This, that, the other...random misanthropy
Cynics, rebels, malcontents, raconteurs, rascals, gamblers, comedians, cartoonists, contortionists, chancers, lap-dancers, drinkers, free-thinkers, head-cases, heart-breakers, safe-breakers, refuseniks, Old Nick, writers, fighters, barmaids, curmudgeons, individuals, Olympians, artists, piss artists, poets, philosophers, strumpets, vulgarians, minxes, detectives, master criminals. And Pamela Anderson.
I sing like a ruptured donkey with punk legends The Gonads BUY HERE ; I sang and played guitar in the Orgasm Guerillas, Prole, and with Lord Waistrel & The Cosh Boys; I've recorded with The Business, Splodge, the Cockney Rejects and Pete 'The High Priest' Way; I managed the Cockney Rejects and The Blood. I currently manage Maninblack and Leah McCaffrey; I conceived and compiled the first four Oi albums, "Oi! the Album", "Strength Thru Oi", "Carry On Oi!" and "Oi Oi That's Yer Lot". I contributed tracks to "Son of Oi" (they're my eldest kids on the front cover) and "The Oi Of Sex" (that's my brother-in-law, John Cousins, RIP, on the cover). I contributed tracks to "Kings Of StreetPunk" (released October 2007 by www.gandrlondon.com), and 'Oi - F*** You' (Ascalon Records) and have co-written the 'Oi! - The Resurrection' ep (Havin' A Laugh Records, Italy). As a rock writer I interviewed too many bands to mention here, from The Clash to the Dead Kennedys via Madness, Blondie, Motorhead and the Specials; I have written authorized biographies for Ozzy Osborne, Iron Maiden, Jeff Turner and Twisted ****in' Sister. Random current bands I rate: Rancid, Skaville UK, Pope, The Fallen, The MüVs, the Masons, the Aggrolites, Dustman's Custard, Pope, the Aquabats, the Upsessions, the Dropkick Murphys, StreetDogs, the Briggs, Bouncing Souls, the Nightwatchman, Grumbleboat, Beerzone, Resistance 77, the Misfits, Green Day, Deadline, Discipline, the Reducers SF; the Zutons, Agnostic Front, Koopa, Guns On The Roof, Spit Like This, The Big, Pama International, The Unseen, Ava Leigh, Bobby Kray, the Cockney Rejects of course, and Viva Las Vegas. Random other bands/acts that mattered to me: Rose Tattoo, Guns & Roses, Nirvana, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Upsetters, The Kinks, Sabbath, Oasis, Purple, Slade, (early) Offspring, T. Rex, The Damned, The Faces, Sham, the Ruts Dave & Ansell Collins, the Temptations, Elvis, Johnny Cash, Horace Faith, Secret Affair, ZZ Top, Menace, Bad Manners, the Pietasters, Chas & Dave, Pluto Shervington, UFO, Thin Lizzy, the Pioneers, Desmond Dekker, The Jam, The Who, Judge Dread, Bill Perry, RIP, John Lennon, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, Chuck Berry Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly, Edwin Starr and Little Richard.
