Excess All Areas ; Who Better Than Our Jazz Man to Spend an Evening at the Homage to Heavy Rock and Eyeliner That Is the Kerrang! Awards? SHOLTO BYRNES (He's the One Who's Rakishly Removed His Bow Tie) Enjoys a Glass or Two with Murderdoll and Friends

Byrnes, Sholto, The Independent (London, England)

I've shared a stage with a keyboardist from The Pogues, a guitarist who's toured with The Who, and Billy Ocean's former conga player. I've played gigs with bands as oddly titled as Fritz and the West Highland Terriers, and Mr Kipling's Exceedingly Good Jazz Funk. I've even stood behind a mixing-desk and chatted to Freddie Starr. But none of this, I knew, would prepare me for the Kerrang! awards, a byword for excess, bad behaviour and the mysterious world of heavy metal.

If the past is another country, then metal is a different planet, a place inhabited by men with strange names and stranger hairstyles, a place impervious to the subtle distinctions between mezzo- …

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Publication information: Article title: Excess All Areas ; Who Better Than Our Jazz Man to Spend an Evening at the Homage to Heavy Rock and Eyeliner That Is the Kerrang! Awards? SHOLTO BYRNES (He's the One Who's Rakishly Removed His Bow Tie) Enjoys a Glass or Two with Murderdoll and Friends. Contributors: Byrnes, Sholto - Author. Newspaper title: The Independent (London, England). Publication date: August 26, 2003. Page number: 4,5. © 2009 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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