Scuzz closing down

Say Your Number · 10-11-2018 7:43pm #1

Will anyone miss this?

Last time I watched it regularly it was just a load of Emo bollox, it did introduce me to a few bands though.

Mushy · 10-11-2018 7:52pm

Miss it, no. Haven't watched music channels in years.

Have fond memories of it? Definitely. Came across some bands I really enjoy on it, I'm sure many were the same

Anesthetize · 10-11-2018 8:22pm

Say Your Number wrote: »

Will anyone miss this?

Last time I watched it regularly it was just a load of Emo bollox, it did introduce me to a few bands though.

Sunny Day Real Estate emo, or commercialised Fall Out Boy emo?

Haven't watched Scuzz in over 10 years. But I can remember it being marginally better than Kerrang tv, which is not much of an achievement.

LollipopJimmy · 10-11-2018 8:24pm

Scuzz is still going? Must be 15 years since i watched a music channel

byte · 11-11-2018 12:37am

Looking it up, it's been on air since 17 April 2003! Didn't think it was that long ago! :eek:

I read somewhere that MTV Rocks has been rebranded as VH1 Christmas, so I guess that just leaves Kerrang! as the only rock station on TV at this time?

I suspect the likes of Youtube has made these channels irrelevant nowadays.

Arghus · 11-11-2018 2:14am

I used to feel very jealous of friends who had access to Kerrang and MTV2 back in the glory days of nu metal.

Anytime I ever saw Scuzz, which was later in life, they looked to be playing nothing but emo-ish crap.

jack presley · 11-11-2018 11:30am

byte wrote: »

so I guess that just leaves Kerrang! as the only rock station on TV at this time?

It has been a few years since I watched it to be fair but any time I did turn it on, all it seemed to play was pop-punk crap.

Roanmore · 11-11-2018 1:22pm

byte wrote: »

Looking it up, it's been on air since 17 April 2003! Didn't think it was that long ago! :eek:

I read somewhere that MTV Rocks has been rebranded as VH1 Christmas, so I guess that just leaves Kerrang! as the only rock station on TV at this time?

I suspect the likes of Youtube has made these channels irrelevant nowadays.

I was looking through the music channels last week and stopped at MTV Rocks. If that's what is classed as rock these days then it's a sad state of affairs, it was a mix of rap / dance with not a guitar in sight. Probably get more rock on the Christmas channels.

OldMrBrennan83 · 11-11-2018 1:25pm

The last time I turned on Scuzz or Kerrang I was met with that same feeling of horrified disappointment I got the time Raw magazine completely changed in the space of a week.

Anesthetize · 11-11-2018 5:35pm

Arghus wrote: »

I used to feel very jealous of friends who had access to Kerrang and MTV2 back in the glory days of nu metal.

There were no glory days of nu-metal.

Doctor Jimbob · 12-11-2018 1:39pm

Anesthetize wrote: »

There were no glory days of nu-metal.

Nu-metal was just emo for people who wore backwards baseball caps.

Arghus · 12-11-2018 7:47pm

Anesthetize wrote: »

There were no glory days of nu-metal.

There was irony in the remark.

Cherry_Cola · 13-11-2018 12:20am

First Scuzz and now MetalIreland

Welsh Megaman · 15-11-2018 12:42am

Anyone watching?

Only 20 minutes to go!

Will probably end with Paramore

Say Your Number · 15-11-2018 12:45am

Or the Black Parade by My Chemical Romance, they played it every 10 minutes about a decade ago.

Welsh Megaman · 15-11-2018 12:52am

Could be ‘Blind’ by Korn, unless they squeeze one more in.

Ah, that stop-start riff

Are you reaaaaaady?

speckled_park · 15-11-2018 12:53am

Farewell Scuzz, you will never be forgotten. Whenever i press 364 youll be there no more

speckled_park · 15-11-2018 12:57am

Let me know what they play last. I cant watch it ðŸ˜

Welsh Megaman · 15-11-2018 12:57am

‘This Year’s Most Open Heartbreak’ by Funeral For A Friend!

Emo-tastic

speckled_park · 15-11-2018 12:58am

Sorry youre not a winner or something like it id geuss

speckled_park · 15-11-2018 12:58am

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Funeral For A Friend!

Emo-tastic

Oblivion?

Say Your Number · 15-11-2018 12:58am

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Funeral For A Friend!

Emo-tastic

Oblivion?

I like that song

speckled_park · 15-11-2018 1:01am

Say Your Number wrote: »

Oblivion?

I like that song

I like it too. He could be too emotional hence the delayed response

Welsh Megaman · 15-11-2018 1:01am

Oh wait, it’s still going

Sleeping With Sirens

speckled_park · 15-11-2018 1:03am

Imagine its just a marketing ploy

Welsh Megaman · 15-11-2018 1:04am

speckled_park wrote: »

Imagine its just a marketing ploy

The Scuzz Team are having a sit-in protest until being forceably removed by the police!

speckled_park · 15-11-2018 1:07am

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

The Scuzz Team are having a sit-in protest until being forceably removed by the police!

Was midnight specified as the end?

Welsh Megaman · 15-11-2018 1:13am

speckled_park wrote: »

Was midnight specified as the end?

