Music fans and Petitions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nba3Tr_GLZU

So in the last few weeks I have seen a few online petitions going around for a variety of musical based reasons.  One of these was asking Ghost as a band to break up, because they are not heavy metal (seriously how much of a twat do you have to be to create that) and another one requesting that Iron Maiden go back to having Derek Riggs design their album artwork.  Of course, campaigns like this are not new.  Weezer once famously had someone attempt to raise ten million dollars, which he was going to offer to them as long as they promised to never make music again.  Yet in recent years Change.Org seems to be getting filled up more and more with stupid petitions and more often than ever before, they tend to be aimed at some of our favourite artists.

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Sonisphere Review: Saturday

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Image courtesy of Sonisphere

With the weather continuing to be surprisingly strong, despite some light showers overnight which as it meant waking up to a tent that didn’t feel like a sauna was actually quite welcome, the Saturday at Sonisphere kicked off with Tesseract on the main stage.  I only caught about five minutes of them before I headed off to Bohemia, but I felt it was worth throwing in that they sounded awesome. Continue reading “Sonisphere Review: Saturday”

Sonisphere Announcement 3

Image courtesy of Sonisphere
Image courtesy of Sonisphere

So Sonisphere have begun the process of fleshing out their undercard, which let’s face it, is really the best part of any festival.  As anyone who reads regularly (do those people exist?  I have no idea) will know, I have a ticket to this festival already so I have a slight (or possibly large) personal investment in it being good. So let’s see what they’ve given me.

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