Music and art, and both together..... muart?
Drumming, playing percussion, recording music, producing bands, guitar, piano, bass, strings, harmonies, arrangements, sampling, digital audio editing, synthesis, technology that works well, animation, painting, drawing, photography, film making, sleeping, sunny days, VW campervans (miss you Jellybean), a good sunset, a good bottle of wine, a good beer, a good book, a good pair of shoes, Glastonbury in 1992 (it was such a different place) I like people to be nice to each other, skateboarding, wasted dancing and especially the foot dance, pizza. I am interested in the progress of science, video games, social sciences, world peace? Psycology and body-language, energy and tranferance, auras and chakras, politics, chomsky, corruption and conspiracy, cheese, chowder, chaff, chimneys blah blah blah blah....
Benny Brooke and the Crippled Onions, An end of year performance by our 17 piece funk band, with 2 slightly out of sync drummers. These are my devonshire brethren, i love em like family Anyone
This is what I do on my art course, at Uni. Play drums....
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This is my band Mendicant below, have a gander.
Music I like to listen to: Radiohead, Pavement, Mirah, Muse, Postal Service, Ludes, Frank Zappa, Death Cab For Cutie, Maximo Park, Blur, Squarepusher, Less Than Jake, Jackson and his computer band, Arctic Monkeys, Good Shoes, Rilo Kiley, Blur, Franz Ferdinand, The Shins, Joni Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Beck, Interpol, Stevie Wonder, Pixies, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Lemonheads, Pulp, Marvin Gaye, The Like, Skunk Anansie, Ozric Tentacles, Desmond Dekker, The Polysics, Johnny Cash, Talvin Singh, Blind Melon, Massive Attack, Tom Waits, Jimmy Eat World, Lush, Rage Against The Machine, Dusty Springfield, Bach, Placebo, Menlo Park, Ben Folds Five, Cake, Elliot Smith, Chuck Berry, Pearl Jam, Bob Marley, King Tubby, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, The Cardigans, PJ Harvey, Joe Strmmer, The Clash, Nick Cave, Brian Wilson, Slipknot, Claude Debussy, Beethoven, Liszt, GreenDay, Kool and the gang, Paris Motel, Pink Floyd, The work of Joe Meek, Alicia Keys, Supergrass, Hayseed Dixie, Beck, Bjork, Ray Charles, Queens of the Stone Age, Mendicant, Busta Rhymes, Roots Manuva, Moloko, Blondie, David Bowie, Rolling Stones, Nightmares on Wax, Beatles, Graham Coxon, The Mars Volta, Led Zeppelin, The Lovebirds, Accident Will, Bloc Party, Jon Brion, Foo Fighters, The Streets, The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Rev Al Green, Kings Of Leon, Melvins, Pixies, A Tribe called quest, Libertines, Jeff Buckley, Tim Buckley, Pharcyde, The Killers, Beastie Boys, Mouthwash, I could go on all day.......
Bands I have been in: The Miracle Retreat, Muttlys Dastardly Skam, Teapot, Striker, Mendicant, Kannski, Bad Sofa, Benny Brooke and the Crippled Onions, The Lovebirds, The Palace Fires, Ariel, Forgotten Youth, Helen Pavli, Ain't no lady (girl group, don't ask), quite a few more that I either can't remember the names of, or we didn't get out of the rehearsal studio...
Bands I can remember playing support slots with: The Fratelli's, The Rumblestrips, The Holloways, Finka, Buffalo 77, Reel Big Fish, King Prawn, Adequate 7, Lightyear, Jesse James, No Comply, Ye Wiles, Big D and the kids table, Dan Potthast from the Mu330s, The Ludes, The Thirst, Rum Shebeem
Some of the bands I have recorded: The Special Needs, The Ludes, Mendicant, Not Now Bernard, Chris and Lisa, The Favours, Tallulah, Temperance Union, Eddie Prevost, Hot Buttered Muffin, Amber Room, Southpaw, Forgotten Youth, Richard Flanagan and Vlad Miller, The Chaps, Circulus, Rickshaw, Paneer, Who is Elma Blatch (WIEB), 2CS, Shrewdness of Apes, Barnaby Cole, The Great British Players, Jon Dickinson, Angie, Mango Don, Dead Next Door, Empty Vessels, The Hipster Ray, The Hummingbirds, The Lovebirds, The Low Road, Simon Moroney, Sungover, Joshua C. McCallum, Miranda, Somewhere beneath the city,....
right that's not all of it but I can't remember the rest right now.
Eternal sunshine, Life Aquatic, Back to the future, Taxi Driver, Stalingrad, Amelie, Star wars 3-6, Fight Club, Aliens, Citizen Kane, anything by Gondry, Jonze, Speilberg, Lucas (before phantom menace) Kubrick, Cunningham. Kung fu, thoughful and well written films. any Southpark or futurama. Any well crafted animations.
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My dad's moment of top of the pops fame in 1980, he's the drummer at the back.
Perfume, The Alchemist, Hitch Hikers Guide, Trainspotting, High Fidelity, About a boy, Philip Pullman, Ian Banks, Ian McEwan, Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Dickins, Brett Easton Ellis, Harry Potter (all of them) Shakespeare (the darker ones), anything by Roald Dahl. I enjoy reading scripts and plays, Tarantino, Ionesco, Beckett, Mamet. I usually give books away after I read them, I want other people to enjoy them too. I like Comix and graphic novels, Hey Mister!, Maus, ZAP, (infact any Robert Crumb he's one of my heroes), Fab Furry Freak Bros, and cause I missed it earlier the work of Lucasarts in the 90's.
Buddah, John Lennon, Hunter S. Thompson, Kurt Cobain, Jimmy Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Buddy Rich, Rodney Mullen, Mahatma Gandhi, Andy Warhol, Danny Way, Frank Zappa, Daniel Johnston, Lars Engstrom, Wassily Kandinsky, Jeff Buckley, George Braque, Pablo Picasso, My Brother, Han Solo, Robocop, Dave (any dave), Rita the old lady at the end of my street, Nala Mason, my cat, (she's a fucking legend, my cat)you.To be honest generally heroes are just not worth having, they either get shot or die, or somehow lose their dignity over time. The best hero, to follow and have faith in is yourself, if you can trust and believe in yourself enough then what do you have?
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CAPTAIN DANGER TRUCK
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