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What about March? February is finally over, wow what a month! Pretty intense for everyone, especially for the Fanciful team. Here we are, already in March. Is there anything special about March that I don’t know? January is always exciting because is the first month of the year, then we have February, Carnivals and Valentine’s day, then March. And that is all. At least you have now Fanciful Magazine, with many interesting people in it. And this is what keeps you, and myself, away from boredom (hopefully). I mean, I am personally really proud of this. And all the team as well. It takes us a lot of time and work to get done, but we do enjoy it. I will never stop thanking the amazing contributors of this magazine. Now turn the page and let’s get started.
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CONTENTS
36. Josh Taylor
49. Alix Bancourt
25. Beatriz Granados
8. On YouTube 24. What About Art 9. March’s Playlist 32. Fact-file: Joe Sugg 10. What’s new this month 34. Viewmygig gets the party up 14. Popcorn eater’s corner 39. Nathanael 16. DIY: Green Juice 40. Ollie Garland 18. Style of the Month 44. Introducing: Alfie Deyes 20. London Fashion Week 50. Myth City 22. TALK 60. Fan Art
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MARCH 2015 \\ ISSUE 02 \\ MYTH CITY
FUNDER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF //Bianca Dubois CONTRIBUTERS
THANKS TO
//Sofia Alessandro //Twila Marie Bergania //Zoe Bridger //Paloma Fenty //Ana Garcia Scheker //Aisha Janjua //Dean Lock //Rhiannon Moore //Patricia Nevado //Marina Roldan //Katie Tulip //Vanessa V //Tamara Vargas Moreto //Victoria Wu
//Myth City //Ollie Garland //Mary Desmond //Josh Taylor //Nathanael //Marc Williams //Andy Fowler //Drew Wedlake //viewmygig //Maria Barcelo //Zoe Burchell //Pablo Fernandez //Sergio Lara //Beatriz Granados
CONNECT Twitter.com/fancifulmag Fancifulblog.tumblr.com Facebook.com/fancifulmagazine CONTACT editor@fancifulmag.com
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Ollie Garland at viewmygig show Photography by Bianca Dubois
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ON YOUTUBE My Thoughts on Transgender Youtube.com/shane Shane Dawson has decided that its time to share his thoughts on transgender. He points out how much society has changed towards transgenders now, and how hopefully one day it will all be accepted.
INTERESTING THOUGHTS Youtube.com/graciehinabox Many youtubers have done a “deep thoughts” video, and Grace has come to the conclusion that now is time for her to do the same. She shares with us what goes through her mind when she is in a hotel room.
Blank Space – Taylor Swift | My Parents React Youtube.com/iisuperwomanii
Lily brings us another episode of her parents reacting to YouTube videos. Is there anything more interesting than seeing and listening to parents’ thoughts and reactions on a YouTube video like Taylor Swift’s?
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MARCH’S PLAYLIST 1. Biffy Clyro - Bubbles 2. Rihanna - Towards The Sun 3. Maroon 5 - Animals 4. Fergie - A Little Party Never Killed Nobody 5. David Guetta ft Emeli Sande - What I Did For Love 6. Shawn Mendes – A Little Too Much 7. Meghan Trainor - Lips Are Movin 8. Rihanna , Kanye West , Paul McCartney - Four Five Seconds 9. Blonde - I Loved You 10. 5SOS - Good Girls 11. Ed Sheehan - Thinking Out Loud 12. Taylor swift - Blank Space 13.Omarion ft Jhené Aiko & Chris Brown - Post To Be 14. Ariana Grande - One Last Time 15. Imagine Dragons - Shots 16. Coldplay - Magic 17. Sam Smith – Like I Can 18. Marian Hill - Lips 19.Childish Gambino - 3005 And Heartbreak 20. Room 94 - So What
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WHAT’S NEW THIS MONTH JOE SUGG WILL RELEASE A GRAPHIC NOVEL
YouTube star Joe Sugg aka ThatcherJoe has announced that next September he will be releasing a graphic novel. Alfie Deyes has released 'The Pointless Book' back in September 2014, Joe’s sister Zoe Sugg published her first novel 'Girl Online', which broke the record of fastest first week selling book of a debut author, and his friend and also youtuber Tanya Burr has published her book the past month 'Love Tanya'. Now, Joe Sugg who has over 3.3M subscribers has decided to publish his own book, after making a deal with Hodder & Stoughton. Sugg's graphic novel will be telling the story of a girl fighting to save the world of the descending into mayhem, as said the publishers. It is set to be released on the 10th September 2015.