According to the Sky Planner, but now it is listed as ‘Scuzz Is Dead’ till at least lunchtime tomorrow!

pleas advice · 15-11-2018 1:17am

Scuzz, Bliss, Flaunt

speckled_park · 15-11-2018 1:18am

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

According to the Sky Planner, but now it is listed as ‘Scuzz Is Dead’ till at least lunchtime tomorrow!

Haha
Thanks
Rip scuzz

Mookie Blaylock · 15-11-2018 8:57am

It'll end at 6am tomorrow morning it seems

Sugarlumps · 15-11-2018 9:44am

Good riddance.

ELM327 · 15-11-2018 4:58pm

So what was the last song?

Welsh Megaman · 15-11-2018 11:03pm

Christmas Hits.

Is ‘Sonne’ by Rammstein a Christmas Hit?

Church on Tuesday · 15-11-2018 11:15pm

I gave up on Scuzz when I first saw Hollywood Undead featured.

Sabre0001 · 16-11-2018 1:50pm

Awww, now what I'll stick on when down at the folks. Found some bands I liked through it...and apparently I'm on of the few here who was fine with having some Paramore or Fall Out Boy on

LoughNeagh2017 · 17-11-2018 7:42pm

It introduced me to Rock/Metal when we got Sky in 2005, that was before Youtube got big so it was the only way of seeing music videos (as far as I knew anyway). I remember it was always heavier than Kerrang back then, it introduced me to bands like Trivium, Slipknot and Evanescence. I noticed it changed since then and was full of pop punk music.

LoughNeagh2017 · 17-11-2018 7:46pm

Anesthetize wrote: »

There were no glory days of nu-metal.

A nu-metal band is headlining Download next year, when people think of Nu-Metal they think of Limp Bizkit but it goes a lot deeper than that.

Anesthetize · 18-11-2018 6:44pm

LoughNeagh2017 wrote: »

A nu-metal band is headlining Download next year, when people think of Nu-Metal they think of Limp Bizkit but it goes a lot deeper than that.

Crap bands headline crap festivals all the time. It's nothing new.

Nu-metal was indeed very popular for a period. But with the exception of Deftones, and perhaps the first two SOAD albums, it was anything but glorious.

S.M.B. · 18-11-2018 6:53pm

"nu metal" had its glory days but they predate Scuzz by a good 5-7 years.

Whether "nu metal" is a subset of metal / hard rock that stands the test of time or was much use to begin with is a different conversation altogether.

Gonzo · 18-11-2018 6:53pm

I watched Scuzz for the first two years and gave up after that. Kerrang and MTV2 also went downhill fast around the same time. Not long after MTV2 was no more and Kerrang was removed from Irish Sky customers.

The only metal on TV which really meant something for me was MTV Europe's Headbangers Ball back in the early to mid 1990s with Vanessa Warwick. The Friday Rock Show on VH1 was the next and last metal show on TV that was really good.

Headbanger's Ball evolved into the far inferior SuperRock and that didn't last long, then MTV just stopped playing music in general.

Scuzz of course arrived during the digital TV era, well after Headbangers Ball, SuperRock and the Friday Rock Show were finished. What I didn't like about all these 'dedicated' rock and metal channels was they just consisted on an average selection of a playlist and there was never any surprises, you always knew what video came next and it was the same list of videos often for weeks on end.

S.M.B. · 18-11-2018 6:59pm

Gonzo wrote: »

The only metal on TV which really meant something for me was MTV Europe's Headbangers Ball back in the early to mid 1990s with Vanessa Warwick

^ this

jack presley · 18-11-2018 7:18pm

ITV used to have a good rock show on very late Friday night/early a Saturday morning around then too. Hosted by a guy called Krusher I think.

punisher5112 · 18-11-2018 7:24pm

Heart tv, capital tv among others are gone too.

Roanmore · 18-11-2018 8:01pm

jack presley wrote: »

ITV used to have a good rock show on very late Friday night/early a Saturday morning around then too. Hosted by a guy called Krusher I think.

Raw Power?

Saw some great music on that.

S.M.B. · 18-11-2018 8:22pm

Ah yes, that was decent too.

byte · 19-11-2018 12:30am

jack presley wrote: »

ITV used to have a good rock show on very late Friday night/early a Saturday morning around then too. Hosted by a guy called Krusher I think.

Noisy Mothers? It may have replaced Raw Power, or vice versa

EDIT: Raw Power came first https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_Power_(TV_series) with Krusher's Kouch and then Krusker's Kosmos

Wrongway1985 · 19-11-2018 2:15am

That Metal Show on VH1 was great for about 2 seasons until it became plainly obvious the guys had a very refined taste when it came to rock music.

hellyeah · 19-11-2018 11:41am

byte wrote: »

Noisy Mothers? It may have replaced Raw Power, or vice versa

EDIT: Raw Power came first https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_Power_(TV_series) with Krusher's Kouch and then Krusker's Kosmos

Noisy mothers, used to set the vhs for that one. As said discovered great music on that show.
Rock hard, rock heavy, rock animal! Haha.
Class show.

Gonzo · 25-11-2018 1:13am

Roanmore wrote: »

Raw Power?

Saw some great music on that.

I just about remember that show, I was still going to school at the time and I used to record it, this was before we got satellite and MTV. I remembered they introduced for the first time ever and premiered a relatively unknown brazillian band 'Sepultura' with 'Inner self'. I watched it the next mornng in disbelief and played the song over and over till the tape wore out.

Roanmore · 26-11-2018 10:24pm

This brings back memories

Scuzz closing down

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