LIW Downtime 2017

ayy lmao one love fam x0x0x

Hi all! First off, let me apologise for the ongoing hiatus. What began as one of my usual monthly breaks ended up being so much longer, mainly because the company I used for image hosting (Photobucket) disabled direct linking to images, with no prior warning whatsoever (that I saw, at least). I have been with Photobucket for 12 years, so as you can imagine I have thousands of images hosted with them. 

So yeah, this has left the site looking a bit fucked, to be honest. At the time of writing, if you scroll down the posts list, then nine out of ten instances of cover art will be missing. I have yet to find a suitable alternative to Photobucket, and I am considering biting the bullet and buying web space, but keeping the Google / Blogger layout. Going forward, posts will resume using Google's own image hosting service, but this is a temporary solution as the image quality is pretty shite. 

In other news, Burra is the only person still contributing to the site asides from myself, so I will be removing the staff bio page shortly. Thanks to everyone who contributed over the last few years. Once we get back on our feet, if anyone is interested in writing for us, then drop me an email on sean0289@hotmail.com :)

Burra and I (and several others) have also began work on a short film, based on a screenplay that I wrote (yes! hahaha) - so I'll get a page up with more info on that as the project develops. Early days yet! 

Well, that is pretty much it - just a quick update to let you know that I'm not dead. Normal posting shall resume shortly, but historic posts will probably look awful for a while as I undertake the gargantuan task of editing 600 reviews. *sigh*

Also, Judas Cradle finally dropped our album. You can check it out on the link below. 

Sozza For The Slack-a-lackin'

At least once a year I have to post an inactivity blog because I actually feel more and more awful the longer I leave Linesinwax without an update, and the site does so much better when I'm adding fresh content all the time. I recently passed 15,000 hits, which is something I never expected, ever. As preachy and moany as my reviews can sometimes be, this site has become the most successful thing I have ever done online and I am proud of it and of the amount of people who read my shit (or at least just end up here through Google searches and are expecting illegal .rar downloads hahaha sucks to be you). I know I'm gushing over a meagre 15,000 which in the grand scheme of things is literally fuck all but it does genuinely mean a lot that people continue to visit my site, so thanks assholes!

So yeah the point of this post is to clarify that there won't be posts for a while. I have over 30 reviews written and ready to go, but the real time consuming shit is taking the photos and editing them and making the whole posts come together. It's not particularly difficult, it's just that I need to take a day out to sort all this shit out, which isn't gonna happen any time soon! I got Obscene Extreme fest looming on the horizon (on a plus note I'm bound to pick up a metric fucking shit-ton of records there), as well as as holiday in Devon later in July. Some of you who know me in person might be aware that my family like to stay in lighthouses on the British coast, which whilst being incredibly secluded and beautiful as fuck, are also devoid of many luxuries such as phone signal and internet access. So it's (realistically) gonna be August before any serious posting is done! I might manage a few here and there, but for the most part it's gonna be silence from me. Zippo.

On a final plus point, the beginning of August is also my birthday so I might score some more vinyl there and through the rest of that month and September I am gonna rinse this fuckin' site to death with fresh reviews (apart from the first week of Sept when me and the other half are heading to Amsterdam with four friends - shit, when did my life suddenly become so fucking awesome?). So yeah if I'm not too perma-stoned by early September the shit will start back up properly then, so thanks again for your continued support and thanks for enjoying my shit ramblings.

In the meantime, check out this awesome song. Peace.