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northern monkey

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 28/08/2007
Band Members: Tim McDermott
Influences: Everyday life, everyday people, love, peace, freedom, hope, friendship, Derbyshire, County Galway, bright mornings/Sunday mornings,good qoutes,traditional sessions in Irish pubs (in Ireland), mosh-pits,contradictions,starry skies,twinkling eyes, good jokes/bad jokes, marmite on toast....optimism, late nights, rivers, oceans, Cornish beaches...kind words, fiery arguments, cities at night, the spirit of punk rock..Native American Philosophy,Existentialism,The Watering Hole, Stella Artois, The Simpsons, Billy Connolly...Levellers, Oysterband, Phil Beer, Steve Knightley, Kate Rusby, Adam Duritz, Kurt Cobain, Americana, Shane MacGowan,Caroline Aherne, Noel Gallagher etc,etc,etc.......any kinda music really,if it makes me go "whooah!!" or puts a smile on my face :)
Sounds Like: All of the above channelled through a slightly scattered brain and a guitar......
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Sunday morning,

  Remember that Sunday morning you woke,bleary eyed and still part-full of Saturday night? A coffee and some toast and try to re-assemble everything that came apart last night? And just maybe,as ...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:16:00 GMT

Winter Solstice 2008

As I write this,it's the Saturday eve afore the shortest day. The winter solstice is a major turning point for me,sure it is for loadsa other folk n'all. I really do feel the change in the seasons,dee...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:37:00 GMT

My Derbyshire,part four,Arbor Low

      Whispers............   barely audible at all................   some ancient language you can't understand.   So many voices,woven together until they become one,ski...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:27:00 GMT

My Derbyshire,Chatsworth,Sunday,26/10/08

The hills have changed since you were last here.   The beautiful,ragged cloth of autumn has been chucked across them,red and gold............. ......bewildered rooks pulling the thread from the w...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:57:00 GMT

My Derbyshire,part three:Hob o'th'Hurst

You leave it all behind for a while....................................................... ................   row after row of boarded up,terraced houses..............................................
Posted by on Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:09:00 GMT

My Derbyshire,Part Two.

  Sitting in the shade of an ash tree.............   rolling a small white stone around your fingers................   not really looking at the slow-flowing river in front of you.........
Posted by on Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:28:00 GMT

My Derbyshire,part one

  Imagine a warm summer's day,lazy and hazy,some kind of breeze that's come all the way from the Sahara,across two continents,bringing with it a fine dust that paints the distant hills a soft blu...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:46:00 GMT

Wirksworth Festival

I've just had two cracking days playing my guitar in and around the beaut little town of Wirksworth,as part of the Trails Weekend,which is a part of the Wirksworth Festival. I've already said my thank...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:00:00 GMT

Four memories

You're sat in a garden,looking out across the lights of the city. Sixty feet away from where you're sat your friend recently got shot at. The next door neighbour found a gun in a carrier bag in his he...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:58:00 GMT

A field in Wiltshire

I stood in a field in Wiltshire last Saturday night.   I looked up,straight above my head and I saw the clearest night sky I've ever seen in my life.   For the first time in my life I saw th...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:26:00 GMT