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About Me

*Dirty Hands will be headlining moog in Leeds at the Cardigan Arms on Kirkstall Road, you should come!I am Stef, I go by many names, Kelly, Screb and other not so nice ones. I have black hair and brown eyes. I'm en peut Francaise et Anglais and recently found out I'm apparently a bit Jewish too. Woo for multi-culturalism. I don't sleep very much because I'm a bit of an insomniac which is why I often look like a panda or a smack head. I'm not the most aware person apparently I'm some weird mix of dyslexic and dyspraxic, fuck knows, all I know is I often find myself falling over after unknowingly head-butting a lamp-post or tree. I like to write songs on the guitar and sing with my band 'Dirty Hands'. I think we are good, hope you do too. I love all kinds of music but I guess bands like Nirvana, Pixies and Gorillaz etc are pretty big influences.To view my band please click the following links (its good, really!):Dirty HandsEdit: my old band Astronauts was up here, but that kind of fell apart and I left, its still going I think but minus my vocals, kinda going soundscape or some such thing, je ne sais pas.

My Interests

Singing - Guitaring - Drumming - Bass Guitaring - Poetry - Politics - General Musicage

I'd like to meet:

People, Aliens, my parents when they were my age, Quentin Tarantino, Bradley Nowell or Karl MarxView All Friends | View Blog | Add Comment

Music:

www.myspace.com/dirtyhandsthebandPoems/SongsShadow Puppetscrippled minds and jumbled souls shattering skies down the rabbit hole you wake up one day and find you ain't got nothing to saythe past love of ages gone limit the future as comparisions blare and share nothing is right with the world as perceptions mist and your lost in the chaos you've formed and fearwhatever happened to those misty eyed days open to the world instead of broken in this way shattered wings glide towards uncertain prospects somethings in the way and I'm lost in its effects, my mind has gone astraywould'nt it be nice to be truly free free from the tragedy of modernity and uncertainty open arms and foreign love lost dreams and memories, empty and alone looking aboveI'm so tired of being down break free and weave a mesh of sound such things keep the shadows away as ruin creeps in and the lies begineveryone tries to be something apart from themselves were all liars stuck in the shadows of liars heroes and legends, mirror images and parallel dimensions

Movies:

Trainspotting, Donnie Darko, Mysterious Skin, Star Wars, Clerks, Amelie, Pulp Fiction, A Clockwork Orange,Indiana Jones, Human Traffic, Dazed and Confused.

Television:

I don't really get time to watch it anymore, though in some ways that isn't a bad thing. After all the mental conditioning I got as a kid, it could be good for some freedom from such things. Though Heroes and Angel are good TV shows :p

Books:

The God Delusion, Ender's Game, Keats, A Vindication For the Rights of Woman (and Men), Common Sense, X-Men Comics, Buffy Season 8 Comics, Fray, Dr Faustus, Red Dragon

Heroes:

Stan Lee, Damon Albarn, Thom Yorke, Joss Whedon, Yoshinori Kitase, Brad Nowell, John Keats, Karl Marx, Peter Molyneux, Mary Wollstonecraft and yes Kurt Cobain... not because he killed himself, but he was an amazing musician and his politics were minter burger

My Blog

Random poem/song possibly

crippled minds and jumbled soulsshattering skies down the rabbit holeyou wake up one day and find you ain't got nothing to saythe past love of ages gone limit the future as comparisions bla...
Posted by Stef Emp on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:24:00 PST

Star and Garter

its just too pretentious, I mean I can be pretentious at the best of times but it really is extreme pretenciousness like penguins the size of elephants wearing berets and smoking pi...
Posted by Stef Emp on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:55:00 PST

Nirvana

totally not under-rated, one of the best bands in the world, they are not a cliche and Mr Cobain captured tennage angst amazingly, that. is. all I have to say on the matter.
Posted by Stef Emp on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 06:13:00 PST

Chasing Sonia: New myspace address - www.myspace.com/chasingsonia

seemed a good idea, as we are no longer called mintcake and mintcake2 kind of did'nt have any relevance nor make any sense :p
Posted by Stef Emp on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:30:00 PST

Astronauts: 15th August - Chorley FM

We were on Chorley FM on the 15th, however I just found out, and ben missed it too, alas, hope people liked it, and thanks very much to the lady (Shelly) who organised it....
Posted by Stef Emp on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 04:06:00 PST

Chasing Sonia: New Recordings - Now Available

We finally finished recording our four new tracks this evening, two of which are up on our myspace "www.myspace.com/mintcake2", Go check them out, there pretty mint if I do say so m...
Posted by Stef Emp on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 03:33:00 PST

Chasing Sonia: New Recordings - 14th of July

We already have the Drums and Guitars down, so the vocals are going to be layed down on the 12th as well as the mixing (hopefully), some if not all the new recording will be put on ...
Posted by Stef Emp on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:03:00 PST

Chasing Sonia: 12th of June, The Carelton, Morecombe

We had a gig last night in Morecombe and it went fairly well---ish. Bad start, as we ended finding out a load of equipment was not about we were promised, luckily we managed to sort...
Posted by Stef Emp on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:12:00 PST

Band Name Change: Mintcake now = Chasing Sonia

see the title
Posted by Stef Emp on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:45:00 PST

Astronauts: New Recordings - Now Available

Got some new tracks up on the Astronauts site, kinda going for an EP like thing, check it out and give us feedback, be it good or negative. 2 of the songs are new, the other two are...
Posted by Stef Emp on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:02:00 PST