Fleur Adrienne de Boer

PRE GIG EVALUATION Because the venue is quite small and intimate with a tiny stage, I have decided to do an acoustic set. I have asked two of my friends to play with me, one violinist and backing vocalist and one acoustic bass player. Both instruments can be DI'd so I would need three amps (one for my semi-acoustic guitar as well) and two microphones. I'm going to do four songs, three originals and one cover, all within the folk/country/pop genres: 1. Crazy I am starting off with this song, because I think it is my best original piece and it will hopefully trigger enough interest to hold the audience's attention throughout the rest of my set. In this song there will be vocals, backing vocals, violin, guitar and bass. 2. My Friends In this song my bass player is going to play guitar for me as I am not able to play the guitar and sing at the same time. It will only be vocals, backing vocals and guitar but the song is up beat and happy. I am doing this song second bec...

VS.  Censorship is, even if we don't realise, affecting us every day of our lives. It controls what information we receive, the way we think and feel about certain matters and sets the ground for our morals. The definition of censorship is: '' The suppression or prohibition of any part of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security. '' - ( Oxforddictionaries.com, (n.d.). censorship - definition of censorship in English from the Oxford dictionary . [online] Available at: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/censorship [Accessed 5 Mar. 2015]) . But who has the right to decide what is or is not acceptable, obscene or a threat to society? Even though we'd like to think that all the information given to us by the media is objectively true, the government controls a lot of what reaches us in the end. I think that in the long run, censorship has the power to form the ideals and value...