Is Pagan Metal refuge or revivalism?
After a weekend at a Pagan Metal metal festival, and all the adjacent forms of music, medieval music, new folk, and all the newer bands in the Heilung/Wardruna vein I ask the simple question, is this ...
3 Apr 29min
Are we heading for DIRE STRAITS?...
Are we heading for some really Dire Straits because of the war in the Middle East? Energy rationing? stay at home and work orders? or is that fear mongering....? did you realise how important Desallin...
27 Mars 29min
Making metal in authoritarian states
Following a trip to Albania I consider all the various coefficients that have to go together to allow scenes to exist in harsh conditions, religious oppression, totalitarian regimes or outright povert...
20 Mars 36min
The pleasure is to play....does it matter what you get paid?
Today's podcast looks back at the history of record contracts, over 100 years ago and asks were musicians back then paid more for their work than streaming does now? was the music industry the canary ...
13 Mars 40min
VIP tour packages
These days almost every tour has a meet and greet VIP package, I used to feel they were immoral but with ever rising costs I evaluate my position and wonder are they essential now to a musicians abili...
6 Mars 33min
Are we the thieves of Joy?
I missed out Episode 290 so let's go back in time, this one is kinda rambling and all over the place, why Rock N Roll and all the trappings, spices, side dishes, hangovers, come downs and black eyes s...
27 Feb 26min
Why old metal hates new metal.....
Why do older metal fans find most newer metal bands so difficult to relate to? Is it just generational, don't the old folks always complain about the music young people like or is there more to it? ri...
13 Feb 32min
