Listening to, writing and performing music, tv, friends, cinema, cross-training, radio show (check it out - 6pm - 7pm every Friday on gloucesterfm (96.6 in the Gloucester region - gloucesterfm.com for everyone).
First album (Seasonal Affection Disorder) due for release early-mid 2007.
Everyone. To include a "little person" called Gerald.
adopt your own virtual pet!
Here's what I'm into at the moment:
The Go! Team
Royksopp
Lemon Jelly
Arcade Fire
Coldplay
The Avalanches
Mylo
Frou Frou
Gorillaz
High Contrast
Air
Erik Satie
and then...Belle and Sebastian, Jacques le Cont aka Zoot Woman aka Thin White Duke aka Stuart Price, Fourtet, Snow Patrol, Fatboy Slim, Timo Maas, Junior Jack, Guillemots, Moloko, Emiliana Torrini, Oasis, Blur, Plump DJs, We Are Scientists, Jose Gonzalez, Ferry Corsten, KT Tunstall, Franz Ferdinand, Kinobe, Clayhill, Panic! at the Disco, Bond, Faithless, Basement Jaxx, Norah Jones, Kaiser Chiefs, Soul Mekanik, Alanis Morissette, Martin Solveig, Tom Vek, The Strokes, Phoenix, Chemical Brothers, Ash, Kasabian, Doves, Daft Punk, Caribou, Madonna, Maximo Park, Corinne Bailey Rae, LCD Soundsystem, Bent, Goldfrapp, Grandaddy, Fall Out Boy, Stonebridge, Bonobo, Black Grass, Black Eyed Peas, Kanye West, 2manydjs, Soulwax, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Zero 7, Supergrass, Sigur Ros, Goldfrapp, Sebastien Tellier, Turin Brakes, Prodigy, DJ Format, Travis, Pendulum, Shy FX, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Kosheen, Freelance Hellraiser, Gnarls Barkley, Alloy Mental, Flaming Lips, iForward Russia!, Bell X1, Switch, The Pryor Theory, la Justice Pour Tous (k.a. Justice), the Kooks, Deep Dish, Groove Armada, Hot Chip, Elbow, Kano, Bloc Party, System of A Down, Muse, Oakenfold, MSTRKRFT, Breaks Co-op, Secret Machines, the Raconteurs, Boy Kill Boy, Dirty Pretty Things, Adem, Imogen Heap, Mystery Jets, The Streets, Sandi Thom, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, Nelly Furtado, Simian Mobile Disco, Brakes, Scissor Sisters, Arcade Fire, Peter Bjorn and John, Erol Alkan, the Futureheads, the Klaxons, CSS, Logistics, Beth Orton, Metric, Kings of Convenience, the Egg, New Young Pony Club, Logistics, Drumsound and Bassline Smith, Just Jack, Jamie T, Mark Ronson, Kleerup, Fedde Le Grand, Matrix and Futurebound, GHP (Go Home Productions), D. Ramirez, The Shins, The Music, The Gossip, Ben Westbeech, Calvin Harris, TV on the Radio, London Electricity, The Beta Band, Death From Above 1979, Example, Plan B, Gustavo Santaolalla, Alexi Murdoch, Digitalism.
Favourite album at the moment: Camille Saint-Saens - Carnival of the Animals
Most anticipated albums of the next 12 months: 3. High Contrast - Tough Guys Don't Dance
2. Justice - Cross
1. New Avalanches album
Favourite single of the past 12 months: Freeform Five - No More Conversations (Mylo Remix)
Favourite 7 songs of the moment:
7. Gustavo Santaolalla - Iguazu
6. Klaxons - Not Over Yet
5. Mark Ronson feat Paul Smith - Apply Some Pressure
4. Kasabian - Me Plus One (Jacques lu Cont mix)
3. Groove Armada - Song For Mutya
2. Richard Gray - Warped Bass
1. Chemical Brothers - Do It Again
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Leon, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, Anchorman, Airplane, Amores Perros (Life's a B*tch), Y Tu Mama Tambien, American Beauty, American Psycho, Mulholland Drive, Lost in Translation, the Life of David Gale, Shooting Fish, Blue Velvet, Memento, Natural Born Killers, House of Sand and Fog, Brokeback Mountain, A History of Violence, Saw 2, Me and You and Everyone We Know, the Matrix, the Big Lebowski, Fargo, the Hudsucker Proxy, Kill Bill, Monster, Swimming with Sharks, Sexy Beast, Ongbak, The Man Who Wasn't There, Ladykillers (2004), Go, The Woodsman, Thank You For Smoking, Hard Candy, Amelie, The Squid and the Whale, Little Miss Sunshine, The Departed, London to Brighton, The Last King of Scotland, Babel, Das Leben der Anderen, The King, Das Experiment.
Arrested Development, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, 24, Family Guy, Six Feet Under, Frasier, Simpsons, Futurama, Seinfeld, Alias, Lost, Peep Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, South Park, West Wing, Smoking Room, Mighty Boosh, Teachers (UK), Have I Got News For You, Father Ted, The League of Gentlemen, the Thin Blue Line, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Deal or No Deal, Most Haunted Live, Big Brother, Two and a Half Men, The Office (US), Prison Break, My Name Is Earl, 30 Rock, Heroes, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Dragon's Den, Top Gear, The Larry Sanders Show, Police Squad.
"Onions and Berets" by Paul Schaefner. "Return of the Darwin Frog" by Andrew Profcenko. "Someday, Sunday: Squirrel Suicides" by M Maekinaldissup.
Annie Mac, Röyksopp, every semi-decent world-leader - being that high up is never easy, my parents, whoever invented blueberries.