YOUR SHOUT
I CAN’T TAKE DRIVE-IN GIGS SERIOUSLY
And other moans, thoughts and general musings we received from you lot this month
OUT THE DRIVE-IN
Sorry, I just can’t take this ‘drive-in gig’ stuff seriously. I know everyone’s trying their best but are you really telling me the future of gigs is inside a car beeping our horns like it’s rush hour? Not for me.
Stephen McAhren (Facebook)
Well, we’re a little short of options for gigs right now, so these will have to do, alright? Anything that gets bands some money and means we can at least
pretend
we’re moving towards normality works for us.
QUESTION TIME
I enjoyed the ‘metal out of lockdown piece’ in the last issue. Some other questions I’d like answering, though: how do we make sure independent venues survive and it’s not just the ‘big boys’ that go on after this? How do we get metal back in the mainstream again? Can The Hu’s beef dumplings work with other meat? Ha ha ha! Just kidding, keep up the good work.
Jim Roode (email)
Yeah, fair, there is a
lot
more to work out in metal, and indeed in music itself. We can’t comment
on The Hu’s beef dumplings, though. Our cooking skills are somewhat... varied.
BLOODBOUND
I don’t care too much for newer bands normally as I feel like it’s all been done before, but absolutely loving Bloodbather after your New Noise piece with them. Nice to see there are still young metal bands unafraid to do something different.