* Playing bass and writing music with my band(s). * Video games. Platform games, beat-em-'ups and RPGs. No fucking 3rd-Person Shooters or sports simulators, PLZ. * Wrestling. ECW and TNA, that's it.
Music
Angel Crew, Annihilator, Bad Brains, B.G., Big Tymers, Biohazard, Boxcutter, Bruce Springsteen, Busta Rhymes, Casey Jones, Comin' Correct, Cro-Mags, Death, Dr. Dre, E-Town Concrete, Earth Crisis, Fury Of Five, Hot Boys, Irate, Jesus Wept, Juvenile, Krutch, Life Of Agony, Machine Head, Malevolent Creation, Mannie Fresh, Merauder, Ninebar, No Retreat, No Warning, Notorious B.I.G., Obituary, Onesta, Only Living Witness, Sceptic, Sepultura, Settle The Score, SkinLab, Snoop Dogg, Strife, Stuck Mojo, The Misfits, This Runs Through, Three 6 Mafia, Warzone, Wu-Tang Clan
Movies
A Tale Of Two Sisters, the Bad Boys series, all Batman films even the "rubbish" ones, Clerks, Dawn Of The Dead, Day Of The Dead, Forrest Gump, Frankenstein, the Friday the 13th series, Ghostbusters, the Godzilla series, the Halloween series, House Of 1000 Corpses, Invaders From Mars, Jason And The Argonauts, Ju On: The Grudge, Kids, Memento, New Jack City, NightBreed, the Return Of The Living Dead series, Ring, the Saw series, Street Fighter II The Animated Movie, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, The Fisher King, The Notebook, Transformers The Movie
Television
Blackadder, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Chappelle's Show, Fonejacker, Frasier, LOST, Nathan Barley, Still Game
Books
When I feel like something more intellectual than manga, I read biographies by musicians and wrestlers. DEEP.
About me: Joe "The Fatboss" Cassidy - media student by day, employee of Halifax Bank Of Scotland by... Ehh, well, also by day.
One of the two most important things in my life is music - I love listening to music, going to see music live, and writing and performing music with my own bands. Through my music I have been on BBC television, appeared in Metal Hammer magazine, and shared a stage with international acts such as Amen, Clutch, Downset, Ill Bill, Warrior Soul and many others. Through music I also met THE most important thing in my life - my girlfriend, Charlene. :o)
Other things that matter to me are horror movies and video games. I'm NOT interested in: a) Putting a cap on my currently limitless intelligence by having alcohol or drugs rot my iron-clad brain cells, b) Playing, watching or otherwise acknowledging football, or c) Giving the time of day to piss bands or the piss music that they play. Don't talk to me about this shit.
Who I'd like to meet: Mark-Ass Marks, Trick-Ass Marks, Punk Bitches 'N' Skip Skops, Skanks And Scallywags, Hoes, Heffers, Hee-Has And Hooly-Hoos.
NO FUCKING INDIE BANDS. So to all you punk ass pricks that keep trying to add me, with rubbish scarves and little to no distortion in yer damn guitars: Like, rap it.
Yeah, needless to say that I won't manage that weekender. Can't even make it to one of the final shows by moronic straight edge mosh kings xARMEDxFORxBATTLEx, as I was hoping to.
There's no way to downgrade that I'm aware of, but I think the way to avoid it being a problem is to spray the gel on the other side of the vulnerable walls, get to a vantage point, then EXPLODE DEM SUCKAS. The challenge where you have to take out 3 toughs with the 1 wall blast is double tough, as it the one in the medical bay where you've got to take out 3 badniks with 3 seperate but concurrent explosions, but WOAH SHIT if they aren't satisfying when you get them. I realise this way by no means condescending or smarmy, but perhaps it will be if you read it in a posh accent while looking at this photo:
A well-earned internet Gold medal for that ExC photo find, in fact that's some all-time Internet Hall Of Fame shit right there. No idea how 7 bands sharing 2 buses is some ultra-destructive, tree-destroying, ozone layer-defacing force, but if that reviewer had really wanted to mock Earth Crisis he could've simply said "these cunts've been knockin' aboot for nearly 20 year and still only 10 folk at this show gie a fuck". Instead he lamented that WTC weren't greeted as all-conquering Kings.
