Martin Lee Stephenson Weblog

So, once again the BBC decided to waste time and money putting on a poorly reserched and next to meaningless series . 

This time , a series supposedly devoted to an imaginary seven ages of rock music...ok, so to cover rock and all it's genres into 7 hours of viewing was always going to be ambitious, but you got the overall feeling that they considered Rock started with Jimi and ended with Oasis.

Pychedelia was barely covered, likewise rock n roll {ffs!}, ditto, goth, shoegaze and punk even.

Heavy Metal was covered reasonably well, with the usual suspects {Maiden, Motorhead, Judas Priest, Sabs etc} getting the usual air time. 

"Kraut" rock, and "Acid" rock {a huge influence on bands in the 70's and 80's} was not touched upon, instead, just about everything from the 70's to mid 80's was defined as "prog" or "glam"...innovators such as CAN etc overlooked, while almost a whole episode {the final one} was devoted to Oasis and Blur.

 Nice to see Tim Abbott on there though {nice hair Tim!] and Rat .

a video for the track MONAD from ALEATORICAL has been uploade on myspace and you tube:


http://www.myspace.com/apollon23


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLCzMj1BqBU