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Cleobury Mortimer (a small town in Shropshire, about 30 miles south-west of Birmingham) Current employment: Factory work (looking for a way out!)





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My Interests

Likes: Music; gigs; festivals; pubs; real ale, cider and guinness (not all together); socializing with good mates; meeting interesting new people; horror movies and films in general; horror books; movie guides and other such ref. books; fanzines; docs (DMs); converse; bomber jackets; vinyl; DVDs; the cinema; t’internet; chips; pickled onions, gherkins.. (most things in vinegar!); spicy food; bean burgers; crisps; cats; days off work; walking in the countryside; shopping for records (not many shops to choose from these days!); visiting interesting places; sunshine (but not sunbathing!); black & white photography; green tea; Garfield; stand-up comedy (some faves: Bill Hicks, Peter Kay, Tommy Tiernan, Billy Connelly, Marcus Brigstocke, Jenny Éclair, Jack Dee, Rich Hall, Chris Rock, Jerry Sadowitz, Arthur Smith, Ben Elton in his early days before he started fannying about presenting royal variety performances and writing musicals with Lloyd-Webber!)..



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Dislikes: Fascists; bigots; narrow-mindedness; reality TV; manufactured plastic pop music; politicians; animal cruelty; mobile phones (I have one but they still get on my tits!); telesales people; people with clipboards hassling you in the street; coppers who abuse their power and victimize people for looking different; baggy trousers that hang round people’s knees with their arses showing (is this not the most stupid fashion statement or is it just me?); beige; false, pretentious and arrogant people; bullshitters; people too miserable to reply if you say ‘hello’; dog-shit; pointless, endless re-makes of classic movies (‘Psycho’ – GRRR!); work; vomit-inducing, sycophantic d.j./presenters i.e. Jo Wiley (every band and every record is so bloody wonderful!)… I better stop before I get carried away!

I'd like to meet:

Anyone anywhere with similar interests!


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KILLING JOKE

YEAH YEAH YEAHS







GEORGE A ROMERO on set of zombie classic Day Of The Dead(1985)
....inferior re-make coming soon!...

'The Dark Side' - best horror mag on the market!



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^ This incredibly cool artwork is by Halsey




Music I’m Currently Grooving To: (updated 4th July 2008)

MELVINS: ‘Nude With Boots’ CD
BURNT CROSS: ‘Brian Haw’ 7”
HERESY: ‘Face Up To It’ (remastered) CD
THE KILLS: ‘Midnight Boom’ CD
THE DONNAS: ‘Bitchin’’ CD
INTERNAL AUTONOMY: ‘4th Demo’ CDR
DEVIATED INSTINCT: ‘Welcome To The Orgy’ CD
THE DUKE SPIRIT: ‘Neptune’ LP
WARCRY: ‘Maniacs On Pedestals’ CD
OBITUARY: ‘Slowly We Rot’ CD





Music:

I'm a huge music fan. I grew up listening to mainly metal, hardcore punk and thrash, but these days I like sooo much other stuff as well, from indie to reggae to blues to '60s garage/psyche/rockabilly to old-school rap/hip-hop, some old goth, industrial, techno/trance, ambient, alternative and beyond..

