Actually, posting that parrot singing a Drowning Pool song has made me remember how much I actually liked a lot of nu-metal….and now I feel rather old as it was more than a decade ago! Anyway, here are five favourite nu-metal songs that have sprung to mind - love those brutal beats:

Wanna see a parrot singing ‘Bodies’ by Drowning Pool? Watch this then. Clever Polly.

A reindeer pegging it down a Sunderland street: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wear-12022405

Yep, I didn’t know either until very recently…Jim Corr, of Irish band The Corrs, is now also a political activist. Check out this interesting interview with him on news channel Russia Today as he speaks about the problems with the Euro, the EU, and the current financial crisis.

Neatened up the site a little - nothing too obvious, amalgamated some of the portfolio pages, and updated my CV, and deleted some URLs. Nothing personal to those whose sites I deleted - I just thought I’d re-add some in 2011 as some of them were out-of-date and not being used anymore.