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About Me

I find myself living in Peterborough. I grew up in a nearby shanty hamlet with nothing but faded newspaper to wear and empty pot noodle cartons to hear on my head when it got nippy. Part of me dissolved when I was 11 - but it steadily made me more of a concentrate than a cordial. After three years away in the northern climbs of the island to earn a bit of paper, I went on a big bird to other islands to eat happy food and swim with shiny scales. Returning to semi-northern climbs for one year, I then found myself being paid to write on said shanty clothing in a brick building near the train tracks. Various altercations with speakers, slippery floors and tube-lines persuaded me to inject some adrenaline into the town, and here is where i am now. I don't bite, i aim to have facial fur when i'm 46, i see through things so don't deceive me, I'll help you out, but i could never be a hero. This is my favourite website - www.myspace.com/deaf_by_stereo - say hello.

Myspace Layouts at Pimp-My-Profile.com / Green retro

My Interests

Music, Cricket, Aston Villa, Festivals, Europe, Reading, DJing, Eating Cheese, Films, Posh, Proper Bas, Understacking, Overstacking

I'd like to meet:

David Bellamy - Pat Sharpe - Michella Strachan - Terry Nutkins - A Panda - Bill Murray - Bullfrog - Ian St John - The Coen Brothers - Steve Pemberton - Peter Crouch - Anyone who enjoys going to gigs - Mena Suvari - You and My Dad again.I'm not interested in people who say they live for the weekend as that means that 50 years of their life will be a complete waste of time.

Music:

Super Furry Animals, Doves, Larrikin Love, Hope of the States, I'm from Barcelona, Green Day, Teenage Fanclub, Mogwai, Flaming Lips, Sufjan Stevens, Prince, Paul Simon, BRMC, Fatboy Slim, Four Tet, Editors, Strokes, Rakes, Coldcut, Pearl Jam, Roots Manuva, David Holmes, Air, Bentley Rhythm Ace, Mercury Rev, Spiritualized, The Killers, Hot Club De Paris, The Young Knives, Klaxons, RATM, PUSA, Weezer, Rancid, Erol Alkan, Coldcut, The Go Team!, Nada Surf, The Sleepy Jackson, CYHSY, Ormondroyd, MSTU, Champion Kickboxer, Midlake, CSS, Beirut, Adem, The Hold Steady, Arab Strap, Architecture in Helsinki, Arctic Monkeys, Badly Drawn Boy, Basement Jazz, Beck, Beastie Boys, Black Grape, The Twang, Bloc Party, Brakes, Bright Eyes, Bromheads Jacket, Bruce Springsteen, The National, Friendly Fires, The Whip, Black Kids, Foals, The Ting Tings, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Idlewild, Coldplay, Cornershop, CSS, Danielson, DJ Shadow, Eels......

Movies:

Fifth Element, Fargo, Superman, Swingers, Napoleon Dynamite, Amelie, City of God, Big Lebowski, Usual Suspects, Jurassic Park, Bellevue Rendezvous, Ghostbusters, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Dodgeball, Happy Gilmore, Dazed And Confused, American Beauty, Monster, Hotel Rwanda, Thin Red Line, Clerks, Mallrats, Home Alone, Godfather, Taxi Driver, Adaptation, Sideways, Babel, Little Miss Sunshine, Pleasantvile, Snakes on a Plane, Mulholland Drive

Television:

League of Gentlemen, Extras, MTV2, Andy Fordham, Soccer AM, Alan Partridge, Lost, 24, Spaced, Office, Ross Noble, Jack Dee, Prison Break, Lead Balloon, Mighty Boosh

Books:

Not too long, not too short - meet you in Grisham Alley

Heroes:

To Zeroes - it's up to you

My Blog

Rock Werchter

Thinking of going?..... Back to back with Glastonbury (ticket pending) Secret Garden Party line-up revealed this week It’s summer and that
Posted by Mark Xoo on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:32:00 PST

Emergency! Emergency!

You decide, Looking forward to another year of music, I have my favourites from last year - and I hope they do well come the summer Doves should return and electro guitar will fade, though it was...
Posted by Mark Xoo on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:20:00 PST

Summer Sundae Review

It's a shame I was only able to go to one day of this very fine festival situated in the heart of Leicester. With other festivals getting cancelled due to bad weather and poor ticket sales, I doubt t...
Posted by Mark Xoo on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:59:00 PST

My summer for my teacher

I have seen lots of funny people walking around fields watching men with weird hair and silly clothes playing loud music. One time I saw Seasick Steve play in Leicester, he looked like he lived o...
Posted by Mark Xoo on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 03:54:00 PST

Sometimes....

Stuff catches up with you pretty fast. You know it's there, and then, bang, it gives your stomach a chinese burn. It happens as sudden as a swallow crossing the English coast, in its glorious at...
Posted by Mark Xoo on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:14:00 PST

Roll on Glasto 2008!!

Unbelieveable six days! Just thinking of all the bands i saw, or caught bits of - The Blood Arm, The Earlies, Modest Mouse, Super Furry Animals, The Hold Steady, Jack Penate, ARCADE FIRE, A...
Posted by Mark Xoo on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 02:50:00 PST

Glasto

Okay - I have registered - along with 395,000 other people - so reckon my chances of getting a ticket are around 35 per cent.But - should I bother?Of course - If successful it will be the 6th time I h...
Posted by Mark Xoo on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 04:43:00 PST

Candylion

Gruff Rhys - Candylion - Cambridge - March 12 ONE latecomer is welcomed with a polite handshake and pointed in the direction of a spare seat.But it isn't by an usher, no, it's the performer himself, a...
Posted by Mark Xoo on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 04:52:00 PST

Jamie T review

Jamie T - Cambridge Junction - 4/2/07 IF crowd reaction is anything to go by, Jamie T will be headlining festivals before the year is out. All through his excellent 70 minute set, the south London ...
Posted by Mark Xoo on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:45:00 PST

Enter Shikari Review

Enter Shikari - 27/1 - The Radius - Peterborough Somewhat unusually the biggest selling merchandise at an Enter Shikari is not the T-shirts.Rave rings equipped with flashing LEDs were snapped up by fa...
Posted by Mark Xoo on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 02:02:00 PST