Records, guitar, singing, harmonica, bass, writing, Glastonbury Festival of music, going to gigs, Everton Football Club, Playing Soccerball, Goin the pub, Playing with fire/ melting stuff, Pro Evo, Enthusing, Boozing, Cruising in Brents Beetle, Candlelight, Moonlight, Sunlight, Country Pubs, The Nighttime, Travelling as and when I can, When night becomes morning and everyone is still awake, Reading a good book, Watching a good film, Doodling, Nay Mears' BBQ's, Camping, Conversation, Good intelligent comedy, Philosophy, Poetry, Snowball fights, Cups of tea and biscuits, days off work!
I'd like to meet:
Pat Sharp, the popular TV presenter turned disk jockey.
The man who stole my Francs @ Disneyland Paris circa 1993. Stealing from a child, honestly! Me Nan & Grandad were fuming
Bob Dylan so he could teach me a thing or two about writing a good tune. We'd have to breeze right over his 'Christian' period mind.
Music:
Love, Bob Dylan, Shack/The Pale Fountains/Michael Head and The Strands, The Velvet Underground, The Stone Roses / Ian Brown, The La's, The Byrds, The Band, Buddy Holly (and The Crickets), The Kinks, The Beatles, The Clash, Captain Beefheart, Bob Marley and The Wailers, Nuggets/Pebbles/Rubble(60's psych/garage - count five/the chocolate watchband/the seeds/the action etc), Verve, Cherrystones, The Stooges/Iggy, The Coral, All the bands that used to play the Bandwagon nights, Nic Armstrong, Syd Barrett / Early Floyd, Echo and the Bunnymen, Neil Young, Ryan Adams, Can, The Rolling Stones, Robert Johnson, Oasis, Nick Drake, The Stairs, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, The Smiths, Super Furry Animals, Johnny Cash, The Beach Boys, Tom Vek, The Fall, Sly and The Family Stone, 13th Floor Elevators, The Strokes, The Go-Betweens, Willy Mason, The Bees, Hank Williams, Bo Diddley, Spiritualized, Cast, Big Bill Broonzy, The Sonics, Blind Willie McTell, BRMC, Old blues/folk etc, Loadsa boss local bands who are knockin' about at the mo, and so on and so forth...
Movies:
THE WARRIORS!!!, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind,
The Shawshank Redemption, Napoleon Dynamite, Stand By Me,
Don't Look Back, The Wild One, Requiem For A Dream, Citizen Kane, The Last Waltz
Television:
Red Dwarf, Alan Partridge, Saxondale, Shameless, Only Fools and Horses, Bill Hicks, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, The Office, Mighty Boosh, The Young Ones, The Footy, Peep Show, Top Gear, Family Guy, Bat Fink.
Books:
Catch 22 (Joseph Heller),On The Road (Jack Kerouac), Cannery Row / Sweet Thursday (John Steinbeck), Bob Dylan:Chronicles, 1984 ( George Orwell), To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee), Various bands/musicians biographies, Kink (Dave Davies) , Charles Bukowski, Sylvia Plath (the bell jar, johnny panic & the bible of dreams etc), all of Nick Hornby's Books,beat writer stuff,Catcher In The Rye,The Great Gatsby (& other T.S Eliot), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson), Brave New World (Aldious Huxley) many more...
Heroes:
Bob Dylan, Arthur Lee, Buddy Holly, The Roses, Shack, La's, Joe Strummer... everyone in the music an books sections really.
Bill Hicks n all