Some of the artists/bands I dig include AC/DC, Active Minds, Active Slaughter, Add N To X, Aerosmith (70s-era), Amebix, Anhrefn, Anthrax (UK), Anti-Cimex, Antisect, Anti-System, Aphex Twin, Armored Saint, Assert, Au Pairs, Autopsy, Axegrinder, Babes In Toyland/Katastrophy Wife, Bad Brains, Bad Religion, Barbed Wire, Bathory, Bauhaus, The Beat, Behind Enemy Lines, Big Black, Big Business, Bjork/Sugarcubes, Black Flag, Black Sabbath (Ozzy era), Blade, Bleach, Blitz (early), Bloc Party, Blondie, Blood Feast, Boris, Boxed In, Billy Bragg, The Breeders, Broken Bones (early), Ian Brown, Buffalo Tom, Kate Bush, The Business, Cabaret Voltaire, Calamity Jane, Calla, Can, The Cardigans, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave/Birthday Party, Celtic Frost/Hellhammer, Chaos UK, The Charlatans, Chemical Brothers, Christian Death, Circle Jerks, Citizen Fish, Civ, Civilised Society?, Jimmy Cliff, Cockney Rejects (early), Coil, Concrete Sox, Conflict, Constant State Of Terror, Contempt, Cop Shoot Cop, Corrosion Of Conformity (early), Cowboy Killers, Graham Coxon, The Cramps, The Cranberries, Crass, Cress/The Deformed, Crucifix, Cryptic Slaughter, The Cult/Southern Death Cult, The Cure, Curve, Cypress Hill, Dag Nasty, Daisy Chainsaw/Queen Adreena, Dan/SofaHead, Dark Angel, Dead Kennedys, Deadline, Dead 60s, Death (early), Death Breath, Desmond Dekker, The Depraved/Visions Of Change, Descendants, Destruction (early), Detestation, Deviated Instinct, Delta 5, Diamond Head, The Dickies, Dinosaur Jr./J Mascis/Deep Wound, Discharge (early), Disfear, Disorder, Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy, DJ Methodist, DOA, The Donnas, Doom, The Doors, Dreadzone,Dream Death, Dr. Feelgood, DRI (early), Dropkick Murphys, The Duke Spirit, Editors, Einsturzende Neubauten, Electric Wizard/Thy Grief Eternal, English Dogs (early), Entombed (early), Exit Condition, Exit-Stance, Exodus ('Bonded By Blood' LP), Extinction Of Mankind, Extreme Noise Terror (early), Faithless, The Fall, Fall Of Efrafa, The Fatima Mansions, Faust, Final Conflict, Flamin' Groovies, Flux Of Pink Indians, 4 Skins, From Ashes Rise, Front Line Assembly, Front 242, Fucked Up, Fugazi/Minor Threat, Fun-Da-Mental, The Future Sound Of London/Amorphous Androgynous, Fuzztones, Gallon Drunk, Gang Of Four, Gang Starr, GBH, GGFH, Girlschool, Godflesh, The God Machine, Green Day, Green On Red, Gringo, Gunshot, Nina Hagen, Hanoi Rocks, PJ Harvey, Hatework Conspiracy, Hawkwind, Head Of David, Hellbastard (early), Richard Hell & The Voidoids, Jimi Hendrix, Heresy, Hero Dishonest, The Hives, Hole/Courtney Love, The Horror/Voorhees, Hot Water Music, Husker Du/Sugar, Ice Cube, Ice-T, Icons Of Filth, Imperial Leather, Inner Terrestrials, Inside Out, Inspiral Carpets, Internal Autonomy, Iron Maiden (early), Isis, The Jam, Jesu, Jesus & Mary Chain, The Jesus Lizard,

