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Shane

shane_spencer

About Me

I'm really into my Music and Films. I go to around 100 gigs a year, go to the cinema about twice a week and buy far too many CDs and DVDs. I enjoy going to "Indie" bars and clubs in Sheffield, such as Leadmill, The Plug, Corporation, Threads @ DQ, The Boardwalk, The Harley and The Frog & Parrot.

Since joining the myspazz community I've took to inflicting my inner most thoughts about the gigs I attended in 2007 on the unsuspecting public. And more recently and in a more official capacity I infrequently write for LMS and Square Indie:
http://www.leedsmusicscene.net/writer/shane+spencer/
http://www.squareindie.co.uk

I drive a 1968 Karmann Ghia, which my father and I restored over a 5 year period. I also have a motorbike (Honda CBR600F) but haven't had much use out of it recently.

I work in IT for HSBC, but I very definitely work to live and not live to work.

My Interests

Going to gigs, listening to music, watching films (at the cinema and on DVD), reading, going out and having a laff, etc...

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who appreciates good music and/or films.

Music:

Arctic Monkeys, The Long Blondes, Harrisons, Little Man Tate, Milburn, The Automatic, Ian Brown, Hard-FI, Kaiser Chiefs, The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Protocol, The Bravery, The Killers, Kasabian, The Sunshine Underground, Razorlight, Jet, BRMC, The Cribs, The White Stripes, Dirty Pretty Things, The Libertines, Babyshambles, Kooks, The Rakes, Bloc Party, Be Your Own Pet, Goldfrapp, Maximo Park, Futureheads, Oasis, The Stone Roses, Radiohead, Pulp, etc.

Movies:

My top 5 films in no particular order are...
"True Romance" - I'm a romantic at heart, written by Tarrantino it's got everything, sex, drugs, romance, comedy, violence, great dialogue, a mexican stand-off to die for, and of course Elvis!
"Watership Down" - it always makes me cry, those poor ickle bunny wabbits, any film that powerful deserves to be watched again and again.
"Azumi" - broads with swords... the one thing that's better than chicks with dicks, seriously a kick-ass martial arts movie, simply breathtaking!
"Donnie Darko" - a film that always gets me thinking, great soundtrack too!
"High Fidelity" - 'Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?'... a romcom about commitment, love and of course pop music.
Basically I've got pretty eclectic tastes. I own around 300 DVDs and go to the cinema about 100 times a year. I particularly enjoy seeing films from the far east and other smaller releases.

Television:

My top 5 favourite TV programs (at the moment) are:
The O.C. (yes I know it's trashy but I like it)
Simpsons
Family Guy
Red Dwarf (series 1-6 only)
Scrubs

Books:

My favourite author is Terry Pratchett, the discworld books are so funny.

My top 5 favourite books are "Watership Down", "The Picture Of Dorian Gray", "High Fidelity", "Catch-22" and "Interesting Times".

Heroes:

The King Monkey himself...

Ian Brown
Also loving...

Little Man Tate

Photo's by Dr. Strangelove

Man I Hate Your Band

House Party At Boothys

What? What You Got

Sexy In Latin

...and a number of other Sheffield and Yorkshire bands:

The Long Blondes -
Giddy Stratospheres

Bromheads Jacket -
Trip To The Golden Arc...

The Pigeon Detectives -
I Found Out


Milburn -
Send In The Boys

Harrisons - Bluenote

Reverend And The M... -
Heavyweight Champion...

Arctic Monkeys - Brianstorm

The Sunshine Underground - Borders

My Blog

Februarys gig blogs... @ Sqaure Indie

As promised instead of writing blogs I’m now writing for sqaure indie......and you can now read issue 2 of Square Indie mag bringing you all the best from the local scene!!!!!:...
Posted by Shane on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:06:00 PST

Januarys gig blogs... @ Square Indie

Instead of posting the blogs I write about gigs I go to, from the start of this year I;’ve been writing for Square Indie... if you click on the link below you can read reviews I wrote for Glasve...
Posted by Shane on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:31:00 PST

The Paddy Orange Project @ The Plug - 12th Jan

support: Craine + Cherokees + Skint & Demoralised Excluding last Saturday when I was DJing at Boardwalk this was the first gig of 2008, and one I nearly didn't go to as I was supposed to be workin...
Posted by Shane on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:18:00 PST

Reverend & The Makers @ Leadmill - 20th Dec 2007

At over 6'6" and with a piercing stare Jon McClure has always been an imposing figure but when he came on stage he was sporting a Travis Bickle-esque (Taxi Driver) mohican and looked positively menaci...
Posted by Shane on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 07:48:00 PST

Skint & Demoralised @ Leadmill - 20th Dec 2007

It's been a pretty meteoric start to young Matt Abbot's carreer; starting as performance poet in October 2006 under the monicar of Skint & Demoralised he teamed up with David Gledhill (aka MiniDog...
Posted by Shane on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 12:24:00 PST

Boardwalk Xmas Party - 17th Dec 2007

Up Carey Street ~ The Headliners ~ The SagaDJ Sets by Denzil & Stevlor (The Indie Hour) + Shane (Sheffield Music Scene)Cakes provided by Amy (Pink Sharabang)When I got there Denzil & Stevlor w...
Posted by Shane on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 04:11:00 PST

Little Man Tate @ Empress Ballroom - 15th Dec 07

As with all Little Man Tate shows it was an event that was much more than the show itself and especially so as it was the Xmas Special. Many of us 'Taters', coming from all over the country and German...
Posted by Shane on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:33:00 PST

White Circus Fever @ The Grapes - 14th Dec 2007

I had hoped to time my arrival to just see WCF's set but the line-up had been changed around a bit so got to see one of the support bands. Ruberlaris turned out to be a pleasant surprise; judging on t...
Posted by Shane on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:29:00 PST

Bloc Party @ Cockpit (Leeds) - 10th Dec 2007

Preceding a 3 day sold-out arena tour Bloc Party did a warm up show at The Cockpit with only a few hundred lucky fans able to get tickets.They opened up slowly teasing out the first few chords of "Son...
Posted by Shane on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:27:00 PST

The Bluetones @ Leadmill - 8th December 2007

I got to The Leadmill at 20:45 half expecting The Bluetones to be walking onstage at any minute and was a little shocked to find the place less than half full no crowd barrier by the stage and support...
Posted by Shane on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 05:16:00 PST