My Life In Music… Ian Glasper
No. 1: ADAM AND THE ANTS Dirk Wears White Sox LP: This is quite simply the best album of all time, and I’ve probably played it at least once a week ever since the day I…
No. 1: ADAM AND THE ANTS Dirk Wears White Sox LP: This is quite simply the best album of all time, and I’ve probably played it at least once a week ever since the day I…
Get up Stand up – The Wailers This was the first roots reggae rebel record that had mass appeal and was played on national radio. For the first time it seemed that reggae was about…
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…
Status Quo – 12 Gold Bars Heh, Heh, Heh… Well, well this is where it began for me. Status Quo was what me and my buddies used to head bang to on our way to and…
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…
Slipknot – Slipknot Slipknot was one of the very first bands that we all listened to which incorporated those kinds of harsh vocals, which opened our eyes to a whole new world of music that…
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…
About a month or so ago, I was talking to my friend Jeff (Terranova) about life, the universe and everything and he happened to mention that the stalwart Italian Hardcore powerhouse THINK TWICE had just…
As most of us here at Mass Movement like a tipple or two and have a fondness for getting tattooed and sporting body art, you don’t have to be rocket scientist to work out that…
This was a very difficult task as hundreds of records have shaped where I am musically today – but as we are riding in the van from Madrid to Paris I will open my mind…
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…