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Andy

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About Me

[like a moth to a lightbulb...]Hullo! Physically I live very happily on this tiny piece of prehistoric rock off the west coast of Scotland; mentally I am anywhere music wants to take me. And right now all the best craic seems to be just a few clicks away from here! Although anyone who knows me would probably object to me claiming to have 'taste' I will listen to any kind of music - as long as it has heart in it and passion behind it.Personally I have been flogging my little island-based covers band for over ten years (click here if you really want to) , and have recently been plank-spanking with a local blues-rock outfit . I have also just started Arran's newest, hardest rockingest band , but I can feel the songs begin to stir inside me again. The wee painful ones that sneak up on you, burst out and embarass you but, ultimately, help you get where you're meant to be going...(I know - whit a load o' pish!)
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My Interests

Absolutely everything! Nothing scares me more than the thought of being bored in my own company...

Music:

EVERYTHING!! Aerosmith, Ben Harper, Camille, Dougie Maclean, Ekseption, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Gregorian chants, Henry Mancini, Imperial Drag, Jellyfish, Katchachurian, Los Lobos, Maggie Bell, Nick Drake, Orff, Proclaimers, Queen, Rolf Harris, Steely Dan, Tori Amos, Undertones, Vai, Whistlebinkies, XTC, Yello, Zappa...

Movies:

Far too eclectic a selection to begin listing...

Television:

Both the kill and the cure... I love Black Books, Green Wing all the way back to Monty Python and Spike Milligan, but I absolutely detest all this Big Brother/ 'phone-in quiz-type pish!! David Attenborough and Still Game (and the Beechgrove Garden!) are worth the licence fee alone.

Books:

A pretty mixed bag: childhood precosciousness has left me with a fondness for nature/ scientific books and list books, but 'maturity' brought a real love of Scottish writers from Henrysson and Dunbar to Edwin Morgan and Tom Leonard, and the great Russian writers - Gogol, Dostoevsky. Constant re-reads are Bulgakov's "Master and Margerita" and Grassic Gibbon's "Scots Quair".(But Gary Larsson and Glen A Baxter are up there, too!)

Heroes:

Still holding out for one...