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Video of Snowdrifts on Baildon Moor - Spring 2013

Thought I'd venture up onto Baildon Moor this afternoon. (youtube link is below)

Still quite a bit of subzero windchill going on but the snow drifts were amazing well over 2 Metres in places and the bizarre thing was you could walk on them with very little sinking.

You can even see a mad March Hare bounding down the hill in the video disturbing a Lapwing on it's way (Although you'll have to take my word about the Lapwing as it's quite a way off)

Below the horizon was quite sheltered, but my ears soon froze if I stood in the wind.

Amazing natural wind sculpturing of the snowdrifts

  The Video is here... Snowdrifts in Spring 2013

"Space is Alive" Album launch

Space is Alive Album launch


















Noticing over the years that lots of  friends have used the event function to promote their own, gigs, parties, book and album launches I decided to set up my first event on Facebug to announce the launch of my album.

Jokingly billed as happening everywhere and nowhere "worldwide"
( embarrassingly it seems that Jeff Beck's  Hi Ho Silver Lining lyrics are only known to me  )

I thought it would be straightforward as it wouldn't require anybody having to go anywhere -
just a simple little click of solidarity
and the job would be sorted.

How wrong I was.

As a thankyou for folks showing support, I have made the entire album available as a free download.
All people have to do is follow the instructions above.

I wrote an explanation as to how it wasn't necessary to go anywhere as everybody was already "there".

With FB - even if you are giving stuff away these days you've still got to pay to do it.
I decided to promote my post of the event from my personal profile and was given a report as to how effective it had been and this is where the reality of FB dawns on you.

Now we have to pay to reach the small percentage of friends we thought we had.

Church of England votes to be a laughing stock

The opium of the people

had a deformation today

not wishing to be out of step with the age

they shrank back into their malevolent heritage

where bishops bash choirboys

and women have no power.

The Laughing Stock surpassed itself this afternoon

at the speed of darkness, plunging back in time

to a land where men were god

and women were not

Women had to live apart from the tribe 

in designated huts until their menstrual tides had receded

But the hypocrites of 2012 doggedly dodge this bone of dogma

A Bishop is the father and their literal translations

continue to view women as inferior and incapable

Unequal in the eyes of an imagined male god

an all seeing, all knowing - jealous god.

He will not allow any other way but his tyranny

like all gods throughout the world

he is superior

everybody else is an unclean non believer

a savage or an infidel

dammed to hell for not knowing only his way.

In Leonardo's Last Supper

a woman can be clearly seen sitting near the centre

but to this day, religious zealots 

state that these are the twelve male apostles

and this is the crux of "la croix" issue

History is his story

Female power has been removed from society

by the winners of wars for mankind's control

Mary Magdalene was swiftly branded a prostitute

by the history writers

and to consider her as being an equal 

is heresy.

Women have had their spiritual worth

systematically ignored and sidelined throughout the ages

and in the 21st century it is fucking ridiculous

Rant over.

KZ © 2012

New World Order Bringing Heavy Metal 2012

I drove down to Wolver on Saturday for the NWOBHM Denim & Leather Festival at the Slade Rooms on Broad Street. Dutch Michaels of Metaltalk.com rightly billed this as the gig of the week. The bands performing were outstandingly skillful melodic metal merchants - Praying Mantis, Weapon, Stampede, Gaskin and Agincourt. One Japanese fan called Ko, had travelled from Tokyo and was booked on a flight back home the next day. As I walked in the first face I recognised was Danny from Weapon who effortlessly helped me film an intro to the whole event at the start of this video. The quality of musicianship displayed by every band was unquestionable - they are true masters of their instruments. The whole event was organised by Roger Fauske of Rock Rotation Radio, Jeff Summers of Weapon and the indispensable local influence of Reuben Archer from Stampede. 
 The whole event was like being backstage at Donnington and any of these bands could fill that stage with ease. I still can't believe they all played together on one bill in a small club hosted by Krusher Joule.
 With the advent of new social media networks the "New World Order Bringing Heavy Metal" can spread and infect the world like a plague.

My message is simple: The world needs ROCK and rock fans need to support ALL genres in order for it to emerge from the underground that current media trends enforce.

SO FRICKIN' BRING IT!

Thanks to everyone for L'espace est vivant (Space is Alive) by Kevin Zen hitting15,000 views

kevinzen.com - social-media landing page

My landing page is up and running!
Up until now I've made do with Apple's iWeb for my domain name, but because all Mac websites are having the plug pulled on them at the end of this month, I had to get something a little more serious sorted out.
A few years ago I would have been staring at the prospect of a website with several pages, but now things are much simpler. All I needed was a single landing page, to integrate all the various social media sites I've populated with my online profile.
So here you have it - all my crap and apps in one heap.
Thanks to Tunecore.com and Reverbnation.com I am able to have all my iTunes releases playable in one compact window, with an arrow link that opens up my complete profile, bio, and song lyrics with video links.
The menu along the top also links to other social media sites and I really think things are getting easier for artists online. In my recent radio interview (last blogpost) with Roger Fauske on Rock Rotation Radio I explain how Reverbnation allow the artist to link all their various media outlets.
With a little effort it's possible to transform a simple Facebook artist page into a store front to either promote or sell anything you think is worth a few cents.
Folks will always want stuff for free on the web and that is ok from a promotion point of view, after all how can people get into your music if they have to pay for something they haven't heard ?
It's an idealistic view that maybe if you make your material free to listen online then people will eventually want to buy it if it's any good.
Anyway, here is my e-raft, drifting around on the waves of the triple dubya.