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3 minutes ago, GarethRDR said:

Saw on my FB feed that this was apparently God Alone., should the opportunity ever arise again I can highly recommend.  Mad good fun.

Yeah they were. I was curious but just couldn’t get to the venue in time after work.

Just now, Davkaus said:

Going to see these guys at the weekend.

About 2 weeks ago I bought some merch on their site. The next morning the items I'd bought disappeared, and every item was marked as sold out, and they're ghosting me.

As it stands, I'm going to rock up at the Pupil Slicer merch stand to kick off with some consumer rights complaints. If this tee doesn't turn up, I'm going to be unhappy  

Don’t worry - they were selling them at the shows at least!

I suspect as they go on tour they shut the shop to stop orders whilst they are away so when they are back they will probably ship it then - or you rant and rage at them  

Saw Pupil Slicer tonight and it’s their debut headline tour and can tell they were a little nervous with between song banter. They were really good though and definitely a band on the rise.

Missed the 1st support act but Coilguns were main support and were excellent. Made up of (former?) members of The Ocean, the front man acted like Cedric from ATDI and was excellently mental. 

2 hours ago, pas5898 said:

Big Tom confirmed empty seats due to JLR clocking off at 8.

Upgrading new bham Wembley to 100k, just to be safe…. 

mate 
 

 

I was just in digbeth for a gig this evening, genuinely didn’t realise sha were at home until I was checking scores between bands

60,000 seater stadium, they would be lucky to sell out a 60 seater stadium. 

12 minutes ago, choffer said:

When you say 'successful", obviously you mean from the perspective of the customer, rather than the investors/vampires?

Indeed! From investors/vampires of course its been successful!

37 minutes ago, The Fun Factory said:

Well in fairness wasn't it Vince Cable who finally privatised it? 

Has there been any form of privatisation of public services that has actually been successful? Water, trains, mail are the obvious failures and I do not think power has been particularly great along with public transport generally. BT and British Gas don't seem the healthiest either but then have more competition. am genuinely struggling to see anything has been made better by it. 

1 minute ago, Designer1 said:

I'd rather they went out of business completely and their ground was turned into a Lidl.

If they did this though it would just end up being haunted.

The Lidl will always lose money, the toilets won't flush and anyone who shops there will be instantly attracted to their siblings. 

4 hours ago, GarethRDR said:

Wonder how many neo-nazis Heilung will bring with 'em this time. 

Didn't realise they had much of a neo-nazi following to be honest! 

2 hours ago, TheMelvillan said:

What do I do with all my old cd's, dvd's, videos and minidiscs(you heard!)?

 

I can access all of these collections digitally so they just take up space in the attic

I cant bear to tip them into a skip, am far too lazy to try to sell them at like 5p a pop, and am uncertain that local charity shop would even want them as a donation

 

I’ll be interested in Rock/Metal CDs if you have any!

So a couple of recent black metal releases for you. 

First up darling of the underground Hulder has released new album, getting cracking reviews and certainly an excellent slab of traditional black. I've personally found the back end of the album to be better but well worth your time. 

Next up, Ihsahn - Ihsahn. Frontman of Emperor continuing his solo progressive black metal and it is grand with its orchestral impelentation as well. 

And if you don't like harsher elements, here it is just as the orchestral version  

2 hours ago, Davkaus said:

I'm not in Birmingham, but I'm watching this with interest, as Nottingham is only a few months behind you, and we'll be seeing similar hikes while seeing services cut to, or past the bone.

I couldn't give a **** about potholes, bin collections, or streetlights, really. I'd like these things to be well provisioned, but it's deck chairs on the titanic. The real tragedy is a a 24m cut to adult social care and a 51.5m cut to cut to children's and family services.

It's only right and proper that vulnerable children pay for the mistakes of previous generations of voters. Someone must be held accountable for these failings, may as well be the people who can't fight back.

What a **** sad state of affairs.

Whole heartedly agree with this. As someone who has pretty much daily dealings with their children services, they are already cut to the bone and they are close to breaking. So for them to lose another £51.5m is going to be horrific. 

The whole system is broken and needs major reform/reinvestment. 

On 16/02/2024 at 12:01, tonyh29 said:

sooner that word removed Putin is in this thread the better 

It’ll also finally get me some points! 

2 minutes ago, maqroll said:

I heard the entire Chiefs team chartered their plane straight to Antifa headquarters for an all night child sacrifice party where they drank baby blood from goblets made of the skulls of Plandemic vaccine victims.

Sheeples. 

40 minutes ago, Dante_Lockhart said:

I'm just surprised I've seen nothing of Taylor Swift's on pitch endorsement of Biden and the burning of the American flag . MSM trying to cover up as usual? 

1 hour ago, mjmooney said:

Why ever not? I'm from the progressive rock generation. Got all their albums, and Wilson's solos (although I've been a bit underwhelmed by his more recent efforts). 

Agree on the prog bit, but always thought PT were the heavier end of the prog rock side (particularly at the time with the Opeth influence). Not complaining as its good music   

1 hour ago, mjmooney said:

Good band but I wouldn't have necessarily put Porcupine Tree in your collection?

Why is the PM going on TalkTV instead of a channel that is actually watched? Its also giving legitimacy to a person who was unceremoniously booted off daytime TV because he couldn't hack being challenged, found by the Court to be a liar and is generally, to put it nicely, a generally horrible human being.

Next interview, Lee Anderson on GB News... 

2 minutes ago, tonyh29 said:

in VT terms this probably makes me far right  , 

Looks like the programming is working  soon we will get you spouting Karl Marx.

What I do think is interesting is everyone's together as a picture of the site (*obviously biased towards those actually done it and posted results; I can't read mind, not yet anyway): -

Think there maybe a consensus here.... 

@lapal_fan doing his best impressions of Suella Braverman. @Follyfoot yet to be indoctrinated though by the looks of it; more work/programming needs to be done  . 

Edit: added @tonyh29 for prosperity 

I do find political compass quite fun, even if some constructs are a little dated (pretty sure the questions haven't changed much/at all since first did it). 

Anyway I got: -

Economic Left/Right: -5.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.79

According to this, I've moved more left over the last couple of years as use to be more central (but definitely on the left of the scale) and very libertarian on the social scale. 

4 minutes ago, GarethRDR said:

Mountain Caller are top notch and a great bunch to boot. 

Did have you in mind in particular when listening to it to be fair!

Slayer, but not quite as you know it. 

Don't think one has been started yet? Can't find one anyway!

Couple of new ones for you: -

Mountain Caller - Chronicle II: Hypergenesis 

Don't know too much about them but a Church Road Records so good start and are an instrumental prog metal trio from Landan. Pretty damn cool and suspect a few on here will enjoy. 

And on a slightly different tone

Cancer Christ - God Is Violence

Powerviolence/Grindcore from LA and seeming pretty crazy. Whilst the imagery takes centre stage, musically pretty fun too. 

30 minutes ago, bickster said:

I'd be a bit of a word removed if I pointed out that there's a poll on the Daily Express website asking its readers if they think Sunak should resign so I'm not going to d... oh  

Currently at 76% saying he should be replaced; not that I added to that of course, I'm not a Daily Express reader