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About Me

Having made a daring escape from war-torn Norwich, Mart now lives a peaceful life in North London where he is free to write genius 3-minute pop songs until his little black heart is content. Leader of the Svengalis (www.myspace.com/thesvengalis)and svengali to the wonderful Easy Tigers (www.myspace.com/theeasytigers). Also part of the world's finest DJ tag team avec partner in crime Oliver Pound Esq. We are the Dandy Assassins.Go and listen to my lovely band, The Svengalis - www.myspace.com/thesvengalis

My Interests

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Music:

currently listening to violent femmes, aretha franklin, elvis gospel numbers, xtc, johnny thunders, new york dolls, velvets, brian wilson, buzzcocks, pulp, libs, special needs, kaito, adam green, modern lovers, sleepy jackson, only ones, spiritualized, felt, orange juice, necatrine no.9, teenage fanclub, belle and sebastian, the easy tigers, patti smith, dandy warhols, englands glory, felt, vv&v, the band, blondie, richard hell, gram parsons, bowie, moldy peaches, beach boys, the faces, serge gainsbourg, roxy music, stones, walker brothers, t-rex, television, jesus and mary chain, shangri-las, ike and tina, flying burrito brothers, the fall, bright eyes, jeffrey lewis, the make up, ...

Movies:

cracked actor, performance, almost famous, labyrinth (possibly the funnist movie of all time)...

Television:

dukes of hazzard

Books:

George Orwell - Homage to Catalonia

Heroes:

Darren Huckerby, Robert Fleck and other great Canaries footballers of our time. Also Sid James.

My Blog

things to do

i need to write a gospel soul record have been listening to too much aretha, elvis gospel songs and bowie's young americans and so am going to dye my hair orange, wear an ill fitting suit and conquer ...
Posted by Mart Svengali on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 05:09:00 PST

a death in the family

poor darren died. loved that wonderful fish of mine and am missing him splashing around and making lots of noise in the gravel. he is now resting in crouch end canal r.i.p ...
Posted by Mart Svengali on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 05:09:00 PST

Conker Tragedy

Sadly my conker tournament at work has been cancelled. The next door neighbour is a humourless psychopath and threatened to come round and beat me up if we continued playing because the noise ...
Posted by Mart Svengali on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 06:58:00 PST

Phone stolen

Or perhaps I just lost it. either way its rubbish so you can contact me via here, email or compose me letter
Posted by Mart Svengali on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 01:14:00 PST

Die scum die

I am always the last one to make it home. Somehow it took 3 hours to get home from Old St on Sat due to a mix of being slow on the uptake of taxis and a lack of nightbus. Got in at 5. Still tired and ...
Posted by Mart Svengali on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 05:44:00 PST

The Svengalis go into battle at last

And we're off. Mart Svengali, Evil Saul and Jimmy Vanilla headed down to Rooz in Old St for the start of the revolution. Except Saul didnt. He went to Camden instead because thats the k...
Posted by Mart Svengali on Thu, 18 May 2006 02:06:00 PST

The Svengalis are recruiting...bass and keyboard

The Svengalis are recruiting... Yep we are on the lookout for a keyboard player and a bassist. Contact me if you can be of help! In other news, into the studio in next week or so with Tobi St...
Posted by Mart Svengali on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 07:16:00 PST

And this week is even shitter

Oh yes - what a lovely Good Friday spent in the Whittington hospital as I was in agony with kidney stones. KIDNEY STONES! What a f*cking rubbish old mans thing to get! X-Rays, drips and horrible injec...
Posted by Mart Svengali on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 02:33:00 PST

I guess you could say its been an odd week

Said farewell to Tigermoth - I guess after all that time without getting the deal we wanted to push us on led to hearts giving in but nobody can say we didnt try our bes...
Posted by Mart Svengali on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 09:13:00 PST

Valentines massacre

Youve been with me every night this week, when I sleep, close my eyes and you are there. And if thats the only way we can meet, then Ill sleepwalk though life, I dont care And if thats wha...
Posted by Mart Svengali on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 07:41:00 PST