The Music Banter Members' Journals Monthly Update Thread

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Almost October guys! Time to come in from the cold nights, squeeze up to the fire and switch on the old desktop or laptop, start writing those .... ah have it your own way! A small improvement this week, but we're seeing those halcyon days of about a month ago receding in the rearview now, when there was so much to talk about and so much to write about. Well, let's see what we got this week.

Always dependable, and a great way to start an alphabetic listing, Anteater is back advising us that we should check out a Devin Townsend-like band called The Omega Experiment. Read, and hear, all about it in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...n-dollars.html

After lambasting their "Temper temper" album last week, Ki is looking back at Bullet for my Valentine's "Poison" and wondering why the band lost their way so badly? He's also checking out if Franz Ferdinand are Worth The Hype? Hey, when he says http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...nal-music.html he damn well means it!

Back after an absence of just over five months, Psychedub Dude is running something he says will be a weekly offering, that he calls Jamcast. Want to know more? Step this way http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ool-stuff.html!

For some time now I've been bending your collective ears about the upcoming Metal Month. Well, you have to suffer a mere one day more, as it'll be starting on Tuesday. I've been working really hard on it (still am) to make it a real event, so take the time to drop by and see what you think. Until then, a few more entries hit http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...d-journal.html this week, including reviews of albums by Terence Trent D'Arby, the Beautiful South and It Bites (take THAT, all of you who hated the title track in Rez's mixtape!) as well as another descent into Eurovision Hell. After tomorrow there will be nothing in this journal for a month that is not metal. Seriously. I'm even writing the reviews with a pen made out of carbon steel. Honestly. Well, ok maybe not. But it is going to be a heavy month.

As for http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-emporium.html, well I have a lot --- and I mean a lot! --- planned for this journal, but right now there's some more Futurama and the final episode of chapter one of "House of Cards". Details soon of at least four new series starting up, the return of Supernatural and more!

Unknown Soldier doesn't know what a slowdown is. I think he has only two speeds, and they're both top. In http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...y-history.html he's picked his album of the year for 1978, and if you want to know what it is --- you may not guess! --- head to his journal now.

So we come to the end of the final update for September, which if I'm honest has been a very disappointing month compared to others, but then as was pointed out to me, school and college start back and the footy is back on the telly (if you're a Brit or an Irishman) so I guess people have other priorities. Next week's update is of necessity going to feature a lot of my own entries, as I intend to post at least two entries per day during Metal Month, and there won't be a day goes by without an update. Or two. Maybe even three. Mods, beware! Make me a semi-mod now, or on your own heads be it!

Expecting to have a very sore neck from all the headbanging for the next four weeks, I'll see yaz all on Sunday.
Till then,
Toodles!