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Jonny

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About Me



I play drums for Take A Worm For A Walk Week, Hindle Wakes, Emma Pollock, Strike The Colours and live drums for Loss Leader.

I'm also available for session work. mail me here if you're interested.

I am engaged to the most amazing girl on the planet.

My Interests

Drumming, synthing (though not so much these days), music, fucked up noise, nice soothing noise, evil, metal, wood, plastic, tour buses, sushi, final fantasy 7 onwards, general debauchery, bagels, nintendo, jack daniels, the enchanting sounds of the recorder, fire, free jagermeister, jager red bull, 'dancing', being on tour, buckfast chronic wine, MEAT, sleeping all day and not sleeping at all for days.

I'd like to meet:



Dafties.

Speak!

Music:

the cure, jeff buckley, isis, iron monkey, fantomas, manic street preachers, placebo, depeche mode, tool, aereogramme, torqamada, converge, scott walker, arab strap, battles, nine inch nails, cursive, smashing pumpkins, bat for lashes, sigur ros, midlake, frightened rabbit, joy division, whoresx3, black sun, prince, burnt by the sun, envy, pj harvey, red sparowes lapsus linguae, at the drive in, low, decapitated, killing joke, dimmu borgir, 80's matchbox b-line disaster, deftones, zeke, a perfect circle, darkthrone, henk, johnny truant, rage against the machine, refused, khanate, radiohead, the faint, pretty girls make graves, the locust, black sabbath, dillinger escape plan, slayer, modern life is war, the smackdown, van halen, guapo, bjork, desalvo, blood brothers, loss leader, dokaka, the delgados, secret machines, my cousin i bid you farewell, cult of luna, narcosis, titus gein, melt banana, daughters!, holy molar, buddy rich, tears for fears, an albatross, grinderman, some girls, meshuggah, the new pornographers, vangelis, my bloody valentine, quincy jones, john parr, head wound city, beecher, the who, with scissors, rolo tomassi, wesley willis, the twilight sad, deerhoof, brakes, angelo badalamenti, galchen, desaparecidos, benjy ferree, why?, led zeppelin, nick cave and the bad seeds...

Movies:

I love movies, can't list all my favorites cos it would take forever. Mostly asian cinema.... Mostly.

Television:



Snuffelupugus
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Books:

Schmooks

Heroes:

Schmeroes.

My Blog

Watch me hitting stuff for Emma Pollock here...

Watch the full set recorded at Webster Hall, New York here. This was recorded back in October when we opened for The New Pornographers on their fall tour.http://www.baeblemusic.com/Concerts/WebsterHal...
Posted by Jonny on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:42:00 PST

Take A Worm..BBC Radio 1 Session Here

Listen to our recent Radio 1 session here. Talking plus playing shite..http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/player/?item=44534618xx
Posted by Jonny on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:37:00 PST

Take A Worm.. Split EP Released 25th Februaury

Our split EP featuring our pals With Scissors and Orion Arm and including songs from our forthcoming 2nd album is coming out 25th February 2008 on Small Town Records, here's some patter.WITH SCISSORS ...
Posted by Jonny on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:27:00 PST

Kerrang and Rock Sound reviews

The Take a worm album got some awesome reviews. Kerrang said it had "all the commercial appeal of a snuff movie" KKKK. Rock sound said "TAWFAWW's 15 minute debut will leave you feeling disorientated,...
Posted by Jonny on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:57:00 PST

Take a worm in Rock Sound..

Take a worm have an exposure feature in this months issue of rock sound plus we're on the cover CD. Yas. Go check it out! xx
Posted by Jonny on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 06:56:00 PST

Take a worm for a walk week sign to midmarch records!

Our album will be out late November.Yas.xx
Posted by Jonny on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:15:00 PST

Take a Worm for a Walk Week album recorded

We've been in forth street studios for two days and recorded an album of 13 tracks coming in at 14 mins. Tracks are being mixed by Ian Cook of Aereogramme and we shall post some on myspace.com/take...
Posted by Jonny on Wed, 01 Mar 2006 12:22:00 PST

Julia thirteen ep (finally, something gets released..)

Our first ep is to be released on the 13th of march on console records and will be available in all the usual record buying type places. The tracklisting is, Hands on heart (non album track) Tw...
Posted by Jonny on Thu, 26 Jan 2006 05:33:00 PST

TAKE A WORM FOR A WALK WEEK

I joined this band on kit a couple of months ago. Check us out, if you like it, add us! www.myspace.com/takeaworm It's like the locust fighting dillinger escape plan with a big heavy iron stick ...
Posted by Jonny on Thu, 24 Nov 2005 04:57:00 PST