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Esther Pester

I subscribe to the Umberto Eco view that Noel Gallagher's a poet and Liam's a town crier and that fo

About Me


I'm still 19 you know, I haven't had loads of birthdays since then, honest! Still clutching firmly with both hands to the 90's Manchester scene. Carrying on living it up in Camden and Shoreditch, wish there were buses back to Dalston from Camden though, the 2 bus trek at 3 am ain't much fun, and a taxi costs 5 beers!
I'm a postgrad student at UCL but, I'm usually at gigs or trying to arrange them. Watch out for me and my clipboard at a venue near you!!
I do promotional work (mostly free at the moment)- I say free, but I want favours - actually access to the Rider will usually do, I like Stella and Red Stripe and San Miguel.
The artists I'm working most closely with at the moment are "Tom Allalone & The Great Expectations" and "Milli Moonstone" who are in my top friends. If you want to book Milli for an event, can you please contact me. She is beautiful in face, voice and heart!
If you are a signed band looking for a support, Tom Allalone could be right up your street! Please give me a shout.
If I don't know you and you want to add me as a friend, please send me a message as well, don't just add me! I'm not entering a popularity contest and don't want to be part of someone else's - Ta!
I am happy to get friends requests from bands I might like. It is pretty obvious what I'm into - I mainly like guitars with good lyrics! I do like some electro too. If you send me a friends request I will listen, and approve if I like you!
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I am a Hippie! Wow.
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My Interests



M U S I C ! !

MORE BIKES, LESS CARS!!
www.criticalmasslondon.org.uk

This place
The best pub in North London -hey fuck it - in the country!

I'd like to meet:



Who I wouldn't like to meet: Salford Scallies!!

Levenshulme ain't got shit on us - Withington Massiv '06! Fuck, Peace!

TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Birthplace: Southwark (Sarf London)
Current Location: Norf London
Your Heritage: English Rose
The Shoes You Wore Today: Funky pumps with multicolour retro writing "magic!" & "Lover's Choice"
Your Weakness: Booze & Sex
Your Fears: Not getting enough of the above!
Your Perfect Pizza: Fiorentina (with egg and goats cheese)Mmmmm!
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Publish a paper
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: F**kin wireless!
Thoughts First Waking Up: Is neighbours on yet?
Your Best Physical Feature: Eyes/Boobs
Your Bedtime: Preferably before the sun gets up
Your Most Missed Memory: How I got home last night (multiple plays)
Pepsi or Coke: Full fat pepsi, diet coke
MacDonalds or Burger King: McDonald's gave me food poisoning last week so they can Fuck off and I bet Burger king ain't much better either and they're all fucking arseholes although Maccy D's are more evil!!
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: ? I'm British! What are you on about? Yorkshire tea for hard water areas or a bit of Earl Grey for me ta! D'you wanna brew? Brew?
Chocolate or Vanilla: I'm a woman - what do you think?
Cappuccino or Coffee: Caffe Latte mate, one sugar, brown
Do you Smoke: Not any more!
Do you Swear: Too f**king much!
Do you Sing: Incredibly badly but all the time - your ears WILL bleed!
Have you Been in Love: Yes
Do you belive in yourself: Too f**king much!
Do you get Motion Sickness: Only on boats, especially going to the Isle of Man
Do you think you are Attractive: I don't think I am, I KNOW IT!
Are you a Health Freak: No - vegetarian cyclist but the debauchery gets the better of me!
Do you get along with your Parents: From 200 miles away - yes; in the same room - NO!
Do you like Thunderstorms: As long as I'm indoors and watching through a window
Do you play an Instrument: I'm learning guitar, I used to be in a steel band when I was a kid!!
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: When haven't I
In the past month have you Smoked: My mum might be watching
In the past month have you been on Drugs: Lots of Day Nurse, sudafed and soluble aspirin - does that count (see above)
In the past month have you gone on a Date: Yes
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: No - Camden market all the way! (I don't think you can count the kinglsand Centre as a mall- it's crap!!)
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: Again I'm British! ~ Plain chocolate digestives, Hob Nobs, Bourbon Creams and Ginger Nuts please
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Yes
In the past month have you been on Stage: Sort of
In the past month have you been Dumped: I'd have to have a boyfriend first
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: I live in North London - would you go in our water - only if you want cholera or are quite clearly insane
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: NO I don't steal!
Ever been Drunk: When am i not
Ever been called a Tease: Yes
Ever been Beaten up: Yes, twice I think
How do you want to Die: Listening to music
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: A nobel prize winner or the manager of a very successful band!!
What country would you most like to Visit: At the moment Peru or Thailand
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Green
Favourite Hair Color: Dark Brown
Short or Long Hair: Long
Height: 6 foot ish
Weight: skinny
Best Clothing Style: Indie boys with cool trainers
Number of Drugs I have taken: Lots - but I don't put stuff up my nose thank you very much
Number of CDs I own: A shitload and they're all good! (well most of them)
Number of Piercings: 5 ears, healed up nose
Number of Tattoos: none
Number of things in my Past I Regret: about 3-300

Music:

