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Jen

80 mph

About Me



Alright, I'm Jen.. I manage Clearline Studios which is home to Longwave Recordings (check them out in my top friends) and I play pop songs at Clwb Ifor Bach on Wednesdays and Callaghan's on Saturdays. Come along and say hi.

My Interests

New music, radio, 'gigging', inebriation...

I'd like to meet:


i tip on Huw Stephens' radio one show, present this podcast - www.thepopcast.com - and scout for Stimulus at EMI, so... i need to meet all you lovely (welsh) bands and artists - send me a message, invite me to a gig or even email your mp3s to [email protected] - tell yer friends too... ta!

Music:

Check out the bands in my top friends...they're there for a reason. Then: 2 Many DJ's, 586, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Absentee, Acid Casuals, Adam Green, Adequate Seven, Akira the Don, Al Lewis, Alexisonfire, The Aliens, Amusement Parks on Fire, And What Will Be Left of Them, Animal Collective, Arcade Fire, Archie Bronson Outfit, Architecture in Helsinki, Arctic Monkeys, Art Brut, At the Drive In, attack+defend, Au Revoir Simone, The Automatic, The Basement, Bat For Lashes, Battle, Battles, Be Your Own Pet, Beastie Boys, Beck, Bell X1, Belle and Sebastian, Ben Kweller, Best Fwends, Biffy Clyro, Black Dice, Black Hand Laser Band, The Blims, Bloc Party, Blondie, The Blood Arm, Blues Explosion, Blur, Boards of Canada, Bob Dylan, The Boy Least Likely To, Brakes, Brand New, The Breeders, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, British Sea Power, Bromheads Jacket, The Buzzcocks, Camera, Cansei De Ser Sexy, Cathy Davey, Cat Power, Chemical Brothers, Chicks on Speed, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Clash, Client, Clinic, Clor, Coldplay, The Concretes, The Cooper Temple Clause, The Coral, Cord, The Cribs, The Crimea, Crosbi, The Cure, Cut Copy, Damn Arms, Daniel Johnston, Dashboard Confessional, Dead Disco, Dear Eskimo, Death Cab For Cutie, Death From Above 1979, The Decemberists, Delia Gonzalez, The Departure, dUES, Devendra Banhart, Devo, Dirty Perfect, Dirty Pretty Things, The Divine Comedy, Dizzee Rascal, Dogs, Dolorosso, Do Me Bad Things, The Dresden Dolls, Drone, Dungen, Editors, El Perro Del Mar, Elastica, Elbow, Electrelane, Ellen Allien, Espers, EUGENE FRANCIS JNR, Everclear, EVILS, Faith No More, Fatboy Slim, The Features, Field Music, Fields, The Fiery Furnaces, Final Fantasy, The Flaming Lips, Forward Russia, Four Tet, Franz Ferdinand, The Fratellis, Funeral For A Friend, The Futureheads, Gang Gang Dance, Gang of Four, Garbage, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, Giant Drag, Gideon Conn, GINDRINKER, The Go! Team, Goldfrapp, Good Books, Good Shoes, Gorillaz, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, The Gossip, Graham Coxon, Grandmaster Gareth, Guillemots, Halflight, Head Automatica, Hellogoodbye, The Hives, The Holloways, Hope of the States, Hornby Pylons, Horse and Louis, Hot Chip, Hot Club de Paris, Hot Hot Heat, THE HOT PUPPIES, Howling Bells, Ichinchilla, iLiKETRAiNS, Imogeon Heap, Inner City Pirates, Interpol, Islands, Isobell Campbell, The Jam, Jamie T, Jarvis Cocker, Jimmy Eat World, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Jose Gonzalez, Josephine Foster, Josh Ritter, Joy Division, The Juan Maclean, THE JUANITA FAMILY AND FRIENDS, JULIA HARRIS, Junior Boys, Kaiser Chiefs, Kelly Clarkson, The Kills, King Creosote, Kings of Leon, The Kinks, Klaxons, The Kooks, Kraftwerk, KT Tunstall, Kubicheck!, Kutosis, Ladyfuzz, Larrikin Love, LAST PARTISAN, LCD Soundsystem, Le Tigre, Les Savy Fav, Liars, The Libertines, Lightening Bolt, Lily Allen, The Little Flames, LITTLE MY, Lonely, Dear, The Long Blondes, LOS CAMPESINOS!, Lostprophets, Louie, Louis XIV, Love is All, Low, M.Ward, M83, THE MACCABEES, The Magic Numbers, Mansun, The Mars Volta, Marrissa Nadler, The Marshals, Martha Wainwright, Maximo Park, Melvins, Men, Women & Children, Metric, Midlake, Million Dead, MISTY'S BIG ADVENTUTRE, Modest Mouse, THE MOULETTES, MSTRKRFT, Mumm-Ra, Muse, My Bloody Valentine, Mystery Jets, The National, NERD, New Rhodes, The Neptunes, Nine Black Alps, No Doubt, Oasis, O Fracas, One-Two, The Paddingtons, Panic! At The Disco, PARIS MOTEL, Pavement, Peaches, People in Planes, Peter Bjorn & John, The Pigeon Detectives, The Piney Gir, Pink Floyd, Pink Grease, The Pipettes, The Pixies, THE POPPIES, The Postal Service, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Princess Superstar, Pulp, Queens of the Stone Age, The Raconteurs, Radio 4, Radio Luxembourg, Radiohead, The Rakes, The Ramones, Red City, Regina Spektor, Reuben, Richard Hawley, Richard James, Rilo Kiley, Rival Schools, The Roger Sisters, Roland Shanks, Royksopp, Rufus Wainwright, Rumble Strips, Russian Futurists, Scissor Sisters, Secret Machines, The Sequins, SHAKE MY HAND, The Shins, ShitDisco, Shooting at Unarmed Men, Sigur Ros, SILENCE AT SEA, Silver Jews, Sleater-Kinney, The Smiths, Smoosh, Snow Patrol, Soft Hearted Scientists, Sonic Youth, Sound Team, Sparklehorse, The Specials, SpeedKING, SPENCER MCGARRY SEASON, The Spinto Band, The Steers, Stereophonics, The Streets, The Stone Roses, Stray Borders, The Strokes, The Subways, The Sunshine Underground, Super Furry Animals, Supergrass, Supersystem, Sweet Baboo, Talking Heads, Tapes n Tapes, Teddy Thompson, Tegan and Sara, Test Icicles, Thom Yorke, THREATMANTICS, Tilly and the Wall, Tokyo Police Club, Tom Vek, THE TOY BAND, Tuung, TV On The Radio, Two Gallants, Union of Knives, The Velvet Underground, The Verve, Victims of Convenience, THE VICTORIAN ENGLSIH GENTLEMENS CLUB, Viva Machine, The Voices, The Walkmen, The Wave Pictures, We Are Scientists, Weezer, The White Stripes, The Who, Willy Mason, Wire, Wolfmother, Wolf Parade, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yo La Tengo, You Say Party! We Say Die!, The Young Knives, Yourcodenameis:milo, The Zutons

