tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25475141326855458532024-03-13T09:37:23.913-07:00M A N N YSideshow Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13034683107794185483noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2547514132685545853.post-77541577073386416972021-03-12T06:13:00.000-08:002021-03-12T06:13:03.398-08:00The University of LuxembourgI stumbled upon this on Youtube from 2009. coincidentally when my music was used for this promo for The University of Luxembourg I was living just around the corner from it and was able to go to the premiere (they had a red carpet and everything 😁) - happy days!
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I've created Canvases for all my tracks on Spotify! "What the hell is a Spotify Canvas, Manny?" I hear you cry! Here's Spotify's description:
<blockquote>Canvas is an exciting feature from Spotify that brings your release artwork to life. When your listeners visit the Spotify 'now playing' page on their mobile device the usual release artwork is replaced by a full screen image or looping video. Spotify describe the feature as 'album artwork for the streaming age'</blockquote>
I've opted for looping video rather than full screen image. I cheated by using some free stock video's from https://www.pexels.com/ and editing them to suit but it was a lot of fun and I'm pleased with how they turned out (I think 'Barman From Manchester' and 'Stroll On' are my two favourites).
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Remember canvases are only available on mobile devices. Hope you enjoy!
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Sideshow Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13034683107794185483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2547514132685545853.post-67316387724926602522021-01-20T05:26:00.000-08:002021-01-20T05:26:26.717-08:00Highzinho Los Cagones GuarulhosPlease do not listen to rumours that I used a stuntman for this video!
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<iframe src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/album/7qzVpcxJTT7wQtyeG1TdWr" width="300" height="460" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" allow="encrypted-media"></iframe>Sideshow Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13034683107794185483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2547514132685545853.post-63821963454056789332021-01-07T06:21:00.000-08:002021-01-07T06:21:30.626-08:00Happy New Year! Second album coming latert in 2021Happy New Year! I'm starting 2021 feeling motivated and my big goal for the year is to release the second album which I'll probably call 'Writing a New Score'. <div><br /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://earthsky.org/upl/2020/12/2020-2021-new-Year-e1609358544324.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="515" data-original-width="800" height="305" src="https://earthsky.org/upl/2020/12/2020-2021-new-Year-e1609358544324.jpg" width="464" /></a></div><br /></div><div>I'm also going with a small rebrand and changing my name from Manny to Sideshow Manny (It's a more unique name for finding online and of the many Manny's in the music industry I'm probably the only one who's not a rapper!) </div><div><br /></div><div> Ahead of finalising and releasing the second album, my first task is to get my online presence sorted out. I have now published Sideshow on all the major streaming services but rather than overwhelm you with all the links at once I'll drip feed them over the coming weeks, so watch this space!</div><div><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div></div>Sideshow Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13034683107794185483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2547514132685545853.post-55595873238031947872020-01-07T14:57:00.001-08:002020-01-07T14:57:12.006-08:00Manny - A Place Called Home (Original, fingerstyle, Larrivee P-01)<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iZ8ZOPacvkY" width="459"></iframe>Sideshow Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13034683107794185483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2547514132685545853.post-27290997808967233182019-01-24T13:50:00.001-08:002019-06-01T07:43:36.969-07:00Happy Little Sad Song<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Sideshow Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13034683107794185483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2547514132685545853.post-39329469733174254462018-09-30T01:44:00.001-07:002019-06-01T07:43:22.688-07:00Don't Think Twice, It's Alright<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tTR1wkqiti8" width="480"></iframe><br /><br />
My first time recording a video using a proper microphone, usually I just do it with the phone. This was recorded with a Rode NT4 stereo mic using the Boss BR-800 digital recorder as the audio interface.Sideshow Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13034683107794185483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2547514132685545853.post-64240542928518764942018-02-26T15:07:00.002-08:002019-06-01T07:43:07.941-07:00Time<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Brand new song this time, wrote it over the Christmas holidays. It's called Time:<br />
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Sideshow Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13034683107794185483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2547514132685545853.post-49623912723063943492017-08-24T14:38:00.001-07:002019-06-01T07:42:30.717-07:00Groove On<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's an old song but a new recording. This was one of the first songs I ever wrote back in 2005. Eddie and me did a rough recording one night back then when we were somewhat inebriated but it's taken me this long to get around to doing a proper recording. Enjoy!<br />
