Kerrang! Earth Vs Review - Was 'Letter Of The Week...'

[spoon_of_grimbo]

that probably sounded a lot angrier than i'd intended. i just think it's a bit daft that people constantly want to pick apart and bash kerrang for daftest of little things, when there's a multitude of better reasons to hate kerrang than a few small factual errors (which to some extent were actually a matter of the reviewer's opinion).

[nig1012]

some things i noticed years ago when i used to buy kerrang (instead of standing in smiths and reading it) is that they used to get a person who was into death metal and send them to a whitesnake gig or someone who loved nelson and send them to review megadeth.

i know this person actually gave the wildies a pretty good review but 1, she didn't even know the song titles and 2, couldn't even be bothered to research where abouts in the uk the band members where from.

to me thats not very proffesional

and also i too agree that the 2 support bands got a really good warm reception.

[davejnick]

My first thought when I read it was that the reviewer didn't actually go to the gig (or did go, and spent most of the time stood at the bar). The whole thing seems very reminiscent of Scarborough, when the reviewer was raving about songs that didn't even get played, and of the album review, when one of the "tracks to download" was a song that doesn't even exist. I'd rather read an average review that at least has some basis in fact, than a "good" one which is so ill-informed that it makes you wonder why they even bothered.

Or are we all just getting a bit too sensitive in our old age....?

[Pudu]

Nah the sloppy journalism is unacceptable in my book - it is their job FFS. If I was that sloppy I know I wouldn't have a job for too long!

Have to give Kerrap! some credit however, if it hadn't been for their review I probably wouldn't have bought Earth Vs back in '93!

[Ean]

...and of the album review, when one of the "tracks to download" was a song that doesn't even exist.

To be fair to the reviewer, the problem with the 'Tracks to Download' was probably the fault of the page layout bod cut'n'pasting in the wrong place, as the track mentioned is actually a song on one of the other albums reviewed that week. It should have been picked up by the proof-reader (assuming they actually employ any?), but forgivable, if annoying.

Can't say I completely disagree about the support either. I missed all but about two songs of Eureka Machines so I can't comment there, but when I looked at the stage during God Damn Whores, while nonchalant is possibly a bit much, it was hardly a roomful of squeeing fangirls either.

While the guy (I checked) might have been a bit inaccurate with one of the songtitles, at least he can spell caffeine correctly.

Despite forming in London (and AFAIK never operating from up there), the band have always been known as 'Geordie rockers', and changing it to the equally inaccurate Brummie in Drummerland doesn't fit with the (admittedly poor, but they always are) caption joke on the song title**. See what they did there...

** And, hey, if you look at it, it's really all Ginger's fault for kicking Stidi out again...