TYLER OAKLEY STARS IN CATFISH MTV have recently posted a preview video for Season 4 of Catfish. Catfish is an American reality based television series about the truths and the lies of online dating. On the Internet, the term 'CatFish' is someone who makes fake social media accounts using other people's information and even photographs to try and make up that they are someone else. They try to trick people to fall in love with them. While Max Joseph (silver fox detective) takes a quick break from the series, that's where MTV have gone and found 5 unique stars to partner with New Schulman. But they have only gone and got Tyler Oakley (American Famous Youtuber) to star in this series alongside Miss Teen USA Cassidy Wolf, recording artist Hazel Haze and Actor Alex Shaffer.
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THE WANTED AFTER THE SPLITTING The Wanted was formed by Nathan Sykes, Jay McGuiness, Thomas Parker, Max George and Siva Kaneswaran. The boys have achieved so much from three top 10 albums, 10 top singles and sold out tours but are now working individually on their solo careers. Nathan Sykes has been working on his new album and singles due to be released later this spring. Some company's have heard 3 of Nathan's songs which will be released with the album such as official charts, 4 music etc. The songs are called 'Money', 'Kiss Me Quick' and 'Famous'. Jay McGuiness is currently taking a break to go on adventures and to travel and enjoying life. He has been exploring Mexico and other places. On Twitter @whereisjaytw tweets pictures of Jay and information about what he has been up to. Tom Parker has been focussing his career on singing and being a DJ. In July 2014 he stared in a music video and sung with Richard Rawson (Fazer - N-Dubz) with the hit single 'Fireflies'. He is also supporting his girlfriend Kelsey Hardwick as she has her own "Boutique woman's fashion store" online called “Hey Dolly” Max George is currently focussing on his acting career. Late 2014, he managed to bag his first acting role, which was in the sixth season of Glee. Glee is an American musical/comedy/drama television series and is shown on Fox. Siva Kaneswaran is focussing on his modelling side. In 2013 he signed a contract to 'Next Models'. Last year he appeared in Grazia Magazine and other magazines. Siva writes his own blog post weekly on Hello magazines website. Later this year Siva is marrying his girlfriend Nareesha McCaffrey.
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IGGY AZALEA & RITA TO MAKE CAMEO ON FATS AND FURIOUS 7 Singers Rita Ora and Iggy Azalea are working together again, but this time, on the big screen. The 24-year-old Australian rapper, has been given a role in the upcoming movie Fast & Furious 7, to be out in April this year. Her role in the movie is much bigger that expected. "I thought that I was just going to have to wave the flag and then I came [to set] and I got a car and I got some lines and then [my character is] friends with Vin." she told Access Hollywood when talking about the movie. Rita Ora, instead, will have a smaller role. When the news came out, it was believed that she might would appear as herself in the movie, but it turns out she will be playing another race lover. They both will soon show us how their acting skills.
CASPAR LEE & JOE SUGG VOICE “THE SPONGE BOB MOVIE” Paramount Pictures has announced that comedian and TV personality Alan Carr, singer and TV presenter Stacey Solomon and YouTube sensations Joe Sugg and Caspar Lee will put their voices in comedy characters on the movie "The SpongeBob Water" exclusively for the UK.
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The movie has already made over $150M worldwide, and the rest of the cast includes Antonio Banderas, Tom Kenny, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass, Bill Fagerbakke and Carolyn Lawrence. It will be released in the UK on the 27th March. Last month we had the big news of also YouTube sensations Dan and Phil taking cameo roles on the Disney movie Big Hero 6, we now see other two big internet celebrities giving it a try to the film industry.
