Jules
27Brigade
Guitars and lots of them
Music (good)
Cars
Cheese
Ireland
People with money - I'm not greedy, but they must drop some sometimes.
Any record label owning philanthropists
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I like music - a lot, but just because I might not like what you do or even think it's shite, it doesn't mean you shouldn't like it and more importantly, it doesn't mean I am a twat just because I don't like it (unless you're into talentless twats creating pointless noises on their laptops for no other reason than it gives them an opportunity to masturbate their own egos or Stock, Aitken and Waterman style manufactured arse-cakes masquerading as music, in which case your opinion doesn't count for bollocks and I couldn't give a beggar's testicle what you think. In fact, you shouldn't even be allowed to vote) and in actual fact, I'm probably not going to. In my humble opinion, music should be made with musical instruments. It doesn't matter if you're not the most able musician but if you're into it, then that's all that matters - after all, God loves a tryer as me mammy used to say! Likewise, you could be the most talented musician but if you don't enjoy it, and you're happy to stand there with a look on your face that suggests the whole place stinks of piss and the audience are all tramps, you might as well sod off and let the rest of us get on with enjoying it in peace. And finally, for those who are fortunate enough to be the most talentless shower of shit on the planet to ever be awarded a record contract, and yes 911, I am talking about you, then why the f*ck did you think any of us would ever be interested? Kids should listen to music - I think it's good for them, but don't play them meaningless mass produced pop rubbish, play them a bit of the beatles or even mcfly (i don't like them but that's not to say they aren't talented). Don't play them playground songs about fast food chains that some twat has decided they could cobble it into a commercial record in about 5 minutes and sell to the pestered parents of modern Britain, you poor bastards. And as for you Nizlopi, don't give us all that bollocks about recording it at home on a budget etc. My heart bleeds - you had one of the most professional bloody home studios i have ever seen.
Anyway, I digress. I like: Anything by 27brigade ( www.myspace.com/27brigade ) but then I am biased.
In no particular order (and probably by no means all)
AC/DC
Arctic Monkeys
Athlete
The Bees
BRMC
Blind Faith
Bloc Party
(Early) Blur
The Coral
Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Darkness
The Datsuns
Death in Vegas
Foo Fighters
Frank Turner
Franz Ferdinand
The Futureheads
Gomez
Hell Fire Club
The Hives
Jet
Kaiser Chiefs
Kasabian
Kings of Leon
Maximo Park
Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Nirvana
Oasis
Ocean Colour Scene
Queens of the Stone Age
The Raconteurs
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Reel Note Celidh Band
The Seahorses
Shed Seven
The Shirehorses
The Strokes
The Subways
Supergrass
Thin Lizzy
Turin Brakes
U2
We Are Scientists
Weezer
The Zutons
and then loads and loads and loads more.
Oh and I saw Beth Orton live once. She bored the living shite out of me which is why she's not in this list.
OK, I lied, they were in alphabetical order, which is in fact the opposite to no particular order. It's probably the most particular order. Unless you put them into ascending order of how many letters are in the name of each band. Or the combined ages of each band, starting with the youngest and ending with the Rolling Stones or even the Polyphonic Spree, but that's only because there's loads of them. Actually, in an algebraic equation, 1 rolling stone would probably equals 4 polyphonic spree. Now I don't know how many there are in the polyphonic spree but there's a lot of the buggers and they're probably still not as old as the rolling stones.
Napoleon Dynamite,
Bullitt,
Smokey and the Bandit,
Blazing Saddles,
Ronin,
Zoolander,
Starsky and Hutch,
Meet the Parents (do you detect a Wilson/Stiller theme here?),
Sexy Beast,
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,
Snatch,
Layer Cake,
24 Seven,
Once Upon a Time In the Midlands
Trains, Planes and Automobiles
Love, Honour and Obey
Laurel and Hardy are probably my all time favourites but there just isn't room to write all their stuff down here but Them Thar Hills followed by Tit for Tat are probably my favourites.
There really ought to be a Max and Paddy film, but there isn't. Saying that - It'd only have the same old Peter Kay jokes in it.
Any surreal comedy but mainly
The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer
Father Ted
My Name is Earl
Green Wing & No Angels are very funny and better than Casualty
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Killinaskully
D'Unbelievables
The Fast Show.
Also:
Shameless
That Life On Mars thing was very good even if it was a bit cliched
Music TV that plays proper music.
Thomas the Tank Engine (& friends)
Max and Paddy
Phoenix Nights
Still Game (feckin hilarious)
Killinascully (and other Pat Shortt stuff)
Father Ted (which was the best thing ever made).
I also like proper BBC comedy - Only Fools and Horses, Dad's Army and the like.
Most recently been watching
Coronation Street
Repeats of Top Gear (sad)
New Top Gear - Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat!
In fact, the only telly that can hold my almost undivided attention is Top Gear and My Name is Earl. Shame really.
Travel writing - biographies, travel biographies - that kind of thing; Contemporary Fiction (not to sound like a ponce) - I like stuff like Roddy Doyle, Jeff Torrington, DBC Pierre; Clarkson's ranting; Spike Milligan's memoirs. I just read that "A History Of Tractors in Ukrainian". It was very funny actually.
Noel Gallagher
Dave Grohl
Jack Bruce
Peter Hook
and John Entwistle
I have the utmost respect for as musicians but are they heroes?
I like to think me mam and dad set a reasonably good example of how to shape my life and pointed me in the right direction despite my protestations.
Stand up for what you believe in, that's what I say, as long as you don't believe in stuff like Goblins and Wizards and Murder and other acts of extreme cruelty.