Posts Tagged ‘Mick Wall’

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Eventful day. Not bad. Not at all but certainly eventful. Hibs, being my 2nd team and Celtic being my 3rd, I’m half-thrilled, half-horrified by today’s events at Celtic Park. The first Hibs v Hearts Scottish Cup final since 1896 is now set for May the 19th. I predict an epidemic of coronary arrests and anxiety attacks on both [...]

Fish, Chips and Rock ‘n’ Roll

Posted: 1st April 2012 by Harry in BLOG, LIFE
Tags: , , Dave Osler, Joe Bonamassa, Joel McIver, , Popwerplay rock and Metal Magazine
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Went to Matlock today, with SheWhoIsNeverWrong, for fish and chips. Sometimes these things just have to be done and a glorious sunny March Sunday seemed just such an occasion. The UK’s premier lefty blogger, author, journalist, blues-man and all-round good-egg and snappy dresser, Dave Osler, questioned the wisdom of such a plan. “Another town, just for a [...]

Write On Time

Posted: 26th February 2012 by Harry in BLOG, LIFE
Tags: , , Hammer Fest, , , Powerplay, Randy Rhoads
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So, what did I miss this weekend? What happened? I could see that spring appears to have sprung. Vaguely, from a distance and through the smeared windows of my soul, dizzy from the thousands upon thousands of words cranked out over the last two days, while you bastards were, no doubt, having fun and all [...]

A Word Of Thanks

Posted: 24th December 2011 by Harry in BLOG, LIFE
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As far as career choices go, freelance scribing offers security, peace of mind and hope for the future in proportions roughly akin to those afforded by negotiating Niagara falls via a tight-rope. On roller skates. In a storm. While pissed. And that’s on a good day. Without wishing to sound pretentious, like music or any other creative [...]

Happy Hour

Posted: 3rd November 2011 by Harry in BLOG, LIFE
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Cool day, today. They still come along, now and then. Spent, mainly, over a loooong lunch, shooting the shit with ‘Rock’s Most Famous Writer’. Or Mick Wall as he’s sometimes known. Both outsiders, both Celts. Him, full of Irish craic. Me, pure dreich Jock. Whatever the accents might not say. Two Princes in exile. Raising [...]

Mick Wall : Enter Night. The Metallica Biography

Posted: 14th November 2010 by Harry in CULTURE, MUSIC
Tags: Enter Night, Joel McIver, Metallica,
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Extremely well written, detailed and infused with the insight you’d expect from the man who, for the thick end of two decades, was confidant and Father Confessor to rock’s royalty and glitterati. King Of The Scribes, Mick Wall, has penned the definitive biography of Metal’s biggest band. While McIver’s thoroughly excellent, The Truth About Metallica, [...]