Music, listening, "making" and discovering new great Artists and or music. Used to go Skiing, Chatting online, Internet in general. All sorts.
Muziek
I have a wide and sometimes weird taste, but like more mainstream stuff as well. Here are some of my Faves: I spaced all this out nicely but MySpace has TOTALLY ignored this grrrrr
Izzy Isgate, Very talented North East singer/songwriter. still unsigned but will be a star http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=100407236
http://www.izzyisgate.com/
Or get to her MySpace by clicking on her in my Friends.
Relevant POS 1978 to today also unsigned (But shouldve been) Covered a wide variety of styles
Throbbing Gristle, 1975 to 1981 Art/noise merchants and pioneers of electro, New LP due 1st April 2007!!!
http://www.throbbing-gristle.com/
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~vijay/tg/tg.html
http://www.brainwashed.com/tg/
Ivor Cutler Poet/songwriter/humourist Unique Possibly still the only person to have works commissioned by Radios 1, 2, 3 AND 4. Was mates with Paul McCartney and John Lennon and played the part of Buster Bloodvessel in the Magic Mystery Tour. He invented the name before Bad Manners did. They are great band too tho.
http://www.ivorcutler.org
Syd Barrett Founder Member of Pink Floyd and Psychadelic Genius. His work with Floyd and solo excellent. Also early Floyd after Syd left tho it was a bit patchy
http://www.sydbarrett.it/
http://www.pink-floyd.org/barrett/
The Fall 1976 to Today. Totally unique. A wide range of sounds but all sound like the Fall.
http://www.thefall.info/fallsite/
Gong Just check them out
http://www.planetgong.co.uk/
SPK more experimental noise merchants. And Metal bashers. Legend has it the first album was a therapy project for mental health patients of main man and Psychiatric nurse Graeme. Released seminal classic Metal Dance with genuine metal bashing.
Dead Kennedys US Punk Band early 80's
Crass UK Anarchist Punk Band late 70's to mid 80's
Eric Bogle Folk singer, gave up being a Glasgow accountant and moved to Australia
Denniss Smalley modern electronic composer
Lindisfarne, ok some recorded songs were good but Live (especially Xmas at Newcastle City Hall) were excellent
Psychic TV, a Throbbing Gristle offshoot as were Chris and Cosey and Coil.
Franz Ferdinand, Power Pop and not because guitarist and lead singer Alex is also a big Ivor Cutler fan.
Evanescence, Arctic Monkeys, Deep Purple, Kaiser Chiefs, Bauhaus, Babes in Toyland, Hawkwind, Napalm Death, Hole, Nirvana, Rufus Wainwright, Nick Drake, Buzzcocks, The Clash The Jam, David Bowie (mainly up to Lodger), Pixies, Husker Du, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band,
LOTS LOTS more
Films
Lonely are the Brave. Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Star Wars (all of em) Matrix Trilogy.
Televisie
OMG yes I watch TV. I usually record everything I am interested in seeing then watch it on video. That way there is usually something worth watching lol. Though sometimes I may be a few weks behind depending on how busy Ive been. A few progs I like in no particular order: Doctor Who (new and old), Lost, Spooks, Eastenders (why? wish I knew Ive given up on all the other soaps), The Bill, Afterlife, Supernatural, Charmed, The other one on BBC1 with Bill Patterson, Dr Who (I know I said it before but I really like it), etc
Boeken
Rarely read books these days due to being vision impaired but my faves are fantasy books. Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Both Chronicles of Thomas Covenent (6 books), The Dragons of Pern series. Big fave is The Dispossessed buy Ursula Le guin. Isaac Asimov. Phillip K Dick Terry Pratchet etc
Helden
is a really great song. One of Bowies best its about Love against outstanding odds.
Info over mijzelf: I am a 48 year old bloke living alone in Middlesbrough. I like to think I'm a fairly nice person. But no idea what other people think.
I am registered disabled as I am visually impaired and I had to give up driving in December 2005. My sight varies a lot. On a good day I see quite well though never perfectly (even with Glasses) sometimes One person suggested I apply to be a soccer referee so when the crowd chant "Ref are you blind" I can reply "Yes".
I have 2 children a Step daughter 27 who is married and has given me my first grandchild. And a son who is 12 he lives with his mother but I see him quite often.
I think I have a good sense of humour (though some people would debate this). Though it can be quite silly at times and a bit wicked at others.
I spent 6 months in Australia in 1981 just before Uni. Also in my younger days I performed in Amateur Pantomimes, and enjoyed creating what I creatively call "Music". I was unhindered by anything like technical ability or an even reasonable voice. But I enjoyed what I did even if not many others did. I still get the urge at times so be scared VERY scared lol.
I like an extremely WIDE range of music and particularly love hearing something I like that Ive no heard before. I am trying to get out and see more gigs than I have done for a while, particularly like seeing new bands that are good.
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hiya Ian sorry about the late replie,yeah fringe was good glad u enjoyed it,had some pretty good feed back to be honest,the only thing that we were a bit mifft at was the sound in the first two songs,on stage everthing seemed fine but as u will know there was a problem with danny..s mic out front,but nevermind what can u do,we all really enjoyed it none the less,were recording new tracks at the moment and they should be ready soon to put on our page,u can also for the moment down load all our myspace tracks and more for free at www.dirtyweekendtheband.com take it easy ian and keep in touch. Ben
thanks ian thanks for watching, sorry about the sound problems, are you interested in coming to the georgian theatre on friday night we will be recording a live album that will be getting released shortly. cheers sean
we're playing with them at a place called inside out in darlington, 25th september i think the date is. should be really really good fun! would be even better if you could make it bro!
Thank you very much for coming down nice and early to see us! Did you have a good festival time? You'll have to thank Kathryn for most of that DJ set, she kept it together as I was so pissed!
Thanks for taking the time to come to the gig last night.I think the audience where a great audience of music lovers and that is why it was a great gig and not full of drunks, they sat and appreciated the wide variety of music on offer last night. Take care Ian and I'll let you know when I'm playing local again after August time.
thanx 4 that ian, i noticed that you looked poorly on sunday and you had a problem with your foot, i hope things improve for you m8! adios y vaya con dios!
Hi Ian, nice to see you yesterday, my gig at mml went amazing, try and get to Libery's 18th June 7.30. With regards to the amp Jamie from Dance Las Vegas is intersted in it. They are on my friends list. Contact him and he will sort something out with you. Take care Ian and hope you can get to the gig OOS are playing a small acoustic set.
well thankyou very much Ian, always appreciated. I think I saw you watching Seething Floors too just after us at the Homegrown Stage - I thought they were great.
We had an awesome time playing at the Town Hall - I saw my first ever gig there so it was a big big thing for us.
Thankyou for coming along and supporting us too that early in the day!
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