Ggs coming up

EP is out on December 5th, on  bandcamp

https://woundedcross.bandcamp.com/album/bonecrusher

And various other places.

Postmortem of Britain - In Lyrics

Burdened

Succumbed to False
Burdened by fear
Indulged in Hate
Justice disappear

Allow the Madness
Grant them Grace
Allow the Evil
Put them in Place

Repentance coming
Punishment due
What to do now
All suffer for few

Only one option
Cards have been dealt
Only one option
The people Revolt.


War is coming

Batton down the hatches
Be ready for the assault
Batton down the hatches
Fear led to the fault

War is coming, Must prepare
Peoples army, do we dare?
Stand your ground,dont let down
Stand your ground, take back crown

Batton down the hatches
Keep your loved ones near
Batton down the hatches
No Saviour to appear

War is coming, Must unite
War is coming, ready the fight
Protect the innocent from the rich
Rally together, thats the pitch

Use your anger, use it well
Use that fury,Mass Rebel
Must unite to weather the storm
Must unite to reverse the norm

Change is coming, comes from within
Change is coming, its Happening


Cast The Fracture

Slither in by word of mouth
Face the Foulness head on
Bile spew, jaded now
Staring face of oppression

Boot of Power, Violent will
Resist purge & Fight on
Corrupt,misleading voices
Combat nature No long

Sick, unjust, but unaware
Right in name but wrong
Change the mind, hard task
All we want is to belong

Follow, follow, lead by death
Follow by proxy, fool prolong
Fall in line, listen to fear
Masters say you Belong

Who owns you? but you alone
Cant change mind, Hope gone
Make new system, old behind
Cast the Fracture, cruelty begone

Education, Immigration and War.

A Metalhead lost in a sea of politics.

Anybody that knows me knows that I am a very lazy person. Lazy,  something of an asshole at times and a bit of a loudmouth pisshead too. That’s fine, I can live with who I am. But in the last few weeks, I have been the most passionate, the most driven and the most excited about something than I have ever been. I would like to explain why.

It was teaching Media in 2010 that started me thinking about things. Understanding bias and seeing the difference between truth and spin has always been something that has interested me. A good friend of mine often loves to send me wild conspiracy theories, and sometimes its fun to find the original sources and rebuke them.

I remember seeing a news article about climate change and its possible ability to cause long term damage. I found it truly difficult to find any kind of realistic source to rebuke it.

It was around about this time that a news article came out that said that 85 people had as much wealth as the poorest half of the planet. I have never been wilfully naïve, I have always known that the world is a vastly unjust place on the whole, and the fact that this news wasn’t surprising was what shocked me the most. I decided, a good two years ago now to start buying New Scientist. I don’t see spin in this magazine, I see factual basis and scientific anaylsis. When they touched on the link between inequality and climate change, I saw the dots connect just as the scientific community already had.

I have never been a fan of politics or politicians. Despised it for a long time, and I still do. Difficult to find myself being involved in it, I once thought. The link between the climate change problem and the inequality problem is an issue bigger than simple politics. It angered me, It made me more interested in the social deprivation being dolled out onto my own country and people. I wondered, what can I do, as one person? Just sharing articles on Facebook isn’t enough. Just being on twitter and doing the same, sharing information with strangers, isn’t enough.

The damage that’s been done in the last five years has been surmountable. I have seen true stories of disabled people kicked out their homes, suicides due to welfare reforms, the poorest and most vunerable in society being hit by the harshest of sanctions and cuts. I have seen public services ravaged and turned into private businesses. The privatisation of the railways when Maggie was in was nothing compared to the rampant destruction that has been caused in the last 5,even 10 years. All of it is in the name of economic growth and the ideology of trickle down economics. Make the rich richer, and it will flow down the rest of us. This doesn’t work, and hasn’t worked. Scientific studies, Reports, surveys, and research has been done that proves this to be the case. Capitalism isn’t inherently evil, but when its allowed to be completely unregulated as it has, we see the wreck it leaves behind.

