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Willie

The Laird o' Pollok

About Me

Born and bred in Glasgow...Seduced by the power of Macintosh in 1989 and been indulging in digital and multimedia work ever since. Work has been conducted on an individual and collaborative basis with other independent film makers, theatre groups and musicians all over the country and thanks to the power of the internet, across the world with projects involving artists from as far afield as Spain, Australia, Japan and USA.Recent collaborations have been mainly involved with musicians including video and live visual projections with Steven Severin, the Skids, Richard Jobson, Isa & The Filthy Tongues, A Band Called Quinn, Honeytone Cody, Sangeeta, The Ghosts, The Poems, Sinna, Four Good Men, Dave Sharp, The Silencers, The Janes, Information Control, Cold Night Song, Miss Panda Le Bear & The Bucky Rage.Currently, making a documentary with Punk Legends, The Skids and preparing to film their live resurrection...
Myspace.com Blogs - Club Tromolo/ABCQ Tune Up Tour Launch at The Classic Grand this Wednesday 9
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My Interests

Music, Film, Video, Animation, Art, Word, Photography, Imagery, Dreams, Life, Love, Thought, Deed, Action, Visuals, People, Laughs, Happenings...
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I'd like to meet:

People with a common sense of decency!!!live visuals with Honeytone Cody @ Bradford Stir 28/07/07

Music:

Stuart Adamson RIP, Skids, Bowie, Roxy, Kraftwerk, Bill Nelson, The Stones, Leonard Cohen, Alex Harvey, SAHB, Be Bop Deluxe, Ivor Cutler RIP, The Armoury Show, Scars, Big Country, John Martyn, Devo, Steven Severin, Isa & The Filthy Tongues, Funkadelic, King Crimson, Talking Heads, David Byrne, Red Noise, Eno, Bolan, T Rex, Velvet Underground, Beach Boys, Sigur Ros, Jah Wobble, PiL, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Low, Massive Attack, Arcade Fire, Fire Engines, Cocteau Twins, Rezillos, Faust, Gong, King Creosote, Ladytron, Cypress Hill, Tim Buckley, James Brown, Four Tops, Supremes, St Judes Infirmary, Who, Magazine, Fingerprintz, Stranglers, Gomez, Bunnymen, Shamen, Mr C, Lambchop, Calexico, Air, Cramps, Clash, Pistols, Lou Reed, Quinn, Sangeeta, Sinna, Ghosts, Information Control, Sevens, Vivien Scotson, Bucky Rage, Babygod, Fuck Off Machete, Y'all is Fantasy Island, Babes in Toyland, White Stripes, Low, Roy O, Goldfrapp, Emilie Autumn, The Silencers, B-52s, Kay Taylor, Dresden Dolls, Air, Zero 7, The BLiMP, Billy Corgan, Nick Cave, Elvis, Ramones, KLF, Primal Scream, Leftfield, The Damned, Buzzcocks, UK Subs, SLF, Linton Kwesi Johnson, John Cooper Clarke, Pauline Murray, X Ray Spexx, Peter Gabriel, Dalek I, Honeytone Cody, XTC, Space, China Crisis, Radiohead, Neil Young, John Foxx, Cosmic Roughriders, Teenage Fanclub, Proclaimers, Beta Band, Billy Currie, Ultravox, Beck, Killing Joke, James, FLC, Chem Bros, Joy Division, Kinks, Small Faces, Jam, Beatles, Gram Parsons, Del Shannon, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Gordon Lightfoot, Associates, Goodbye Mr McKenzie, Angelfish, CCR, The Battlefield Band, The Poozies, Kate Rusby, Trashcan Sinatras, Scheme, Lovin Spoonful, Dashboard Saviours, Vic Chesnutt, Donna Summer, Georgio Moroder, Kate Bush, James King and the Lonewolves, Bright Eyes, Sophie B Hawkins, Union of Knives, Ian Bruce, Wall of Voodoo, DAF, Rilo Kiley, Van Morrison, The Band, Mott The Hoople, Queen, Motorhead, Robert Cray, Louis Armstrong, BB King, Cold Night Song, Mudville, Sweet, Johnny Cash, Perry Como, The Janes, etc

Movies:

My own :))))) Some music videos I have producedHolly the Cat Has Found a New home by Honeytone CodyHoneytone Cody- Holly The Cat....

