Huge thanks to DJ Sia Aurora (The Deviant DJ) for covering last Saturday at the last minute. I always feel bad about not being able to do a KattattaK! set but I'd rather cancel ahead of time on the slim chance I won't be online, than promise one and have to cancel it last minute! But that's why we have backup and Sia is awesome at that! In August I am away for 2 weekends so I am sure there will be a couple of Deviant DJ sets coming right up!
Sia is also wanting to start a Wednesday night EDM/House/Trance/Dance party at the Kimkattia Dome! Stay tuned for that as we confirm the details!
I was a metal-head in my teens: headbanging my way through highschool to Iron Maiden, Van Halen, Def Leppard, Saxon, UFO, and of course Black Sabbath. I was of course fully aware of Ozzy's presence as a solo artist but I always found his 1980s stuff a bit too MTV-glam for my liking and it was not until I was lent some old Sabbath LPs from a friend that I really got into that early 70s grungy, grunty, blues-laden proto-metal they were the so-called pioneers of. I was hooked and tracks like Paranoid, Spiral Architect, Fairies Wear Boots and War Pigs solidified my taste in the genre which has endured today. I was too young in the early-mid-70s to have known Sabbath then, but like so many bands which were 'before my time', I really loved their music later on.
There will be an Ozzy track in this week's set, although which one I'll play is still open. I may even throw in a cover or two for good measure. Since I've been doing KattattaK! there's been so many tributes and memorials needed... we've lost so many great legends of music in the last 3-4 years and I suppose part of that is merely that we of a certain age like artists who, sadly, are also of a certain age...Getting old sucks. But here we are, Ozzy got to a certain old age: 76. Who would ever have thought the Madman from Aston would have made it all the way? I bet there were many times in his life he didn't...and that doesn't even include the time Sharon threatened to kill him!
-Katt.