So, it's been and gone. The 21st of March was supposedly going to mark the date in which under 18s were not allowed to purchase McDonald's. Was I right to assume that this was nothing more than a silly rumour and to write a post outlining this fact? Yes, I think I was very right to. As I said in my previous post on the matter entitled 'McDonald's Has Stopped Serving U18S' this is just plain unbelievable. It ...

"Raise the sails and face the storms, when everything else fails they'll return to port" These are just a few of the unique lyrics on Edd Lanes recently released EP - The Sailors Escape. Coming from the Westcountry (UK) this is a rare gem in terms of it being a genuinely easy to listen to piece of contemporary folk. For many people the entire genre of folk in all its forms is thought of as a specialist genr ...

With news being announced that the Red Hot Chili Peppers are going to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame within the next few weeks, I am taken back to a time when I, myself, met the Chilis. It was the nineteenth of November 2011 and the anticipation of seeing the Chilis was phenomenal. After travelling all the way to Birmingham to see them, it felt so rewarding to see a band of this calibre pla ...

More and more each day, I am being shocked. Holdupnow has officially gone international! It's astounding that a blog of this size has even been noticed here in the UK, never mind by various places across the world. This is one case in which social media has succeeded. Some of the countries that holdupnow has been viewed by include: Australia, Iceland, the Philippines and the US among others. The fact that t ...

Fairly new to a business in which entire nations are affected, Oliver Hakin, an engineering technician apprentice, has given his time to answer questions about his life in the Ministry of Defence. Hakin’s started working for the MoD in 2010 although this was no easy feat. Upon seeing the apprenticeship scheme on the government’s website and sending off a CV, Hakin’s still had to perform an aptitude examinat ...