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Rachael

Imagination is more important than knowledge...

About Me

www.myspace.com/rwoodmusicCheck it out! Or click on me in my top friends.

My Interests

Cheese, Wine, Cooking, Running, Music.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone and Everyone! As for famous folk dead/alive: Frank Zappa, Graham Coxon, Brian Wilson, Ian Dury, The Moomins and The Chuckle Brothers.

Music:

LISTENING.. Current Favourites Cornelius, Radiohead, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Grandaddy, Graham Coxon, Super Furry Animals, RHCP, Supergrass, Guillemots, Sonic Youth, Frank Zappa, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, The Who, Readymade FC, Boy Least Likely to, Aaron King, Brian Wilson, The Spinto Band, Sparks, Sufjan Stevens, Alfie, The High Llamas, The Xcerts.///GUITAR HEROS AND INFLUENCES: The Legend, Jeff Beck, SRV, Jimi Hendrix, Graham Coxon, Johnny Greenwood, Frank Zappa, Larry Calton, Steve Vai (bah, I know it ain't cool but if wasn't for this guy I wouldn't be playing guitar), Pete Townsend, Nile Rogers, Jon Stewart. My mentors and teachers over the years.

Movies:

Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc, The Incredibles, Ice Age, Quadrophenia, Waynes World 1, Team America

Television:

Peep Show, Alan Partridge, Have I got News for You, QI (Yeah, we all like to PRETEND we are intellgent don't we?!)

Books:

The Dice Man(L. Rhineheart), Misery (S. King), The Real Frank Zappa book (F. Zappa), All Bill Bryson books, Quincy Jones Auto Biog, The Beano 1988 manual.

Heroes:



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My Blog

ESP, trampolines and thanks!

It's been a while, but I like to collect a few bit's of information so my blogs say more then "I taught some kids and drank brandy this month" Paul's foot finally mended in November and we went straig...
Posted by Rachael on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:30:00 PST

Short skirts, Prince and broken bones

It's been a good few months since my last rambling blog... so here is another joy for your reading (dis)pleasure. I done and seen a few exciting gigs since July.... Here's a list of each: Done: Halder...
Posted by Rachael on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:49:00 PST

Winehouse Rocks! UK Rocks! Fuji ROCKS!!!!

The past two weeks have been extremely happy... I even managed to smile a few times (yep, I can actually smile) and once my mood went above "average". Me and my moody buddy Alani actually laughed in T...
Posted by Rachael on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 11:18:00 PST

Videos, gigs and birthday cider

Three words to describe June: Busy, Jolly good fun and cider (ok that was five words) The month began with INTENSIVE Paul Steel rehearsals. We all discovered that we love Steely Dan (ok, we all knew t...
Posted by Rachael on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:46:00 PST

Rising and falling

This blog is going to describe the following: Banannas, Monitor hatred, cheese and wine. The month began with a rather unexpected episode: Paul Steel went away to LA and returned as a Bananna (The pro...
Posted by Rachael on Sun, 20 May 2007 11:36:00 PST

Touring

So two weeks of Paul Steel mahem is up, and I can truely say I had a blast on tour! But now I'm feeling it, oh yes... I thought I was drinking Vimto, I swear! Anyway: here's a  list of the places...
Posted by Rachael on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:36:00 PST

Tour, recording and other shameless self promotion

It's been a busy old couple of weeks for me... but I'm going to keep this Blog short and sweet. I plan to keep a tour diary when I go away with Paul Steel this Sunday.... so can fill everyone in ...
Posted by Rachael on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 02:27:00 PST

CHUNGA, Jan blues and Bowling

Hurrah! No Janurary blues for me this year. I usually sulk a little bit after christmas.... I normally have a miserable face and a hangover for a few weeks. This year I have had the usual sugar&...
Posted by Rachael on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 05:09:00 PST

New Year happiness

It's been a while since I've graced the blog section so I thought I'd do a festive/new year update (like everyone else on myspace) Had a marvellous chrimbo and ate some fine food. I thought I had a mi...
Posted by Rachael on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:00:00 PST

Magazines and wine

A little background to this Blog may be appropriate: Date: July 2005 I finish doing my mega project for college. I did my project on "Writing the Perfect Magazine Article". This project took almost tw...
Posted by Rachael on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 02:32:00 PST