Manda - The Queen of Pigheadedness

About Me

Check out my latest musical project The Grace Jones .

The Grace Jones are a Northern Ireland/NZ collaboration made up of my friend Goat in Belfast and me here in Auckland. We're creating some new noises just randomly going where we feel and it's coming along pretty nicely. It's been an interesting (and long) process, what with us being 15,000 miles apart. We've had some airplay on BBC Radio Ulster already (with the album still only half finished) so it's all looking quite promising.

And as for this 'About Me' section... blah... if you want to know anything ask me a question or check out my acting site , which I've been a total slack-arse about updating recently. I'm a bad, bad person. :)

Feel free to drop me an email. My Hotmail address appears to be slightly more reliable than emailing via MySpace.

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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to go clothes shopping with Eddie Izzard and Jean-Paul Gaultier, I doubt that any sensible outfits would result but who wants sensible anyway? More shoes vicar!

It would be pretty amazing to meet the Dalai Lama. He's very inspirational and has an amazing life story to tell.

My UK friends. I miss them all so much. Hopefully I can fly back over for a visit within the next year.

Other people it would be nice to talk with: Gabriel Byrne, Cate Blanchett, Anthony Keidis, Rob Zombie, Terry Pratchett, Layne Staley (I know, I know, but no-one said anything about it being people who are still alive), Henry Rollins, Ridley Scott.

My Nana, who is very cool and fell in love with Chinese food last year. She'd only ever eaten English food before but decided 88 was a good age to get adventurous. Go Nana!

My Blog

CD Cover Art Competition

We're looking for a great new artist! Is it you? Our CD 'solipsism' will be ready in a few weeks and we'd love to give an up and coming artist the chance to provide the cover art. So we're opening thi...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:48:00 GMT

More TGJ news

I received an email just after hitting send on the last blog with yet more good news for the band. v Independent Music Publishing have today contacted us to say th...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:06:00 GMT

Voopa The Goolash

For those of you who don't yet know - hard to believe I haven't told everyone on planet in person by now - I am playing the character of Princess Foo Foo of the Floons in Series 1, Episode 9 of Voopa ...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:54:00 GMT

The Grace Jones - Band update

It's all going on at the moment for The Grace Jones - well, seems that way. v We've got 2 new songs available to listen to on the MySpace page - www.myspace....
Posted by on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:34:00 GMT

Muppet personality test - is this a fail? :)

You Are AnimalA complete lunatic, you're operating on 100% animal instincts.You thrive on uncontrolled energy, and you're downright scary.But you sure can beat a good drum."Kill! Kill!"The Muppet Pers...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:37:00 GMT

How cool is this?

http://www.hasbro.com/nerf/pl/page.commercials/comm.longshot /dn/default.cfm It's on the Christmas pressie list - more than one is fine....
Posted by on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:40:00 GMT

A very wonderful day

Today was a good day. Two of my friends got married, and it was a beautiful sunny day, a fantastic venue and a small gathering of really nice people. Fantastic. My brother was racing in the wint...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 03:30:00 GMT

Toys I want.....

Toys to buy if money were no object.... A Dell super, whizzy games laptop in nice, agressive red to match my hair please, with 4GB of RAM a monster graphics card and a high speed HDD (droool),&nb...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 02:41:00 GMT

Getting band tracks on film & TV

It's very cool all these competitions on MySpace for bands to submit tracks for TV & film, however, it's not so cool that everyone apart from those in the US are excluded. C'mon - play fair....
Posted by on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 12:43:00 GMT

Black Label Society

Wow! Just saw these guys playing at the St James in Auckland, fantastic. Best band I've seen in the last three years. And what a piano player. There is a rather good sid...
Posted by on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 05:26:00 GMT