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Ugly Barney

Kick Now Serious Ass

About Me

Saint Banger, DJ to the stars.

My Interests

Drinking blood from the severed heads of my enemies while seated atop a mountain of skulls. Crippling doom, fighting, beer, chicks, lying, bukkake, pub quizzes, wolfbagging, yiffing, bagpiping, vegan haggis, lap dances, throwing claws. Punk Fucking Rock. Wolves. Squirrels. Primates. Bears. Teletext.

I'd like to meet:

Betty Suarez.

Music:

Fake Tan, Gallows, Sunn0))), Burzum, Venom, Celtic Frost, Converge, Dio, Neurosis, High On Fire, Botch, Boris, The Hope Conspiracy, Battle Of Mice, Deftones, Attack!Vipers!, Daniel Johnston, Made Out Of Babies, Six Organs Of Admittance, Matthew Dear, Dabrye, Green Velvet, Pig Destroyer, Mayhem, Darkthrone, Mastodon, Fucked Up, Cancer Bats, The Bronx, Sleep, Om, Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Black Flag, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Fugazi, Void, Negative Approach, TV On The Radio, Mudhoney, Deerhoof, Appleseed Cast, Isis, Bathory, Justice, Slayer, Joanna Newsom, The Flaming Lips, The Organ, Be Your Own Pet, Josephine Foster, Blood Brothers, The Knife, Amber Asylum, CSS, Alter Ego, Tiga, Sexual Harassment, Alasdair Roberts, Dillinger Escape Plan, Will Oldham, Matmos/Soft Pink Truth, Kanye West, Breather Resist, John Fahey, Rise And Fall, Jim O'Rourke, Nas, Scott Walker, Cephalic Carnage, Edan, Animal Collective, Ariel Pink, Paint It Black, Antony And the Johnsons, Coco Rosie, Coven, Drowningman, Kompakt Records, The Gossip, Pixies, Peaches, Jucifer, Electric Wizard, Scissorfight, PiL, Kraftwerk, Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Born Against, Turbonegro, MF Doom, KMD, Outkast, Jay-Z, Smog, Sigur Ros, Burst, Poison Idea, Ocean, Red Sparrowes, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Cave In, Pelican, Earthride, Earth, Rex The Dog, Cursed, Hot Chip, From Ashes Rise, Lightning Bolt, The Stooges, The Locust, Prince, Q And Not U, Some Girls, November Coming Fire, Strike Anywhere, Lair Of The Minotaur, Queen (pre moustache era), Gang of Four, Cheap Trick, Johnny Cash, Iron Maiden (first three albums only), Shellac, Fleetwood Mac (Buckingham/Nicks era only), Scout Niblett, The Evens, Mobb Deep, Kiila, Slint, Arthur Russell, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, ESG, Liquid Liquid, Dinosaur Jr, Talking Heads, Bluetip, Magnetic Fields, Joy Division, Yo La Tengo, Shudder To Think, The Smiths, The Cure, Sonic Youth, Time In Malta, My Bloody Valentine, Eugene Mc Daniels, The Soft Boys, Pavement, Shuggie Otis, Roberta Flack, Os Mutantes, Rocket From The Crypt, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Alice Coltrane, Beach Boys, Zeni Geva, The Shins, Le Tigre, MC5, Nick Drake, Minutemen, Afghan Whigs, Ultramagnetic MC's, The Make Up, Ornette Coleman, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Faust, Spacemen 3, Neu!, Miles Davis, Art Blakey, John Coltrane, Misfits/Samhain/Danzig, Ramones, Dukes Of Nothing, Erase Errata, Black Sabbath (especially Dio era), QOTSA, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Entombed, Current 93, El-P, Cannibal Ox, Kool Keith, Autechre, Black Dog, Superpitcher, LCD Soundsystem/DFA, Low, The Robocop Kraus, Lady Sovereign, Nation Of Ulysses, Can, Comets On Fire, Mistress, Melvins, Brand Nubian, Sun Ra, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Main Source, Ghostface/Wu Tang, Organized Konfusion, Bush Tetras, The Clash, Ringworm, Old Man Gloom, Doomriders, Meat Puppets, Husker Du, !!!, Out Hud, Cat Power, Dag Nasty, Lungfish, Refused, Terror, Switchblade, Unbroken, everything Nik likes

Movies:

