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Things We Said Today: Magic Alex’s songs of the year including a certain Master Simm….

Magic Alex DJ’s
6 Dec 2011
Dean Taylor

John Simm is a founding member, songwriter and guitarist with the rock band Magic Alex
John Simm is a founding member, songwriter and guitarist with the rock band Magic Alex

Magic Alex Founder, Vocalist and Blogster, Dean Taylor, queried his fellow band mates, Simon Borkin, Greg Saunders, John Mac and John Simm to submit their record picks for 2011. He then gathered up their responses, sprinkled in a few music videos and baked up one glorious year-end batch of Musical Gems.

Dean writes…

Hey pop kids,

It’s that time of the year again when we ask the members of rock behemoth Magic Alex to put forward their records of the year. For those who still care about the band, i know we promised that we’d do something this year, a gig or a record or something, but our overpowering, inherent laziness quelled these good intentions once more. Maybe in 2012…

Anyway here’s the gang with what got them cooking in the rock and roll kitchen this year…

Read Full Blog –>> Magic Alex DJ’s:Things We Said Today

About Magic Alex – Formed in 1995 by vocalist Dean Taylor (ex lead singer with the brilliantly baggy Cherrydales) and bass player Simon Borkin (from music press darlings Sign Language), over the course of the next 12 months they were joined by guitarist John Simm (who, along with Taylor had been a founder member of the short lived but massively influential ‘artporn’ rockers “Thrush”) drummer John Mac and, finally, keyboardist Greg Saunders to become Magic Alex… read more

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