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Franz-Funker

Matt, You Are The Noisiest Little Man I Have Known.

About Me


Post-punk and New-wave.
Drinking and then subsequently vomiting.
Dancing like a windmill.
Buying books I never read.
Looking at records in musical shops.
Getting on the central line.
Learning Art Criticism At St. Martins.
Visiting galleries.
Wishing I was German.
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My Interests

Likes:
Eastern Europe.
Liquorice Allsorts.
Whiskey.
Frosty, Sunny Mornings.
Germany.
Post Punk.
London.
Cigars.
Boutiques.
Concrete.
Dislikes:
Slow Walkers.
Rural Public Transport.
The Piccadilly Line.
Fainting.
Injections.
Wasps.
Insurance/Loan Adverts.
David Hasselhoff.
Motivational Talks.

I'd like to meet:


Minimalists
Vienesse Actionists
Dadaists
Fluxists
Television Evangelists
Brutalists
Brit-Artists
Modernists

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Yves Klein
Gunter Grass
Joseph Beuys
Janet Street-Porter
Dirk Von Lowtzow
Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson

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Music:

Bands I Like… Fad Gadget Tocotronic The Fall Kraftwerk These New Puritans David Bowie Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft Les Georges Leningrad Galaxie 500 Lali Puna Art Brut Cabaret Voltaire Yellow Magic Orchestra Nitzer Ebb Von Sudenfed Throbbing Gristle Pere Ubu Bauhaus 10lec6 Mika Miko Einsturzende Neubauten Liaisons Dangereuses This Heat Swell Maps Glaxo Babies Von Spar DNA Tuxedomoon Liars MIT The Prats Das Bierbeben Simon Bookish The Pop Group Family Fodder Bird Blobs Erase Eratta Gang 90 The Residents Josef K Infadels Kitchens Of Distinction Mission Of Burma Orange Juice Joy Division Ex Models Spizz Energi X-Ray Spex The Smiths Faust Mouse On Mars T. Raumschmiere ADULT. The Wirtschaftswunder Rainy Day Yeah Yeah Yeahs World Domination Enterprises Virginia Jetzt! Wire Two Lone Swordsmen Virgin Prunes Trans Am Simple Minds The Rapture Serge Gainsbourg Neon Judgement Mclusky Liquid Liquid Beirut Gina X. Performance Front 242 No Bra Christiane F. Der Plan Kosmonautentraum BLURT. Die Tödliche Doris Devendra Banhart Six Organs Of Admittance Vetiver

Movies:

Downfall
Trainspotting
The Tin Drum
Lost In Translation
Goodbye Lenin!
Top Spot
The Edukators
The Night-Porter

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Television:

Hollyoaks
Channel 4 Learning
The F-Word
River Cottage
Oh! Mikey
Brasseye
Eurotrash
Euromaxx
Black Books
Father Ted
Market Kitchen

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Books:

Irvine Welsh
Richard Allen
Gunter Grass
Dick Hebdige
Oscar Wilde
Edmund White
Charles Bukowski
Joe Orton
Matthew Collings

Heroes:

Joseph Beuys
Patrick Heron
Gilbert & George
Grayson Perry
Tracey Emin
Yves Klein
Kraftwerk
John Waters
Frank Tovey
Vladimir Tretchikoff
The Bauhaus School
Oscar Wilde

My Blog

MIT: Coda Interview.

MIT: CODA INTERVIEW BY MATT RETALLICK. (Artrocker: Issue 77.) The last time I had the pleasure of being asked to write about MIT was on their first full British tour, with two EPs and the release of ...
Posted by Franz-Funker on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:04:00 PST

Music: Cornwall.

Observations Upon The Cornish Music-Scene. By Matt Retallick © (Part One - Maybe) I grew-up in Cornwall in a small village just outside of Newquay, I am now living in London, Bethnal Green to be preci...
Posted by Franz-Funker on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:09:00 PST

Berlin.

Berlin: By Matt Retallick © With an ever growing obsession for all things Deutsch, it would have been silly to pass on the opportunity to go to Berlin. So, to Berlin I went, arriving at an extremely ...
Posted by Franz-Funker on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:34:00 PST

MIT - Artrocker Article.

My article on MIT can still be seen on their myspace page, by following this address... http://mitmitmit.net/artrockermag/index.htm Matt x    ...
Posted by Franz-Funker on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:29:00 PST

The Fall - The Albums

The Fall - The Albums. Matt Retallick. Since 1976 The Fall, along with its gnomic front man, Mark E Smith, have arguably ruled the soil of post-punk. Despite the often deranged appearing mentally a...
Posted by Franz-Funker on Sun, 02 Apr 2006 06:56:00 PST

Collapse!!!

Collapse. By Matt Retallick Collapse entered my life one rainy July day, sat in the Artrocker office, sipping a cup of tea made of the hard tasting London water which I never really get used to. Fr...
Posted by Franz-Funker on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 09:06:00 PST

Chalets Review In Glorious Technicolour!

Here it is..... enjoy! http://www.setantarecords.com/php/review_image.php?art_id=48 &filename=artrocker.06.10.05.jpg Matt. x...
Posted by Franz-Funker on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 11:32:00 PST

These New Puritans

These New Puritans. By Matt Retallick. I live in a fantasy world, Im not talking Dragons and Elves and all that nerdy putrid crap, Im living in a mental world of black and white, concrete and indu...
Posted by Franz-Funker on Fri, 30 Dec 2005 10:58:00 PST

The Mules - Polly O - Single Review

The Mules - Poly-O Released December 20th - Marquis Cha Cha By Matt Retallick (Artrocker Christmas Bumper Edition) Valium addiction, its no laughing matter now is it? However when this addiction lead...
Posted by Franz-Funker on Sat, 24 Dec 2005 06:35:00 PST

Pere Ubu's David Thomas - Interview

Well, they never said it was going to be easy squeezing some answers out of David Thomas.... he is notriously introverted and difficult to talk too, and in this case I had to send the questi...
Posted by Franz-Funker on Sat, 26 Nov 2005 11:11:00 PST