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Mike Fury

PUNK'S DEAD, YOU'RE NEXT!

About Me

-Play drums in Bubblegum Screw
-(Downloads available from Indiestore
or buy the new EP, t-shirts & other crap online here or from All Ages Records in Camden

-Play drums in Kid Slug
-(new record coming soon)
-Former member of Dead Famous, Four Letter Fury, The Seen, blah blah blah

-Producer of the Darby Crash Band Live Remasters
(Coming Soon to CD)

-Radio broadcaster, producer & editor
-Shortest broadcast before being forced off the air with a commercial break was 50 seconds (if you really want to know why, just ask!)

-Write for "HK Cinemagic", a Hong Kong film zine
-Write for "Zombie Creeping Flesh" music fanzine
-Articles written for The Guardian, as well as other publications

-Teach drums (sometimes they teach me!)
-That is all for now, chaps!

My Interests

"I'm the leader of the gang ... brackets, I am"

-Music
-Film
-Literature
-Coffee
-Working out

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who doesn't follow the crowd

Music:

NO style over substance, and NO feeble pussy music...

A *very* brief rundown...
PUNK & HARDCORE:
-Bad Religion
-Bad Brains
-Black Flag
-Henry Rollins
-Circle Jerks
-Fear
-Angry Samoans
-SS Decontrol
-Agnostic Front
-Slapshot
-Last Rights
-Negative FX
-The Germs
-Dead Kennedys
-Minor Threat
-The Teen Idles
-Circle One
-Reagan Youth
-Snuff
-T.S.O.L.
-The Clash
-Ramones
-Peter & The Test Tube Babies
-Fifi
-Gang Green
-LA's Wasted Youth
-M.D.C.
-Articles of Faith
-Raised Fist
-The Blood
-Misfits
-D.O.A.
-7 Seconds
-Dag Nasty
-Middle Class
-The Damned
-Operation Ivy
-Rancid
-Suicidal Tendencies
-Ricanstruction
-Cro-Mags
-Dropkick Murphys
-Darby Crash Band
-Swingin' Utters
-The Adverts / TV Smith
-Social Distortion
-Agent Orange
-S.O.A.
-False Alarm

ROCK N ROLL:
-The Stooges
-Iggy Pop
-Radio Birdman
-Rolling Stones
-The Who
-Patti Smith
-MC5
-Redd Kross
-The Sonics
-Wayne Kramer
-The Doors
-Chuck Berry
-Little Richard
-Jimi Hendrix
-Velvet Underground
-David Bowie
-Jeff Dahl
-Television
-Tom Verlaine
-Dead Boys
-The Runaways
-Gene Pitney (hail the oldies)
-GG Allin & The Jabbers
-Lou Reed
-Ted Nugent
-Black on Sunshine
-Guns 'N Roses
-Chinese Lungs
-The Ulcers
-The Lab Animals

JAZZ:
-Miles Davis
-John Coltrane
-Buddy Rich
-Duke Ellington
-Gene Krupa
-Red Nichols
-Theolonius Monk
-Charlie Parker
-Courtney Pine
-Charles Gayle

OLD SKOOL RAP:
-Run DMC
-The Last Poets
-Ice-T
-N.W.A
-Public Enemy / Chuck D
-Cypress Hill
-2Pac
-Gang Starr
-Slick Rick
-Beastie Boys

THRASH / METAL:
-Slayer
-MD.45
-Body Count
and so on

FOLK & COUNTRY:
-Johnny Cash
-Bob Dylan
-Willie Nelson
-Hank Williams
-The Statler Brothers
-Cat Stevens
-Reverend Horton Heat
-Jackass
-Tom Rush

REGGAE & DUB:
-Bob Marley and The Wailers
-Human Rights
-Dennis Brown
-John Holt
-Jimmy Cliff
-Gregory Isaacs
-The Slits

MOTOWN & SOUL:
-Marvin Gaye
-The Four Tops
-Al Green
-James Brown
-Bobby Womack

Drummers -Buddy Rich
-Max Roach
-Spit Stix
-Lucky Lehrer
-Earl Hudson
-Brooks Wackerman
-Louis Hayes
-Gene Krupa
-Keith Moon
-Bill Stevenson
-Don Bolles

Movies:

Classic gangster films, gritty drama, Asian cinema, 60s comedies, through to 80s Hollywood crap!
-The Warriors
-Taxi Driver
-Rocky
-The Odd Couple
-Scarface
-Westworld
-Midnight Run
-Citizen Kane
-Some Like It Hot
-First Blood
-Repo Man
-Heat
-Pulp Fiction
-Angel Heart
-Midnight Express
-L'homme du Train
-Goodfellas
-Cop Land
-The Crying Game
-The Front Page
-The Sunshine Boys
-The Shawshank Redemption
-Falling Down
-A Bronx Tale
(Hong Kong)
-A Better Tomorrow
-God of Gamblers
-The Mission
-The Killer
-Bullet in the Head
-Infernal Affairs trilogy
-Island of Fire
-Prison on Fire
-City on Fire
-Police Story trilogy
-Dragons Forever
-Young and Dangerous
-Triads: The Inside Story
-Beast Cops
-Wo Hu
-A True Mob Story
-All Bruce Lee (Fist of Fury being the best!)
(Japanese)
-Hana-Bi
-Sonatine
-Gohatto
-Getting Any?
-Kikujiro
-All Takeshi
-All Kurosawa
etc etc
Actors & Directors -Robert De Niro
-Al Pacino
-Marlon Brando
-Patrice Leconte
-John Woo
-Chow Yun Fat
-Johnnie To
-Andrew Lau
-Takeshi Kitano
-Nagisa Oshima
-Akira Kurosawa
-Oliver Stone
-Abel Ferrara
-Walter Hill
-Lee Marvin
-Louis Mandylor
-Steven Soderbergh
-JC Van Damme (he's back!)

