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Chris of the Marlings

Cantankerous, cuddly, drunken and mostly hairy

About Me

I be here:
www.repeatfanzine.co.uk
www.rhythmonline.co.uk

Wisdom:
"The jokes on me you get the last laugh, I found out the hard way who was my better half"
Loudon Wainwright

"The light at the end of the tunnel is the light of an oncoming train"
Half Man Half Biscuit

"One's too many, ten's not enough"
Pop Will Eat Itself

"So he left you, and your heart is feeling brittle, but he's just a prick, so this will only hurt a little"
Black Lipstick

"She says I killed her on the night that we first met, with a kiss and a drag on my cigarette"
Eleventh Dream Day


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My Interests

Music (listening too, watching and writing about), reading, socializing, city hopping, arguing, drinking and the interweb.

I'd like to meet:

Someone with booze. And pudding.

adopt your own virtual pet!

Music:

Adorable, Black Sheep, Boy Kill Boy, The Beastie Boys, Beck, Black Lipstick, Bomb Factory, The Broken Family Band, Chris T-T, David Bowie, Delegates of Culture, Eleventh Dream Day, Half Man Half Biscuit, Herman Dune, Janes Addiction, Loudon Wainwright, the-low-country, Low Pop Suicide, Macca B, Mary Gaultier, The Mountain Goats, Neil Young, The Pixies, PJ Harvey, Pop Will Eat Itself, Nervous Nellie, Nirvana, Redman, Right Turn Clyde, Roots manuva, Saloon, Savoy Grand, Shoulders, The Singing Adams, Skinnyman, Soul Coughing, Snuff, St Thomas, The Teardrop Explodes, Tenpole Tudor, Timothy Victor, Tom Vek, Violent Femmes, The Wedding Present, Whipping Boy, The Woodentops, Zodiac Mindwarp etc etc etc...

Movies:

All time: La Haine, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Repoman, Withnail and I, Hudson Hawk, The Lonely Guy and Bladerunner. Recently: Lost in Translation, Sin City, Code 46, The Life Aquatic and Serenity.

Television:


Your Superhero Profile
Your Superhero Name is The Wonder Crusader
Your Superpower is Psychic
Your Weakness is Tummy Rubs
Your Weapon is Your Strobe Torch
Your Mode of Transportation is Ambulance What's your Superhero Name?

Books:

Douglas Adams, Colin Bateman, Joe Bennett, Gene Brewer, Jeremy Cameron, the Fantes, Christopher Fowler, Graham Greene, Nick Hornby, Elmore Leonard and Robert Rankin.

Heroes:

John Peel RIP

My Blog

Fuck, I've got a pile of CDs to review...

(Sing with me, in a Morrissey-esque whine) I have awoken miserable, tired and depressed. I wont bore you with the details. I've got a pile of CDs to review   I'm going to do them today, no matte...
Posted by Chris of the Marlings on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 05:47:00 PST

CD Review: The Living Room... Live

Various Artists The Living Room Live (Hope Street Music) Acoustic nights eh? You either love 'em or hate 'em. Me? Hate 'em, even though I'm a sucker for acoustic music. It's for the same reasons I hat...
Posted by Chris of the Marlings on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:37:00 PST

A bunch of other stuff in alphabetical order

Humanzi - Long Time Coming (single, Fiction) Long Time Coming is a quirky indie tune that seems a little contrived and frankly has a bandwagon-jumping stench about it. There's so much of this stop-sta...
Posted by Chris of the Marlings on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 01:35:00 PST

MySpace bands reviewed

These folks either sent me a demo/single, sent one to REPEAT or handed one out at a gig. If you want something reviewed, just PM me here and i'll give you a postal address : )   1. Rosalita - Pop...
Posted by Chris of the Marlings on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 11:19:00 PST

NME Tour 2006, Cambridge Junction

Boy Kill Boy, iForward, Russia! The Automatic & The Long Blondes NME Tour 2006, Cambridge Junction   Put four headline bands on the same tour, someones going to suffer, and tonight it was The...
Posted by Chris of the Marlings on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:30:00 PST

23 albums

23 albums   Jaed - Dirty Days (Instant Karma) Belting debut album from Aussie teen Jaed. She wears her grungy influences on her sleeve, with obvious reference points being Veruca Salt, L7, Hole a...
Posted by Chris of the Marlings on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:25:00 PST

Th' Faith Healers, 93ft East, April 20

The day started well - work threw up no suprises, I worked my lunch so was out by 3. Went home, showered, pumped up the stereo with "imaginary friend" and slowly got into going out mode. With no press...
Posted by Chris of the Marlings on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 03:36:00 PST

Ciarafest 6: Portland Arms, April 1

Ciarafest 6: The Singing Loins, The Low Country, The Pony Collaboration & Paul Goodwin   Saturday, April 1, The Portland, Mitcham's Corner, Cambridge Doors 7.30pm, first act 8pm Tickets can...
Posted by Chris of the Marlings on Mon, 13 Mar 2006 05:03:00 PST

The Creme de la Cambridge

I've been lucky enough to have some of Cambridge's finest deposit CDs into my grubby mitts of late. Balls is the third (or fifth, if you count the annoying seven-track mini album/EP/whatevers) album ...
Posted by Chris of the Marlings on Thu, 02 Mar 2006 02:17:00 PST

R*E*P*E*A*T .23 out now!

The latest zine is now out - check for details at: http://www.myspace.com/repeatfanzine or http://www.repeatfanzine.co.uk There is about a gazilion pages (well, more than 125) for just 2 quid! Th...
Posted by Chris of the Marlings on Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:06:00 PST