Well my interests obviously involve days where I can snap necks, break bones, commit bloody murder and end the day with a nice game of Scrabble :) Ok maybe not really, seriously though I am a self confessed net addict. As well as the net, my life seems to revolve around going to gigs and zombies; there are worse ways to waste your life! As you see on every other profile, yes my friends do mean a lot to me – they are the people who have been there for me and helped me during my "down" times (and there have been a lot of them). I owe my life to these people and I can never thank them enough :) Being a total jackass doesn’t seem to help that!I used to be on the wireless too kids! I mean the radio, not the new broadband thing. But yeah! From 2005-2007 I was on Radio Hope (shitty university station) at first heading my own show “Guerrilla Radio†with Ste Beard before combining with “The Rob Nathan Rock Show†to form THE HOPE ROCK SHOW! We had to do an audition thing to get it on the air back in December 2006, here is the video of that train wreck:
It's quite sad but looking back at that video now (now being November 2007) I can’t help but feel 2 things:
1. When Ste pauses at "I know", I keep expecting him to say "Ronnie James Dio".
2. God I've lost weight since then! Those jeans which where close2tightish back then ended up turning into clown pants on me within a year!
The Hope Rock Show is STILL on the air and in my top friends somewhere – alongside with Rob, Russ and Ste, it was a fucking awesome time whenever we were on air. I left the show in October 2007 due to “creative differences†with the station management. Still though...the following game cheered me up muchos!
Is this where you write about people you always dreamt of meeting? Oh I dunno, a random eskimo in a pink thong with a pet anteater seems like as good a dude/dudette to meet as anyone! Truth be told, I'm just that creepy looking guy who no one quite knows which wavelength they're on on any particular given day yet for some reason will be nice or distant but irritate the fuck out of you because you want nothing to do with them. So yeah, anyone who can put up with me would be nice!
Would of course also love to meet this man. When he comes, he touches people. Apparently.
I'd also like to meet God Himself:
The REAL Batman, ADAM WEEEEEEEEST! ADAM WEST!
Weeeeeeeell my fave band is the rather lovely MULTI PURPOSE CHEMICAL
Multi Purpose Chemical - Human
Multi Purpose Chemical - Hop Skip Jump
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AC/DC
Bad Brains
Bad Religion
Currahee
Daywalkers
Dead Kennedys
Eighteen Visions
Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13
Hayseed Dixie
Iron Maiden
Jimi Hendrix
Johnny Cash
Linkin Park
Lostprophets
Lordi
Megadeth
Metallica
Metro Manila Aide
Multi Purpose Kompost
Murderdolls
My Chemical Romance
Ozzy Osbourne
Ramones
Send More Paramedics
Serj Tankian
Skindred
Stolen Babies
System Of A Down
Tenacious D
The Nightwatchman
Turisas
Wednesday 13
This is jus a microcosim of my taste though, and I'm not a hardcore fan of every friggin band/artist I HAVE mentioned (ok maybe except for the top one :P) so don't assume im a total band geek PLEASE! Even though I guess I am!
Ok well basically I'll watch anything with blood, guts, gore and lemon zest influenced murder. *ahem* Me and El Midgeeto have watched more shit 70s/80s/90s horror movies than you so ha! Personal faves for crapdom include Mutant and Driller Killer, and Cannibal Holocaust is just freaking awesome!
My fave films revolve around ZOMBIES or anything close to zombies, I don't know why but I just love the idea that one day all my enemies will die and I'll have a legal excuse to butcher their undead bodies to peices :) This is my fave zombie ever, HE RAWKS!
BUB!
THE SIMPSONS
MYTHBUSTERS
HUSTLE
FAMILY GUY
AMERICAN DAD
HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU
WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY?
SCRUBS
BLACK BOOKS
SUPERMARKET SWEEP
THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART
MOCK THE WEEK
Thats just a few, I like loads more, again, ASK!
I look up to these guys as apparently im the bastard offspring of them :D
DOCTOR COX
JANITOR
Well I did English Literature at A Level an now I'm well into my 3rd year of doing it at Uni (as well as Media). This despite the fact that I went over a year without even reading a book at one point lol. Yes I'm just awesome like that :p I have a pretty wide taste in books but my favourite are (sadly enough) the Wrestlecrap books, Mick Foley's autobiographies and The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z by Max Brooks. Greatest books ever!
GIGS!
Ok this should really be under music but ah well! The reason this list exists is because a while ago a friend asked me how many gigs I'd ever been to and I ended up trying to remember every one of them. Now I keep a sad bastard record of them! Here be the gigs/bands/dates that I can remember! WOO!
