About Me
Hello Folks, I'm John and living in Belgium. I was born as third in a family of eight children in the French part of the country in a town called Charleroi but moved to the Flemish part to Bruges a few months after I was born, so my native tongue became Dutch instead of French.
I've always had a thing with music, can't remember a time that I wassen't whistling a tune after hearing it one or two times... Anyway, and this is something I regret, it never went as far as learning to play an instrument, or to read music or rhythm, the way my life drifted it just wassen't to be... My only musical endeavour was to write lyrick's for and sing in a never completely formed "Attic" band way back in 79, early 80's called "Moska"...
http://www.myspace.com/moska1979
It took me another 20 or so years and a long wished holiday destination I've been talkin about for ages to make things a wee bit different...
See, it all changed when I first went to Ireland back in 2002...
I've listened to trad before I went to Erin, but driving through the magnificent North-West while listing to Ragnag Radio day after day opened up a whole new world for Me. The end result was, like so many before I came home after that first holiday with a 50 euro Waltons Bodhran. I transferred my Attic (again) into my Sanctuary, a place where I could sit and fool around with the drum undisturbed and more important in consideration of my house mates nerves. These days that Waltons evolved through a few other drums into Loefke, my 14inch Lambeg skinned Metloef (Pic's are in my Photo Section). She's my final drum.
Mind you, despite the Bodhran stuff here on page, I'm NO BODHRAN player, I just like to thumb me shegoat up in The Attic, listening to tunes and playing along “On feelâ€, only playing for my personal enjoyment and to unwind after a “workin†day...
For me that's more than enough, realy dont need nor do I want more out of it...
A WEE PEEK INTO "THE ATTIC"
Now, if you came here looking for, or just want to read more goatwackery stuff, visit www.bodojo.com or/and check out the 'Bodhran' Yahoo Group at Yahoo Groups
Its without any doubt one of the best and friendliest community's to be found in cyber ...
My Netlog Page :
http://nl.netlog.com/goatwacker
ME OTHER TIME GRABBERS
Beside music that would be, going for long walks & Hillwalking with Vera, as mentioned before, if you want to read more about my hillwalkin adventures, go to me blog section, for the walks check out my photo section, this brings me to some other hobby's of mine, (Digital) Photography, Computing, Reading, Amateur Drum & other building Projects, My Friday Night Gatherings with my friend "The Squire" up in The Attic and last but not least, being the handy man in and around the house...
ME MUSICAL TASTE
Live Pub Session Recordings, Flook, The Tea Merchants, Brendan Nolan, Athas, Liscune, Cairdeas, Dezi Donnelly, LasairfhÃona, Five Hand Reel, Four Men and a Dog, Peatbog Faeries, Different drums of Ireland, Orchestre International du Vetex, Beoga, Green Jackets, Dave Munnelly Band, Kilfenora Fiddle Ceili Band, La Bottine Souriante, Manus McGuire, Comas, Michael McGoldrick, Shantalla, Rapalje, Dropkick Murphys, O..stravaganza,
Robert Crumb & his Cheap Suit Serenaders, Ragtime music from the early 20's, Muddy Waters, Billy Holiday, Nina Simone, John Lee Hooker,
Robert Johnson & all those other Delta Blues greats, Johnny Cash, Marvin Gaye, Sinead O'Connor, Corvus Corax, Dead Can Dance, The Specials, The Dohl Foundation, The Clash, Morrissey, The Smiths, Talking Heads, Iggy Pop, Power of The Picts,
Captain Beefheart, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Sex Pistols, Devo, Madness, White Noice, Arno, Kraftwerk, Crash test dummies, Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, Lee Scratch Perry, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jacques Brel, Bela Bartok,
Gustav Mahler, Steve Reich...
In short as this list could go on forever, I like Music... I like a whole darn lot of it, ranging from Clasical to Experimental Noice it all depends on my mood and where I am and what I'm doing...
ME READING BIT
Click here to visit my Home Book Collection catalog @ Library-Thing...
(still loads to add)
Isaac Asimov, Jack Vance, Heinlein (in short i'm an SF Fan), Louis Paul Boon, Aldous Huxley, Ron Langenus,
Jules Verne, Conan Doyle, Godfried Bomans, August Strindberg, Knut Hamsun, H.P. Lovecraft, George Orwell, Bertus Aafjes, M. Lermontow, Kurt Vonnegut, Herman Hesse, Edgar Allan Poe, Carlos Castaneda, Thomas de Quincy, Roddy Doyle and again many more
WHAT I'M READING NOW :
