Metal Dog’s Heavy Metal Blog Vox 2009-03-26T16:55:26Z Metal Dog http://metaldog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p0109d0e95d44000f/ Rocking around Walsall and beyond... New Walsall news "hub" site "The Yam Yam" now online tag:vox.com,2009-03-26:asset-6a0109d0e95d44000f0110181434d1860f 2009-03-26T16:55:26Z 2009-03-26T16:55:26Z Metal Dog http://metaldog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I've had a message from a chap called Mark who's set up a website linking Walsall news stories from across the web in one place. I think this is a great idea and it will certainly save me some messing about finding local news :O) Check it out: ...

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]]> A Feast of Priest at Brum's Arena! tag:vox.com,2009-02-15:asset-6a0109d0e95d44000f0110162e4149860c 2009-02-15T23:49:22Z 2009-04-06T17:16:19Z Metal Dog http://metaldog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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Yesterday I had the most remarkable experience of attending the Birmingham leg of Judas Priest's current tour of the UK and Europe - Priest Feast 2009 - at the LG (formerly NEC) Arena. Having not seen Priest live in the flesh for many years, ye...

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Picture courtesy Rob Halford On Friday 6 February I had the great pleasure of meeting one of my greatest musical heroes ROB HALFORD of Judas Priest on my own turf as it were, when he visited Walsall Local History Centre where I work. Rob had e...

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Just got off the phone with Sue Halford (Rob's sister) a few minutes ago and she gave me the exciting news that Priest have been nominated for two Grammy awards - the legendary American music industry awards - for Best Hard Rock Performance (Fo...

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Today I attended the opening, by the Mayor of Walsall, of a new permanent exhibition at Walsall Museum, which is housed in the Walsall Central Library in Lichfield Street. The exhibition, which fills the Local History Gallery there, is entitled ...

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]]> Walsall Home of Metal event photos now online tag:vox.com,2008-11-18:asset-6a0109d0e95d44000f0109814cc9ac000d 2008-11-18T00:47:39Z 2008-11-18T00:49:53Z Metal Dog http://metaldog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I've just uploaded 150 photos to Flickr, most of the pix which I took at the Walsall 'Home of Metal' event on 6 November. Hopefully these will be of use to the organisers and participants, as well as the many metalheads who attended and enjoyed ...

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]]> More metal magic - on the box! tag:vox.com,2008-11-12:asset-6a0109d0e95d44000f010980b5d6cb000b 2008-11-12T11:55:30Z 2008-11-13T15:12:47Z Metal Dog http://metaldog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom A follow-up to my last post, some may like to know that BBC Midlands Today finally broadcast their 'edited highlights' news item on the Home of Metal event at Walsall last night (Tuesday), and have also placed it on their website as a video clip:...

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WALSALL reclaimed its musical heritage on Thursday evening ( 6 Nov) when Home of Metal rolled into town and took over the New Art Gallery, who hosted and co-organised the event. Home of Metal is a cultural project organised by Capsule with the he...

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