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Owen

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

We're all trying not to enter the bad bad world, but seeing as it's kind of unavoidable we might as well try and go there with good people... From time to time I record songs which you can hear here .

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

I haven't met my nemesis yet. It's probably best to meet him/her sooner rather than later, so that would be quite useful I suppose. Other than that, what've ya got? People who would like to join a fledgling indie-pop band would be rather handy come to think of it.

My Blog

Keith Girdler R.I.P.

Just found out today that Keith died of cancer last week. I never saw Blueboy play but from the first time I heard the first few seconds of 'So Catch Him' all those years ago it was a love affair...
Posted by on Thu, 24 May 2007 13:03:00 GMT

Dark Sunday

Autumn feels like it's upon us. It's cold and wet here in Leeds, and the darkness is enveloping far more than it should for August. After last night's non-gig at Art's and subsequent drunken revelry a...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 14:56:00 GMT

A&E

Spent a large portion of the last 24 hours at Leeds General Infirmary. Sinead has been getting severe abdominal pains and on Friday night it got a bit too much so we taxied down to A&E at 3am. Lon...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Jul 2006 18:50:00 GMT

It's a girl!

My sister-in-law Wibke had a little girl on Tuesday morning! Her name's Julia and everyone's really happy. Wibs was in labour for 31 hours or so and it was rather a protracted delivery but&n...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 04:27:00 GMT

The Hills are alive etc.

OK, so it's my last night in Salzburg. It's been fun, but time to move on. I've been doing a lot of walking, mainly to places that are still closed for the winter, and almost got stuck up a mountain y...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:16:00 GMT

Vocations and vacations

It's a strange time at the moment, the office is constantly empty either through work or illness and I'm finding it somewhat difficult to concentrate on what I should be doing. I've been fairly distra...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:38:00 GMT

Good Things...

...happy. very very happy. Hope you all are too. Take care, and have a wonderful New Year's celebration. x x x x x x x
Posted by on Fri, 30 Dec 2005 03:24:00 GMT

The French Defence!

There's a French Defence page here on Myspace now. It's www.myspace.com/thefrenchdefence surprisingly enough. You can listen to some songs and download them if you think they're worthy. It'd be lovely...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Nov 2005 05:44:00 GMT

Monty Python, Caffeine and Shelflife

Went to the Hyde Park picture house last night for the Monty Python triple bill, finally got home about 4.15am after three ace films and sooooo much coffee! twitchy and creative until about 7ish ...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Nov 2005 07:48:00 GMT

Ah bollocks

Just wrote a load of crap on here about how I was feeling in a crap mood and trying to work out why, then i hit the wrong button and deleted it all.   Fuck it.   Hope you're all doing well a...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Sep 2005 05:19:00 GMT