First published by Soundsphere Magazine, November 2011 http://www.spheremag.co.uk/reviews/54-cd/2838-machine-head-unto-the-locust It’s a rare band that sticks to its guns while, simultaneously, bringing something new to the party (and if you like your metaphors mixed, how’s that for an opening line?). The Oakland steel string quartet is such a band. Yeah, there is here much that is standard [...]
Archive for November, 2011
N30 : Support The Strike
Posted: 23rd November 2011 by Harry in BLOG, POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRSTags: Bankers, Greed, Pensions, Public Sector, Scargill, Strike, Unions
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We could be here ‘til next century, discussing the legacy of Thatcher, such is the landscape-altering impact of that vile woman’s contribution to British politics. So we won’t bother, then. Instead, let’s take a look at one of the more insidious, but no less damaging, phenomena for which she can be rightly blamed. Namely, this [...]
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For the Auld Yin “What time you meeting him?” “Eight” “Right. So, you OK? Nervous?” “I don’t think so, but I’m not sure if I ought…” I interrupted. “No! Don’t second-guess yourself. Trust your instincts and just be yourself. Those are the very things that have brought you this far. To this moment. This place. [...]
Kitchen Sink Drama
Posted: 18th November 2011 by Harry in BLOG, LIFETags: Black Veil Brides, Fields Of The Nephilim, Kitchen Sink Drama, Peter Keevil, The Corpse Bride
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New kitchen. Aye, cool and that. Less cool, by a margin of some considerable width, was the inspired idea of the gang foreman to leave the kitchen door wide open while he and his heavy-handed brethren of toil commenced wrecking operations. After all, there can be few things calculated to lift the spirits of a [...]
Where The Heart Is
Posted: 12th November 2011 by Harry in BLOG, LIFETags: Family, Princess of Darkness, Satanicus Maximus, SheWhoIsNeverWrong, The Spawn, Unruly Child
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Things that seemed like a good idea at the time: losing three weeks of normal living while the entire kitchen is ripped out, stripped back to the brick work and rebuilt in shiny new fashion. What’s not to like, right? Well, for starters there’s the small matter of removing everything that usually lives there and [...]
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So, four cans of Murphy’s later I awoke from a mid-afternoon nap to late afternoon/early evening cacophony. Bombs, bangs, flashes and crashes. Jesus, I thought the ‘RA were back on the campaign trail there, just for a minute. Of our feline quartet, the one we call Dude appeared the least upset. Before I’d hit Nod [...]
The Morning After
Posted: 5th November 2011 by Harry in BLOG, LIFETags: Crime Of The Century, SheWhoIsNeverWrong, Supertramp
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So Daughter Spawn despatched, SheWhoIsNeverWrong fancied a trip to Tesco. Yeah, check us out, crazy rock ‘n’ roll nihilists. First time she’d ventured outside for over a week. Certainly the first since coming home from hospital last Monday, so this was A Big Deal. Went OK, to be fair. She even put clothes on. Not pyjamas, [...]