They dabbled in other genres, but they're Heavy Metal. Always have been, always will be. It's like Heavy Metal didn't exist until Thrash and Death Metal and everything before was Rock music. Not so. Hmm - even with the heavy metal revisionism that tries to redefine metal to the exclusion of the Sco...

Geoff Nicholls- member of NWoBHM band Quartz and was then long term sideman for Sabbath, playing keyboards and guitar from H&H onwards. Also in Tony Martins Headless Cross.

Had an interview for a fire safety management contract at a large concert venue - put a picture of Rammstien in the presentation with their flaming wings, don't think it went down well as one manager put his head in his hands and ranted about what a pain in the arse they are to deal with

Get as much codeine as you can. Anaesthetics are fine really. I rambled a bit when I came to from my hernia op but felt mostly alright. Just hella groggy. I felt the same the last time I had it but it cleared fairly fast and I was back home after a few hours, watched a film. The CoCodemol hit me ha...

Every year I drive past the Creamfields festival and I always see kids heading to the campsite dragging suitcases behind them in the mud. Does this happen at Boa?

Pensioner stages sit in protest in a phone box. With nothing else happing, Essex Live are on-the spot live-blogging. Knife edge stuff

http://www.essexlive.news/man-staging-sit-in-protest-in-telephone-box/story-29621187-detail/story.html

Double bill of middle class problems - my Jordan's Country Crisp has hardly any raspberries in it and Joe drank my Pimms without asking :( A friend was in the supermarket when her 7 year old exclaimed 'but I only eat organic pesto'. Future Waitrose shopper, there :lol: TG - horrible M5/M6 traffic, ...

Gandalf the Red wrote:So the Olympics start this week....

Seems no one is interested, yet four years ago every pretend sports fan imaginable was going on about them for months.

Just wait till we start doing well in the Dressage and everyone can debate the merits of the tap-dancing horses

A couple of other notable ones this week:

Gordon Murray, creator of Trumpton, Camberwick Green etc
Michael Cimino - director of Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Deer Hunter and killed his career with Heavens Gate - a film so laboured that Christopher Walken taking off his hat took nearly 40 takes.

I voted Remain and still stand by it being the right choice - I think a lot of people are going to be very disappointed even when the best possible decisions are made, the system shits on both the remain and leave voters equally. This is a revolutionary position, and revolution movements either cras...

Compare and Contrast: Point Break (1992) and Point Break (2015). Emerging to little fanfare before Christmas, the remake of Point Break sneaks out on Blu Ray. To summarise: everything that made the original fun has been removed - it was a high water mark of action films before they became over CGI'd...

The TV show of the Preacher comics started last night. Don't know what to make of it - knowing the story I can see where its going, but I can see newcomers watching it wondering what was going on - the first couple of chapters in the book explains what has happened, has a church blowing up, introduc...

Guy Hamilton - director of the best Connery Bond (Goldfinger) and the best Moore (Live and Let Die). Also responsible for Saturday afternoon staple The Battle Of Britain

Lawnmower Deth's new single just got its first play by Simon Mayo on Radio 2

Turbo wrote:Being asked if a train is calling at Rugby because they assume hiviz = I work for the railway.

I've had that working at airports - one guy wanted me to carry his cases for him as he was late