I was digging the intro...sounded a bit generic but I'll check that out, cheers Funky.

What's with everyone making 'videos' with the lyrics plastered across the screen at the moment?

:-s You really liking your female private parts too?

Are we in for a Progressive Rock revival?

From: AP August 01, 2012

MIKE Oldfield wants to use the Olympics opening ceremony as a rallying cry.

The British musician performed his most famous composition, "Tubular Bells," during Friday's spectacular, and says it was an honour - and a vindication for a much-reviled musical genre: instrumental rock.

The album "Tubular Bells" was released in 1973, used as theme music for "The Exorcist" and sold millions. But a few years later the punk movement triggered a backlash against its brand of swirling progressive rock.

Oldfield says it's time for a comeback.

Sales of "Tubular Bells" took off after Friday's ceremony - rising 757 per cent at music chain HMV - and Oldfield said yesterday he hopes to use the ceremony "as a relaunch for instrumental music - real music."

"Let's throw away all the computer software," Oldfield said from his home in the Bahamas.

He said the sophistication of modern technology means "you just get a load of software and click a few buttons. You don't have to have the slightest bit of musical talent."

He said 'Tubular Bells' was played on real musical instruments.

Despite his disenchantment with some modern music, Oldfield praised other musicians at Friday's show - especially the electronic duo Underworld, the London ceremony's musical directors.

The 59-year-old said he felt a "glow of pride" when director Danny Boyle approached him a year ago and asked him to be in the ceremony, which celebrated five decades of British music.

Oldfield said his music "suffered the inevitable backlash that everyone had to go through. If you are up, there is the inevitable down."

"To finally be vindicated 40 years later, to be seen as something that is valid and important ... was wonderful," he said.

Like Paul McCartney, Arctic Monkeys and other big-name acts, Oldfield was paid a token fee of 1 pound ($1.49) for his appearance.

He performed versions of "Tubular Bells" and his piece "In Dulci Jubilo" during one of the evening's most striking scenes - a tribute to the National Health Service performed by dancing nurses and pyjama-clad children on oversized beds.

Oldfield, whose father was an NHS doctor and mother a World War II nurse, said Britain was right to sing the institution's praises.

"You get used to the NHS if you live in England," he said. "You hurt yourself, you call the ambulance, they'll take you to the emergency and they'll treat

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/music/olympics-will-revive-prog-rock/story-e6frexl9-1226440016914

Stone Sour and Woe Is Me have been added to Soundwave Festival 2013. Promoter AJ Maddah has also confirmed that there will be 52 bands in the first announcement and that ticket prices for Soundwave will be $160.

Cancer Bats have been confirmed for Soundwave Festival 2013. The band have postponed this year's Australian tour in order to play all 5 Soundwave dates as well as 3 massive Sidewaves. Tickets purchased for their upcoming tour are valid for the Sidwaves.

Soundwave Festival promoter AJ Maddah has been busy on Twitter, confirming and ruling out over 100 bands. The first acts confirmed for Soundwave Festival 2013 are sludge metal band Kingdom of Sorrow, UK post hardcore band The Blackout and Cannibal Corpse spinoff Six Feet Under.

Potential headliners include everyone from Linkin Park to Godsmack to Tenacious D. Any bands that don't end up on the Soundwave bill are due for a tour or a spot on Harvest Festival.

Cant wait for Gallows to be named, the main reason im going. Their new album is out in a month and so far out of 5 reviews ive seen, they havent gone below 8/10 so looks like its gonna be a mad album.

Is that a 'I hope they're named', or you've heard some rumour that they're doing it? Would be cool, I dunno if I could do it but :lol:

New album, done Soundwave before, gotta tour Australia, im 99% sure they'll be there.

I remember saying that about Rammstein and having to wait 2 years for them.

Luckily, Gallows dont have as much of a setup as Rammstein.