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Linedamage

Strawberry fields forever

About Me

I'm Ben, live in the Black Mountains, I draw a comic called "The Lost Welshman" & get paid to listen to records and vandalise walls, which is nice.

I also make graphics for bands and people, from illustrations to paint on canvas, walls, people and a mix of digital & freehand work. Love music and gigs, put a few nights on with my mates and spend a lot of time drawing & mixing records.

If you’re in Carmarthen drop by the Tangled Parrot, we have music, tea & dodgy brown paper bags.

My Interests

Graph, music, mixing graph and music, travel, crate digging, food, Tai Chi, Belton Molotows, my parrot plant, all things Japanese and Indian, PG Tips, pushing vinyl

I'd like to meet:

Everyone

Music:



First love was Reggae/Dancehall - (Augustus Pablo, Lee Perry, I Roy, Monkey Mafia, Macca B, Gentleman, Dillinger, The Congos, Horace Andy, Culture, Scientist, Yellowman, Richie Spice, The Bug, Fat Eyes, Sister Nancy, Tippa Irie, Aba Shanti-I, Delroy Wilson, Willie Williams)

Love Motown/Soul/Jazz/Funk/Afrobeat & Hip-hop, especially Def Jux stuff (Cannibal-Ox/Vast Aire, El-P, Aesop Rock, Mr Lif) Company Flow, RZA, MF Doom, Jedi Mind Tricks, J-Live, Gangstarr, De La Soul, Souls of Mischief, Tribe Called Quest, J5, Dizzee Rascal, DJ-H2, Herbie Hancock, Black Moon, KRS1, Roots Manuva, Phono, Otis Reading, Kool and the Gang, Hip HQ, Busdriver, James Brown, Buddy Rich, George Clinton & Parliament, Fela Kuti, big Kool Keith/Ultramagnetic's fan.

Dubstep - (Artwork, Digital Mystikz, Bass Clef, Venez, Goth-Trad, Skream, Skull Disco, Toasty Boy, Soundproof/DJ Kudos, Caspa & The Dub Police, D1, Search & Destroy, Plastician, Kode 9, Burial, Luke.Envoy, Magnetic Man, Distance, Zombie, Matty G, The Headhunters, Loefah, N-Type, Clue Kid, Cotti, Vex'd, Clouds, Punch Drunk recs.)

Punk/rock/folk - (Bad Brains, MDC, Adam Green/Moldy Peaches, Joy Division, The Jeffrey Lewis Band, Adam Green, Black Flag, QotSA, Eagles of Death Metal, Devo, Primus/Les Claypool, Battalion Of Saints, Johnny Cash, Crass, Breakdown, Minor Threat/Fugazi, Misfits, Devendra Banhart, Neil Young, The Saints, The Boredoms, Butthole Surfers, Happy Mondays, Half Man Half Biscuit, Neutral Milk Hotel, Alternative TV, The Germs, Circle Jerks, Hot Chip, White Zombie, Black Eye Riot, Poison Idea, The Crucifucks, Dead Kennedys, The Beta Band, Iggy Pop, The Beatles, Lightning Bolt, Bonnie Prince Billy, Gruff Rhys/SFA, Sun Kill Moon, Klaxons, Bowie, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Alice in Chains, CAN, Captain Beefheart, Zappa, Nouvelle Vague, Jimi Hendrix, Mogwai, The Broken Family Band, The Rolling Stones, Joanna Newsom, The Datsuns, Pig Destroyer, The Evens, Ween, Boris, Godspeed You Black Emperor!)

Electro/tech/D&B - (Aphex Twin, Arve Henriksen, The Bees, Boards of Canada, Cabaret Voltaire, Prefuse 73, ADULT, Mordant Music, Photek, Schneider TM, Alec Empire (old stuff), Venetian Snares, Cinematic Orchestra, Peaches, Enduser, Ladyscraper, Drop The Lime, General Levy, Squarepusher, Ricardo Villalobos, The Knife, Richie Hawtin, Pigface, Fila Brazillia, Kid606, Knifehandchop, Luke Vibert, The KLF, Shy FX, Cutty Ranks, Boxcutter, µ-ziq, Judith Priest, LFO, Various Production, lots of old Jungle/rave & Detroit tech)

Noise - (Merzbow/Masami Akita, Acid Mothers Temple, Black Dice, Wolf Eyes, Sunn O))), Nurse With Wound, Throbbing Gristle, Mindflayer, 16 Bitch Pile Up)

...It never ends

Ultramagnetic MCs - "Poppa Large"

Lightning Bolt - "The Power of Salad & Milkshakes"

Movies:

El Topo, The Thing, Akira, Baraka, Gummo, Blade Runner, Powder, The Life Aquatic, Buffalo '66, Wave Twisters, Escape From New York, Fearless Vampire Killers, Slacker, Ghost Dog, Style Wars, The Blues Brothers, Caravaggio, Office Space, Brazil, The Holy Mountain, Blood the Last Vampire, Big Lebowski, The Great Silence, Sling Blade, Begotten, Bad Boy Bubby, Toxic Avenger, In Diana Jones and the Temple of Poon, Killer Tomatoes, Monsters of Art, Thank You for Smoking, Evil Dead, Kings Destroy, American History X, Labyrinth, Pi, 24 Hour Party People, The Warriors, Dead Mans Shoes, Lightning Bolt - The Power of Salad, Videodrome, Clerks, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Young Frankenstein, Ghost in the Shell, Naked Lunch, Natural Born Killers, Fargo, Willow, The Ipcress File, Zura Keiji, The Fifth Element, O Brother Where Art Thou?

Television:

Don't need TV, got internet!

Books:

Iain Banks, Masamune Shirow, Brian Azzarello, Joseph Heller, Terry Pratchet, Garth Ennis, William Gibson, J G Ballard, Orwell, Jim Carroll, Spike Milligan, Burroughs... Lots of Graphic Novels & Art books - Tank Girl, 100 Bullets, I am Ledgend, 2000 AD, Preacher, Sin City, The Maxx, Concrete, Guyver, Sandman, The Viz.

Heroes:

Montana Colours

James Randi