Jets To Brazil, John Holmes; Joy Division, Juliette & The Licks, Kaaos, Killing Joke, The Kills, The Kinks, Kong, Kraftwerk, Kreator - 'Pleasure To Kill' LP, Kylesa, The Leaving Trains, Led Zeppelin, Leftfield, Loop, Lost Cherrees, L7, Lunachicks, Lush, Magazine, Bob Marley, Massive Attack, Master/Death Strike, Mayhem (Norway), MC 900Ft Jesus, MDC, Mekons, Melvins, Mercury Rev, Metallica (early), Ministry (late-80s era), Misfits, Joni Mitchell, The Mob, Mob 47, Moby, Mogwai, Morbid Angel - 'Altars Of Madness' LP, Motorhead, Mudhoney, My Bloody Valentine, Naked Raygun, Nausea (NY), Nebula, Necronomicon (Ger), New Model Army, New York Dolls, Nine Inch Nails (early), Nirvana, Nitzer Ebb, No Choice, NWA, Nymphs, Obituary, Oi Polloi, Omega Tribe, One Way System, The Orb, Orbital, Beth Orton, Ozric Tentacles, Paradise Lost (early), Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Pestilence, Liz Phair, PiL (early), Pink Fairies, Pink Military/Pink Industry, The Pixies, Plasmatics/ WOW, Police Bastard, Iggy Pop/Stooges, Possessed, Prince Buster, The Prisoners, The Prodigy, Prong (early), Propagandhi, Public Enemy, Queens Of The Stone Age, Quicksand, Radiohead, Ramones, Rancid (early), Rattus, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Red Sparowes, Renegade Soundwave, Repulsion, Revolting Cocks, Revulsion, Rezillos, Ripcord, Rock Goddess, Rolling Stones, Max Romeo & The Upsetters, Rose Tattoo, Rudimentary Peni, The Runaways/(early)Joan Jett, The Ruts, Sabres Of Paradise, Sacrilege (UK), Sad Society, The Saints, Saint Vitus, Scorn, The Selecter, Sentinel Beast, Septic Death, 7 Seconds, Sex Pistols, Sham 69, Siege, Silver Bullet, Silverfish, Siouxsie & The Banshees/The Creatures,Sisters Of Mercy, Skids, Skinny Puppy, SkitSystem, Slayer, Small Faces, Patti Smith, SNFU, Sonic Violence, Sonic Youth, Sons And Daughters, The Specials, Speedy J, Spiritualized, Steel Pulse, The Stranglers (early), Subhumans (UK), The Subhumans (Canada), The Subversives, Suicidal Tendencies (early), Superchunk, Swans, Swervedriver, The System, Systematic Death, Tad, Television, Terminal Power Company, Terminus, Terrorizer, Test Dept., Thin Lizzy, Throbbing Gristle, Toots & The Maytals, Torche, Peter Tosh, Totalitar, Tragedy, Transglobal Underground, KT Tunstall, Undead (UK), Underworld, Unsane, Unseen Terror, Urusei Yatsura, The Varukers, Vectom, Suzanne Vega, The Velvet Underground, Venom (early), Victims, Voivod, Tom Waits, Warcry, The Wedding Present, We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It!(early), White Stripes, White Zombie, Wolf Pack/Wolfbrigade, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Young Gods, Young Knives, ZZ Top ('70s-era)....

Movies:

Again, wide & varied... I love films...
Adaptation; After Hours; A.I: Artificial Intelligence; Alien/Aliens; All Of Me; Almost Famous; American Beauty; American Psycho; Apocalypse Now; Assault On Precinct 13 (1976); Bad Day At Black Rock; Bad Taste; Barfly; Basket Case; Batman Begins; Battle Royale; Before Sunrise; Being John Malkovich; Best Laid Plans; Betty Blue; The Big Lebowski; Black Widow; Blade Runner (Director's Cut); Blood Simple; Blue Steel; Blue Velvet; Boyz ‘N The Hood; Brain Damage; Braindead [Dead Alive]; A Bronx Tale; Carnival Of Souls (1962); Cellular; Chinatown; Chopper; City Slickers; A Clockwork Orange; Coffy; The Cooler; Cop; Cop Land; Crash (2005); Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Dancer In The Dark; Dawn Of The Dead (1978); Day Of The Dead(1985);

