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Graeme

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About Me



Heading into the best years of my life with one kid at uni and another hopefully not too far behind - freedom! If only the waistline could disappear the same way my hair has...

Too much time spent helping look after The Reasoning Forum these days, but it's fun, and they're great

The Reasoning with Steve Rothery Bristol Colston Hall 8 June 2007

My Interests

Cricket (Rothley Park, Leics - best spinner they've ever had...not saying much). Music with a capital P (for Prog - OK, Marillion excepted). Gardening (fresh air is good for you). Pontificating about great bands like The Reasoning and most of all Marillion. Red wine (I'm sure they make the bottles smaller these days) Collecting Marillion memorabillia and bootlegs, signed cricket bats (well, why not?) Cooking. Definitely not washing cars (wife's job)

Music:

Hawkwind, Marillion, The Reasoning, Magenta, Mostly Autumn, Karnataka, Fish, 70s rock - Deep Purple, Sabbath, Genesis, Yes, etc etc, Gong, Hillage and the Ozrics, Sinead O Connor, the astonishingly brilliant Faithless (prog to a dance beat), Blues - Chris Rea's Blue Guitars is brill, Mermaid Kiss, Babyshambles and Pete Doherty's acoustic stuff (still can't believe I like it and him)

Movies:

Highlander, Gladiator, The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Fifth Element, Raiders of the Lost Ark, anything recommended by a certain Welsh songstress who may or may not be connected to The Reasoning who seems to get it right every time

Television:

The West Wing, The Sopranos, Dr Who, that sort of thing.

Books:

Tolkein, David Gemmell, Terry Pratchett, Christian Jacq, Stephen Lawhead,Wisden Cricketers Almanack

Heroes:

Getting a bit old to have heroes