Music is my first love, curry is my second. Oh yeah and my husband is alright too.
Apart from that I like wasting time, doing as little as humanly possible, listening to music, gigs, drunk scrabble and night time swingball.
I have no time for racists, bigots, arseholes, users and abusers. I have a VERY low tolerance for stupid people and intelligent people who act stupid in order to have an easy life.
I get annoyed at people who don't learn from their mistakes and go on making them over and over again.
I also get annoyed at people who run and hide from life and the shit that it throws at you. How you cope with the down side of life is what defines you as a person.
People who:
I'm not a one genre kind of gal. I like anything from indie, powerpop, postpunk, alternative, experimental, acoustic, folk, ambient and classical, through to reggae (proper reggae mind, none of this shakey booty r'n'b shite), classic disco and some serious electronica and techno.
I like to think that I am pretty open-minded and I enjoy the cream of each genre instead of limiting myself to one. I like music that stands out from the crowd.
I'm so sick of the NME 'scene' and all the half-arsed band-wagon shite they champion. It's the MacDonalds of music. I hate the way that people blindly follow that 'scene' and like what they're told to like. Fuck man, make your own scene, get a life.
Favourite gigs of all time:
Mark Burgess, Andy Whitaker, Andy Clegg (The Sun and The Moon) live in my living room at Club Monkey 3. March 2008. A totally amazing weekend and a fantastic gig.
Iain Archer and Jacob Golden live in my living room at Club Monkey 2. A really special night. April 2007.
Jon Auer (The Posies / Big Star) and Chris Smyth live in my living room at Club Monkey, December 2006.
Aphex Twin at The Junction in Cambridge, 1996. Trouser flapping loud, and bass that almost stopped your heart. Several people actually left in tears. Excellent...
Doves at The Eden Project, 2000. Awesome surroundings, amazing gig, memorable weekend.
That Petrol Emotion's last ever gig in London, 1994. Emotional and amazing.
REM at Leicester DeMontfort on the Green tour, 1989. Nice medium sized venue. I got to stand 6 feet away from Mike Mills, my hero and just watch his hands.
Radiohead at South Park, Oxford, 2001. Fantastic home-town gig. It rained so hard I thought I might die and I had to drive home in my pants.
Violent Femmes at Royal Albert Hall, 1991. I got my toe broken in the mosh pit. Rock n' roll baby!
The Posies at Islington Academy, 2005. Awesome gig and we had great fun at the aftershow party. "Are you in The Killers?"
The Posies at Melkweg, Amsterdam, 2006. What a weekend that was! Nuff said...
Iain Archer at St Lukes Church, Holloway, 2007. An amazing, emotional solo acoustic performance by one of the nicest and most talented people I've ever met.
The Chameleons at The Barfly, Camden, 2001. Finally got to see them. It was so packed and everyone was dancing. I thought the floor was going to collapse, so I hugged the wall all night.
Bands/artists I like. I really can't be arsed to organise this whole list beyond the first 20ish. After that it's a pretty random list.
Summer Jets, Lasermonkey, Kizilok, Tiny Scientist, Andy Whitaker, The Chameleons, The Reegs, The Sun and the Moon, Weaveworld, Jon Auer, Spencer, Iain Archer, Jacob Golden, Infa Red, The Posies, Oranger, Radiohead, Buffalo Tom, Aphex Twin, The Freelance Hellraiser, Orbital, early REM (they suck now), Ludovico Einaudi, Stone Roses, CORD,
Brian Eno, Nick Drake, Kristen Hersh, 50 Foot Wave, Throwing Muses, 10,000 Maniacs, Indigo Girls, Culture, Lee Scratch Perry, Cocteau Twins, Nada Surf, Doves, Dandy Warhols, Teenage Fanclub, Leaves, Violent Femmes, OKGO, Brendan Benson, Coldplay, Travis, Beezewax, John Vanderslice, The Ravines, Their Strange Gathering,
Curve, Slowdive, Ride, Rain Parade, Sugar, Neil Young, Auf der Maur, Feeder, Thirteen Senses, Blackbud, Smoosh, Nirvana, Big Star, Death in Vegas, Kid Dakota, Jesus & Mary Chain, Pure Horsehair, Low, Captain, Ian McGlynn, Zookeeper, bit|bin, Boards of Canada, Original Cast
and a whole shed-load of others... you get the picture.
Twelve Monkeys, Terminator, Pulp Fiction, Natural Born Killers, Kill Bill, Apocalypse Now, Once Upon A Time In Mexico, From Dusk Till Dawn, Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me, Shaun Of The Dead, Ocean's Eleven, Predator, Alien & Aliens, Leon, Face Off, 8mm, Lord Of The Rings, Fight Club, Along Came A Spider.......
I love action films, psychological thrillers, sci-fi, surreal shit. As long as there is some decent fighting and swearing.
Cannot STAND chick-flicks and love stories. I think Hugh Grant is a cunt! Stupid bumbling twat giving a terrible impression of English men to the entire world. I just want to slap him. Ponce.
I don;t watch it much, but when I do it'll be: CSI, Lost, 24, Carnivale, Twin Peaks, Scrubs, The Simpsons, Futurama, Malcolm in the Middle, Battlestar Gallactica (new), Stargate and Stargate Atlantis, Star Trek (TNG, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise), Band of Brothers.
Discovery channels, History channel, BBC nature documentaries, Seconds From Disaster, Myth Busters, Time Team, Forensic Detectives, Bill Oddie Goes Wild and stuff like that.
The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and anything by Graham Masterton or Robert Rankin. The books that got me into those authors were: Walkers, by Graham Masterton and Armaggedon, The Musical by Robert Rankin.
Hero is a weird word. It suggests complete adoration. The following people are not perfect, but I admire them for the things they are good at.
Mark Mills - cool dude and very tolerant person. Also acts as a very handy external hard drive.
My friends - they are all the family I need.
Jon Auer - voice of an angel, guitar god and bloody nice bloke
Mike Mills - made me want to play the bass
Homer Simpson - just because