24/03/2010
Detect and Pursue Metal ... but where to begin? I don't own a metal detector ... nor know anyone else who does...

So when you have no idea who do you turn to? Google of course!


And google leads you to another trusty reliable source, Wikipedia!


Wikipedia lead me to two paths, one which describes positive charged ions and delocalized electrons ...


and Another which has the word 'heavy' infront of it. The heavier the better right?


27/03/2010
I didn't think much of this task for a while after that feeling I was at a dead end ... yet low and behold one day I was flicking through one of my favourite local street press magazines.


When I came across an interview with Machine Head, Which heralds the band as METAL hammer's winner of the prestigious 'Album of the Decade' award. The word then crops up a few more times within the article (as underlined) ... It seemed my quest was back on track again.


Only for me to flick a few more pages through the magazine


And a few pages later! More Metal in the form of a metal column


But wait there is more! a few more pages later and a festival type concert advert appears... Imagine that" An entire festival dedicated to Metal!?


Overawed by my sudden leaps and bounds into the quest I left the magazine for a moment in search of something else ... the mail (no postie to distract yet though)...

Only to be flicking through the junk mail and discover I no longer had to look for metal ... it was everywhere, even in plain sight! It thought it could hide amongst the other Shiraz, but I saw it for what it really was ... METALa!


All this time I was trying to detect and pursue the metal ... but it was there all the time!

With this in mind I decided to attend the famed Machine Head's concert and report more of my findings afterwards.



28/03/2010
I have found metal, and all her faithful followers. Metal on this particular night chose to reincarnate herself into the four awesomely talented blokes from Machine Head


And also a little bit in the very metal crowd, those known as 'Metal-heads'


I also managed to escape the night with a few metal souvenirs to commemorate my attempt and what I believe a partial success in pursuing metal. There was a ticket for my attendance, a broken drumstick and a backstage pass that allowed me such a good viewpoint of the metal proceedings, including brief chances to meet up with the metal gods themselves. Alas I didn't want to get to in their face and there is no photographic proof (of this occurrence at least) of our meeting.


However to believe I have ever completely pursued metal would be kidding myself. This task is entirely an ongoing quest... It may never end ...