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MacManus Vs Black Widow

GREY DATURAS new album "RETURN TO DISRUPTION" out now!!!! On Neurot Recordings (US & Europe) / H

About Me



BLACK WIDOW SHOWS:

October - Melbourne
9th @ Old Bar w/ Ai Yamamoto, Chris Smith, Candle Snuffer

These are the various projects that keep me busy:

* GREY DATURAS
(Making noise since 2001)
* BLACK WIDOW
(My solo improv project)
* GREY SKULLS
(Bonnie and I from Grey Daturas as a duo)
* MAGIC DIRT / ROKY'S ROOM
(I played on a record with Magic Dirt under the name Roky's Room)
* AUDIBLE DELUSIONS ENSEMBLE
(An Oakland, California based art noise band i play in)
* MUST HAVE NO MAGIC
(Another art noise band i play in from Oakland, CA)
* HEATHEN SKULLS
(My record label / booking agency)

MUST HAVE NO MAGIC: Live - Hemlock Tavern, San Francisco: Jan 2nd, 2007

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GREY DATURAS live @ New Town RSL Sydney supporting Wolf Eyes: June 2006

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My Interests

Film, Music, Reading, Traveling and stuff.

Music:


The one and only, Syd Barrett!

These are only a few of the many bands that i'm into: THE MISFITS, Danzig, Black Flag, My Disco, Agents of Abhorrance, High Places, Fabulous Diamonds, Blarke Bayer, Dad They Broke Me, The Cramps, The Germs, X (Both the Australian and US X), Dead Kennedys, The Regulations, Early Man, Municipal Waste, His Hero Has Gone, NASUM, The Electric Wizard, Converge, ISIS, American Nightmare / Give up the Ghost, Suicide File, Tribes of Neurot, Neurosis, The Throans, Sunn O)), Bardo Pond, Boris, Mammatus, Comets on Fire, OM, Sleep, Earth, Merzbow, Dark Throan, Burzum, The Black Dalia Murder, Pig Destroyer, The Locusts, Jr Ewing, Hot Snakes, The Panthers, Orchid, The Red Scare, Slayer, Bikini Kill, Huggy Bear, The VSS, Year Future, The Ex-Models, The Seconds, YYY's, Drive Like Jehu, Fugazi, Minor Threat, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Guns N Roses, KISS, Turbonegro, The Stooges, The MC5, The Sonics, Simply Saucer, Silver Apples, Radio Birdman, Scientists, Beasts of Burbon, The Saints, The Shaggs, Thela, Chris Smith, Dead C, Gate, Birchville Cat Motel, Black Boned Angel, Campbell Kneil, 3rd Octave Band, Gordons, 3D's, Erics Trip, My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, Unwound, Gang Of Four, The Pop Group, This Heat, Primitive Calculators, The Dirty Three, Einstuerzende Neubauten, Die Haut, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Birthday Party, Boys Next Door, Howling Wolf, Tom Waits, Captain Beefheart, The Mothers Of Invention, Syd Barrett (early Pink Floyd), Skip Spence, John Coltrain, Sun Ra, Elvin Jones, Rahied Ali, Brian Chase, Ornett Coleman, Albert Ayler, Phorah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Peter Brotzman, The Contortions, Lydia Lunch / Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Mars, DNA, Sea Scouts, Vodka Party, Johnny Cash, The Lovin Brothers, Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Seeds, The Monks, Jefferson Airplane, Great Society, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Yardbirds, Pretty Things, The New York Dolls, Johnny Thunders, Television, The Ramones, The Velvet Underground, The Dream Syndicate, The Modern Lovers, Nick Drake, Joanna Newsome, The Spontanious Music Essemble, Glenn Branka, Melt Banana, The Boredoms, Denudes, John Zorn, Lightning Bolt, Wolf Eyes, Yellow Swans, Burmeze......

Movies:

Wim Wenders
Akira Kurosawa
Alfred Hitchcock
Andrei Tarkovsky
Dario Argento
David Lynch
Felini
George Melies
George Miller
Hal Hartly
Ingmar Bergman
Ishi Sogo
Jean Luc Godard
Jean-Pierre Jeunet / Caro
Jim Jarmusch
John Hughes
John Waters
Jose Mojica Marins (Coffin Joe)
Man Ray
Mario Bava
Martin Scorsese
Park Chan-Wook
Peter Greenway
Roman Polanski
Russ Meyer
Spike Lee
Stan Brakhage
Stanley Kubrick
Truffaut

Avant Garde
Bio-Pics
Documentaries
Early German Expressionism
Experimental
French New Wave
Mockumentary’s
Music
Surrealism

Books:

I read a lot of biography's on Music and Film.
Motley Crue: The Dirt, Lords of Chaos and AC/DC: Maximum Rock n Roll are essential reading.
Charles Bukowski and Hunter S Thompson are my two favouret authors.

My Blog

Grey Daturas - New Album out now!

Grey Daturas highly anticipated 3rd album Return to Disruption is now out!After nearly two years of recording and waiting, it's finally released.It's available on Neurot Recordings in the US & Europe ...
Posted by MacManus Vs Black Widow on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 03:22:00 PST