?Oh, goody, a festival review! I was there! I can't wait to see whether this review entirely shares my opinions, or whether it has its own mind. Tell us what you think??
Thanks for asking! There's an inclusivity to heavy metal that makes spending time with fans of it a total joy. They don't sneer at how you're dressed, and their music exists in a vacuum. Metal has had varying popularity in different forms but it hasn't been ?cool? since Nirvana were knocking around.
Free of the need to conform to notions of cool, they are also free to concentrate on rocking. Kurt Cobain was consumed with an exaggerated attention to the subtle cultural and intellectual differences that separated his band from the ?corporate? rock that it (temporarily) replaced. And look how that ended. Heroin addiction, history of depression, and permanent physical pain aside, we always got the impression that Kurt killed himself because he couldn't live in a world where Nevermind outsold Doolittle. The fact that it was outselling Dangerous meant the poor beautiful bugger didn't stand a chance. What we're trying to say is that Kurt missed the point. By a massive distance. You know the distance between the interesting idea of Lady Gaga and the piss-poor reality of her actual music. About that far.