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LIFE HACK (OR INSPIRING STORY): FREE PIZZA Well, now that I have your attention I should confess that this is only a life hack if you are in Philadelphia, for the rest of us this is the story of a Wall Street analyst who left his job to be happy and make others happy. Mason Wartman spent $250,000 of his own money to launch this pizza place called Rosa’s Fresh Pizza and now he runs this successful business at the same time he gives back to the community. What makes Rosa’s Fresh Pizza different from any other pizza place is that you can purchase a slice of pizza for only $1 and you have the option to pay forward for another person by paying $1 more and sticking a post-it to the wall. Thanks to this idea people in need can walk in the restaurant, grab a post-it and collect their slice of pizza. He went to Ellen’s show to talk about this place where we can see that apart from helping with the slice of pizza, many people decide to write encouraging words in the post-its. Who knows how many lives those words and kind acts have changed. This initiative proves that people want to help, they just need an opportunity.
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POPCORN EATERS CORNER INSURGENT 20TH March 2015 Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Kate Winslet, Miles Teller Beatrice Prior (Woodley) has now to confront fears and fight against the society for what she believes. Although, this time, things might get a bit more intense as Jeanine (Winslet) is chasing and experimenting with divergents. Why? Let’s find out on the 20th March.
FAST & FURIOUS 7 3rd
April 2015 Vin Diesel, Dwayne Jonhson, Michelle Rodriguez Someone comes back looking for the gang and revenge. We can expect a lot of action with the seventh part of Fast and Furious.
INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 3 3rd
April 2015 Stefanie Scott, Lin Shaye, Leigh Whannell The third part of the American supernatural horror film is coming out soon, this time; the story goes before the haunting of the Lambert Family.
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CINDERELLA 27th March 2015 Lily James, Cate Blanchett, Richard Madden, Elena Bonham Carter One of the biggest Disney classics comes to life. Follow once again the story of Cinderella.
MINIONS 26th
June 2015 Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm, Allison Janey, Michael Keaton
TED 2 26th
June 2015 Mark Wahlberg, Amanda Seyfriend, Liam Neeson
TERMINATOR GENISYS 3rd
July 2015 Arnold Schwarzenegger, Emilia Clarke, Jason Clarke,
JURASSIC WORLD 12th
June 2015 Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ty Simpkins, Nick Robinson
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PITCH PERFECT 2 15th May 2015 Anna Kendrick, Skylar Astin, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow
Avengers: Age of Ultron 24th April 2015 Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans, Elisabeth Olsen
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Style of the month MARCH
What a messy month could be March. We can have everything. Still pretty cold, so we can’t leave the house with a big thick coat to make sure we are warm over the whole day. Like the few coats below. So many new styles have come along this winter, we now have the biggest variety ever, and the best thing is, nobody will judge what you wear but yourself.
The strong colorful stuff stayed back, in last year’s winter. We now have black, grey and brown taking over. But also, a few pastel colors around. What would definitely be a good shop for this winter is a fur coat. Classy and super warm. Don’t tell me you have not seen it everywhere. It goes with everything.
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By this time of the year, people are try to make the best out of what they have, to be warm but also fashion. With these pictures, you might a little idea of what is going on in the fashion world and also, get some inspiration for your own outfits. Black and grey are on the top, but also you can see that you can wear a red dress or skirt, and, pastel colors. The next couple of pages, we have some London street style, more inspiration for you all for when you open you wardrobe.
