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Matthew

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About Me

RIDE YOUR PONY....GET ON YOUR PONY AND RIDE!DRUMMER BOY OF HYDE PARK, LEEDS.PLAYS: LUDWIG "CLUB DATE" RED SPARKLE DRUMSET, circa 1967.Plays in the band:CISSY (www.myspace.com/cissysound)HAS PLAYED IN:THE DRAGON RAPIDE (www.myspace.com/dragonrapide)/ THE LAPSE / ORIGAMI / HEY LITTLE COBRA! / KITO / SOFAHEAD.LIKES:Music. Playing in bands. Gigs. Cooking and eating vegetarian and vegan food. Drinking posh coffee. Reading. Interesting buildings and architecture. Parks and places of natural beauty. European cities. Watching horror films. Staying up as late as possible. Travelling. Being on tour. Cheap clothes. Getting wasted. Messing around. Talking.WORKS AS:A peripatetic drum teacher, and music library assistant at Leeds Central Library.I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

Everything to do with music / Playing the drums / teaching the drums / occasional moustaches / the films of George Romero (with the exception of Land of the Dead), Lucio Fulci, Dario Argento, Amando De Ossorio, John Schlesinger and more / art galleries / European cities / travelling by train / Italian and Indian food / classic scooters / drawing / Marvel superheroes / organising DIY gigs / mod clothes / most of the animals in the world / eating with my hands / conversation / playing tennis, table tennis and basketball / drinking whiskey with my friends to the sound of The Shangri-Las.

I'd like to meet:

Friendly people and animals. Uffie. John Romita. Kate Bush.

Music:

Golden, Hella, Fela Kuti, Justice, Television, Smokey Johnson, Goblin, Eric Dolphy, Do Make Say Think, ESG, The Shangri-Las, Miles Davis, Quack Quack, The Curtains, Oscar Sulley, The Specials, M.I.A., Jackie McLean, The Majestics, Digitalism, The Waitresses, Boyz Noise, Cissy, Tony Allen, CSS, Uffie, The Streets, Daft Punk, 5ivestyle, Fridge, Jurassic 5, Hot Chip, Joanna Newsom, The Sea and Cake, Kraftwerk, Funkadelic, The JBs, The Smiths, Don Caballero, The Slits, John Coltrane, Andrew Hill, The Bad Plus, Boards of Canada, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Max Roach & Clifford Brown, Deerhoof, Bowie, Minutemen, The Angels, Pixies, Gang of Four, The Stray Cats, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Mates of State, Polaris, BDP, Fourtet, Turing Machine, Blondie, Ornette Coleman, The Ronettes, Ice Cube, Billy Larkin and The Delegates, Sebastian Teller, Publicist, Tortoise, The Lapse, The Dickies, The Who, Chicago Underground Duo, The Velvet Underground, Brokeback, Suzanne Vega, The Cardigans, Tony Williams, The Meters, Origami, Mice Parade, Plaid, The Be Good Tanyas, The Crownhate Ruin (demo), Rachmaninoff, Return to Forever, Thelonious Monk, Government Issue, Slint, (early) Simple Minds, Sam Prekop, Hoover, Iron & Wine, Soul Side, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Depeche Mode, Saturday Looks Good to Me, Low, Sly and The Family Stone, LCD Soundsystem, Broken Social Scene, Frank Sinatra, Angelo Badalamenti, Canned Heat, Noyes, Heroic Doses, The Jam, Charlie Parker, Herbie Hancock, Jeru tha Damaja, The Shins, The Sorts, Kuchen, Calexico, Cat Power, Talking Heads, The Shirelles, Northern Soul,Ugly Duckling, Basement Jaxx,..........more, more, more

Movies:

Pre-1990's horror films, arthouse stuff, Pre-1990's teen high-school flicks, weird stuff, low-budget cinema, super-hero films, gangster films, Carry On films.......

Television:

IS MOSTLY A WASTE OF TIME.

Books:

Yes please. Particularly 'Waterland' and 'Learning To Swim' by Graham Swift, 'And Quiet Flows The Don' by Mikhail Sholokhov and 'Nausea' by Satre.

My Blog

LEARN TO PLAY THE DRUMS!! I CAN TEACH YOU!

That's right y'all! Wanna play the drums? Live in Leeds or West Yorkshire? I can teach you! Playing drums is fun, practical, theraputic, cathartic and is an excellent way to get some cardio-vascular ...
Posted by Matthew on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 11:19:00 PST