HUB (Feat. Multi Purpose Chemical) - 3/7/2004, Liverpool
HUB - 4/7/2004, Liverpool
Some Charity Gig - 11/2004, Liverpool
Lostprophets (Feat. Hondo MacLean, Eighteen Visions) - 18/11/2004, London
Eighteen Visions (Feat. Misery Signals, Emanuel) - 23/3/2005, Liverpool
The Forward - 5/2005, Liverpool
HUB 2005 - 6/2005, Liverpool
HUB 2005 (feat. Multi Purpose Chemical) - 6/2005, Liverpool
System Of A Down (feat. The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disastor) - 6/2005, Manchester
Bad Religion (feat. Emanuel) - 8/2005, Manchester
Eighteen Visions - 8/2005, Manchester
My Chemical Romance (feat. Every Time I Die) - 9/11/2005, Manchester
Trashlight Vision (feat. iN so Far) - 6/12/05, Liverpool
High & Dry (feat. Multi Purpose Chemical) - 4/2006, Liverpool
Give It A Name Introduces... (feat. Paramore, The Blackout, Classic Case, Drive By) - 24/4/06,Liverpool
Give It A Name (feat. The Blackout, Gym Class Heroes, Silverstein, Bayside, Aiden, Classic Case, We Are Scientists, Say Anything, Goldfinger, Hundred Reasons, Angels & Airwaves, Taking Back Sunday, Lostprophets) - 29/4/2006, Manchester
Give It A Name (feat. Taint, The Honorary Title, The Bled, Paramore, Underoath, Drive By, Panic! At The Disco, Men Women And Children, Thrice, Billy Talent, Atreyu, The Ataris, My Chemical Romance) - 30/4/2006, Manchester
The Forward - 6/2006, Liverpool
Knowsley College gig thingy - 6/2006, Liverpool
Knowsley Col gig thing 2 - 6/2006, Liverpool
Skindred (feat. Daywalkers, Multi Purpose Chemical) - 29/6/2006, Liverpool
Lostprophets (feat. The Blackout, Men Women And Children) - 7/7/2006, London
Lostprophets (feat. Covergirl, The Blackout) - 16/7/2006, Liverpool
HUB 2006 (feat. Nerve Engine, Metro Manila Aide, Multi Purpose Chemical) - 22/7/2006, Liverpool
HUB 2006 - 23/7/2006, Liverpool
The Idiot Rate (feat. Fallen From Orbit, The Negatives, Multi Purpose Chemical) - 29/7/2006, Liverpool
Eighteen Visions (feat. Take The Crown, The Blackout) - 5/9/2006, Manchester
Wednesday 13 (feat. Betty Curse, Sign) - 16/9/2006, Manchester
Hostile All Dayer (feat. Institution, Neandertahl, RBH, Multi Purpose Chemical) - 24/9/2006, Manchester
Metro Manila Aide (feat. Straight Outta Moscow) - 10/2006, Liverpool
Multi Purpose Chemical (feat. Liasons & Landscapes) - 11/10/2006, Liverpool
Panic! At The Disco (feat. Blood Red Shoes) - 24/10/2006, London
Lordi (feat. Turisas) - 29/10/2006, Manchester
Johnny Truant (feat. Multi Purpose Chemical) - 8/11/2006, Manchester
My Chemical Romance (feat. Cry For Silence) - 13/11/2006, Liverpool
Multi Purpose Chemical (feat. Liasons & Landscapes, Fei Comodo, The Idiot Rate) - 29/11/2006, Liverpool
Skindred (feat. Second Nature, Multi Purpose Chemical, Dub Trio) - 13/12/2006, Liverpool
Multi Purpose Chemical (feat. Soviet Underdog, Zuprowski Connection, Metro Manila Aide) - 25/1/2007, Liverpool
OPM (feat. Daywalkers, Multi Purpose Chemical) - 22/2/2007, Manchester
My Chemical Romance (feat. Thursday) - 24/3/2007, Manchester
Wednesday 13 (feat. McQueen) - 25/3/2007, Manchester
The Riot's Resurrection All Dayer (feat. Institution, Roughneck Riot, Carpet, Kamikaze Sperm, Anvil Warface, Last Chance To Dance, Daywalkers, Multi Purpose Chemical) - 8/4/2007, Manchester
Deathstars (feat. Mortiis) - 13/4/07, Liverpool
Lostprophets (feat. Aiden, Taking Back Sunday) - 19/4/07, Manchester
Multi Purpose Chemical (feat. Pop Factory, Signified, Metro Manila Aide) - 30/4/07, Liverpool
Multi Purpose Chemical (feat. PrimeUS, Hail Carta) - 9/5/07, Liverpool
Multi Purpose Chemical - 25/5/07, Chester
Evolution Festival (feat. Seven Heroes, Joe Jackson, The Enemy, Echo & The Bunnymen, Maxïmo Park) - 28/5/07, Newcastle
Download Day 1 (feat. Zico Chain, Ill Nino, Hinder, Megadeth, DragonForce, Job For A Cowboy, Velvet Revolver, Hayseed Dixie, My Chemical Romance, Suicidal Tendencies) - 8/6/07, Donington
Download Day 2 (feat. Turisas, HellYeah, Aiden, Bowling For Soup, Slayer, Marilyn Manson, Linkin Park) - 9/6/07, Donington
