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Bob

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About Me

Grew up in Cornwall, lived and worked in Oxfordshire for over 30 years. Father to Sober Dave (of Thirty Two and previously Centre Negative ), Mark ( msillustration ) and Jo, step-father to Angela. Grandfather to Chloe and Ellie

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My Interests

..Music, Hillwalking, Music, Reading, Music, Industrial Archaeology, Cornwall, was into cave and mine exploration but haven't done it for years! Also was into horse riding but had to pack it up when I injured my back. History, China.

Music:

.. Boris, Miocene, AFI, Bob Dylan, Hell is for Heroes, Million Dead, Funeral For a Friend, Boysetsfire, Black Sabbath, Beethoven, Converge, ISIS, Pelican, Mogwai, planesmistakenforstars, Finch, Pink Floyd, Stones, The Who, Coalesce, Leonard Cohen, BB King, From Autumn to Ashes, Howlin' Wolf, Dvorak, Johnny Winter, Ephel Duath, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Eagles, Mars Volta, At The Drive In, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, ZZ Top, The Isley Brothers, Thrice, Thursday, Lacuna Coil, James Taylor, Rage Against The Machine, Sibelius, Sex Pistols, Tracey Chapman, The Levellers, Steve Forbert, Fear Before the March of Flames, Wreckless Eric, Holst, Botch, Bessie Smith, Waterboys, John Lee Hooker, The Four Tops, Suzanne Vega, System of a Down, The Stranglers, Pitchshifter, Tchaikovsky, Monster Magnet, Tool, Motorhead, Tomahawk, Cathedral, Jethro Tull,Anthrax, The Boomtown Rats, Marillion, Jimi Hendrix, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Portishead, Otep, Opeth, Reef, Hole, Wishbone Ash (the old stuff),The Smashing Pumpkins, These Arms Are Snakes, Billie Holliday, The Supremes, Counting Crows, Alice Cooper, Marilyn Manson, Green Day, Metallica (the old stuff!), The Beach Boys, Van Der Graaf Generator, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Yes, The Wildhearts, Joni Mitchell, Killswitch Engage, Brian Eno, Muddy Waters, Muse, Spineshank, Poison the Well, Pearl Jam, Uriah Heep, Rammstein, Sikth, HIM, Smokey Robinson, Leaving Rouge, Crooked Fingers...............and loads more!!!

Movies:

..Eraserhead, Existenz, Alien series, Trainspotting, Shallow Grave, Southern Comfort, From Dusk till Dawn, Schindler's List, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Akira, Kill Bill, Amelie, Blade, Indiana Jones, Ginger Snaps, Pitch Black, Shaun of the Dead, Near Dark, Riddick, The Green Mile, The Remains of the day, Angelas Ashes, Sophies Choice, American Beauty, Lock Stock and two Smoking Barrels, The African Queen, The Last Emperor, pretty much any of Jackie Chans!, The Rings Trilogy, Dances With Wolves, Gladiator, Casablanca, The Elephant Man, Maltese Falcon, Key Largo, Empire of the Sun, The Big Sleep, Silence of the Lambs, Das Boot, Donnie Darko, Dark City, Spider Man (1&2), The Fly..........

Television:

..I'd rather listen to music, but I do like some TV like, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel, Roswell, Dark Angel, Scrubs, Lost, Time Team, Ray Mears, Red Dwarf, Spaced, Invasion, The Simpsons, Shameless,

Books:

..Loads of stuff, but at the moment I'm into Iain Banks, Kazuo Ishiguro, Haruki Murakami, Robert Harris and Michael Marshall Smith. Other favourites: John Steinbeck, Mervyn Peake, Stephen R Donaldson, Henry Miller. Poets: Dylan Thomas, W B Yeats, Basho, Li Po.

My Blog

...........and some good news

Some time ago my eldest son started an indie record label 'Tiny Little Creatures' and put together a full length compilation album featuring 10 bands in the experimental/ post rock genre.  I put ...
Posted by Bob on Sun, 14 May 2006 09:46:00 PST