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After a 7 year recording hiatus during which time I've moved house 3 times, moved country from Luxembourg to Ireland, got married, became a dad... I finally have a home studio set up again!<br />
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While I was getting everything set up I found an unfinished project(4 guitar tracks) from my old band that had been hiding on a hard drive since 2005. So, to get me back in the swing of things I decided to finish it off.<br />
Now that that's done there are no more excuses so I'll get started now on some new recordings. In the meantime, here's the song I finished off: Don't Tell Me(written by Eddie Leonard):<br />
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Sideshow Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13034683107794185483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2547514132685545853.post-70119192730198521532014-01-06T05:24:00.002-08:002019-06-01T07:42:07.195-07:00"Taxi for Two" used in promo video for Real English®<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A big thankyou to the people at Real English for using Taxi for Two in their preview for their New South Beach Videos<br />
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I'm not a big facebooker, generally I'm lucky if I login once a fortnight. Yesterday I logged in to find a message from a South Korean TV news channel, News Y, who were going to be in Luxembourg doing a piece on Jamendo and were inviting me to take part. I'd missed it by almost a week, they'd been and gone. I was gutted.<br />
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Could it have been my big break? Could I have been to the eastern world what Psy had become to the west? Maybe not but I was thinking about the things I'd achieved with my music - podcasts, radio shows, featured on a compilation CD box set, promotional DVD, movie trailer on a DVD, online videoes... The one thing that's so far eluded me is having me or my music on TV, this would have been the cherry on the cake. Oh well, que sera sera.<br />
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I then got to thinking about how these achievements had become possible and it's really all been from giving my music away and primarily through Jamendo.<br />
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As a musician what I want is for people to hear my music and hopefully enjoy it, if I make any money while I'm at it then that's a bonus but it's by no means the raison d'etre. When I hear about artists suing fans for downloading their music, I'm in disbelief, are you really punishing people for liking your music?! (Metallica, don't you have enough money yet?).<br />
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You can't stop progress, you need to adapt or go the way of the dinosaur. People are going to download music for free, why pay for it if you don't have to? With that in mind, you may as well give your music away for free willingly and appear generous instead of appearing mean and people still not paying for your music.<br />
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If Metallica et al want someone to blame then maybe they need to look closer to home. When the CD was introduced in the 80's, production costs were slashed to a fraction of what they were with vinyl but was the saving passed on to the consumer? No, instead they put the price up. The movie industry has found ways of adapting and giving people a reason to pay for the product, we had HD/Bluray, then 3D and next we'll have 4k super HD.<br />
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What has the music industry given us? The same CD format since 1982 (Which has a smaller sonic range than analogue vinyl so in that respect was in fact a step back from what went before). They could have replaced the CD with Bluray and given us albums with HD sound, made it feel like Frank Sinatra was in the room with us, instead they decided to continue to churn out the same tired old format from the last millennium. A vain attempt to fart against the thunder of illegal downloading.<br />
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I first published my music on Jamendo about five years ago, before they introduced Jamendo Pro. Since then I've been approached by a music library who found me on Jamendo and I've made a bit of cash through them over the past years licensing out my music for commercial uses. In addition to that, since the introduction of Jamendo Pro, I've also made a little bit of money there (although perhaps more importantly Jamendo Pro gets my music played in public spots right across Europe and the US). It might not be enough to buy an island in the sun but the two revenue streams combined have been enough to feed my habit for whatever music equipment I've bought over the past few years.<br />
A film company who were making a promotional DVD for Luxembourg University also found me on Jamendo, they used my music and invited me along to the premier, with free bubbly and even a red carpet!<br />
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I may have missed my chance at TV stardom this time but if I've learned one thing giving my music away on Jamendo, it's that more opportunities will present themselves and with well over 150,000 listens clocked up, Jamendo are making sure people hear my music and for me, that's what's really important. </div>
