Kerrang! Xmas issue 2001 Pt.3

 

Kerrang! Xmas issue 2001 Pt.2

 

Kerrang! Xmas issue 2001 Pt.1

 

Melody Maker, Nov 2000

 

Buffy ad 2004

 

Britney The Totally 100% Unofficial annual, 2000

 

Kerrang Magazine Jan 2002

 

A look inside Kerrang mag, Jan 2002. 

During this time Kerrang was my bible and Garbage were and are my favourite band. As well as Shirley Mansons rage filled interview this issue also had a 100 reasons why 2002 will rock article. Most of the reasons were various bands upcoming albums, upcoming films (including Spider-Man, Signs, Vanilla Sky, Men in Black 2), the World Cup, various festivals, the K! awards, video game releases (Metal Gear Solid 2, Halo, Resident Evil remake, Dead or Alive 3, Mario Sunshine) and gadgets: new things called an iPod, XBox and Game Cube and bless the classic Babyliss Crazy Braid... maybe they needed to bolster the numbers?! 

Elsewhere in this issue there was a crossword (I don't even remember Kerrang doing crosswords...), Pandora still had blue hair, The Hives and New Found Glory live reviews, Queen Adreena supporting Mortiis! Someone angrily writing in the letters page about Britney throwing the devil horns on stage, and a full page ad for christian nu-metal band P.O.D. There's some great ads here I missed that I will have to scan.

Whenever someone complains about modern music being shit I always think of the great Shirley Manson quote from this issue "it's not that this year or any other year is better or worse than any other for music, it's that you've become a jaded old fuck... Go and listen to your old records and leave the rest of us who are still hungry to hear new sounds and new attitudes in new contexts!" 

Retro Xmas: Buffy & The Simpsons 2002

 

The Bart Simpson Guide to Life still remains my holy book, if ever I appear in court that is the book I will swear upon.

Retro Xmas: Bunty annual 2000 Christmas wrapping ideas

 

All these ideas definitely make the cheapest pressie look like it's worth a million... a million what though?