BMTH live in Jakarta 2024

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This time around Ravel gets it right and BMTH (Bring Me The Horizon) are headlining the Nexfest festival in Jakarta which also features Babymetal. In this format there is no seating - which makes for a much more intimate experience - although you do have to arrive really early if you want to pick a spot right up close to the stage.  We arrived about six hours before BMTH were scheduled to start their performance and bought plenty of drinks to stay hydrated in the tropical afternoon heat (mind you, some of those were Iceland vodka mix!) This was a gig I had long been looking forward to - especially after the debacle last year. Not everyone likes BMTH of course. For deathcore fans the band sold out. For metal heads the band is not purist enough. And for the wider mainstream audience, the band is too heavy. You can't please everyone of course but there are few bands in the rock world which can match the sheer emotional velocity of BMTH. To bring metal and even aspects of metalcore t...

Do Indonesians love pawn?

Robin over at the extremely hot website Asia-Sirens has come up with a bit of clever analysis that has confirmed what I guess we all knew – but could never prove – Indonesians are massive fans of pawn! Making use of Google Trends, Robin tested it with an “asian babes” search by country. Here are the results:

What the heck! In number one position is that bastion of morality Singapore, while the next three countries all have large Muslim populations! The only European country on the list is the good old UK, and the Americans don’t even make it into the top 10. 

In many ways I guess, internet users are a sort of huge hidden majority. So for every 100 radicals shouting their mouths off in public, there are probably 100,000 Indonesians looking for you-know-what on the net. 

 Hmm... So much for the conventional wisdom...

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