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Syd Howells

Syd Howells is a grumpy badger, fear for your ears

About Me

destroyer of musicks, writes bad pop songs...


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My Interests

Music / Writing / Rebuilding Old Volkswagens / History / Welding Hideous Sculptures / Music / Egypt (misr) / Cuba / Photography / Painting...

I'd like to meet:

People who care about what matters. Life is short.

Music:

Family Fodder / Frank Zappa / Nurse With Wound / Captain Beefheart / Kraftwerk / Neu / Throbbing Gristle / Electric Six / John The Postman / Photographed By Lightning / Steveless / John Coltrane / Crass / Das Wanderlust / The Smiths / Half Man Half Biscuit / White Stripes / Family Fodder (again...the UK's finest band) / The Fall / Coil / Hawkwind / Robert Calvert / The Girl From Headquarters / The Feelies / The Beatles / Kate Bush / Conflict / Peaches / Dead Kennedys / Doris Karloff / Pink Floyd / The Fugs / Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band / Nick Cave / Thee Babelfish / The Soft Boys / Most Arabic Pop Music / Dexy's Midnight Runners / Serpents / Velvet Underground / Tystion / Any Nubian Folk Music / KLF / Danzig / Abba / The Residents / Rocket From The Crypt / Beatnik Filmstars / Pooh Sticks / Bearsuit / The Disasters / The Only Ones / Pere Ubu / The Misfits / The Feelies / Dishpig / William S Burroughs / Lard / Robyn Hitchcock / Gary Clail & On-U Sound System / Buzzcocks / Listen With Sarah / Butthole Surfers / Pixies / 13th Floor Elevators / Gorky's Zygotic Mynci / The Fall / Syd Howells (of course...I'd be a fool not to!) / Robert Johnson / The Fire Engines / Master Musicians of JouJouka / Chrome / Black Flag / Jamos Valentinos...

Movies:

Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia / Bad Taste / Anything by The Comic Strip Team / Shaun of the dead / Man bites dog / Enter the dragon / Reservoir Dogs / The Big Lebowski / Pulp Fiction / Comandante / Monty Python & The Holy Grail / The Wild Bunch / Land and Freedom...

Television:

My mind is rotten enough thanks...

Books:

Naked Lunch / Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas / Songs Of The Doomed / Factotum / Post Office / Collected Poems of Allen Ginsberg / Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep / Margrave of the Marshes / Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy (all five in the trilogy) / To Dream of Freedom / The Gas / England's Hidden Reverse / The Ring O'Bells Mystery / The Rubadub Mystery / The Postman Is Elvis / anything written by Fidel Castro...

Heroes:

....generally they only disappoint...however at a push it has to be Fidel Castro.

My Blog

the crutch of society

Hooray, I'm on crutches! Torn knee cartilidge, and I'm completely helpless.  Donna is having to do most things for me and Wales' grumpiest man is now a whole lot grumpier... bah! Why am I torturi...
Posted by Syd Howells on Fri, 18 Nov 2005 01:43:00 PST