Ahem: this post will make absolutely no sense whatsoever unless you've read the previous post, Making Some Very Shouty Music. I'm not fishing for clicks; just trying to save you from complete and utter bewilderment, my fine fibrous friends. ...Because now, we are rockstars as well as knitters and crocheters. Thank you to all of you who signed up in the comments section of the previous post to come and join us for thrash metal band practise with The Purlz. At mere hours' notice, a fair few of Continue Reading
Making Some Very Shouty Music
Driving home from work the other night, I passed a kid who was wearing a Slipknot t-shirt. Now, Iβm not totally clueless: I realize that Slipknot is a thrash metal band whose members shout and wear masks and jump around near big fires whilst playing bass. (Thatβs the bass guitar, not something from the strings section of the orchestra.) And I appreciate that Iβm some way off their target demographic for fandom. Not a teenage boy. Not angry*. But that evening, what I was wondering was, Why the Continue Reading