The peoples' democratic blog of Matt Hayward

Words can’t describe how long I’ve been waiting to see this movie. I swear the lemmymovie.com preview has been up for at least a year. Then the promoter decides he wants to flog it on the festival circuit before a mainstream release. Thankfully it is included in the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) and I [...]

Today I blog to you sore, hung over and all Rockabillied out. It seems someone forgot to tell the Australian Kingswood Factory that loud, local Rock and Roll is dead. I tell you this much, not on their watch.
Last night Melbourne’s Arthouse Hotel was nicely packed out with quiff hair styles and hot rod heels [...]

This post is prompted by the several guitar store visits where there are many of these models getting around. My model is a Korean made version about 6 years old. I bought mine new and have been very, very happy with it despite its natural yellow, urine like finish. It cost me about $1200 Australian [...]

Yes I’m a huge Bon Scott fan. No I’m not a big Brian Johnson fan. After reading this book though, there’s probably no one else in the world I’d rather have a beer with. In much the same vein as the Top Gear guys put out books of their newspaper columns, this book is short [...]

Some weeks in podcasting are just gold. Michael Butler, the rock and roll geek in his aptly named Rock and Roll Geek show interviews Nardwuar the Human Serviette this week. These two guys are great rock nerds that have been doing podcasts for quite some time. Well Nardwuar has since before podcasts on college radio [...]

Walk past any pharmacy or the cosmetic section of any department store and you will be inundated. As if we can’t get enough of Shitney Spears and Gwen Stefani in the general zeitgeist, we need to apparently smell like them. Everyone from Ewan McGregor to Kylie Minogue now has their own fragrance – yours for [...]

Sometimes good things come to those who wait.  Thankfully I can now include myself in those! The Geneva is definitely a stereo for those who know what they want. Designed to please furniture and stereo aficionados alike, it’s pretty impressive in both respects.
Let’s look at the stereo aspects first. In this particular unit (Geneva L [...]

Man what a blast. Still recovering from holidays and have only just found a gem of a souvenir. We went down to KL Central Market near Petaling St (Chinatown). The market is pretty crap except we found a store OKR Combination selling some awesome punk and metal shirts. After drooling over the amazing Black Sabbath [...]

Got a post from a Facebook group today. Apparently the Skunk Anansie Myspace page started up approx 6 months ago and it’s run by the band!
For those of you that don’t know of them Skunk Anansie are a British four piece that melded the best of dub/reggae with metal and rock. Tough girly girl Skin [...]

The Classic Metal Show (CMS) have done another corker. They’ve got a good long interview in the can with none other than Angry Anderson of the Rosie Tatts. Chris and Neely of CMS and Angry seem to be pretty kindred spirits. Angry even went as far as anointing one of them as his angry deputy!
Angry [...]