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About Me

Married to Shaun, living in suburbia, been working in the music industry since 1992, at places like APT, then as it evolved into Vital, Lightning Exports, 3mv and the Beggars Group, where I've worked for over nine years.
In the 1980's I did some fanzines, and met lots of bands and paid good money for lots of flexidiscs - 'What's It Like To Be Scottish' and 'Shoot The Tulips' as well as some ill-fated attempts at putting on gigs in York.
I built a couple of websites , which have random info about things and stuff, and the excellent Pale Saints. I've recently started a Tottenham community with my pal Vic which is over here .
I go to the football a lot, and should probably go less - Tottenham, that is - it's expensive to watch a bunch millionaires kick a ball around a field, and to occasionally not play very well. I still go. I occasionally go and watch York City too, what with them being my home team; when I'm in York, obviously.
My flickr account is over here .

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Glenn Hoddle (although you should never meet your heroes), Julie Andrews, Dimitar Berbatov ("Stay you fool! Stay! Well, until May"), I dunno.

My Blog

stuff

Three weeks from now and I'll be in Australia. That's all. Oh, and I'm sure it'll be much warmer than I am right now, damn you English Autumn. We watched the US remake of Kath and Kim this afternoo...
Posted by on Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:39:00 GMT

it’s been a while, hasn’t it?

So I'll do a summary. Nothing much has happened this year of great note, honest.Some of you may be wondering about the 4AD forums. They are gone - for now - but will be back. Other things are getting ...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:18:00 GMT

Bah.

This year has finished, work-wise for me. I'm on holiday now until the 2nd January, 2008.Course, what better way to start the holiday, than our hot water and heating to break? Impeccable timing there....
Posted by on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:16:00 GMT

yeah yeah

Race For Life did happen, I walked it (fast) in under an hour, raised a LOT of money, which is fantastic (as I never expected to raise that much) so thank you anyone who sponsored me.We finally get a ...
Posted by on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 04:45:00 GMT

here we go again

back to York this Saturday, my mum and sister are visiting us in London today, we're visiting some of mum's old haunts, where she grew up (around Kingston/Teddington) and catching up with her cousin, ...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:10:00 GMT

the weather is conspiring against me

or something. I think that sentence is wrong, but never mind.Race For Life was meant to go ahead back in June, but York flooded. So they moved it back to July, but York flooded. We still went back to ...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:06:00 GMT

rightie ho.

I updated my profile a bit. Added some more bands I like, rather than just two or three. I can already think of some I've missed. Me Bad. There's not a huge amount to write about, some good gigs recen...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:25:00 GMT

stupid myspace

on my main page, as I log in, there's Google Sponsored ads, all of which I'd never ever take any notice of. Except, except, there's just the one."Arsenal FC Credit Card" it tells me.No. Thank. You.Why...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:38:00 GMT

something is wrong

The Sound Of Music is on, and I haven't cried yet. I've tons of chocolate in front of me, which I haven't eaten yet. I'm pottering around on the internet, and I'm not bored yet. It's lovely and sunny ...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 07:35:00 GMT

I am an idiot

it WAS the window cleaner. I found out the following morning. D'oh!
Posted by on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:33:00 GMT