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Tom

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I am the Demos Editor for the Future Sounds column of www.rockfeedback.com. Please feel free to contact me re; reviewing any new bands. Also a novelist, chipping away at the 2nd re-write of the 2nd novel- I'm hoping it's symmetry that governs this one-little else appears to be. A completed novel lies unpublished, buried deep in my C-drive, to be dug up for the retrospective in 2080.Likes: the good stuff: live music, love, friendship, sex, classic cars, oldest dreams and in secret highest bids on ebay, Campfires and friends, justice, afternoon tea, psycho-geography, Mr Men, writing my novel, old mini coopers, the river, afternoons in the pub, gardening, R2D2, Celeb. love island (1st series), Six feet Under (every series) and free cash hand outs.Best advice? That a decent pair of jeans can save the day.Dislikes: Tescos, the fact that if you like live music in London you have to drink Carling, the fact that there’s nowhere left to explore on horseback with a saddlebag of gin and a dogeared copy of 'how to win friends and influence people who didn't want you to ride over their sacred buriel sites 'back there' and now want to kill you', and that I haven’t been to the moon.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Mr Bump, Neil Tennant, Milan Kundera, Paul Auster, God,

Music:

New Order, Pet Shop Boys, the Smiths, Deep Dish, The Killers, Delays, Saint Etienne, Elvis (all sizes), The Magic Numbers, U2 (circa Actung Baby), Kings of Convenience, James, KLF, Prefab Sprout, Lloyd Cole, Electronic, Lilac Time, The The, The Silencers, Trembling Blue Stars, Ian Dury, House of Love, the Beloved, ABC (particularly Abracadabra), Hard-Fi, Steely Dan, Bettye Swann, early Simple Minds, Dreadzone, The Fieldmice, R.E.M., Frank Sinatra, Groove Armada, Guns N'Roses, Joy Division, Electribe 101, Happy Mondays, Morel, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Fleetwood Mac, A-ha, ZZ Top, The Shoutoutlouds, Girls Aloud, Black Ivory, Feist, Alabama 3, Dusty Springfield, The Spinners, Serge Gainsbourg, Everything but the Girl, Curtis Mayfield, Isley Brothers, Bobby Womack, Slick Rick, Roxy Music and It's Immaterial.Early 90's Sasha mix tapes, Disco, Rock, Pop, Soul, Electro, House, Electronica, Indie, old school hip hop, Country, Funk

Movies:

Big Blue, It's a Wonderful Life, Mon Oncle, The Straight Story, Rocky, The Empire Strikes Back, Chungking Express, In the mood for love, Strictly Ballroom, Leon, Beautiful Girls, Dead Man's Shoes, Mr Smith Goes To Washington, Casablanca, Directors: Shane Meadows, Frank Capra, Sidney Lumet, Luc Besson, Wong Kar Wai

Television:

Six Feet Under and Have you been Framed?

Books:

James Salter, James Salter, James Salter, PG Wodehouse, Jerome K Jerome, Italo Calvino, J.M.Coetzee, Tom Robbins, Don Delillo, Arthur C. Doyle, William Boyd, Douglas Adams, Douglas Coupland, Gabriel Marquez, Milan Kundera, James Salter, Murray Bail, Michel Houellebecq, oh, and James Salter.

Heroes:

My Dad, Chris Lowe, Rogue Trooper

My Blog

This month's listening. Updated. Tracey Thorn Album review

One great thing about i-tunes is the unpredictability of the shuffle. While my ipod may have an uncanny inclination to play The Beloved every other song, i-tunes throws up greater variety. Songs abso...
Posted by Tom on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:07:00 PST

Letter

An open letter to the Mayor of London, Mr Ken Livingstone. .     Having admired bendy buses from afar, with their ability to block road junctions, to endanger the lives of overtaking cyclis...
Posted by Tom on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 05:11:00 PST

A stolen moment in the King and Queen, 1 Foley Street. 17th November 2005

A stolen moment in the King and Queen, 1 Foley Street.  17th November 2005   Depending upon your previous plans, such as starting your evening shift driving the no. 38 from Euston, the temp...
Posted by Tom on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:58:00 PST

If it ended with a man on his back and an angel on her knees, then how did it start?

Perhaps we must first look at when he was standing, and when she was flying. ...
Posted by Tom on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 01:14:00 PST