We know it’s not summer anymore – but we wanted to remind everyone what a great summer it was.

Tom Middleton takes us round Bestival to his tracks – “Sense is Real” and “Starq”

Big thanks to Matt “Smivadee” Smith for editing the video…

ENTRIES ARE NOW CLOSED! THANK YOU FOR EVERYONE WHO ENTERED!

Ok guys, the second Maxcast promotion is here!

We’re offering you and 2 mates the chance to come to the Hoosiers studio, meet the band, and listen exclusively to the Final Mix-down of their new album! You’ll be the first to hear it… apart from Irwin, Alphonso and Martin (and maybe a few producers…).

All we’re asking is that you share your best moments – Max It Moments – by giving us the story behind an amazing experience shared with your friends, and uploading a picture, or sending a video URL. The band will choose the best, and you’ll win this amazing opportunity. Travel, Hotel, we’ll sort it all out for you…

Enter your best moments by clicking here!

Get entering! This promotion will close on 11.59pm, Friday 4th September. Good luck!

Maxcast Team
P.S. The prize will be around Christmas, but as the album isn’t finished yet – this will be confirmed later
P.P.S Terms and conditions are here

We’re pleased to announce the full line up is complete! Mr Hudson has now joined the artists on Maxcast…

He doesn’t take much introduction, but here’s one anyway!

Mr. Hudson is an alternative pop artist based in London (UK) who first caught the eye and ear of the public when he performed the track “Too Late, Too Late” on the BBC music television show ‘Later…with Jools Holland’. Mr Hudson’s debut LP (titled – ‘a tale of two cities’) was released in 2007 to strong reviews and received national airplay on Jo Whiley and Zane Lowe’s Radio 1 shows. Following the release of the album, Mr. Hudson toured with Paolo Nutini, Amy Winehouse, & supported The Police in Cardiff before headlining on his own tour.
Mr Hudson is presently working on his sophomore album, which will be produced by the 10-time Grammy award-winning producer & singer, Kanye West.
Mr Hudson supported Kanye West on the 2008 ‘Glow in the Dark’ UK & Ireland Tour.

More to come from Mr Hudson over the next few weeks, and possibly something today…

thanks!

Maxcast Team

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.

Fade’s Tour Diaries™….. part.3 in an intermittent series…

(or musings from across the globe.)

The Adelaide Shuffle

Not only does water run away down plug-holes the other way in the southern Hemisphere, but their dance moves have a distinct funk of their own. The Adelaide-Shuffle (modified from the erstwhile Melbourne-shuffle) is a spectacle to behold. Kind of like the Running Man, mixed-up with what we used to call the X-man in 1990, then sped-up and stripped of any recognisable “dancing” characteristics and replaced with the unsexy frenetic stomp of a wooden-legged man dealing with too-high a treadmill setting. People seem to bust this local move out at any given moment all over the club, for a burst of about 30 seconds of cardio intensity like a mating-ritual for ephedrine-drunk robots. It’s bad enough when the boys do it (and let’s face it, what dance move isn’t?) but some girls get involved too. It’s a wonder any pro-creation gets achieved at all in Southern Australia. This won’t be seen in a club near you soon. [*sauce got some footage tho…]

E-Cup Bolt-ons

The best self-description of a pair enhanced-breasts I’ve ever heard. Brisbanites don’t mince their words. They also party harder than anywhere else we’ve been this year. And look good while doing it. All year-round sunshine does wonders for keeping-up your beach-bod credentials and yet manage to never take yourself (or indeed anything) too seriously. The Monastery, Brisbane, we salute you. You bring the party.

The Return from Oz

22 hours in the air is just wrong. But coming down for one hour break to visit the toilets in Singapore airport is the most unexpected dose of luxury, your long-haul economy traveller can experience. [*pic attached] They are plusher than any of the hotels we’ve stayed in on this tour. They are nicer than my own bathroom at home. They are nicer than my whole flat tbh. Like when u go into a really flash restaurant loo and wished you lived there. (we all do that….right?). There is even an attendant guy actually cleaning- all the time- instead of offering you Chupa Chups and a £5 squirt of Hugo Boss. My parting tip to anyone flying-out East is to save your ablutions for Singapore airport.. and don’t do any home-improvements before you’ve taken notes there.