Discovering the magic of Studio Ghibli right now...Porco Rosso is my favourite so far! Fletch, Caddyshack, Anchorman, Spinal Tap, Clerks, American Beauty, Heathers, The Virgin Suicides, 13 Going On 30, Mean Girls, The Princess Diaries (1 AND 2), The Wicker Man, Police Academy (all), Rock'n'Roll Highschool, Aguirre Wrath Of God, Legally Blonde, Bedazzled, Alien, Star Wars, Zombie Flesh Eaters, Risky Business, Ghostbusters, American Pie 1 and 3 (NOT 2), The Big Lebowski, The Conversation, House of Flying Daggers, Zoolander, 2001, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Ghost World, American Splendor, Josie and the Pussycats, Bring It On, Black Belt Jones, Smashing Time, Sideways, City Hunter, Office Space, Tiger On the Beat, City On Fire, the Breakfast Club, But I'm A Cheerleader

Television:

Peep Show, The Office, Vic Reeves Big Night Out, Scrubs, Buffy, Charmed, The Hoobs, Ugly Betty, Human Remains, The Muppet Show, The Goodies, Chocky, Ulysses 31, Mysterious Cities of Gold, Dogtanian, Alan Partridge, Saxondale, The Day Today, Brass Eye, Nathan Barley, Lost, Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, My Name Is Earl, Spaced, The Mighty Boosh

Books:

His Dark Materials and Sally Lockhart series by Phillip Pullman. London Orbital by Iain Sinclair. Rings Of Saturn by WG Sebald. Everything ever by Alan Moore. Nigella's cookbooks. Blissed Out, Rip It Up And Start Again by Simon Reynolds, A Heart breaking Work Of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers. American Hardcore by Steven Blush. The Secret History by Donna Tartt. Fungus The Bogeyman by Raymond Briggs. This really good book about Jeffrey Dahmer I read recently. Everything by HP Lovecraft. Get In The Van by Henry Rollins. Planet Joe by Joe Cole. Peter Bagge, Dan Clowes. The Outsider by Camus. Ego Trip's big book of Rap lists. My medical dictionary.

Heroes:

Nigella Lawson, Betty Suarez.

My Blog

It's like that bit in Pinnochio...

Just sitting at home writing this, tapping away on my laptop. Might listen to my Ipod later. Yeah, you read that right. I have a laptop, the internet and an Ipod. It's like that bit in Pinnochio where...
Posted by Ugly Barney on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:09:00 PST

My parents are so proud

Been trying to think of as many bands as I could whose names have swearing in them. Let me know if I've missed any.FuckFucked UpFuck I'm DeadThat Fucking TankThe Fucking ChampsDead Sea Fuckin' Scrolls...
Posted by Ugly Barney on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:34:00 PST

The year in review

2006 then. Went to a biker rally, wore corpsepaint, drank some booze, got high for the first time in years, partied, went to Spain again, went to a Charmed convention. Arthur Lee, Syd Barrett and Jame...
Posted by Ugly Barney on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 11:17:00 PST

White Jazz/Join my band

Back home now. Done ATP then straight to Brum for 3 day work course. Fucking travelodge, bland environs, mints, water, smooth surfaces, no smells, limbo. Traverse the faux theme pubs/restaurants this ...
Posted by Ugly Barney on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 02:50:00 PST

In which I save a man's life using only the power of my mind (and possibly hand)

Walking back from the (fucking excellent) Send More Paramedics gig on Sat night, this man fell off his bike near that roundabout where Kings st/Newmarkeyt rd meet, you know the one. He had no lights o...
Posted by Ugly Barney on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:40:00 PST

Old people

I saw this program on channel 4 last night called 'Young @ Heart' about an old folks choir in America with an average age of about 80. It was one of the most disarming and oddly moving things I've see...
Posted by Ugly Barney on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 04:35:00 PST

handclaps are the new cowbells

In order to offset the miserable self-pitying tone of my previous two posts, I thought I'd write about my killer weekend. I finally went clubbing in London's trendy Shoreditch (or was it Hoxton?), wh...
Posted by Ugly Barney on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 04:40:00 PST

Dentistry

I have this tooth which is giving me grief. I'm managing to keep it at bay quite well with painkillers, but I get the nasty feeling it's not going to just go away. Only trouble is, I haven't been to a...
Posted by Ugly Barney on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:36:00 PST

A night in

I stayed in last night. I made some sweetcorn chowder and ate it while watching Caddyshack. It was great fun.
Posted by Ugly Barney on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 04:36:00 PST

Desperate plea

I have fucked my back up and am in massive grief. Can barely move. If anyone wants to come round and make/bring me tea, I'd be eternally grateful. I am 100% not joking. Cheers....
Posted by Ugly Barney on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:44:00 PST