playing with ELBOW - Glastonbury 2008 - One Day Like This
with Mark Ronson at the Brits 2008
by the time i wake up, it's about time to call it a day, but when i do make it out the door, i quite like it actually... outdoor stuff and anything fast, like skiing, paganini, bartok, cycling in rush hour, fast cars (rear wheel drive pls!)... fishing, architecture, gardening (slightly obsessed with getting my lawn to golf course standards)... typical cancarian so i'm told, but i don't consider myself any star sign... sorry, i'm a non-believer in spirits and that.. you live, you die... 'life is empty and meaningless'... (so you can can fill it with whatever you want, and you can make it mean what you want...... i love my home....antiques, family heirloom hand-me-down stuff, and most importantly, my family & extensions there of, and my friends.....and the round table in the kitchen, where most nights, you'll find me chilling with the regulars & whoever's passing through the Manic Mansions (ollywood).
I'd like to meet:
...all of you, in person, all at once, right now.
check this out!!! FISHING in Oban, Scotland apr07fishing in the Lake District with mr.b.
Music:
BBC VIDEO: GLASTONBURY 2007 with Scott Matthews - John Peel Stage:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury/2007/player/scottmatthews.s html
(i come on stage after 5mins 25secs!)
Playing with:
Tom Baxter - Believe ( live at The Amadeus )
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Playing with:
The Good, The Bad & The Queen - The Good, The Bad & The Queen
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Scott Matthews - Elusive
Ali Love, Andrew Bird, Arcade Fire, Arvo Part, Bad Plus, Bela Bartok, Bell Orchestre, Belle & Sebastian, Ben Harper, Bernard Herrmann, Bill Withers, Bjork, Blur, Bob Dylan, Bobo Stenson, Boo Hewerdine, Carole King, Charles Aznavour, Charlie Winston, Chet Baker, Chris Redmond (performance poet), Chris Thile (mandolin freak), Claude Debussy, Coldplay, Crosby, Stills, Nash...& Young, Damien Rice, David Bowie, Delicatessen, Dimitri Shostakovich, Dire Straits, Dirty Three, Django Reinhardt, The Drifters, Eddi Reader, Edith Piaff, Edward Elgar, The Egg, Elliott Smith, Elvis Costello, Elvis Presley, Eminem, Emmylou Harris, Fiona Apple, Flight of the Conchords, Foo Fighters, Fionn Regan, Frederic Chopin, George Harrison, Gillian Welch, Gorillaz, Harry Nilsson, Hem, J.J.Cale, Jacques Brel, Jake Thackray, Jamiroquai, Jeff Buckley, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, John Coltrane, John McLaughlin, Joni Mitchell, JoRane, Jose Gonzalez, Joseph Arthur, Josh Rouse, Juan Garcia Esquivel!, Kate Bush, Keith Jarrett, The Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Leonard Cohen, Lily Fraser, Loudon Wainwright, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Mazzy Star, Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, Niccolo Paganini, Nick Drake, Nickel Creek, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Paddy McAloon, Pat Metheny, Paul Simon, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Philip Glass, Astor Piazzolla, Pink Floyd, PJ Harvey, Prince, Randy Newman, Ray LaMontagne, Roby Lakatos, Roddy Frame, The Rolling Stones, Rufus Wainwright, Sam Cook. Sarah McLachlan, Scott Matthews, Scott Walker, Serge Gainsbourg, Seth Lakeman, Sigur Ros, The Shins, The Smiths, The Spitfire Grill (soundtrack to the film), Steely Dan, Stephane Grappelli, Stevie Wonder, The Streets, Talking Heads, Tara Blaise, Tom Baxter (of course), Tom Waits, Uri Caine Ensemble, Van Morrison, Vashti Anna Gleave, The Velvet Underground, The Wallflowers, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Yann Tiersen, Zakir Hussain.....i think that'll do for now!
Movies:
Finding Neverland, An Inconvenient Truth.....Watership Down.....random crap on U-tube.....I feel like i'm back at school doing an exam.....Why do we do myspace....can we all just stop all together and pretend it never happened, pls? I really need to get on with my 'stuff'...how can i sit here and write this....i feel like i'm being judged.....i just need to see my family more often i think....London is a bit of a trap....wonderful, but pretty full-on.....esp if you're a musician.....rambling....will stop now.....
Television:
jools holland & all the other muso shows.....documentaries and all things terribly serious and informative.......urrrr......police camera action...preferably from LA.....I had a 60mph crash on the freeway in LA when i was 18.....but still, it's great to watch...sorry, is that really sick? .....no, probably not, seeing as it's a popular TV show....should i go on? TV just gets better the later it is...it peaks at around 3am....and 5 channels suits me fine.....i think i could be a contender for Grumpy Old Men, when i'm old & grumpy that is.........I'm mixed blood (english, spanish, french, armenian) so i have the advantage of being traditionally British just as and when it suits me.....
Books:
...i'm halfway through Incompetence, by Rob Grant....can't put it down....very funny, cynically british.... ....Magazines? I have Q delivered to my door but coz i'm collecting them, i tend not to read them for fear of getting them all dog-eared....i get all daydreamy with all the photos and the layout of the front cover...and the back of breakfast cereal boxes is always fascinating first thing in the morning, and easier to digest....
Heroes:
Bill Hicks..."Chemical chance, chemical chance!!" Leonard Cohen...for when one feels like time has stopped....Clare Short - you should check her out live! She's passionate about her job and inspired me this summertime at the Hay-On-Wye Festival, to make a stand for what you believe in.....Yehudi Menuhin...that's Lord Yehudi to you & me.....Bach x2......and Tom Baxter, yes he my best mate, but i reckon he's destined for a place amongst the stars....hey, there you have it.....cards on the table n all that....
The Big Bang Theory.. from Wikipedia: The Big Bang Theory is the dominant scientific theory about the origin of the universe. According to the big bang, the universe was created sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from a cosmic explosion that hurled matter and in all directions. In 1927, the Belgian priest Georges Lemaître was the first to propose that the universe began with the explosion of a primeval atom. His proposal came after observing the red shift in distant nebulas by astronomers to a model of the universe based on relativity. Years later, Edwin Hubble found experimental evidence to help justify Lemaître's theory. He found that distant galaxies in every direction are going away from us with speeds proportional to their distance.The big bang was initially suggested because it explains why distant galaxies are traveling away from us at great speeds. The theory also predicts the existence of cosmic background radiation (the glow left over from the explosion itself). The Big Bang Theory received its strongest confirmation when this radiation was discovered in 1964 by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, who later won the Nobel Prize for this discovery.Although the Big Bang Theory is widely accepted, it probably will never be proved; consequentially, leaving a number of tough, unanswered questions.http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/universe/b_ba ng.html
