Tuesday 28 August 2012

Ooh Saucy!

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Budget label needs a bit of work

Good sauce is essential if you want to add a little 'pizzaz' to your food. A bacon buttie is grand but its even grander when you put some brown sauce on it (and thats steak sauce to any Americans reading.) But don't be fooled into thinking the branded types are always the best. (Believe me, ive been a proper label snob and know too well how foolish this is.) Sure there are good brands on offer like HP and Daddie's Sauce but some of the 'lesser' sauces are just as good (better at times.)
Until earlier today, Id never tried Morrison's own brand brown sauce but out of curiosity I found myself popping a bottle in my trolley alongside my regualr HP. And you know something? Its GOOD! In fact its much tastier than the Guinness version of HP sauce because that tastes like day old flat lager (and in my youth I drank plenty of that so I know what im talking about.) The Tesco own brand is f**king horrid though, you need to stay away from that stuff. Morrison's generally have the better own brand groceries and no im not on their payroll.
So how much did they cost? Well HP Guinness was £2.74p while Morrison's own brand was just 38p. Normally with a price difference like that, I run for the hills (or at least to the pricier label) because when something is that much cheaper I get very wary and think it must be slop (theres the brand snobbery again.) But fear not hungry mosher! This time the supermarkets own brand is a winner. Now where did I put that bacon?

Monday 20 August 2012

Happy Birthday Dime!

Happy birthday Dime!! i will raise more than a few glasses in your honour tonight while kicking out the awesome music you helped create.




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Tuesday 14 August 2012

Crumbsuckers

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Crumbsuckers were a crossover/thrash metal outfit that formed in 1982 on an island east of Manhattan, Long Island in Noo Yawk. Along with fellow 'crunchy' bands (my word for the genre) like Cro Mags, Circle Jerks, Agnostic Front and D.R.I., the band led the charge of hardcore, shredding both stage and speakers in there own furious style.
1991 saw Crumbsuckers turn into Heavy Rain after deciding to follow a new leaning toward traditional sounding metal. Members Gary Meskil and Dan Richardson left the band to from Pro Pain.
There was a Crumbsuckers reunion gig in New York at B.B. King Blues Club on August 3rd, 2006 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Life Of Dreams record.
Sadly they only ever recorded two studio albums, Life Of Dreams in 1986 and Beast On My Back (B.O.M.B.) 1988. The demos that were available were The Crumbsucker Cave, 1984 Demo and March Of The Light Brigades.
Luckily for me, I got my young paws on both albums back in the day (no easy task where I lived) and I thought they were awesome, reminding me of S.O.D (Stormtroopers Of Death), another great band to skate to which was a big plus as I was heavily into skateboarding at the time.
It could be argued by the more 'serious' of music lovers that due to the low output of music, its hard to rate Crumbsuckers albums as classics like you can with Slayer and Metallica, but im not that fickle, and will happily put the epic Life Of Dreams alongside the equally epic Speak English Or Die by aforementioned S.O.D. Both wonderfully happy, crunchy, noisy, fist pumping, funny records with a few serious message lobbed in for good measure.
Check them out below, and crank that volume up!





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Friday 3 August 2012

Serious Sounds

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Crank it up!!

This is the wonderfully LOUD Aiwa music system my father bought me on my 24th birthday (maybe not 24th exactly but I certainly had it around birthdays 24 ~ 26.) It was f**king awesome! 5 disc CD tray to play 5 albums without changing discs, double cassette player, snazzy graphic equaliser plus it played vinyl (which was handy as most of my treasured albums back then were on vinyl.)