Being Lead Ghoul & Front Man... Walks in the (old) country (especially in the autumn... I am winter's child!) The reading & writing & performing of poetry... Having my photograph (read soul) taken... Walking abroad... Cinema... Theatre... Gigs... Doodling/Scribbling/Drawing...
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I think I have an eclectic taste in music, but it does depend on what kind of mood I'm in, who I'm with, what day it is, ect, ect, ect... Musical flavours include (but not limited to) All About Eve, Anathema, Black Sabbath, Bauhaus, The Buzzcocks, Blutengel, Kate Bush, Cradle of Filth, The Cure, The Cult, The Creatures, The Cramps, Demonbreed, Disturbed, Depeche Mode, The Damned, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Fields of the Nephilim/Nefilim, Ghost Dance, Iron Maiden, Jesus Fix, Jefferson Airplane, Joy Divsion/New Order, Julian Cope/The Teardrop Explodes, Killing Joke, Killing Miranda, Leonard Cohen, The Ghost of Lemora, The Marionettes, Ministry, Ms Manson, Marc Almond/Soft Cell, My Dying Bride, NIN, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds/Birthday Party, Opeth, Paradise Lost, Prodigy, Rammstein, Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Sisters, Sepultura, System Of A Down, Therapy, Tool/Perfect Circle, Velvet Underground/Lou Reed/Nico, Vampyre's Kiss, Frank Zappa...
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Hmmmmm... Favourite Films, Favourite Actors... Let me think, errmmmm... I'm a fan of Hammer Horror... Wim Wenders - Wings of Desire, Tim Burton - Beetlejuice, Ed Wood, Mars Attacks, Sleepy Hollow, Nightmare Before Christmas, Werner Herzog - Nosferatu (1979 remake starring Klaus Kinski and Isabella Adjani and Bruno Ganz) of the original 1922 version starring Max Schreck. The films of David Cronenberg and David Lynch - Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper, Angelina Jolie, Catherine Deneuve, The Hunger, Wolfen. The Rocky Horror Picture Show... to name a few...
The Young Ones, The Comic Strip Presents, Absolutely Fabulous, Black Books... Father Ted... Black Adder (all four series!) Six Feet Under... The Kingdom/Kingdom Hospital... The Day Today...
Lost Souls/Drawing Blood/Exquisite Corpse and anything else by Poppy Z Brite... Sunglasses After Dark by Nancy A Collins, Weaveworld/The Great & Secret Show/Cabal/The Books of Blood/Abarat/ect by Clive Barker... American Gods/Smoke & Mirrors/Neverwhere, ect by Neil Gaiman... The works of Ramsey Campbell, Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett... Carpe Jugulum/Small Gods/Mort/The Colour of Magic/Wyrd Sisters by the afore mentioned Master Pratchett... Dracula by Bram Stoker, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Carmilla/Green Tea and other stories by J S Le Fanu, The Haunter of the Dark and other more Cthuhlu mythos by H P Lovecraft and others, Jago/Anno Dracula/Dracula Cha Cha Cha/Famous Monsters and the short story 'Red Reign' by Kim Newman... The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake... The works of C S Lewis, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Caroll... To name but a few...
The following people are individuals who I admire, those whom it has been my pleasure to meet and converse with when our paths have crossed (and in some cases support in a musical capacity) and who have made my life more interesting just by being themselves... Patrick from Jesus Fix... Twinkle from The Ghost of Lemora... Nick from the Faces of Sarah... My Dad and My Mum... My Sister (for all the shit she went through after her husband died) and managing to come through the other side intact... The former members of Einsteifen (RIP) for being who they are... The Arch Drude himself Julian Cope... Spike Milligan... Eddie Izzard... The Reverend Bill Hicks... Bill Bailey... Dylan Moran... ..