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Chipper

Grimm as blimey.

About Me


I really like music - going to gigs, listening to records, checking out new records etc.Mostly I spend my time playing/recording 'cello for bands such as SJ Esau, Oxbow Duo, Portishead, North Sea Navigator, Crippled Black Phoenix, Hinkley Veltones, Mea Culpa etc.

I also have my own solo projects - a laptop/cello project which i perform mainly under the name of 'Chipper' and an on/off electronica project called 'Nobots'.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:


people into music.

Music:

At the moment, mostly: Unwound, Floor, SJ Esau, Hoover, Cannibal Ox and Witchery.

In general: 1 Mile North, 13, 13+God, 16, 27, 3d House of Beef, 5ive, A Frames, A Lion, A Silver Mt. Zion, Acid King, Acid Mothers Temple, Adam and the Ants, Aereogramme, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Amber Asylum, Amon Tobin, Angel Hair, Angel Tech, Angels of Light, Aphex Twin, Artimus Pyle, At the Gates, Barbaro, Baroness, Beans, Beehoover, Bela Emerson, Berg Sans Nipple, Big Black, Bilge Pump, Black Dice, Black Flag, Black Heart Procession, Black Ox Orkestar, Black Sabbath, Blood and Time, Blood Island Raiders, Botch, Breach, Bronnt Industries Kapital, Bug, Burial At Sea, Burning Airlines, Burning Star Core, Burning Witch, Burnt By The Sun, Busdriver, Cannibal Ox, Capricorns, Caroline Martin, Cat Power, Cattlepress, Cave In, Cavity, Cerberous Shoal, Charger, Charles Bronson, Che, Chinese Stars, Circle of Dead Children, Circle, City of Caterpillar, Clikitat Ikatowi, Clockcleaner, cLOUDDEAD, Coalesce, Colour Haze, Comity, Craw, Crescent, Cult of Luna, Curse of the Golden Vampire, Curtis Eller's American Circus, D.O.A., Dalek, Danava, Darkthrone, Dead Kennedys, Death of Her Money, Descendents, Devo, Dianogah, DJ Antoni Maiovvi!!!, DJ Shadow, Do Make Say Think, Don Cabellero, Don McLean, Dose One, Dove, Drive Like Jehu, Empress, Esmerine, Faith No More, Fatso Jetson, Flipper, Floor, Flying Luttenbachers, Flying Saucer Attack, Foe, Forensics, Fu Manchu, Fugazi, fukpig, Funeral Diner, Geisha, Goatsnake, God, Godflesh, Grails, Gravenhurst, Grief, Groundhogs, Harkonen, Harvey Milk, Heavy Winged, Hellchild, Hermano, Heroin, Hidden Hand, His Hero Is Gone, Hoover, Horn and Hoof, House of Low Culture, Hovercraft, Human Remains, Hunting Lodge, Husker Du, Hymie's Basement, Iron Maiden, Isis, Ivory Springer, Jawbox, Jesu, Jesus Lizard, Joe Volk, John Fahey, John Zorn, Johnny Cash, Josh T. Pearson, June of 44, Juno, Kalas, Keelhaul, Khanate, Khlyst, Kid Kilowatt, Killdozer, Knowledge of Bugs, Knut, Kraftwerk, Kylesa, Kyuss, Le Pants, Leadtowine, Lethargy, Lickgoldensky, Lovage, Low, M.I.A., Macabre, Man is the Bastard, Mannequin, Mare, Masters of Reality, Mastodon, Max Milton, Mayhem, Melt Banana, Melvins, Men's Recovery Project, Metallica, Mi &; L'au, Micah P. Hinson, Middian, Milligram, Minor Threat, Mission of Burma, Mistress, Moistboyz, Mole Harness, Mono, Mudhoney, Municipal Waste, My Ambulance Is On Fire, My Bloody Valentine, Napalm Death, Naysayer, Neurosis, Nick Cave, Nile, NIN, Nina Nastasia, Noothgrush, Notwist, Noxagt, O.Lamm, Obituary, Odd Nosdam, Old Man Gloom, Om, Oneida, Orquesta del Desierto, Orthrelm, Ostinato, Oxbow, Pageninetynine, Pantera, Per Mission, Phosphorescent, Pig Destroyer, Porn, Pussy Galore, PWEI, Queens of the Stone Age, Rachel's, Rapeman, RE:, Retsin, Rob Sonic, Rocket From The Crypt, Rodan, Rudimentary Peni, Ryoji Ikeda, Saddar Bazaar, Said The Shark, Saint Vitus, Scissorfight, Scott Kelly, Scout Niblett, Septic Death, Set Fire To Flames, Shamen, Shannon Wright, Shipping News, Shit &; Shine, SJ Esau, Slayer, Snowblood, Songs:Ohia, Sonic Youth, Sourvein, Squarepusher, Stanton Delaplane, Stephen Brodsky, Steve Von Till, Stinking Lizaveta, Storm and Stress, Sunn0))), Swell Maps, Taint, Tara Jane O'Neil, Techno Animal, The Cure, The Fall, The Fucking Champs, The Heads, The Killing Spree, The Lapse, The Magnolia Electric Co., The Quiller Memorandum, The Sacrifice Poles, Thee More Shallows, Themselves, Theory Of Abstract Light, These Arms Are Snakes, Thought Forms, Thralldom, Thread, Three Mile Pilot, Thrones, Toadliquor, Today Is The Day, Todd, Toots &; The Maytals, Torche, Tractor, Transistor Transistor, Ufomammut, Ulver, Umbrellas, Unearthly Trance, Unida, Unsane, Unwound, US Maple, Usurp Synapse, Venetian Snares, Victory At Sea, Vulgar Pigeons, Weedeater, Why?, Witchery, Wooden Shjips, Xiu Xiu,Yob, Zoroaster, Zozobra.

