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I spent the first 12 years of my life frequently escaping Saltash (where no shop survives more than a month except Barnardos) to run riot over the water in Plymouth before relocating, to my chagrin, to the Dales. It didn't appeal to me, it didn't welcome me, it made me feel cold and it therefore inevitably endeared itself to me. I came home to the South West for university; I'm currently studying Drama at Exeter and enjoying it slightly but not quite enough to keep me from spending too much time playing my guitar.
I grew up with folk music in the house, mainly Richard Thompson and Dick Gaughan, but being a child of the Spice Girls era I rejected them for their lack of miniskirts. Just try shaking that image. I never really quite engaged with it consciously; it wasn't until I was 17 and some guy started up singing a song I didn't know in a tent in the dew somewhere and I was sitting on damp grass drinking free tea and generally having a wonderful time.
My music is generally along singer/songwritery lines with the odd traditional folk song thrown in, and I've not the musicianship or skill yet to claim anything other than the honest truth that I only took up the guitar a little while ago to accompany the songs I had in my head.
I've recently come to resent Myspace's assumption that musicians (and people attempting to be) don't have favourite books and stuff, so I'm going to make up for that here:
Music: So many to list. Seth Lakeman, the Beatles, Idlewild, Nickel Creek, Richard Thompson, Karine Polwart, Bellowhead, Show of Hands, Jim Moray, Jim Causley, Ben's Brother, Equation, Oysterband, Uiscedwr... not to mention the stunningly gifted people you come across at all good sessions, just doing what they do and doing it so much better than I can ever hope to.
Films: Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Much Ado About Nothing, Jarhead, Crash, When Harry Met Sally, Cabaret, The Goonies, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Sound of Music, Finding Neverland
Television: Doctor Who, The Dreamstone, Pretear, Fruits Basket, the odd episode of Pokemon (mock away) and Cash in the Attic. I don't watch much telly these days mind you. :P
Books: The Great Gatsby, the Love of Seven Dolls, Life of Pi, The Eyre Affair (and ensuing series), Harry Potter and the [Insert Title], Brecht on Theatre, Neverwhere, Soul Music
Heroes: James Clark Maxwell, Neil Gaiman, Seth Lakeman, Batman, and my brother Sam and his lady friend Ursula, who play excellent music and post me brownies.