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STREET STYLE – LONDON FASHION WEEK
PHOTOGRAPHY BY VICTORIA WU
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#TALK
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If there is one topic in this world which I'm surely attached is definitely "confidence in ourselves". If you're wondering why, well that's pretty obvious. To be confident it's one of the most important things in life and all of us should care about this topic and about how confidence is fundamental. This time I don't want to bore you with my long writings and I'm going to do something new. We need time to be confident and we can't just wait for confidence to come, we have to reach it step by step. First step: LOVE YOURSELF THE WAY IT IS. You are you, you can't change that and you have to love yourself because guess what? There is no reason not to love yourself. Only if you do it you can be more confident, this is the most important step. And remember everyone in this world is special because everyone's different. Second step: IMPROVING. If there is one thing that I've learned in these past years I'm alive is that we can always improve, our knowledge, our skills can always improve, don't surrender because you're not good at something, and it could be even the most insignificant thing, try it and then try it again until you finally say " I DID IT". Third step: DO EVERYTHING TO REACH YOUR GOALS. There's nothing more pleasant and nothing that could make you feel more confident than finally reaching your goals! So do it, find out what's important for you and be dedicated. Words by Sofia Alessandro
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WHAT ABOUT
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Words by Rhiannon Moore Drawing by Beatriz Granados We hear and we see art everyday, we just never notice it, we go about our everyday lives looking at a painting on a wall or we see graffiti on our street but it's often something our brain just passes over. You can see and interpret art in whatever
Way you wish to and that’s an amazing thing for creative minds who want to take it further and make up their own theories, but not just art in the form of a painting, but also drawing, sculptures, music, theatre and many other art forms are out there that go unnoticed or unappreciated. Take music for example - you will more or less likely listen to at least a song a day no matter what you're doing. You could be listening to the radio driving, watching TV or working out with your headphones in you're bound to hear something. Not enough do I see people stop to capture a moment or appreciate the art they see around them. We think nothing of it and just accept that it's there and that it exists.
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Now imagine you took all of the art and all the colour out of the world. You lived in a black and white world of silence. No paintings, no graffiti, no sculptures, no cinema and no music around you. It was just a plain world of nothing. Emptiness topped everything and there was nothing to keep you busy or nothing to enjoy. Often it’s the simplest form of art that goes unnoticed and unappreciated but we'd be nothing without it. The tunes we sing and repeat in our head are the ones we think nothing of because we're always going to have them and they're always going to be there for us to sing. But what if one day everyone just gave up? The artists stopped painting and the actors stopped acting and DJ's stopped producing their widely loved music and all because they thought nobody appreciated it. When you see a painting you like on the wall of somebody’s house or you hear a piece of music you love express your love for that and don’t be scared of what other people are going to think about that. If you never express your love for something how are people supposed to hear about that.
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meet beatriz There are so many brilliant artists out there, but we don’t get to appreciate. I personally believe that today’s generation is not taking art as they used to. I thought we could bring you this a bit more of art to this issue. Let me introduce you to the Spanish artist Beatriz Granados.
Paper and pen have always been there for her, she did most of work and learning drawing in paper, but nearly a year ago, May 2014 to be exactly, she got herself a digital tablet, and that opened many doors for her in ‘drawing world’ as she discovered how much she could do digitally.
That is all on her tablet, Beatriz was born in the “I have discovered when jumping on the beautiful city of Granada, computer she has Spain, on the February 13th my hobby and has other softwares like 1991. Although, she is Photoshop, as every become my main currently living in Madrid. She good drafts person. passion” is also attending to university, studying Journalism and She has done amazing Communications. Not graphic pieces on One Direction, design or animations, as many of Jennifer Lawrence or Aubrey you would have thought. Hepburn. Being such a good artist is giving Beatriz a little bit of work. She has always been a drawing lover, even since she was a kid. Kids nowadays only She has now set up her own little shop, enjoy iPads and phones. Beatriz, as a child, where you can buy notebooks with One used to draw Disney characters with her Direction or any other drawing you want to mom. Once she got to secondary school suggest, as well as t-shirts, bags, pillows, and had the chance to choose her phones cases or hoodies. Even clocks. Who subjects, without thinking it twice she went would like to have Harry Styles on their for drawing. This was not a “big deal” as clocks? Everything with her own drawings. she mentions on her Tumblr.
Make sure to connect with Beatriz twitter.com/CoconutWishes instagram.com/coconutwishes/ And check her links. etsy.com/uk/shop/CoconutWishes
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FACT-FILE
JOE SUGG
STORY BY AISHA JANJUA COLLAGE BY ANA GARCIA SCHEKER
Joe Sugg, also known as ThatcherJoe on Youtube is an English vlogger and internet personality, born on September 8th of 1991 in the Southern coasts of Brighton. With the Sugg life choosing him, Joe is a very talented impersonator able to adapt to some very unique characters, including: Captain Jack Sparrow, Peter Griffin, Mr Bean, Gollum and Shrek and Donkey. Not only can Sugg make us crack up with these hilarious impressions, but he also has a talent at impersonating fellow youtubers as he presented in his video, 'Amazing Youtuber Impressions'. This included impressions of Tyler Oakley, Zoella, Sprinkle of glitter, Alfie Deyes (and his very significant laugh), Miranda Sings and many more. Joe is also a rather talented skateboarder and has surprisingly formed an obsession with snails.
