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Stream of Consciousness 4. 21/04/20

Stream of Consciousness 4. 21/04/20

The bed is becoming a bore now.I think I’ll empty the bin, full ofEmpty cans.I can smell cigarette smoke crawling upThe stairs and finding it’s way intoMy nose.Ill open the window and the air can sort it out. I think I’ll have burgers for dinner.When I’ve emptied the bin I’ll getThem out the freezer.The weather is good for a BBQ but youCan’t have one of them on your own.Got to stick to social…

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Stream of Consciousness 3. 20/04/20

Stream of Consciousness 3. 20/04/20

This podcast is doing nothing for me.I can hear it in the background while IType away on the computer.The virgin Mary is staring at me on the windowsill.The little white statue in the middle ofTwo pictures of me and my sister when we were young, wearingBean stained vests.In the picture I’m holding my Ted, a little red bear.I still have it, nothing to be ashamed of.My sister, in her picture, has a…

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Stream of Consciousness 19/04/20

Stream of Consciousness 19/04/20

The smell of Sunday dinner wakes me up.I think it’s chicken today.I haven’t eaten in over 24 hours, so I don’tReally care what it is.The windows have steamed up all over the house.I open the window, nobody outside.The occasional bike goes by.The odd old man out for a walk.Self isolation, that’s what the news keeps saying. I had a dream last night.About the cat.She was being chased and stalked by…

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Stream of Consciousness 1. 18/04/20

Stream of Consciousness 1. 18/04/20

Surrounded by four white walls with an open window. Raining outside. Dvd’s, Cd’s and Books left roughly on their shelves. Collecting dust. Laptop in front of me like normal. The bed is starting to dip in the middle. Too many hours have been spent sitting on the bed in front of screen. Podcast in the background while I type out some random poem about nothing. It’s still raining outside. Cant hear any cars…

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Tool: Fear Inoculum.

It’s Saturday night when I can finally sit down and listen to the new Tool album. I’ve not been listening to the band for that long. It’s not like I’ve been avoiding them, there’s just a lot of music out there, and I listen to a lot of it and Tool have just never crossed my path. But after they were announced for Download this year I thought it was time to give them a chance. Since then, I’ve…

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Butlin's 90's Reloaded 2019

Butlin’s 90’s Reloaded 2019

It’s half 10 in the morning when Shane arrives, Sam and Ricky are already in the car, and we load the wagon with all booze for the weekend. Two crates of Coors, one crate of Magner’s, a crate of Bud, 6 bottles of sours, two JD’s and a bottle of Bacardi, oh and my panda costume. This isn’t a diet I would recommend to anyone with a predisposition for throwing up on a cue. I get in the back, I crack…

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Biffy Clyro: Balance, not symmetry

Biffy Clyro: Balance, not symmetry

Its 2 in the morning, and I’m drunk and I need to listen to some music. I’ve made it through nearly 90 minutes of Tool’s new album, Fear Inoculum, which I’ll get to at some point in a later write. But right now, and considering the drunken mess I’m currently in, I think Biffs new album is the only thing worth listening to during the early hours of the morning. A Beatles album right now just isn’t…

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Reading Festival 2019.

Being a Downloader for so long I thought I’d give Reading a try this year, but my first experience of the festival didn’t exactly go according to plan, which will be explained later on in the blog.

Waiting for Shane to arrive on a hot Friday morning, and checking the weather it’s going to be a very hot weekend, and I’m no good in the sun, so I better not forget the sunscreen. I’ve had too many…

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Slipknot: We are not your kind.

Slipknot: We are not your kind.

After a long and exhausting week, I can finally sit down and listen to Slipknot’s new album. I’ve been waiting for five long years for the this to finally come out. I like how bands and singers do that now, they give themselves long breaks in between each album, giving themselves time to get their albums as good as they can get them. It’s all about quality and not quantity. I was wondering at the…

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The Beatles.

Stopping off in Liverpool for a gig there was only one place I really wanted to go, and that was the Cavern Club. Walking down into the basement I realised I’d finally made it to a place where I’ve always wanted to go, and that’s when I started to think about the first time I got into The Beatles. It’s been so long since I started listening to them that I find it hard to remember when it actually…

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Rammstein untitled 2019

I walk through the door from work, and I find a package on the floor. It’s Rammstein’s new album. 10 years in the making and it’s finally here, and I don’t waste time. I turn on the CD player, I put the album in, and I grab myself a beer. I already know the opening track, Deutschland. The video debuted online not long before the album, and it got me excited. The video was typical Rammstein,…

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The Prodigy: Birmingham 2018.

The Prodigy: Birmingham 2018.

I’ve been to many gigs, but when I saw Guns N’ Roses at Download in 2018, I never thought anything would top them. Due to their reputation, they had a lot to prove to a lot of people in attendance and themselves. And they did, they pulled out something mesmerising. I walked away, thinking nothing will come close. It was the best live music experience I’d ever been a part of, at least in my eyes…

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Download 2019, Mud and more Mud

Download 2019, Mud and more Mud

It was this time last year that I walked through the door looking like a lobster. I was red from head to toe. I was sore and possibly suffering from sunstroke. But this year’s Download was said to be something different. After reading reports of the weather from the first two days, it kind of gave me some relief. Rain and mud. It sounded like drownload was making its return, and I was ok with…

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They’re all there. You walk into the pub and they're all there Curly Sue Bob the Snob Johnny the grunt…

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The art of quitting.

The art of quitting.

The art of quitting can be something beautiful and mysterious if you just go with it. When you sit back in a chair with the curtains closed and a blank television screen and just give it, it feels a alot better than getting up and giving a shit.

It’s a rare thing to do, it doesn’t come about alot but when it does just embrace it for a while and quit. When you see a man in a car screaming a the tra…

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The line.

The line getting into the gig turns into complete chaos. A long haired metal head dude with a tattoo on his face of a small bird has decided to make his way to the front, pushing and shoving his way through the line, and that turns all the other metal heads, grungers and just general rockers and gig goers into a ten minute mumble fest.

All i can hear from the back to the front, from one side to…

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Cut head in a mosh pit.

Cut head in a mosh pit.

The gig is now over, everything hurts from the neck down. My age might be finally catching up with me. I finish off my JD and along with everyone else i make my way towards the toilet which is a like a small ritual to seasoned gig goers. Standing at the cubicle looking at the walls of bands i’ve never heard of advertising gigs, merchandise and upcoming tours, posters from gigs months ago, a blues…