The Corvus Experiment

I spent the day walking from Saltcoats with The Corvus Experiment. The guy is one serious talent . Some pictures are up here but over the next few weeks I have exclusive access to take photos. There have been people who have logged on here and tried to leave abuse, all I can say is I know who you are and we’ll have a little chat at some point. I hope to get to know you.

Will is a fantastic local musician that is already through the later stages of the Live and Unsigned competition district finals, and is generally dedicated to music more than most of your zombie pop pricks these days. I mean who the hell likes Lady Ga Ga?

Have to wrap this up, mainly because I can’t function much longer. But this guy is awesome, links to follow.

HEAVY METAL

Heavy Metal

The AC/DC stage at Download 2010

Despite popular belief, and despite what record companies, mainstream radio and T.V choose to believe, Heavy Metal is thriving within our community today. The biggest misconception about Heavy Metal in 2011 is that the style of music consists of a bunch of guys making noise and screaming down a microphone. This is as far from the truth as possible. The second biggest misconception is that Heavy Metal belongs to a string of rag tag fans gripping on to the final straws of a dying genre; this is where I feel the need to step in.

Heavy Metal is a thing most people will never understand, and what people don’t understand they fear, or dislike. Parents feared Heavy Metal in the 80’s, and people in today’s age just flat out dislike it because of some misconstrued interpretation of what it is. “It’s just screaming down a microphone” is a comment I hear a lot in discussions about Heavy Metal.  A comment, might I add, that instantaneously makes me loathe the person who said it. Heavy Metal is a cult, a way of life and a religion.

To understand Metal, you have to first understand that it is undeniably a cult. Heavy Metal drags you in like a tractor beam and from that first distorted note of guitar you are either hooked for life, or you aren’t. I was.

Interview With Confusion

Confusion Band Interview Written By Amanda Howatson.

Formed over a decade ago with lead singer, guitar and songwriter Martin O’Hare, bass guitarist Colin Auld, lead guitarist and backing vocals Graeme Moore, Confusion play many venues across the UK

* What/where is your hometown?

3 of us are from Stevenson, 2 of us are from Ardrossan.

*Do the people back at home support you?

We all get support from home, whether its directly from our family and friends to people we know and that know were in a band, and with facebook we get even more support from friends and relatives that maybe live away or even old friends we haven’t seen for a long time. So yes lots of support and encouragement from all corners.

Return Of The Drifter

After ten years Jehst has returned to the British hip-hop scene with a brand new album and a full U.K. tour. I caught his performance at the classic grand and was suitably impressed. Jehst has picked up from exactly where he left off, as opposed to starting over. He first hit the scene in 1999 with the Premonitions E.P. on his record label YNR co-founded with Tommy Evans.  He has since become a major influence on British hip-hop and has worked with producers such as Harry Love and lewis Parker. His new album The Dragon Of An ordinary Family released on YNR is out now.