Insane week fraught with delays and unexpected turns of events...

...yes, time has not been on my side much and as I type the last few sentences to clarify the last few details before I go into hospital, it feels like I am about to be sucked into a black hole, unable to find my way back. It could be lovely on the other side, who knows?

One thing that got me in a jovial mood was a poor quality clip of Rammstein's live show's opening at the O2 in London last night:



The drama regularly seems to go hand in hand with the German rockers and judging by the size of the pyros, I'd better wear a bikini at the band's New York live show at the end of April. Beautiful. I cannot wait to see Rammstein live again. It's been 14 months since the last time (Dec 2010 at Madison Square Gardens). I wonder whether they'll have yet another insane aftershow party cos I'd love to attend that, too. Again.

Been waiting for the new Cannibal Corpse tracks but they have not materialised this week. Damning delays mean that the interview I did with vocalist George Corpsegrinder Fisher last Thursday could not been mixed. More delays in launching the Rock Show on Killerbunny TV. Deep breath.

Spoke with Norwegian band El Caco's bassist, Anders Gjesti earlier this week. Their new album, 'Hatred, Love and Diagrams' came out about a month ago and the boys are currently all over the place. Just today (Saturday) the band did an in-store and a late night gig in Trondheim. Gjesti will feature on the Rock Show in a few weeks, too. The album is a real sonic delight.

Those lovely boys from Stavanger, rising stars Kvelertak are currently taking part in touring festival Soundwave in Australia together with other hot Nordic bands such as In Flames, Meshuggah, Turisas and Watain. I heard they have been hanging out with Mastodon, too. That Australian festival has some of the hottest international bands that the Nordic countries have ever heard - Circa Survive being one of them. If you're of Nordic persuasion and you have heard of CS, contact me here or email me at patrizia@killerbunnytv.com and tell me I know jack about what music Nordic boys and girls are exposed to these days...check out one of their videos here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjLJf8YIZmU

Also I did an interview with Norwegian rockers Dunderbeist's vocalist, Torgrim Torve earlier today. I recently heard their last album - 'Black Arts And Crooked Tails' and it floored me. It's as out there as an X-Files episode. The interview will feature on the Rock Show as well. I'm showcasing awesome Nordic sounds of the pummeling variety every week on Killerbunny TV.

But while I'll mainly feature hard stuff, I will also play even harder and softer stuff...vague? Being open to good music means never drawing a circle around the stuff that you're willing to listen to and play...

Time to get some 'zeds' - though first, get your head around this:



Norwegians with a hefty sense of humour. Aren't they 'cute'!

Miss Pee xx

Sonisphere UK releases line up - finally....

On Monday night, I received a text from my friend Nina who told me the Sonisphere line up had just been released on Radio One's Zane Lowe's show...

I did not fall off my chair cos I was in bed watching TV but I sprang up and went online to check the full line up. Suddenly, I turned into a five-year-old kid again. Queen made me do it.

This was taken three years before Queen would change the way I'd relate to the world - through sounds...

While the British band may have lost vocalist Freddy Mercury to AIDS and bassist John Deacon to seashell-collecting, this is still a highly revered band by my own eardrums. I grew up with Queen. I was first exposed to their 'A Night At The Opera' when I was five by my cousin Francesco who also played me KISS at the same time. To be honest, I thought KISS looked cool but I never became a fan of the drag queens' music. Queen's sonic sophistication resonated with me because it was immediate yet quirky. On one hand you had the cabaret-like 'Lazying On A Sunday Afternoon' or 'Seaside Rendez-vous' next to gentle rock songs like 'You're My Best Friend' and more nostalgic tunes such as 'Love Of My Life' or the straight up oddities of 'Bohemian Rhapsody' and 'The Prophet's Song'. Listening to that album made me dream as a very young girl. Though truth be told, I used to be scared when 'The Prophet's Song' came on and I found 'I'm In Love With My Car' too hard. I was surprised that such a beautiful man as Roger Taylor would have such a gruff voice and I remember thinking he looked like a girl - an attribute that would become essential for me to find men attractive in my adult life. Roger Taylor indirectly warped my innocent young mind.

