The peoples' democratic blog of Matt Hayward

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 [...]

Update 8 Jan 2011 – The remote stopped working on my unit over the new years break. One email to the Australian Distributor and without question, they’ve shipped me a new remote to my nearest retailer (on request) and are fault finding the old one. Very happy with that!
Sometimes good things come to those who [...]

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 [...]

Well right now here in Melbourne, we’re having major bush fires. Some of the worst ever in fact. Frankly the response and generosity from the public is heart warming and overwhelming. The human suffering is unimaginable, but it’s even more saddening to think refugees suffer permanently. Usually from acts of war rather than god.

Acrassicauda are [...]

Ed Roman is a ‘guitar shop to the stars’ kind of guy. He is based in Vegas and appears to have been dealing with rock star types since god started designing dirt. And his rant here proves it.
I stumbled upon his celebrity guitars web site the other day and have been reading through his ‘celebrity [...]

Hey y’all. Podcasts just rock. It’s pure, concentrated radio magic without waiting all day for the one cool program. Often it’s all the stuff you’d love to hear on radio that’s just far too out there to broadcast any time of day. As much as iTunes is rigid and inflexible, it’s by far the easiest [...]