Sideshow Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13034683107794185483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2547514132685545853.post-1297557752559376012013-04-18T05:15:00.002-07:002019-06-01T07:40:20.117-07:00New Song<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">What would be the point in new sites and new URL's without a new song, I hear you cry? I've traded in the studio for a nursery and although fatherhood leaves little time for recording, it does give me something new to sing about (Singing about drunken one night stands wore a bit thin with the Mrs once we got married :-o))</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I thought I was being generous and providing links to places where my music could be downloaded for free. I was wrong. Wordpress had disabled links to external sites that weren't partnered with Wordpress and my links were going nowhere... So I put two fingers up to Wordpress and moved to Blogger. It's really just the same site with a wee bit of a facelift(and links that actually work).</span><br />
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Sideshow Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13034683107794185483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2547514132685545853.post-64327878417544311172013-04-18T05:10:00.000-07:002019-06-01T07:41:23.324-07:00New URL<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Sideshow Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13034683107794185483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2547514132685545853.post-5383812710599851532012-12-07T09:56:00.000-08:002019-06-01T07:44:09.018-07:00iOS friendly music pageSoundcloud have a new HTML5-powered platform which means no more Flash, which in turn means iOS friendly widgets. So you can now stream or download the music on the music page to your iPhone, iPad, Mac or Mac Book :)Sideshow Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13034683107794185483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2547514132685545853.post-31881170260545574082012-02-22T08:38:00.000-08:002013-03-13T06:44:44.694-07:00All for show on 'It's a Frog's Life' acoustic podcastA big thankyou to Graham Holland at 'It's a Frog's Life' acoustic podcast for playing 'All for Show' on the latest episode (118)<br/><br/>Here's a link to the site where you can listen/download the episode: <br/><br/><a href="http://itsafrogslife.net/podcast/2012/02/show-118-the-times-they-are-a-changing/">It's A Frog's Life Acoustic Podcast</a><br/><br/><a> http://www.archive.org/download/ItsAFrogsLifeAcousticPodcast/itsafrogslife118.mp3</a>Sideshow Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13034683107794185483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2547514132685545853.post-63247946648410899752012-01-05T06:48:00.000-08:002013-03-13T06:44:44.685-07:00url updateGraham Holland from <a href="http://podcast.itsafrogslife.net/">It's A Frog's Life Acoustic Podcast</a> has done some digging around and got in touch to tell me that I'll be able to re-register the domain name after 24th July 2012. So not too long before normal service can be resumed.<br/><br/>A massive massive thankyou to Graham for his investigations. It's well worth checking out his podcast which you can find here: <a href="http://podcast.itsafrogslife.net/">It's A Frog's Life Acoustic Podcast</a>Sideshow Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13034683107794185483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2547514132685545853.post-71804967088598317952011-08-16T04:02:00.000-07:002013-03-13T06:44:44.676-07:00new elephant friendly url: http://sideshowmanny.wordpress.comI'm not much of an activist, I don't think it's always a good idea for musicians to get too preachy, it's the thin end of the Bono wedge...<br/>I had the sideshowmanny.com url registered through Go Daddy, however, after reading this article - <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/31/bob-parsons-godaddy-ceo-elephant-hunt_n_843121.html">bob-parsons-godaddy-ceo-elephant-hunt</a>, I decided not to renew it with Go Daddy when the time came.<br/>So I let it expire but Go Daddy still own the url (there doesn't seem to be an easy way to register it through another company at the moment).<br/>Which means for the time being at least, the url for the site is: <a href="http://sideshowmanny.wordpress.com">http://sideshowmanny.wordpress.com</a><br/><br/>It's more to type but at least no elephants will die in the process.Sideshow Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13034683107794185483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2547514132685545853.post-27671919925977028162011-06-10T09:25:00.000-07:002013-03-13T06:44:44.628-07:00The Comeback TourNext Saturday night (the 18th) I will be coming back out of hiding and playing a set in Fubar in Clausen (It's between the Pyg and Maybe Not Bobs). <br/><br/>I will be playing a set and also Ross Steele (a fellow Scottish crooner) will be playing a set, both will be assisted by the able lead guitar skills of Eddie "Skippy (he's the best)" Leonard.<br/><br/>And that's not all! There will also be an open mic slot where local talents are invited to get up, sing a song, tell a joke, juggle flaming daggers or tame lions, whatever your talent may be!<br/><br/>So a full nights entertainment, which will kick off at 9pm. Feel free to spread the word, the more the merrier!Sideshow Mannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13034683107794185483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2547514132685545853.post-64961372582270884142010-11-08T07:02:00.000-08:002013-03-28T03:56:55.125-07:00"Writing a New Score" on Dalecast #783<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Back from holiday again to find that Steve's played another song, "Writing a New Score" on the show - merci buckets mon ami! ;)<br />
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