
On music fandom and the nature of trust
We live in a disposable world. Our attitudes towards physical products have rewarded us with landfill mountains and polluted oceans, and that’s just the items we’re told are being recycled.
More…We live in a disposable world. Our attitudes towards physical products have rewarded us with landfill mountains and polluted oceans, and that’s just the items we’re told are being recycled.
More…Our fourth Spotify playlist of 2020 is all cover versions. Good ones, mostly.
More…Our third Spotify playlist of 2020 spans years, genres and moods. What could be finer?
More…By the time they arrived in Copenhagen in February 1984 Metallica were established as thrash metal pioneers.
More…For our eighth Spotify playlist of 2019 we’ve delved into the heyday of the Big Four for a 1980s thrashageddon.
More…I guess you could call me a St Anger apologist, but it’s not a term I use myself. Why? Because it suggests Metallica has something to apologise for on this record.
More…There are certain rites of passage that every Metallica fan experiences regardless of when they discover the greatest metal band there’s ever been.
More…For our third Spotify playlist of 2019 we have a collection of oldish, newish, and just plain goodish.
More…“Drummer looking for other metal musicians to jam with. Tygers Of Pan Tang, Diamond Head and Iron Maiden.”
More…Well, what a year 2016 has been! By June I already had 30 albums on my end-of-year shortlist, and that’s without considering the vast amount of brilliant EPs I’ve listened to and reviewed for Dave’s World Podcast this year.
It’s the moooost wonderful time of the year. Not because of Christmas. Not because of festive food and drink, or a bottomless supply of Quality Street, or Boxing Day football.
As we hurtle towards the end of the year, the inevitable lull in new heavy music releases is taking hold.