My main interest is music and i play the guitar and banjo.
I recently started playing guitar and banjo for the obscenely talented Mary Epworth and we've start giging, which is ace when i'm not shit.
I occasionally play guitar on pop records that are made for six year olds courtesy of one Myles Barnaby Clarke. The money/laughs make this well worth the end result.
Myles and i play in a band called the Nags (named after by far the best public house in Shrewsbury, where three of us hail from) and although we haven't rehearsed for months we may start playing again soon and I'm sure much comedy will ensue.
I also occasionally write and record my own stuff which is of a country/folk bent but i won't dwell on this as my songs are all, without exception, utter pig spunk. Aside from music, i enjoy getting drunk at weekends, wearing sunglasses regardless of the weather and generally making a twat of myself. As if to prove a point.....................
Anyone that likes 'a laugh', doesn't mind excessive use of fucking swear words and anyone who also believes that Teenage Fanclub did their best work when Norman Blake still had a beard.
The Byrds, The Beach Boys, The Band,Bob Dylan, Teenage Fanclub,Big Star, The Flaming Lips,Elliot Smith, Nuggets,Mojave 3, John Phillips, The Dream Syndicate, Steve Wynn, Beachwood Sparks, Iron & Wine, The Rolling Stones, Nick Drake, Captain Beefheart ,The Smiths, Super Furry Animals, The Coal Porters,The Olivia Tremor Control,Nashville West,Kentucky Colonels, Sufjan Stevens, Richard Hawley,Steve Earle,Mary Epworth, Emily Barker, The Low Country,Johnny Cash,Skip Spence, Moby Grape,The Flying Burrito Bros,Neil Young,Gram Parsons,The Pernice Brothers, Gene Clark, Wilco, Uncle Tupelo, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Love, Brendan Benson, Golden Smog, The Beatles, Townes Van Zandt, The Bevis Frond, The Velvet Underground, The Sonics, The Jayhawks, Leonard Cohen, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Sonic Youth, Drive-By Truckers, Simon & Garfunkel,The Apples In Stereo,Neutral Milk Hotel, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Vanilla Fudge, The Pogues, Glen Campbell, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Yo La Tengo, My Bloody Valentine, The Sleepy Jackson, Squeeze, Ian Dury, The Kinks, The Buff Medways, Sex Pistols,The Webb Brothers,Green on Red, The Longryders,Sparklehorse, Camera Obscura, The Nazz,Papa M, Clarence White,The Brogues and more.
Anything by shane meadows, mike leigh, ken loach and the cohen brothers. Napolean Dynamite, Grosse Point Blank, Police Academy IV and some others.
Don't really watch much telly, the picture's shit on ours. I normally just hear about stuff via word of mouth and then pester my flatmate until he buys the DVD. I am not an animal, partridge, human remains, nighty night, look around you, brass eye, the day today, the green wing, Nathan Barley, spaced, porridge, the mighty boosh
Hemingway, Orwell, Kerouac, Fitzgerald, Bukowski, Blyton (all the pissheads), Lovecraft, The Time Waster Letters, The Fortean Times.
Clarence White , Johnny Cash , Grandad Tom.