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Mark

Modliness from the Mersey Delta.........

About Me

I love my family, dig my friends and revel in music.... just not my own. Can't play, won't play, haven't got the patience, but I collect like a man possessed..... and I ain't no vinyl bore, even though I prefer it.The CricketSoda Myspace Editor!

My Interests

Music, music, music, music, music........ er........ I'm comin' across a bit one dimensional here........ and music. That's real music, yer know the stuff with people and instruments that aren't pre-programmed by NASA, or one of them cyber-goblins that only exist in a single room and eat alfalfa sprouts like they're life depends on it. Which it does of course. I might not agree with their path in all things musical but they've got a right to subsistence. I'm not some kind of puritanical animal - although I hear the headware's quite cool.

I'd like to meet:

Lenin, Lennon, Otis R, Roky E, Arthur Lee, Billy Childish....... I dunno........ I s'pose the dead ones would be a problem.

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Music:

60's club soul and R'n'B, northern soul, deep soul, early funk, latin, hammond jazz, 60's garage and beat, 80's garage, freakbeat, boogaloo, blues, mod revival, power pop, psychedelia, acid folk, folk, ska and rocksteady and any mixture of the above. Small Faces, Action, Creation, Smoke, Yardbirds, Fleur De Lys, Animals, Kinks, The Attack, The End, Fire, The Sorrows, The Eyes, Pretty Things, The Prisoners, The Prime Movers, The Solarflares, Graham Day and the Gaolers, Phaze, The Stairs, The La's, John Power, The Times, The Jam, The Chords, Pope, RT3, The Laynes, Buzzcocks, The Stairs, Mooney Suzuki, The Greenhornes, The Insomniacs, The Creatures Of The Golden Dawn, The Royal Purple, The Uptight, The Ace, The Freebooting Profiteers, The Firetootin' Profiteroles, Jiz Frisbee, The Lost 45s, Yeh Yeh, The Keepers, The Electric Crayon Set, The Len Price 3, The Good Time Charlies, The Fast Camels, The Zimmers, The Hara Kee Rees, The Undertones, Wild Billy Childish and his many tendrills - especially the Buffs and Milkshakes, Peter Colours, The Woggles, The Bresslaws, Baby Woodrose, The Shake, The Mellowmen, Marmalade Souls, The Phantom Keys, Ross, Harold Ray, Nuggets, Pebbles, Rubble, Chocolate Soup For Diabetics, Back From The Grave, Teen Trash, The Crimson Shadows, The Maharajas, The Maggots, Hymen Of Tongues, The Strollers, Highspeed V, The Voladoras, Secret Affair, The New Hearts, Squire, Sugarplum, The Directions, The Jolt, The Small Hours, The Circles, White Heat, Empire, Amber Squad, The Direct Hits, This Happy breed, Mood Six, Televison Personalities, Swell Maps, Biff! Bang! Pow!, The Nerve, Bronco Bullfrog, The Playn Jayn, The Badge, The Persian Rugs, The Lords Of Gravity, Gris Gris, The Ugly Beats, Les Terribles, Mondo Topless, Swingin' Neckbreakers, The Chains, The High Dials, The Creeps, The Backdoor Men, Figure 5, The Urges, The Original Sins, The Oblivians, Super Furry Animals, Shutdown 66, Los Glosters, Monkeeman, These Animal Men, S*M*A*S*H, You Am I, The City Lights, Sunnyboys, Stoneage Hearts, Someloves, DM3, The Stems, Hoodoo Gurus, Lime Spiders, The Wondermints, Baby Lemonade, Monorail, Livingstone, David Devant And His Spirit Wife, Dave DuLake and the Virgo Intacta, The Weekenders, Pimlico, Kulashaker, The Goldstars, HeadQuarters, The Fad, The Mojo Filters, The Purple Hearts, The Risk, Thee Jenerators, The Sacred Hearts, The Redbones, Rinaldi Sings!, Small World, The Jetset, Paul Bevoir, The Scene, 007, Long Tall Shorty, The Moment, Adrian Holder, Makin' Time, The Mourning After, The Sires, The Mystreated, The Lyds, The Mummies, Dukes Of Hamburg, The Flakes, The Easys, The Invisible Men, The Movement, The Town Cryers, Green Pajamas, Martin Newell, Cleaners From Venus, The Dentists, Half Man Half Biscuit, Jegsy Dodd and ths Sons Of Harry Cross, The Coral, The Way Out, Sold, Big Star, The Raspberries, The Nuthins, The Tell Tale Hearts, The Loons, The Rooks, Manual Scan, The Shambles, Mod Fun, The Realistics, Dave Godin's Deep Soul comps (the best compilations of the last ten years!), Motown, Stax, Sue, Chess, Kent (old and new), For Monsters, Misty Lane, Dionysus, Get Hip, Estrus, Detour, Twist, Biff Bang Pow, Rowed Out, Butterfly, Bip Bip, Larsen, Dig The Fuzz, Planet, Immediate, Rainbow Quartz, Blue Note, Prestige, Riverside, Campag Velocet, Nick Cave, Beta Band, Alfie, Nick Drake, John Martyn, Sandy Denny, Fairport Convention, Fresh Maggots, Bert Jansch, Tim Hardin, Tim Buckley, Syd Barrett, Richard Thompson, Bob Dylan, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Red Planet, JTQ, Boogaloo Investigators, The Five Aces, Diplomats Of Solid Sound, Baron Samedi, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, The Poets, Brian Auger and or Julie Driscoll, John Mayall & Bluesbreakers, The Hoochie Coochie Men, The Steampacket, Shotgun Express, The Disappointments, The Eddies, The Heebee Jeebeez, The Returnables, The Goldenhour, Thee Shams, The Cynics, The Chesterfield Kings, The Lyres, DMZ, The Fiends, The Oh Nos, The Gravedigger 5, New Directions comps, Sweet Floral Albion, That Driving Beat comps, We Can Fly comps, Hen's Teeth comps, The Contrast, Circulus, Devendra Banhart, Espers, Meg Baird, The Owl Service, Comus, Mellow Candle, Fern Knight, Vetiver, Dungen, The Embrooks, The Clique, The Aardvarks, James Hunter, Nick Rossi Set, Gene Drayton Unit, The Players, Jarvis Humby, The Moving Sounds, The Men, The Dee Rangers, The Indikation, The Woolly Bandits, The Mount McKinleys, Dutronc, Polnareff, Eddy Mitchell, The Chud, Yard Trauma, The Heartbeats, The Stomachmouths, The Sick Rose, Joe Perrino and the Mellowtones, The Gruesomes, The Cheepskates, The Optic Nerve, The Vipers, The Black Hollies, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, HP Lovecraft, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Seeds, The 13th Floor Elevators, The Standells, The Remains, The Brogues, The Electric Prunes, The Litter, The Barbarians, The Kingsmen, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Richard Berry, Walter Jackson, Otis, Big Maybelle, Big Mama Thornton, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James, Claude Shermack, Owen Gray, Lee Perry, Prince Buster, Baba Brooks, Alton Ellis, The Ethiopians, Derrick Morgan, Desmond Dekker, Toots and the Maytals, Love, The Blue Van, Mando Diao, Trashmonkeys, The Satelliters, The Gonks, The Madd, Curtis Mayfield, Terry Callier, Gil Scot Heron, Joe Tex, Marvin Gaye, Jimmy Smith, Jimmy McGriff, Wild Bill Davis.... And not forgetting..... the LEGENDARY...... HEIL MARYS.

