Hey Pepsimaxcasters… It’s been a blinding few weeks indeed. We have had some truly brilliant gigs – Leeds on Monday was mental… we had the Sheffield Wednesday firm in and it went off!!

And the The London Forum last Thurs was totally insane!! It was packed, the crowd knew every single word to every song and  everyone was jumping about and going crazy- at one point I thought the balcony was going to come down! We then went on and partied till the small hours in Camden… I didn’t feel to clever in the morning though!

I also wanna say a big thank you to the Pepsi Max comp winners for coming down and saying  hello – top geezers! Anyway just thought you’d like a sneak peek at one of our soundchecks. This is me doing “The Drugs Don’t Work” by The Verve – one of my favourite bands. Liam, Andy and I like to take it in turns to choose a song to cover to keep sounchecks fun! Enjoy… TC.

Week 8 from The Hoosiers, and a real treat – progress is here and the band have put together a Medley of what they’ve been doing, back with a cool instrumental track!

AND! I’ve just been given their Top 10 tracks! So here they are….

Elbow – One Day Like This

CSS – Move

Passion Pit – Make Light

Elliot Smith – Tomorrow Tomorrow

Flaming Lips – Suddenly Everything Has Changed

The Maccabees – Love You Better

The Rumble Strips – Girls And Boys In Love

Absent Elk – Emily

Mr Hudson – White Lies

The Rolling Stones – Think

Part 4 is here – and Alan’s talking about “Upside Down”, the film covering the history of Creation Records.

He highlights how the death of Tony Wilson made him not want to be in the music business anymore, as most other people in the industry “don’t like music” (an obvious reference to the focus of making money in today’s industry)

The third part of our exclusive Alan McGee interview.

In this part Alan gives some predictions for next year (if we get there…), and talks about how getting music into films and TV probably does more for new bands than getting a record deal in today’s industry.

Check out the video!

Our very own Maxcast “Svengali” himself Alan McGee talks to Maxcast on a sunny October morning, on all things music and Alan. In this video he talks about the music industry, the demise of CDs, the surge of downloads and what he thinks the future is.