It Ruined My Life & Ssssssh, It\’s A Secret…. Nuclear Oath
Ahh where to start. I’d have to say the day I stopped playing football at an elite level was the day I thought there was nothing left for me. I began working and never really…
Ahh where to start. I’d have to say the day I stopped playing football at an elite level was the day I thought there was nothing left for me. I began working and never really…
Limp Bizkit – Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water This is the record, which introduced me to heavy guitar music. I was like nine years old, when the movie Mission Impossible 2 came out…
I was fourteen years old when my life was ruined. It all started with feeling like I couldn\’t breathe, like I had just run up a flight of stairs, but I hadn\’t moved from the…
My name is Axel Verstraeten and I play guitar in This Gun for Hire. Let me share with you what effectively \”ruined my life\” without even knowing it. The following has learned me to not…
At sixteen I left school. In the two years before that I was not too concerned with the chances of getting a job; there were many jobs that a completely unskilled and not too bright…
My parents had agreed to let me stay in the family home while they took my brother and sister on a package holiday. I was little over 16. My friend and I had earmarked this…
Not a week nor a day or even an hour pass without jagged thoughts of my father. The person that made the conscious decision that he did not want me in his life. Rejecting me…
Most old punks of my vintage can date their epiphanal moment to 1 December, 1976, when the Sex Pistols got all sweary on Bill Grundy. However, mine goes back a few years earlier to a…
Most people never get to meet their heroes, fewer still get to share the stage with them. The date was the 30th of May 2012. We had just supported the mighty Machine Head in Belfast…
Meeting Chris (our drummer) ruined my life. If you knew him you would understand my pain. Chris is not a man. He is a force of nature. He is like a hurricane ripping through the…
A moment that changed everything…There’s a hundred things I could write about and this one sounds a bit naff but when I met my husband it was a game changer (but probably not for the…
I think there are two defining moments for me. The first one was when I heard Nirvana\’s Nevermind for the first time and it blew me away. I was 8 years old and I was…