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Kevin

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My Interests

Contributing writer to "ROCK-A-ROLLA" magazine, chief writer and editor of the fanzine "SALT",DJ/gig promoter("The Bug"/"Descent"), drummer for experimental bands(Undersex, Ourobouros), photographer, commercial artist/illustrator, avid wrestling fan(Ring of Honor, Total Non-Stop Action/Pro Wrestling NOAH/IWA Mid-South), world cinema fanatic, voracious reader, hoarder, ec....

I'd like to meet:

Jennifer Herrema, Shelly Martinez, Laura Pleasants, The Necro Butcher, Tyler Black, Alan Moore, Samoa Joe, Lionel Shriver Orla Guerin, Stevo, Pale and interesting people, wrestlers, writers, artists, comedians, musicians, film-makers, the "other people"...

Music:

Xasthur, SUNNO))), RTX, Leviathan, Mastodon, High On Fire, Circle, Turbonegro, Converge, Khanate, Boris, Acid Mothers Temple, Shit & Shine, Fushitsusha, High Rise, Draugar, Throbbing Gristle, Harvey Milk, Weakling, Can, Faust, Popol Vuh, Cosmic Jokers, Witthuser & Westrup, Parson Sound, Royal Trux, The Runaways, Big Business, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Allman Brothers, The Clientele, Grandaddy, Erase Errata, The Slits, The Raincoats, Kan Mikami, Kazuki Tomokawa, Mars, DNA, 7000 Dying Rats, Kylesa, Neurosis, Swans, National Grid High-Voltage Research Project, Feeble, Nasum, Burst, Acid King, Zeke, Goatsblood, Harkonen, The The, Laibach, Aufgehoben, Current 93,Scissorfight, US Maple, Hanoi Rocks, dISEMBOWELMENT, Blonde Redhead, Husker Du, Bardo Pond, Sleep, Goatsnake, Halo, The MC5, Witchcraft, The Fucking Champs, Melvins, Bloodhag, Croatan, Brody's Militia, Saint Vitus, Place Of Skulls, This Heat, Hwyl Nofio, Diamanda Galas, The Associates, Nurse With Wound, The Boredoms, The Sunburned, Wire, Clinic, Blectum From Blechdom, Lesser, Pharoah Overlord, Blood Red Shoes, Comanechi, The Gossip, Shellac, Minutemen....

Movies:

Mirror The Wild Bunch Jules Et Jim Celine Et Julie Vont En Bateau Funny Games Throne Of Blood Belle De Jour Three Colours: Red La Jetee If

Television:

"Robin Of Sherwood", "Man To Man With Dean Learner", "The Mighty Boosh", "Homicide: Life On The Street"(bless you Bayliss and Pembleton), "Spaced", "Highlander", "Garth Marenghi's Darkplace", "The Shield" "Deadwood", "Neighbours", "Home & Away", "Life On Mars", "John Barnes' Football Night"...!!

Books:

Currently reading: "Torn Apart: Ian Curtis" by Mick Middles and Lindsay Reade "Blue Melody" by Ian Underwood "Rough Trade" by Rob Young "Japrocksampler" by Julian Cope

Heroes:

Bruiser Brody, Munehiro Narita, Makoto Kawabata, Keiji Haino, Ryan Giggs, Raymond Carver, Andee Connors, Primo Levi, Anne Sexton, Paul Celan, Juris Podnieks, Terry Funk, Michel Platini, Zbigniew Boniek, Johan Neeskens, Jackson Pollock, Bret "The Hitman" Hart, Kenta Kobashi, Jerry Lynn, Rob Van Dam, Sabu, Charles Schultz, Tyler Black Marek Brave, Brian Pillman, Jushin Liger, Bryan Danielson, Bill Watterson, Stephen O' Malley, Norman Whiteside, Martin Buchan, Eric Cantona, Paolo Rossi, Gaetano Scirea, Marco Van Basten

My Blog

Whitehouse photos

I've finally managed to upload the photos I took at the recent Whitehouse gig I attended in London earlier this month. This is being mooted at the group's final UK tour, so this was a very special eve...
Posted by Kevin on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:59:00 PST

SALT Issue Eight Out Now!

"SALT" ISSUE EIGHT The new issue of "SALT" is available now, Featuring interviews with: CIRCLE THE CLIENTELE HWYL NOFIO 7000 DYING RATS And in one of his last ever interviews, XASTHUR. Other feature...
Posted by Kevin on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:52:00 PST

harsh times

I had to hear the new Kylie album three times in a row at work today....it sounds like Daft Punk off-cuts and New Young Pony Club rip-offs. I was in some kind of pop hell there for a while. Had to com...
Posted by Kevin on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:26:00 PST

Track Records

Everything is disappearing, the rate of change is so brutally fast these days and yet goes unacknowledged because of it. How can it be that the landscape of our towns and cities can be so ruthlessly d...
Posted by Kevin on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:25:00 PST

"Western Xterminator"

Everybody is under orders to buy the new RTX album "Western Xterminator" on March 20th, its day of release. This follow-up to their 2004 debut masterpiece "Transmaniacon" will surely blast this specta...
Posted by Kevin on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:09:00 PST

AMT and Shit & Shine gig photos

Shots from Acid Mothers Temple at the Brudenell Social Club, Leeds and the Shit & Shine show at the Buffalo Bar, London are up on my photos page now! These are only a selection, but they give a pr...
Posted by Kevin on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 03:12:00 PST

Listen, Listen

Worship this record, people!
Posted by Kevin on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:47:00 PST

Shit & Shine gig

What can be said of this gig....? A venue barely half the size of the Basement Bar; a decidedly mixed and untalkative crowd(well, no-one talked to me); DJs playing Saint Vitus, Lair Of The M...
Posted by Kevin on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 06:59:00 PST

New Photos Added!

Hey, check 'em out, photos dating from mid 2006, from all the gigs friends and I have been to, plus much, much more! See if you're lurking in the background of another unattended show in Leeds/Y...
Posted by Kevin on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 08:42:00 PST

SALT Issue Seven

Issue seven of my fanzine "SALT" is still available!! Contents are as follows...Interviews with:Pro wrestler JOSH ABERCROMBIEBRODY'S MILITIABURSTDRAUGAR DRIVERXASTHURLabel profile: RIOT SEASONSUNNO)))...
Posted by Kevin on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 07:24:00 PST