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Dave Depares

I don't want to reach immortality through my work...I want to achieve it through not dying

About Me

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My Interests

Music, Film, Reading, Writing, Travel, Extreme Sports, Parties, Scooting

I'd like to meet:

Larry David, Elvis Presley, Chesney Hawkes

Music:

The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Bob Dylan, Duke Spirit, The Grates, The Smiths, The Beatles, The Cure, Primal Scream, Howling Bells, Polytecnic, You and The Atom Bomb, The Longcut, The Libertines, Home Wreckers Club, Babyshambles, The Double, Nine Black Alps, White Rose Movement, Pixies, Alfie, Ambulance LTD, Ben Folds Five, BRMC, John Coltrane, Polysics, Aim, Datarock, Pigeon Detectives, Arctic Monkeys, Kaiser Chiefs, Kasabian, Bob Marley, Chet Baker, D'Angelo, Devendra Banhart, Elvis Presley, Engineers, De La Soul, Fingathing, Dean Martin, Evan Dando, Gene Clarke, Astrud Gilberto, Graham Coxon, Guns N Roses, Hot Hot Heat, Iggy & The Stooges, Interpol, James, Ryan Adams, The Dears,Jeff Buckley, Brendan Benson, Bright Eyes, Jamiroquai, Joanna Newsom, Joni Mitchel, Kate Bush, Kelis, Louis Armstrong, Donovan, Dr.John, Marlena Shaw, Massive Attack, Morrissey, Neil Young, Nick Drake, Nirvana, Oasis, The Others, Patti Smith, PJ Harvey, My Morning Jacket, Prince, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, R.E.M., Razorlight, Sade, Sarah Vaughan, Shed Seven, Simple Kid, Paul Simon, Son House, Robert Johnson, Slowdive, Stevie Wonder, Terry Callier, The 22-20s, The Arcade Fir, The Band, The Charlatans, The Dandy Warhols, The Doors, The Jeevas, The Killers, The Kills, The Lemonheads, Pixies, The Prodigy, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Rolling Stones, The Roots, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, The Strokes, The Stone Roses, The Velvet Underground, The Vines, The White Stripes, Tim Buckley, Tom Waits, Tricky, Velvet Revolver, Whiskeytown, Willy Mason, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Howling Bells, Morning After Girls, Elle Milano, Young Knives, Wax Planet, Sonic Youth, Midlake, Test Icicles, Towers of London, Jim Noir, Morning After Girls, Protokoll, Gnarls Barkley, Cooper Temple Clause

Movies:

Swingers, Happiness, Rules of Attraction, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Lost in Translation, City of God, Easy Rider, Dig!, The Lost Boys, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Love & Death, The Big Blue, Jesus's Son, A Mighty Wind, The Shining, Mean Streets, Pulp Fiction, Wierd Science, Sleeper, Three Amigos, Battle Royale, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Once upon a Time in America, Old School, Being John Malkovich, Lost Highway, Donnie Darko, True Romance, Resevoir Dogs, Dragnet, Back to the Future, Spinal Tap, Dodgeball, Goodfellas, Parenthood, Twelve Monkeys, Leon, The Deer Junter, The Jerk, Welcome to Collinwood, What about Bob?, Best in Show, Belleville Rendez-Vous, Almost Famous, Mulholland Drive, Sexy Beast, Risky Business, Indiana Jones, Zoolander, The Godfather, The Man with Two Brains, Catch 22, Fight Club, The Last Waltz, Team America, Anchorman, Walk the Line

Television:

Curb Your Enthusiasm, South Park, Scrubs, Spaced, Extras, Peep Show, Fawlty Towers, Frasier, Blackadder, Monty Python, The Simpsons, Quantum Leap, Mork and Mindy, Father Ted, Allo 'Allo!, Morcambe and Wise, Two and a Half Men, Absolutely Fabulous, Red Dwarf, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, Two Ronnies, The Office, Drop the Dead Donkey, Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, The League of Gentlemen, I'm Alan Partridge, Little Britain

Books:

Catcher in the Rye, 1984, Brave New World, Catch 22, most biographies

Heroes:

Bob Dylan, Jon Favreau, Morrissey, Woody Allen, Pedro Almodovar, Elvis, Batman

My Blog

Artrocker Interview with The Longcut

Last time Artrocker interviewed the Longcut was back in May, weeks before the launch of their long-awaited debut album, Call and Response. Since then, the album has earned them critical acclaim and a ...
Posted by Dave Depares on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 05:53:00 PST

The Horrors live at the Camden Barfly 27/01/07

Their unified love of eyeliner, hair care products and black sartorial cool is what brought them together. Eek, The Horrors are quite a sight. Ghoulish and menacing, their image is certainly Class A ...
Posted by Dave Depares on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 05:45:00 PST

Single Review: The Sunshine Underground - Commercial Breakdown

Artist: The Sunshine Underground Single: Commercial Breakdown Label: City Rockers Release Date: 23.10.06     How cool are the Sunshine Underground? This cool? THIS cool?? Oh yes  they're ve...
Posted by Dave Depares on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 03:44:00 PST

Review of Artrocker Night , Bufallo Bar, 21st November 2006

    Belgium's a pretty boring place, you know. Nothing much to see apart from a statue of a little boy pissing into a fountain, which, let's face it&is not very fun. Now I always thought tha...
Posted by Dave Depares on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 04:13:00 PST

Radiohead live at the Hammersmith Apollo, 18th May 2006

I skip support act Willy Mason because, well, I didn't much fancy seeing one man and his banjo. Not tonight, anyways. Thinking about it, it was very clever of Radiohead to use a musician that require...
Posted by Dave Depares on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 04:15:00 PST

Review: The Insomniacs Ball, 13/04/06

It's 9.30pm and large herds of indie-kids are gravitating like zombies towards an unknown force. I figure they're probably heading to the Insomniac's Ball. Considering I'm lost, I decide the best thi...
Posted by Dave Depares on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 04:18:00 PST

Review: Morrissey live at the Palladium, Sunday 21 May 2006

Hunted by the FBI and hated by the Canadians, Manchester's Most Famous Vegetarian" has escaped the States to the cultural confines of Rome in a manner not totally dissimilar to Hannibal Lecter. And y...
Posted by Dave Depares on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 04:19:00 PST

The Grates live at 93 Feet East, 14th June 2006

  With more balloons than a Flaming Lips gig, and a tacky gold stage background that would make a bingo hall blush, tonight The Grates seem to have gone for a balls-out celebration of all things ...
Posted by Dave Depares on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 04:33:00 PST

The Brian Jonestown Massacre live at Kings College 29 May 2006

Who even fucking cares about the stupid support act. Anton's back in town, and this time he's wearing a deer-stalker hat.   Before the first chord has been struck, Mr. Newcombe's already advised...
Posted by Dave Depares on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 04:31:00 PST

Test Icicles live at The Astoria, 22nd April 2006

    Thousands of identical grey-hooded mourners have gathered here tonight to witness the death of Test Icicles. Nobody thought for a minute that their last ever gig would be a solemn affair...
Posted by Dave Depares on Thu, 04 May 2006 05:06:00 PST