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Tony Rayson

Tony Rayson, chef, musician and all round maverick. Having just returned from travelling in australa

About Me


Back home in dear old blighty now. had a good binge on all the lovely food you cant get in asia (midget gems, lancashire cheese and branston pickle, magners cider to name a few) and now I am ready to resume life without the sun and all the accessories that go with it! travelling has been great fun and I will definitely do it again! highlights for us both are fiji, tasmania, sydney over xmas and new year and chiang mai in northern thailand, where we got caught up in songkran (thai new year) which is one HUGE, HUGE water fight!oh yeah and the malaysian grand prix was amazing too! we will be re-opening appetite on the 4th of june which I am pretty excited about, vic and I will be working together for a few weeks, so I will have relates phone number handy just in case! please excuse me for keeping this dodgy palm tree back drop for now cause its the nearest I will get to the real thing for a good while yet! all our pictures from the trip can be seen by clicking on the FLICKR link below, thanks for looking in!

More of our pictures can be found on Flickr .
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My Interests

music as always, travel, films, Im having a go at photography with a grown up camera but progress is sadly slow, and then of course theres food and cookery which is what I do for a living, comedy cause I need to to laugh as often as possible, then there are books, beer, formula1

I'd like to meet:

Fidel Castro,Micheal Schumacher,Keira Knightley,Dixon Bainbridge,Primo Levi,george dubya, mike scott, the mighty boosh, vic reeves, the redhead from girls aloud and the scroat that nicked my mountain bike !

Music:

the beatles, bob dylan, miles davis, scott walker, simon and garfunkel,dion warwick, burt bacharach, stevie wonder, marvin gaye, floyd, funkadelic, yes, van morrison,jimi hendrix, the wicker man, the waterboys, david sylvian, steve richardson, crowded house, radiohead, jeff buckley, the blue nile , prefab sprout, elbow, talk talk, the earlies, the flaming lips, paul robinson, thomas dolby, neil young, ian mcnabb, ed harcourt,scott matthews, tin foiled, cherry ghost

Movies:

ealing comedies, apocolypse now, woody allen, butch cassidy and the sundance kid, spaghetti westerns, taxi driver, deer hunter, the rutles, spinal tap, the wicker man (with edward woodward), dont look back, kes, danny boyle, trainspotting, a life less ordinary, high fidelity,american beauty , donnie darko, virgin suicides, lost in translation, kill bill, the royal tennenbaums, frida, city of god,motorcycle diaries, babel, syriana, munich, borat, team america

Television:

that will be the square shaped thing we use to watch DVD'S

Books:

everything by primo levi, marcovaldo by italo calvino, everything by george orwell, lord of the rings, the fruit palace and borderlines by geoff nicholl, the outsider by albert camus, songlines by bruce chatwin, all quiet on the western front by erich maria remarque, paddy clarke ha ha ha by roddy doyle, giovanni's room by james baldwin

Heroes:

whatever happened to them?