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About Me

Three bands have played a big part in my life; The Beatles, I got into them as eveybody else was getting into Punk, The Damned, I got there in the end but not until 1982 and The Hellacopters. One of my friends said she was going to a gig and that she thought it'd be right up my street. I hadn't heard anything by the 'copters but watched the whole show with my mouth on the floor. I couldn't believe how good this band was. I didn't think bands made this kind of music anymore (I didn't get out much in them days). The rest is history. We started our own CD/record mail-order business because we knew all this great Scandinavian music was out there but our local High Street shops looked like we'd come from another planet (baby) when we requested the latest Gluecifer CD. It didn't pay the bills, but that wasn't the point (I wish it was). Good music needs as many outlets as possible. Since then The Paranoid Squirrel has become a podcast which can be found at:- www.theparanoidsquirrelrockshow.podshow.com The reason we stopped doing the mailorder was simple; the kids weren't buying what we were selling, but we still think you, YES YOU, need to hear kick ass Rawk n' Roll

My Interests

Record Collecting, gig going and beer drinking. I used to be an avide Trainspotter, stop laughing 'Love Song' by the Damned is all about trainspotting. Don't do it much now. I miss the EPB, CEPs and SUBs and I'm thinking of building a model layout in my loft.

I'd like to meet:

John Lennon. I've met all my other hereos and they're just like you and me apart from the fact they're talented, famous and if they're lucky rich! I'd also like to meet the bastard who stole my train set in 1979 out of my folks garage!

Music:

Beatles, Damned, Hellacopters, Backyard Babies, Gluecifer, MarySlim, Hardcore Superstar, Motorhead, Bernie Torme (God), Johnny Moped, Julian Cope, Adam West, Doits, Goo Goo Dolls when they were good pre 'A Boy Named Goo', Wildhearts & related off shoots, Nomads, Turbonergo, Flaming Sideburns, Radio Birdman, Sonic's Rendezvous, MC5, Deadbeats.......The list is endless.

Television:

Drug of the nation

Books:

I usually read music biographies and the like.

Heroes:

Great TV series. One of the only things that I put the idiot box on for.

My Blog

Episode 31

I know, I know the Podshow and indeed are the show notes are hideously late this week. Friday and Saturday I was at the Nomads gigs, Sunday we were meeting some friends down in Haywards Heath, Monday ...
Posted by Armitage on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:38:00 PST

Episode 30

Episode 30..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> www.theparanoidsquirrel.comI start this episode off talking about the Kill Cartel gig at the ..:namespace prefix = s...
Posted by Armitage on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:52:00 PST

Paul Fox/Ruts Film Premiere

Episode 29..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> www.theparanoidsquirrelrockshow.podshow.com In this weeks show I play four of the bands that played live at the Rut...
Posted by Armitage on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:24:00 PST

Episode 27

The first two tracks I play on this weeks podshow are by bands that I thought would go onto great things but didn't. The first track is 'Hang Straight Up' by I Love You from their debut self titl...
Posted by Armitage on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:15:00 PST

The Damned

I always remember my Uncles wedding anniversary as I wasn't there, I was at Brockwell Park seeing The Damned. My 34th and 40th birthdays were spent jumping around like a loon watching the lads a...
Posted by Armitage on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 01:02:00 PST

What's grabbing me.

There's quite a few CD's that have grabbed my attention over the last few weeks; MarySlim have their brand new CD 'A Perfect Mess' out on Wild Kingdom. The Squirrel was over in Helsinki last month see...
Posted by Armitage on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:51:00 PST

Change

I used to hate change. My Gran used to give me and my Sister a Shilling a week pocket money and if we were lucky when she had a sixpence we'd take it in turns to have it. So when decimalisation comes ...
Posted by Armitage on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 10:15:00 PST

Adam West Live at the Club Sheriff

"Why?" Is what I'm asked when I inform the Squirrel that I'm going over to Stockholm to see D.C. based band Adam West. "You could've seen the Backyard Babies or The Hellacopters in Stockholm instead!!...
Posted by Armitage on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 05:46:00 PST

Deadmen Walking in Croydon

People will buy a brand name irrespective of what the ingredients are. Take a Damned, an Alarm, a Stray Cat and a Spear of Destiny and on paper you've got a great band. So the low turn out to see Dead...
Posted by Armitage on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 10:08:00 PST

The Astoria

The Astoria in Charing Cross Road, London, has been sold to make way for shops, flats and offices. To include a music venue within the scheme like the Islington Academy please sign the following:...
Posted by Armitage on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:37:00 PST