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Add to My Profile | More VideosHeartbreaker #1 by The Bucky Rage
Get this video and more at MySpace.comSangeeta "We're On Our Way Home" Live at Vox @ The Vale
Get this video and more at MySpace.comQuinn: The Last Night I Saw
Get this video and more at MySpace.comThe Janes: There Is No them Only Us
Get this video and more at MySpace.comCold Night Song: Lullaby
Get this video and more at MySpace.comThe Ghosts: God Loves You (Live)
Get this video and more at MySpace.comAll videos copyright iMan4d/Digital Stramash 2006, all rights reserved

Television:

Great band !!

Books:

Private Memoirs and Confessions of A Justified Sinner, Heart of Darkness, 1984. Macbeth, Poe, Greene, Kafka, Shakespeare, Melville, Conrad, Orwell, Burns, Hogg

Heroes:

Shakespearos!!!

My Blog

Memories

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGMtyn-Fsq8 video for Memories by Isa & The Filthy Tongues video by Willie Richardson...
Posted by Willie on Wed, 28 May 2008 11:18:00 PST

Well you can gargle up me sheepshanks this chrimbo!!!

An unbelievable find for a music vid enthusiast like m'self was the discovery of the only surviving footage from seminal cult pop show Macclesfield live circa Xmas 1983. Rescued from the ashes of Macc...
Posted by Willie on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 09:27:00 PST

Whubootraglesgaferr

whubootraglesgaferr??- Aye, it aye, IT aye rains it ra ferr...!!!Translation for the Non Glesga: "Consider, if you will, the annual Glasgow Trades Fair holiday whereupon precipitation is as inevitable...
Posted by Willie on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:41:00 PST

If the Skids are united....

A very frantique week has set off at a blistering (for me) pace...starting Saturday afternoon with a jaunt up to East Kilbride to take in Quinn's mighty incendiary set at EK's Artburst Festival, trem...
Posted by Willie on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:15:00 PST

Review of popup4d event @ Oran Mor

A rather well written and comprehensive review of Saturday night's fair by the wonderful Blues Bunny people:"Popup Films presents A Band Called Quinn, Honeytone Cody, The Ghosts, Isa & the Filthy Ton...
Posted by Willie on Tue, 08 May 2007 08:36:00 PST

popup 4d festival of live music and moving image

Popup 4D Festival of Moving Image and MusicThe event will feature a showcase of film and moving image work by Yorkshire artists and filmmakers curated by popup films, visuals by iMan 4D and Thriftshop...
Posted by Willie on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 05:52:00 PST

Hneytone Cody, The Ghosts and North Foundation at Thee Woody

Honeytone Cody, The Ghosts and North Foundation givin it large at Thee Woody this Saturday February 24th, twill be a bit special y'dig?
Posted by Willie on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:10:00 PST

New Skids Fan Site

A brand new Skids fan site can be visited at The Skids It is most excellent and run by Dunfermline legends Cal And Cob; growing everyday from fan contributions including many previously unpublished ph...
Posted by Willie on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:47:00 PST

Switch off a da telly

and switch off radio dum dum :)here is a list for you to work throught and listen to some decency goddamitsummat here for everyone I reckons apologies to those I've missed out http://www.myspace.com/a...
Posted by Willie on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 09:09:00 PST

Foul Fiendlike Cad and Woeful Encounters of the Hogmanay Kind

I have secured actual footage of the New Year tragedy this is shocking stuff and you should only view it if you have a very strong stomach, an industrial strength anti-emetic or some travel sickness p...
Posted by Willie on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:39:00 PST