What Are The Wrestling Diaries?

In 2001, disenchanted with the impending monopoly that Vince McMahon had on the American wrestling scene a chance reading of a two-page article in the Eastern Daily Press led to my renewed interest in the British wrestling product, and, more specifically, the Norwich-based World Association of Wrestling.

Over the next weeks and months I documented my interactions and communications with various parties involved in the company in my online blog, The Two Sheds Review, which at the time was just hitting it's stride, read by thousands of wrestling fans around the world. Yours truly would later enjoy a four-year stint in WAW, wearing many hats, including webmaster, writer, and occasional referee. Upon leaving at the end of 2005 both writer and wrestling company went on to other things, with The Two Sheds Review in particular going on to become Britain's longest-running wrestling and MMA blog, lasting sixteen years.

Now, twenty-six years to the month since The Two Sheds Review first appeared online, and having been inspired by the news of a certain wrestling musical, I decided to try something myself. Having embraced AI first with my writing and then with musical creation, I used the Suno AI music generator to create The Wrestling Diaries, fifteen songs written using the original WAW Diary series as inspiration.

The concept album begins where the original blogs did, documenting my interactions and experiences with those in the British wrestling business, with the help of AI to generate songs in styles such as punk and Britpop, and having released various other songs over the past year onto streaming services such as Spotify, The Wrestling Diaries is also available to stream online now.

But that's not all! Having seen how other artists have taken the dive into physical media, The Wrestling Diaries will also be available to buy on CD from June 8th. It's available to pre-order now, with an estimated dispatch date of June 24th. You can placed your order here at https://elasticstage.com/twosheds316/releases/the-wrestling-diaries-album

So if you were around WAW and the British wrestling scene around that time, and if you fancy looking back at some of the events surrounding the original Fightmare show in 2001, then you can stream, or in some instances buy and download, you can do so through some of the following links:

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2f4hqtT0QDW4HiUdbrjGyR?si=XwVrLG_SQHuJ11nrWHK8QQ

Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-wrestling-diaries/6775776350

Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.co.uk/albums/B0H3N8XBBL

YouTube Music: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mw7xu6k0m_8zosiwzYWewtYrQjVOWK3Zo

You can also buy a copy on CD from Elasticstage store at https://elasticstage.com/twosheds316/releases/the-wrestling-diaries-album

Don't forget to check out the following links as well:

https://twoshedsreview.blogspot.com - My blog, The Two Sheds Review. It's been online in one for or another for over 25 years, professional wrestling, mixed martial arts, fiction and more, some of it dating back to the 1990s.

https://www.youtube.com/twosheds316 - My YouTube channel, home of Julian's Social Media Discoveries and The Thursday Rock Show.

https://www.mixcloud.com/julian-radbourne/ - My Mixcloud channel, for those who want to listen to my shows instead of watching them.

https://open.spotify.com/artist/63cd7huetItsdeCwICh0J9?si=WDL50IaFRXGmqLTi8UUhBQ - My Spotify artist page, where you can find my AI-generated music.

https://open.spotify.com/show/75GC0B2z6UeUsVLjqieocE?si=518d38d8aa3a4015 - The Two Sheds Review Podcast on Spotify, where you can listen to my old Podcast from 2020, as well as watching some of my more recent videos. Who knows, the podcast might return sometime!