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Damian

www.barmusichall.com

About Me

If you keep you food in a refridgerator.
Keep your clothes in a closet
If you sleep in a bed
And have a roof over your head

You are richer than 75% of the world's population.
www.makepovertyhistory.org
I run a bar/night club/restaurant/live music venue in Shoreditch, East London called BAR MUSIC HALL. It's great. Stop wasting your time on myspace and come see for yourself.
Music is the only thing that really makes me happy. Either really deep electronic house and techno like they play at DC10 and the Kubicle parties, crazy Neu Rave shit with lots of flouro and glowsticks and people who dress up like complete idiots or really miserable folk-rock like Bright Eyes and Belle & Sebastian.
I also like modern art, especially the Young British Artists of the 1990s and David Shrigley, but not the stuff he does in the Guardian.
And some people, but only a few, mostly the ones in my top friends :)

My Interests

Working, Sleeping, Dancing, Drinking, Women, Men, Animals, Music, Art, Graphic Design, free magazines (Vice, Hooker, Full Moon Empty Sports Bag, Another Late Night, One Week To Live etc), Partying, Sitting in the sunshine with my friends getting drunk or high or both and laughing about everything and nothing at once, The feeling you get when you get out of the shower, Staying up for days on end trekking round Shoreditch from party to party with a bunch of people I've only just met (, Brazilians (the people and the waxing), Cocktails, Mixology, My Space, Photography, Pornography, Prescription Tranquilisers, Sunshine, Beaches, Walking barefoot watching the sun go down, Flair, Dancing, Drinkning, Fucking etc etc

These parties: Kubicle, Retox, SecretSundaze, Mulletover, Antisocial, Computer Blue, Circo Loco, Dig Your Own Rave, Zum.
Your Seduction Style: Siren / Rake
You possess an unbridled sensuality that appeals to many.
The minute you meet anyone, you can make them crave you almost immediately.
You give others the chance to lose control with you... spiraling into carnal bliss.
A dangerous lover, you both fascinate and scare those you attract. What Is Your Seduction Style?

I'd like to meet:


People who come to Bar Music Hall.

And People who don't.

OK, I'd like to meet everyone. Especially girls who smile a lot and like dancing.

Music:

minimal electro techno indie rock folk hip-hop.

More specifically?


Audion, Matthew Dear, Depeche Mode, Ricardo Villalobos, Steve Bug, Martin Buttrich, Anders Trentemoller, Loco Dice, Richie Hawtin, Claude Von Stroke, Devo 2.0, The Faint, Arcade Fire, The Knife, Soulwax, Bright Eyes, Belle & Sebastian, Erol Alkan, Filthy Dukes, Simian Mobile Disco, Digitalism, Vitalic, Arctic Monkeys, Tom Vek, Cut Copy, Gorillaz, Coldcut, Nathan Fake, M.A.N.D.Y, Booka Shade, Mr C, Dollz at Play, Luciano, Miss Jools, Miss Kittin, Felix Da Housecat, Serge Santiago, JoJo De Freq,, DJ Hell, Geddes, The Insurgents, Guido Schneider, Armand Van Helden, Le Tigre, LCD Soundsystem, Death From Above 1979, The Long Blondes, Bloc Party, The Jam, The Who, The Strokes, The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, The Futureheads, Kanye West, Common, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, The Postal Service, Goldfrapp, Tiga, Manic Street Preachers, Love, Nirvana, Oasis, Ocean Colour Scene, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Libertines, Babyshambles, Mylo, Razorlight, The KLF, Suicide, The Ramones, The Streets, K-lash-nekoff, Sly & The Family Stone, Bob Dylan, most Motown, Johnny Cash, The Flaming Lips, Radiohead, The Klaxons, Trash Fashion, Foals, Stone Roses, Scott Walker, Sargasso Trio, Simon and Garfunkel, Nick Drake, John Martyn, Sandy Denny, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Royksopp, Les Rythmes Digitales, Example (but not Rusher), Lupe Fiasco, Foreign Beggars, Braintax, Scratch Pervertz, Roots Manuva, Squarepusher, Autechre, Matthew Jonson, Matthew Dear/Audion, Rex The Dog, Timbaland, Fluokids, The Fiery Furnaces, Rob Da Bank, Black Flag, The Clash, Hector Phonica, DJ Toni D (he is the best!), Digitalism, Boyz Noise, Martin Landsky, Poker Flat, Crosstown Rebels, Modular, Freak N Chic, Kitsune, etc etc etc etc

Movies:

Only cartoons.

Television:

See movies

Books:

L'Etranger, Albert Camus; The Ecstasy of Communication, Jean Baudrillard, Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson; The Book of the Dun Cow, Walter Wangerin Jr.; Winnie The Pooh, A. A. Milne; lots of comics e.g Preacher, Judge Dredd, Slaine; Rock biographies, especially Freaky Dancin' by Bez; blah blah blah - Actually you know what? (almost) Every good book I've ever read I've given to someone who's never given it back do so buy your own books, don't ask me about mine.
Also keenly waiting for Mr T's autobiography - So Many Fools, Not Enough Pity

Heroes:

mr c, dale degroff, bez, banksy, damien hurst, ian brown, everyone who turns down a well-paid job to do something they love, and especially people who then make even more money doing it!

My Blog

Kittens!

Oh My God! Oscar gave birth!  I'm a dad!  (well maybe not it's the big black tom that lives in our street.) So here are some photos of some newborn kittens for you to coo over. Mummy and ba...
Posted by Damian on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 02:20:00 PST

Charity

I love charity.For example it's now quarter to six in the morning, on a Friday morning. I just got home after going to the Key for a fundraiser for the Lebanese Red Cross that was supposed to feature ...
Posted by Damian on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:44:00 PST

Hot, and Sweaty, Now I'm ready!

Anyone who's been round my house in the last couple of weeks or so will have been treated to me singing and dancing round my bedroom to Rex The Dog's remix of "Tony The Beat" by The Sounds. (Rachel c...
Posted by Damian on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 03:41:00 PST

Ill

I have man-flu. You know the kind of disease that only guys get, where you don't get any sympathy because everyone assumes that you're not really ill and just trying to get sympathy.  Unfortunate...
Posted by Damian on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 03:48:00 PST

Gutted.

I can't believe I lost the blonde. If anyone's knows who she is, or even what I'm talking about, hit me back.
Posted by Damian on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 04:49:00 PST

Interesting

Just went for a run. It almost killed me.Now I'm going shopping for dancing shoes and a new mac. Woohoo!Oh don't forget this Sunday....Mulletover afters/Toilet/T Bar/Boombox/Retox. In that order, d...
Posted by Damian on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 02:42:00 PST

Boring...

I've been so boring recently. Need to go out more... Oh yes the toilet is back on Sunday afternoon!  Woo hoo!
Posted by Damian on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:47:00 PST

Blurgh.

I'm fucking hungover. Also I got mugged on Friday night in Camden (don't go to Camden, it's shit) by a gang of 16 year olds and had my phone stolen.  Vodafone won't give me a new one at the momen...
Posted by Damian on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 03:38:00 PST

I love being miserable these days...

Ok so for the whole time I was homeless all my possessions were in a Big Yellow Storage facility in Milk N Beans. Even after getting off the streets and moving into my new gaff they all stayed there ...
Posted by Damian on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 02:14:00 PST

If there's a Devil listening

I would gladly sell my soul to be able to play guitar like this.Dave Matthews is fucking amazing. I know he's npt very "cool" and you guys will probably take the piss out of me but I don't care he ma...
Posted by Damian on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 05:59:00 PST