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Oi you're not allowed to complain. Wa had Black Sabbath here Feb of last year and the only other metal gig to have come my way since was Behemoth and Watain which in the end I decided not to attend because I don't know enough of either band's material plus they were stuck in some shitty little club that gets absolutely slammed by every band that plays there.

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Oi I am too aloud kinda sort of, since I moved back home there is a town 2 hours over to go and see good bands but sadly my town's music scene has been filled with hippsters, PBR, skinny jeans, and men who wear more than glam bands. Don't make me form a NWOBHM band and come and tour the shit out of your country!!!

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Great choices, i'm going to see Saxon and Motorhead in January :D

If they make it, that is. Just caught that tour last week, Motörhead only played 4 songs before Lemmy called it quits saying that he couldn't breathe. He cancelled Denver, and also walked off in Austin after only 2 songs, shooting his whole "altitude" excuse from the press release to shit. Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk
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That sucks, I feel your pain to a degree. Where do you stay? Do you have a local scene where you live?

We do sort of. The local scene has produced some high quality bands like Mournful Congregation but those bands tend to tour Europe and not so much their own back yard. The smaller bands are all doing pretty much the same thing so it's kind of stagnant unless I'm missing the real underground stuff on my Aussie metal forum. Australia doesn't get toured much full stop it's one of the downsides to living at the ass end of the world.

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It's part and parcel of living here. The inland of Australia is almost totally inhospitable and therefore uninhabited. That means the centres of population are coastal for the most part so they have to be spread out to allow for growth over time. Bottom line we don't get as many gigs as I would like and with the whole vision thing actually attending gigs can be a little tricky if I can't find someone interested enough to come along with me.

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