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About Me

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Ex-rock chick grown up into responsible middle aged mum! Oooo that doesn't sound very good - have to do something to spice up my life a little!
My life in a nutshell: school in Kingston til I was 16, Kingston College for a couple more years and then various jobs in the Big Wide World ... well the West End and Surbiton ... til I had my kids.
Bit of a 'rest period' at home (where I renewed my love of going to gigs and met and made friends with the most wonderful people in the world ... well the UK and US anyway).
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Back to work - if you could call it work - did a stint in the music industry which was fun and rewarding and not like going to work at all. Did some promoting; ran a club in SE London; worked with THE best Beatles trib band of the day - The Paperback Beatles and worked with my teen heros Squeeze. Many a day (and night) spent in the Amersham Arms in New Cross and the Morden in Greenwich ... working ... I was working ... honestly!. Travelled a lot round the UK working with bands and have a bulging archive of wonderful memories that will stay in my mind forever.
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Met many fantastically talented musical people during this period and I will make it my mission to do my bit to promote them all these years later. Please check out my "Friends" and if they're playing somewhere near you ... GO AND SEE THEM - SUPPORT LIVE MUSIC!!!
Anyway, reality hit - went back to real work - which isn't fun ... ho hum.
Now living on my own with my girlies in Epsom. Moved quite a bit recently but hopefully settled now.
I still love music, still go to gigs, still go to Fulham ... still feel like a teenager inside (some say I act like one too).
Currently booking shows for the IAN McNABB GREATEST HITS SOLO ACOUSTIC TOUR 2007. This is a rare opportunity to see the Icicle Works frontman - solo and semi-acoustic. Check out the dates and get along to a show near you now! (more dates will be added)
For further details please visit:
www.myspace.com/ianmcnabbandtheicicleworks
For booking details please visit:
www.myspace.com/ian halsey
or email: [email protected]
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My Interests

I LIKE TO BE .. Home Craven Cottage - Hammersmith End The Golden Lion, Fulham Epsom Downs The Half Moon, Putney Shopping in Kingston Shepherds Bush Empire The Borderline, WC1 West Wittering Beach, Sussex Studland Bay, Dorset In Bed When It's Raining Outside Outside a pub by the river in Kingston Portelet Bay, Jersey Liverpool In the Shower After a Great Festival In Front of my PC (wishing it was a laptop)

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I'd like to meet:

Great bands, people that like great bands, Fulham fans, other people called Zaena (didn't realise there were other Zaenas til I joined MySpace), old mates (please say hi).

Music:

LYRICS THAT HIT HOME Barenaked Ladies - One Week The Beatles - In My Life Bob Mould - New No 1 Bread - Everything I Own Bryan Adams - Hey Baby Counting Crows - Up All Night Counting Crows - Goodnight Elisabeth Counting Crows - Anna Begins Crowded House - Into Temptation Crowded House - Nails in my Feet Dave Edmunds - Take Me for a Little While Depeche Mode - Somebody Diana Ross - Remember Me Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy Gram Parsons - Hot Buritto No 1 Gram Parsons - 100 Years From Now Lightning Seeds - Perfect Linkin Park - In the End Matchbox 20 - Push Nick Harper - Crazy Boy Nick Harper - Two Way Thing No Doubt - Don't Speak Oasis - Talk Tonight Paul Weller - You Do Something to Me Paul Weller - Time Passes Paul Weller - Country Police - Bring On the Night Puddle of Mudd - Blurry Real People - Days Like These Slade - Everyday Sugar - If I Can't Change Your Mind Teenage Fanclub - Mellow Doubt Third Eye Blind - Motorcycle Driveby The Killers - Mr Brightside The Bluetones - Putting Out Fires Tom Petty - Listen to Her Heart ... Work in Progress ...

Movies:

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Grand Theft Parsons ... if only because it's about one of my heros the great, the wonderful, the very deceased GRAM PARSONS. The fantastic Gram Parsons documentary "Fallen Angel" has just been released on DVD too - brilliant.

Walk the Line - about when Johnny Cash met June Carter - BRILLIANT film - heavy as hell, but it's nice to be maudling sometimes!

Reality Bites - just love Ethan Hawke.

Television:

Who Do You Think You Are? - If you're into family history ... this show is a must see.
Top of the Pops - was always Thursday night tradition in our house - half the fun was berating the stuff you don't like! How my family laughed when Morrissey made his first appearance - with a twig hanging out his back pocket! Wasn't keen on its Sunday slot - it was easy to miss. Now it's disappeared from our screens altogether - what's all that about?
BBC Four comes up with some great evenings for music lovers. What's more, they tend to do it on a Saturday or Sunday night when there's bog all else to watch on tele! Occasionally they repeat their brilliant country evening - which feature Johnny Cash, Hank Williams et al and includes the brilliant, brilliant Gram Parsons' documentary "Fallen Angel". They are currently devoting plenty of airtime to the Stiff Records label - whose era I grew up in. If you get a chance - check out their listings regularly (or sign up for their weekly newsletter).
Life on Mars - It's baffling, it's intriguing, it's riveting, it's funny, it's scary, it's the BEST programme on tele in YEARS (we're not obsessive are we Kelly Ann?).
Two Pints of Lager - over the top, near the mark, I love it!.
Relocation Relocation - I'd love to OWN my own house - never mind relocate and buy another one - ho hum. A girl can dream can't she?

Books:

Don't read as often as I should.
I love biographies about the music business. Particular faves have been:
"Gram Parsons - God's Own Singer" by Jason Walker
"Mr Tambourine Man - The Life & Legacy of the Byrds' Gene Clark" by John Einarson
"I'm with the Band - Confessions of a Groupie" by Pamela Des Barres
"Rock Bottom - Dark Moments in Music Babylon" by Pamela Des Barres
I usually go for the girlie type books that you buy @ Airports. I enjoy both Lisa Jewell & the writing partnership of Josie Lloyd/Emlyn Rees.
I do know my favourite book was called "Eating Cake". It was bought for my 34th birthday by my mate Trina (hi Goddess!) and it made me cry SO badly, I couldn't go out the night I first read it!
I then lent it to my other mate Claire (hi Fortyfab!) and she hasn't given it back.
Motto of the story - don't lend anything to Claire ... she nicks stuff - AND she doesn't even come from South London!
Just bought "The Lost Tribes of Pop" because it looks like it will be just up my street - will let you know what I think (check out LOST TRIBES OF POP in my Friends.

Heroes:

Where would I be without MY FAMILY & MY LITTLE HEROES? (who aren't so little any more), MY FRIENDS, MY NANS & GRANDADS, MY ANCESTORS ... MY FOOTIE HEROES ... and as for MUSIC HEROES ... there are so many they have their own section!

From the English Pills & Pascoes & their forefathers to the Irish McAllisters & Kearns & all who went before

"LONG AGO IT MUST BE ... I HAVE A PHOTOGRAPH
PRESERVE YOUR MEMORIES ... THEY'RE ALL THAT'S LEFT YOU"

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My Blog

Life On Mars

Life on Mars is over. I'm not a big 'tele' person. I rarely get into dramas because I always forget to watch the next episode. But this BBC show was different.The writers deserve awa...
Posted by Zaena on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:54:00 PST

IAN McNABB - GREATEST HITS TOUR 2007

IAN McNABB - GREATEST HITS TOUR 2007 Following the hugely successful 25th Anniversary Reunion Tour of 'The Icicle Works', Liverpool frontman, songwriter, guitarist IAN McNABB is embarking on a ...
Posted by Zaena on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:07:00 PST