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Ten Foot Jon

Croydon's Worst Pop Star

About Me



I'm in the Croydon spazmo pronk band Ten Foot Nun .
I'm the managing director of Tall Order records, the lowest-budget DIY record label in the world and home to the unpopular 'Big Sister Compenduim' CDs.
Sometimes I'm a gig promoter. I like all kinds of stupid & clever music and any live bands who don't make me want to keep going to the bar.
I am an idealist with ambitions to turn Croydon into the alternative music capital of the world.
I steadfastly believe that I am not alone.
I'm also really fucking short. Most of the people I know don't realise that I don't have a clue what the top of their heads look like.

My Interests

Not drinking. Getting lost. The hours 5am - 8am anywhere in the world.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone from Croydon who likes to hear or make non-genre-based, performable, fun, interesting music.
Unless you're a twat like me.

Music:

Ten Foot Nun, Prince (1978 - 1989), Zappa, Alice Donut, Abba (seriously),Carl Stalling, Dinosaur Jr, The Knife, a.p.A.T.t, Any Dixieland/New Orleans, Jon Boden, Sparks, Chet, Cardiacs, Ramones, Spike Jones, Moyz II Hen, Nick Cave, Rachel Unthank & The Winterset, John Zorn, Airhammer, Bellowhead, Lapsus Linguae, Chuck Farley, Max Tundra, Crooked Still, Nina Hagen, Pixies, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Boredoms, Michael Jackson, RU Twin, Mike Patton, The Fighting Cocks, Miss Nicaragua, Mumrah, The River, Wendy Carlos, Every single Big Sister band...........

Movies:

The Toxic Avenger, Bad Boy Bubby, Shortbus, Under The Cherry Moon, Priscilla Queen Of The Desert, Anything with Julie Andrews, Fight Club, Magnolia, Anything With Gene Kelly, Hedwig & the Angry Inch, Most Lloyd Kaufman films, The Fearless Freaks, Purple Rain

Television:

Battlestar Galactica is wicked. That's it.

Books:

World War Z - Max Brooks,
House Of Leaves - Mark Z Danielewski,
All I Need To Know About Filmaking I Learned From The Toxic Avenger - Lloyd Kaufman,
Bad Wisdom & The Wild Highway - Bill Drummond & Mark Manning,
Fucked By Rock - Zodiac Mindwarp,
TV Go Home - Charlie Brooker.
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Attwood.

Heroes:

Prince, J Mascis

My Blog

Everything's Going To Be OK

Andy K is going to save Croydon from mediocrity. I am so glad someone is at last taking the baton. Check out the Green Dragon/The Dragon's Ball for the full kahuna. I'll see you there......
Posted by Ten Foot Jon on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:34:00 PST

The End

Right. That's it! The last ever Big Sister's Bizarrefternoon happened yesterday. It was incredible, as they have all been, but I'm afraid I just can't devote the appropriate amount of time to carry on...
Posted by Ten Foot Jon on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 04:56:00 PST

Bizarrefternoon Photos!!!

I'll be posting all the Big Sister gig pictures here http://s47.photobucket.com/albums/f195/TenFootJon/ If anyone has any good pictures they'd like to put up, send 'em my way and I'll stick 'em up....
Posted by Ten Foot Jon on Sat, 28 Jan 2006 04:37:00 PST

Big Sister Compendium Volume 3

Yup, the new Big Sister CD is finally out there and should be available from the following Croydon outlets by the very end of the year 2005: Time Bomb/The Ship/Scream Studios/The Hogshead/X Electrical...
Posted by Ten Foot Jon on Fri, 30 Dec 2005 05:23:00 PST

I am but a quarter of Ten Foot Nun

If you're interested in anything here, find out the full story at http://www.myspace.com/tenfootnun  
Posted by Ten Foot Jon on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST