A few pints in and we arrive at the brewery with Enter Shikari to find free booze on tap and some strange frogspawn type food on the ends of wooden spoons. I had to try one but looking back I have no idea what it was. It stayed in my stomach though, washed down with a mohito and a can of weak beer, lunch was done.
Welcome to the Kerrang! Awards 2012, one of our favourite piss up’s of the year. The lovely organisers decided to give us seats next to none other than Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi and Ozzy Osbourne who sat with his wife Sharon and Kelly. Thankfully there was no dog shit to be seen under the table like in their house of madness. I did check.
As bands and hangers on guzzled champagne, Tenacious D’s Jack Black hit the stage to massive applause and picked up a Service to Rock award, various other awards were handed out to Mastodon, Machine Head, You Me At Six and others, an Aussie comedian laid into the Queen, Slash walked his walk and we threw sausages at emo kids.
We won the Award for stickering up the bogs and playing records badly at the after party. Now we have large hangovers. Thanks Kerrang! Hopefully next year we can can share frogspawn with Slayer. Enjoy the pics.
Ozzy and Sabbath celebrate being the kings of all metal!
Enter Shikari won best live band. Rou Reynolds won best skateboard hat of the night and Hero of the Year Award. Drummer Rob Rolfe won the award for the best piss into a bottle on the night.
Bring Me The Horizon took the Best Video Award, no pissing involved here.
Ever wondered why Kerrang! Icon Slash is so called?
Yep, of course we drank Tony Iommi’s beer. It was Carlsberg though so no wonder he left it.
The Best British Newcomer Award was well celebrated by While She Sleeps.
Glen Matlock from the Sex Pistols welcomed us with open arms.
Hawk Eyes love a bit of sausage. Fact.
The man with the best riffs in the biz knows. Inspiration Award won hands down.
Pork cocktail anyone?
Find the full award list from the night here.
Guerilla Art Tactics have rolled out an edit of Awadh Mohammed lazily shredding our local bowl at Meanwhile Gardens. Taste some of this to end your week. It’s made of that sweet stuff that’s for sure.
The Queen may have handed us a short week but it was still packed with some amazing footage and a few surprises. 
This fella has taken over this news section this week. Here’s another bunch of bangers from the one they call Jaws.
Tom Tanner, Geff, Ash Wilson, Foz, Guy Jones, Dave Tyson, Vaughan Jones and Reece Leung all feature in this recent jaunt for the Lost Art crew to Leeds.
Jason Cloete’s video part from James Needham’s Ox-Fam scene production has been released over night, 6 months after it’s original release.
If you have never heard the legendary Monster Magnet album Spine of God, then you are in for a treat. Monster Magnet have scheduled a European tour for November this year to celebrate 20 years of the release of this mammoth album that is stuffed full of crunching stoner rock and acid drenched psychedelic delights. Put this in your dairy today.
A brand new OFF! video has landed on the interweb overnight for the track “Cracked”.
This is Jaws’ entry into the X Games Real Street thing they do every year and is stuffed full of tricks that will make your jaw drop. Watch this leap of faith footage from Aaron Homoki filmed and edited by Buster O’Shea.