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macca

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About Me

... known variously as either Macca or Big Neil - old enough to know better starting one of these sites, but hey what the hell you're only young once ... ( I think ! )

My Interests

Live music, sport, films, and gettin' out and about ...

I'd like to meet:

y'awl ...

Music:

Very broad taste from The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Byrds and The Beach Boys in the 60's through Prog Rock and Punk in the 70's. Ska / Reggae in particular Dub.Indie in particular Scottish indie / alternative, Country, Alt-country, Americana, slow blues, folk, traditional scottish music ...My Favourite band has to be Teenage Fanclub.

Movies:

Woody Allen, Amelie, Cyrano De Bergerac, Dead Poets Society, The Life of Brian, Most Gangster / Mafia films, Vietnam Films, Breaking Away, Bill Forsyth movies, Garden State, Lost In Translation, David Lynch... Planes Trains and Automobiles, Bugsy Malone, Chariots Of Fire, Whisky Galore, Trainspotting, Quentin Tarantino, The Last Waltz, No Direction Home ...

Television:

Vic and Bob, The Mighty Boosh, Twin Peaks, Morecambe and Wise, Spike Milligan, Arrested Development, Curb your Enthusiasm, The Simpsons ... I also enjoy watching most sports.Current fave - Life On Mars

Books:

Lanark, James Kelman, Alan Warner, Iain Banks, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Curious Tale of ..., A Clockwork Orange, The Assassins Cloak, An Incredible Story of ..., Norman MacCaig, Alan Bisset, Jonathan Livingston Seagull,Recently it's been mainly Music biog / autobiographies including Chronicles , Hotel California, Joe Strummer and at the moment I am currently reading - Gene Clark Mr Tambourine Man

Heroes:

Chic Murray, Groucho Marx , Ivor Cutler, Muhammed Ali, George Best, Davie Cooper, Woody Allan ...