He'd do well in constructive dismissal arbitration, to be fair.
Quote from: Mower Liberation Front on July 13, 2026, 07:37:21 PMYoung people listening to country, what the fuck? Monaghan had the inbred yokel festival at the weekend, and the amount of teenagers and twentysomethings going to it is mental. When we were that age, nobody listened to that shit. You had the indie fans, the metalheads, ravers, pop fans, nobody listened to country, everyone considered it crap that old fogeys listened to on Northern Sound.
It's like a generation of young Ryan Tubridys has been spawned.
Yeah it's fucking weird. Maybe it's a way to rebel against their parents being cool metallers, or retarded everything else you said-ers!
Applying for jobs which demand "excellent written and verbal communication skills" but having to dumb-down your CV because the AI system processing your application, and deciding whether you actually get to engage with another human, needs keywords and high-level bullet-pointed text because it can't accurately process excellent communication skills.
Jesus lads, you've some memories. Strangely enough, I was slow to pick up on some of the leads from listening to the show. Much of the good stuff, bands I would later get into, were too obscure and dark for my tender ears. I was 10 when it started and 17 when it finished up so maybe in the last year or two of it I began taking a few more risks with underground bands. But that said, maybe just having so much dark music pumped into my brain at such a young age ended up shaping me for better or worse later on!
Quote from: jpm4 on July 01, 2020, 05:18:59 PMFor me as a teen in the mid 90s it was really important because I knew nobody else into metal except maybe Metallica. Extreme metal CDs often seemed to cost a fortune, so this was the show where I first heard stuff like Emperor, Dimmu Borgir etc, which was mind blowing for me at the time as I had never heard anything like it.
Same. Some of favourite 90s albums I first heard through that show: Tiamat's Wildhoney, Death's Symbolic, Annihilator's King of the Kill. Some of these I would've never eventually found without the show. For me as a teen trying to get into the music, it helped that he would play the most accessible songs on the new albums, likely as they appealled to his somewhat naive ear too. Two things I recall was him asking a member of Slayer why they didn't put a Sex Pistols cover on Undisputed Attitude(!), and I remember him reading out a formal statement from Alan Averill clarifying that their music is black metal not death metal. I also won one of their competitions and was sent a framed cover image of Metalllica's Reload signed by the band, which I still have somewhere. Good memories!
RIP Mike. Engaged with him on Facebook a few years ago and he seemed really sound. The Key is a great album
Zag was on every year, I think, for the top twenty or whatever it was. He was certainly on a few times. Rodge said he used to be in the Cellar from time to time, yup.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on July 14, 2026, 02:16:44 AMMetallica - Live Shit Binge & Purge
Firing Newsted was so dumb.
"He focking left the band!"
I remember that tv quiz show 2 Phat on rte with Zig and Zag - one episode they had Andy Cairns from Therapy? on dressed up as Santa Claus.