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Wil Hodgson

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About Me

Stand Up Comedian (but not the kind that does puns, banter or nob gags), serial misfit, collector of 80s girl toys and general retro obsessive, ex skinhead now punk, brief stint as a wrestler, hater of townies and lad mags, admirer of big women (now only armchair enthusiast due to being engaged and in love) MyGen Profile Generator MyGen Profile Generator

My Interests

Punk, Ska, Oi!, Care Bears, My Little Pony, Strawberry Shortcake , Rainbow Brite and any 80s girl toys, Old School Wrestling, Riot Grrl, gangsters, Vintage television, comics, spanking, lesbian porn, anything to do with punk/ skinhead culture, tattoos particularly pin up girl and traditional style, big women

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who shares any of the below interests or likes any of the bands listed below.

Music:

Punk, Oi!, Ska, Folk, Old School Country, Bluegrass, Vintage Children's Records, Bubblegum Pop, Hair Metal, Romo, 80s pop and some Hip Hop. I love virtually any band made up entirely of females tooFavourite Bands/Artists: Sex Pistols, Cock Sparrer, Ramones, Kenickie, Period Pains, Antiseen, Burl Ives, Madonna, Last Resort, Spice Girls, Splodgenessabounds, Pete Seeger/The Weavers, Guns and Roses, Rancid, Fear, Dead Kennedys, Agnostic Front, Cro Mags, Fast Food Rockers, Discharge, The Exploited, David Bowie, Woody Guthrie, Judge Dread, The Specials, Prince Buster, The Slits, L7, Michael Jackson (first three albums only), Hellstomper, Cocknoose, Chaos UK, Hammerlock, The Clash, X Ray Spex, GG Allin, Iron Maiden, Motley Crue, The Pogues, Dropkick Murphys, Real McKenzies, Snuff, early Kylie, Wham, Duran Duran, Run DMC, NWA, Cockney Rejects, The Business, Anti Nowhere League, The Queers, any Joe Meek or Lee Perry production, The Maytals, Meco, Geoff Love Orchestra, Daniel Johnston, Wesley Willis, Combat 84, Bad Brains, Chumbawamba, Queen, The Germs, Adam Ant, Culture Club, Yo La Tengo, Blur, Bad Manners, Big 5, Laurel Aitken, Arthur Kitchener, Go Gos/Belinda Carlisle, Hank Williams, Clancy Brothers, The Dubliners, The Cure, The Smiths, Jem and the Holograms, The Oppressed, 4 Skins, Circle Jerks, Black flag, minor Threat, Abba, first four Dylan albums, Rolf Harris, Black Sabbath (up til Mob Rules album), The Who,Dexys Midnight Runners, Sleeper, Helen Love, Burial, Loafers, Hotknives, Skadows, Pulp, Echobelly, Sublime, Black Lace, Chas and Dave, Angelic Upstarts, Sham 69, Misfits, Social Distortion, Thee Headcoats, UK Subs, The Bangles,Leadbelly, Robert Johnson, Doc Watson, Doc Boggs, The Byrds, Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, Boney M,The Dickies, Bananarama, Klasse Kriminale, The Saints, Iron Cross, Pansy Division, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Lolly, Cyril Tawney, Desmond Dekker, Lonnie Donegan Skiffle Group, The Vipers, Wally Whyton, Flanders and Swann, Johnny Cash, Grandpa Jones, Bob Dorough, Jack Sheldon, Blossom Dearie, Ewan MaColl, Gossip, lily Allen, Adicts

Movies:

Grease 1 & 2, The Care Bear Movie, The Great Rock & Roll Swindle, Bugsy Malone, The Burbs, Hairspray, National Lampoons Vacation, Back To The Future trilogy, Rocky I -V , Personal Services, Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, Threads, The War Game, House Of Frankenstein, Sleepy Hollow, Annie, End Of The Century, Scum, Meantime, Dead Man's Shoes, Batman (1966), Dance Craze, Charlottes Web, Quadrophenia, Ghost World, Star Wars trilogy, Chasing Amy, Filth and the Fury, Spiceworld The Movie, Beneath The Valley Of The Ultravixens, Happy Gilmore, Slapshot, Cat Ballou, Theatre of Blood, The Wicker Man, All Muppet movies particularly the Great Muppet Caper

Television:

Batman (1966 series), Simpsons, Family Guy, Malcolm in The Middle, This Morning (for Fern Britton) ,Eastenders, Neighbours, any old school television especially cartoons or kids shows particularly girltoy spin offs and superhero related stuff. Those programmes where idiotic beerboys and townies beat each other up for my amusement, anything featuring Dawn French or Liza Tarbuck, Jeremy Kyle show, documentaries, reruns of 80s Memphis wrestling, Public Information films, Curb, Seinfeld, Larry Sanders, vintage schools programmes such as Watch, Words and Pictures and Good Health, Ever Decreasing Circles (and other 80s sitcoms where Richard Briers is routinely humiliated if indeed they exist), Hancock's Half Hour,Porridge, Steptoe and Son,Brasseye,Jam,Alan Partridge,Father Ted, Roseanne, that Canadian Huckleberry Finn show they used to keep showing in the summer holidays (best programme ever), anything with Ronnie Barker, Bullseye (don't care if Peter Kay likes it Ilike it too),Indoor League, Old School british wrestling (only two good sport programmes ever), Allo Allo, The Muppet Show, Schoolhouse Rock

