The wait, she is over. Since May last year, every Marvel fan has been eagerly anticipating what comes next in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, where the Avengers may go now they have beaten back Loki and his horde of Chirauri and had their shawarma? Well look no further geeks of the world, because Iron Man 3 is here, and it's big, shiny and has a lethal weapon style double act of Stark and Rhodey!
Turn off the lights and hit the music! Take away nine year old boy...!
So, if you've been on Twitter, and lets face, EVERYONE is on Twitter, you'll have seen that the nice people at HBO have developed a page called Join The Realm, which enables you to create a sigil for your family name in the style of the seven families of Westeros ala Game of Thrones. I did this myself, as did my fiancee, and here's our results.
Our words were pinched from Metallica songs, House Robin's from Sanitrium (Welcome Home) and House Morley's from Master of Puppets and both seemed very apt and inspired by GRRM's magnum opus.
Now the inner geek in me couldn't help but bubble over once we'd started making them, and I decided to start looking for Marvel and D.C symbols and attempting to recreate them within the world of Westeros and the seven kingdoms. Low and behold, I could!
So, for your viewing pleasure, here's my attempts at a selection of various Marvel and DC characters, some pretty simple and straight forward and others I thought would be a little but more vague and funny!
2015. It's a date for any geeks diary. Not only is it the year of hover boards, 3D attacking advertising and Marty McFly heading to Hillvalley to help his future son, it's also "THE YEAR OF THE GEEK!!" (Imagine this in a loud, booming Hollywood echoey voice)
Could this be the future of The Elder Scrolls? Endless grinding and dopey noobs who have no clue what a Dwemer, Dark Elf or Dovakhin are?
According to Shadowlocked.com, a nameless source at Bethesda has leaked info surrounding an announcement in May for an Elder Scrolls MMORPG, and from what is evident on the fan forums, feelings are mixed on weather or not it would be a good thing! So what do you think? Should Bethesda keep The Elder Scrolls a solitary, private experience, with the main method of social interaction coming from player made Mod's and Plug Ins, or should it go global, with clans, factions and guilds consisting of players from all around the globe?
Okay. Season Two is now definitively over. So amid the speculation, piecemeal leekage of infomation about the new season and impending buiild up to the the premiere episode in october, what in the name of George A Romero do fans like me, you, everybody do in the means time? Well here's a bunch of ideas I'm going to look into whilst I wait for my fix of zombie beat downs:
Just a quick shout out, congratulations to my friends band, All We Know, who it has been announced are opening the main stage at the newly commissioned Crooked Ways festival this summer, with Razorlight headlining! Get yourselves over to Pontefract for it, I know I will be!
Thought it was time to write a new blog, and where better to start than a live gig review. That's right, I do leave the house. So, in true adventurer style, I braved the wild and tempestuous streets of Wakefield, Yorkshire last night to go see All We Know supported by Lifescreen and More Than You'll Ever Know at The Hop.
Perhaps for me, the greatest thing about the night was it being a major trip down memory lane, meeting up with lots of old college friends, drinking one too many Strongbows and some inappropriate touching of small ginger people. However, I digress, onto the serious business.
Lifescreen kicked off the events at The Hop, with nice meaty riffs, a bassist reminiscent of Fieldy from Korn and drummer with a penchant for double kick. The Leeds trio's set was solid as a rock, smacking you in the face with Stoner riffs and chest quaking bass riffs. Something which I really love seeing is when other band members than the vocalist are singing along, it seems to show a pride in the lyrics and bare bones of the bands songs, and Bassist Chris Unwin was singing his dreaded heart out along with Mark Burrows, whilst Andy Richards on drums was completely lost in the music, his face one of equal parts concentration and pleasure! If you were there and you missed them, more fool you. If you'd like to here more of there stuff or you missed them, head here and download yourself their music for free. Do it. Stand out song from them of the evening was definitely "Opting Out", a titanic riff complete with soaring chorus. See the video right there ^^^^
Second on the bill were 'More Than You'll Ever Know" and unfortunately, I have a confession to make, I missed the majority of their set, getting drunk and touching said ginger small people. What I did hear was extremely tight and well written, however not my cup of tea. That said, check them out here and let me know what you think!
Finally, we come to All We Know, an emerging talent from the mean streets of Wakefield. After having to cancel a gig at The Cockpit in Leeds due to illness, AWK were ready to show their fans just what they've got, and indeed they did. With crowd favourites "Circles", "We Right The Failures" and "Before We Fall" being pumped out at a pulse increasing velocity, AWK really gave it their all. Chris Barrand gave his all on vocals, his lyrics weaving a melodic tapestry punctuated with visceral screams of darkness and despair. Tom Barrand and Lee Horner on guitars blended their sometimes haunting and beautiful, sometimes dirty and heavy harmonies sublimely. This combined with Liam Rothery and Tom Parkes on Bass and Drums respectively provided a force to be reckoned with, Liam's bass drove the proceedings forward with Tom's drums adding crescendo and a solid back bone to the bands sound, which if I was asked to describe would be a mixture of Incubus and Killswitch Engage. Their song mastery and stage presence has earned them a place at the newly established "Crooked Ways" festival being held at Pontefract Park, Pontefract West Yorks in the summer, and boy do they deserve it. Again, for me, stand out song was "Before We Fall" AWK's soaring finisher, heavy with a lifting chorus and fine melody that dances round your head like a sprite, weaving a tale of confusion, a longing for an answer and the fear of a relationship breaking down. Something I'm sure all of us can relate to. Look out for All We Know, no doubt they will emerge as perhaps a flagship band for the Wakefield area and plant it firmly on the rock map. Watch the video for "We Right The Failures" belooooooow!
