I play geeeeetaw, bass and keyboards and shit like that. I used to be in various Pompey bands (check out the Beatrimes for some classic rock 'n' roll / dance / indie / metal) However, times change. I'm now a top journo rock 'n' roller and do press shit for some local musical ensembles. I also front Glitterball Riot under the pseudonym Status Stevens. But that's a secret, so keep it shtum, yeah?
Other than that I go to (hundreds) of gigs, play chess and draughts, run, swim, read, dance as much like Mick Jagger as I can, see as much of the world as possible (on my meagre income) cook up culinary delights and play football for my five-a-side team, Blind Cyclops FC.
In fact. I'm quite the busy bunny.
I'd like to meet:
If I don't already know you and you're not Jack White, Richard Fortus, Ronny Wood or Axl Rose then it's probably not worth trying to add me. Unless you wanna commission me to write something or you look like our Nelly Furtado (or both, perhaps?) Then we'll talk...
This is shoe flinging. It's a game invented by my old MK mates and myself in about 1995. Check it the fuck out!
I also look like these famous people. Apparently. So now we realise I'm the spit of Johnny Depp I'm expecting the ladies to form an orderly queue, no?
Music:
Well, where to begin...
Obviously with the mighty Guns N' Roses. And then onto Black Crowes, Groove Armada, Bootsy Collins, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Sky Diving Penguins, Muse, Scratch Perverts, Amy Winehouse, The Faces, The Smiths, Kings of Leon, Stevie Wonder, Dolly Parton, The Cure, Wu Tang Clan, The Quireboys, Electric 6, Ash, Primal Scream, Motley Crue, Beverley Knight, Parliament, Rolling Stones, White Stripes, The Racketeers, Cypress Hill, Bright Eyes, Pixies, Gorillaz, Girls Aloud, Talking Heads, James Brown, Prince, Stone Roses, Al Green, Kasabian, Alice Cooper, Prodigy, Suede, Burning Brides, Eminem, Bjork, Curtis Mayfield, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sugababes, Michael Jackson, The Rebs, Junior Senior, Von Bondies, Marvin Gaye, The Zutons, Scarlet Soho, Tsar, Oasis, Jamiroquai, Silvertide, Daft Punk, Mista Mushroom, The Kills, Libertines, The Junket, Kiss, Nelly Furtado, Journey, Manic Street Preachers, Public Enemy, Moloko, Nick Cave, Take That, Rage Against The Machine, Ike & Tina, Radiohead, Raconteurs, Stellastarr*, AC/DC, Jane's Addiction, Flesh, Jurassic 5, NIN, Dusty Springfield, The Answer, Jack Adaptor, Funkadelic, Boy Kill Boy, Basement Jaxx, Hole, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Snoop Dogg, Aretha Franklin, Smashing Pumpkins, Wannadies, Beatles, Steely Dan, Alice in Chains, Depeche Mode, REM, Pearl Jam, Cardigans, Placebo, Sisters of Mercy, Dr Dre, Mansun, Charlotte Church, The Datsuns, ELO, McAlmont & Butler, The Strokes, NWA, Jimi Tenor, Rush, Lenny Kravitz. Oh, man. The list is endless...
But basically anything that's decent and knows its place in the musical spectrum. Pefect example: Biology by Girls Aloud - fanstastic pop record. Doesn't try and be anything it isn't. Just a great pop record. Conversely, Keane - you're not a hip fucking indie band; you're mindless insipid shit. So don't try and con me. See?
Movies:
Aliens, Watership Down, The Wicker Man, Some like it hot, Leon, Fight Club. Beyond that I dunno really. Pretty much anything. Just not each summer's blockbuster. You know the one you get every year with the same fucking plot. Why oh why? I hate those licenses to print money!
Television:
I now have a TV, but don't tend to watch it. I prefer the safety of comedic DVDs like Partridge, The Day Today, The Office, Darkplace, Peep Show, Brass Eye, Family Guy and Simpsons (especially any featuring Sideshow Bob.) If I'm at the folks' I like to watch C4 news and CSI. But only really Vegas.
By the way this is literally the funniest sketch I've ever seen. If you don't find it funny you're a twat, frankly.
Books:
Orwell and stuff influenced by Orwell mostly. I'll read anything though. As long as it looks like I can quote from it pretentiously.
Heroes:
Surprisingly enough these are mostly musicians (and then mainly guitarists). Starting with the man whose music changed my life irrecoverably and even now influences it like no other: Bernard Butler. I'll follow him up with other legends such as Dylan Thomas, Jack White, Axl Rose, Prince, Keith Richards, Bootsy Collins George Orwell, Izzy Stradlin, Ron Wood, Christopher Morris and the almighty Richard Fortus (is there anything that man can't do with a guitar?) You know, the usual I'm sure. If you've actually read this far then I believe we're not all that different, you and I...
