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

Bali topographic map

You don’t get a much more interesting Point of View than from a Space Shuttle, and that’s why this image of Mount Agung and Mount Batur is so impressive.

But that sort of got me wondering. What else - apart from any cheeky surveillance of course! - have NASA been up to in Indonesian skies?

And have they produced any other of those wonderful topographic maps with their Space Shuttle data?

Well, there aren’t, alas, any topographic maps of Java or Indonesia, but NASA have done one of Bali. And it’s truly impressive: the whole island of Bali beneath the Space Shuttle as it whizzes around the Earth some 300 km above…

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