Sugg joined the vlogging world in August 2012 and has now made his way to the top with currently over 3.5 million subscribers, his most popular video being, 'My Sister Does My Make up.' Furthermore, he has announced that he will be releasing a graphic novel. The Sugg gene has shown a real talent for novels and vlogging as Joe's older sister Zoella is also an internet sensation and has released her own book. At present, Joe Sugg is living with youtuber Casper Lee in London where they are known to constantly pull pranks on each other. These vary from prank calls all the way to giant scary clowns... How they put up with each other, we will ever know.
CONNECT WITH JOE Youtube.com/thatcherJoe Twtter.com/Joe_Sugg Instagram.com/Joe_Sugg Facebook.com/ThatcherJoe
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VIEWMYGIG gets the party up STORY BY KATIE TULIP & PATRICIA NEVADO PHOTOGRAPHY BY BIANCA DUBOIS
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josh taylor story by katie tulip photography by bianca dubois
Josh loves to perform live. From performing at soccer six to imagine fm Christmas lights switch on, blackpool pleasure beach and even west end live and unpublished events. While he is attending promo gigs and his acting career, he is currently creating his first ever album whilst working with others to create new projects and materials. Last year he created singles and Eps with his record label Cloud9Records. Some of which include 'in my head' and 'thinking of you tonight'. In 2012 Cloud9Records was set up so Josh was able to set up and release his own music.
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ABOUT JOSH Josh Taylor is a recording artist singer, songwriter and actor. He is currently age 16, and was born on 28th February 1998 and is from Manchester. He started to develop his acting and singing skills at the age of 8. His music consists of an original blend of Pop/rock with classical tinges. He has a unique northern voice with special overtones.
"Josh has just completed filming for the guest lead role, David Williams in the BBC drama Doctors 'Between The Cracks'. Over summer he completed two productions at The Rose Theatre in Kingston; The Ragged Child (Tommy, The Crossing Sweeper) and Soul Music (Dibbler, The Band Manager). He was cast to play the part of JEM in the BBC production ‘Hetty Feather’ but filming clashed with the Ragged Child. >>
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Professional credits include TV, Film, Theatre, Musical Theatre & Recording. Josh co-wrote and showcased his first play/drama 'The Wasp' earlier this year at The Lowry Theatre. No stranger to professional theatre, Josh has had principle roles in productions such as All My Sons, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and The Winslow Boy." Josh has worked with many songwriters, musicians and producers. He has worked with Andy Ross , adam lambert etc.
In February Josh was attending to Mac Music tour alongside Bars and Melody, Daniel Huw Lewis This is the brooks and many more. He is currently to collaborate with artists and perform with live musicians in a band, so he can work on projects such as the boyband and develop his own sound, voice and career. Josh currently uses social media and sites to post demos.
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drew wedlake andy fowler we have so many incredibly talented people out there, ready to show us their skills and prove how much they worth it, one of them is Drew Wedlake. Drew is a British singer-songwriter, based in Bristol and represented by viewmygig. Thanks to the awesome show that we had the pleasure of attending in February, we got to find Drew and many other talents represented by viewmygig. Also, thanks to YouTube we get to listen and watch his music videos and covers. He is dedicated and talented singer. He joined YouTube back in 2012. His most popular cover is “Chasing the Sun – Snow Patrol” with over 7k views so far. CNNECT WITH DREW YouTube.com/DrewWedlake1 Twitter.com/DrewWedlake Facebook.com/DrewWedlake
Also part of viewmygig’s show: Andy Fowler. He is a singer-songwriter and also plays the guitar. He is one of five members of British boyband 'Overload' who are based in England UK. Overload were formed on the X Factor in April 2014 London UK. There are 5 members to in the group who consist of himself Andy Fowler, Ryan Robertson, Jordi Whitworth, Joseph Devries and Ollie Garland. Overload have posted their own covers of songs on their YouTube page. Andy was born on the 16th February 1994 and is currently age 21 and from the city Manchester in the UK. CONNECT WITH ANDY facebook.com/OverloadGeneration twitter.com/ImAndyFowler instagram.com/imandyfowler
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nathanael Nathanael is 16-year-old British artist. He is a pop singer-songwriter from Horsham, West Sussex, UK. He is also part of viewmygig management, and one of the stars of their last show in London. In February 2015, Nathanael released his very first single on iTunes called “Breaking in the Fast Lane” “Considering Nat is only 16 he is talented beyond belief and this first single showcases just one of his styles of singing” published viewmygig about Nathanael when his first single came out.
