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Metaholic Music: Change is boring...

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Tuesday, 26 May 2009. My mate Evil Dave came back off tour for a couple days… my folks being away, we got a few ales in and got ‘tipsy’ in my back yard… for once the sun was out (ish) and it wasn’t blowing a gale, and so there we sat chatting… about Rock and changing the world… like you do. Now, Evil Dave, he worked at the Live Earth [1]. But it’s not so different from other thing in our lives…. 8230;but that’s how Power is, and has always been, challenged and defeated…. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Metaholic Music: Metal means... (Pt3)

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Tuesday, 19 May 2009. Metal means. (Pt3). Putting your money where you mouth is, is quite something… probably the most overwhelming revelation of my past two weeks has been how incredibly mundane being serious about revolutionary social change actually is - needs to be…. 8230;the biggest struggle, the most challenging part of actually trying to ‘lead a complete, a noble, a rational existence’ [1]. 8230;you end up wanting to be a rock star, in a spandex jump suite with sequins, standing in front of millio...

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Metaholic Music: Metal Means... (Pt2)

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Tuesday, 12 May 2009. Metal Means. (Pt2). Disclaimer – more people into Metal is cool… people younger than me, who are into Metal do have brains. Metal bands, record companies, merchandisers etc are entitled to make money from whatever they do, if they want to. There has never been and there never will be a Golden Age of Metal. ta! When something becomes ‘mainstreamed’, and becomes part of the Establishment scenery of society, then it necessarily has it’s fangs pulled out. See, if s...A group of dedicate...

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Metaholic Music: Freaks is grass roots...

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Tuesday, 2 June 2009. Freaks is grass roots. Every other Thursday for the last month I have been helping out at a place called the Vault. The place has a reputation for being a bit of, err, drum and bass/speed garage [1]. Place… basically not a Rock vibe at all… but on Thursdays the venue has started putting on Rock shows; band based shows… and that’s why I’ve been helping out… however things have not gone swimmingly at all…. If there are 5 lads in a band, they must know 5 other lads… we should cha...

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Metaholic Music: Metal means... (Pt1)

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Tuesday, 5 May 2009. Metal means. (Pt1). While I was sad that my friend had long left the ranks of believers, I did take a lot of heart from the fact that it was to Metal that she had turned when she felt the need to protest against the incumbent power structure in her life. My old man even says to my face that it is embarrassing to be seen with me in my leather jacket… (for full disclosure – I am 28). And my education would indeed have succeeded in cutting me loose from my innate sense of me, but was th...

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Metaholic Music: June 2009

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Tuesday, 9 June 2009. How to Make it Big! 8220;Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning” – Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons. Telling my teachers and career advisor that I wanted to be a Rock Star didn’t, on the whole, go down well… the most frequent warning I had repeated to me was; “For every thousand bands that form, only one ‘makes it’”… Like they knew what they were talking about or something…. The second, and much more significant, point is more subtle…. 8230;the pri...

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Metaholic Music: May 2009

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Tuesday, 26 May 2009. My mate Evil Dave came back off tour for a couple days… my folks being away, we got a few ales in and got ‘tipsy’ in my back yard… for once the sun was out (ish) and it wasn’t blowing a gale, and so there we sat chatting… about Rock and changing the world… like you do. Now, Evil Dave, he worked at the Live Earth [1]. But it’s not so different from other thing in our lives…. 8230;but that’s how Power is, and has always been, challenged and defeated…. Tuesday, 19 May 2009. 8230;the re...