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Upside down fish...

Mixing music with pleasure...

About Me

..Me, I'm CareyD. Named this little place in honour of my daughter's pet goldfish, Reef, a scaley little chap she won at a fair about 13+ years ago. Poor thing is getting on a bit, lost his colour and swims upside down when he thinks no one is looking! His tail has grown in a different direction to the rest of his body which doesn't help.As for me ~ I immerse myself in what I enjoy most - listening to and mixing live music, and getting involved with local venues, sound companies, bands and musicians who love making music. My day job is designing things with lots of knobs on, my night time fun is playing with them :-) sad, but then it don't get much better when there is such a great music scene to support down here in south west England, and so many great bands, musicians and technicians who love what they do - my watery hat off to you all!Anyone for fish and chips?... :-)..

My Interests

Blowing bubbles into my beer... Trying to remember what I was doing last time round my tank... blowing bubbles into my beer... ..

I'd like to meet:

... more great bands ..

Music:

Some bands and shows I have twiddled knobs for ~~~ Pelt, Daves Shoes, The Eyelids, Powderstrip, My Elvis Blackout, Astro Firs, The Yardbirds, I say Marvin, Rosie and the Goldbug, Hitchcock Rules, Ryan Jones, Spencer Davis Group, Enter Shikari, Geno Washington, Kangaroo Moon, Nazareth, Dean Friedman, Ricks Rebels, Rick Wakeman, The Albion Band, Edgar Broughton Band, Redhouse, Bright Friday Drive, Noel Prior, Battlefield Band, Es Vedra, UFO, Maddy Prior, Copacabana, Hot Mikado, Godspell, 8 Ball, Tobias Froberg, Barnaby Ray, Blue on Black, Ramshaka, The Folky Doodles (ha!), Chumbawamba, Mutual Flame, Kathryn Williams, Beck Sian, T Rextasy, Budgie, UK Guns n Roses, Seagulls, Cobain, Larry Miller, Sikth, The Vision, Peter Torks Shoe Suede Blues, AlkaSalsa, Bring Me The Horizon, Nato, Ukelele Orchestra of GB, The Reels, Thirteen Senses, Raging Speedhorn, Iranian National Orchestra (!), Absent, SGT Project, The Bucket Boys, Exelby, Rachael Warwick, The Fires, The Truths, The Mosquitoes, (lots of The The's!), Andrew Bate, PinkQuella, Even Flow, ****Lovers, Dragster, Sam Isaac, Luke Leighfield, Gloria Cycles, Kelly Dont Drive. Sgt Peppers Only Dartboard Band, Carrick Council, Amy May and the Ooh La La band, Richard Thomas, The Hulas, Underground Press Syndicate, Tom Mounsey, The Sycamores, Sowena, Hussy, Pondlife, The Surgeons, P-Hex, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Cows Festival, The Venton Gimps (aliens!), Bimbo Yojimbo, DiscoPip, Rosebug, Unentitled, Crying Eye Jeans, Little Fish, Hedluv, Ash Grunwald, The Sea, Julian Gaskell, Glass Shark, Mr.T, Richie Havens, Degrees of Jazz, Black Rock Jazz Band, Mike Quirke Blues Band, Blues Brothers Banned, Jenny Bishop, Ladyracket, the Local Heroes, Nuclear Blues, Viv Rodd Quartet, Carrie Mann Band, Flor de Luna, Dalla, Sweet FDA, William Gregg, David Rudge, Evie B, ACC, IfWen, Carmen Rosa, Badly Drawn Boy, echo and the Bunnymen, Outsider, Bluetones, From The Jam, Rash Decision, Casiokid, Below Dignity, OK Tokyo, Venus Bogadus, Suite Noir, Mentaporta, Roger Dean as Johnny Cash, Tony King, Top Cat (covers), Tongue and Groove, iPony, Bermuda Choir, Chrisette Michele, Dan Dunn (Paintjam), Life Sentence, Natasha Bedingfield, Legacy, Steve Harvey (comic), ACC, Bobbys Helmut, Flashpoint, SleepGoodFeelGood, The Human Value, Cornish Sinfonia and Choir, Suzanne Manuel, Alan Opie, Cherie Lunghi, Tim Hubbard, Upstage Kids, HFC Gala for Prince Edward, Lioness, Barcode13, Oracy, Pitts, Shagrat, Harry and the Hermits, Ammunition, Day At The Movies, SevereZero, Scientist and the Orange Pip, Seven Day weekend, Ruarri Joseph, Seed, Michael Schenker, Nervosa, The Kits, Boycotts, Kia and the Whites, Dod Dot Dot Dee, My First Tooth, Tom Dale, Blindfold Garden, Ambassadors of Sorrow, Foghorn Leghorn, Electric City, Kill Casanove, Lady Sam, Downtown Riots, Racing Snakes, Josie Bouchard, The Subways, Cage the Elephant, Ellipsis, Fire in Cairo, Bhodazaffa, Martin Harley, Skintight, Death by Science, Nato, Brother Mule ... and quite a few more that escape my limited goldfish memory ~ did I mention the Eyelids?

Movies:

Not much time for that, One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest, 2001 Space Odyssey (OK, I was a student then!) and Reef loves that georgeous goldie in "A Fish Called Wanda" xxx

Television:

I can see a nice 32" from my tank... Always seems to be stuck on BBC news or Later with Jools Holland... bummer

Books:

How to Please a Goldfish ..

Heroes:

Bob the Builder, Burke the Butcher
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My Blog

Review of T&G and Eyelids gig at POW, Falmouth

Well, after much hype and no expense spared promotion stuck to every dustbin in Lower Market Street it was time for the musical event of the day. Fiesty ghoulish girls The Eyelids supported by 'ansom...
Posted by Upside down fish... on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:33:00 PST

Review of Red Strip Awards @ Blue Bar THE ACTUAL EVENT!

Review of the Cornish heat of the Red Stripe Awards which did take place on Feb 15th: Well, after attending the said gig I can say that my premature review was in fact way off the mark, apart fro...
Posted by Upside down fish... on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:48:00 PST

All Things Bright And Beautiful...

Well, it seem the Press Reporters Artistic Text Society did finally pull my review of the Red Stripe gig at the Blue Bar. Ah well, that's press censorship for you, the PRATS let's you musicians off l...
Posted by Upside down fish... on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:17:00 PST

My very first blog - 2008... Some fishy new year resolutions!

Well, time to have a go and pen my very first 'blog'! What better time to do it than right at the start of a fresh new year...  Here are some new years resolutions I drew up with good intention....
Posted by Upside down fish... on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 02:26:00 PST