It was as clear to me now as it was then, something needs to change and we can only change a system that’s broken by fixing it en masse. Revolution, of course, was the topic of a lot of media, made pliable by the irksome, marmite character of Russell Brand.

We have to thank for him for bringing ideas of social justice and change into the public consciousness. No matter whether you like or loathe him, his presence HAS been effective for the better. Ridiculous really considering his recent about turn, but no less true.

How can we change the system? Without pulling it down with firebombs and riots? Reverse the power and influence this richest 0.01% have?

I researched the current political parties. I didn’t want to, but figured it was an obvious choice. When I got to the Greens, it became clear they offered something different. I didn’t know how different at first, and ill get to that.

I joined a year ago now. When I first joined I had barely any money to scrape together but felt like I wanted to make a point, it was summer 2014. A few weeks after joining and going to a meeting, it became clear, and no disrespect to any member, it was something much smaller than I expected. A bunch of good friends, campaigning on local issues.

I had met Terry white a few times. We were at a party for the Eurovision song contest, we often do them. I told him to join the Greens, he had a political background, and I suggested it would be good for them and for him, a point for him to rally behind. He joined, and became the candidate, and the rest leads me to the point when the manifesto was launched.

That Manifesto for the Green party….I don’t see this as a political manifesto in the same way that the other parties do things. If you look, at this 84 page document, there are changes in almost every aspect of human life that would benefit us for the long term, reduce inequality and ensure climate change is kept at bay. Its like all the social justice movements of the last couple of years have been connected together and joined together under one name.

In education, members have picked policies from the best education system in the world. In health, they have looked at research on every topic needed to ensure it makes our health service the strongest it can be. In Travel, they aim to invest into public services to eventually, longterm, have less cars on the road, reduce our carbon footprint. In Economy, they wish to make banks more accountable, stop them being able to create their own money, another research based policy chosen by members. That’s just a few examples. When I joined, I never thought id end up voting on policy at a conference, and I did. Any member can submit a change in a policy and as long as its voted in, it becomes actual policy. That’s real people power.

We have seen a massive uprising across the world in global consciousness, I never realised how linked it all was. I was spurred on further when I saw how Syriza took Greece, and how Podemos have risen in Spain. There is a clear people power movement being built across the world. When I read this document, it became clear to me this was the only logical answer to the issues we face here in our own country and that this is part of this global movement.

Since this election period, I have worked my nuts off. I have barely seen my wonderful, long suffering partner. I have worked everyday at the school, sometimes under a lot of pressure due to the coursework, finished at 5,gone out leafleting. I have leafleted, delivered posters,delivered billboards, attended hustings events, ran the social media presence (risen twitter from 400 to 1,290) and basically made sure as many people in our town have seen or met their candidate Terry. Its been like doing two jobs..but its been amazing fun.

I have never seen myself so driven, so passionate and so determined.

Politics is something we should all do. Not something that should be thrust upon us.

By Voting Green, you are using the system you hate against them. You are exercising the one small right they have given you, to take back what is yours. True People power, True Democracy, True change.

And that is my view on this election. Take it or leave it, I am glad ive made a mark.

Lyrics - musings - Bits n Bobs

Revolution

Message Received loud and clear
We dont want change,we want fear

Why let us hope when its easier not
Whats the point if it goes against the plot

No more talking, lead us into action
No more lying, truth is gaining traction

Planet wide now we see a change
Consciousness in rearrange



Biocentrist

Is this all illusion of hive mind Is this all made up by mankind

Is this all connected by the soul Is this all linked by some control

Collective awareness Matter simply lossless Chance is predetermined Fate is part of dreaming

As a race we ask no questions As a race we lack a direction It's time to ignore our clocks It's time to think outside the box

Reality is dawning Mass effect of waking Force of life surrounding Mysterys unravelling

As a race we ask no questions As a race we lack a direction It's time to destroy the clocks It's time to think outside the box Time and space is all relative Time to get Meditative.

