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 [...]

One of rock’s true greats has passed. For those of you who came in late, Bo Never filled stadiums, that wasn’t his job. Instead he inspired virtually all the stadium fillers! Being a repressed drummer, he invented his own rhythmic guitar style, loosely based on the ham bone military sqwuark that soldiers march to. This [...]

This book can be summarised in a few quick points: Axl Rose is a twat and never let a junkie tell you about his heroin habit. Don’t get me wrong. The Gunners truly the were the soundtrack to my adolescence and I think Slash rocks. Only I had no idea how big a smacker the [...]