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Meg

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About Me


CURRICULUM VITAE:


Full Name:

Megan Frances Vaughan.

Date Of Birth:

1st February 1984.

Previous Employment (Paid):

Bank Cashier, Chicken Spreadsheet Analyst, Administrator, Judgemental Record Shop Elitist, Bar Licensee, Call Centre Botherer, Surly Waitress and Table Dancer.

Previous Employment (Unpaid):

Housekeeper, Financial Controller (swiftly demoted), Chauffeur, Life Coach, Stylist, Critic, Events Secretary, Opinionated Loudmouth and (future) Car Park Steward.

Strengths:

Is a quick learner (when sober). Has excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially when has a point to prove. Maintains humour, idealism and a depressingly unhealthy cynicism at all times. Has the rare ability to listen to music rather than just talk over it. Sets an impeccable moral example on most issues. Fiercely independent. Not easily offended, but finds offending others a piece of piss. Makes a good list, pasta sauce, and get-away. Is always right.

Weaknesses:

Fat, sugar, harmonica, cheeky long-haired guitarists.

Education:

'Average - Fair' attendance at good, middle-class high school, followed by short spell of 'Sporadic - Poor' attendance at pretty rubbish University. Peerless commitment and enthusiasm has since been shown towards live music and shopping.

Hobbies:

Going to gigs, writing about going to gigs, and day-dreaming about cheeky, long-haired guitarists (who can support me financially).

References:

The guy in Macc who probably still drinks half a cider in Chicago's every tea-time. My Mum.
If you cruise around long enough on those websites, chances are you'll stumble across my spoutings on various gigs, releases, demos and probably audience etiquette. Or check out the blog, where I include handy links to my reviews, as well as all the normal guess-what-happened-to-me-today shit...

My Interests

Doin' dope shit wit my homeboys.

And this:

I'd like to meet:



Something wonderful:

This is a video made by jolly nice chaps Onions . Watch it, because it's very good indeed.

And here's a clip to put a smile on your face:

COMMENTS
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Music:

Loads of old stuff, like Little Feat, The Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Band, Neil Young, Nick Drake, Led Zeppelin, JJ Cale, John Martyn and Bob Dylan.

Loads of newer stuff (that sounds like old stuff), like Midlake, Wolfmother, The Beta Band, Gomez, Ryan Adams, Alberta Cross, Beth Orton, The Deadbeats, Gillian Welch and Kings Of Leon.

And some stuff that I think is genuinely quite ground-breaking from time to time, such as Arcade Fire, Gorillaz or The Postal Service.

NOTE: Razorlight do not qualify for any of these categories.

The following songs should be fished out of their little pool of forgotten 90s rock ballads: 'Tourniquet' by Headswim, 'Wide Open Space' by Mansun, and 'Beautiful Day' by 3 Colours Red. They are the forerunners of emo, except that is a dirty word round these parts.

Frankly though, in Manchester, there is a vibrant and busy enough local music "scene" (HATE. THAT. WORD.) to keep even an ADD kid occupied.

Cop a quick feel of Air Cav, Isobel Heyworth, Onions, Autokat, The Answering Machine, The Travelling Band, Blind Io, Its A Buffalo, To Sophia, The Bottomfeeders, Gideon Conn...

...Dr Butler's Hatstand Medicine Band, Contact Mo, The Deadbeats, The Beep Seals, Modernaire, The Vox, Liam Frost, Kathryn Edwards, The Lightshines...

...Jake Mattison, Jay Krause, The Green Half, Polytechnic, Tim and Sam's Tim and the Sam Band, Brides Of Neptune, Paul E. Hodson, Whiskycats, and a whole shedload more foot-stampingly, head-noddingly, pant-wettingly fantastic music.

Movies:

Tim Burton is mostly awesome, but O Brother Where Art Thou could definitely beat Sleepy Hollow in an arm wrestle (maybe not Edward Scissorhands though...) and if Almost Famous came into the ring it'd be wearing two (that's right - TWO) feather boas like Hulk Hogan when he reappeared at Wrestlemania.

Poll: Who would win in a cage fight?
Everett Ulysses McGill (O Brother...)
Russell Hammond (Almost Famous)
Edward Scissorhands
Hulk Hogan
[ Results ]

Television:

is for people who need something to talk about with their colleagues.

