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About Me

Bands: PAY ATTENTION:

You are currently listening to Taint's 'Hex Breaker' from their 'Secrets and Lies' album, stop and ask yourself a simple question: 'if he likes this, will we fit in?'.

Also, to anyone else: I am not here to increase your friend count so don't waste both our time by adding me if we have nothing in common. I have no interest in having several thousand 'friends' I never interact with, I'm here to find out about bands and keep in touch with people I've already met... Remember that please.

My Interests

FiancÃ©. Family. Friends. Pets. Music. Books. Films. TV.

I'd like to meet:

Bands I respect and enjoy, good friends I don't see very often, people I know from Internet World who have been good to me and deserve a pint buying for them.

Music:

Check the friends list and you'll get the idea but it's basically heavy guitar stuff in one form or another with the occasional lighter moment.

Movies:

In no particular order; Star Wars, Bourne, Fear & Loathing, Big Lebowski, Blazing Saddles, Matrix, Lord Of The Rings... Too many to list.

Television:

Again, in no particular order; Spaced, The Day Today, Brass Eye, Jam, Nathan Barley, Family Guy, The Simpsons, Grand Designs, Build A New Life In The Country. Loads of other stuff as well but absolutely NO reality TV. Ever.

Books:

In approximate order; Coupland, Bukowski, Palahniuk, Thompson, Burroughs, Irving, Arnott, Jordan, Pratchett and loads of random classic and contemporary fiction. I'm one of those "always half way through a book" people...

Heroes:

Like Converge said: "No Heroes".

My Blog

reviews...

check it... new review blog aaalriiiiight...
Posted by Matts on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 02:37:00 PST

hmmm. this doesn't add up even if i can...

Your IQ Is 115Your Logical Intelligence is Below AverageYour Verbal Intelligence is GeniusYour Mathematical Intelligence is GeniusYour General Knowledge is AverageA Quick and Dirty IQ Test...
Posted by Matts on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:36:00 PST

proper blog

so a mate of mine advised me to check out the 'real' (as in Not On Myspace) blog of a mutual friend and i did and promptly signed up purely to post a few comments on there but then figured i'd give it...
Posted by Matts on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 10:42:00 PST

Bus, Gig, Beer, Hangover, Beer, Bus, Hangover.

so last saturday i toddle off to London to see BigJon and catch the London leg of the The Abominable Iron Sloth tour. i catch the bus and happily pile through the last 300 or so pages of 'Chapter and...
Posted by Matts on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 06:22:00 PST

Am I the only one...

...starting to get really fucked off with having to deny, like... 3 seperate add requests from wannabe porno-starlets every fucking day at the moment...? seriously man, it used to be once in a 'blue'...
Posted by Matts on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:28:00 PST

These Arms Are Snakes - Easter Album Review

I'll warn you now, once again I'm reviewing a band I absolutely adore so please don't be surprised when you find it dripping with my trademark fanboy exuberance. You may now continue... These Arms Ar...
Posted by Matts on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 06:25:00 PST

Cyruss - Hate/Human Album Review

In direct correlation with the Out For Blood review, here we have another band fond of chucking the word 'Sludge' about the shop. This Vienna-based three-piece's website (which, rather handily, appear...
Posted by Matts on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 06:25:00 PST

Out For Blood - S/T Album Review

Sludge. Seriously now, amidst the current slew of ridiculously named sub-genres that music-journo's seem to be falling over themselves to patent every time a band tries something even remotely origina...
Posted by Matts on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:52:00 PST

Bossk - 'I' Album Review

I first heard about Bossk when, shortly after buying Symmetry's rather cracking four track e.p. 'This Is Not The End, It Is A Beginning, You Cannot Falter Now', they announced that they would be touri...
Posted by Matts on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:27:00 PST

Album Reviews

Just a quick one. I've recently started writing CD reviews for the 9hz community forum as well as my live reviews that I already post on there and figured some of you lot (i.e. Shell and BigJon...) m...
Posted by Matts on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 04:02:00 PST