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About Me

35 year old ageing B.Boy. Straight outta Kingston! Happilly engaged to Sandra.

My Interests

Eating pies,Moaning,Exploring London,Drinking with Moose,Live Music,Cinema,and Ligging wherever possible!

I'd like to meet:

Frank Bough, Patrick McGoohan, Timmy Mallet, Ice T.It's well known I have met a lot of Actors/Musicians/Celebs already. David Tennant was the nicest and Bob Hoskins was a total arsehole!

Music:

ALBUMS...Patti Smith-Horses/Easter/Gung Ho. The Smiths-Strangeways here we come/Hatful of hollow. Kraftwerk-Man machine/Trans Europe express/Computer World. The Clash (Debut)/Super black market/From here to eternity. South - From here on in/With the tides.Starsailor-Love is here. Neil Young-Live Rust. Cock Sparrer-Shock Troops. The Jam-Live Jam. Rezillos-Cant stand the Rezillos. Prince Buster-Rock steady/She was a rough rider. Eminem-Marshall Mathers LP. ELECTRO 1-8 (Streetsounds compilations). Johnny Cash-Live at San Quentin(Undedited version). Paul Weller-Stanley Road. Ice T-Original Gangster/Iceberg. Oasis-Definitely maybe. Kool Keith-Dr Octagon/Sex style/Black Elvis. Main Source-Breaking Atoms. Master Ace-Take a look around/Slaughterhouse. The Wicker Man (OST). Frank Sinatra-Cone dance with me/The wee small hours Godiego-Magic Monkey. The Who-Quadrophenia. WildStyle (OST). Devils Rejects (OST). Ladytron-Light and Magic. Pantera-Vulgar Display of power/Far beyond driven Beastie Boys-Licenced to ill/Check your head/Ill communication. Example-What we made. Dot Allison-The Exaltation of Larks.Theres a million more I could ad but your mind goes strangely blank when you try to name 'em!

Movies:

Clockwork Orange,White Heat,Style Wars,Weird Science,The Lost Boys,Ben Hur,Spartacus,Man with the golden Arm,The Wicker Man,Get Carter,Mc Vicar,Watcher in the woods,Beat Street,Southern Comfort,The Goonies,Roaring 20's,Karate Kid,Zombie flesh eaters,Carrie,Christine,Harry Potter(All),Take it or leave it,Dance Craze,Big trouble in little china,Halloween 3,Naked,Angels with dirty faces,One flew over the cuckoos nest,Lemon Popsicle,Star Wars(even Ep1),Clone Wars,Aliens,Outland,Near Dark,Shaun of the dead,Party-party,Elizabeth,10 Rillington Place,Brighton Rock, Nil by mouth,The Business,Grease,Adventures in babysitting,licenced to drive,Charlie and the choclate factory(Orig),American werewolf,House by the cemetary,Last House on the left (Uncut version),Battle Royale,The ring(orig),Revenge of the Ninja,Somebody up there likes me,The Hustler,Cincinatti Kid,Devils Rejects,Saturday night fever,Creep,Henry VIII and his Six wives,No retreat_No Surrender,Fist of Fury,Quadrophenia,Magic,The Firm,Made in Britain,Let it be.Toughest man in the world(starring MrT!),This is England,McVicar,Scum(Tv Version)Bloodbeach,Carry on Abroad/Camping/Loving/constable,School for scoundrels,The Long Memory,Creepshow,Suspiria,Snatch,Night of the living dead,Napoleon Dynamite,Dolemite,Boyz n the hood.

Television:

Currently watching 'Minder' on ITV4 (Ace!),The Prisoner,The Fall Guy (Guilty pleasure!) Rome,The Professionals,and OZ (Brutal U.S prison drama).Thats all currently. The rest of TV is rubbish I mean HOW SHIT IS BIG BROTHER???ALL REALITY T.V SUCKS!

Books:

I have recently started reading books, shock horror! I have read 'Morrissey' by David Brett and that was good, also 'Heavier than heaven'about Kurt Cobain is worth finding in your local Charity shop.

Heroes:

Banquet Records staff,Frank Bough,Patti Smith,Michael Caine,Ray Winstone,Gripper Stebson,Stu Francis(Crush a Grape!)Kool Keith.

My Blog

1983

I came across a 'Now that what I call music' 1983 edition last week. As I played it I remembered how much fun it was to be young and the kind of things we got up to as ten year olds. Here's a few of t...
Posted by Darren on Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:23:00 PST

Kingston drags you down !

I dunno what is about Kingston! A few weeks ago I was in the foothills of Snowdonia breathing fresh mountain air and I felt pretty well and content. A few weeks back here and it's back to the worst ai...
Posted by Darren on Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:23:00 PST

Our trip to Brighton.

I just got back from Brighton. I went with Sandra and Moose man, we stayed at Moose man brothers house. Brighton hasn't changed at all since I went there with Simon Morley in 97. The best memory ...
Posted by Darren on Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:51:00 PST

Wedding bells !

Hello Ratfans, Yep that's right ! , for those who don't already know I am getting married. The unlucky lady is Sandra. We are getting hitched on August the 4th 2009 with a party on the following Satur...
Posted by Darren on Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:48:00 PST

Snowdonia and back !

It's been a while since I did a blog. After all it is only Moose who reads it ! I've been on holiday to Smowdonia for a holiday that also happened to take in PM08 a fan convention for fans of The Pris...
Posted by Darren on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:59:00 PST

St Georges Day !

Yes! It's St Georges day! And whats happening where you live? There's a 99% chance absolutely nothing! It's about time OUR national day was made a holiday. St Patricks day over here means more an...
Posted by Darren on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:14:00 PST

Last weeks gigs (If anyone cares!)

Last week was a busy one gig wise. I saw South live after a year,great gig but I hate Hoxton man! Full of wack trainers,mullets and BMX’s. Then there was a semi acoustic gig from We are Scientis...
Posted by Darren on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:51:00 PST

Time for a Pint?

The J.D are doing Coors Lite for 1.99 a pint all day every day at the moment.Coz it's new it's fizzy out of the tap and not like their other pints that are normally flat as a witches tit and taste of ...
Posted by Darren on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:25:00 PST

Stag weekend !!

Not long till the 'Stag weekend' at Butlins.Gonna get hammered with the gang!The best news was that Chas and Dave are going to be there too.Im not expecting to get any sleep,I'll do that when I get ba...
Posted by Darren on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:58:00 PST

New Years Eve

Well.... stuff Christmas for starters! As for new years eve I'm gonna do the same thing I do every other year..... watch Jools Holland and go to bed. People think it's silly to stay in but whats ...
Posted by Darren on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 05:22:00 PST