Aye, the challenges in Arkham Asylum all add to your total percentage complete. The Predator ones are fucking boss nigger, and I've managed all of them but even the easiest of the fighting ones is hard as hell (to use NYHC terminology). I farmed the game out to Vinnie for a bit, but when I get it back I might tackle them again.
Gonna have to give Biohazard in London a pass, incidently, because I've got myself a full-time supply post at my old school; which is great because I now make money, money make money, money, mon-ey, but means I can't just fuck off down to England for hardcore shows and the like whenever I fancy.
"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA" ^ That's a direct quote, by the way.
Didn't realise big Psycho (or however he mis-spells it) was such a big Reeves and Mortimer fan, but glad to see him representing by performing that cover in the Shooting Stars club singer style.
On the subject of slipknot and juggalo homies. Here is the heart-felt plea for peace that I was telling you about.
Susan didn't even tell me she'd text you, but it's all good. She just seemed to assume the Megabus would drop me off right at the flat and that I'd thus be home at the exact moment the bus arrived in Glasgow.
Apologies for the delay in reply, I have no valid excuse other than I was putting off looking into Earth Crisis because I figured it was going to cost a bomb and I didn't want to face up to the likelihood that I'd have to cancel, BUT, if we attend the Birmingham date on the 23rd instead of the standard London effort, we can get a Virgin train down, leaving at 10am, for the princely sum of but £5! Megabus back up the road leaving Birmingham at 2.35am is only £14.50 too. Basically, there's no way you'll get to any other show for a cheaper or more decent set of travelling circumstances that that, thus, I'm gonna book mine tomorrow most likely. Get back at me asap, but even if you suddenly had an epiphany and decided that you despise Earth Crisis then I'll almost certainly just go it alone at that rate anyway.
Uploaded those photies onto my laptop ages ago, but not MySpace, so I'll do that now and shoot you a message with the relevant urls.
ALSO, dunno if you already know, but the previously anaemic Persistence Tour line-up has been bolstered by the addition of BIOHAZARD, so Lovey and I may travel to Deutschland AGAIN for that one. That's ages away anyhow though, but THAT'S WHAT WE WERE SAYING ABOUT EARTH CRISIS, WHAT SEEMS LIKE MERE DAYS AGO.
Despite some brief searching last night, I hadn't actually uncovered any videos or pictures of Pressurefest YET, so EXCELLENT INTERNETTING WORTHY OF YOUR PLACE ON THE BRITISH OLYMPIC TEAM. The really surprising thing is that I never clocked this cunt all weekend, but my guess is that I just assumed he was taking photies.
Brutha, you're like a day late on that one. I already posted a bulletin about it yesterday, along with a half dozen Where's Wally crowd pics. I'll put them up in my gallery along with the MJ vigil pics whenever I get around to sticking them on my computer.
Best bit of the first HH vid is the pile-on at the end of 'Watch Me Rise' (last song on the vid) by the way.
Aye, I got the same e-mail, and after attempting to decipher the pure dodgy online translator English I thought that sounded pretty sound.
We'll talk it over at BrokeNCYDE, which I do not yet have a ticket for. I'm assuming any hype about LAST 8 TICKETS LEFT~! is just Promoter bullshit, and that I'll have no difficulty in getting in on the door. If you do get the bonus ticket then you can hit me up with that and we'll go hawfers.
Yeah, for someone who outright denounces text messages and says instead that people should just MySpace you should be straight checking that shit more often.
HOWEVER, I couldn't really afford to go to Birmingham anyway, as it turned out, so it was probably for the best. Saving pennies for a screamo-crunk SEXXXSTRAVAGANZA instead. And I assume you say you want to be seen with me purely because you want that NYHC DVD back. I'll have had it a solid 7 months now, so it seems about time you got it back, though I'll miss Ezec's incredible patter and Rick Ta Life's overwhelming shitness. No matter how low you feel, that man will make you feel better, as you will never descend to the ditches in which he dwells.
Also, like a broken record, and for the trillionth time, GET YO ASS TO PRESSUREFEST. Have Heart are splitting up after this tour, which is reason enough for me, never mind the rest.
Right, the Terror/Born Fae Pain/Trapped Under Ice joint is in Manchester tomorrow, and I had some heavy duty work to do for tomorrow so I'm way too messed up to manage it. Plus, I figure by the time we'd get down there we'd miss Trapped Under Ice anyway, which is half the point.
