Member Since: 5/16/2007
Band Website: cruelbrit.co.uk
Band Members: "...I’m sick of following my dreams. I’m just going to ask them where they’re going and hook up with them later..."
I’m the presenter of FADEOUT, the Dark Alternative show on the ROCK247 ONLINE Internet Rock Radio station. It’s a great channel for me to play the best in Goth, Industrial, Darkwave, the whole bloody barrel...
One time Resident DJ of the legendary Midlands goth & alternative night HEX IN THE CITY. I’m now one of the Resident DJ’s for Birmingham’s very own Stiletto Promotions.
I’m also a musician of questionable level in various disciplines in a band called NEXUS VI, but I mostly do remix work for bands, often slapping in oodles of contemporary bomtempi & cranked-up electrical guitars where necessary.
I’m lucky to have collaborated with some of the greatest minds of the Dark Alternative scene (almost purely to bore the pants off my grandchildren with tales about it later in life).
YOU MIGHT HAVE SEEN ME DJ-ING AT THE FOLLOWING SPOTS;
Hex In The City, Wolverhampton, July 2003-Sept 2007
Pandemonium @ The Haygate, Telford
Funeral Nation @ JB’s, Dudley
Skin Deep @ The Cobra Club, Wolverhampton
The Last Dance/RazorBladeKisses @ The Jailhouse, Coventry
Whitby Gothic Weekend Oct ’06 (Metropole overspill event)
Whitby Gothic Weekend Apr ’07
Stilettos Goth All-Dayer @ The Rainbow, Birmingham Sept ’07
Deviant/Saints of Eden/Sugarfiend @ The Warehouse, Birmingham Jan ’08
Resurrection @ The Barfly, Birmingham March ’08
Influences: Musically...ALL ABOUT EVE / ALIEN SEX FIEND / APOPTYGMA BERZERK / ASSEMBLAGE 23 / BAUHAUS / BIRTHDAY MASSACRE / BOLSHOI / BREATH OF LIFE / CINEMA STRANGE / COVENANT / CULT / CURE / CRUXSHADOWS / DEPECHE MODE / DIARY OF DREAMS / DREADFUL SHADOWS / DREAM DISCIPLES / ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN / ELUSIVE / FACES OF SARAH / FAITH & THE MUSE / FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM / GENE LOVES JEZEBEL / GODHEAD / HANZEL UND GRETYL / HORATII / IKON / INKUBUS SUKKUBUS / JOY DIVISION / KILLING JOKE / KOOPER KAIN / L'AME IMMORTELLE / LAST DANCE / LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT / LOVE AND ROCKETS / MARCH VIOLETS / MEPHISTO WALZ / MESH / MISSION / NEW MODEL ARMY / NINE INCH NAILS / GARY NUMAN / ORGY / PINS & NEEDLES / PHOENIX NEBULIN / RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY / ROSETTA STONE / SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES / SISTERS OF MERCY / SKELETAL FAMILY / SUSPIRIA / TAPPING THE VEIN / V.A.S.T. / VNV NATION / WOLFSHEIM / XPQ21 / YOUNG GODS / ZEROMANCER...and all that lies inbetween.
Socially...The friends I made over the years from the Dark Alternative & Goth scene,
The experience of discovering I was a 'goth' before it even had a name simply by listening to the appropriate music & doing the appropriate things (all that black clothing really was about not having to wash it too often as a teenager),
Cats (the animals, not the musical),
Discovering that parenthood is enjoyable and not necessarily about beating the crap out of your kids at the supermarket,
And finally, the vain hope that one day, I will master that bloody unicycle I was bought for my birthday.
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Record Label: self released
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