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.

Interview with Kevin Zen on Rock Rotation Radio

Ed B Stoned's open mic night at the Cricketer's on Baildon Green, Bradford shifted into another gear tonight.
Hosted by the Dual Jewels of Jean and Vicky the evening included an array of quality performers far more capable than any TV talent show contestants from the mere fact that most of them wrote their own material.
The performers who played other artist's songs, reworked them with such originality to deserve particular artistic merit, namely Anna Watkins, Allan Smashed Gill, Mark Memphis, Rob Watkins and Co, with some of Ed B Stoned's original covers.
Ed also performed several blinding spots of his own brilliant original material along with a surprise appearance from a performer called "Just Chris" who hails from Leeds. Everyone was taken aback by his  compositions,vocal power and ability not to break a guitar string. "Our Kev"(kevin zen) performed some of his own tunes lamenting the fact that his iPhone App was wrongly listed in Apple's medical section.
The stars who really stood out were Anna and Just Chris, rumours of a collaberation are in the pipeline.
Allan's ability to hold a perfectly in tune note while being very, very smashed was also worth noting.

Is life just a joke where only a devil gets to laugh?

Tap your foot to a slow blues beat...

is life just a joke, where only a devil gets to laugh?

in the end it's just a big black bloody punchline.

Virtueless games in virtual worlds

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