The peoples' democratic blog of Matt Hayward

Saw the boys last night at the Westernport Hotel in San Remo gig. Absolutely mind-numbingly fantastic. It sounds like the boys have really been rehearsing for months, hard. They’ve also tarted themselves up with some new suits and lighting so it all looks great too. Davey Lane’s even bought himself a new Epiphone Casino guitar, [...]

If this album was a wine, it would definitely need decanting and be left to breathe for a good hour or two. So far I’ve had one candid listen and for one thing, this does not take up where Convicts left off. This is like Radiohead meets Iggy Pop’s Kill City album. And I HATE [...]

Finally. I’ve been hanging since Tim Rogers or his Svengali posted something on his Myspace blog back in Marchish this year. But JB-Hifi have the new You Am I album entitled Dilletantes for pre-order. Sadly it’s not be titled I’m Proud of my Gay Son, but they always have had some fun with forthcoming album [...]

Found this Airbourne music video with Lemmy today. It came up on a Facebook alert so it has to be reasonably fresh. Lemmy Kilmister should officially be in everything. He’d make Desperate Housewives a lot more interesting anyway. But for now we’ll have to content ourselves with Lemm’ as a trucker driving Airbourne on a [...]

To be truly honest, this is almost the solo album that I didn’t buy. There was lots of talk of orchestral arrangements and the dreaded ‘conceptual’ album. It didn’t work for Kiss (Music from the Elder), the Ramones (End of the Century) and I didn’t want to see Timmy go down a similar path. Before [...]

Review of a cracking good book Highway to Hell : The Life and Times of AC/DC Legend Bon Scott.