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About Me

I'm a lifelong music obsessive and also DJ a bit, which I've done since the punk years (77 onwards). I'm currently DJing with my friend Gerry - see the photo of us at Love's Gone Bad! We've also played the Dirty Water Club several times having been punters there for aeons. I like a lot of 60s garage/punk stuff but also like krautrock, original 70s/80s hip hop, 50s doowop, my Dad's old records, some current stuff and loads more (see the list below!)I'm also into cinema, mostly subtitled arthouse stuff, wild open spaces, deserted seaside towns in winter, the Outer Hebrides, Stockholm, Tresco/Bryher - Scilly Isles, but still enjoy living in London after being here for 25 years. I'm 5af a friend of Kew Gardens, appreciate modern art/architecture and can be socially gregarious but can also be happy in my own little world. Oh, and I've got a very unusual Turkish cat.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

People with similar interests, particularly music.

Music:

In no particular order: Can, Neu, Faust, Kraftwerk, Stereolab, The Saints, Wire, The Fire Engines, The Hypstrz, The Left Banke, Arctic Monkeys, Dick Dale (King of the Surf Guitar!), Franz Ferdinand, The Kinks, Velvets, Television, Brian Eno, Northern Soul, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, The Ramones, New York Dolls, Bjork, Scott Walker, LCD Soundsystem, The Zombies, The Clash, Pavement, Wimple Winch, The Eyes, The Action, T. Rex, Iggy, Mogwai, Arcade Fire, Von Bondies, The Associates, White Stripes, Boards of Canada, Metal Urbain, Aphex Twin, Motown, Syd Barrett, Tim Buckley, Buzzcocks, Magazine, Mark Stewart & the Maffia, Adrian Sherwood, Yo La Tengo, The Shadows, MC5, Morrissey, Public Enemy, Missy Elliott, Coldcut, Interpol, Sharon Tandy/Fleur De Lys, Pebbles, Nuggets, Rubble, Chocolate Watch Band, The Buff Medways, Billy Childish and the Musicians of the British Empire, The Electric Prunes, Motown, The Jive Five, Joy Division, Link Wray, The Adverts, The Rezillos, The Fall, King Tubby/dub reggae, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Jah Wobble, Clearlake, ska, original 70s/80s hip-hop, "Last night a DJ saved my life" - Indeep...maybe that's enough for now.

Movies:

The Hairdresser's Husband, My life as a dog, Together, Show me love, Toto the Hero, Hidden, Goodbye Lenin, Blow Up, Up the Junction, Saturday Night Sunday Morning, Leningrad Cowboys Go America, Venus, almost anything by David Lynch...I could go on...

Television:

Don't watch a lot of TV but when I do it's usually music programmes and documentaries.

Books:

The Rotters' Club/The Closed Circle - Jonathan Coe, England's Dreaming - Jon Savage, Rip it up and start again - Simon Reynolds, Ready Steady Go - Shawn Levy, The most radical gesture (about the Situationists) - Sadie Plant, The Glasgow School of Art - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, The Uses of Literacy - Richard Hoggart, Be Your Own Life Coach - Fiona Harrold, White Heat - Dominic Sandbrook, loads of art books but only modern, not ancient

Heroes:

John Peel, Erich Mendelson & Serge Chermayeff (architects of the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-sea, East Sussex), William Morris, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Peter Ackroyd...and of course some of my favourite bands/musicians, especially Can