Books:

Englands Dreaming, The Long Firm, He Kills Coppers, Glue, any Richard Allen Skinhead novels, Usborne Supernatural Guides, Burning Britain, SCUM manifesto, Janus magazine and other spanking magazines, Cockney Reject by Jeff Turner, any book on old school television or comic books, Wrestlecrap, Death of WCW, any wrestling autobiographies especially Ric Flair's one, Dark Knight Returns, Arkham Asylum, anything Batman or Spiderman related, Plumpers magazine, Voluptuous magazine, Cranked Up Really High, Lesbian Sex Secrets For Men, The Wrestling by Simon Garfield, TV spinoff annuals (the more prepostorous the subject the better), Executioner Pierrepoint by Albert Pierrepoint, Hangman's Tale by Syd Dernley

Heroes:

Joey Ramone, Batman, Archer out of Scum, Morrissey, Bowie, Madonna, Rizzo out of Grease, Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Sam Beckett out of Quantum Leap, Drew Barrymore, that guy who lived next door to Richard Briers in Ever Decreasing Circles (Paul played by Peter Egan), Wattie Buchan (Exploited), Marie du Santiago (Kenickie), Pete Seeger, Oliver Hardy, Hank Williams, Divine, Paul Reubens, Valerie Solanas, Sue Catwoman, The Actual Catwoman, Derek Griffiths, Artie (Larry Sanders), Kathleen Hanna, Burl Ives, Cosmo Kramer, Bruce Dern's character in The Burbs, Mykel Board,Jello Biafra, Grumpy Bear, Henry Rollins, Manda Rin, Jack Douglas, Peter Watkins, Spike Lee, Kevin Rowland, Les Kellett, Alan Lomax, Beth Ditto

My Blog

Back from Melbourne

I got back from Melbourne Comedy festival about a month and a bit ago and I had a great time. The 24 hour flight over wasn't anything like as bad as I thought it was going to be due to a winning combi...
Posted by Wil Hodgson on Mon, 19 May 2008 08:44:00 PST

Shark Jumping Punk Classics

What I like about file sharing is not the whole screwing the record industry thing but the opportunities for obtaining rare or deleted records. Some of the hardest old school punk records to find are ...
Posted by Wil Hodgson on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:29:00 PST

Death Of A Mohawk

As you can see on my profile, I finally cut off my mohawk a week ago. I'd had a mohawk for about 5 or 6 years and getting rid of it was kind of like putting down a pet but being rid of it is actually ...
Posted by Wil Hodgson on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 02:02:00 PST

Punk’s Real Godfather?

The title of "Godfather of Punk" has been awarded to many individuals. Iggy Pop is a common one, The Ramones get called it a lot as well. Some say that neither of these instigated punk and point to 60...
Posted by Wil Hodgson on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:43:00 PST

Fear Of Flying

Not a great deal been happening lately. If you're are going to do stand up largely about Care Bears, skinheads and Soft porn you have to accept that you aren't going to be booked by everyone. One...
Posted by Wil Hodgson on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 08:29:00 PST

Deranged Spice Girls Rant

Quite a few of my friends have asked me if I'm going to any of the Spice Girls reunion gigs. This is because they know that I love the Spice Girls. They were all about glam rock, curves and tacky...
Posted by Wil Hodgson on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:50:00 PST

Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been...

 When I was doing radio interviews and stuff for the tour one thing in particular  kept cropping up which is my supposed membership of the Communist Party. On occasion I felt a bit like...
Posted by Wil Hodgson on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:39:00 PST

Peoples Republic

 Several people texted me today to tell me that The Guardian had run a story about the Korean Olympic Squad's desire to stay in Chippenham in 2012 which was entiled "People's Republic of Chippenh...
Posted by Wil Hodgson on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 10:45:00 PST

New Edinburgh Show Is Nearly Ready

There's this fantastic website called "The Secret Cavern Of Read Along Treasure" http://www.mdp156.com/cavern/ which has MP3s of those book and tape things I used to have as a kid. There's some u...
Posted by Wil Hodgson on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 03:34:00 PST

An apology of sorts

This is not so much a blog as a blanket apology to everyone I've failed to communicate with over the past few months. ie people who've texted me, emailed me or messaged me on here and had no response ...
Posted by Wil Hodgson on Mon, 28 May 2007 02:09:00 PST