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Wake

I am not a number, I am a free man

About Me

I enjoy playing in bands as much as possible. I live in North Somerset, have 2 children and work driving freight trains. I have an excellent girlfriend by the name of Kate.
MY DISCOGRAPHY
Seventh Angel - Red demo 1989
Seventh Angel - Rehearsal demo 1989
Seventh angel - Heed The Warning EP 1990
Seventh Angel - The Torment 1990
Seventh Angel - Lament For The Weary 1991
Ashen Mortality - Demo 1993
Ashen Mortality - Separation demo 1994
Ben Hardwidge - The Rhyme Of The Flying Bomb 1994
Ashen Mortality - Sleepless remorse 1996
Ben Hardwidge / Metropolis - 1996
Ashen Mortality - Your Caress 1998
Paramaecium - A Time To Mourn 1999
Seventh Angel - Demos/live 2005
Seventh Angel - The Torment (remastered) 2005
Seventh Angel - Lament For The Weary (remastered) 2005
Ashen Mortality - Your Caress/Sleepless/remastered 2005
My Silent Wake EP - 2005
The Other Window - 2006
My Silent Wake - Shadow of Sorrow 2006
Century Sleeper - Awaken 2006
The Other Window - Transition 2007
My Silent Wake - The Anatomy Of Melancholy 2007
I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)

My Interests

Music, comedy, movies, railways, mysteries and wierdness

DISLIKES: Celebrity magazines and celebrity culture; slugs; racism; violence; commercial pop music; intolerance (With the exception of intolerance when it is aimed at the things that I don't like).

I'd like to meet:

Fellow doom/goth/prog/folk musicians and fans & nice people.

Music:

My Dying Bride, Type O Negative, Dead Can Dance, Attrition, Trouble, Paradise Lost, The Revolutionary Army Of The Infant Jesus, Neurosis, Cult Of Luna, Nick Cave, Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, Sabbath, The Cult, NFD, Paramaecium, Corvus Corax, The Last Dance, Pure Reason Revolution, Veil of Ashes, The Sisters Of Mercy, New Model Army, Anathema, Thine, Roy Harper, Marillion, Enya, Circle Of Dust, Sunn O))), Place of Skulls, Mazzy Star, Candlemass, Empyrium, Arcana, James, Doves, Antestor, Avrigus, Rammstein, Monster Magnet, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Saxon, Motorhead, The Gathering, Saviour Machine, Virgin Black, Mastodon, Sympathy, Her Blackened Rose, Killswitch Engage, Mike Oldfield, Geoff Mann, Twelfth Night, The Mission, Believer, Bauhaus, Ozric Tentacles, the Choir, U2, Jah Wobble, Troglodyte Dawn, Rush, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Starchild, Fairport Convention, Sandy Denny, Steeleye Span, Warrior Soul, Miranda Sex Garden, Circulus, Green Mistletoe, And Also The Trees, Hildegard of Bingen, Sonver, Leonard Cohen, The Who, Vaakevandring, Hawkwind, Jethro Tull, High On Fire, Richard and Linda Thompson, Deep Purple, Thin Lizzy, This Mortal Coil, Visionaire,/Ikarian, This Picture, Metus, The Drowning, Tor Marrock, The Death Of Dreams, Khthon, Brendan Perry, Frosthardr, In Vain, Once Dead, Implacable/Dalit and related projects... Ship of Fools, Robyn Miller and many more...

Movies:

Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Memento, Blade Runner, Existenz, The Matrix, The Butterfly Effect, The Odd Couple, Donnie Darko, 2001 A Space Odyssey, The Shining, LOTR, Spinal Tap, Monty Python, Solaris (remake), Gattaca, The Virgin Suicides, The Big Lebowski, Magnolia, The Wicker Man, Pink Floyd The Wall, Alien, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, The Name Of The Rose, Fargo, Ghost World, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Star Wars, Pink Floyd live in Pompeii, Being There, The Last Temptation Of Christ, The King Of Comedy, The Machinist

Television:

PEEP SHOW, The Simpsons, Little Britain, The League Of Gentlemen, Nathan Barley, The Mighty Boosh, The Comic Strip, The Young Ones, the Goodies, Bottom, Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, Red Dwarf, Monty Python, Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, Alan Partridge, The Fast Show, Absolutely (not to be confused with Absolutely Fabulous, which is pretty good as well), The Office, Extras, Pheonix Nights, The Prisoner, Rising Damp, Look Around You, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Fry and Laurie, louie Theroux, The IT Crowd, Dean Learner/Garth Merenghi, Saxondale, Spaced, Father Ted, cheaply made morning tv about auctions and homes etc, but especially Bargain Hunt.

Books:

Terry Pratchet, Stephen Lawhead, Oliver Sacks, Tolkein, Edgar Allen Poe, Issac Asimov, Umberto Eco-The Name Of The Rose, Mary Shelley-Frankenstein, Philip K Dick-Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

Heroes:

Larry David, Homer Simpson, Papa Lazarou

My Blog

Khthon

Just had a week with Khthon, who recorded their EP at Kewsound with Steve drumming. We had a great time with them and they have produced a great doom recording! Check them out. http://www.myspace.com/...
Posted by Wake on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:13:00 PST

Leonard Cohen in London

I went to see Leonard Cohen with Andi in London. (this was my birthday present from Andi - what a star!) Amazing gig. He performed faultlessly for well over 2 hours - incredible for someone in hi...
Posted by Wake on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:31:00 PST

News, Attrition and Tor Marrock at Hobbits and llamas

This is a general blog: 2 great things happened recently. My Silent Wake recorded our third album and Seventh Angel reformed. The new S.A MySpace is there on my top friends so please add us. We hope t...
Posted by Wake on Mon, 26 May 2008 01:11:00 PST

Facebook

Nah, can't be arsed.
Posted by Wake on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:18:00 PST

Metal advent calendar

My Silent Wake have been chosen for day 22 of this: http://www.unionblack.co.uk/advent2007
Posted by Wake on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 06:48:00 PST

Gigs and new songs and Halloween

I recently did a couple of My Silent Wake gigs in wales with The Drowning, who are excellent people and are a great band into the bargain. We have a gig coming up in Weston on friday and one in Norway...
Posted by Wake on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:01:00 PST

Listen to Metus

This is so good. I have the first cd, and am eagerly awaiting the second one. www.myspace.com/metuspl    
Posted by Wake on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:12:00 PST

Discography

I have decided to include my discography on the profile. It includes demo cassettes that were released but doesn't include unreleased stuff or compilations. It includes other people's projects that I ...
Posted by Wake on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 06:27:00 PST

Onetel are vile

Do not ever consider using Onetel and their useless pretend email system which doesn't work much anymore. Sorry to any friends who needed to get in touch with me. Just use my MySpace messaging for now...
Posted by Wake on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:51:00 PST

Type O Negative in Birmingham

I think Kate and I are in the minority of people that enjoyed the show last night. The MySpace is buzzing with irrate people. It was great to see Paradise Lost and Type O on the same bill. Ok, it was ...
Posted by Wake on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:31:00 PST