Mountain biking, music appreciating, drumming, eating biscuits and drinking tea, talking, walking, running, aching, faffing, frowning, laughing, grumbling, grunting, sleeping, thinking, stinking, reading, writing, clicking, hiding, sweeping the kitchen floor...
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*** Vinyl sounds better - FACT ***
Lots and lots and lots of stuff I enjoy including the following (in no particular order):
James Brown (RIP), Pavement, Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth, Neil Young, Tortoise, Explosions In The Sky, Marlena Shaw, Isley Brothers, Mandrill, Tribe Called Quest, The Roots, Poets of Rhythm, Four Tet, Pearl Jam (first 4 LPs), Ozomatli, Youngblood Brass Band, Herbie Hancock, Jimmy McGriff, Nina Simone, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Pharcyde, Stan Getz, Miles Davis, Michael Garrick, Bonobo, Cinematic Orchestra, Lack of Afro, Marlow, Fairport Convention, ACDC, David Axelrod, Stone Roses, Kings of Convenience, DJ Shadow, The Police, Go Team, Mc Pitman, Sublime, Soul Coughing, Jimi Hendrix, The Pixies, Jimmy Smith, Lou Reed, Roads, Soulsavers Sound System, Horace Andy, Massive Attack, Lee Perry, Rolling Stones (before they became old and wrinkly), Yesterdays New Quintet, anything off Stax, Black Sheep, Ben Harper, Helmet, Viktor Vaughn, The Bamboos, Breakestra, New Mastersounds, Charles Whitehead, Curtis Mayfield, Cymande, Chosen Few, Eddie Bo, Dr John, The JBs, King Curtis, Charles Whitehead, Clarence Reid, Jungle Brothers, The Meters, The Rebirth, Donald Byrd, Sly & The Family Stone, Shuggie Otis, Taj Mahal, Gomez, Brian Eno, Ali Farka Toure, Wedding Present, Lambchop, Talking Heads, Nick Drake, Beastie Boys, Blackalicious, DJ Krush, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Gangstarr, Handsome Boy Modelling School, Gravediggaz, Lewis Parker, Jazzanova, Quantic, Ohmegga Watts, The Gaturs, The Explosions, The Automator, 45 Midgets, Reuben Wilson, Billie Holliday, Stanley Turrentine, The Specials, The Cure, Cut Chemist, Money Mark, Jim O'Rourke, Roots Manuva, DITC, People Under the Stairs, Speedometer, Kerbdog, Blur (not the brit pop cr@p but the more experimental stuff on 13), Skalpel, Quintetto X, Jim White, London Elektricity, Rusty Bryant, Polar Bear, Slide 5, Troublemakers, Troubleman, Shellac, Andy Votel, Blue Mitchell, Dwight Trible, Chicago Art Ensemble, Hint, Jon Kennedy (thafe), Mr Scruff, Guns N Roses, Portishead, Thievery Corporation, Tricky, Augustus Pablo, Bob Marley, Culture, Fat Freddy's Drop, Eek-a-Mouse, Sister Nancy, John Holt, King Tubby, Peter Tosh, Max Romeo, Scientist, Sugar Minott, David Bowie, The Doors, Faith No More, Steve Albini, Nirvana, Spiritualized, The Verve (first 2 LPs, plus bit of the third but definitely not Ashcroft's solo w@nk - where are you McCabe?), Velvet Underground, BB King, John Barry, Nouvelle Vague, Bussetti, BLO, Shihad, Ernest Ranglin, Red Astaire, Paw, Janes Addiction, The Sea and the Cake , Marvin Gaye, Al Green, Dorando, Fink, Manfred Mann, Drumagick, Tito Puente, Allen Toussaint, Fudge Tunnel (great name!), Hardkandy, Lightning Hopkins, Sonny Hopson, Husker Du, Isotope 217, Will Oldham, Tindersticks, Tom Waits, Belly, Q-Tip, Minnie Ripperton, Slum Village, Ann Sexton,.......and more to come.....
The old Bond films (all Connery, plus early Moore), French films from the 70s, Glengarry Glen Ross, Dog Day Afternoon, Withnail and I (Do you grow?), Man Bites Dog, Amelie, City of God, Gremlins, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, Duel, Indiana Jones, Friday (Break yourself fool), 1950s sci-fi (Day The Earth Stood Still, Invaders from Mars etc) old B&W films shown on C4 on weekday afternoons, original Star Wars trilogy (not special editions), none of that CGI bullsh*t or oscar chasing luvvie w@nk shizzle, predictable romcom sh*te please. Anything with a cheeky soundtrack is good too - Bullit, Enter the Dragon, Out of Sight, Blow Up, Dr No etc.
Mostly cr@p! Bit of a Lost addict though...and anything Chris Morris related. And you cannot beat a bit of Rogue Traders.
Brave New World,
anything by Roald Dahl, Graham Greene, Ernest Hemmingway, Paul Theroux, JG Ballard, Ted Hughes, JD Sallinger,
Ladybird Books, Viz Profannosaurus, Highway Code,
The Very Hungry Catapillar, The Japanese Knotweed Manual, Thomas the Tank Engine, Mog