I would have got around to speaking to Andy Cizek, the singer in British progressive metal champs Monuments since 2019, at some point, I’m sure, but when back in January he took to Twitter and said, “being in a band feels pretty stupid now. the culture is embarrassing and nothing about it is cool anymore. Make almost no money and half my old heroes are disgraced perverts. I’ve worked my whole life for this and all I feel is ashamed, broken down and obsolete. Barely hanging on,” he not only verbalised what I’ve been feeling about music culture for ages now, but sped up the process of getting him on Zoom to record an episode.

Even so, it took a few months of Twitter DM tag to make it happen. But I’m so pleased we did. It turns out that Andy has OCD too, as well as a tonne of interesting observations about where rock music finds itself in 2023.

We’ll almost certainly reconvene for part 2 at some point…

Watch this episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv8OZ3szlQ0&feature=youtu.be

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