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soulmining

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About Me

I've lived and worked in Brighton since moving down from Newcastle in 1988. I currently work within the local live music scene dealing with ticket sales for many gigs around the city, plus the Brighton Festival in May and the Paramount Brighton Comedy Festival every October.I publish a blog called Feed The Pony which features gig reviews, movie haikus and local listings at:http://www.feedthepony.blogspot.comI also write for Eat My Brains, the UK's premier horror and genre film website:

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Cool friends, cool girls, music-types, film-types... and you!

Music:

Air, Anggun, Arcade Fire, Bjork, Blur, David Bowie, Brakes, British Sea Power, The Cardigans, Julian Cope, CSS, Daft Punk, The Dandy Warhols, Tina Dico, The Duke Spirit, Duffy, Feeder, Feist, Foo Fighters, Goldfrapp, Juliana Hatfield, Gemma Hayes, Imogen Heap, The House Of Love, Joy Zipper, The KLF, Ladytron, Midlake, The Mummers, Kate Nash, New Order, New Young Pony Club, Nine Inch Nails, Nouvelle Vague, Heather Nova, Nerina Pallot, Pet Shop Boys, Princess Superstar, Rihanna, Rilo Kiley, Bic Runga, Scritti Politti, The Shins, Soulwax, The Sounds, The Soundtrack Of Our Lives, Tegan And Sara, Thao, The The, Emiliana Torrini, Viva Voce, The Wannadies and Zero 7.

Movies:

2046, Alien, All About Lily Chou-Chou, Almost Famous, Audition, Battle Royale, Before Sunrise, Brotherhood Of The Wolf, Chasing Amy, Children Of Men, Clerks, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Dawn Of The Dead, Dazed And Confused, The Descent, The Devil's Rejects, DiG!, Donnie Darko, The Dreamers, Fight Club, Garden State, Hardware, Ichi The Killer, Inside, The Isle, Lars And The Real Girl, The Life Aquatic, Mallrats, Miracle Mile, The Mist, Night Of The Creeps, Night Watch, Oldboy, Pan's Labyrinth, Phantasm, [Rec], Ring, Severance, The Shawshank Redemption, Spirited Away, Sunshine, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, They Live and The Thing.

Television:

15 Storeys High, 24, Alias, America's Next Top Model, Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, ER, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Heroes, Lost, The Mighty Boosh, Modern Toss, The Office, Our Friends In The North, Peep Show, Prison Break, Spooks, The Thick Of It, Torchwood, Twin Peaks and Waking The Dead.

Books:

Favourite authors include Sean Bunzick, Michael Connelly, Bill Drummond, Brett Easton Ellis, Christopher Fowler, Alex Garland, Mike Gayle, Tony Hawks, Stephen King, Toby Litt, Hector MacDonald, Nick McDonell, Peter Moore, Haruki Murakami, Chuck Palahniuk and Matt Thorne.

Heroes:

David Bowie, Vincent Cassel, Bill Drummond, Matt Johnson and Daniel Kitson.

My Blog

Jessica Alba, Beyond The Rave and my TV Eye.

Hey,It's been a while since I posted a blog, so apologies for the lack of activity on these here pages. I just seem to have less and less free time since i got promoted at work, but hey...This has rea...
Posted by soulmining on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:20:00 PST

Best of the Year

Here's my end-of-the-year lists for 2007... enjoy!Best films of 2007:1. Inside (À l'intérieur)2. Grindhouse3. Sunshine4. [Rec]5. The Orphanage6. Eagle vs. Shark7. Lars And The Real Girl8. 30 Days Of N...
Posted by soulmining on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 06:37:00 PST

Toronto

I had a fantastic couple of weeks in Toronto for TIFF... hectic, but fun. Not that I had time to relax and see much of the city, but Toronto has a really laid-back and friendly vibe which I liked a lo...
Posted by soulmining on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:30:00 PST

One festival ends... Another begins...

And so FrightFest is over for another year... boo! 2007 was a vintage year for the festival, and I'm not just saying that because I got to pen the brochure intro. Lasting five days and with 26 films s...
Posted by soulmining on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 12:57:00 PST

Midnight Madness

I'm going to Toronto next month! Much to my surprise I have been approved for a Media pass for this year's TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) so I am going over to report on all the latest fil...
Posted by soulmining on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:12:00 PST

Zombie Walk - World Record Attempt

Hey,To celebrate the forthcoming release of The Zombie Diaries in the UK we're going for the World Record for the BIGGEST EVER GATHERING OF ZOMBIES (currently standing at 894, for a gathering at the M...
Posted by soulmining on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 04:52:00 PST

Vote for Miss Lincolnshire

Hello friends,My pal - and fellow FrightFester - Kimberley has just been crowned Miss Lincolnshire and is now competing to be in the finals of Miss England, so she needs YOUR votes please!To vote for ...
Posted by soulmining on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 04:55:00 PST

Lovers Who Uncover

I've had my digital camera for a couple of years now but I hardly ever use the video option, so I thought I'd give it a try...Last night I was at the Concorde for the latest NME Tour featuring The Rum...
Posted by soulmining on Thu, 31 May 2007 02:40:00 PST

Feed The Pony - revamped!

I don't post many blog entries on MySpace. This is because I already have a blog up and running on Blogger called feed the pony, which I've been using for the past two years to ramble on about movies ...
Posted by soulmining on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 05:41:00 PST

Films of the Year

My second list is going to cover my favourite - and least favourite - films from the past twelve months... And I've had a lot of films to choose from this year!(2005 Winner - DiG!)Best films of 2006:C...
Posted by soulmining on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 04:49:00 PST