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About Me

Half Irish (not sure which half) 35 married Christian, upbeat (no I really am) Optimist!Massive supporter of 'stop the traffik' and 'fairtrade'. http://www.stopthetraffik.org/ - click the banner for website linkHealth & Safety is my job - say no more. Love spending time in Coffee houses. A grand mug of Mocha-cino @ Nero's takes some beating!...or the reds cups of Starbucks (near Christmas) Currently trying to get the hang of British Sign Language BSL studying Level 2. HELP!Myspace Backgrounds

Rachel Taylor Beales Photos@Spring Harvest 2008 Skegness
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My Interests

Worship @ Riverside Church - Southwell, Nottinghamshire. Love leading worship and studies in our local Community Group.Play Guitar to spring harvest/hillsongs worship. Regular attender of Spring Harvest @ Skegness.Guitar stuff - love jammin alone & with my Sister, driving, love the Lake District, good old bracing walks by the sea, look sitting by the dock of a bay....harbours etc.Fan of Nottingham Forest FC.Love live Comedy gigs...recently seen Mark Watson, Ed Byrne

I'd like to meet:

Micheal Palin - any many other well-travelled folk, songwriter genious...Neil Finn, Nick Seymour, Mark Hart - or failing that any of the musicians that I dig... including the lovely Sharleen Spiteri...dripple, dripple! CHECKOUT these two videos. ATOM BOMB from the multi-talented Irish band JUNO FALLS -a bizarre & brilaint video! Followed by the awesome KT Tunstall with IF ONLY.

Music:

MUSIC IS A MASSIVE PART OF MY LIFE. My CD collection on the large size!2007 was to be an awesome year as the world's best band CROWDED HOUSE reformed releasing TIME ON EARTH out in JULY 07.Crowded Out Dont Stop Now Diamond Sutton in Ashfield 10.08.07

Add to My Profile | More VideosHeaps of other stuff influences me such as Texas, Neil & Tim Finn, Split Enz, Travis, The Mutton Birds, Martyn Joseph, Don Mescall, Huey Lewis and The News, Shawn Colvin, Hue & Cry, Mary Chapin Carpenter, David Gray, Del Amitri, Elvis Costello, John Wesley Harding(THE ARTIST NOT THE DYLAN ALBUM)Travis Concert WHY DOES Sherwood Pines,Nottinghamshire30.06.07

Add to My Profile | More VideosLisa Loeb, Sheryl Crow, Phil Joel, Borne, Bebo Norman, Tom Petty, Paolo Nutini, Newsboys, Alan Jackson, KT Tunstall, Jamie Cullen, James Blunt, ELO, David Gray, Seth Lakeman, Brian Kennedy, Queen, James Morrison,Check out this video from New Zealander Bruce ConlonSteven Curtis Chapman, Garth Brooks, Hal Ketchum, Michael Nik Kershaw, Ian White, Diana Krall, Nickel Creek, Josh Groban, Suzanne Vega, Sting, Del Amitri, Simply Red, Matt Redman, Eva Cassidy, The Feeling, Johnny Cash, Fernando Ortega, Jann Arden, The Feeling, Gavin DeGraw, Robert Post, Frente, Damien Rice, Loudon Wainwright III, County Music... guilty pleasures of my youth - Shakin Stevens & The Proclaimers! PLUS Watch out for very upcoming AMY MACDONALD!http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.ind ividual&videoid=14399690also check-out Don Mescallcheck out this Nottingham Based Band 'CAPTAIN DANGEROUS' filmed March 08 on the 'Nottingham Eye' lol

Movies:

BACK TO THE FUTURE - 1,2&3 - seriously love these filmsLORD OF THE RINGS - all of themHARRY POTTER - AS ABOVETHE PIANO - Love the drama & passion - and Micheal Nyman's haunting soundtrackTHE RAIN - Neil Finn's soundtrack is perfect to another moving New Zealand dramaTHE WHALE RIDER - beatiful flick..pretty much love anything from NZMURIEL'S WEDDING - SO FUNNY love it ... not bad for an Aussie flickTREMORS 1-3 - cult classics!Pirates of the CaribeanAMAZING GRACE (The Story of Wilberforce's fight to bring the Barbaric Slave trade to the end) check out this very passionate and moving filmAmazing Grace: Change The World

Television:

BBC Series....Life on Mars & Ashes to Ashes, MASSIVE Doctor who fan!, Invasion, Come Dancing (me & the Mrs curl up to that one), addicted to Lost & 24!

Books:

I'd love more time for read... my wife still reminds me to finish the LOTRs books and POTTER books I started reading 3 years ago!

Heroes:

Jesus Christ - gave his life - what else is there to say!Where The Hell is Matt?

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My Blog

Coldplay Viva La Vida Death & All His Friends CD ALBUM REVIEW

Coldplay Viva La Vida Death & All His Friends Forgetting the over pretentious long album title and artistic statement on the cover, Coldplay have served up exactly what we expect and that's good ...
Posted by ian on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 09:05:00 PST

SPARKS  EXOTIC CREATURES OF THE DEEP cd review

SPARKS  EXOTIC CREATURES OF THE DEEP. I'm not a sparks fan, although I think the majority of us have grown up being familiar with the classic 'This Town isn't big enough for the both of us'.  We...
Posted by ian on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 03:00:00 PST

Mick Hucknall Simply Red Tribute to Bobby Blue Bland CD REVIEW

Mick Hucknall Tribute to Bobby 'Blue' Bland This is my first introduction to the songs of Bobby 'Blue' Bland, so for me  I'm hearing these songs for the first time.  Yes, I'm a Simply Red fan a...
Posted by ian on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:45:00 PST

CD Album Review Join With Us by The Feeling

ALBUM REVIEW The Feeling 'Join with us' Are The Feeling the happiest Band on the planet? If so, how do they manage to consistently produce such upbeat happy melodies without becoming depressed or at...
Posted by ian on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:10:00 PST

CD ALBUM REVIEW SHERYL CROW DETOURS

ALBUM REVIEW SHERYL CROW 'DETOURS'   A few days before her 46th birthday, Sheryl Crow releases Detours, her sixth studio album. Detours is produced by Bill Bottrell who produced Tuesday Night ...
Posted by ian on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:44:00 PST

Best of 2007 Music & Film (As far Im concerned)

Best albums of 2007 KT Tunstall                       Drastic Fantastic Crowded House  &nb...
Posted by ian on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:46:00 PST

NEW MUSIC FOR 2008

NEW MUSIC FOR 2008 Watch out the follow new artists breaking through this year&. Well a few of these are already emerging&so it's not fair to say they've come from nowhere&but the look hot faves to b...
Posted by ian on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:23:00 PST

My Kinda Day - 3 films in a day EASTERN PROMISES/THE GOLDEN AGE ELIZABETH/STARDUST

Helen & I camped out at The Cinema on Saturday; we saw 3 films back to back making a fantastic day out We split our cinematic differences and went solo for the 1st film. While the Mrs went to se...
Posted by ian on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 05:57:00 PST

JAMES BLUNT ALBUM REVIEW ALL THE LOST SOULS

ALL THE LOST SOULS BY JAMES BLUNT BLESSING OR CURSE? The 2nd released from the much maligned Mr Blunt.  Yes eagerly awaited to see if it would match up to 'Back to Bedlam'.  The record bu...
Posted by ian on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:40:00 PST

KT Tunstall Drastic Fantastic Album Review

To say I was looking forward to this album is an understatement, after the infectious tunes of 'Eye to the Telescope' and the excitement generated by a new artist such as Tunstall, you wondered if the...
Posted by ian on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:36:00 PST