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Shaft

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About Me

I'm a promoter/DJ in Newcastle, England. I run the extremely popular REVENGE (with Geoff Leopard - see him and REVENGE in my Top Friends)@ The Red Rooms every Sat as well as DJing downstairs @ Camp David every Thursday and upstairs most Fridays. I also DJ @ Bernaccia and Venue on a regular basis. I'm always on the look out for more DJ work so get in touch if you need an indie/across the board DJ. I used to put gigs on regularly but am having a break from that at the minute.I'm an ageing hedonist who's body cannot really cope anymore so the partying is getting less and less as time goes by. Still I like to think on any given day I can still keep up with the best (and worst) of them, tho I'd probably need 3 weeks off on the sick afterwards as recovery speed is at an all time low.I have a 4 year old son, Henry, who is proof that men in my family are good looking when they're under 30, and a 9 year old step-daughter, called Victoria, who is a lovely girl but not a fan of my singing. Or my jokes... And my ever-suffering lass, Lisa, who ain't too shabby.There are still things that make me feel that life has something to offer: obvious things like hearing the kids laugh, joking with your mates, seeing your club night full of people actually enjoying themselves... but there's also trivial things like egg n chips for tea, thinking of daft one liners in me head, singing Lloyd Cole tunes in the house alone that keep me from waving the flag.Anyway, that's about it for 'me' but I'll leave you with this thought: Do you think Noel Coward was scared of Christmas?

My Interests

Music, football, boxing, sitting on me settee and the odd bout of hedonism.

I'd like to meet:

The person or persons responsible for vodka, pills, egg n chips, Pepsi Max, ice cold lager, TV, ice cream, music, football, boxing, women...In a bad way I'd like to meet the person or persons responsible for women, gambling, Celine Dion, Marmite, Reality TV... (I'll keep adding to this list)

Music:

Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, AC/DC, Led Zep, Kasabian, The Supernaturals, Pulp, The Stone Roses, The Zutons...

Movies:

His Girl Friday, The Philadelphia Story, Father Goose, Shawshank Redemption, When Harry Met Sally, Goodfellas, A Bronx Tale, Homeboy, The World According To Garp...

Television:

CSI, Moonlighting, Friends, GBH, Cracker, Scrubs...

Books:

The Naked and the Dead, Cement Garden, Talking It Over, Messiah, Women, What A Carve Up!, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Catch 22...

Heroes:

Cary Grant, Norman Mailer, Lloyd Cole, Sugar Ray Leonard, Charles Bukowski, Liv Tyler, Dylan Moran, Stephen Fry, Ian Botham and plenty more but I'm bored with writing this list already.

My Blog

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The Archives

Previous bands to play a gig for Shaft:The Adventures of Loki, Bad Manners, The Beat, The Bluetones, Bromheads Jacket, Buen Chico, The Chapman Family, DARTZ!, DeadDisco, Dirty Little Faces, Dustin's B...
Posted by Shaft on Wed, 18 Jan 2006 03:37:00 PST