Alternative style night but what was missing was anywhere to go to listen to Goth, Horror Punk, Psychobilly and the other wide variety that gets played on a regular basis. In 2008 the regular Misery of Sound night expanded into a 2 day festival called Mis-Fest.

Mis-Fest 2008 featured a wide vareity of bands including Zombina and the Skeletones, Pink Hearse, UFX, Screaming Banshee Air Crew and many more. There's a few pictures below from the 2008 Saturday night lineup below.

The 2009 Mis-Fest lineup is looking even more stunning this year, already confirmed are the following...

• Vendemmian
• Charles De Goal
• Devilish Presley
• The Ghost of Lemora
• Blood Sucking Zombies From Outer Space
• Descendants of Cain
• Joy Disaster
• Sign Language
• The Hiram Key

If you like your Psychobilly, Goth, Horrorpunk or just want a really good Alternative night out then Mis-Fest will definitely be the festival to go to in 2009 because you won't see bands like these in one place at any other place!

Get your ticket before April 14th and it will only cost you £19. After that tickets will cost £23. Tickets can be bought directly from the Mis-Fest website at - http://www.misfest.co.uk

Expect to see more here in the future, I have my ticket booked, don't forget yours!

So i'm lying here in Bed listening to a load of music before bothering to get up and show before the house warming (woo btw). Looking at John Mayer's Twitter page and then doing a bit of Googling seems that he's trying to get "Raymond's Taint" out and aboot in common society.

I wonder why.

Hmm. I'll think about it tonight and maybe post my Raymond's Taint at a later date.

So, I managed to get hold of the leaked copy of Green Day's up and coming single "21st Century Breakdown." I wont put it up on here for obvious reasons, I won't even tell you where to get it from, but... What I will tell you is the track is awesome!

The song is very reminiscent of American Idiot. It looks like (and I certainly hope) the new album is going to be very similar to American Idiot. Song starts kinda slow, and around half way through gets faster and more fun, and eventually drops off to the ending. Lyrics are great and poignant just like we've come to expect from Green Day after all these years!

All in all i'm really looking forward to this album, just like I was with the last one and after hearing this track i'm pretty sure it won't disappoint!!

This weeks track (Yes I know's it's late, sorry!) if by Taylor Swift. It's an awesome song called Picture to Burn. Tylor Swift has been all over Radio One recently due to having a new single released that has apparantly been taken very well by the UK public and I was rather shocked to hear a country song on radio One.

Anyway, this song is from her first album back in 2006 I hope you enjoy it

These photographs were taken of The Epoxies when they played live in Poulton back in 2007.