Movies:

The Lives of Others, Zombie Flesh Eaers, Dig!, Fargo, Clue, Match Point, Clockwise, Braindead (peter jackson's one), Oldboy, Heathers, 21 Grams, Shallow Grave, Pulp Fiction, Resevoir Dogs, Pan's Labyrinth, Some Kind of Monster, The Breakfast Club, Kill Bill, Trainspotting, The Elephant Man, Baise-moi, Sin City, True Romance, The Crow, Point Break, Stand By Me, Ring, The Client, Battle Royale, Working Girl, Shaun Of The Dead, Withnail & I, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, Requiem For A Dream, Maria Full Of Grace, Taking Lives, Mulholland Drive, Animal Factory, Shawshank Redemption, Spiderman, X-men, A Fish Called Wanda, Ghostbusters etc

Television:

Desperate Housewives, Six Feet Under, Black Books, Family Guy, Mythbusters, Never Mind the Buzzcocks etc

Books:

I do like reading. But mostly detective-murder-mysteries a la Lynda La Plant, Ian Rankin, P.D. James, Agatha Christie etc.

My Blog

Enforced Compilation, vol. 3

This is a compilation I'm making for a pal.  It has a 2 CD version too, but this is the compilation's best of... hehe.1. Cat Power - I Found A Reason2. Dalek - Forever Close My Eyes3. Masters of ...
Posted by Chipper on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 07:10:00 PST

Enforced Compilation, vol.2.

MELVINS - Stoner Witch FLOOR - SchimitarMOHO - UntitledELECTRIC WIZARD - Priestess of MarsBURNING WITCH - StillbornLAIR OF THE MINOTAUR - The WolfACID KING - Electric Machine   &nb...
Posted by Chipper on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 08:22:00 PST

Enforced Compilation, vol.1.

I am making myself make compilations to broaden my listening and stop me from listening to just 3 or 4 artists at a time...This week:1. GROUNDHOGS - Cherry Red2. TUMOR CIRCUS - Human Cyst3. BOBBY PICK...
Posted by Chipper on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:08:00 PST

Crippled Black Phoenix Tour

We're going on tour in Europe in April.  These are the dates/details so far:Mon 2nd - Le Kab, Geneva, Switzerland Tue 3rd - TBC, Torino, Italy Wed 4th - Circolo Degli Artisti, Rome, Italy Thu ...
Posted by Chipper on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 07:31:00 PST

Footage of Quwack (F) (and my solo set!)

I played a solo set at Quack (F) at The Cube on the 22nd of September 2006.And here is the footage of it.....YouTube (Part One) of the nightYouTube (Part Two) of the night...
Posted by Chipper on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 03:43:00 PST

The Curse Of My Band Shirts

So far I've lost my Oceanic ISIS one, my Variations on a theme OM one, my 2004 UK tour[?] KHANATE one and now I've fucking lost my BLACK HEART PROCESSION one. I think it's a curse ...
Posted by Chipper on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:28:00 PST

Don Caballero UK Tour Dates

November 25 Brighton, England Engine Rooms November 26 Birmingham, England Medicine Bar November 27 Sunderland, England The Independent November 28 Glasgow, Scotland ABC2 November 29 Leeds, England Co...
Posted by Chipper on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:10:00 PST

How awesome is this?

Some American bloke has got my band's logo tattooed across his back: Our logo:   His back: FUCK YES!...
Posted by Chipper on Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:35:00 PST

2005 Gigs

So I decided to start up a "gigs so far this year" blog so I can work out what other gigs I've been to...Can anyone tell me when they did that Metal All Dayer at the keller?And what about that Hunting...
Posted by Chipper on Tue, 16 Aug 2005 10:05:00 PST

Isis Pics

Here are some pics from the Bristol Isis gig on 29th April 2005:Unfortunately all my pictures of Jesu were utter shite.But I've never realy taken any pictures at gigs before so it's only to be expecte...
Posted by Chipper on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST