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iain

I am here for Friends

About Me

DJ, ex-musician (ha!), lapsed rock-star. Cat owner. Skater. Was keyboard player in Jesus Jones, mind you we're still going, make that AM the keyboard player. Also worked with The Utah Saints as well as The Feely Room. Worked for 104.9 Xfm here in London, have been a radio DJ for the last 7 years.Times change though, am now working on a web project (more on that soon) Skateboarder. 169's, wide board, smith grinds, rock'n'roll variations. Copers. Rip grip. I'm a widdler.

My Interests

Music, cooking, skating, shopping, eggs'n'beans'n'rock'n'roll.

I'd like to meet:

About half the number of people i've actually met. Then i'd like to forget most of those people too.

Music:

You name it. Then i'll tell you about the other stuff on top. OK then, be like that. Well.....deep breath....Sukpatch, Ultravox! (no Midge, OK? got that? First three albums ONLY), Lowgold, Wim Mertens, The Pursuit Of Happiness, Television Personalities,The Members, the Flys, Belle & Sebastian, Husker Du, Gravenhurst, The Loft, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Clash, Spizz Oil/Energi, Laura Marling, Lee Perry,the Heliosequence, Couch, Nick Drake, The Stars Of Heaven, Gloria Mundi, Joy Division, Bert Jansch, Richard & Linda Thompson, Sandy Denny, The Chalets, Durutti Column, XTC, Pablo "Lubadika" Porthos, You've Got Foetus on Your Breath, Denison Witmer, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, John Betjeman, Big Black, Talk Talk, Lucinda Williams, Ranking Dread, Black Flag, Broken Social Scene, the Shins, The Shop Assistants, The Church, The Clash, Ranking Toyan, Roger Eno, 2 Bad Mice, 80's Matchbox B-Line Disaster, Dead Men Walking, Aberfeldy, Crass, Dillinja, Swell Maps, The The, Simon & Garfunkel, DJ Hype, Bix Beiderbecke, Miles Davis, Sham 69, SOS Band, The Ruts, Euromasters.....

Movies:

Stuff 'em. Boring. Actually....apart from The Belly Of An Architect. And Legally Blonde. And Animal Chin and "Footage" (for the Blender bit at the end)

Television:

See above.

Books:

Neil Stephenson, "The Diamond Age"

Heroes:

John Betjeman, Joe Strummer, Moe Berg, Dan Treacy, Frank Nasworthy. Raoul Dufy, Levertov, Rexroth and Williams.

My Blog

OK people, here's what i've been doing........

Because ever since I left Xfm, EVERYONE is always begging me to tell them what i'm up to.... TBH, I've kept it rather secret, because setting something like this in motion is always a nerve-wracking p...
Posted by iain on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:07:00 PST

OK....New Job time....and added twitter

Xfm is over for me, the station had changed out of all recognition, it wasn't the same station I loved and believed in, so I left. more details over at my blog site: Westway And i'm on Twitter now as ...
Posted by iain on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 05:30:00 PST

B&S concert link, from today's show!

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5235927 enjoy! iain x  
Posted by iain on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 02:57:00 PST

Oh, you really need to hear this....

Dropped for the first time on Friday night, to the most rapturous reception EVAH. :) Get it, and get it quick. http://www.houseofcuss.com/hocvault/thepipe/archives/000334. shtml...
Posted by iain on Mon, 27 Feb 2006 04:29:00 PST

OK, i'm getting the hang of this.....

Back from India now (2 weeks in Goa).... i'll update the blog soon! big love, iain
Posted by iain on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 01:37:00 PST

OK, here we go.....

Why it took me so long to do myspace, I just don't know. Anyway, here I am. for all other blog goodness, check out my main blog here iain...
Posted by iain on Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:54:00 PST