Posts Tagged ‘journalism’ | John Longbottom ϟ Journalist & Designer

10 New Bands For 2012

Here’s a quick list of bands that I’m tipping for 2012. They’re not in any particular order as they each deserve the limelight as much as each other - it’s going to be a great year.

THE MENZINGERS

WHILE SHE SLEEPS

MAX RAPTOR

At the end of last year I did my top 10 albums of 2011 for Kerrang! magazine. Below I’ve elaborated on this by pulling out my favourite tracks from each record for your listening pleasure. Every song is profound and unique and will stick with me for years to come. Play them loud.

LA DISPUTE – WILDLIFE

LETLIVE – FAKE HISTORY

HEIGHTS – DEAD ENDS

Bollulo Bay

A short story that I wrote in December. Heavily influence by Hemingway, it’s only a couple of thousand words so give it a go and let me know what you think in the comments - would be great to get some feedback.

The young boy was alone as he paddled out into the bay. It was early morning and the clouds hung low, masking the mountaintops of Bollulo behind him, bathing the beach in a dull, grey light. The waves were biggest early in the day and he swam furiously, each stroke dragging the boy and his board further from the shore, and further from his problems.

“Why must my mother remarry at all?” the boy wondered aloud. She has my sisters and me for company, do we not give her the love that she needs? We love her more than ever, for she is all that we have now.

When a small wave came, he would kick hard and roll over the top of it. But when the bigger waves hit he took a deep breath and plunged through them, his board like the tip of a spear, slicing an opening into the roaring wall of water.

The night that his father’s fishing boat had returned without him weighed heavy on the boy’s heart. It had limped to the shoreline just down the coast from their home - an empty shell, the hull had taken on much water and was barely afloat. The boy’s father was nowhere to be seen, lost at sea to the calm beneath the waves. No man is an island… unless he’s a buoy, his father used to joke. “Well father, I am only a boy and since you were lost I truly feel like an island”.

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Jan

Some more things I wrote for Rocksound magazine many moons ago.

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#journalism #Blakroc #rock sound #review #magazine

10
Jan