Books:

My ultimate favourite is Gone With The Wind, but I invite no messages/comments about the film version. "Who's Will Benteen?" I hear you ask. Losers.

Also, rock biographies and stuff that makes me laugh. My old lecturers would be ashamed.

Heroes:


Michael Eavis, Joan Rivers, Cameron Crowe, Cath Aubergine , Vivienne Westwood and Pat Butcher.

This week, I have been mostly listening to:


I probably haven't updated this in ages, so let's just think of it more like "Three weeks ago, I was mostly listening to..."
*The Lightshines. And no, not just because he's a hottie. Also, for the record: I'm a fan of The Vox because THEY PLAY GOOD MUSIC!
*Midlake, because they are brilliant.
*The Good, The Bad and The Queen. I gave their album 2 out of 5 when I reviewed it for High Voltage, which I'd definitely take back if I could. It's just one of those growers that rumble under your radar for a wee while. Can't wait to see them play Glastonbury.
*Alberta Cross. God bless the Piccadilly Records email newsletter and its wonderful mp3 clips.
*The Decemberists. I got their album for free when I subscribed to The Word, and then didn't think anything of it for a few months, but they fit with that Midlake/Travelling Band/CSN/Alberta Cross school of mellow summertime soundtrack tunes. Grand.

Some other stuff...


My Blog

A backwards billing of brilliance with bollocks

Sometimes the running order of a night is dictated by a left-handed drummer, or by the archaic scheduling employed by public transport operators.  Mostly though, the biggest band goes last.  At the Mu...
Posted by Meg on Sun, 27 May 2007 04:45:00 PST

A bit like that Craig David song

Starting with Sunday, I can happily confirm that The If-In-Doubt-Go-To-Centro Rule is still working wonders for the weekend wind-down.  This week saw Butler-Williams and Alexis McLean tread the baseme...
Posted by Meg on Sat, 19 May 2007 04:23:00 PST

Like ADF and Siouxie Sioux drinking tea with Jack White

Heading over to the Koffee Pot for Fridays' Teatime Sessions has always been a fine way to blow the invoicing system out of one's backside ready for the weekend, so I was a little shocked to be greete...
Posted by Meg on Sun, 13 May 2007 06:25:00 PST

FAO: Midlake, Whiskycats, Onions and The Deadbeats

Kindly reschedule the gigs you have planned between the 7th and 14th of July. I will be on holiday in Scotland, and will, therefore, miss everything.   Thank you.   EDIT:  The...
Posted by Meg on Sun, 13 May 2007 05:06:00 PST

Geekdom pays off

There are some good things about being an Internet nerd.  I can find camera films and underwear (new or used) for next to nothing on Ebay.  I don't have to talk to travel agents.  And, ...
Posted by Meg on Thu, 10 May 2007 11:45:00 PST

The 1st Annual 'Sounds From The Other City' Awards, in words, pictures, and amateur video

When I first thought about how I was going to decide which bands to take in at this year's Sounds From The Other City festival (official website here), my friends and I had studied the flyer and formu...
Posted by Meg on Mon, 07 May 2007 02:59:00 PST

Next time, I'll give you the seven quid myself

This week, I had vowed not to go out until the weekend, and got as far as Wednesday without any black marks on my record.  I could hardly pass up an opportunity to join our fine city's Sean Paul and C...
Posted by Meg on Sun, 06 May 2007 07:36:00 PST

Anyone know a good pimp?

&because I could do with a second income.   Until I find one (or a billionaire oil tycoon  I'm not fussy), there won't be quite as much drivel appearing up here, regarding bands from Manchester ...
Posted by Meg on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 03:47:00 PST

Six bands in three days; none of them bollocks

Alrighty then. The bands I saw play last week deserve serious credit in an extensive and accomplished write-up.  Sadly, I lost half my brain cells at the bottom of my garden on Saturday night (picture...
Posted by Meg on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 03:44:00 PST

A bit of a lazy round-up

Today has been a bad day because it took me four hours to complete a twenty minute task at work, all for the sake of £3 that some dimwit usher had put in the wrong box on my Front Of House spreadsheet...
Posted by Meg on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:58:00 PST