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About Me

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A Brief History of Silhobbit.com
December 1989: Fanzine "Silhobbiton" created by Canterbury art student Chorlton Cumardi - 200 issues photocopied
January 1991: A name change to "Silhobbit", and a new mis-spelt logo designed by 'My Little Pony' artist Pete Nicholls sees sales rocket to 500 of issue 3 and magazine is sold to Ball Boy Print plc
May 1991: Magazine has facelift for issue 4 and features a free flexi-dik giveaway featuring Yes and The Enid. Edited by Robert Ball
April 1992: New Editor Charlie O'Mara buys magazine and debts for £1. Issue 8 hits the streets.
May 1996: After 33 issues the magazine closes due to expensive court battle with SI Magazine.
Silhobbit bankrupt owing £4000
January 2000: Silhobbit rises from the ashes like Pheonix - This time as a web based portal at www.silhobbit.com
January 2002: Silhobbit.com gets huge financial investment and backing enables complete re-vamp of www.silhobbit.com !
May 2002: Launch of Silhobbit's "Sil-Lotto" prize winning game. Over 800 progkids register in the first week.
June 2005: Launch of Silhobbit's MySpace page here
I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V3.6 !

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Shakira, Nelson Mandela, Tara Palmer Llama Farmer, Steve Hughes, Karl Pilkington, Shakira, Thierry Henry, Lisa Rogers, Sarah Hendy, Shakira, Dr Tanya Byron, Shakira, Imogen Heap, the boys and girls from Jump

Music:

Progressive Rock Marillion, IQ, Pendragon, Jadis, Kino, Porcupine Tree, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Big Big Train, Pure Reason Revolution, Fish, Magenta, Queensryche...
Singer / Songwriters Nerina Pallot, Missy Higgins, Imogen Heap, PJ Harvey, Kate Bush, Amy Wadge, Suzanne Vega, Tori Amos...
Others The Urbane, The Dresden Dolls, SOAD, Metallica, Megadeth, Kings X, Aerosmith, Mansun, Stephen Lynch...

Movies:

Nikita, Leon, The Italian Job, Amelie, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, Star Wars, Lord Of The Rings, Usual Suspects, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, The Transporter, A Right Royal Cockney Barrel Of Monkies, Die Hard, Natural Born Killers, Reservoir Dogs, Alien, Wicker Man, Nosferatu, Cube, Shaun Of The Dead, Donnie Darko, Blade Trilogy, Star Wars Trilogy

Television:

The Office, X-Files, Buffy, Lost, Friends, Cold Case, Extras, Twin Peaks, Alan Partridge, Bones, Black Adder, Red Dwarf, Curb Your Enthusiasm, NCIS

Books:

Ian Rankin, Peter Robinson, Christopher Brookmyre, Kathy Reichs, Michael Moorcock, JRRRRR Tolkien, Iain Banks, Carl Hiaasen, John Harvey, Mark Bellingham, Donna Leon, Ed McBain, Michael Jecks, HG Wells

My Blog

Fish and Marillion - Aylesbury 26 August 2007

Fish(and Marillion)Market Square Aylesbury26th August 2007Ah Aylesbury. The self styled "Home of Prog". The old town has always been proud of its musical heritage, as evidenced by the Marillion Collec...
Posted by Silhobbit on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:08:00 PST

Tankus the Henge, at the Water Rats 15th June

Well what haven't we already said about Tankus the Henge. Ok, so fa...
Posted by Silhobbit on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:38:00 PST

Neal Morse, Spocks Beard, Steve Thorne, Dial at IO Pages Festival Boerderij, Holland May 2007

A great man once wrote 'So here I am once more...' but I don't think he was talking about the Departure L...
Posted by Silhobbit on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:34:00 PST

Blind Ego & Sylvan at the Boerderij review

OK, I thought that I had it all planned out, I did. Flight booked. Gig ticket sorted. Accommodation in the bag. Money changed. Even had the airport car park booked. Then my car had to in to the garage...
Posted by Silhobbit on Wed, 16 May 2007 06:01:00 PST

No Smoke, without fire...

EDITORIAL - No Smoke (from July 1st 2007) without Fire Regulations for England come into effect at 6am on Sunday 1st July 2007. From this date smoking will no longer be permitted in any enclosed...
Posted by Silhobbit on Tue, 15 May 2007 05:53:00 PST

Don't make Soup out of Magpies!

EDITORIAL - Don't Make Soup out of Magpies.I don't want people to panic but now is the time to prepare for the worst. The inevitable has now happened and every bird in the world is threatened. The vir...
Posted by Silhobbit on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:58:00 PST

EDITORIAL - Making Soup out of Magpies

EDITORIAL - Making Soup out of Magpies.ProggyStyle has now gone global!This is great news for the up-n-coming bands and the bigger bands who want Stateside increased brand-recognition. In a few days t...
Posted by Silhobbit on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:30:00 PST

2006 - a quickie look back

EDITORIAL2006 - The year that has Been.I've finally found internet and digital radio and I'm loving it! Currently I'm listening to three great stations, Progrock.com, Total Rock and Planet Rock. All t...
Posted by Silhobbit on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:01:00 PST

EDITORIAL - Blown away by Christmas

EDITORIAL Blown away by ChristmasWith the festivities only weeks away, many of our overseas readers will party, gorge on a feast of festive food, and perhaps drink a bit too much!In Hemel Hempstead it...
Posted by Silhobbit on Sat, 25 Nov 2006 07:39:00 PST

Mick Pointer and Friends - Script For A Jester's Tear one off special gig

Mick Pointer has announced that he will be playing the entire Script For A Jester's Tear at a special one-off gig early next year.For full details, including band line-up, venue and ticket prices, see...
Posted by Silhobbit on Sat, 25 Nov 2006 07:31:00 PST