Posts Tagged ‘Mikael Åkerfeldt’
My Last RSJ Column
This is the last column piece I wrote for Rock Street Journal before saying goodbye. It is long - 2000 words or so. You have been warned. ----------------------------------------------- Dear Reader, this column is twice its usual size because it will be my last one for the magazine that I have been writing in for the past four and a half [...]
Hammerfall at Saarang 2010
The Swedish metal invasion at IIT Madras is on in full force this year as well, with Gothenburg based power metal act Hammerfall being the main performing act. This, followed by last year's brilliant concert featuring Opeth, about which reams has been written (even by Mikael Åkerfeldt who had a mouthful to say about the whole main sponsor related [...]
Parsimonious Peregrination
a.k.a travelling like the cheap guy that I am a.k.a Bangalore-Chennai-Bangalore on even less than a shoestring. At the very outset of this post, I am reminded of some random thing I did in engineering college, in the third and the seventh semester. We had this particular lecturer whose idea of teaching was to walk into class, dictate notes [...]