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Martin

There is a light that never goes out

About Me

My name is Martin but some people know me as Bad Bad Leroy Brown, the baddest man in the whole damn town. I live in Ashtead, which is technically a village but the largest goddamn village in the whole of the United Kingdom. It boasts three pubs, a duck pond and a recently opened Tesco Express. Please drive carefully through our village.

My Interests

Life; family and friends; music; gigs and festivals; playing guitar/bass; DJing; sideburns; swearing; quiffs; films; comedy; books; good nights out; gurning; glowsticks; holidays; travel; football; nostalgia; intellectualising trivia.

I'd like to meet:

Somebody who really loves me.

Music:

Smiths, Morrissey, Libertines, Babyshambles, Dirty Pretty Things, Rakes, Bloc Party, Interpol, Kaiser Chiefs, Cribs, Shins, Larrikin Love, Patrick Wolf, Jamie T, Fratellis, The View, The Pipettes, Girls Aloud, Klaxons, Maximo Park, The Kooks, We Are Scientists, Delays, Ordinary Boys, Futureheads, Hard-Fi, Belle and Sebastian, David Bowie, Art Brut, The Streets, Billy Bragg, Stone Roses, Ian Brown, Arctic Monkeys, Placebo, Mansun, Oasis, Suede, Blur, Pulp, Shed Seven, Razorlight, Killers, Coldplay, U2, Kings of Leon, Brian Wilson, Beatles, The Who, Pink Floyd, Kasabian, Chas n Dave, The Jam, The Cure and loads more.

Movies:

Back to the Future (Trilogy), The Goonies, Lost Boys, Stand by me, Teen Wolf, Ferris Bueler's Day Off, Forrest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption, Lock Stock and two Smoking Barrels, Trainspotting, School of Rock, Elf, Scrooged, There's something about Mary, Starsky and Hutch, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Rocky (box set), Garden State.

Television:

The Office, Extras, Only Fools and Horses, The Simpsons, Coronation Street, Shameless, Skins, Scrubs, I'm a Celebrity... get me out of here, Celebrity Big Brother, Bo Selecta, The Mighty Boosh.

Books:

Irvine Welsh, Animal Farm, 1984, About a boy, A Clockwork Orange.

Heroes:

My parents, my friends, Karl Marx, Morrissey, Michael J Fox, Ricky Gervais, Gary Lineker, Liam Gallagher.

My Blog

Hey blogsters, hey hey blogsters

Hi, I'm Martin. You may remember me from such blogs as "Blogicassim" and "Best Fudstock Ever". It's been a while since I last blogged. It must have been a terrible wait for the fans. But don't worry...
Posted by Martin on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:08:00 PST

The Keiths

One thing you can't beat is a Supergroup; a band composed of members who have already achieved fame or respect in other groups or as individual artists. In the 1960s, there was Cream (consisting of ...
Posted by Martin on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 04:18:00 PST

Who's got the craic?

Which city has the largest population in the world? Well, Dublin of course because it keeps D(o)ublin' and D(o)ublin' and D(o)ublin'. Ah, the old ones are always the best. Here's one for you  what ...
Posted by Martin on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 03:02:00 PST

We are The Swines

The weekend of 17-19 November 2006 was pivotal in the history of The Swines, with the first demo laid down at Mission Recording Studios in Warrington and the best gig to date at the Black Sheep Bar ...
Posted by Martin on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:36:00 PST

Black Sheep Sunday

Sundays are sometimes a bit shit; too often frittered away in a miserable hungover daze with the imminent arrival of another working week looming heavy in the air. Nowhere is open and you can't watch...
Posted by Martin on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 03:22:00 PST

Oh Manchester, so much to answer for

Manchester is my spiritual home. I should have been born there. Some of the things I love more than anything else in the world come from Manchester; the Smiths, Stone Roses, Oasis, Shameless, the Ro...
Posted by Martin on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 02:51:00 PST

7 days (that was the week that was)

Well, that was quite a week. I met this girl on Monday, took her for a drink on Tuesday; we were making love by Wednesday and on Thursday and Friday and Saturday, we chilled on Sunday. Oh no, that was...
Posted by Martin on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 01:54:00 PST

Reading Festival 2006

The road to Reading was rocky. I am talking metaphorically here because the A4 is fairly straightforward. It was the week after Fudstock and I wasn't sure if I could survive another weekend of debau...
Posted by Martin on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 03:47:00 PST

Best Fudstock Ever"

Some people collect stamps. Others collect milk tops. My Great Auntie Margaret used to collect sugar cubes. I never understood why because she was sweet enough. I collect festival wristbands. I bloo...
Posted by Martin on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 05:00:00 PST

Blogicassim (© Adam Murcutt, July 2006)

Let me take you back to the morning of Monday 17th July 2006 when times were good and life was sweet.  We are about to embark on the holiday of a lifetime.  Cliff Richard is still alive ...
Posted by Martin on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 03:53:00 PST