Ancient Beast (not finished)

From the depths he rose
carrying vast tomes
laying waste in his path
bringing forth the aftermath

demon they shouted
beast was benevolent
knowledge was his aim
fear and violence overcame


Beauty of death (Poem)

The beauty of death is that its never really the end
Doesnt matter what you believe
Memories mean you live forever
Even if theres more to what we see and what we feel
The beauty of death is real.


Drag me to Hell

Spectral arms clasp my neck
Pulling and dragging
Spectral arms cant protect
Falling and forcing

Spectral demon bursts my eyes
Spectral demon cuts my time

What I did was worse than feared
What I did was beyond my tears

I deserve this graceful death
I deserve my final breath
I chose to cause pain, it was all my fault
I chose to judge and kill, by default

Spectral demons take me down
Spectral demons throw me around
Spectral demons righting wrongs
Spectral demons dont take too long

Sins to atone, truth be damned, curse on my soul, take my hand.


Vessels of Flesh

Energy Dictates form
Body vessel weathers storm

Function of space and void
Body vessel sadly devoid

Atom within the vessel of man
Atom makes matter not the plan

Corrosion of flesh, seperate from soul
Corrosion within, stress takes its toll

Release thyself from material desire
Release thyself from being higher

Flesh and bone is that alone
Pure energy is behind the cloak

Academisation.

Today I taught a class that I can only describe as Feral.

In the last year, I have worked in over 20+ Schools within a 40 mile radius of Rugby as a cover/supply teacher. I have finally found a place I like, so i'm chuffed (And in this post I am not explicitly criticising my current place of work) .

However, Something I have noticed has to be discussed.

A lot of the schools I have worked in have been turned into Academies. And essentially, it means they are no longer ran by the local Council, for the benefit of the public and the kids, but ran by private businesses, who tend to own several schools. I even worked in one owned by the Carphone warehouse...

When you turn a public service, such as a school or a hospital, into a business, there's something inherently lost. Perhaps its a duty of care towards its staff or kids, or perhaps its its beating heart or soul.

Whatever the case may be, so many of these Academies are suffering massive turnover of teaching staff. Unhappy with new demands placed upon them, or unhappy with the general attitude these new business led schools give towards them, or just generally angry, so they leave. This is not one school, but practically all of the ones I went into that were turned into Academies.

So what happens when kids are constantly having different teachers?
Inconsistency. Which then in turn, leads to Disinterest. Which in turn, leads to poor behaviour. Which in turn can’t be turned around, because good teachers go in and face this torrent of poor behaviour, and then leave. Vicious circle that seems to be worsening. But who suffers?

The Kids.

I actually find it extremely concerning, and consider the possibility of there being an entire lost generation of young people, I also think when they are older and they realise they were screwed over by the system, not their own ineptitude, you’re going to have a LOT of angry young people. The balance of power has shifted in two ways in our schools. The first, which is technically the most damaging is the transfer of the administration, from public to private, people power to capital power. The second, which is actually the more damaging to those on the frontlines is the transfer of power from the adults to the students. The more teachers leave, the more kids take control of the schools. This happens because when a teacher leaves the worst kids take it upon themselves to wear the responsibility for it as a badge of honour. Thus, good kids are left behind and the vicious circle continues.

 

What is the solution to this? We have an election in May, and after reading up on the policies for schools for all the main parties this is what I’ve found on their official websites:

Labour - Want more qualified teachers, new directors of school standards for local areas, new vocational qualifications
Lib-Dem- Have a petition to stop privatising schools, with 70 signatures, and say they will increase spending into pupil premium

Tory - Securing a good school for every child, ensuring Apprenticeships. Pro academy, pro free school
UKIP - Support free schools, bring back grammar schools, make Offsted sign a petition before they can visit a school, introduce apprenticeship qualification.
Green - Scrapping Offsted, turning all academies back to local council, revitalising the education system

 

I consider the issue to be drastic, and I also think it needs to be fixed and soon before more kids are lost to this system. After a recent rise in profile, I think its obvious to me only Greens offer a solution in their manifesto, Labour seem keen to fix a broken system but make no mention of scrapping academies.

Things need to change, and quickly, before we lose the future generation to this desperate situation.