Download Day 3 (feat. Parikrama, The Ghost Of A Thousand, Papa Roach, Devil Driver, Mastodon, Lamb Of God, Stone Sour, Killswitch Engage, Evanesence, Iron Maiden) - 10/6/07, Donington
Ozzy Osbourne (feat. Headspace, Black Label Society) - 19/6/07, London
Metallica (feat. Mastodon, Machine Head, HIM) - 9/7/07, London
HUB Day 1 (feat. Institution, Eighth Day Army, Ogun, Zuprowski Connection, Hollow Point, The Most Terrifying Thing, The Assassination Of..., Metro Manila Aide, Father, Multi Purpose Chemical) - 14/7/07, Liverpool
Multi Purpose Chemical (feat. The Black Hand, 11 Reasons, Nanas Revenge) - 21/7/07, Runcorn
Dear Superstar (feat. High Class Hookers, The Mephs) - 29/7/07, Liverpool
Multi Purpose Chemical (feat. Metro Manila Aide, Crush Depth Experiment, Daywalkers) - 14/8/07, Liverpool
Multi Purpose Chemical - 27/8/07, Northwich
Hayseed Dixie (feat. Neck) - 1/9/07, Manchester
Send More Paramedics (feat. Devour Thy Sins) - 10/9/07, Liverpool
Turisas (feat. Abgott) - 16/9/07, Manchester
Wallis Bird (feat. Black Light Theatre, The Jonah Band, Beatnic Prestige) - 29/9/07, Liverpool
Multi Purpose Chemical - 5/10/07, Chester
Multi Purpose Chemical (Acoustic Gig) - 29/10/07, Liverpool
Wednesday 13 (feat. Serpico)- 5/11/07, Manchester
Multi Purpose Chemical (feat. Hollow Point, Whisper In The Riot, Sons Of Merrick) - 6/11/07, Liverpool
The Sex Pistols (feat. The Cribs) - 10/11/07, London
Will Haven (feat. Severenth, Multi Purpose Chemical, The Mirimar Disastor) - 11/11/07, Liverpool
Serj Tankian (feat. Fair To Midland) - 16/11/07, Manchester
Liverpool Music Week (feat. Frakture, The Dead Class, Seven Seals, Blue Demon) - 3/12/07, Liverpool
Liverpool Music Week (feat. Reism, Disco Militia, The Most Terrifying Thing, The Bendal Interlude, Multi Purpose Chemical) - 5/12/07, Liverpool
Currahee (feat. Signified, Soviet Underdog) - 11/12/07, Liverpool
Hundred Reasons (feat. Flood Of Red, From Autumn To Ashes) - 18/1/08, Manchester
Multi Purpose Chemical - 25/1/08, Birkenhead
The Dillinger Escape Plan (feat. Stolen Babies, Between The Buried And Me) - 14/2/08, Manchester
Megadeth (feat. Evile, Job For A Cowboy) - 24/2/08, Manchester
Turisas (feat. Alestorm, Norther) - 5/3/08, Liverpool
Monsters Of Mosh (feat. Breed 77, Multi Purpose Chemical, Spit Like This, Tokyo Dragons) - 17/3/08, Manchester
Multi Purpose Chemical - 18/4/08, Chester
Multi Purpose Chemical - 19/4/08, Manchester
Hub Festival (feat. Hades Chariot, Metro Manila Aide) - 17/5/08, Liverpool
Skindred (feat. Daywalkers, Idiom) - 25/5/08, Manchester
Liverpool Sound City (feat. Zombina And The Skeletones, Metro Manila Aide, Multi Purpose Chemical, Hellcyon) - 29/5/08
Skindred (feat. Our Escape, Idiom) - 29/5/08, Liverpool
Liverpool Tattoo Convention (feat. The Amygdala Code, Whisper In The Riot, Multi Purpose Chemical) - 7/6/08, Liverpool
MY GRANDAD (My Nans on the left)
If I can become half the man my Grandad is, I'll have really accomplished something with my life. My hero from day one, all my happiest memories from my childhood all involve him. Even today, just talking to him, having proper discussions with him and knowing he values my opinion means a lot. Possibly the only person in the world who can rant and ramble MORE than me.
EL MIDGEETO!
The Midget aka Mandy, my best mate of a a few years now (yeah the poor bastard lol). She always comes through for me when I need her, she's helped me through the toughest time in my life, she rawks! The story of her life should be an inspiration to at least 99% of the planet.
Truth be told, aside from those two bonkers bastards, everyone and anyone can be a hero in the right light and reflection under certain circumstances. All I can really do is thank anyone who has inspired me to be a better person; oh yeah that's bollocks right there, me as a better person, but anyone who can inspire the best out of you, who can help guide you to inner destinations you never knew possible, now that my friends is the difference between a friend and a hero.