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martyn

wanna be in my band ??

About Me

I go to work all over the place, no more commuting for me :) I'm a very loveable person. I love text messages. I sing in the shower. I hate my feet. I can never decide what to wear. I love the smell of napalm in the morning I always have to sleep in a cool quiet dark room. I can never sleep with covers on. I love to travel abroad I love to swim. I am addicted to caffiene I’d love getting pampered. I love football. COME ON YOU SPURS! I love golf too, I've played it all my life. I LOVE to love, but my baby just wants to dance !!. I still listen to some cassettes, and vinyl too I can be serious and I can be silly at times too. I love the way music makes me feel. I’d like to dance in the rain.Take a deep breath, get a coffee and read on, it goes on a bit! Born with a smile on my face (a hit for Stephanie de Sykes in 1974),I love music, (as my very good friends The O’Jays once said) all types most styles, but not over keen on what passes for R n B in the 21st century.Funny, clever, quick witted (are the things I'd aspire to being)I enjoy travelling, in the last few years apart from the job, we've been to Italy, France (Paris most recently) , Spain (Seville is spectacular, as is San Sebastian) and Holland (of coursh)Hoping to get to Las Vegas this year for my 50th (sunrise at the Grand Canyon and Elvis in the evening) what day (I know Elvis doesn't do shows any more, but we live in hope) well High Wycombe actuallyCurrently working for a legal services company, carrying out conveyancing searches. I get about all over the south of England (from Birmingham to the South Coast and From Witney in Oxfordshire to Bishops Stortford in the East.(I probably did the search on your house)I know what you're thinking...... (this guy's a physic) or is it psychic ? I Dunno,For the record, married, mortgaged, two kids and 2 dogs, huge collection of CD's and vinyl and a juke box in the garage.Hope the picture and the long and rambling profile don't put you off too much (web cam pictures aren't the most flattering) !I also play golf, a magician in the kitchen, listen to Radio 2 and read the Daily Mail, that’s enough to put everyone off

My Interests

I play golf, I have a huge collection of cd's, vinyl, tapes and downloads (see below) travel and and when possible, reading, cooking and anything ending in "ing"

I'd like to meet:

musicians, I have a long held desire to form a Commitments type band, but not just motown and stax and old rnb, but reggae, rock n roll, and all sorts really

Music:

My fave songs are Aretha's "say a little prayer for you, and the Temps "just my imagination" but a like allsorts really, rock rhythm and jazz to quote chuck berry. I'll give anything at least one listen, Ray Charles, Beatles, Stones, Who, Stax and Motown, Steely Dan, Eagles, Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton, Rod, Elton, Phil and Cat Stevens (or Yusuf, as he is now known) all the stuff a guy of my age would like !The big faves just now are Amy Winehouse, The Kaisers, Scissor Sisters, Coldplay, Joss Stone, James Morrison, Paulo Nutini, Ray le Montagne, Lemar, and James Hunter, so I can be quite up to date when the mood takes me, I'm not totally immersed in the 1970's

Movies:

all time faves are the blues brothers, and the commitments, the long good friday and Heat are classics in my opinion, I'm not really into "dramas" or horror, but like a good story, some laughs and songs ........

Television:

24 and The Sopranos are still the best things on TV, I love anything Ricky Gervais does, I'm sure David Brent is based on me hahahha, Doctor Who, Father Ted and other stuff

Books:

All of the Dan Browns, Mr Nice by Howard Marks is a belter and would make a great film, but I can't see a story about a drugs dealer being glamourised somehow

Heroes:

Greavsie !!Morgan Freeman surely the coolest man on the planet !! or maybe Samuel L Jackson, Dhamachari Nagarajah and Yusuf Islam (I did meet him once on Baker Street station, and he was so at peace with himself) Ray Charles