Television:

-The Shield
-Oz
-The Henry Rollins Show
-King of the Hill
-The Simpsons
-The Green Hornet
-The Day Today
-BrassEye
-Jam
-Nathan Barley
-Monty Python
-Monkey Dust
-The Office
-Extras
-Martial Law
-Captain Scarlet
-Stingray

Books:

Mainly biographies, history, science & religion
-Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
-1984, Decline of the English Murder (George Orwell)
-End of Faith (Sam Harris)
-The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins)
-Media Control (Noam Chomsky)
-Marathon Man (William Goldman)
-The Last Picture Show (Larry McMurtry)
-Sexus and Nexus (Henry Miller)
-Tales of Ordinary Madness (Charles Bukowski)
-Hollywood (Charles Bukowski)
-Dear Boy, The Life of Keith Moon (Tony Fletcher)
-The Last Testament of... (Dee Dee Ramone)
-Get in the Van (Henry Rollins)
-The Ice Opinion (Ice-T)

Heroes:

-Travis Bickle
-Henry Rollins
-Bruce Lee
-Johnny Cash
-Noam Chomsky
-John Macias
-Greg Graffin
-Iggy Pop
-Jack "Choke" Kelly
-Lee Ving
-HR
-Richard Pryor
-Chow Yun Fat
-Takeshi Kitano
(splendid chaps!)

My Blog

KID SLUG

A few weeks ago I was invited by Marcos of the great King Salami & The Cumberland 3 to try out in the studio for another band he had going called Kid Slug. As I understood it, Kid Slug had ki...
Posted by Mike Fury on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:24:00 PST

BUBBLEGUM SCREW MERCH - Available For Purchase

Now you can prove your fan-affiliations by purchasing copies of the new Bubblegum Screw EP; "St Valentines Day Massacre", featuring 4 rip roaring tracks, in addition to t-shirts, and soon enough; badg...
Posted by Mike Fury on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:50:00 PST

BAD BRAINS New Album - "Build A Nation"

What more can you say? The first studio album in 12 years from American Hardcore pioneers, the Bad Brains. This album was first rumoured in the very early stages about 2 years ago, and Brains fans ha...
Posted by Mike Fury on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 03:33:00 PST

LUCKY LEHRER interview for Zombie Creeping Flesh

Lucky Lehrer is a drummer who, in the world of LA punk, needs little introduction. He was the original drummer of the Circle Jerks, having played on their earliest and most sought after records. He al...
Posted by Mike Fury on Fri, 25 May 2007 06:55:00 PST

PLAYED IN RIGA - SURVIVED WITHOUT "V"

Today I returned home from Bubblegum Screw's Latvia-based adventures, in a general dream-like state, having not slept for a quite a few days.  Even without my custom energy dr...
Posted by Mike Fury on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 04:50:00 PST

NOW LEAVING BUBBLEGUM COUNTY, NEXT STOP - LATVIA

Last night we played very hard at the Hope & Anchor, Islington. It was a great night and we had a great time! But there isn't much time to "Feel the Pain" today because tonight we're lea...
Posted by Mike Fury on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:46:00 PST

THE STOOGES' NEW ALBUM: "THE WEIRDNESS"

This doesn't really need an introduction... the first Stooges record since the legendary "Raw Power" in 1973 (one of my favourite albums of all time) and Iggy's first release since his last solo recor...
Posted by Mike Fury on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 11:32:00 PST

AMERICAN HARDCORE - My Overview of the Film

Recently I got the DVD of Paul Rachman's new documentary; American Hardcore. For those who don't know, its a condensed history of the genre from 1980-1986 with many bands, interviews, live f...
Posted by Mike Fury on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 05:41:00 PST

BUBBLEGUM SCREW EP - FINISHED!

Me and the gentlemen of the band just finished mixing the final tracks of the new Bubblegum Screw EP, along with exceptionally easy-going and tolerant producer, Simon Trought. We went on later into th...
Posted by Mike Fury on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 06:25:00 PST

DARBY CRASH BAND Remasters

Darby Crash Band emerged from the destructive wake left by The Germs in the LA punk scene, a band who undoubtedly defined punk rock in the west coast, The Germs, responsible for landmark records, such...
Posted by Mike Fury on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:59:00 PST