Hello. I'd intended to do this as an all singing all dancing label type thing, but I can't really work any of it out, so fundamentally it's just me claiming to represent all manner of people that can probably well do without such (mis)representation.
I would just change it to Gooseman, but I've got friends on here now, and they'd think I'd lied to them, and that would be really bad, so honestly, every time anyone leaves a message, about 16 of us sit round a table and debate what we should say back.
Ok?
Since I've made this a band profile rather than a personal one, with my good-hearted, tune-related nonsense and always trying to look after everyone else instead of my lovely self, I don't get to tell you about me.
For the record I'm sound as fuck. I used to write interesting stuff for mags like the lovely City Life and DJ, then they all went tits up in a massive music press implosion, so I'm now the editor of what was once a dull corporate thing, but under my expert guidance has become the most incisive political/satrical journal of its day. The pirate issue is only days away.
I used to be the singer in the best grebo band never to come from Birmingham Discounting Crazyhead and GBOA, but they were from near Birmingham, yeah? And like Mick Mercer said in that book of his we were most definitely 'never overtly goth'. Not so unovertly that any any goths with a penchant for such a talented chap can't get in touch, but you know, just to set it right there - there's a lot of goths on Myspace, and I don't want them getting the wrong idea.
Now I run Fuse. Which is breakbeat. And no one has a fucking clue what that is!
You already know you want me. Probably.
Udpate! Jan 07...
I'm getting the hang of this Myspace ting now, so as you can see we now have tunes, a few pics of me and all my 2D Fusetrax chums, and allsorts. I'm even thinking of starting a Ketamine Space, you know as a historical record, and because currently I have a Ketamine live track on here and, though it still stands the test of time, it's a fucking cover of Shampoo, played in the style of Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine (even down to my alarmingly, and insexpicably, cockney accent, which pervades all our tunes), which is hardly in keeping with the hard as nails megastep breakcore grime tip Fuse is on, really. Plus I bumped into Tomlast week and discovered he still had copies of all the last studio session we did, which never became EP #3, so I need to put that somewhere- history would never forgive me. More news on that as and when.
I might even try and get colours and shit on here.
Anyway, here is some more stuff about me - I like loud music and stuff, of many genres, especially breaks and fuck off grindcore, as well as PWEI who are the best band ever, and frankly quite a lot of maudlin wrist slashing music for one so externally chipper; funny stuff like Spaced and The Day Today - in fact pretty much anything involving Chris Morris or Simon Pegg is dandy, Ricky Gervais, Bill Bailey, me who keeps threatening to give stand up another go at some point when I can be arsed. Simon Pegg, incidentally, is the spit of Ketamine Tom, so there's a nice fluid movement through the piece. I like booze, lots, and fags, which I know is very frowned upon these days. Books kind of run from political dirge to political humour to fiction and travelogue - favourite authors include me, Marks Steel and Thomas, Alexi Sayle, Orwell, John Pilger, Kazuo Ishiguro, Pinter, Beckett, Martin Miller, lala, could go on all night - I didn't try naming bands, so why writers? Fair point. Films are also good, rough top 5 probably including Apocolypse Now, Sid and Nancy, Repo Man, Leon (visually stunning, but underrated on that score), Underworld (purely for Kate Beckinsale's catsuit), Battle Royale (actually strangely beautiful for all the ultraviolence - sequel is cock.), Fight Club, Kevin Smith. That's more than 5.
Have I run out of space? Oh no, it's just at the bottom of the box. Well, I'm kind of bored writing about me anyway - much prefer random stuff, so that's as good a point as any to knock my new Myspace fervour on the head. Just as a closing point, an internet face recognition programme said I look 72% like Johnny Depp, so I'm keeping that one.
