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Nick Eyegrode

Massive Bereavement

About Me

I love music, travel, meeting people and sleeping on Travelodge pullout beds. Luckily my profession makes all these beautiful things happen. I am the director of Eyegrode Tours Ltd which involves tour managing, guitar teching, driving and supplying backline to rock bands around the UK & Europe. I just got a new website up now as proof ( eyegrodetours.com ).

I used to be in a couple of bands but seeing as now I have barely enough time to sleep, that side of things has gone quiet. On the few days a year that I'm not at work I like promoting the odd rock show in Cambridge. I like brown clothing, green vans and black drinks. That is me in one little nutshell.

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."
Hunter S. Thompson

This is pretty much the only reason I'm alive.

My Interests

Rum

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who doesn't have side parted floppy hair and takes photographic 'proof' at arms length.

Like this man:

I was pretty much born to fight. See me fend off two americans with the sickest moves ever recorded:
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Music:

My iBook, this week, been blasting these tunes out of his little, little speakers:

Movies:

25th Hour, American History X, Big Fish, Jacob's Ladder, Dancer In The Dark, Life Is Beautiful, The Motorcycle Diaries, Anchorman, Swingers, The Big Lebowski...

Television:

The Office, The Day Today, Brass Eye, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Jam, I'm Alan Partridge, Operation Good Guys, People Like Us, Little Britain, Phoenix Nights, Peep Show, Green Wing, Max & Paddy, Prison Break

Books:

High Society by Ben Elton, Dave Gormans Googlewhacking Adventure, Dave Pelzer Trilogy, Modern Toss, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne, Join Me! by Andy Wallace, The Yes Man by Andy Wallace, The Timewaster Letters by Robin Cooper, Marching Powder by Rusty Young

Heroes:

Ricky Gervais, Steve Coogan, Chris Morris, Larry David, Peter Kay, Mark Heap, Simon Pegg

My Blog

To everyone I care about....

To every single one of my soulmates in my home hamlet of Cambridge. I'm ever so sorry but this year on my birthday I have decided I'll be working in a place full of badly voiced tramps and serial kil...
Posted by Nick Eyegrode on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:17:00 PST

Where Art Thou; Eyegrode?

Just in case anybody wants to track me down over the festival period, this is what I am doing. I'm pretty much doing Foals now for the next couple of years which makes me do a little sick in my mouth...
Posted by Nick Eyegrode on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:05:00 PST

Damien: What Hast Thou Dunst?

My housemates, Andy and Morgan have gone gallivanting to Belgium for some music festival leaving me King of the Castle. They only left me with one instruction, which is was to feed the cat and make h...
Posted by Nick Eyegrode on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:46:00 PST

Battles Tour Diary - May/June 2007

It's a short video of the tour this time. Old grandads make text blogs....it's 2007 so now it's time for VIDEO BLOGS: There are also a 'shit load' of photos right hereThanks now!...
Posted by Nick Eyegrode on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:46:00 PST

Camden Fool

I am sitting in the drivers seat, in the van on Parkway in Camden. The notorious Camden Crawl started today and it's so far pretty well organised. Everyone seems to know what is going on and there h...
Posted by Nick Eyegrode on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:33:00 PST

Rock & Foal

Sitting on a black leather sofa in the heart of Camden with basically a day off on my hands I thought I'd write down a little bit of what has been going in the first few weeks of this Foals tour. We ...
Posted by Nick Eyegrode on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:22:00 PST

Crazy Horses

The Nightmare Of You tour was brilliant fun despite my entire suitcase getting stolen after I accidentally left it outside my house for 5 minutes. It was only 9 days long so I went wild in H&M and fi...
Posted by Nick Eyegrode on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 03:21:00 PST

Cambridge Vs Work

I thought I'd take a little break from building my huge 52 page tour itinerary to express myself in blog.I have been back in good old Cambridge for a month now and that is by far the most time I have ...
Posted by Nick Eyegrode on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:15:00 PST

Break The Silence Tour Report

Break The Silence Tour ReportSeptember, October 2005Reservoir CocksThe band nip out into Harlow Town Centre for some food before the show at The Square.The Icing On The CakeAfter the UK shows we drive...
Posted by Nick Eyegrode on Tue, 01 Nov 2005 11:30:00 PST

Eyegrode Tours (Dot Com)

I am sitting in my house with the fire on and a terrifying looking cat is sitting in front of it. Unfortunately the cat belongs to us. There is a Christmas Tree here with loads of presents under it ...
Posted by Nick Eyegrode on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 03:13:00 PST