Movies:

Either anything by David Lynch or something which requires minimum concentration.

Television:

If Cameron makes food.

Books:

Anything by Nick Hornby, except How to be Good (it was a bit rubbish).

Heroes:

Jennifer Coolidge - never fails to make me laugh

My Blog

SXSW

Here is what I wrote for krugermagazine.com ........14/03/2007 - Wagons WestI woke up with a start this morning, the radio alarm clock beside my bed blasting. Get up, get dressed, try and find Charle...
Posted by Jen on Tue, 01 May 2007 06:55:00 PST

Start of a good year?

I've got this feeling that 2007 is going to be a great year, and hopefully, I'll see some great bands in the process.First gig of the year however is a massive disappointment. I nip to Barfly on Thurs...
Posted by Jen on Tue, 01 May 2007 06:21:00 PST

Four months that end in berrrrrrrrrrrrr

It's taken a while but I am now fully employed& and writing a myspace blog at work; pretty good, eh. It's been a long few months and now I'm just looking forward to festivals coming back. Camden Cra...
Posted by Jen on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 10:55:00 PST

this is far too long....

Since I've graduated&. I've been unemployed, worked for free and been paid for doing strange jobs you (ironically) don't need a degree for, and I went to some awesome concerts!I last posted in May, w...
Posted by Jen on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 05:08:00 PST

Four Big Weekends - May

This month I listened to The Automatic at the gym, Architecture in Helsinki in the sun and Serena Maneesh with my fingers in my ears. 4th May, and the first gig of the month after handing in my d...
Posted by Jen on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:58:00 PST

April was fun...

This month I fell in love with Ladyfuzz and remembered why I loved Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Dresden Dolls and The Zutons so much   Second day of April, first gig; Controller Controller at the Barfly with...
Posted by Jen on Tue, 09 May 2006 07:32:00 PST

The month of March, 2006

Ok, I always make new years resolutions.  Self-improvement's important, right?  So, it's now April and I bite my fingernails, haven't got round to buying dental floss yet and still haven't s...
Posted by Jen on Sat, 15 Apr 2006 03:35:00 PST