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Matt_K

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About Me

I sing and play bass with CAMBIAN DAWN. I really should stop with this myspace nonsense, except too many people I know are on here now. Fuck it. Why not check out my blog while you're here??

www.cambiandawn.com

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." - Oscar Wilde

My Interests


Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net
The Birthday Party - Junkyard

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I'd like to meet:

Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)

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Music:

P J Harvey, The Doors, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Kyuss, Slayer, Iggy/Stooges, Misfits/Danzig, Masters Of Reality, Sabbath (original line-up), David Bowie, Marilyn Manson, Led Zep, Carcass, The Cult, Nick Cave/The Birthday Party, Rolling Stones, Dead Or Alive, Goldfrapp, Pist.On, and many others...

I DESPISE NU METAL AND ITS IDIOT COUSIN, EMO! (So don't try to add your crap band if you include either of those as your influences! THE SAME GOES FOR ANY MENTION OF OASIS (the shittest band of the 90s), STEREOFUCKINGPHONICS, OR FUCKING COLDPLAY!!)

Movies:

Barfly, The Big Lebowski, Withnail And I, The Good The Bad And The Ugly, Heathers, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Blue Velvet, Clerks, Night Of The Demon, The Devil Rides Out, Hellraiser, The Blair Witch Project, Sleepy Hollow, Night Of The Living Dead, Donnie Darko, and my guilty pleasure film is Desperately Seeking Susan

Television:

Buffy (first three seasons), X-Files (early stuff), The Mighty Boosh, My Name Is Earl, Doctor Who, Red Dwarf, Blackadder, Black Books, Most Haunted, Dog The Bounty Hunter, Kath and Kim, Campus Ladies, Ghost Whisperer

Books:

Bukowski, H P Lovecraft, Edward Gorey, "Perfume" by Patrick Suskind, Philip Pullman, Garth Nix, Mick Farren, "Fucked By Rock - The Unspeakable Confessions Of Zodiac Mindwarp", "78 Degrees Of Wisdom" by Rachel Pollack (the tarot bible), "The Crystal Healer" by Philip Permutt, currently on "The Mists Of Avalon" by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Heroes:

Vince Noir, Mick Jagger, Jeff Lebowski aka The Dude, other ridiculous poseurs (I'm a Leo, I can't help it.)

My Blog

Cambian Dawn vid

"The Words Are Not The World" vid is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzp4EvjBDzg This was filmed at our practice rooms in Kings Cross earlier this year by a couple of film student buddi...
Posted by Matt_K on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 07:27:00 PST

Cambian Dawn t-shirts and CDs!

CAMBIAN DAWN cds and merchandise here: http://www.villainousrecords.com/shop.html "Wolves In The Springtime", the current EP by arse-kicking stoner/prog UK metal band Cambian Dawn, is&n...
Posted by Matt_K on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 03:44:00 PST

"Most Haunted" drinking game

Watching the repeats of series 6 of "Most Haunted" on FTN (the ones that have both Derek Acorah and David Wells) has reminded me of a drinking game from a couple of years ago. Firs...
Posted by Matt_K on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:17:00 PST

An attempt at haiku

I have to work out what I'm meant to be doing here before I die!
Posted by Matt_K on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 05:49:00 PST

Scotland tour diary March 2007

DAY ONE (Studio 24, Edinburgh): The band meet at Kings Cross.  After shoe-horning ourselves and our equipment onto the train, we pile into the buffet car for some over-priced and under-...
Posted by Matt_K on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:12:00 PST

Apparently I've been "tagged"

Tagged by Polly...10 weird or unusual things/habits! The rules are: Once you've been tagged, write a blog with 10 weird or random things, facts or habits about yourself. At the end, choose 10 people ...
Posted by Matt_K on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:16:00 PST

Marston's "Owd Roger"

MARSTONS "OWD ROGER"  This smooth, rich, dark delight is a bit of a find.  Weighing in at a rather hefty 7.6 per cent (or summat like that), this lovely brew will remind the seasoned al...
Posted by Matt_K on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:04:00 PST

Studio diary (2nd week)

Well, the deed is done!  I don't think anyone in the band has thought about much else for the last couple of months, and now it's all over.  Me, I feel elated and exhausted, relieved ye...
Posted by Matt_K on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 01:11:00 PST

Studio diary

So, we're smack in the middle of recording our new EP.  Zak got the drum tracks down for all five songs on the first day, like the big hairy trooper that he is.  I managed to ...
Posted by Matt_K on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 07:32:00 PST

We got the damn sponsorship!

No, really!  To my amazement, Wychwood have agreed to give us a bit of money to record with!  In return we have to be photgrahed wearing Hobgoblin t-shirts in the studio and be featured on t...
Posted by Matt_K on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 02:29:00 PST