Free Rolo Tomassi gig

UK noisecore crew, Rolo Tomassi, will be playing a free show at London’s Bloomsbury Ballroom on December 19th. In addition, the show will also be filmed for a forthcoming DVD from the band in 2011.

Interested in free tickets? Just submit your email address here and they will let you know if you’ve been successful later.

Dave Mustaine wants quality

Apparently Dave Mustaine, of Megadeth (but you already knew that didn’t you?) wants to keep putting out “quality” stuff. Who doesn’t Dave? I would have thought that’s the idea of writing music, right?

Dave’s also still pretty modest. When asked about the Guitar Hero exclusive song, Sudden Death, he responded “The truth is, if you’re a music fan and you don’t like Megadeth, which I find hard to imagine, ‘Sudden Death’ can take things to a higher level for you.”

Read more over at Blabbermouth.

Win some Motorhead goodness

Good news for Motorhead fans (they still exist?). Apparently, in celebration of Motorhead’s forthcoming album and UK tour (really, this is something to celebrate?) Metal Hammer are offering you and a buddy the chance to win a prize of a life-time (their words, not mine).

If you fancy your chances at winning the opportunity to watch the band live from the side of the stage in London (Nov 26th), and then basically a load of crap you probably don’t care about (Signed picks, t-shirts etc), then just head over to Metal Hammer and post your favorite Motorhead song in the comments section. Metal Hammer will then pick a winner at random.

I’d enter, but to be honest, I don’t even know any Motorhead songs besides Ace of Spades. Come to think of it, I don’t even like Metal. I’m off now to see what Lady Gaga’s been up to.

Mother… Tell your children not to cancel gigs

Tell your children to at least give a few hours notice… What they mean, what they say… Mother!

“Danzig‘s concert last night (Tuesday, November 9) at the Cabooze in Minneapolis, Minnesota as part of the “Blackest Of The Black” tour was canceled an hour before the 6 p.m. showtime. It was such late notice that the venue wasn’t able to get the word out that Danzig wasn’t playing, that the rest of the bands on the bill — Possessed, Marduk, Toxic Holocaust and Withered — were still going to perform their scheduled sets, and that the show was going to be free and tickets refunded.“

Not about to give you a refund,
But if you wanna find the booth with me
I can show you where it’s at
Till you get it.

Source: Blabbermouth

Never trust a Clown

Slipknot‘s Clown, also known as the guy who adds nothing to the band’s sound, is modest about his band’s accomplishments (which he had nothing to do with).

“We’ll be back. It’s not a band, it’s a culture, and you can’t just wipe a culture off the face of the earth. People won’t have it.“ said Shawn “Clown” Crahan in some interview somewhere or something…

Really? A culture, huh? Well, come on, no need to get modest on us, Clown, tell us how you really feel about Slipknot‘s achievements.

To be fair, Slipknot‘s gimmick thing with the masks is very original, and has spawn a lot of imitations. Bands like Kiss, Gwar or Mushroomhead, who just took Slipknot‘s idea, went back in time and did it before them. So it is something of a phenomenon.