THINGS I LOVE = A nice loose hi-hat, Monkey facing, Leeds (and to a slightly lesser extent Manchester too...which you would think to be a contradiction. But you can fuck off), Golf, snooker, boxing, Ultimate Fighting Championship (next best thing to bare-knuckle), fighting arts in general, Drunken Baker, driving the mighty laguna, keeping fit and working out, pub-quizzes, music, all kinds. Listening to it, writing it and playing it on my guitar, bass and drums, I'm also doing a lot of sitting these days. Gotta love a good sit down. I would like to say I like writing and I like photography too, but everyone on Myspace says that don't they, when in fact they are just some cunt with a camera and a pen. So I will just say I like taking pictures.
Roy Chubby Brown, Terry Wogan. Anyone in my 'Heroes' section, anyone who can spin a yarn, anyone with something to offer.
First of all I need to mention a band who are quite simply the finest on the planet at this moment in time, and who are also, coincedentally, my own band. They are The Spivs and will soon be rocking small venues and working men's clubs near you. Check them out. AC-DC, Anthrax,Bad Manners, Beastie Boys, The Beat, Black Label Society, Black Sabbath, Blondie, David Bowie, JJ Cale, Johnny Cash, Cheap Trick, Richard Cheese, Cinderella, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Cliff, Leonard Cohen, Alice Cooper, Cream, The Cult, The Cure, Deep Purple, Def Leppard, Desmond Dekker, Ronnie James Dio, Dire Straits, The Distillers, Dokken, Dragonforce, Dream Theater, Echo and the Bunnymen, Extreme, Faith No More, Free, Marvin Gaye, Paul Gilbert, Grandmaster Flash, Guns 'n' Roses, Hanoi Rocks, Harem Scarem, Chesney Hawkes, Hayseed Dixie, Jimmy Hendrix, The Hoarse, Iration Steppas, Iron Maiden, Michael Jackson, The Jam, Jane's Addiction, The Kinks, Kiss, Kosheen, Led Zeppelin, Dave Lee Roth, Love, Lynch Mob, The Macc Lads, Madness, Bob Marley, Dean Martin, Megadeth, Metallica, Gary Moore, Motley Crue, Motorhead, New Model Army, Nine-Inch Nails, Ozzy Osbourne, Pantera, Pearl Jam, Lee "Scratch" Perry, The Pogues, Poison, The Police, Prong, Rainbow, Rammstein, Joe Satriani, Saxon, Scorpions, The Selecter, Frank Sinatra, Sisters of Mercy, Skid Row, Slayer, Sleeper, Snuff, Soundgarden&, The Specials, Regina Spektor, Cat Stevens, Stone Temple Pilots, Stryper, Supersuckers, Terrorvision, Tesla, Thin Lizzy, Trust, Twisted Sister, Ugly Kid Joe, Steve Vai, Van Halen, Stevie Ray Vaughn, WASP, Whitesnake, The Who, Stevie Wonder, Zakk Wylde, Frank Zappa, Zig & Zag, Basically Rock, metal, ska/reggae and blues. But anything really
Back to the Future (all of them), Kevin Smith movies, anything with Michael Caine (especially Get Carter, The Ipcress File and the other Harry Palmer films), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Breakfast Club, This Is Spinal Tap&clubs, Memento, Deliverance, The Sting, Uncle Buck, Quadrophenia, Escape to Victory, Kelly's Heroes, The Man With Two Brains, Human Traffic, Smoky and the Bandit, Rocky, Top Gun
Don't watch much tv really but I like Top Gear, , Diagnosis Murder, The Joy of Painting, The Simpsons, Channel 5 documentaries about assorted freaks and misfits...and thats about it
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegasm, American Psychom The Hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy series and anything else by Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, 1984, Animal Farm and most other George Orwell Novels, Some Iain Banks (The Wasp Factory, Complicity etc), books about music and musicians biographies/autobiographies (Dave Lee Roths and Lemmys my favourites so far)
Ron Jeremy, Dave Lee Roth and anyone in an overblown 80's rock band who lived to excess.