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Chris Philips

Friday night spend money on a ho .... tel, get a good night's sleep....

About Me

Radio presenter on:

London

Sundays 3pm - 6pm playing r&b, hip hop, soulful house and old skool. (96.9 + 107.1 FM, national digital radio, Sky 0114, Virgin Media 969 and Tiscali 622)

Hear a mixture from Dilla to Marc Evans to Osunlade to Cameo to Dwele to Ne-yo.

This is video from the kid's drum workshop I organised with the great Luisito Quintero and his band on Friday August 31st. Thanks indeed to Luisito, Louis from The Planet Drum and Mikey & Roger from Concept Training for providing tuition and instruments.

My Interests

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I'd like to meet:

The real me

Music:

Kiddo and Chris Brown

Kiddo with Angie Stone!

My musical Goliaths .. Earth, Wind and Fire (Maurice White was sent by God!), Light Of The World, Pleasure, Freeez, Incognito (circa '80), George Duke, Paulinho Da Costa, the Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Loose Ends, Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Lonnie Liston Smith, Grover Washington, Marcus Miller, Paquito D'Rivera, Roy Ayers, Funkadelic, Parliament, George Clinton,

Bootsy, Trouble Funk, Slave, Aurra, Steve Arrington, Rick James (Bitch!), Stevie Wonder, Patrice Rushen, Cameo, The Gap Band, Heatwave, Shalamar, Michael Jackson, Jermaine Jackson, The Jacksons, Kleeer, Frankie Beverley and Maze, Luther Vandross, Prince, The Time, Jesse Johnson, Zapp, Roger Troutman, Sugarhill Gang, The Younger Generation, Kurtis Blow, Slick Rick, Doug E Fresh, Public Enemy, Big Daddy Kane, Tribe Called Quest, Q-Tip, Slum Village, J-Dilla, Pete Rock, Common, Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner, John Coltrane, Donald Byrd, Larry and Fonce Mizell, Doug and Jean Carn, Azymuth, Don Blackman, Ronnie Laws, Fela Kuti, Airto Moreira, Willie Bobo, Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Oscar D'Leon, Fania Allstar, Eddie Palmieri, Poncho Sanchez, Pacific Jam, Phyllis Hyman, Anita Baker, Chaka Khan, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, D'Angelo, Dwele, Omar, Musiq Soulchild, Rachelle Ferrell (probably the most talentented singer I've ever heard), Vinx, Blaze, Masters at Work, Louis Vega, Vikter Duplaix, Osunlade, I think you get the general picture ....

Movies:

Sexy Beast, Fargo, City Of God, Goodfellas, Bronx Tale, The Green Man, Delicatessan, Good Night, and Good Luck, Soy Cuba, First Descent , Sideways, Saving Private Ryan, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Miller's Crossing, Audition.

Television:

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Books:

American Scream, The Tao Of Muhummad Ali, Rashomon, The Bubble Of American Supremacy, Guantanamo, Conversations With God, Things Snowball, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, Motorcycle Diaries, Hip Hop America, Status Anxiety, Assata: An Autobiography, Silencing Political Dissent, Rogue States, 9-11 (Chomsky), The New Military Humanism: Lessons from Kosovo

Heroes:

Muhammad Ali, Edward R. Murrow, Dave Bassett, Assata Shakur, Bill Hicks, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Marvin Gaye, Fela Kuti, Gilbert George Johns, David Rodigan, my son Rio.

My Blog

William Shatner's CLASSIC 'Rocket Man'

Hahahaha!! I was introduced to this superb video from the 1978 Science Fiction Awards about 10 years ago. It's thankfully available all over the web now, not least on YouTube. Willi...
Posted by Chris Philips on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:01:00 PST