Thursday 25 March 2010
Wednesday 24 March 2010
Tuesday 23 March 2010
INTERVIEW!
Well thank fug for that. I've been working my arse off for most of the year, with the end of the academic year hurtling towards me like a dead end wall in a car where the brakes aren't working. The reason for that being I hadn't managed to get myself a work placement for the third year. Now, a placement in my eyes is indispensible. If I had managed to get one during my first degree I may actually have some form of a career now (although I doubt it, my heart wasn't in it).
A big company has asked me to their offices for an interview next Wednesday, I'm peeing my pants! I'm working very very hard this week everyday to get ready and will be wearing the smartest suit in my arsenal!
Wish me luck!
Monday 22 March 2010
Sunday 21 March 2010
Triple Thrash Treat Talita/Earache edition
Long time friend and french-speaker Talita Militia from Earache records chooses this week's trio of thrashing goodness with a (un)surprisingly modern era Earache influence so watch and enjoy!
Evile - 'Infected Nations'
Municipal Waste - 'Wrong Answer'
Gama Bomb - 'Slam Anthem'
Wednesday 17 March 2010
So Over it
Some people really aren't all that cool when you get to know them a bit better...
I'm so over it
Monday 15 March 2010
Louise Brown's Triple Thrash Treat
This week I'm very pleased and honoured to bring you a trio of videos chosen by Miss Louise Brown, the editor of Terrorizer. She obviously knows her stuff, if you haven't heard of Terrorizer magazine for whatever reason, please take a gander here : http://www.terrorizer.com/frontpage_mmx
Anyway Lousie is a professional writer, and I'm not. So I'll let her introduce the videos herself!
Thanks again Louise x
I've decided to base my three videos around women who seriously kick ass. None of this corset warbling bullshit (which I must admit I'm slightly partial too) and definitely reinforcing the belief that women have positive role models in this very male-centred world. Certainly beats that Fuel Girl/Steel Panther groupie bullshit that seems to be infiltrating every facet of my beloved music scene at the moment. Let's start with Tam Simpson from Sacrilege. Basically Birmingham in the late '80s must have been a seriously exciting place to live in you were into heavy metal. Look! This is a Candlemass show. Fuck! And Sacrilege are opening. If I'd lived there Tam would have been my hero. She is anyway. Xtreem Records just put out a compilation of their demos - get it!
Arkona - Pokrovi Nebesnogo Startsa
I grew up with folk music so as you can imagine I'm pretty much at my happiest around folk metal. I was raised on a heady diet of strong, female voices from Sandy Denny, Melanie, Maddy Prior, Jacqui McShee and folk metal seems to be the one sub-genre of metal where women are most accepted. From the more acoustic fare of Jex Thoth through to this blackened outpouring of menstual mayhem courtesy of Russia's Arkona. Vocalist Masha Scream is a true matriarch - I can imagine her ancestral sisters ruling the tribe and putting the warrior men firmly in their place.
The Runaways - Rock N Roll
I can't fucking wait for the biopic based on the lives of Joan Jett, Cherrie Currie, Sandy West, Micky Steele, Lita Ford and Jackie Fox. The Runaways did what they wanted. They were punk rock incarnate. The boys wanted to be with them and the girls wanted to be them. They paved the way and girls, we love you for it.
Monday 8 March 2010
Triple Thrash Treat BADMAN edition
I'm slowly running out of metal experts in my address book to harass for video selections. However, this week the selection is by a man I should have asked near the beginning of all this craziness. Sam 'Badman' Thredder (Don't ask how he got his nickname, it'll give you nightmares) is someone heavily involved in heavy music. He has a lovely studio setup (http://www.myspace.com/thecrosneststudio) where a LOT of bands record their albums and also plays in innumerable projects ranging from Hench Beast(http://www.myspace.com/henchbeast), HellBent Diehard (http://www.myspace.com/hellbentdiehard) and Destron to his newest, SlabDragger (http://www.myspace.com/slabdragger). He's chosen some tunes that will make your soul shit itself.
Broken Hope - 'Into the Necrosphere'
Good, solid death metal. I remember this band had a song title 'She Came Out in Chunks'.
Napalm Death - "World Keeps Turning"
Grrriiiizzzziiiinnndddd!
Possessed - "Heretic"
One of the earliest dm bands! Frantic shit, I think Larry Lalonde played guitar for them for a little bit. Can an internerd please verify my claim? I'm all wikipedia'd out thanks
That's it for this week. Thrash on!
Monday 1 March 2010
Song titles that say it all
Down on South Street Philadelphia,
Out from Avenue C,
I seen it in the eyes
it was ready to freeze
from the valley hotel!
I don't care about you!
Fuck you!
I don't care about you!
Fuck you!
I see Hollywood boulevard,
welfare hotel,
I spent the night in jail,
near the Wicox hotel!
I don't care about you!
Fuck you!
I don't care about you!
I've seen an old man have a heart attack in Manhattan.
Well he just died while we just stood there lookin' at him.
Ain't he cute?
I don't care about you!
Ohhhhhhhhh!
I don't care about you!
I see man rollin' drunks,
bodies the streets.
Some man was sleepin' in puke
and a man with no legs crawling down 5th street trying to get something to eat!
I don't care about you!
Oh noooooo!!
I don't care about you!
Fuck you!
I don't care about you!
Hey! Hey!
I don't care about you!
I dont care about your feelings, i dont care i made you cry, i dont care i wasnt there for you in the trying times, who was ever there for me, who heard my screams, now i live this goddammed life with these broken dreams. THE TRUTH HURTS! dont tell me how to live or to change my ways, dont tell me to respect the things you do for me, when all you do is cheat, lie & decieve. its not what you feel its what you must do. this misjudgement happens everyday and this shouldn't be true, if you would open your mind instead of just your mouth and find out what the truth is really all about.
I've seen your face and I don't like you
You're no friend of mine
I don't like any of the things you do
You're no friend of mine
You're no good it's easy to see
You're no friend of mine
I've told you before stay away from me
You're no friend of mine
You think that you can come around
and act like on of us
Just because you're in the scene
Doesn't mean that you can hang around
I see you everywhere I go
Talking to the boys
Don't you realize you're dirt
In everyone's eyes?
If I've told you one I've told you twice
You're no friend of mine
But you never listen to my advice
You're no friend of mine
What the fuck do you what from me
You're no friend of mine
I've told you before stay way from me
You're no friend of mine
You think that you can come around
and act like on of us
Just because you're in the scene
Doesn't mean that you can hang around
I see you everywhere I go
Talking to the boys
Don't you realize you're dirt
In everyone's eyes?
You're no friend of mine
You're no friend of mine
You're no friend of mine
You're no friend of mine
You think that you can come around
and act like on of us
Just because you're in the scene
Doesn't mean that you can hang around
I see you everywhere I go
Talking to the boys
Don't you realize you're dirt
In everyone's eyes?
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