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Richard

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Recently set up a recording studio and label with Mr Mark Alder, of "Mark Alder" fame...Bassist in Shimmy Rivers and and Canal.Part of the improv trio Uses.Rubbish solo artist.Recording and mixing bands in our new studio since January this year.Making as much music with other people as I have time to.Trying to catch up on reading in the gaps, but I just don't catch enough buses any more.

My Interests

Guitar, bass, drumming, singing, piano... I get worse as the list goes on... Reading, painting, going to or playing gigs. Swimming if pushed.

Music:

Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Talking Heads, David Bowie, Elliott Smith, Nick Drake, Joanna Newsom, The Fall, John Frusciante, Laura Veirs, etc, etc...Why? and Marnie Stern are fun at the moment.

Books:

Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Kurt Vonnegut, Martin Amis, Philip K Dick, Milan Kundera, John Fowles, Richard Brautigan, Yann Martel, Thomas Mann, Tolstoy, Saul Bellow, Umberto Eco, 1001 Arabian Nights and the Brothers Grimm.