21st Century Digital Boy

May 2 or 3: Alestorm @ Peterborough or London, UK?

July 15: Nine Inch Nails @ London, UK

August 2: Airbourne @ Knebworth, UK 144 quid for the festival ticket? Even if it has NIN, Anthrax and Machine Head, fuck that.

August 14-16: Bloodstock Open Air @ Derby, UK

For some bizarre reason, single band gigs are significantly cheaper here than they are in Germany (NIN tickets for London were 33GBP each), yet on the other hand festivals clock in at easily twice the ticket price. WHAT IS GOING ON

So I was at Bloodstock Open Air last week and had crazy amounts of fun. The Korpiklaani moshpit was EPIC, big <3 to all involved. Happy Little Boozer and Beer Beer in particular were glorious. Pretty much my other favourite band of the weekend was Finntroll – even though their show wasn’t quite what I’d hoped it would be and the sound mixing was a bit eh (the keyboarder could just as well have been absent for some of the songs). (continue reading…)

I can’t really pimp goat’s The Ice Beam Cometh enough. Alongside with Machinae Supremacy’s Sidology Episode 3 (56k unhappy, 10MB) this is pretty much one of the best video game music remixes I’ve heard. EVER. goat’s versions of the Brinstar tracks are fucking GLORIOUS.

And I wanna conquer the world,
Give all the idiots a brand new religion,
Put an end to poverty, uncleanliness and toil,
Promote equality in all of my decisions
With a quick wink of the eye
And a “God, you must be joking!”

(Bad Religion – I Wanna Conquer The World)

If you came to conquer, you’ll be king for a day
But you too will deteriorate and quickly fade away
And believe these words you hear
When you think your path is clear

We have no control,
we do not understand!
You have no control,
you are not in command!

(Bad Religion – No Control)

(both from the album “No Control”)
Well, fuck. Thanks for the help, Bad Religion. :-(