I have decided it might be fun to try and compile a Comprehensive list of the bands ive actually seen live since i got into rock, this is to go along with my own memory,because i often forget who ive even seen, and just to see it written down in a long blog form. In the last 2 or 3 years i can probably cut it down a little because i actually have the tickets in a book for every band...but the festivals is where it gets hazy and i forget. I forget how many times ive seen certain bands too..But hey, i started making a list a few years ago (2001 i think), and deposited it into a notepad file..As far as i can see it includes Reading Festival 2001, Ozzfest 2002, and Download 2003 and everything in between.so heres that list:

hedpe x 2
papa roach x 2
staind
fear factory
queens of the stone age
boy hits car
system of a down x 3
marilyn manson
the cult
Eminem
Ill nino
machine head
american head charge x 2
in flames
one minute silence
slipknot
Autonomy
dillinger escape plan
pulse ultra
Black label society
Skindred
mad capsule markets
danko jones
cradle of filth
lost prophets
Slayer
kittie
Tool
Ozzy osbourne
Opeth
Arch enemy X 2
Withering surface
The Darkness
The Wildhearts
Alec empire
Eighties matchbox b-line disaster
Lightyear
36 crazyfists
Five pointe O
Killswitch Engage
Millionaire
Queens of the stone age
Dogs D'amour
Quireboys
Thunder
Alice Cooper
Tangaroa
Mistress x 3  
JOR
The Great Deciever
Napalm Death
Little Hell
Amen X 2
The Haunted
Stampin ground X 2
December
Satyricon
Khold
Johnny Truant
27
ISIS
Madder mortem
Opeth
Zimmers hole
Devin Townsend band
Strapping young Lad
Dragon Force
3 Stages of Pain
Palehorse X 2
Chimaira
Reef
Sepultura
Funeral For A Friend
Ministry
Deftones X 2
Iron Maiden
Revolution smile
Insane Clown Posse
Beecher
Cult Of Luna
Dillinger Escape plan
Desecration
Abgott
Amputated
Funeral for a friend
Iron Maiden
Capricorns
DJ speedranch
Aeroegramme
ISIS
Mistress
Defiled
Cadaver
Mayhem
Opeth
Viking Skull
Akercocke
Burst
Ikara Colt
The International Noise Conspiracy
Cradle of Filth
Sum41
Powder
Breed 77
Turbonegro
Soulfly
The Black Dahila Murder
Machine Head
Slipknot
Slayer
Metallica
Cathedral
Broadzilla
Orange Goblin
Tokyo Dragons
Winnebago Deal
Textures x 2
Alchemist X 2
Cult of Luna x 2
Watain
Dissection
Arcturus
Enslaved
Grimfist
Red Harvest
Neurosis

Wow, now this list is old. this list ENDED in begining of 2004 by the looks of things, and it seems to have started in 2001 when i went to reading.so ive got a full list there up to download 2004 and just after starting in 2001. i can base this on tickets ive found. ill start the next bit from 2005 onwards

[b]2005[/b]
This is Download 05:
Queen Adreena
Fozzy
Lordi
Megadeth
Paradise lost
Napalm death
Mad capsule markets
Open hand
Anthrax
Lamb of God
Chimaira
In Flames
Black Sabbath
3 Inches of Blood
As I Lay dying
Killswitch Engage
Nightwish
Slayer
80s matchbox bline disaster
Funeral for a Friend
MC5
Therapy?
Motorhead
System Of a Down

[u]After and before download in 2005 i saw:[/u]

Edguy
Paradise Lost
Children Of Bodom
Black Sabbath (At Aylsbury with 1000 others)
Danzig
Megadeth
Mindless Self indulgence
Static-x (in florida)
Diamond Head X 2
Witchfynde
Bronz
Jaguar
Preying Mantis
Mastodon
Nine Inch Nails X 2
Opeth (again)
Akercocke
The Haunted
Electric Eel shock
The Answer
Tokyo Dragons
The Sound Explosion
Dragonforce
High on Fire
Winnebago Deal
Paradise Lost
Octavia Seperarti
Leaves eyes
Vader
Lost Soul
The Prodigy
Enslaved
Dio
Isis
Iron Maiden (at hammersmith)



