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Sir Stalin Hatred

When I am gone, the capitalists will drown you like blind kittens.

About Me

Bassist / Guitarist / Drummer with Dundee's top hamfisted Lo-Fi chancers
SPARE SNARE Scotland's 46th best band ever!

Currently producing experimental sounds under the name of One Time Pad

Also a member of The Devotional Ensemble

Previous bands - The Sandflowers, Muppet Mule, Hamfisted.

Some-time DJ and Web Monkey...

My Interests

An ongoing masochistic relationship with Dundee United Football Club.

Music:

Spare Snare, Can, Pentangle, Jawbreaker, Terry Riley, I Ludicrous, Neu!, Sunn 0))), Fennez, Nick Cave, Sonic Youth, The Delgados, Discharge, Faust, Yo La Tengo, Stereolab, Battles, Sandy Denny, Nihilist Spasm Band, Augustus Pablo, Boredoms, Moondog, Explosions In The Sky, Jonathan Richman, Minor Threat, Kanda Bongo Man, Jawbox, Tortoise, Extreme Noise Terror, Fleetwood Mac, Deerhoof, Prince Jazzbo, Daniel Johnston, Kate Bush, Steve Reich, Half Man Half Biscuit, Aphex Twin, Camera Obscura, Hatfield and the North, Congotronics, Killdozer, Boards of Canada, Vashti Bunyan, Rapeman, Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Shaggs, Billy Bragg, Squarepusher, Bhundu Boys, Dinosaur jr, Brian Eno, Robert Wyatt, Silver Apples, Delia Derbyshire, 10cc, Big Black, Kimya Dawson, John Cage, Big Flame, Gerils, The Clash, Plaid, Buffalo Tom, Om, Gong, Josef K, SLF, Takako Minekawa, Christ, Prefab Sprout, This Heat, Jesus Lizard, The Sugarcubes, Mogwai, Man Without Machines, Caravan, Ivor Cutler, Leatherface, Cluster, The Four Brothers, Bogshed, Konono No1, The Soft Machine, Architecture in Helsinki, Merzbow, Bridget St John, I Am Robot and Proud, múm, Shellac, The Lemonheads, The Birthday Party, ELO, Broadcast, Spacemen 3, Orange Juice, Billy Childish, Cardiacs, The Ruts, The Go-Betweens, La Dusseldorf, The Fiery Furnaces.

Movies:

Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, A Mighty Wind, Spinal Tap, The Edukators, Good Bye Lenin!, A Bronx Tale, Shooting Dogs, Man Bites Dog, Raging Bull, City of God, 4 (Chetyre), Goodfellas, Bombón El Perro, The Deer Hunter, Zatoichi, Once Upon a Time in America, 101 Reykjavík, The Shining, Annie Hall, Battle Royale, Gangs of New York, The Idiots.

Television:

Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Simpsons, Seinfeld, Look Around You, Mighty Boosh, Newsnight, Match of the Day (2).

Heroes:

Larry David, Bridget Riley, Cosmo Kramer, David Shrigley, Thurston Moore, Barry Gibson, John Peel, Anton Newcombe, Neil Young, Homer Simpson, George Costanza, Lenin, Ivor Cutler, Mark Rothko, Nick Cave, Daniel Johnston, Steve Reich.

My Blog

My Celebrity Look-alikes

Samuel L. Jackson no less!!! From now on - everyone has to call me Stacks Edwards, or I'm not answering!!...
Posted by Sir Stalin Hatred on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:17:00 PST

Spare Snare & Super Furry Animals

I've just found the line up from Reading 1995 - Spare Snare played the Carlsberg stage, now, this makes depressing reading the only bands still going are Super Furry Animals and Spare Snare... co-inci...
Posted by Sir Stalin Hatred on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:48:00 PST

20 years in the biz!

Yep - 20 years in the biz - that's the Dundee music biz / scene - whatever you want to call it. February 15th 1987 at Dundee Rep (we played where the box office is - for those of you who know), the bi...
Posted by Sir Stalin Hatred on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:54:00 PST

Curb Your Cynicism

Time to try a new outlook. When a friend mentioned that Britney Spears had filed for divorce, my reaction was: "Why did you tell me that? What makes you think that I'm the slightest bit interested...
Posted by Sir Stalin Hatred on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 02:22:00 PST

Only "sting" when yr winning

Ever been stung by a Jasper?I used to give those fuckers the benefit of the doubt... Imagine my pain of watching Celtic equalise against the (not so) Mighty Tangerines, only to be stung by a wasp!Anyo...
Posted by Sir Stalin Hatred on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 05:51:00 PST