Play Live at Castle Donington with Guitar Hero

The MySpace stage. The Snickers Bowl. The freaking sell-out f**king festival.

That's Rawk and Roll.

Not bad. I'll be rocking it at Download this Friday - can't go on Saturday and see the almighty Metallica due to me going to a wedding and all (not mine though... that I know of!) - but Tool are headlining and that's more than enough for me. I shall check itself before it wrecks itself.

The view of rock and roll as something "anti-establishment" and revolutionary is quaint and anachronistic. What are you some kind of hippie? Neil Young?

Young people today aren't bothered about politics, or worried that they are being exploited by rich people. They just want to have a good time. And what better way for them to have a good time than being charged $100 to go into a field with no adequate toilet facilities, and be forced to pay scandalous prices for poor food and bottled tap-water while unimaginative dick-wads perform bland corporate approved music with dire corporate approved lyrics about how much they hate themselves, and want to die.

Their corporate sponsors want them to die too. It's a fact that Elvis Presley, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain have all made corporate America richer since they died than they ever did when they were alive. And once we manage extend copyright in perpetuity, they'll make us even more. Now if only Jack White or Bono would f**king overdose. That'd really do something for shareholder value. Pete Doherty less so, because his songs are so s**te, everyone stupid enough to buy them has already done so.