Music, Music, Music!
Clubbing
Infest Slimelight, The Wake, Bluesilver, Nightmare and the long gone but never forgotten Cyberpolis, Kryogenix (although I never seem to be around when it's on), and Slimelight of course on the few occassions I get to London each year.
Live Journal Stuff
LJ
Work Stuff
Music is my life and always will be, I've always loved music since a child and when I got my first home computer (ZX Spectrum), I knew that music and computers was what I wanted to spend most of my time with
From getting that computer along with a Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, making music with them was what I wanted to do
In 1994 I landed a job writing music for video games at Rare Ltd I worked there until 1999, and in that time worked on the following games
Killer Instinct for Arcade, Super Nintendo and Gameboy Killer Instinct 2 conversion for Super Nintendo although this wasn't released Donkey Kong Land for Gameboy Blastcorps for N64 Goldeneye for N64 Diddy Kong Racing for N64 Jetforce Gemini for N64 Perfect Dark for N64
In 1999 I started at Free Radical Design and I'm still there today. So far I've done
Timesplitters for Playstation 2 Timesplitters 2 for Playstation 2, Gamecube and Xbox Second Sight for PS2, Xbox, Gamecube and PC - (what do you mean you've never heard of it!) Timesplitters Future Perfect for PS2, Xbox and Gamecube
Boasting
I've been nominated for a few Bafta's over the years - alas did not win. Have won a couple as a team effort - but to get one for my own work would be cool - one day!
Timesplitters 2 was featured in Shaun of the Dead - To have my music in such a great film was a real honour.
Previous claim to fame was working as an extra - Goth boy drinking in pub in the Bill was by far my finest hour :)
I've remixed Goteki a couple of times and Illumina, but am open to more work as it's a fun thing to do - get in touch
I'd like to meet:
People with common interests, people who want fun out of life, musicians, creative people and cider drinkers :)
I Would Have Liked to Meet:
Louise Brooks 80 years ago - ah well, I better go and build that time-travel gymnasium then.
Music:
Far too many to list really.... but I'll have a go, including guilty pleasures
Genre wise
Goth, Industrial, some EBM, some Synthpop, C64, eletro, early 90s indie, Orchestral.
I'm sure I've missed loads. There are many bands where one album has been the soundtrack to a part of my life - but there's too many to list here.
And One
Apoptygma Berzerk
Bauhaus
Beethoven
Covenant
The Cult
Cure (up to about 10 years ago)
Depeche Mode
Divine Comedy (first few albums)
Early Electro (Grandmaster Flash, Streetsounds stuff, Cybotron that kind of thing),
Feindflug
Front 242
Front Line Assembly (up to and including Hard Wired)
Gary Numan
Goteki
Human League (first 2 albums)
Kraftwerk
Kaiser Chiefs
Ladytron
Martin Galway
Michael Nyman
Mozart
My Bloody Valentine
Nitzer Ebb
Numb
OMD - Their early albums were great
OVNI
Pet shop boys
Pop will eat itself
Rob Hubbard
Rob Zombie
Seize
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Sisters of Mercy
Skinny Puppy
Soft Cell
Soman
The Smiths (sorry Ross)
SPOCK
VNV Nation
XPQ 21
Movies:
Shaun of the Dead, Withnail and I, The Third Man, Quadrophenia, Bladerunner, The Shining, Memento, Life is Sweet, American Beauty. Seem to have missed a huge chunk of films during my life due to spending the 80s playing computer games. I'm working on correcting this.
Television:
Family Guy, Spaced, The Simpsons, I'm Alan Partridge, Jam, Brass Eye, Peep Show, Black Books, Young Ones, Filthy Rich and Cat Flap, Bottom, Red Dwarf (up to about series 5), Black Adder, Bad News, More Bad News, Fistful of Travellors Cheques, 15 Storeys High, Big Train (mostly comedy as you can see)
Books:
All the Hitchhiker books, Dirk Gently and anything by Douglas Adams, Martin Amis but I've found him difficult going recently, some Terry Pratchett, Stephen Fry, David Baddiel, Robert Newman, The Gobbler by Adrian Edmonson, Iain Banks (complicity), music biographies.
Heroes:
Douglas Adams
Martin Gore
George Gershwin
