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Armitage Shanks

UK Indie Music & Brit Pop / Remember I'm Just Taking the Piss!

About Me

UK indie music radio host with a twice monthly show on Drastic Plastic 10:00 PM Monday nights on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montréal.Internet link to CKUT (live and archived / Podcast shows) http://secure.ckut.ca/cgi-bin/ckut-grid.plAlso linked to The Rock and Roll Report at http://www.rockandrollreport.com/NEXT SHOW: MONDAY, JUNE 16, 2008 10:00 PM..

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My Interests

If you know of any cool UK indie bands or want further info on the British music scene, contact me. I also fancy English Premier League football (Manchester United), Montréal Canadiens hockey, Formula One motorsport, Libertarian politics and the art of Edward Hopper.

I'd like to meet:

Creatures with similar interests.

Music:

UK Indie / Brit Pop as featured on xfm.co.uk and virginradio.co.uk, and in Q and NME magazines.

Movies:

Trainspotting, 24 Hour Party People, The Football Factory, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Clockwork Orange, Once Upon a Time in New York

Television:

Little Britain, The Royle Family, Keeping Up Appearances, The Office, Trailer Park Boys, Da Ali G Show, Fawlty Towers, Mr Bean, SNL, The Catherine Tate Show

Books:

Q and NME magazines (UK music), Reason and Liberty magazines (Libertarian politics), Four Four Two (Premiership football), novels by Ayn Rand

Heroes:

Parents, Sir John Peel, Ian Curtis, Morrissey, Wayne Rooney, Saku Koivu, Guy Le Chat, victims and survivors of 9/11 ..