Rambles about the wonderful world of wrestling.
So over the next few days I will be putting up my top 20 albums of the year. Â I initially had a shortlist of 65 albums, so cutting it down to 20 was incredibly hard. Â I will maybe put a few honourable mentions at the end, but we shall see how we get along. Â As usual, all my own opinion, don’t bother telling me I’m wrong, blah blah blah.
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Live music is one of life’s greatest pleasures. Â Little is more exciting than seeing a band on fire, doing their thing in front of a baying crowd. Â Therefore, it has to be said that ranking gigs is always kind of difficult, different bands go for different atmospheres. Â However, I am still going to give it a damn good try.
As I am sure you are all waiting in suspense, I shall now present you with my top five films of the year. Â If you missed part one, you can find it here.
Continue reading “Top Ten Films of the Year: Number 5 to Number 1”
The end of the year is neigh and with the likes of Birdman and Whiplash not making their way to UK cinemas until next year, I think it is a safe time to start my top ten movies of the year.  As usual, this is completely subjective and I’m not even claiming the movies that make this list are the best ones, but rather the ones I enjoyed the most.  I also obviously didn’t see every single film released this year.   Basically, please don’t waste your time telling me I’m wrong.
Continue reading “Top Ten Films of the Year: Number 10 to Number 6”
I’ve never reviewed a mobile game before, however there is a first time for everything and I’m short on time today, so it seems an appropriate thing to review in short form.  Bang Man! is the latest game from Bryonic Man, a studio which is essentially the brain child of Simon Byron, who some may know from his work on One Life Left, the video game radio show and podcast.  Continue reading “Bang Man!”
The annual get so and so to Christmas Number One, has become almost as big a tradition as turkey or drunk argumentative relatives.  Ever since the Rage Against the Machine campaign knocked Cowell and co off of the top spot, it has become somewhat fashionable to push an alternative band towards the top of the charts.  This year the always wonderful Iron Maiden are the chosen band.  Now quite frankly, I would love Iron Maiden to get only their second UK number one single, they damn well deserve it, but do we really need to care about Christmas Number One?
If there is one thing that can always be said about Bill Murray films, it is that they contain Bill Murray, a fact that instantly improves them by around 50%.  His most recent role, as the Vincent in Theodore Melfi’s St Vincent, see’s him being particularly wonderfully Bill Murray, as the gruff, prone to a drink elderly gentlemen, who takes up the role of father figure to the young protagonist Oliver (Jaeden Lieberher).
Machine Head are having one hell of a year.  Their Killers and Kings tour, where they hit up places in the UK they hadn’t been in a long time and played venues they were too big for 15 years ago, led to some of the best live shows the UK has ever seen.  While their latest album, Bloodstone & Diamonds, saw a return to form, after the slightly patchy, Unto the Locust.  Now they are out on tour in support of said album and sadly back in the kind of venues you expect to see one of the UK’s favourite metal bands in.  Although, I have to admit, I really hate the O2 Academy in Glasgow.
Continue reading “Live Review: Machine Head w/ Darkest Hour and Heart of a Coward”
There aren’t going to be many bills that can compete with just how metal Behemoth’s current touring party is and therefore, it is nice to see them playing a venue the size of Glasgow’s O2 ABC.  The beer might be overpriced and it’s not actually sold out, but it show’s that extreme metal doesn’t have to exist solely in the underground.
Continue reading “Behemoth w/ Decapitated, Grand Magus and Winterfylleth.”
As we approach the end of the year, (you can expect my end of year lists to start appearing over the next few weeks) I have a tradition of making a list of albums I have somehow missed, so I can go back and check them out.  While looking for some that might grab my attention, I stumbled on the fact that apparently everyone’s least favourite twats, Nickelback, released a new album.  Now, I was kind of surprised I’d missed this.  As much as I despise their bland, soulless radio rock, I was of the opinion that Nickelback were still a rather big deal and therefore, I would have heard when they were releasing a new album. All of this led, out of some masochistic need to hurt myself, to me sitting down and listening to it this morning.
