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Richie

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I play the kit, I love movies and I love music. Infact I love horror movies so much that I run two websites, www.pitofhorror.com & www.gutsandgory.com with two good friends, John Gray & Petch Lucas . I play drums in the band Dead or American . Comparable to a mix of Helmet, Jesus Lizard, Hot Snakes, Fugazi and many, many more artists from the land of rock.
I spend most of my time with my wife Ashleigh . We started going out in High School and have now been together for over a decade. We just had a beautiful baby girl, Bethany.
What else is new? I started my own retail company, selling sports nutrition, boxing/martial arts equipment and general fitness accessories. We have retail premises based in Stirling, Central Scotland and our website is: www.ez-sports.net
I am a qualfied open water scuba diver (PADI) and like to scuba dive with my brother Ben . We have dived together in Scotland and in the southwest of Spain. I also managed to do some scuba diving off the south coast of Crete, the Greek Island and St Lucia in the Carribean. The best...

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Director Michael Mann, cinematographer Dante Spinotti, musician Moby, actor turned director Alex Winter (Yes Way!!!).

My Blog

New 'Dead or American' album, Thaumaturgy

As you may or may not already know, we went to Boston, MA, last year to record our second album. We recorded Thaumaturgy with Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou, in his Godcity recording studio in Sa...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:51:00 GMT

TEXAS FEAR FEST

As you may, or may not, already know, PITOFHORROR.com along with DREAD CENTRAL is putting on a huge horror convention in Dallas, Texas this March 23rd - 25th. The event is going tobe HUGE. Tobe Hooper...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:23:00 GMT

Wedding, house, car, convention, hackers... it's all go...

Despite all the bad stuff that has happened recently, alot of good things are happening too. Me and Ash just bought a house, 3 bedrooms, semi-detatched and in a good little area. We are very excited ...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:44:00 GMT

Andrew Turner

I lost a dear friend recently. Andrew Turner. He was only 22 years old and died tragically. Since he was 6 years old he was my friend. He was at my place every week and like one of the family. Luckily...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:36:00 GMT

DEAD OR AMERICAN, VIDEO

For "Flame Out", the first track on our debut album "Ends"... www.blacklamp.co.uk/film/flameout.mov
Posted by on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:40:00 GMT

MI: 3 and the new Michael Mann movie...

I saw MI: 3 at the theatre yesterday and was very pleasantly surprised. It had me on the edge of my chair and seemed alot darker and more serious than the previous two movies, which I thought were alr...
Posted by on Mon, 15 May 2006 03:54:00 GMT

Johnny Cash Video

I just again recently watched the video for Johnny Cash's version of "Hurt". A very moving piece... song and video alike, and although I lilke the original version of the song, I think Cash's version ...
Posted by on Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:28:00 GMT

New pictures added...

Not really a blog, just an excuse to use the said blog. The blog... could be a good name for a horror movie, you think? Anyhow, check out my freshly added pictures which include some from my most rece...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Mar 2006 06:15:00 GMT