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&lt; Savy &gt;

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About Me




SPEAR OF DESTINY - Once In Her Lifetime (The Tube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk84vpFXBdw

My Interests



Music, mainly punk and post punk, but I like a lot of current stuff too. Especially live music.
And even more especially Spear of Destiny and all of Kirk Brandon’s work.

I'd like to meet:


All kinds of interesting people, especially if you're into music, well decent music anyway....(No, I'm not that narrow minded - honest!)

Music:


Spear of Destiny, Theatre of Hate, and Kirk Brandon's solo work. Nothing else is in the same league.
Some other honourable mentions: I used to be fully paid up member of the "there was no decent music before punk" club, apart from perhaps The Doors, Lou Reed, and the Stooges stuff.
In addition to Spear and TOH, I like: The Jam, Ruts, Joy Division, Skids, Stiff Little Fingers, Dead Kennedys, Buzzcocks, Ants, Banshees, Damned, Magazine, Teardrop Explodes, Wah! Heat (etc), Echo and the Bunnymen, Southern Death Cult, Cult, Sisters of Mercy, The Mission, Cocteau Twins, The The, Pulp, Depeche Mode, Elastica, JJ72, Portishead, White Stripes, Strokes, Muse, Editors, Arctic Monkeys, Raconteurs,
According to my Last FM account, you can ignore whatever I've just written as this is what I've actually been listening to since March 2007! Spear of Destiny, Theatre of Hate, Julian Cope, Echo & The Bunnymen, The White Stripes, Kirk Brandon, The The, The Smiths, Magazine, Björk, Arctic Monkeys, Raconteurs, LCD Soundsystem, The Hives, Depeche Mode, Deaf School, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Damned, Cocteau Twins, Manic Street Preachers, Nirvana, British Sea Power, Killing Joke, Portishead, Dead Kennedys, PJ Harvey, The Clash, Television, Wire, Tom Waits, Shelleydevoto, The Ruts, Buzzcocks, Kirk Brandon's 10:51, Howard Devoto, The Jam, Lou Reed, Jane's Addiction, Joy Division, Maxïmo Park, Stiff Little Fingers, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Arcade Fire, JJ72, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Stooges, Ladytron, Elastica, New Model Army, and Kasabian,

Movies:

Pulp Fiction, Trainspotting. 8 Mile, Jean de Florette/Manon des Source, The Third Man, My beautiful Laundrette, The Usual Suspects, Oliver!

Television:


I could live without TV. Don’t watch it much,
But stuff I do enjoy includes Life on Mars, Hotel Babylon, and comedy such as Early Doors, Little Britain, or anything with Peter Kay. Drama such as Cold Feet, Our Friends in the North, House of Cards and This Life. Documentaries (social, political or scientific-but definitely not wildlife), and old classics, from the Goodies and the Young Ones to the Tube and the Woodentops!

Books:

Read very little in the way of books these days. Mainly read newspapers and magazines.
Best books I’ve read in recent years: England’s Dreaming( Jon Savage), Secret History (Donna Tartt) and Frank Skinner’s autobiography.
When I did have the time and inclination to read, I read Orwell, John Wyndham, Margaret Atwood ,Oscar Wilde, and S E Hinton. Not sure what I would read now!

Heroes:

No more heroes anymore, but a few more vids I like:
MAGAZINE - The Light Pours Out of Me
Atmosphere - Joy Division.. ..
JJ72 - Snow

My Blog

Willpower

I wasn't going to write about this, but what the hell. For the first time I've made a serious attempt at losing weight, and it seems to have worked  (well, so far anyway!) I was one of those tall...
Posted by < Savy > on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:57:00 PST

Dabbling with the Public Services.

Thought today would be as good a day as any to dabble with our great British public services. I work in local government, so get plenty of opportunity to see things from the inside, so a bit of a...
Posted by < Savy > on Fri, 30 May 2008 06:02:00 PST

Billy Bragg - Levi Stubbs Tears

Well, my lovely myspace people, as promised, I though I'd share with you some of my favourite music, maybe regularly, or maybe now and again, I'll see how it goes. Comments welcome of course, I d...
Posted by < Savy > on Wed, 07 May 2008 06:17:00 PST

Away

A very early seasonal greeting from me this year. We're away for the next month, travelling around Australia and New Zealand, catching up with friends and family, and doing holiday stuff! So, hope yo...
Posted by < Savy > on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:37:00 PST

Echo and the Bunnymen  The Cavern, Liverpool, 26th Oct 2007

Echo and the Bunnymen  The Cavern, Liverpool, 26th Oct 2007 So&, Echo and the Bunnymen playing a tiny venue in Liverpool, £5 a ticket, billed as an evening promoting new bands, with the Bunnnymen he...
Posted by < Savy > on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 02:54:00 PST

THEATRE OF HATE 2007

Well, the great Westworld weekend didn't go a planned. After returning home, after Friday's Spear of Destiny outing, all fired up for more, My other half woke up in the night unwell, and ended up bein...
Posted by < Savy > on Wed, 02 May 2007 09:32:00 PST

'Must Have Re-issue'

Not that I believe everything I read in the papers, but I was pretty gobsmacked to find that one of my all time favourite albums is the 'must have reissue' recommended in yesterday's Sunday Times! Eve...
Posted by < Savy > on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:58:00 PST

One to Remember...

Thanks to Tim (Rockettpunk) for this quote, attributed to Doug Malloy   "At eighty, I think what I shall regret are things I always wanted to do and never did; The experiences I denied mysel...
Posted by < Savy > on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:00:00 PST

Song Titles

Choose a band / artist and answer ONLY in titles of their songs:Spear of Destiny (Kirk Brandon)Are you male or female:SheDescribe yourself:My Own InventionHow do some people feel about you:Some kind o...
Posted by < Savy > on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 04:16:00 PST

The Road Not Taken

The Road Not Taken         & nbsp; by  Robert Frost  (1916)   Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be on...
Posted by < Savy > on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:18:00 PST