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MySpace Layouts MySpace Editor Icons Collage MySpace Backgrounds MySpace Codes I am an independent arts producer who ran the Arts Council England's Contemporary Music Network for 8 years until recently. Before that I worked at the Royal Festival Hall and the British Film Institute. I trained as a musician (clarinet and saxophone) and lived in Marseille for many years. I was a member of French group Martin Dupont and have worked with many amazing artists, both as a performer and producer.My passions are being involved with music and art that changes people's lives, rooting around in the earth, lingering in perilously hot baths and eating and drinking and smelling gorgeous things. Chillies are one of my daily obsessions...

My Interests

Music, Surrealism, Jean Cocteau, Dadaism, Jeanne Moreau, Thomas Hardy, D.H. Lawrence, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Perfumes, Chillies, Marquis de Sade, Pickled Lemons, Ivor Cutler, Salvador Dali, Zelda C-W, Gary Cooper, Raw Peeled Carrots, Magic, Troo H-C, Sylvie Guillem, Septieme Sens, Geraniums, Denton Welch, Being Sinistral, www.newleaffurniture.co.uk, Antonin Artaud, Night, Dusk, Dawn, Flowing Water - Never Still Water (and certainly not canals...).

I'd like to meet:

People who love music that stirs the loins. People who love the unexpected in life and art. People who laugh until they cry.

Music:

JS Bach, Bela Bartok, Camille, Nina Nastasia, Arve Henriksen, Arto Lindsay, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Dave Holland, Kenny Wheeler, David Thomas, Iain Ballamy, Benjamin Britten, Miles Davis, John Cage, Gavin Bryars, Cesaria Evora, Brandon Ross, Scanner, Ralph Vaughan Williams, BjÃ¶rk, Uri Caine, Kronos Quartet, Bill Frisell, Martin France, Echo and the Bunnymen, Dave Douglas, Haco, Martin Dupont, Olivier Messiaen, Gyorgy Ligeti, Talvin Singh, John Woolrich, Dhafer Youssef, John Coltrane, Coleman Hawkins, Jean Paul Special, Michael Nyman, Nils Petter Molvaer, Alexander Balenescu, Brodsky Quartet, Squarepusher, Steve Reich, Gareth Williams, Gary Husband, Ravi Shankar, Zakir Hussain, John Mclaughlin, John Adams, Jacques Brel...

Movies:

A Matter of Life and Death (Powell/Pressburger), Les Enfants Terribles (Jean-Pierre Melville), La Piscine (Jacques Deray), The Comb (Brothers Quay), Blue (Derek Jarman), Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick), Les Amants (Louis Malle), Wings of Desire/Paris Texas (Wim Wenders), Tristana (Luis Bunuel), Eraserhead (David Lynch), Freaks (Tod Browning)...

Books:

Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy), Sons and Lovers (DH Lawrence), The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov), Les Enfants Terribles (Jean Cocteau), Collected Poetry by Paul Celan, The Erl King (Michel Tournier), In Youth is Pleasure (Denton Welch), Journal d'une Femme de Chambre (Octave Mirbeau), Fiesta The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway), Rock Springs (Richard Ford), His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman), The Story of the Eye (Georges Bataille)...