BUT, if you're down with it, and only if, I've priced buses to Birmingham on Sunday (too far to drive, my car died a couple of weeks after the Sheffield trip last time and cost mad cheddah to get fixed) and they'd be just under £20 each way. Return bus up is at 2am, so would have to kick it in B-ham for a bit, but I figure that ain't no thang compared to your Serengetifest antics. Though we have both aged considerably since then, and the day I am suggesting is probably a bit too would-do-it-when-we-21-or-younger-not-old-ass-muthafuckas.
Dunno man, while I could use this as an opportunity to try and talk you into Pressurefest, Tuesday is a school night, which pretty much makes it a no-no. I'll decide for definite and give you an answer tomorrow though.
ah, but i thought you might be one o those folks, fools in my mind, who prefer facebook to my space. i personally dont have a facebook thing. mostly cos i have fallen quite out of love with the internet recently.
how are you? your photo album brushes with greatness actually made me laugh out loud. but where's the picture of you with gary numan? or the one of you punching that drummer guy in the face? or the one of you in a dress? (kidding about the last one).
i'm ok, the ususal selection of peaks and troughs and londonium based hi jinks. i'll be up in glasgow soon and no doubt i'll see ye in the street like i always manage to do, be it in either glasgow or london.
Hell On Earth was at the Underworld last year, so it's a fairly sound bet tha would be the location again this year. This would indeed be xBANANASx and in Stone Cold Steve Austin/Forrest Gump fashion THAT'S ALL I GOT TA SAY ABOUT THAT.
Aye, ever since Mark Radarr (or however the fuck he spelled that, I'm sure it was a wacky version) fucked off the face of the earth - probably lying in a shallow grave after getting clubbed with a pool ball in a sock after trying to stiff Hoods out of their guarantee or something - no cunt bothers booking hardcore in Glasgow anymore. I think the fact that there's no longer a hardcore scene as such as all the chancers are now listening to Deathcore or have fucked off entirely probably has something to do with it. xREPRESENTx are playing with By My Hands Big_Chris' band at the start of July and I think that's about it and also about the first of the year. I don't even bother checking bands tour dates to see if there's a Glasgow date anymore, since there never is.
As for Earth Crisis, there's no dates confirmed yet, though I was trying to get ..o talk Forbes into booking it for the Classic Grand, presenting it as a no fronts decent business opportunity, and not just for my convenience, which was the reality. That really would be a good size venue for it though. Either way, it'll simply be a case of driving to wherever the nearest show Down South is, hopefully Manchhester, since that's about the easiest place and doesn't require negotiating Snake Pass. On a related note, I was thinking about going down there to catch Terror with Born Fae Pain, Trapped Under Ice, and the bit-gay Stick To Your Guns at the end of May. It's only a maybe though as it's a school night. And I like VOD, but probably not enough to go to London for it.
I'm gonna book Pressurefest when I get paid at the end of the month, I'll give you a shout then to see what your thoughts are. I'll McLeary it if I have to, though obviously I'd rather not. Too much good shit on there to give it a miss this year.
UH-UH no Damage Control Fest for me. Monday is the Bank Holiday so that's all good baby babeh, but the next day is an in-service, so I couldn't make it back in time for work.
On the hardcore note though (or chun, as would be the more appropriate music metaphor), dunno if you know the script with Pressurefest this year, but basically, as it's booked by a gang of morons, they've cocked up the venue and, as a result, have fallen ass-backwards into awesome, with one 2-day smaller effort at the end up June in a barrierless venue that looks like this: And another bigger one at the start of August that has the following confirmed so far:
Ambush (UK) AYS (DE) Death Before Dishonor (US) H2O (US) Iron Age (US) xKingdomx (US) Madball (US) The Red Chord (US) Reign Supreme (US) xRhinocerusx (US) RZL DZL (US) This is Hell (US) Walls Of Jericho (US)
June one's a definite for me, even if I have to McLeary it, but obviously I'd rather not. Lovey has expressed interest in it. August one is a big maybe too, depending on skrilla situation at the time.
New ExC track is decent enough that I'm gonnna assume that the new album will be passable at worst. Can't be as shite/great as Slither anyway. Any UK date is a gimme for me, and I assume you too.
On a completely unrelated note, I AM ONTO YOU, and your nicking your patter from Metalinquisition ways. AltNation may know realise, but I do.
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