28th Februrary 2014

Well that's February almost at a close, the weather is still wet and windy, even a little snow this month but the sun was shinning today (between bouts of rain)

Rocky has a new Java Tree to spend his out-of-cage time in (and not chew up my furniture)

I have been after one of these Java tree stands for a while now and looking out for on with decent branches for perches and this one seems up to the job. Rocky is still finding his way around it and the different widths of the branches are great for developing the muscles in his feet/claws ...quite natural for him (well perhaps not the rainbow coloured rope)

Was through in Glasgow last night to see the great Max Cavalera play with Soulfly

Max is the founder and frontman of Sepultura before leaving in 1996 to start up Nailbomb then later Soulfly.

Max is from Belo Horizonte in Brazil, a lot of his music has Brazilian foundations with Soulfly, the last song he wrote for Sepultura was ratamahatta which has very Brazilian native influences and it meshes together good with metal so you could tell the direction he was taking.

It was an excellent gig, the crowd were amazing and Max interacted with everyone to the trill of the crowd. The place erupted when he played "roots bloody roots" from Sepultura, even one of the security guys bodysurfed from the stage into the crowd to everyones delight who encouraged him on :-)
That was my first gig this year since Black Sabbath but have a few more lined up before the summer with include Uncle Acid and the deadbeats also a Norwegian metal band called Kvelertak (they done the soundtrack for troll hunter) in April and Clutch in May (Elton John in June down south but not want to say too much about that on this thread) The Sonisphere line up looks amazing but that's maybe not on the cards for me, download not so good but Alter Bridge is playing so that's worth something :-)