Can’t Blog – Gone to Wacken

Wacken Open Air: Running Order

The running order for Wacken 2011 has been released, and metalheads all over the world are planning their days around their chosen bands and bemoaning the inevitable clashes. Helpfully, the Wacken website includes the Running Order Tool, where you can tick all the acts you want to see and it automatically gives you a personal [...]

Steampunk Picnics, Mead-brewing, Jazz and Bearded Viking Ships: The World of Steff Metal

I’ve been quite stupendously busy over the last few weeks with a whirlwind of freelance assignments, regular work, husbands jetting off to foreign locales and fun and metal socializing. With less than three weeks till we leave for our German metal adventure, I’m amazed at how busy we’ve been. In lieu of a Linking Horn [...]

Wenches, Mead, Destruction, Drunk Steff, Free Shots, swearing, and a Pyrex Jug of Doom – Alestorm kick ass in New Zealand

“You New Zealanders are insane, I’m sure there was a barrier here earlier. But you know what? FUCK THE CUNTING BARRIER!” Alestorm stormed our shores, raped, pillaged and drank their way through all our wine, played one of the best, most energetic shows I’ve seen on these shores for a long time, and left us [...]

Barons of Tang and Benka Boradovsky Bordello Band at the Kings Arms

You can probably tell from the title of this post that this is not exactly a review of a metal gig. But hey, sometimes one likes to venture outside one’s own comfort zone. On Friday night, after stopping by my husband’s practice room to help him unload his drumkit, I headed into town to join [...]