Movies:

Usual Suspects, It's A Wonderful Life, Quadrophenia, Goodfellas, Donnie Darko, Garden State, The Road To Perdition, Kill Bill, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Raging Bull, Quadrophenia .......

Television:

The Sopranos, Nip/Tuck, Six Feet Under, 24, Lost, Nighty Night, The Mighty Boosh, Little Britain, Blunder .....

Books:

Awaydays, Clockwork Orange, Margrave Of The Marsh ...

Heroes:

Steve Marriott, Graham Day, Jens Lindberg, Nick Drake and er..... Rick Stein..........

My Blog

A Slight Relapse For Clem................... 7

Clem disappeared ealier this week for 48 hours. Due to his high spirits of late and new found confidence in exploring outdoors we all assumed he'd gone for a well earned short break to his beloved Tal...
Posted by Mark on Sun, 18 Dec 2005 06:33:00 PST

A breakthrough and a discovery...... 6

In a major breakthrough for the agoraphobic band leader, Clem walked over 300 yards this afternoon to buy a newspaper. In a cruel twist of irony, they had all sold out. He did buy a Mars bar thou...
Posted by Mark on Sat, 26 Nov 2005 02:06:00 PST

The Birth of Snirkle....... 5

POSTCARDS FROM THE HEDGE - THE RISE AND FALL OF CLEM SNIRKLE AND THE LEGENDARY HEIL MARYS. What better place to start than beginning? Clement Augustus Snirkle was born on the 4th May 1941 in the small...
Posted by Mark on Sat, 26 Nov 2005 01:52:00 PST

The legendary Heil Marys.......................... 4

Just heard that session keyboardist extraordinaire Freddy 'Fifteen Fingers' Flintlock is on board too. They've not seen or spoken to him since the last recording session late '67. Clem and 'Fift...
Posted by Mark on Fri, 25 Nov 2005 01:45:00 PST

The Legendary Heil Marys............. 3

Doormann is indeed ingrained with evil. His father was a general in the SS, and was in Guernsey during the occupation. A twisted individual prone to sarcastic remarks and animal abuse, his legacy on t...
Posted by Mark on Fri, 25 Nov 2005 01:32:00 PST

Clem Snirkle and the legendary Heil Marys............ 2

Well..... the trail's getting hotter fer the lost Heil Mary's masters. It appears they are in the Channel Islands in the hands of Fritz Doormann, one time rhythm guitarist and van owner from the Hambu...
Posted by Mark on Fri, 25 Nov 2005 01:25:00 PST

Clem Snirkle and the legendary Heil Marys.......... 1

It's been confirmed that the Heil Marys are to reform for a series of dates - locations to be confirmed. Clem Snirkle, the agoraphobic embittered frontman of the legendary beat group has decided that...
Posted by Mark on Fri, 25 Nov 2005 01:22:00 PST

gittin' goin'

Think I'm getting there, never been one fer anything technological. Usually start feeling feint when the video needs setting, but it's almost starting ter take shape............
Posted by Mark on Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:38:00 PST