Planet Rock - it is not

Digital radio station Planet Rock, a message:
It is a sexist male hang, you never (or only ever once in a blue moon), play female vocals on your boring radio station, and hardly ever play anything we haven't heard before.


You play the songs Radar Love, Don't Fear The Reaper, Stargazer by Dio ONLY, and ilk, constanty repeated are Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, the Black Crows,  Blackstone Cherry, ONE song by Alter Bridge (they've done 3 albums so far!), Aqualung by Jethro Tull (god, they've done more than just ONE song!)
Bob Segar (he's not rock), Aerosmith (ONE song repeatedly), AC/DC. That's it.

What you don't play and could is: Leaves Eyes, Winger, Fiona, The Strawbs (especially The Actor, Soldiers' Tail, and Burning for You if you want metal-ish songs), Juilianna Hatfield, 10,000 Maniacs, Coal Chamber, Therion, Iced Earth, Inkubus, Camelot - without giving too much away, there are tons more to be played.
Yes, yes some of this might be unknown to you, or old, but you don't play it.

Voodoo Six are copy-rock, predictable, and fake and you love them dispite the over-strained lack of vocal ability the lead 'singer' posesses.

This message comes from a person who loves rock/metal.
My 'rock-block' would be so deeply emmersed in rock you wouldn't know where you were going, you poor dears.

Planet Rock DJs are especialy clueless.
There's no variety, no knowledge behind song-descriptions, no energy (the segments are presented like the DJs are absorbed in nonchalant jokes), it's all just grating predictable chiche- take a listen to Voodoo 6's new one, that says it all. Nothing creative going on there then.

Marat/Sade

22/10. RSC. I saw it, and I thought it was absolutely fantastic. (More on this later.)

SVT Sweden is so good - but funny google translations

Headline: "I was so angry that I almost got horns" - I didn't read the article but I believe it has something to do with money. On the other hand she might have actually said this.

"Actress Sverrir Gudnason reveal their theatrical practices [sic]" - Sverrir is a man, and damn good in Wallander (Krister Henriksson not Branagh), he's now at the City Theatre Stockholm.

I love Rolph Lassgards' Wallander though, he had edge - first version, before Krister Henricksson.

Now I'm on the subject of Wallander, (and believe me I could write about the original Swedish TV programme forever), here's a thing: The British version made more story around Kurt Wallanders' father who is very much in Wallanders' life in the books - played by David Warner, who even looks like Povel.
 Police officer Ann-Britt, central to the investigation team in the books, is made to shine in the British version, I think the Swedish version could have made more of this character.

But love is this, in Swedish Wallander: Tobias Aspelin playing a priest, Shanti Rooney, Jacob Ericsson popping up to play suspects in a murder case (Ericsson's character did it!), Ola Rapace as Stefan Lindemann, Tomas Haman (not the right name, but close) turning up as a sinister construction manager in one of the most gruesome episodes, magnus roosmann as a 'but of a lark'/rougueish/no nonsense police officer, and much much more (when I remember).