That person who added me on MSN...

...was online today. Here's the conversation:

The Sirens call my name says: hello! do I know you?

--- Free Chıld --- says: my name is gökhan

The Sirens call my name says: hello gökhan

--- Free Chıld --- says: where are you from

The Sirens call my name says: I am from England. Where did you get my MSN name?

--- Free Chıld --- says: you speak turkish

The Sirens call my name says: no

--- Free Chıld --- says:
--- Free Chıld --- , sizi Windows Live Messenger uygulamasının en yeni sürümünü gerektiren Web Kamerası başlatmaya davet etti. En yeni sürümü http://g.msn.com/5meen_us/122 adresinden yükleyebilirsiniz.

--- Free Chıld --- says: fuck you

The Sirens call my name says: have a nice day!

**blocked**


...how do people end up like this?

Gig 'review'

Well, that was a waste of £14.50 and 4 hours of my life.

Insomnium played first. They mixed things up, played fast and slow, changed vocal styles, went from heavy riffage to harmonised solos. Virtually nobody in the venue apart from me cared. It was a 14+ gig, and most were there to be fed the same old crap with a gimmick to reel them in, not some band who could actually play their instruments and write songs.

Far be it from Keep Of Kalessin to disappoint, then. With pretty hair and eyeliner and not much else, this stereotypically Norwegian band proceeded to give us an utterly derivative set of songs that could have been taken from any number of other slightly-black metal bands, much to the appreciation of the crowd who don't particularly care about the song as long as it's fast and there's a guy with long hair and makeup at the front. Pretty much every song was the same tempo, and each stayed that way from beginning to end, except for the token break in the middle, which is the only way you could tell the songs apart. As I said to one person, I've drawn lines that were less one-dimensional than that band. And I don't think they'd know a key change if they found themselves locked out of their collective houses. What a load of crap.

Finally, it was Satyricon. Going on tonight's performance, a non-fan could safely assume that Satyricon have 2 types of song. They have the old songs, which are typical black metal done in a very repetitive way - do we really need the same riff 16 times? - but which might sound ok on an album where the harmonic nuances are more effectively captured. Then they have the newer stuff, which made me think of Andrew WK with pharyngitis. On the whole, they were just 'ok'. At least they knew more than one tempo and key, putting the previous band to shame. Nothing else stood out at all though, so I left about 2/3rds of the way through.