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dj ian

HAVE A GOOD TIME ALL THE TIME

About Me

DJ IAN, friend to the masses, Photographer, Journalist, Designer, Trash Culture efficianado, collector of neat stuff, Star Hunter, I love music, I love movies, I love TV, I love to laugh and make people do the same, I love life. I think everybody should be passionate about everything. I love my girlfriend. Have a good time all the the time...

My Interests

Pop music, comedy, trash culture, tv, movies, books, photography, toys, dancing, being happy.

I'd like to meet:

Having misunderstood this section somewhat originally I'll alter the start slightly. I'd like to meet like minded groovy people who are interesting and who love life and have something (or humorous) to say.Rather than the 'starfucker' intent I thought it had : Thanks to a misspent youth I have been extremeley fortunate to meet almost all of my heroes. The Ramones, Elvis Costello, The Sex Pistols, The Clash, Johnny Cash, Blondie, Motley Crue, Morrissey/Marr, Kiss, Brian Wilson, The Bangles, Fatboy Slim, The Goodies, 3X Monty Pythons, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, TISM, DAAS, Tripod, 3X Young Ones, Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks, Skyhooks, and lots of others. Who haven't I met that I'd like to? Prince, Ringo Starr, Drew Barrymore, Pheobe Cates, Paul McCartney, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Little Britain cast, League of Gentlemen cast, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER cast, Andy and Mike from The Smiths, Stephen King, can I ad to this later???

Music:

Elvis Costello, The Smiths, The Ramones, The Clash, Morrissey, Kiss, Motley Crue, Kirsty MacColl, Billy Bragg, Stephen Duffy, Sweet, Slade, Suzi Quatro, Jilted John, TISM, DAAS, Skyhooks, the Revillos, The Rezillos, The Cramps, Adam Ant, Danko Jones, The Darkness, The Donnas, The Go Go's, The Bangles, Magic Numbers, The Subways, Sekiden, King Daddy, Mountain Goats, Abba, ABC, Duran Duran, Human League, Killers, Kaiser Chiefs, White Stripes, The Kinks, Beatles, The Who, Talking Heads, Eurthymics, Dandy Warhols, franz Ferdinand, Living End, The Fuzz, The Drones, Maximo Park, Libertines, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Kings Of Leon, Hit The Jackpot, Gwen Stefani, U2, Simple Minds, Kylie Minogue, Bonzo Dog Band, The Rutles, Small Faces, Spike Jones, the strokes, Barenaked Ladies, beautiful South, Housemartins, The Spazzys, Mach Pelican, The Pogues, Johnny Cash, Glen Campbell, Tammy Wynette, KLF, Timerlords, Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Drugs, Bruce Springsteen, Groove Armarda, Annie, goldfrapp, Sophie Ellis Bextor, The Saints, The Buzzcocks, Sham 69, Gerling, International Noise Conspiracy, Faker, Nick Cave, Five, Shampoo, The Sports, Stephen Cummings, Tripod, Fatboy Slim, Van She,stone Roses,Arctic Monkeys, Sex Pistols, Klaus Nomi, Generation X, The Slits, radio Birdman, The stems, Lime Spiders, Hoodoo Gurus, You Am I, The Pictures, Dallas Crane, Devo, The Vines, Blondie,Soft Cell, We Are Scientists, Le Tigre, REM, Flaming Lips, The Bees, Bee Gees, Elvis Presley, Weezer, Queen, Malcolm McLaren, Blur, Pulp, Oasis, Ordinary Boys, T Rex, Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Belle & Sebastian, James, Morningwood, Gorillaz, Chris Isaac, Motorhead, Electric Six, Fountains Of Wayne, Rilo Killey, That Dog, Tenacious D, Dusty Springfield, Tom Jones, Fontella Bass, Wizzard, Run DMC, Beastie Boys, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, INXS, Peter & The Test Tube babies, the Expressos, MC5, New York Dolls, John Cooper Clarke, Alice Cooper, Five, Komedia, Suede, The Street, XTC, The Rutles, Pet shop Boys, The Specials, The Jam, UK Squeeze, Kate Bush, Ian Dury, Temptations, Four Tops, Aretha Franklin, NeilDiamond, James Brown, Sly & The Family Stone, The The, Talk Talk, OMD, Dean Martin, James Last, Ray Conniff, Zacharius, Michel LeGrand, Burt Bachrach, The Cops, Boomtown Rats, to name a few

Movies:

Phantom Of The Paradise, Bubba Ho Tep, No Surrender, Straight To Hell, V For Vendetta, Highlander, Star Wars (first three) Virgin Suicides, Donnie Darko, all MONTY PYTHON, Rocky Horror Picture Show, X-Men, X-Men 2, Velvet Goldmine, Nightmare On Elm Street, Army Of Darkness, Summer Holiday, King Creole, Cry Baby, Hairspray, Danger Diabolik, The Ambushers, all Don Knotts early films, Team America, Zoolander, Barbarella, Omega Man, Silent Run, Meet The feebles, Lord Of the Rings trilogy, Back to The future, and more to come