Dead End Drive-In; Dead Man's Shoes; Dead Poets Society; Deep Cover; Delicatessen; Deliverance; Demons; Django; Dogs In Space; Duel; Eraserhead; Escape From Alcatraz; Evil Dead 1 + 2; eXistenz; Eyes Without A Face; Far From Heaven; Fargo; Freeway; Friday; Full Metal Jacket; Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai; Girlfight; Goodfellas; The Good, The Bad & The Ugly; Halloween (1978); Heathers; Heavenly Creatures; Hero; High Plains Drifter; A History Of Violence; The Hitcher (1986); Hope & Glory; House Of Flying Daggers; Jackie Brown; Jason & The Argonauts (and most of the the Harryhausen films!); Jaws; The King Of Comedy (Scorsese); LA Confidential; Leaving Las Vegas; The Living Dead At Manchester Morgue [Let Sleeping Corpses Lie]; The Long Good Friday; The Long Riders; The Lord Of The Rings trilogy; Love Field; Mad Max; Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior;Manhunter; The Man With Two Brains; Memento; Memories Of Murder; Midnight Express; Midnight Run; Mona Lisa; My Life As A Dog; Mystic River; Naked Gun 1-3; Night Of The Comet; Night Of The Living Dead (1968)+(1990); Nil By Mouth; Oldboy; Once Upon A Time In America; Once Upon A Time In The West; Once Were Warriors; One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest; The Outlaw Josey Wales; Play Misty For Me; The Pledge; Pretty In Pink; The Proposition; Psycho (1960); Psycho II; Raining Stones; Raising Arizona; Re-animator; Red Rock West; Repo Man; Repulsion; Requiem For A Dream; Reservoir Dogs; Return Of The Living Dead 1 + 3; Ricochet; Robocop;

Romper Stomper; Rosemary's Baby; Rumble Fish; Scum; The Seventh Seal; Sexy Beast; Shaun Of The Dead; The Shining; A Simple Plan; Sin City; Single White Female; Sling Blade; Spiderman 1 + 2; The Straight Story; Suspiria; Sweet Sixteen; Taxi Driver; The Terminator/T2; Thelma & Louise; The Thing (1982); This Is Spinal Tap; The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada; Trainspotting; 2001: A Space Odyssey; 2010; Ulee’s Gold; Undead (Aus, 2003), Unforgiven (Eastwood); Versus; Videodrome; Violent Cop; Walkabout; Walk The Line; The Warriors; Whale Rider; White Heat; Wild At Heart; Wolf Creek; Zombie Creeping Flesh [Hell Of The Living Dead]; Zombie Flesh Eaters [Zombi 2]…
Fave stars: Christian Bale, Kim Basinger,Maria Bello, Marlon Brando, Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Connelly, Robert De Niro, Johnny Depp, Brad Dourif, Robert Duvall, Clint Eastwood, Bridget Fonda,
Pam Grier, Dennis Hopper, Harvey Keitel, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Juliette Lewis, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Michelle Pfieffer, Michelle Rodriguez, Theresa Russell, Winona Ryder, Billy Bob Thornton, Christopher Walken, Naomi Watts, Ray Winstone, Reese Witherspoon, James Woods, Ziyi Zhang..
Directors: Ingmar Bergman, Francis Ford Coppola, David Cronenberg, Clint Eastwood, Alfred Hitchcock, Peter Jackson, Stanley Kubrick, Sergio Leone, Ken Loach, David Lynch, Roman Polanski, George A Romero, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino..
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Television:


Auf Wiedersehen, Pet; Boys From The Black Stuff; Casualty; Columbo; The Cops; The Dead Zone; Dexter; Friday The 13th – The Series; GBH; Heroes; Homicide: Life On The Street; House; The Lakes; Lost; Masters Of Horror; Medium; Oz; Shark; The Shield; Six Feet Under;

The Sopranos; Stephen King’s Nightmares & Dreamscapes; The Street; Taking Over The Asylum; Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles; Third Watch..
Comedy/Entertainment: Alexei Sayle’s Stuff/The All New Alexei Sayle Show; Big Train; A Bit Of Fry & Laurie; Blackadder; Bottom; Brass Eye; The Comic Strip; Coogan's Run (and most of Steve Coogan's other stuff..); Curb Your Enthusiasm; The Day Today; Extras; The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin; Fawlty Towers; Friday Night With Jonathon Ross; Larry Sanders Show; The Late Edition; Lazarus & Dingwall; The Mighty Boosh; Mock The Week; Monty Python’s Flying Circus;

