Metal Up Your Ass and all that Jazz Room V2

Every year I set up Discovery+ for a few months so my folks can watch the ski jumping. It's one of the few sports they enjoy. It's cost £6.99 a month...until now.

Last night I went to to check when the payment ticks over because I needed to check with my parents how much longer they needed the subscription for, and discovered an anomaly: the monthly bill had actually dropped to £3.99. 

I immediately smelled a rat. 

Turns out the price has dropped because they've discontinued the plan we need, which they didn't convey to me at all via email, which means we lose what we're actually paying for at the end of this month.

To regain it, the new cost is £30.99.

£30-fucking.99 a month! 

This is nearly a 350% increase during a time when the cost of living in the UK is going up and up. 

I expect we won't be the only ones cancelling. 

It was pretty great when you could just add Netflix, quite cheaply, on top of your main TV package (here it's usually Sky). Now everyone wants a piece of that pie.

We dropped Sky years ago in favour of their cheaper version Now TV, but even that now costs £9.99/month. 

Netflix is going up to £12.99/month on the next billing.

Disney+ is going up £129.99/year on our next billing. So about £10.84/month.

Amazon is £95/year so about £7.92/month but we do get Prime Delivery with this not just TV. Downside is they've added adverts for paying customers, which isn't cool even if they are still cheapest. Disney and Netflix introduced cheaper, ad-supported plans instead that no existing customers were forced on.

This all works out about £500 a year for TV without the Discovery+!

But this still works out in your money Jonas at about 4500 krone a year which is a bit different to 1000 a month!

But sport is where they really get you. 

Support were two bands I have releases from but have never seen live and both were note perfect and put on really good setts. Tyketto from the US opened and were followed by Canada's April Wine.

Only problem is the late night when it's an early start for a long day at work. Small sacrifices

Opeth is on Saturday. Looking forward t seeing them again. Should be covering their full discography. Grand Magus are supporting, who I've never seen live.

I also had a small altercation with another concert-goer at that gig. Normally people are pretty friendly and chill at metal gigs but at this one I encountered a guy who acted like a bull in a china shop, really man-handling people around so he could get through the throng of people. I met him while squeezing through between two rows of seats trying to get to the bathroom between the two main sets. I'm nearly through when this clown comes round the corner. Now, he only has to wait like two seconds and I'm clear and passed him by and then he has a clear run of it back to his seat, but this guy just keeps fucking coming doesn't he? I'm not a small guy but this guy was able to physically push me all the way back just so he could get through. I think I was too surprised to even try to push him back. And when he's finally pushed me far enough to get clear, he just goes on his way without even looking at me. Rudest person I ever 'met' at a concert.