Ozzfest Ireland revisited and why we need more alternative music festivals
An absent headliner. A day of distortion. A paradise of noise. 20 years on from Ozzfest’s one-and-done Irish leg, please sir, can we have some more? Last days of May 2002 and I’m on a bus hurtling from Drogheda to Punchestown, surrounded by a cohort of like-minded souls all clad in black, the rare burst […]
4 years ago
James Vincent McMorrow on his nu metal education and the music that makes him
“I wrote about ‘Freak on a Leash’ in my English paper!” Though he plays around with genre, you might not usually associate James Vincent McMorrow with the eternal noise of nu metal, but the man knows his Mushroomheads from his Spineshanks. In conversation with JOE the morning after a late-night rehearsal for a couple of […]
4 years ago
Music, mental health and the struggle to connect
Disclaimer: This article contains numerous references to suicide. “This place right here? This skull between my ears? That is a bad neighbourhood.” The words of Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington during a radio interview recorded in February of 2017. “I should not be in there alone,” Bennington admitted in that same conversation. “I can’t be in there […]
8 years ago
WATCH: Jared Leto pays an emotional tribute at the MTV VMAs to Chester Bennington
“Witnessing his life taught me important things”
9 years ago
Jay-Z paid a very special tribute to Chester Bennington as he closed his V Festival set
The two men worked together on their album Collision Course. This is amazing. The music world is still mourning the loss of Chester Bennington after the Linkin Park singer died by suicide. Bennington’s own band members put it best when they said that, “You touched so many lives, maybe even more than you realized. In the past […]
9 years ago
Chester Bennington’s wife to decide if Carpool Karaoke episode will go ahead
The singer died by suicide last month.
9 years ago