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About Me

I live in Greetland (just outside Halifax) with an assortment of CD's and movie memorabilia. I spend far too much time and energy going to gigs and supporting great bands.I'm a computer programmer for a living, currently working away Dahn Sarf (living in Teddington but making my way home most weekends...).I moderate the Download Festival Forums along with Carrie, something which keeps us both busy most of the year. For the festival we organise events, hold a BBQ on the 3rd Stage and arrange a few meetings a year with board members and Live Nation, the organisers of Download.In other news, I have a small recording studio which I have yet to put to any good use. I'm loosely involved with the Damnation Festival .I just wish that my ability to play a musical instrument came anywhere near my passion for listening to music. Most people I know think I should probably grow up, but I just say "nur nur n nur nur" to those people. What do they know...
If I don't know you, and you want to add me please send me a message first! I'm not trying to break the world record for myspace friends... Bands will not be automatically added unless I think you're very very special indeeed. cheers :)
My Ruin, Speedtheory and Illuminatus - these three great bands will be touring together in October, it's well worth getting down to see them. Especially Illuminatus & Speedtheory.Don't miss this years DAMNATION FESTIVAL at Leeds University on November 22nd 2008.Featuring headliners CARCASS, PITCHSHIFTER and CATHEDRAL and a host of awesome bands including Onslaught, The Berzerker, My Dying Bride, Napalm Death and many more. For £29 you can't go wrong. Be there or be damned..... Panic Cell are rereleasing their first album A Bitter Part Of Me in a spiffy new package including a DVD. Plus they're touring with Breed 77, Last Stop China Town and Forever Never iver the next few weeks... Make sure you get it and get down to see em!

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

The man who presents lottery winners with their cheque (in a profesional capacity)

My Blog

Download Festival 2008 Docu-Blog thingy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRYySLnw_cs This is Part 1 (of 5) of my Download Festival 2008 docu/blog thingumajig. You may see yourself in it... To see parts 2-5 just click on my YouTube p...
Posted by on Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:19:00 GMT

BT DMA Awards 2007 - Download Festival acceptance speech

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HwUBFzQG1s Here's the video of me accepting the Best Music Community award on behalf of the Download Festival Forums at the 2007 BT DMA.To see me leave spittal...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:25:00 GMT

BT DMA Awards again!

Another Year, another awards ceremony! The Download Festival forums have been nominated for Best Music Community for a second year running. Vote for us at http://www.btdma.com/index.php/dma08/voting/...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:14:00 GMT

Download Festival - Best Community Website @ BT DMA

Finally got around to posting pics from the BT Digital Music Awards where Live Nation won the "Best Community Website" award for the Download Site. And as board admin, they asked me to come down and a...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:47:00 GMT

Interesting Times...

Well.. long time no blog once again. It's a busy busy life, I've hardly even had chance to log on here.Firstly, the HHH Metal show is on hiatus. Again, time is a factor. But rest assured I'll be bring...
Posted by on Tue, 01 May 2007 14:08:00 GMT

HHH Metal & Alternative show

It's a while since I posted a blog! Over a year... lots has happened since then... I've been doing the "Hull Hell And Halifax Metal & Alternative Show" for a few weeks now - it streams all weekend...
Posted by on Sat, 25 Nov 2006 08:31:00 GMT

Dust settles on Damnation

Well.. thats it then. Damnation 2005 came and went. Awesome. I said that a lot, but it was simply awesome. We loved it, the audience loved it, the bands loved it. If we can manage to pull it off two ...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:15:00 GMT

Brum brum better

Just got my car back... niiiice. They even cleaned it too... :) Had a blast over the weekend at the Morecombe Punk Festival... saw loads of bands including the legendary Chaz & Dave... but within h...
Posted by on Tue, 24 May 2005 06:26:00 GMT

Crash Bang Wallop!

My poor car.... :( There I was sitting in my car, letting a double decker bus come through the middle of the road and then CRUNCH!! I'm moving forward unintentionally... some fool has hit the car behi...
Posted by on Thu, 12 May 2005 06:03:00 GMT

Hitchhikers Guide review

Just got back from The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy. Did I like it? Yes I did. A lot. Which was a relief. But it is far from perfect.... So what's the problem? The movie starts well with the fam...
Posted by on Thu, 28 Apr 2005 15:09:00 GMT