Music mainly including live gigs (pretty much a gigaholic), festivals,trying to learn acoustic guitar and also net stuff, reading, animals, nature & the outdoors incl. walking, camping, golf! Also like rugby, photography (not any expert stuff, just messing around trying to take arty shots mainly lol), travel, singing, writing poetry, quite a few 'ologies including my fave one pyschology, yogalates, art and architecture and finally good conversation pref over a wine or a beer!
Kind, thoughtful, sincere and honest folks who have similar interests (sounds yucky I know, but better than saying no 'its-all-about-me' people, liars, or folks just having a larf. If you're not a band or artist and would like to add me as your friend please drop me a line to say hi and tell me why you'd like to add me. Thank you!!
Alternative/progressive/experimental/psychedelic/metal/new folk pop/rock including: The Open, Mansun, Porcupine Tree, Radiohead, Strangelove/Patrick Duff, Secret Machines, Kasabian, Spiritualized, Leaves, Thirteen Senses, Coldplay, Kula Shaker, Idlewild, The Charlatans, Sigur Ros, Badly Drawn Boy, The Last Republic, Mercury Rev, Yes, XTC, Jeff Buckley, Pink Floyd, David Gilmour, The Who, Soundgarden, Faith No More, Pearl Jam, Midlake, Dead Meadow, Malcolm Middleton, Euros Childs; Loney, Tears for Fears/Orzabal, Talk Talk, The Verve/Ashcroft, Julian Lennon, Mica Paris, Dusty Springfield. Also like good catchy pop bands like The Feeling and Take That (plz do NOT scoff, Gary Barlow is a pop song writing legend)... coz at the end of the day there's nothing like a great melody (in which case the odd corny lyric can be forgiven!).
Sliding Doors, This is Spinal Tap, Minority Report, The Lost Boys, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Shaun of the Dead, A Life Less Ordinary, Chocolat, Hunt for the Red October
Sci-fi incl. Dr Who/Torchwood, Messiah, Silent Witness, Corrie, Extras, Green Wing, Spaced, Dragons Den, wildlife/natural earth documentaries, Life on Mars, Peep Show, Star Stories, My Family, J Ross, Later, Saturday Kitchen, Tribe, Mountain, HEROES, most things with Martin Clunes in.
Non-Fiction: Biographies, pop psychology books ad infinitem, "How to.." books, maps and atlases, anything else that catches my eye in the library or bookshop. Fiction: James Herbert, Elizabeth Frazer, Penguin Modern Classics as long as I didn't do them for my O'level English Lit.
Not really into heroes, except the one at 9 p.m. Wednesday on BBC2 (although I'm a big fan of Bruce Parry).