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Current Mixes:BEYOND THE WIZARD'S SLEEVE: Chemical Brothers "Battle Scars"; Peter Bjorn, and John "Young Folks"; Midlake "Roscoe"; Tracey Thorn "Raise The Roof"; Badly Drawn Boy "Promises"; Findlay Brown "Losing The Will To Survive"; Dust Galaxy "Trumpets".........................THE GRID: Soft Cell "Sex Dwarf"; B52's "Private Idaho"; Man Parrish "Hip Hop Be Bop"; The Grid "Put Your Hands Together" (single released on Some Bizarre in November)"Paul Oakenfold - The Authorised Biography" by Richard Norris published by Bantam Press/Transworld, out now. Order via amazon.co.uk, play.com etc...........

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My Interests

Dope, Rock N' Roll and Fucking In The Streets

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

Heartbreakin' Country, Psychedelical Wig Outs, Rockin Blues'N'Soul'N'Acid House'N'Balearia. Wire. The Monks. Neil Young. Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve. Kraftwerk. Betty Davis. Skip Spence. Daniel Wang. Can. Hank Williams. Soundtracks.

Movies:

Judex, Danger Diabolik, Smashing Time, The Tenant, A Matter Of Life & Death, The Cremaster Cycle, Desperate Living, Putney Swope, Lonesome Cowboys, Dig!

Television:

John's Not Mad, The Owl Service, The Mighty Boosh

Books:

Ringolevio, Portrait Of Dorian Gray, Against Nature, Everything Is Illuminated, Ray's A Laugh, Monkey, Beneath The Underdog, The Master and Margeurita

Heroes:

Peter Fenn, Curt Boettcher, Peter Norris, Bill Allerton, Mike Stewart, Greg Shaw, Eddie Shaw, Betty Davis, Bette Davis, Donald Potter, Bo Diddley, Nina Simone, John Sinclair, Phil Smee, Cpt. Beefheart,H. Lamarr

My Blog

My (almost complete) discography

Recently another Richard Norris got in touch to say that I was getting credits for some of his mixes on some discographies. So here's the news I can exclusively reveal that I didn't produce Robbie ...
Posted by Richard Norris on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 01:22:00 PST

No I don’t want a $500 Macy’s Gift Card

It would cost me more than $500 to get there, I'd have far too good a time to even get to the store and please stop keep asking me, everyone and their mum on Myspace who has hit the wrong button and i...
Posted by Richard Norris on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:07:00 PST

The Fratellis and their "self respect"

Apparently the Fratellis have turned down the chance to do a Beatles cover (Hello Goodbye) to mark the debut of David Beck-ham at the LA Galaxy "soccer" club. "We've turned a huge list of things like ...
Posted by Richard Norris on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:08:00 PST

Razorlight = The Boomtown Rats?

An esteemed pop artrock historian friend of mine recently opined the theory that Razorlite are nothing more than this decades Boomtown Rats. As you may remember, Geldof's bunch were sub-"New Wave", wa...
Posted by Richard Norris on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 04:18:00 PST

Fashion Week Fun...

I went to Michiko Koshino's show today. I was sharing the front row with the most random line up of, er, celebs known to man. The line up in full was: - Ronnie Corbett - so small his feet didn't...
Posted by Richard Norris on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 05:57:00 PST