Television:

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, The Professionals, The Prisoner, Man From UNCLE, Northern Exposure, Max Headroom, Doctor Doctor, Twin Peaks, Moonlighting, South Park, League Of Gentlemen, Little Britain, Family Guy, American Dad, Ren & Stimpy, Shooting Stars, Countdown, Marine Boy, Roger Ramjet, Three Little Bops, Milton The Monster, Angel, Firefly, Scrubs, The Green Wing, Shameless, Rockwiz, Argh It's The Mr Hell Show, The Goodies, Monty Pythons Flying Circus, Norman Gunston, Aunty Jack, Magnum PI, Miami Vice, Lost In space, Star Trek, Stripperella, GTK, the Unisexers, Class Of '74, Number 96, The Box, Alvin Purple, Enough Rope, The Day Today, Brass Eye, Human Remains, School Of Rock, Double The Fist, Rage, Dr Who, The Avengers, Thunderbirds, Joe 90, Stingray, Captain Scarlet, Jonathan Creek, Arrested Development, Underdog, Partridge Family, The Kids from C.A.P.E.R., The Double Deckers, Worzel Gummidge, Catweazle, Metal Mickey, The Monkees, Batman, Green Hornet, Frankenstien Jr, The Impossibles, Josie & The Pussycats, Rockford Files...

Books:

The absolute best book about being a music fan is LOST IN MUSIC by Giles Smith. A huge fan of 70's glam and later XTC, there were so many stories I could relate to in this book it was like reading about myself. He hits every nail on the head.The best book about being a tragic 80's hair metal fan is Chuck Klostermans FARGO ROCK CITY.Best rock book ever is MOTLEY CRUE : THE DIRT.

My Blog

DJ IAN - BACK TO BANG! FOR SUMMER 2008

YES THATS RIGHT KIDS, DJ IAN IS GOING BANG! TO THE FUTUREIn the heady far off days of 2004/2005 BANG! was Adelaide's most eclectic hot spot alternative dance place. With room to move, three disticnt a...
Posted by dj ian on Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:34:00 PST

PAUL WELLER ISNT VERY NICE

Paul Weller played in my city of Adelaide last night.   Lead singer of the Jam, the man behind The Style Council and an impressive cannon of solo material that is amongst my favourite music in...
Posted by dj ian on Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:39:00 PST

DJ IAN JACK DANIELS FREE GIG THURSDAY

DJ IAN KICKIN OUT THE INDIE AT FREE SHOW ON THURSDAY ...
Posted by dj ian on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:12:00 PST

SOUNDS HAS BEEN SILENCED

Dear Groovy People,I regret to inform you all that due to circumstances beyond my control I no longer have any association with the venue Higher Ground.This means the immediate end of our Saturday ses...
Posted by dj ian on Tue, 13 May 2008 10:53:00 PST

win CUT///COPY & YVES KLEIN BLUE CDS @ SOUNDS

SOUNDS IS A BRAND NEW CLUB ON SATURDAY NIGHTSDJ IAN the evil genius who brought you legendary clubs such as CRANK!, BANG! and POP! has returned to Saturday nights in a groovy venue and a awesome mix o...
Posted by dj ian on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:26:00 PST

CLUELESS - ZIG-A-ZIG AHHHHH

THE CLUB CALLED CLUELESSZIG-A-ZIG AHHHCLUELESS IS A BRAND NEW FRIDAY NIGHT CLUB.Dedicated to playing absolutely SHAMELESS pop music!How shall we describe it to you? Imagine you are at a wedding or a ...
Posted by dj ian on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:56:00 PST

DJ IAN RETURNS - SOUNDS AND CLUELESS

LEGENDARY NIGHTCLUB DJ RETURNS WITH TWO NEW CLUBS!HE'S BACK!HE'S GOT A GREAT NEW VENUE!HE'S GOT SOUNDS!HE'S CLUELESS!HE'S DJ IAN!After having a few months off from the dizzying hurly burly of glitteri...
Posted by dj ian on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:19:00 PST

MISS JORDANS SHOW STARTS TOMORROW!

The Court House is proud to present JORDAN ROBERTS with SIMON KOOP, presenting FIRST SHE TAKES MANHATTAN. A collection of songs by the great LEONARD COHEN, performed in an intimate acoustic setting. T...
Posted by dj ian on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:56:00 PST

DJ IAN BACK ON THE DECKS - SNEAK PEAK AT NEW VENUE

GREETING SEXY PEOPLE!He's back and IAN-ER THAN EVER!Just a couple of weeks til DJ IAN's new regular clubs start, but in the meanwhile you can take a sneak peak at the new digs by coming along to HIGHE...
Posted by dj ian on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:10:00 PST

MISS JORDAN SINGS SONGS

Hi There gang!Sorry i haven't been blogging up cyberspace very much lately, been super busy working on BDO and getting ready for the fringe and my new clubs (INFO VERY VERY SOON!!).I thought I would p...
Posted by dj ian on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:37:00 PST