CONNECT WITH NATHANAEL twitter.com/Natinfinitum facebook.com/viewmygiglive
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ollie garland Also member of the popular five-piece boyband “Overload” and ex X Factor contestant along his band, we have Ollie Garland. Garland was born on the 16th March 1995, in Bristol, England. He has always been into music and trying to make some space for himself. He started his music career as a solo artist, uploading singles online. His firsts were “Deep Down” and “Dry Your Eyes”. These two singles went up on his YouTube channel and iTunes. He started uploading covers and original songs on his YouTube channel back in 2010. So far, his most popular videos are “Justin Bieber – All Around the World cover”, “Justing Bieber – Boyfriend cover” and “Bring it Back – Ollie Garland ft Frenzee”.
Thanks to X Factor, Overload’s fan base has grown, also, making his own fan base grow. Ollie keeps himself busy not only with this boyband; he is also part of “Friday at 4”, who performed this past February in Camden with viewmygig and the rest of talents. He is now making many plans for the year with the band Friday at 4, and also, keep working on his music career. CONNECT WITH OLLIE twitter.com/olivergarland9 youtube.com/lilollieg instagram.com/olivergarland9/
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Mary Desmond is a sixteen year-old singer from Mission Viejo, California. Mary loves singing and performing because since she was 3 years she wanted to pursue this in her life. Mary Desmond writes and sings her own songs; The movie The little Mermaid encouraged her to started at music after learning songs, Part of your world.
She started YouTube to show the world her voice and it helped increased her fan base. She likes Taylor Swift’s style and her lyrics. Mary thinks that getting into music today is a bit hard, but with adequate knowledge and common sense it can be less difficult.
CONNECT WITH MARY Marydesmondonline.com Youtube.com/marydesmond Twitter.com/Desmond_Mary
Viewmygig’s show took place last Sunday 1st of February. As you can see, they are not only looking after their talents, but also putting the party together. Marc Williams is one of viewmygig’s talents. He is a solo singer, yet to be discovered by many of you. And thanks to viewmygig, you are getting to know them. He has a YouTube channel where he has uploaded many covers. The most popular ones are “Hold Yuh – Gyptian/Alex Clare cover”, “All of Me – John Legend cover” and “Sunday Morning – Maroon 5”. Marc has also songs with Mary Desmond, and have performed together. CONNECT WITH MARC youtube.com/marcw51 twitter.com/marc_williams93 instagram.com/marcsimage/
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Alfie Deyes Story by Zoe Bridger
Alfie Deyes also known as PointlessBlog is a British YouTuber. He lives in Brighton with his girlfriend Zoe Sugg, or Zoella, as known on YouTube. They have three pets, Nala a pug and two guinea pigs called Pippin and Percy. He is a 21-year-ols born on the 7th September 1993. He has three YouTube accounts; his main one is “PointlessBlog” with 3.1 million subscribers, his second account is “PointlessBlogtv” with 1.9 million, then he has “AlfieGames” at 1.2 million. Alfie started his PointlessBlog channel back in 2009 with a video of him talking about Charlie McDonnald, called “Is Charlie Really so Cool Like?” As from December his main channel has had over 160 million views. Alfie has collaborated with plenty of other famous youtubers such as Tanya Burr, Louis Cole, Louise Pentland (SprinkleOfGlitter), Grace
Helbig, Zoe Sugg (Zoella), Tyler Oakley, Troye Sivan, Miranda Sings, Joe Sugg or Joey Graceffa. He also worked with Your Generation network on YouTube, with the famous singer and actress Ariana Grande. The video of them was Ariana giving Alfie a make over. He also holds two world records from 2013 including most party poppers popped in 30 seconds and most bangles put on in 30 seconds by a team of two, which he did with fellow youtuber Marcus Butler. Alfie has his own book called “The Pointless Book”. The book was published in 2014 after making a deal with Blink. His book came out in September that year. It’s a fill out book with lots of different pages. It also turned out to be New York Best-seller. He is currently planning a new book, which is supposed to come at the end of 2015. >>
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He has also been in the music industry for the band aid 30 2014. He sung with other celebrities “do they know its Christmas” raising awareness fro Ebola and donating money to Africa to help out at Christmas. Deyes has his own show with fellow friends Zoe Sugg, Joe Sugg, Caspar Lee, Tanya Burr, Jim Chapman, Louise Pentland, Marcus butler and Niomi Smart called AmityFest. In October 2014 they went to Birmingham, Liverpool and his hometown Brighton.