I play a clueless gangster in "Hell To Pay" and get brutally gunned down. Some you win... I've just co-written Join The Rejects - Get Yourself Killed, currently in pre-production. Random movies I could watch indefinitely: The Long Good Friday, The Wanderers, It's A Wonderful Life, Carry On Up The Khyber, The Godfather I & II, Goodfellas, If, Quadrophenia, The Matrix, Scum, The Rebel, Zulu, Pulp Fiction, Passport To Pimlico, I'm All Right Jack, Sexy Beast, The Warriors, The Producers, Lord Of The Rings, Casino, Spartacus, First Blood, Shawshank Redemption, Life Of Brian, Rocky, Predator, The Wild Bunch, Die Hard, A Clockwork Orange, Repo Man, Blade Runner, The 300, Whisky Galore, American History X, Lawrence of Arabia, The Lavender Hill Mob, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Trainspotting, The Bridge On the River Kwai, Henry V, National Lampoon’s Animal House, Get Carter, American Graffiti, Terminator 1 and 2, 300, Repo Man, Whisky Galore, Cool Hand Luke, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Oliver!, The Man in the White Suit, The Ipcress File, The Dam Busters, A Hard Day's Night, The Belles of St. Trinian's, The Searchers, The Alamo, Alfie, The Italian Job, Bronco Bullfrog, The Third Man, Apocalypse Now, The Usual Suspects, The Great Escape, Dirty Dozen, Excalibur, Mad Max,
Hosted late night show Bushell On The Box for fifty episodes on ITV, was resident TV critic on Channel 4's The Big Breakfast, am resident telly critic on Nuts TV. Over three thousands other TV appearances ranging from "Celebrity Squares" to "The South Bank Show." The show that meant the most to me? The "National Alf" on C4. TV shows I'd take to a category A berth at Her Majesty's Pleasure: US: The Sopranos, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Bilko, Larry Sanders, Oz, Family Guy, Star Trek TNG, Late Show, Tonight Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Wire, Boston Legal, Entourage, Craig Ferguson UK: Steptoe, Hancock, The Sweeney, Minder, Only Fools & Horses, Python, The Prisoner, Fawlty Towers, Phoenix Nights, Shameless, the Mighty Boosh, Funland, Fox, A Sense Of Freedom, Sharpe, Cracker, Q, Python, Porridge, Benny Hill, Boys From The Blackstuff, Auf Wiedersehen Pet, Out, Widows, The Office, The Avengers, The League of Gentlemen, first series Little Britain, The Firm, Extras, Life On Mars. Recent faves: Mad Men, The Kill Point, Moving Wallpaper, Gavin & Stacey, The Black Donnellys, Smith, Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip...
Yeah, I've written a few: books authored by Garry Bushell A few that mattered to me: Homage To Catalonia by George Orwell, Bonfire of the Vanties by Tom Wolfe, How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered The World by Francis Wheen, Awopbopaloobop by Nick Cohn. Rudyard Kipling: The Complete Verse, The Likes Of Us by Michael Collins, Straw Dogs by John Gray, Born Fighting by James Webb, Tragically I Was An Only Twin - The Complete Peter Cook. Peter Simple's Century by Michael Wharton, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, The Third Policeman bv Flann O'Brien, Motley Crue The Dirt, 1984 by George Orwell; The Max Miller Appreciation Society's Blue Book, The Boy Looked At Johnny by Parsons and Burchill. Puckoon by Spike Milligan, The Great Deception by Booker & North, Eat The Rich by P. J. O'Rourke, The Lion & The Unicorn by George Orwell.
Strummer; Orwell; Kipling; Elvis, Alfred The Great, Paddy Maine; the Ramones, Gus Elen; Stinky Turner; Arthur Schopenhauer; Johnny Cash; Beki Bondage; Max Miller; Max Romeo; Lemmy; Barbara Windsor; Spike Milligan, Billy Connolly; Hoxton Tom (for President!); Derek 'Gypo' Hales; Peter Cook; Peter Kay; Tony Parsons; Tony Soprano; Sugar Ray Captain Kirk; Michel de Montaigne; Sid James; Ozzy; Lars Frederiksen, JJ Bedsore; Buster Keaton, Galton & Simpson; Dolly Parton; Reg & Ron; John Sullivan; Elizabeth Montgomery; David Hume; Sid James; Angry Anderson; Nelson; Hendrix; Carol White; Carol Cleveland; Malcolm Owen; Alan Moore; Mickey Spillane; Stevie Marriott; Tom Wolfe; Ray Winstone; Kelly Holmes; Phil Lynott; Seven of Nine; Desmond Dekker; Dirty Harry; Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chaka Zulu; Pete Way; Stanley Ogden; Matt Groening; Raymond Chandler; Dave and Ansel Collins; Cock Sparrer; Judge Dread; John Lydon; Lee Evans, Les Dawson; Max Splodge; Billy Butlin, Benny Hill, The Skatellites, Stanley Ogden; Denise Van Outen; Laurel Aitken; Barry Humphries, Peggy Mount, Arthur Haynes... And turns, I love turns.