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
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Michael Jackson is liberated in Bali!

Michael Jackson visited Bali a number of times - apparently because he fell in love with the place, but perhaps, for more dark and worrying reasons (and I’m not suggesting he liked any herbal either!) Of course the truth is never likely to come out, but what is certainly true is that Michael got to visit Antonio Blanco, and even commissioned a few paintings from the Spainish maestro (hopefully not of little Balinese boys playing in streams!)

But even though Jacko is gone – at least from this world – there are apparently concerns – justified in my opinion – that he might be tormented in the spirit world for what he had got up to – or down to as the case might be – on planet Earth. 

So up crop a US trio of music lovers who liberate Michael Jackson’s soul in a moksha (liberation) ceremony at the Nava Mukunda temple at Tirunavaya in India. As for Bali, no ceremonies have been conducted thankfully, although now might be a good time for the Balinese to start praying that the terrorist lunatics don’t launch any more attacks in Indonesia after the mayhem last week in Jakarta. 

But liberation is one thing and memorials are another, and reports have surfaced that the authorities plan to erect statues of Michael Jackson in certain touristy spots. How many will be errected in Kuta I wonder? 

 “Not only will it give a boost to tourism in Bali but it will also honor Michael’s life,” said a local official. 

But let’s just hope the Balinese don’t start worshiping them…

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  1. Unknown25 December 2017 at 14:01

    You should do more research before you besmirch a man's character my friend . A quick search for celebrity friends defending MJ should do the trick . Sexual abuse isn't something that should be made fun of and . Maybe you should email Eddie Griffin with your post . I'm sure you'd come away from the exchange more enlightened with facts if not spirituality
    God Bless

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