The show was about a range of stuff and an evening for all to enjoy with they favorites (including parents). They have all said that there is going to be more shows in August hence why none of them are attending to Summer in the City this year. On his list of opportunities, Alfie has been featured on Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw, which he did with his friend Marcus Butler. Alfie has been nominated for a TCA for his video with Ariana Grande, however, he did not win it.
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STORY BY SOFIA ALESSANDRO
fashion bloggers Fanciful readers do you want to reinvent your wardrobe but you don't know where to get ideas? Here at Fanciful we are always updated and we can never forget about you fashion lovers, so here we picked out three trendy, stunning and fashionable fashion bloggers that surely will help you get ideas for awesome looks day by day.
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CHIARA FERRAGNI Born in the sunny and beautiful Italy, Chiara Ferragni, also known as "The Blonde Salad" which is the name of her own blog and her first book too, she is definitely one of the most famous and popular fashion bloggers in the whole world. She started her blog in 2009 and from that moment began to be more and more popular, with over 3 million followers on instagram and various recognitions as blogger of the year she is one of the most followed bloggers.
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CONNECT WITH CHIARA http://www.theblondesalad.com/ instagram.com/chiaraferragni www.facebook.com/theblondesalad www.youtube.com/user/TheBlondeSalad https://twitter.com/ChiaraFerragni
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ALIX BANCOURT Born and raised in Paris, the city of love, the sweet indeed Alix started her blog in 2007 after she finished studying at fashion school in Paris, her blog's name, Cherry Blossom Girl, is from the song by French band AIR. She has been part of many projects, which included working at Alexander McQueen and Chloé. We love vintage stuff and Alix surely has that vintage style we love and which makes her stunning. Well done! CONNECT WITH ALIX
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Starting with vocals, we have Marius Listhrop, also known as Mazzi Mazz. The 20-year-old from Wolverhampton enjoys producing music and dancing, as we can see on his YouTube channel. His YouTube career also keeps him busy. He makes comedy videos and has over 700 thousand subscribers. Mazzi also mentions how he enjoys reading books and learning about space.
24-year-old and drummer player, we have Simon Hutchings. “I like to drum” he says. From Birmingham, Hutchings is interested in any sort of music. “I can play along with anything,” he then adds. Simon enjoys his days drumming everywhere; he has music on his head all the time.
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The bass is played by the talented Matt Stephenson. 25-year-old also from Birmingham “enjoying playing bass and getting drunk” and also a foodie boy. Everything about music interests Matt. Not only the drummer, but also the bass of the band are all about music all the time.
Last but no least, the fourth member of the band is Bharber Alishah, or Barb. Also 25 years and from Birmingham. He is the guitarist of band. One of his biggest interests is physics; here we have a science lover. “You guys know Jesus? He [Barb] is like Jesus!” Mazzi shares his opinion on the band’s guitarist.
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is an English band from Birmingham, formed in 2014. The band consists of Marius Listhrop, Matt Stephenson, Simon Hutchings and Bharber Alishah. Their passion for music pushed them into the create Myth City.
You will definitely find familiar elements from other artists, but Myth City might be bringing us something new, showing how they mix everything they are into and make it work.