My Name Is Earl; Never Mind The Buzzcocks; The Office (UK and US versions); Phoenix Nights/Max + Paddy’s Road To Nowhere; Not Only..But Also../Pete & Dud; Police Squad; Rich Hall's Cattle Drive; Ripping Yarns; Saxondale; Smack The Pony; The Smell Of Reeves & Mortimer/Vic Reeves Big Night Out etc.; Spaced; Steptoe & Son; 30 Rock; Troma's Edge TV; The Young Ones..
WORST: Grown-Ups; Tittybangbang; Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps.. (and all the other shit that can only be shown on BBC3..HATE! HATE! HATE!)
Cult TV: Batman; Captain Scarlet; The Invaders; Land Of The Giants; Lost In Space; The Munsters; The Outer Limits; Star Trek (60s original); Stingray; Thunderbirds; The Time Tunnel; The Twilight Zone (‘60s original); Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea..
Factual/Other:Channel 4 News; any interesting documentaries, usually on C4/More4 or BBC2. BBC4 has some decent music docs.. ‘Later With Jools Holland’ is about the only music show I watch nowadays (there should be more!).. A couple of shows from the past that stick in the mind are ‘ECT’ (metal – 80s) and ‘Snub:TV’ (indie – early 90s).


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Books:

Don't read as many as I'd like to, but recently I've read John Peel's auto-biog, 'Margrave Of The Marshes', and John Baxter's biog of Robert De Niro. I'm currently reading 'Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me', a Marlon Brando semi-autobiography written with Robert Lindsey in the late '80s/early '90s. If I read a novel I tend to go for horror alot of the time and my fave horror author is Shaun Hutson (he's got a really twisted imagination!).

I also like Clive Barker, Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, Stephen King, HP Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe and Guy N Smith. My most dog-eared reference book is the Time Out Film Guide - the Bible for movie buffs!

Current fave book to read on the bog: Jay Slater's 'Eaten Alive: Italian Cannibal & Zombie Movies'.

Heroes:

John Peel. (R.I.P. 1939 - 2004) ..The man that introduced me to most of the music I love today!

My Blog

MY TRIBUTE TO JOHN PEEL!!

Like many other people (music lovers in particular!), I was quite affected by the death of John Peel in 2004. I'd grown up listening to his shows since the mid-'80s, and in many ways he shaped my musi...
Posted by Ad on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:05:00 PST

The Crypt fanzine

'The Crypt' was a fanzine I started writing back in the late 1980s  '87/'88-ish  when I was only about 13 but well-into my music; at the time, mainly thrash metal and hardcore punk. I ran 4 issues o...
Posted by Ad on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 08:08:00 PST

Sexism

Why is it these days it's become trendy to be a sexist prick? I've always cringed when I hear groups of blokes referring to women as 'birds', 'chicks',  'totty', etc. 20 years ago, women were f...
Posted by Ad on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:40:00 PST

Death Proof

Just seen Quentin Tarantino's latest movie, 'Death Proof', and I have to say I was not disappointed. If you know anything about the history of this film you're probably aware that it was originally p...
Posted by Ad on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:10:00 PST

Revulsion interview (from The Crypt zine 1990)

[Above pic: 'Words Worth Shouting' compilation LP, Radical Change Records, 1985, featuring Revulsion, Contempt, Deviated Instinct, The Disrupters, Protest and more..]The following interview is with d...
Posted by Ad on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:10:00 PST

Concrete Sox interview (from The Crypt zine 1989)

Concrete Sox were a four-piece band from Nottingham and were part of the mid-late '80s hardcore/thrash movement alongside the likes of Ripcord, Heresy, Extreme Noise Terror etc. They released their de...
Posted by Ad on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:39:00 PST

Ripcord interview (from The Crypt zine 1989)

Here's an interview with John Millier, drummer of Weston-Super-Mare hardcore/thrash legends Ripcord. The interview was conducted by my mate Gray Bryans (from stoner band Gringo) in June 1988 around ...
Posted by Ad on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:14:00 PST

What Punk Means To Me

I grew up listening to heavy rock/metal and particularly thrash metal. I still like alot of this music, but when I discovered punk/hardcore in the late ’80s, I realized how shallow, silly and p...
Posted by Ad on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 05:32:00 PST