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Nick

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About Me

Spend most of my time being an engineer/project manager... Love to travel, which, sporadically, work allows me to - been to California, Aberdeen and Edinburgh so far this year for my job so you can see it's a pretty glamourous, jet-setting life I lead. Other than that music's the main interest, particularly Hawkwind, who I've been lucky enough to help out with on tour over the last couple of years. About once a year I also like to attach planks to my feet and repeatedly throw myself down a cold mountain - one day I may even learn to ski properly.

My Interests

Music, comedy, cinema, gigs, festivals, science, technology and dumb stuff in general. And beer.

Music:

Hawkwind, Ozric Tentacles, Bevis Frond, Monster Magnet, Motorhead, Pink Floyd, The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Poisoned Electrick Head, Zappa, Laibach,

Movies:

Brazil, This Is Spinal Tap, Life of Brian, Pulp Fiction, Bad Taste, Clerks, Sir Henry At Rawlinson End, Godzilla movies (proper Japanese ones, not the godawful US remake, I want to see rubber suited monsters not CGI nonsense!), The Heroic Trio, Apocalypse Now, The Third Man, some Carry On films, The Matrix, Star Wars (the original trilogy)

Television:

The Simpsons, Doctor Who, South Park, The Sopranos, Battlestar Galactica (new), The Day Today/Alan Partridge, Spaced, Peep Show, The Prisoner

Books:

Any by Iain Banks, Terry Pratchett, Robert Rankin, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Michael Moorcock, William Gibson, Douglas Adams Comics: Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Garth Ennis, classic Lee/Kirby/Ditko Marvel, Frank Miller

Heroes:

The Hawks past and present, Bill Hicks, Chris Morris, Mark Thomas

My Blog

Wound up in an amazing state...

Well my good intentions of writing a decent blog about the Xmas Hawktour while things were still fresh in my head have disappeared once again due to being completely knackered and in need of sleep.&nb...
Posted by Nick on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 06:24:00 PST

The Bonzos

Caught the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band's 40th Anniversary reunion tour on Wednesday in Manchester.  Absolutely wonderful, basically a bunch of guys growing old disgracefully who should know better and...
Posted by Nick on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 07:07:00 PST

Crashing back to reality...

Back home now after the Hawktour and what a culture shock going back into work today was... Just a quick note now, hopefully I'll write some more and get a few pics up in the next day or so. The las...
Posted by Nick on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 01:08:00 PST