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Bizarre Staff BlogsA chat with Max CavaleraEleanor GoodmanWith a Soulfly tour on the horizon, I thought it was time to have a chat with singer Max Cavalera! For those of you who don’t know, he used to front Brazilian metallers Sepultura and has a side project, Cavalera Conspiracy, with his brother Igor. I was interested to find out that he hadn’t heard upcoming Sepultura album A-Lex is based on A Clockwork Orange – a film that inspired Cavalera Conspiracy debut Inflikted. “It’s just funny, because those guys don’t really like A Clockwork Orange!” he says. “I can remember watching that shit, and they were like, ‘what’s that stupid thing you’re watching?’ Even my brother didn’t like it that much – my mum hated that movie, which was probably why I liked it so much…” A-Lex uses words from Anthony Burgess’ original book and Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation alongside passages of classical music, while Inflikted – released last March – has a track called ‘Ultra-Violent’ that features the language of the characters. Despite the overlap in subject, Max says he’ll give A-Lex a go: “Yeah, I listen to all sorts of stuff all the time, so I’ll check it out...” Read the full interview in Bizarre 147 – out 17 February Soulfly tour the UK during February – for details see Soulflyweb.com A-Lex is out 26 January on SPV Want to know what really goes on at Bizarre Towers?Kate HodgesThis, pretty much. 2 Mogwai, 1 Dildo. Enjoy! Totally bonkers trailer for new April Flores film, 'Voluptuous Biker Babes'Alix FoxWhat do you get if you cross 'Priscilla, Queen of the Desert' with April Flores, queen of the desserts? Play the trailer for her new film, 'Voluptuous Biker Babes', and find out. It's directed by April's fella, Carlos Batts, and it's batty in just about every way you can imagine. The top five freaky flash gamesTom BroadbentI have played tons of tons of online flash games, most of them are utterly awful but the few that are here are the best and most inventive games out there.Plus you get to shed a lot of blood, what can be better after a hard day's grind? Enjoy 5. 13 Days In Hell. It's a first person old school shooter where you must blow away all the zombies with a variety of ever increasing firepower. Graphics are pretty good considering and there's lots of blood spray as you shoot those fuckers in the head. Play it here My Bizarre BallDave KelsallI had a dream a few days before the Ball that I would get all messy and drunk and kind of miss all the acts and everything. Well, it happened. I'm not entirely sure how I managed to avoid seeing half the show - I really have no idea where those 9 hours went. Having come into work this morning and seen our all our photographers pics I feel sick that I missed so much! I think I was backstage annoying people for quite a while... someone bit me at some point and I think I hung around Dom Corner a bit too much. Having said that, I still had an amazingly fun night... the acts (that I saw) all looked stunning and the crowd (you lot) were incredible. Some of the best dressed party people I have ever seen! Mind you, I don't get out much these days...
Bizarre Ball autopsyDenise StanboroughI'm sure my esteemed colleagues, here at Bizarre Towers, have already gushed about the brilliance of the Bizarre Ball and it was, indeed, a night that no one could have imagined!
I won't bore you with talk about amazing costumes and friendly Bizarre readers, which of course partly made the night the success it was. I won't harp on about all that. Instead I would like to submerge myself in to the dark side of Friday night and regale some stories to make you titter.
Let us take, for instance, the man who strode around naked wearing a metal centurion helmet and chest piece. With his humble penis bobbing around and clutching a ragged carrier bag, he was clearing areas quicker than an outbreak of MRSA on a hospital ward. Sheer genius. I'm sure all those people who went out of their way to come dressed as the leaning tower of Pisa, or whatever, were envious of this man's simple, yet effective outfit.
It was also fun watching bums being spanked upstairs in Domination Corner. The confidently cocky bent over to receive a few whacks and left decidedly less smug, and walking a little more cautiously, than before their beating. Oh, how I chuckled.
In between snorting behind my hand (not off it naughty!), I enjoyed the array of incredible acts including the mesmerising Vicky Butterfly and Lucha Britannia's Mexican wrestlers in their eye-wateringly tight pants.
