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Ribble

Rather Be Forgotten Than Remembered For Giving In

About Me


I am Rob. Upton. Otherwise known as Ribble. A strange nickname given from my first girlfriend who in her "Dear John" letter, mispelt my name repeatedly as "Rib". Genius. From that rather dark spell at 16, nothing much as changed.
After becoming a failed Architect and failed student (I cared too much about work - what's that about?!) I currently reside in Nottingham and pretty much lead a rather sweet life being a music teacher at Hockley Music Academy and working at Sound Control. I have no money, I lie (sorry, sell) to people all day but I've got ace friends and I'm happy with it.
I used to play in Nottingham Instru-Metal lords The Legion Of Doom as their ginger guitarist and "general annoyance". (They used to be in my friends list until our Myspace got deleted 3 times in 3 days. But oh well. Such things are never meant to last). I used to be in November Moment as their bass player but as the great man once sang, "The band broke up in May; In June reformed without me; now they got a different name". Quite Literally. I still love them. And my bass playing on their shit is momumental. And they got 9/10 in Metal Hammer which is unjustified and brilliant nonetheless.
Nowadays I look pretty in SanZen as their guitarist looking great and generally fretting over my guitar and amp breaking. Often at the same time. They've been signed to In At The Deep End Records so look out for our album that's due out in May, only 12 months after it's original release date.
Top 10 Favourite Bands
1. Ben Folds Five
2. Braid
3. Alkaline Trio
4. Jawbreaker
5. Kyuss
6. Converge
7. The Dillinger Escape Plan
8. The Fucking Champs
9. Tom Waits
10. Bruce Springsteen
This changes weekly.
My Top 5 Guitars
1. Fender American Deluxe Ash Telecaster
2. ESP Eclipse
3. Warwick Corvette Jazzman
4. Ibanez RG 2550 Prestige
5. I sold my PRS for crack :(
This usually stays the same
I'm a music geek and have been since the age of 3. I use big words to confuse people on the subject. I'm always right and will not lose an argument. Unless it's with The Trappist or Ul in which case I am usually always wrong. I find it to be my most annoying trait but I'm certainly a lot better than I used to be. And that's all I can hope for.
The Legion Of Doom playing at The Old Angel last year.
And please take a moment to check out my personal official photographer Al Greer .
"Rather Be Forgotten Than Remembered For Giving In".
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My Interests

Music, Music and Music. And Maths. And then some more music.

I'd like to meet:

Danzig. Bless him.

Music:

In no particular order

Ben Folds Five, Steely Dan, Braid, Every Time I Die, Jawbreaker, Kyuss, Hot Rod Circuit, Pedro The Lion, Alkaline Trio, Tom Waits, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Avenged Sevenfold, The Fucking Champs, The Legion Of Doom, SanZen, Tower Of Power, Graham Central Station, Parlament, Tool, Thrice, Amusement Parks On Fire, Atreyu, Benton Falls, Black Sabbath, Brand New, The City On Film, Hey Mercedes, Coheed And Cambria, Converge, Cursive, Deftones, RXBandits, Sonic Boom Six, Biffy Clyro, The Aquabats, Dinosaur Jr., Teenage Fanclub, Send More Paramedics, Mistress, Down, Ed Harcourt, Danzig, Ryan Adams, Motorpsycho, The Rocket Summer, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Glassjaw, Refused, Queen, Slint, The Promise Ring, Bumsnogger, Headphones, Incubus, Jaco Pastorius, Victor Wooten, John Mayer, Keane, Kerosene 454, Knapsack, Meat Loaf, Mineral, Mull Historical Society, My Awesome Compilation, Nick Drake, Norma Jean, Texas Is The Reason, Samiam, Dashboard Confessional, Settlefish, Owen, The Jealous Sound, Bright Eyes, Midtown, Piebald, Slowride, Hot Water Music, Junction 18, Element 101, Taking Back Sunday, The Get Up Kids, The Juliana Theory, Mastodon, Guns 'n Roses, Mogwai, Godspeed You Black Emperor, MotherTrucker, Explosions In The Sky, Fly PanAm, A Silver Mt. Zion, System Of A Down, Billy Mahonie, The Bronx, Primus, Open Hand, Isis, Pelican, AC/DC, Melvins, MachineHead, Metallica, Beecher, Reuben, My Chemical Romance, Alexisonfire, At The Drive-In, Dire Straits, Jeff Buckley, Swound!, Kudzu, James, The Lightning Seeds, Jerry Cantrell, Radiohead, Reverend Horton Heat, Silversun, Supergrass, Built To Spill, Millard Powers, Glassjaw, Beach Boys, Sergei Rachmaninov, Counting Crows, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Squarepusher, Goldie, System F, Les Rhythmes Digitales, Zoot Woman, Plaid, Orbital, Underworld, Aphew Twin, Poison The Well, Twin Zero, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Elton John, Recover, Since By Man, Flossie And The Unicorns, Melt Banana, Blood Brothers, Jackson Browne, Vagrant Records, B-Unique Records, Drive-Thru Records, Trustkill, Jade Tree, In At The Deep End Records, Polyvinyl, Saddle Creek, The Milita Group, Deep Elm, Fugazi, A Perfect Circle, Athlete, Brandtson, Crackout, Death Cab For Cutie, The Dismemberment Plan, Easyworld, Eddie Hazel, Norah Jones, Rival Schools, Slo Burn, Something Corporate, The Bouncing Souls, Unida, Thursday, Sigur Ros, Fredric Chopin, Descendents, Ed Harcourt, Elbow, Further Seems Forever, Jimmy Eat World, Red Snapper, Seafood, Ron Sexmith, Sunny Day Real Estate, Tom McRae, Zero 7, The Appleseed Cast, The Copperpot Journals, Saves The Day, Jethro Tull, Travelling Wilburys, Architects, Comeback Kid, Throwdown, Bleeding Through, Son House, Muddy Waters, Pelican, Killswitch Engage, Donald Fagen, My Bloody Valentine, Life Of Agony, Number 12 Looks Like You, Sons Of Merrick, Cream, Nebula, Lowrider, Clutch, The Sword, Gojira, Cancer Bats,

Movies:

Hi Fidelity, Memento, Die Hard, Die Hard 2 : Die Harder, Die Hard 3 : Die With Avengance, Wayne's World, Wayne's World 2, Falling Down, St Elmo's Fire, Heathers, Basketball, Spinal Tap, They Live, Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Singles

Books:

High Fidelity, The Crow Road, Join Me, The Yes Man, Hell Bent For Leather, Starter For Ten, Dark Materials Triology