Today I am truely proud to be British & a fan of real music sung with passion and created with feeling. Well done everyone – an absolute triumph and a great way to end 2009 – an all round top year for rock n’ roll!

Any truth in the rumour that next year’s X Factor final will coincide with Children in Need and that Classic Rock will be encouraging its network of computer geeks to download ‘Do you wanna be in my gang’ by Gary Glitter as the official protest song?

It just might work, too!

We should tackle next Summers Britain’s Got Talent with a Won’t Get Fooled Again by The Who. They’ve never had a no. 1. But yeah I’m proud to be British and a fan of real music, a victory indeed and RATM kick big bums…

Any chance that the next ‘challenge’ to reality tv ‘talent’ contests in the UK could actually be focused on:-
(a) New British rock acts that have paid their dues and need a break
(b) Not be a re-release of a track from the previous century
&
(c) Not be from a group belonging to the same Corporate entitiy as the act they are supposed to be opposing!

The whole point of this campaign was to remove the dominance of Cowell and his programmes taking the number one at Christmas year in year out

Shelter is the big winner here – and enough the bullcrap about Sony and picking a song from “last century”

The song was irrelevant

I bought the track on line for 29p but its true that Cowell will benefit from the proceeds as he owns a large chunk of Sony and the track is on Sony records? Gutted thats the only down turn to what we have achieved! But still good news!!WELL DONE EVERYONE!!!!!

Wooo!, We Won, RATM ROCK!

THE MUSIC INDUSTRY IS AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE AND THESE PIMPS NEED TO BE EXPOSED FOR WHAT THEY ARE.
CLOSE DOWN YOUR BROTHEL SIMON, WE ARE ON TO YOU BIG TIME!

I went to see a Curtis Stigers Jazz Quartet Concert at Newcastle City Hall last year, as we all know or should know, these musicians are among the best in the world and Curtis himself in the league of the very eminent among us as a skilled Composer, Musician and Performer. Needless to say the show was fantastic but sadly there was only about Six Hundred people in the hall, the upstairs closed and the downstairs only half full. We could blame many factors, (excuse the pun), but what ate a huge chunk out of my heart was whilst standing in the foyer during the interval, the walls were adorned with posters of one of these pop idol / xfactor kids having completely sold out his tour and with most venues having to put on a second night due to the huge demand. What is so sickening, the useless twiats who bought tickets to see this “one song sung amateur” had only ever seen him perform a couple of ‘one verse one chorus’ audition songs on TV, and he didn’t even get through to the finals apparently. God help us please.
It takes my mind back to an Art Garfunkel interview I saw many years ago at one of these shit pretentious awards ceremonies where all these young (only ever sung 2 song twiats) were winning all these awards as the best this and the best that. He responded by saying “this is a sad time for music”. I believe it is getting worse.

WELL DONE RAGE, WHO IS NEXT, I AND MANY MILLIONS ARE RIGHT BEHIND YOU?