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Last night we rocked Soundworks good and proper with the best Oxford Band Practice yet!

Thanks to all of you who came along and gave it your all to make July’s meeting such a success! You were all without exception awesome, give yourself a huge round of applause – you all deserve it!

To reiterate what I said at the end, we will have an August meet (date to be confirmed, but I’ll try and get a Thursday again). If you have any song requests then please get in contact, either comment here or go to our Facebook page.

Below is a take of “Knocking on Heaven’s Door” which I managed to snap showing you all being awesome! Sorry for the shaky cam and if I if I didn’t catch some of you, next time I’ll stand in a better place!

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Lulzsec, a cracker establishment which popped up in May, has claimed to have accessed the complete records of the 2011 UK Census. According to the BBC, the main guy involved seems to have been arrested.

Whether or not any of this actually turns out to be true is not really the issue. The UK government’s appalling ineptitude at all things security related pretty much makes such a leak a matter of when, not if.

What sticks in my craw about this is that is that we all knew such data loss was going to happen, whether by malice or incompetence. It happened with DVLA records, it happened with child support records, it happened recently with medical records, the list goes on.

But despite the seeming inevitability of the data becoming public (and don’t forget, a breach only has to happen once) most of us are happy to hand over this information. Or, in the case of dealing with the government, compelled to hand it over by Law.

Is it not about time for us all to get over the idea that handing information about ourselves to a third party – either public or private – is in any way a good idea?

The next time you’re asked to fill out a form or complete a questionnaire take a moment to consider who will see it, what damage it could do should it fall into the wrong hands.

Above all, ask whether they even need the information in order to provide you with the service?

Most of the time they don’t.

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Following from today’s fantastic session, I am pleased to announce July’s meeting will be on the 14th of July.

Once again, it’ll be at Soundworks Studios in Blackbird Leys, Oxford starting at 7pm and going on until about 8.30.

Cranking it up a notch we will be doing three (yes three!) songs, and I’ll be updating the site with the sheet music for them soon. In the mean time, have a listen to the following clips!

“Chasing Cars” by Snow Patrol

“Knockin on Heaven’s Door” by Bob Dylan

“Comfortably Numb” by Pink Floyd

See you there!