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Northern

The wind that shakes the barley

About Me

Round vinyl records and food. Combined even better...

My Interests

Hospital...

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who happens to know who Brian Eno is... so there you go...

Music:

I love just about every little fad from the mid to late 60's (and with a bit of a stretch early 70's) in music, movies, art, fashion, home decoration... but I have a pretty catholic taste in music and won't dismiss something before I listen to it... Groovy and laid back soul, funk, folk, psych, freakbeat/mod sounds, early 70's psych prog, Canterbury sounds, kraut, german psyche folk, heavy prog (Germans did it better on most genres than any other Europeans -Dutch included), Brill Building, Phil Spector's vision and Norman Whitfield's extraordinary productions, jazz grooves...No particular order... Fairport Convention, Roy Harper, Holderlin's Traum, Bridget St John, Caedmon, Meic Stevens, David Ackles, Green Man, Stone Angel, Fuchsia, Sandy Denny, Nick Drake, Bert Jansch, Duncan Browne, Donovan, C.O.B., Spirogyra, The Beatles and The Stones, Spriguns of Tolgus/Mandy Morton, Simon & Garfunkel, Incredible String Band, Bridget St John, Synanthesia, Linda Perhacs, Karen Beth, Larry and Myra, Tim Hollier, Judy Dyble, Lal and Mike Waterson, Jade, Andwella's Dream, Chad and Jeremy, Bill Fay, Ralph McTell, Small Faces, Yardbirds, Pink Fairies, Bob Downes, Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, Trader Horne, The End, Quintessence, Pretty Things/Electric Banana, Dantalion's Chariot, Arthur Brown, Apple, Blossom Toes, The Move, East of Eden, Kevin Ayers, John Ylvisaker, Robert Wyatt, Rupert's People, Billy Nicholls, Jason Crest, Steve Tilston, Barry Dransfield, Creation, Remains, Sparks, Soft Machine, The Who, The Kinks, Manfred Mann, early Bee Gees, early Status Quo, Giles Giles & Fripp, McCough & McGear, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Skip Bifferty, The Smoke (both UK&US), Family, Octopus, Open Mind, Chris Farlowe, Georgie Fame, Koobas, Aardvark, Locomotive, Caravan, Wimple Winch, Kaleidoscope, Brian Auger, Julie Driscoll, Love, Jefferson Airplane, Jan and Lorraine, United States of America, Beach Boys, West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Euphoria, Nico, Appletree Theatre, The Byrds, Gene Clark, Buffalo Springfield, Chris Lucey, Neil Young, Jerry Yester/Judy Henske, Lovin Spoonfull, Silver Apples, Mystic Shiva, Fred Neil, Bob Dylan, Pearls Before Swine / Tom Rapp, Velvet Underground and individual Velvets...Mid/late 60's Motown, Atlantic/Stax sounds, all those little known soul/funk gems that end up in comps... almost everything by Ike & Tina Turner, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Otis Redding, Terry Callier, Norman Whitfield, Dusty SpringfieldCandi Staton, Aretha Franklin...I got a thing for decent mid to late 70's punk/post punk as well -and I never say no to anything interesting from any decade (not just a 60's freak after all)... Case in point; I own a copy of PiL 'Metal box' (which I admit I like).. Other stuff; New York Dolls, Brian Eno, Swell Maps, The Clash and The Pistols, Alternative TV, The Slits, Gang of Four, Zounds, A Certain Ratio, Pere Ubu, Undertones, Wire, Contortions, Buzzcocks, Joy Division, Jesus and Mary Chain, Devo, Gary Numan, Adam and the Ants, Young Marble Giants, Au Pairs, Wedding Present, Elvis Costello, Dream Syndicate, Blue Nile, Concrete Blonde, Bronco Bullfrog, Aardvarks, Embrooks, KD Lang, Stone Roses, Soft Boys / Robyn Hitchcock..And some jazz, mostly the classics; Miles Davis, John and Alice Coltrane, Impulse label, Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Charles Mingus, Dexter Gordon, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Eric Dolphy (mainly "Out to Lunch"), Gary Bartz...

Movies:

Not a film buff but I enjoy arty european films and 60's period films however sleazy or kitsch some of them may be (the more it oozes "60's" the better)... Also current films like The Royal Tenenbaums, Big Lebowski, A fish called Wanda, you know clever comedies...and classic horror flicks (Alien, Haloween etc)...

Television:

Fawlty Towers, Yes, Minister, Yes, Prime Minister, The Avengers, Life on Mars, CSI New York, Ellen...

Books:

Currently reading "The Velvet Underground in print"... rates from interesting to boring... it could be worse... In general I like "The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith" by Irshad Manji, Julian Cope Krautrocksampler, "Tapestry of Delights" and "Fuzz, Acid and Flowers" by Vernon Joynson, Luis Bunuel 'My last supper', 'Darker Than the Deepest Sea: The Search for Nick Drake' by Trevor Dann, 'White Bicycles' by Joe Boyd, "Nick Drake: The biography" and "Meet on the ledge" by Patrick Humphries, "Loneliness of the long distance runner" by Alan Sillitoe, "Acid Archives" -Patrick Lundborg...

Heroes:

John Peel for the wit.