I'm tough to please. This blog is pretty random to some people I'd imagine. But on the other hand I'm pretty easy to please.

In case you've not noticed this blog is about a few different things. Music generally, theories and ideas and shit. The local scene, now... bands I like, love, and bands I simply respect, get mentions, the odd review. The stuff I love - like really love - from further afield also gets a mention, new and old.

I have tastes that are pretty wide... there are numerous genres that I love music from within, but few if any genres where I listen to loads and loads of bands. I tend to work on the basis - and this is pretty much FACT - that the only really great bands are the original ones that define a new sound, and pretty much everything that follows is a waste of space [unless it can be heard live for a low price in a wonderful small local venue]. A great example is Black Sabbath... would the world of metal be significantly worse if no-one had ever been influence by Sabbath, and they'd stopped making records in the mid-1970s? That when you went into a record shop the metal section was literally a handful of Sabbath records? I barely exaggerate.

When I judge a "local band" I'm really saying "are they worth travelling a short distance to pay a fiver to see live music right in your face?"

When I judge other bands I'm kinda saying "do I love your music and think you are or were pushing boundaries and - ideally - changing the course of music history."

A band like Tuskar, and Employed to Serve before them, have graduated from being judged as local bands. Where once - in the eyes of this blog - they were an incredibly good local band, Tuskar are now competing with Sabbath and Earth and Melvins... and to be fair they're competing given they seem to be bringing a bit of new shit to the table and are fucking incredible.

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