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Brigante

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  1. People tend to forget just how derided Sabbath were before grunge led to them being reappraised in the early 90s.
    Prior to that, Sabbath fans were definitely a breed apart - there was something about Sabbath that connected with particular people in ways that other bands didn't.
    I was one of them and the endless shit I used to hear from normal rock fans who didn't get it - they can't sing, they can't play, they're too heavy, they're too slow, there's no melodies, blah, etc. As if any of that ever mattered in the slightest. It's not a talent contest. The only thing that matters: 'do you like it?'
     
     

  2. Had it last week. AstraZeneca version. Straight in the left shoulder like a flu jab. Zero side effects afterwards.
    I'm not worried about the vaccine or the prospect of it turning me into a Bill Gates social credit drone.
    Whereas I would be worried if I caught covid:
    I know someone who played a last gig on the eve of lockdown last year, contracted covid at it, spent weeks on a ventilator in an induced coma in the Critical Care Unit at Sheffield's Northern General Hospital, was in the CCU for six months in total, was so fucked he had two strokes while he was in there, can now barely walk, hasn't fully regained his speech and will never work, let alone play his damn bass, again. Long covid means he's screwed for the rest of his life - and he's only 52. Sod that shizzle.

  3. Yes indeed, those were the two Nottingham gigs - I had a tape of the second one and a slightly better version eventually actually came out as Down In Flames.
    Parts of Rock City's notorious sticky floor were still on my boots four years later...felt like it, anyway!
    I still remember the disappointment when Jane's didn't come back to Sheffield in 1990 and the nagging frustration knowing that they were playing in Leeds and Manchester around the times of these Notts gigs but I only had the money for one gig and had to choose!  
    How criminal is it that I had to miss two Jane's gigs for the sake of about 30 quid?! Answer: criminal!
     

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