IT NEVER GETS BETTER.

Everything always goes well, until it goes bad. Then it upsets all your carefully laid plans. Going off on tour to Scotland with my silly fast band and our very good friends Diet Pills tommorow. Superb. Need the break.
I also bought a load of really great films, but I will tell you about those when they arrive in the post.
So as something that has been keeping me sane and finding I am enjoying here is The Grand Illusion by Styx. Battling cocaine accusations, South Park character covers and satanic accusations is all in a days work for Styx and the classic 1977 album The Grand Illusion.



Come Sail Away

Music does really help to aleviate the inevitability.
Fuck You.

ALBUMS THAT SHAPED OLIVER #4

Just aquick entry before I go off getting tattooed today is this album by Bloodlet. They existed in the late 90's, released a few albums on Victory Records, split up, got back together and released another album before splitting up for the last time.
They where the black sheep of the Victory roster. Dubbed by many as "Evilcore", there sound was a mixture of slowed down hardcore, dissonance, technicality and something approaching noise-rock. Add to this the fretless bass, the lo-fi production and the hoarse vocals and you have an album that is still as impressive as it was when I first heard it all those years ago. Certainly a oddity in the hardcore scene but definatly one of the most influenctial bands for me.

DOGMAN WITH HORNS




YES
x

EVEN WHEN ITS RAINING...........

.........The Polyphonic Spree are pretty good at cheering me, even if they are a bunch of hippies.