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About Me

I'm a 45 year old male, and was a punk the first time around.I was in various bands for years, and still occasionally make music with my partner Veronica, who's a guitarist and a chap called James who plays guitar,and him and I co-program,inasmuchas I have a good ear for dynamics and James can actually work the program!We're calling this as yet embryonic project "The Carmelite Rifles",and will keep anyone who's even remotely interested,posted on our progress! We live in Dawlish,Devon,where we have a small but reasonably successful cleaning and gardening business that goes by the name of "Domestic Bliss".God,if you'd heard us row(which is rare),you'd think that our business name was the mother of all misnomers!Our kids are grown up and have their own lives, which means that now there's some us time to grow old disgracefully, which we're enjoying immensely!We have great friends, and love living life to the full,(or as much as our rather limited budget will bloody well allow!), and would be happy to chat to anyone who's kind enough to send us a message.I'm happy to chat about anything, and look forward hearing from you. Oh, I also neglected to mention that I really want to get back into writing music,so if you're a computer muso, especially users of Reason 3.0, I'd be verrrry interested in hearing from you. Cheers for now.Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! hotprofileplus.com(background settings)body(background colour:black;background_image:url("http//images.hotprofilepl us.com/myspace-layouts/images/layouts/118028623-967-0.gif);b ackground_repeat:repeat;background-position:center;backgroun d:attachment:fixed;).hotprofileplus.com(we gotta hide the other tables backgrounds so it looks nice)table tr td,input,div(background-colour:transparent;border:opx;).hotp rofiles.com

My Interests

Listening to and playing music,cooking and eating!Football,especially my beloved Mersey reds.Stevie G,a scouse deity,oh yes!

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who wants a bit of a chat really!Also, would really like to chat to other musicians who'd possibly like to collaborate with, especially sampler and programming types into non - commercial dance and alternative music, ideally into atmospheric, biting music of a broad church.Here's hoping,eh?! As far as people from history are concerned,most if them are dead,therefore it'd be an empty wish really,making me possibly miserable enough to play a Leonard Cohen c.d.! Bill Hicks would have been good to meet though.Oh,Jesus too,just to warn him not to let anyone write accounts of his works,and uninvent catholicism,thus taking the fear out of billions of lives over two millennia.That'd have been a goody too.God,now I am depressed!Where IS that Bloody Leonard Cohen c.d.?

Music:

Both playing and listening to music.Iggy And The Stooges,Big Black,early Sisters Of Mercy,Killing Joke,Pistols,Prong,Mowtown,good non - commercial dance,Bach,Purcell,Handel,Albinoni,Schubert,Elgar and Walton too.All sorts really!

Movies:

Good comedy,satire,martial arts,historical epics.Little Miss Sunshine's pretty fab,Gladiator,Excalibur,Crouching Tiger,There's Something About Mary,I could go on,but I can't be arsed!

Television:

Good comedy,drama and factual.Life On Mars was the most original thing in a long time,Shameless is a hoot,and I'm stopping there,'cos most t.v.'s a bag of cold shite!

Books:

Ian Banks,Bernard Cornwell,Marain Zimmer Bradley and Umbert Eco

Heroes:

Bowie,Iggy,all humanitarians,oh, and me!

My Blog

My first song in 4 years!!!!!!!Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssss!!!!!!! !

Well,hello to my virtual buddies,and I hope that you're all having a cracking weekend,and that you're all loving the sunshine,making autumn and winter just that bit shorter,so can't be bad! Anyway,eno...
Posted by mark on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 06:58:00 PST

The Big Chill!

Well,dear bloggists, Another Chill has been and gone,and what a fab time it was too!For those of you among the uninitiated,this festival is held in the Malvern Hills,at a place called Eastnor Castle,w...
Posted by mark on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:30:00 PST

Glasto's nearly here!

Well,helloooooooo bloggists,and thanks for checking out my particular blogspace! It's nearly that time,the time when a little village deep in the Somerset Levels gets raided by hundreds of thousands o...
Posted by mark on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:59:00 PST

Temporary Mind

Hello all! Most of my friends here on MySpace are local,as I'm trying to network with musicians and generally creative types in the Devon area,and see if maybe we can start a proper,coherent creative ...
Posted by mark on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:27:00 PST

Special,in that Joey Deacon style!

I just don't get it!Whenever I browse this site,checking out profiles,I see these really well put together and well presented profiles,and I think,"Yeah,I should do that too!",so I try,I go to the pro...
Posted by mark on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:41:00 PST

Ooooooooooooooh,the irony!

Hello all who've taken the time to view this particular waffle.I've no real idea of what I'm about to say really,so please bear with me! I guess a good place to start would be the irony mentioned as m...
Posted by mark on Mon, 14 May 2007 06:20:00 PST