[b]2006[/b]
At download 06 (according to a timetable i had created) memory serves this is who i saw that year:

Amplifier
Gojira
Strapping Young Lad
Clutch
Cathedral
Tool
Down
Satyricon
Arch Enemy
Opeth
Killing Joke
Metallica (think i watched killing joke instead but caught the end)
Zico Chain
In Flames
Lacuna Coil
Lordi
Sick of It all
Guns and Roses

Ok, so 2006 also had seperate gigs:

Paradise Lost
Anathema X 2
HIM
Cave In
Pelican
Zico chain
Whitesnake
Isis X 2
High On fire
Broadcast
Final
Una Corda
Thrones
Circulus
Cathedral
Electric Wizard X 2
Nebula
The Sword
Helloween
Stratovarius
Down
Church of Misery
Moho
Unearthly Trance
Ramesees
Soilwork
Keep of Kalessin
Insomnium
Satryicon
Mogwai
Abominable Iron Sloth
Gentlemans Pistols
Jecano
Cryptopsy
Aborted
Grave
Enslaved
Zyklon
Dismember
Entombed
Grave
Unleashed
Orange Goblin
Anathema
Wolverine
Motorhead
Clutch

[u]
2006 also included Wacken and Bloodstock:[/u]

Wacken:
Arch Enemy
Atheist
Celtic Frost
Children of bodom
Danko Jones
Emperor
Fear Factory
Gamma ray
Korpiklaani
legion of the damned
Ministry
Morbid Angel
Mortal Sin
Motörhead
Primal Fear
Rose Tattoo
Soilwork
Whitesnake
Wintersun

bloodstock 06:

Atheist
Metal Church
Edguy
Ensiferum
Bal Sagoth
Turisas
Callenish circle
Stratovarius
Gorilla Monsoon.

[b]2007[/b]

wow, 2006 was a big year. i was at university though so i saw a lot of bands. theres probably more, theres gigs i went to and didnt get tickets for. 2007 was a big one too, but i skipped download and went to sweden rock. ill list the festivals first, then the seperate gigs.

Sweden Rock 2007:

Amon Amarth
Axel Rudi Pell
Black Oak Arkansas
Blind Guardian
Dark Tranquillity
Dimmu Borgir
Focus
Heaven & Hell
Iced Earth
Kreator
Krux
Meat Loaf
Motörhead
Pretty Maids
Quiet Riot
Quireboys
Scorpions med Uli Jon Roth
The Answer
The Australian Pink Floyd Show
Trouble
Tyr
U.D.O

Wacken 2007:

Benedictum,
Blind Guardian,
Destruction,
Dimension Zero,
Dimmu Borgir,
Enslaved,
Gutbucket,
Grave Digger,
In Flames,
Iced Earth,
J.B.O.,
Moonsorrow,
Municipal Waste,
Overkill,
Possessed,
Rose Tattoo,
Sabbat,
Sacred Reich,
Secrets of the Moon,
Sodom,
The Answer
Stratovarius,
Subway to Sally,
Suidakra,
Swallow the Sun,
Therion
Type O Negative

Bloodstock 2007:

Firewind
Testament
Korpiklaani
Nevermore
Dark Tranquillity
Lacuna coil
Benediction
finntroll
Dream Evil
Sabbat
Arch Enemy
In Flames

Hard rock Hell 2007:
Finntroll, My Dying Bride,  Turisas, Tesla, Diamond Head, Girlschool, ChthoniC, Sabbat, Grand Magus.

Seperate gigs:

To-mera
Celtic Frost
Kreator
Watain
Isis
Oxbow
Napalm Death
Trouble
Unsane
Fu Manchu
Truckfighters
Divine Heresy
Hacride
Lucero
Taint
Desecration
Warning
Imindain
The River
Jesu
Mono

[b]2008[/b]

so now we hit this year. Festival season hasnt begun, so this is easy to compile.

