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Matt Quinn

The shining, dancing, albino polar bear

About Me

I am a 17 year old folk music enthusiast. I play Fiddle, Mandolin, Mandocello, Guitar, Bass, and sing. I live in Portslade and go to Sussex Downs College in Lewes. I'm studying Music, Music Tech and Film Studies. Some people say i am completely mental. Other people say different. You decide for yourself next time you see me.
I am in a folk band. We play and sing traditional folk music. We are called Too Many Strings for self explanatory reasons. If you are interested, between the 3 of us there are 64 strings in use. We have our own myspace page. Check us out and enjoy.
http://www.myspace.com/toomanystrings
I love the english folk big band BELLOWHEAD led by Jon Boden & John Spiers. Check them out here on Jools Holland and at Cambridge Folk Festival.
The first one is RIGS OF THE TIME,the second one is JORDAN and the third one is HOPKINSON'S FAVOURITE.
Enjoy.
This is another great band with Jon Boden and John Spiers in it. They are part of the Ratcatchers of ELIZA CARTHY AND THE RATCATCHERS. This a song they do called WORCESTER CITY. It's a slightly more elaborated version as they usually don't have bass or drums behind them. Enjoy!
This is a cabaret band called THE TIGER LILLIES. They are by far one of the wierdest bands aroud.

My Interests

Music, films

Music:

Too Many Strings, Franz Ferdinand, Muse, Bon Jovi, Brass Monkey, Bellowhead, Salsa Celtica, Chipolata 5, Dan Quinn and Will Duke, Devo, Editors, Arctic Monkeys, Eliza Carthy, Feeder, Benji Kirkpatrick, Dave Swarbrick, LAU, Viv Legg, Flanders and Swann, Green Day, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Jim Woodland, Jon Boden & John Spiers, La Bottine Souriante, Little Richard, Los Albertos, Martin Carthy, Monty Python, John Kirkpatrick, Nic Jones, Paul MCcartney, Pete Morton, Queen, Rachel Unthank and the Winterset, Reg Meuross, Richard Thompson, Ry Cooder, The Scared Weird Little Guys, The Sensitive New Age Cowpersons, Sid Kipper, The Kipper Family, Smash Mouth, Tenacious D, The Balham Aligators, The Beatles, The Blues Brothers, The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, The Clash, The Kinks, The Panic Brothers, The Rolling Stones, The Scaffold, The Tigerlillies, The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, Tom Lehrer, Tom Robinson, Tom Waits, Weird Al Yankovitch

Movies:

Memento, Fight Club, Se7en, Blade, Blade 2, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Usual Suspects, Lord Of The Rings, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, School of Rock, The Da Vinci Code, X-men, X-men 2, Mission Impossible, Leon, Time BAndits, Twelve Monkeys, Supersize Me, Brassed Off, Edward Scissorhands, Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Begins, Mystery Men, De-lovely, Ray, Beyond The Sea, Walk The Line, V for Vendetta, Matrix, Matrix Reloaded, Matrix Revoluions, Witness, Air Force One, Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, The Ninth Gate, From Hell, Sleepy Hollow, Beetlejuice, Being John Malkovitch, In The Line Of Fire, Open Range, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Finding Neverland, Pirates Of The Caribbean, Austin Powers, Dodgeball, BASEket Ball, Nurse Betty, Seabiscuit, Jurassic Park, Pleasantville, Blast From The Past, Fargo, O Brother Where Art Thou, Intolerable Cruelty, The Tailor Of Panama, Shakespeare In Love, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Shrek, Shrek 2, The Incredibles, Liar Liar, The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Harry Potter, The Fifth Element, Die Hard, Die Hard 2, Die Hard 3, 16 Blocks, It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World, West Side Story, Oliver, Catch Me If You Can, The Shawshank Redemption, Dirty Harry, Blood Work, Firefox, Absolute Power, The Gauntlet, A Fistfull Of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, The Good The Bad And The Ugly, The Cable Guy, Election, Monty Python And The Holy Grail, Monty Python's Life Of Brian, Motny Python's Meaning Of Life, The Addams Family, The Addams Family Values, Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Alien Resurection, Amazon Women On Ten Moon, Antz, AI, Chicken Run, Clueless, The Day After Tomorow, Die Another Day, Enter The Dragon, Frankenstien, Galaxy Quest, Gosford Park, Gemlins, Gremlins 2, Halloween, The Silence Of The Lambs, Hannibal, Red Drangon, Manhunter, A Hard Days Night, Help, In & Out, Independance Day, The Iron Giant, Kentucky Fried Movie, Little Shop Of Horrors, Mars Attacks, Men In Black, Minority Report, Monsters INC, The Mummy, Notting Hill, Office Space, On The Town, Panic Room, Reign Of Fire, Singing In The Rain, The Sixth Sense, Some Like It Hot, Space Cowboys, Spiderman, Spiderman 2, Superman, The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three, The Tall Guy, Terminator, The Thing, Young Frankenstein, The Producers, Blazing Sadlles

Television:

C.S.I, E.R, Murder One, Messiah, Prison Break, Smallville.

Books:

Lord Of The Rings