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jemma

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About Me

I'm one of these rare people who actively likes folk music. I really do. and I like ceilidh dancing. I was even the president of Sheffield University Ceilidh Society for a year. And I think morris dancers are sexy (well the young ones anyway! - they really exist - look up Dog Rose Morris, Offspring Morris, Pecsaetan Morris).I like pale ale and going to the pub. I like going for dinner at my friends houses and eating cheese and drinking wine until the early hours.I like shopping. I like walking in the peaks. I like festivals.I also like clubbing - more indie/goth/metal than gategrasher though - though I don't object to a bit of cheese. :)

My Interests

Going to gigs. Going to the pub. Playing music (preferably at the pub).

I'd like to meet:

Nice People.

Music:

I play soprano sax, flute and whistle. I'm in a ceilidh band called Trinculo. I like: Folk/Roots/Traditional music: more English that Irish! Eliza Carthy, Jon and John, Andy Cutting and Chris Wood, Crucible, Nancy Kerr and James Fagen I also like a bit of Skunk Anansie, Radiohead, Greenday, red hot chilli peppers. Favorite Ska band is bison, but like the Baggdadies too. My favorite musical is Rent.

Movies:

Anything with Johnny Depp!

Television:

I don't have a televison. I'm hoping to remedy this at some point though! I like things like spooks and lost and any comedy quiz show with johnathon ross in it. I like Later with Jools Holland too.

Books:

I like the Edward Rutherfurd books (Sarum, London) etc and William Howard (his Stonor eagles especially). Am reading Johnathan Strange and Mr Norrell (Susanna Clarke) currently.

Heroes:

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