My Ruin
Dark Tranquillity
Municipal Waste
Primordial
Grand Magus
Mael mordha
Orange Goblin
Dillinger Escape plan
Between the buried and me
Boris
The Sword
Saviours
Down
Sahg
Trouble
Today is the Day
Jucifer
Impaled
Origin
Alanis Morissette
Morbid Angel
Black Sun
Guapo
Thrones
Justice Yeldham
Oxbow
The Heads
Orthodox
Asva
Earth
Red sparowes
Arnocorps
Gravetemple
Trigger The Bloodshed
Meshuggah
Stone Gods
Airbourne
Anathema
Haxan
Esoteric


And thats it. up to date, probably missing a few...but as comprehenisve as i can get it.


Wacken 2008:

Mustache
Nashville Pussy
Primordial
The Rotted
Children Of Bodom
Avantasia
Massacre
Van Canto
Corvus Corax
Cynic
Obituary
Exodus
Kreator
At The Gates
Lordi

Bloodstock 08:

Helloween
Akercocke
Praying Mantis
Communic
Swallow The Sun
Eluveitie
Nightwish
At the Gates
Overkill
Grand Magus
Alestorm
Crowning Glory
Heaven's Basement
Witchsorrow
Ted Maul
Serotonal
Adam Bomb

[b]2009[/b]

Wolves In the Throne Room
Taint
Napalm Death
Judas Priest
Testament
Megadeth
Dornenreich
Agalloch
Church Of Misery
Firebird
Unearthly Trance
Witchcraft
Graveyard
Faith No More
The Subways
The Answer
AC/DC

[b]Hellfest[/b]
Watertank
Squealer
Melechesh
Kylesa
Entombed
Wasp
Anthrax
Heaven & Hell
Saint Vitus
Motley Crue
Vader
Clutch
Amebix
Gojira
Enslaved
Killing Joke
Adagio
Volbeat
Wolves in the throne room
Destruction
Ufomammut
Orange Goblin
Queensryche
Mastodon
Electric Wizard
Manowar

[b]BOA 09[/b]

ARCH ENEMY
CARCASS
MILLION DOLLAR RELOAD
SAXON
KATATONIA
MUNICIPAL WASTE
ENTOMBED
CANDLEMASS
KREATOR
EUROPE
SATYRICON
ANATHEMA
TURISAS

[b]2010[/b]

Nazareth
Oliver Dawson Saxon
Tygers of Pan Tang
Mick Taylor Band
Praying Mantis
Saint Vitus
Orange Goblin
Imogen Heap
Obituary
Persphone
Cathedral
Church of Misery
Gates of Slumber
Lord Vicar
Mono
Rose Kemp
Eyehategod
Anathema
The Eighties Matchbox Bline Disaster x 2
Converge
Gaza
Kylesa
A Storm of Light
Winterfylleth
Wodensthrone
Sigh
Crippled Black Phoenix
UFO
Helloween
Jaguar
Stratovarius
Marseille
Airbourne
Saxon
Neurosis
Saint Vitus


[u]]Roadburn[/u]

Altar Of Plagues
Comus
Church of Misery
Eyehategod
Death Row
Darkspace
Enslaved
Goatsnake
Garcia Plays Kyuss
Jarboe
Jex Thoth
Witchcraft
Trypticon
Moss
Nachmystium
Pagan Altar
Sarke
Sons of Otis
The Machine
Samsara Blues Experiment
The Wounded Kings
YOB

[u]Download Sunday[/u]

3 Inches of Blood
FM
Switchfoot
Saxon
Cinderella
Napalm Death
The Damned Things
Dillinger Escape Plan
Porcupine Tree
Airbourne
Aerosmith

[u]High Voltage[/u]

Cathedral
Saxon
Heaven & Hell ‘A Tribute To Ronnie James Dio'
ZZ Top

2011:

Uriah Heep
Girlschool
Larry Miller
Fu manchu
Kyuss lives
Anathema X 2
Saxon
Rush
DRI
Goatsnake
Godflesh
Witchsorrow
Church Of Misery