MUSIC, fashion, vintage and second-hand clothing, literature, art, art history, football, visual culture, socialising, gigs, film, I dabble in politics, people-watching, roaring fires and country pursuits!
Mick and Keef.
Jeff Beck circa 1965, cor blimey!!
Anyone who can play a mean game of scrabble.
Someone who likes doing the crossword as much as I do, who likes a good cup of tea, and doesn't mind the rain.
This beautiful man, Beck.
Why doesn't anyone make mix tapes any more?
Crikey, where to start... Ummm, right now I guess it has to be the following, in no particular order:The Stones, The Smiths, Dylan, Johnny Cash, Joni Mitchell, THE SEEDS, The Stooges, The Beatles, Led Zep, Primal Scream, The Black Keys, The Pretty Things, Prisoners, Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Animals, The Sonics, Wolfmother, The Doors, Cream, Gram Parsons, The Kinks, The Faces, Small Faces, The Who, The Jam, Paul Weller, The Yardbirds, Moby Grape, Love, Dr. John, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, The Bees, The Shins, Dead Meadow, The Black Angels, Vetiver, Fairport Convention, Beck, Air, Al Green, Otis Reading, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Kanye West, Jay Z, Jill Scott, The Roots, The Clash, Ryan Adams, Jefferson Airplane, The Electric Prunes, MC5, Ray Charles, Prince, The Mars Volta, Patti Smith, XTC, Editors, Chet Baker, Charlie Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Eric Dolphy, McCoy Tyner, Elliot Smith, Oscar Peterson, Jackson C Frank, Dave Brubeck, PJ Harvey, The Kills, Simple Kid, LCD Soundsystem, Espers, Dirty 3, Sonic Youth, Crosby Stills and Nash (and Young), Neil Young, Big Star, Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground,Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Pulp, Suede, 80sMBLD, The Woodsmen, The White Stripes, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, The Zombies, The Horrors, The Remains, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Buddy Hollie, Do Me Bad Things, Peaches, Felix Da Housecat, Les Rythmes Digitales, Daft Punk, Justice, Erol Alkan, Midnight Juggernaugts, Fischerspooner, Digitalism, stuff from Sonic Mook Experiment compilations, Kitsune, Naked Music, Dave Clarke, Plump DJs, dirty breaks/techy electro house/occasional blast of D&B, The Buff Medways, Beechwood Sparks, Dexys, BRMC, Sam and Dave, Chas and Dave, The Chocolate Watchband, Donovan, Mazzy Star, The Pretenders, Magazine, The Eurythmics, Death in Vegas, My Morning Jacket, Pink Floyd, Roxy Music, Talk Talk, Depeche Mode, Charlie Parker, Pharoah Sanders, Miles Davis, Richard Hawley, Funkadelic, Can, Geno Washington, John and Alice Coltrane, John Martyn, Bjork, Willie Nelson, Medeski, Martin and Wood, The Animals, Willie Mason, Jimi Hendrix, Herbie Hancock, Jamie Lidell, Steely Dan, The Stone Roses, Royal Trux, Eagles of Death Metal, The Sadies, Ian Brown, Televison, Midlake, Pentangle, Early Michael Jackson, Early Manics, Aretha Fanklin, Billie Holiday, Nick Cave, Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley, Cat Power, The Byrds, Scott Walker, Beth Gibbons, Portishead, Massive Attack, Secret Machines, Supergrass, Nirvana, The Rakes, Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Neko Case....and generally most 60/70s Motown, Atlantic, and Stax....60s Garage, Psych, FreakBeat etc etc...Guilty pleasures include Girls Aloud, Guns and Roses and ELO
Goodfellas, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, The Kids Are Alright, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Almost Famous, Backbeat, Quadrophenia, Ghostworld, The Godfather Trilogy (well, maybe not 3), Singin' In The Rain (and mostly all MGM, Warner Bros. musicals of the 1940s/1950s), Anything with Miss Audrey Hepburn in, especially Breakfast At Tiffanys and Funny Face, oooh and Roman Holiday - Gregory Peck....(sigh), Suspiria, Rosemary's Baby, The Shining, The Virgin Suicides, Dr. Strangelove. All of Almodovar's work, especially Talk To Her.
Shameless, The Mighty Boosh, ER, Peep Show, The Young Ones, The Two Ronnies, The Office. Documentaries on obscure subjects. I love a bit of Hollyoaks action or a nice ITV drama on a Monday night with Anya.
Golly this is hard work...favourite authors include Julian Barnes, Douglas Coupland, Kerouac, Sartre, J.T. Leroy, Capote, Will Self and J.D. Salinger. I like to read about subcultures, also books on rock and fucking roll, tales of excess and the like. I'm currently reading Success by Martin Amis and Wonderland Avenue by Danny Sugerland.
Audrey Hepburn.
Peter Beardsley.
Morrissey.
Otis Reading.
Stevie Wonder.
Stephen Fry.
These two...
...and my Nan, the sharpest 91 year old I know.