Roger Taylor on the set of the 'I Want To Break Free' video - yum!

Do I care that Adam Lambert is singing Queen's songs on the Sonisphere stage? Not really. Freddy Mercury has been dead just over 20 years (I believe he passed away on November 24th 1991, I attended his tribute show at Wembley Arena the year after) and this is such a great opportunity for such a legendary band to attract a new audience by partnering up with Lambert. I care a lot more about Jim Martin not playing with Faith No More but I will get over that, too very quickly.

With my best friend's husband, Massimo in London in 1998 looking like Brian May...sort of, ehm...

 I could write about Queen and the reasons behind my nearly obsessional interest in their sounds but I have work to do today...

Here is a poster of Sonisphere UK - Queen is not the only band I will be pleased to see this year. The Darkness, Incubus and Faith No More are the ones that will make my blood pump a little faster in July. I have not been excited about attending and / or working at a music festival in years. Working in the environment makes you complacent after a while and it's line ups like these that remind you why you keep up with the shallow world of the music industry. So, a massive thank you to Mr Stuart Galbraith who makes this amazing festival occur.

Time to continue my editing...I am working on launching a new rock show on KBTV shortly...more news soon.

Miss Pee

Bill Ward will not be part of the Black Sabbath reunion in 2012...

...there are people dying all around the world through wars and neglect, kids and animals are regularly being abandoned or tortured and a small slice of humanity gives a shit about the above headline.

Three cats in a box - this is a special delivery that should not go through Customs...but will anyway cos we're cunts to animals, too.

Plus, this could be the last opportunity to see the original line up since Black Sabbath guitarist and all-round gentleman extraordinaire, Mr Tony Iommi has been diagnoses with cancer. I personally wish the delightful Mr Iommi decades of fun and frolics but I am just trying to throw yet another log on the fire cos selfish stupidity should be put into perspective and eradicated if possible.

Truth is, however, that we are all pervaded by a sort of egoism that allows us to ignore some of the biggest miscarriages of justice in a bid to survive. A bit like the new girlfriend who gives her new boyfriend a hard time cos he is still friends with his ex. Never mind the fact that she is way younger, has a totally different look (so he is not with her to try and replace the 'old one') and lives in the same town as her boyfriend while his ex lives on a different continent.

We are so up our own arse sometimes that we cannot see the forest from the trees. We need to grow up. That eminent smart-ass, Sting said it as early as 1985 with that awful song called 'If You Love Somebody Set Them Free'. I was a huge fan of The Police and while I was surprised that the above mentioned track had been chosen as the debut single of his first solo album, the words were black on white wise stuff. And yet, in 2012, there are people who still pull that insecure shit like their new partners have lived a life of meditation and abstinence before they met them.

That is why I do not believe in evolution when it comes to humanity as a whole. We are too insecure to jump into the void and authentically accept each other. Should the new girlfriend feel so insecure about her boyfriend's current state of affairs over his sexual antics with his old girlfriend, she might be surprised to find out that the old girlfriend is 'old' because she has moved on to pastures new and what the new one is so obsessively territorial over is of no interest to her anymore. This goes for the ex boyfriend, too. There is a reason why the two split in 2008, after all. So, I would like to wish the new couple - as the old girlfriend - good luck and prosperity.

Black Sabbath - Geezer, Tony, Ozzy, Bill

But back to the stupidity of Black Sabbath and Bill Ward not reuniting now. Here's my opinion on it, once and for all:

"Resisting the pull of BS must be a tough call. Yet, it is even more important to resist the pull of a bs contract. If after years of work together, the BS headquarters have not learned how to do business bs 'free', then there is a problem. Good on you, Mr Ward. Zero tolerance against bs within BS."

Now, let's all pull our heads out of our own arses and focus on what matters. Personally, I am  consumed with finding a solution to my conundrum - how can I retain a permanent bald patch in my pubic area without having to shave everyday? Should I get a tattoo 'there'? Or would sitting on an amp while playing this song on full blast help my quest?



Miss Pee