Then, when I couldn't have laughed any harder for fear of popping out an eyeball, the delectable Ms Alix Fox took to the stage to close down the night declaring she was "fucking proud to be different". Met with a rousing cheer, punters flooded the stage to celebrate and I stood watching the hilarity of Elaine Davidson (the world's most pierced woman) being dragged up by her armpits with another well-meaning member of the public holding her by her ankles. I laughed so hard I nearly coughed up blood.
As per my pre-ball post on Friday, I promised to upload pictures showing general dicking around and here are some for your perusal...
Please don't forget to send your pictures and videos into us at Bizarre_ball@dennis.co.uk, with a head shot of yourself and answers to the following questions:
Name:
Age:
From:
Explain what's happening in the pictures you took at the ball.
What did you wear on the night and where did you get your inspiration from?
What were your favourite bits from the ball?
What were your most outrageous moments from the ball?
Name your favourite performance and why.
Describe how you felt the morning after and your top hangover cure?
Review: Ladytron Hydro Connect Festival InverarayCalum WaddellFriday August 29th Oyster Stage Inveraray is an odd place to host a festival. Not that Bizarre is complaining because it is also bloody gorgeous. Perched in the highlands with a cute little Wicker Man-type town nearby (which advertises such tourist attractions as “Scotland’s favourite jail” – surely an oxymoron if ever there was one), this should be ideal sightseeing fodder for any Northern backpacker. However, over the past weekend it was the sight of a big walloping music festival packing in acts as varied as Sigur Ros, the Manic Street Preachers and, uhm, Duffy. It is Ladytron however, playing on Friday afternoon, that really blows the ears of the crowd. Clearly all these Nine Inch Nails support slots have allowed the ‘Tron to “up” their sound to the max and anyone standing at the front (as this foolhardy writer is) experiences a loud ringing noise for the remainder of the weekend. It is worth it though, Ladytron as a live experience are something to behold. Lead singer Helen Marnie bounces around like a woman possessed, bellowing out such delightfully perverse lyrics as “he only wants you when you’re 17, when you’re 21, you’re no fun.” However, it is this year’s rollicking slice of pop perfection, Ghosts (strangely thrown away as the second tune of the set), that sees a notable rise in crowd enthusiasm. Perhaps the band’s best known number, Destroy Everything You Touch, is saved for the finale and what a fine piece of electro-clash it is – the single that broke Ladytron to a wider audience and deservedly so. Still, on the evidence of how utterly stupendous the new album sounds live (including highlight Runaway) this is one band whose best days are still ahead of them. And for those who weren't there here is some amateur footage from youtube of Seventeen. Add the mud and the smell of unshowered campers and you could almost be there... Please visit: www.connectmusicfestival.com Greetings from Riot City, MichiganJack Ruby MurrayWow..true to my fucking word I blasted through Indiana (* are you sure? - Nev) and delivered a more or less workable piece. When I went to meet Eak in East Lansing I was tagging along with Neville..so I took the opportunity to strike out on my own. Nev and Eak took off the the YMCA and took some pictures - that night I took off to find some nightlife. I found a joint thick with smoke like an old hunting lodge called 'the Clubhouse'. Place was jammed. Blue haze and chicks galore. And friendly too, 'Welcome', 'come on in', 'you found the right place' Not often a tough blue collar crowd like this opened it's arms to bourgeois Jackie. Not one of them had a full set of teeth mind you. But who's counting. Turned out the place was an A.A. meeting.
As Dudley Moore said in 'Arthur' when he was asked: "do you have to drink so much?"
He replied "It's the only way of getting all this alcohol into my body."
Eak and Nev and me take a ride into Lansing (guess we must be going West huh boys? ). And take in the sights. We stop at a TGI Friday's and and introduce our boy Eak to the local population., And I sneak a couple of pics on my Trusty old Leica M6 (see pics) Nev says I'm showing off. I'm trying to impress the waitress Shirelle, who can't understand why there's no picture image on the back of the camera. "It's a film camera, honey." I say. "Film? you can show movies on it too?." ummm. Check please.
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