Along with our photographer, we jumped on a train at 8.00am and went all the way up to Birmingham to catch up them and introduce Myth City to you. Full of talent and awesome future ahead.
There are so many people, singers or bands, out there creating music but everyone follows a specific genre, so nowadays is hard to find a band combining the best elements of others to create something new instead of just sticking to what is already done.
Talking about their music style. “We would like to do classical music,” jokes Mazzi. As each of them has a different taste in music, they quite can’t decide what genre of music are they going for.
They write their own songs, and like this, each can add a bit of something different to a song. To get inspired and get started on something, they all rely on the vibes.
There are not many bands you can compare Myth City to; they have a big crazy mix of tastes smashed into their music.
Getting together and doing the work themselves, as bands used to do. That’s how they believe music should be done. >>
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Lights on, beers on hands and after this, they just play the instruments until get to something interesting. “Sometimes we come to the local and play jams and we don’t even make anything.” “We can have a sick bass line, or a sick guitar melody, a nice beat or some good rap vocals that sounded cool, and then, we can build of that.” “It’s all done live, so every song is made super authentic.” This is their music creation process, from the fun together and sharing a band to put out there something new, can come out a new song. They have always been very into music. Although, for some of the members, Myth City is not the only band they have been part of. Simons tells us how he has been in five bands but he is now really enjoying Myth City. They four have been together for little over a year now. When they started it, as Mazzi is an Internet personality and has a big fan base and followers thanks to his YouTube videos, it was easy for them to share what they are doing.
this is something good and serious, they stick to it. Following the band and music from the beginning. Simons adds how he made use of his old bands’ accounts to promote a bit Myth City. Over the little chat with the boys, we have gone through their logo as well. Matt mentions his brother, who is a tattoo artist. He came up with the skull, and they then went for “Myth City” as the name of the band. Putting all together, they got the logo. The name of the bands has a story as well. Everything came out of WhatsApp. They went through many names over a WhatsApp group until they landed on Myth City.
“Myth City, I feel like… it has it’s own thing”
“Being an internet based personality, means that you can kind of like show parts of your life that; normal people have aspects of their life but don’t really have an audience to show it to, but as my life is in the internet, anything I do, gets put in a huge spot.” Many people have found about the band through his fan base. Nothing better than the Internet to promote a new band, and when everyone sees that
“I love this story, it shows how the Internet is changing the world” says Mazzi asking about they first met.
Mazzi really wanted to be in a band, this even took him to Google and searching for bands that he could join. He got into a website, where people were looking for other people to join their bands. He message three people, including Matt. They all got together to listen a bit of music they make and decided straight away to stick with them. “We met up and jammed.” adds Matt. The best of being in a band, all agree that is touring. Getting themselves on different stages around and seeing fans, is a huge experience. Also, being in a band is the way for a musician to learn. All together, can teach something new to each other. >>
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But the worst is when some are not feeling the ‘vibes’ to make a song but the others are “you come to jam, and you are feeling super creative. You have so much inspiration and you are ready to get on the mic, or ready to go on the drums, the bass, guitar whatever, but if one of us isn’t on it, isn’t feeling the vibe, then it can’t happen.” The boys have many plans for the band, one of the goals the all agree they want Myth City to archive is keep progressing, they want to see themselves on main stages at festivals. Showing and enjoying their music with everyone. Going around take over whole weekends. “We all know were we can take it, and we take it there, we will then take it further.” Something that also says a lot about a band is how they want to be once they get bigger. One of the ideas is just surprising fans at their birthdays parties. “That would be so cool, they would be coolest kid in school!” To end the little chat with them, they shared some advice to those trying to get into the music world. It’s definitely going to be much harder than you think. It’s always difficult but everyone needs somewhere to start. It never gets easier. So you have to make sure you really love it, otherwise don’t do it. Don’t do it for money or fame, but for your passion for music, or it would be a horrible experience. The only way to survive is doing something you love. Myth City will be touring in May along with Fearless Vampire Killers. Also to finish the chat, Mazzi added “Shout out to my mum for knowing how to cook.”
STORY BY BIANCA DUBOIS PHOTOGRAPHY BY DEAN LOCK
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