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David Boring

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About Me

Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.

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My Interests

Yes I have interests, including Music (live, at home, on cd, on tape, on vinyl, in a car), Art (the Tate, its a great Crack), and all sorts of other things thats I can't be bothered to go into right now. I'll get back to you shortly, please leave a message after the beep

I'd like to meet:

Me at the age of 15.....

...and I wish I'd met this fella

....and if you are missing those videos check out The Hornsey Family Singers profile (see my top friends). Enjoy!!

Music:

In no particular order straight off the top of my head Johnny Cash, The Mars Volta, The Clash, The NOVa (www.thenova.info), The Smiths, MORRISSEY, The Jam, The Beatles, Elvis, The Archie Bronson Outfit, The Icicle Works, Tears For Fears, Depeche Mode, Your Code Name is:Milo, The Verve, Oasis, Blur, U2, Richard Hawley, Peter Bjorn and John, The Dead Kennedys, The Jazz Butcher, Billy Bragg, Aztec Camera, David Bowie, Microdisney, The High Llamas, The Beta Band, The Aliens, ELO, Veldt, The Sundays, Fatima Mansions, Manic Street Preachers, Steely Dan, Human League, The Kinks, The Who, Pink Floyd, British Sea Power, The Stone Roses, The Editors, The Arctic Monkeys, Portishead, Rufus Wainwright, The Cocteau Twins, Marta Wainwright, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, Glen Campbell, Joy Division, Graham Coxon, XTC, Sigur Ros, Wings, Super Furry Animals, Happy Mondays, The The, Wedding Present, Japan, Elvis Costello, Squeeze, Roxy Music, Gary Numan, Cabaret Voltaire, The Beach Boys, Madness, Heaven 17, The Specials, The Beat, The Streets, The Killers, The Strokes, Feeder, Hard-Fi, Adam And The Ants, Nirvana, The Undertones, Psychedelic Furs, OMD, Massive Attack, Beck, Nick Cave, Weezer, Led Zeppelin, Prince, Aphex Twin, Kasabian, The Doves, The Czars, The Coral, Kanye West, Interpol, Nine Inch Nails, Queens Of The Stone Age, The Beastie Boys, The Eels, Big Audio Dynamite, The Secret Machines, Mew, The Futureheads, Muse, Supergrass, Ash, Kraftwerk, Orange Juice, Hue and Cry, The Higsons, Prefab Sprout, The Housemartins, The Passage, Pigbag, Talking Heads, That Petrol Emotion, The Farmers Boys, Yvonne Ellison, Dexys Midnight Runners, The Associates, Marc Almond, Groove Armada, Pil, The KLF, Mamas and the Papas, Billie Holiday, Small Faces, Carpenters, The Langley School Music Project, William Orbit, Foo Fighters, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Police, It's Immaterial, Velvet Underground, The Redskins, Style Council, The Eagles, PJ Harvey, Bauhaus, Be Your Own Pet, Echo And The Bunnymen, The Cure, Ian Brown, Pet Shop Boys, Stereolab, Ladytron, The Charlatans, The Rakes, Rolling Stones, Crass, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fatboy Slim, The Kooks, T Rex, Slade, Kate Bush, Blondie, Iggy Pop, Gorillaz, Placebo, Richard Ashcroft, Joe Jackson, Donald Fagin, Siouxsie and the Banshees, James, Killing Joke, Bob Marley, Faithless, Cafe Del Mar, The Pogues, Jeff Buckley, The Howling Bells, Green Day, The Chemical Brothers, Orbital, Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, John Barry, Santana, Lamb, Buzzcocks, The Concretes, Mogwai, Bob Dylan, The Go Team, The Pixies, NERD, The Hives, Grandaddy, The White Stripes, The James Taylor Quartet, Bruce Springsteen, Pulp, Simon and Garfunkel, Elastica, Smashing Pumpkins, Suede, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Lemon Jelly, Elbow, Idlewild, Ok Go, The Zutons, Bjork, The Engineers, Kirsty MacColl, The Dandy Warhols, Julian Cope, We Are Scientists, The Mystery Jets, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Arcade Fire, Spiritualised, Jay Z, Clearlake, Four Tet, Stiff Little Fingers, The Delays, Frank Sinatra, The Weather Prophets, The Stranglers, Martin Stephenson and the Daintees, Sex Pistols, Pale Fountains, New Order, Everything But The Girl, Duran Duran, Primal Scream, The Shadows, Ride, Cooper Temple Clause, Dead 60s, Ordinary Boys, The Music, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Polyphonic Spree, The Vines, Coldplay, Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, The Blueskins, Gomez, Unkle, DJ Shadow, The Fun Lovin Criminals, Death In Vegas, Blue Rondo A La Turk, The Cult, Half Man Half Biscuit, Frankie Goes To Hollywood and I'm a big fan of the Fondues, one of the bands I've found on here, check them out NOW!!.... TO BE CONTINUED, IT'S LATE AND I'M TIRED!!

One of the two greatest gig moments of my life, OK, it's just some lights coming on but if you were there you'd know what I mean

.....and this is the other one which will probably never be beaten, I was in the room when they did these two songs

Movies:

Top of the pile is Magnolia followed by (again in no particular order), Buffalo 66, Happiness, Grease, The Italian Job, Dead Mans Shoes, Akira, Usual Suspects, Shawshank Redemption, Godfather I, Godfather II, Grosse Point Blank, Boogie Nights, Dog Day Afternoon, Dogma, 28 Weeks Later, Apocalypse Now, Moulin Rouge, Back To The Future, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Spinal Tap, Kill Bill, Scarface, Trainspotting, Full Metal Jacket, Casino, The Deer Hunter, Groundhog Day, Airplane, The Great Escape, JFK, The Blues Brothers, Memento, Goodfellas, Fight Club and many many more.

To me this is movie perfection

Television:

Spaced, Big Train, Black Books, The Simpsons, Early Doors, Nighty Night, The Office, Green Wing, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, 24, Shameless, Curb Your Enthusiasm, House, Alan Partridge, Lost and again many many more

Books:

I devour books, Jubilee Library is my second home. I love graphic novels especially Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan, Acme Novelty Libraries) and Daniel Clowes (Ghost World, David Boring). Best autobiography is Julian Copes, it's very hard to put down. Too many favourite authors/books to mention but the ones that have stuck out over the years are Glue by Irvine Welsh, Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides and Perfume by Patrick Suskind.

Heroes:

STEPHEN PATRICK MORRISSEY, John Peel, John Noakes, Evel Knievel and John Arthur White (my Dad)

My Blog

The adventures of Dave and Billy

Just felt inspired to write a quick blog as I'm going to see Billy Bragg in December and I thought I'd enthrall you all with our previous meetings. The first encounter was at Guildford Civic Hall on h...
Posted by David Boring on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 04:56:00 PST

Mixtape update

As I'm sure you've all been drooling with anticipation as to what I put on this tape for a mate. Well here you are... Lloyd Cole - Rattlesnakes Orange Juice - Flesh of my Flesh Hue And Cry - Ordinary ...
Posted by David Boring on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 06:40:00 PST

The Lost art of...

....mix tapes, and no I don't mean ipod playlists or stuff like that, I'm a fogey. A friend of mine bought a car that only had a cassette player in it so I've had the wonderful job of doing my first m...
Posted by David Boring on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 07:21:00 PST

The Top 100

Well I finally sorted out my record collection at the weekend and as I've not much room I decided to select 100 singles to keep 'out'. Out of about 700 it was quite hard but I finally settled on the ...
Posted by David Boring on Mon, 06 Mar 2006 07:07:00 PST