Stone Roses, Arctic Monkeys, ****PIXIES***, The Smiths, Dylan, Oasis, Bloc Party, New Order, Nirvana, Joy Division, The pretenders, Blondie, Gomez, The Holloways, Killers, The Wombats, Go Faster, Tom Allalone & The Great Expextations, The Fatels, Calvin Harris, The Rumblestrips, The Twang, The Enemy, Example (www.myspace.com/leading by example), The Little Ones, The Automatic, Guillemots, Muse,

The View
(XFM session, Islington Carling Academy 26/01/07)

The Raid, Jamie T, Editors, Plan B, The Fratellis, The Streets, bromheads jacket, Marner Brown, Mercury Rev, Blur, James, The Charlatans, The Prodigy, Pearl Jam, The Leve11ers, New Model Army, PWEI, CARTER the Unstoppable Sex Machine, Utah Saints, Bowie, Rolling Stones, The Cure, Presidents of the United States of America, Peaches, Klaxons, The Gossip, Franz Ferdinand, Hole, Weezer, The Verve, Bob Marley, Kinks, Depeche Mode, The Arcade Fire,

Tilly and the Wall

and we saw them again at the Scala - I Love Tilly and the Wall!!

Kasabian, The Clash, Dirty Pretty Things, BoyKillBoy, Kooks, Razorlight, Dizzee Rascal, The Chillis, Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets, Magic Numbers, White Stripes, Raconteurs, FallOut Boy, Portishead, Amy Winehouse, Tricky, Massive Attack, Chemical Brothers, The Long Blondes,

I love Audrey

(myspace.com/audreyslittlecottage)

Interpol, Morrisey, The Postal Service, Rage Against the Machine, NIN, Smashing Pumpkins, The La's

KILL THE DIRECTOR - The WOMBATS

GENERATOR - The Holloways

Dancefloor - The Holloways

Two left Feet - The Holloways
..

Your 1996 Theme Song Is: 1979 by The Smashing Pumpkins
Shakedown 1979
Cool kids never have the time
On a live wire right up off the street
You and I should meet What's Your 1996 Theme Song?

Movies:

Shawshank Redemption, Terminator 1&2 (not 3 - no Cameron therefore bag o'shite!), Alien(s), The Abyss, Amelie, In the Mood for Love, Dr. Strangelove, Lost Boys, Chocolat, Amelie, Fifth Element, Leon, Natural Born Killers, True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill Vol2, Jackie Brown, Dangerous Liaisons, Schindler's List, Jaws, Saving Private Ryan, Spellbound, North by Northwest, The Bone Collector, Se7en, Twelve Monkeys, Master & Commander, The Goonies, Jurassic Park, Pirates of the Carribean - Curse of the Black Pearl, Star Wars, Back to the Future I&II, Labyrinth, Die Hard, Snatch, Lock stock

Television:

Lost, Buffy, Enders, Corrie (Sad woman - yes I know!) Neighbours - fantastic, although suspension of disbelief similar to that required when watching Lost! Later...with Jools Holland, Spaced, Mighty Boosh, Nathan Barley, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Extras, The 11 o'clock show, Have I got news for you?, Mary Whitehouse Experience, The Word, Question time, This Week, The Daily Show, Match of the Day, Soccer A.M., Child of our time, Horizon, Live Festival programmes. Friends, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Shameless, peep show, the day today

Books:

Fiction - Brave New World, 1984, anything By John Irving esp The Cider House Rules, Hotel New Hampshire, Widow for one year, Garp

Non- Fiction - Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

Heroes:

Bob Dylan, Ian Brown, Frank Black

Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins

PAUL DICKOV - our saviour and way out of Division 2!

John Kennedy (not the American president!

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My Blog

Thou shalt not buy Nestle products...

Well that's one thing that passed me by, Anita Roddick selling The Body Shop to L'Oreal.  Was it because she was worth it? They definitely aren't; they're part owned by Nestle, something I've kno...
Posted by Esther Pester on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:12:00 PST

We Have No Stars

I gazed tonight at the crescent moon:Beautiful, yet incompleteMars and Venus by my side.We have no starsOnly those intertwined Gods of Love and WarSitting by me in my London, Lonely.Now I see them, my...
Posted by Esther Pester on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 06:40:00 PST

Books From Boxes

The Other Stage was definitely the place to be on Saturday: CSS - Amazing! Klaxons, Maximo Park, Babyshambles! I never expected Maximo Park to be quite as good as they were at Glastonbury!  Paul ...
Posted by Esther Pester on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:14:00 PST

Parents! Who'd have 'em?!

Oh my fucking mother.  I have never had so much fucking fuss about booking a bloody flight and she'd rather go from Manchester and change at bloody Paris than just come to fucking London and fly ...
Posted by Esther Pester on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:35:00 PST

Thou shalt not use poetry, art or music to get into girls pants&&use it to get into their heads

Thou shalt not steal if there is a direct victim;   Thou shalt not worship pop idols or follow lost prophets; Thou shalt not take the names of Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer, Johnny Hartman, Desmon...
Posted by Esther Pester on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:47:00 PST

Elephant

I went to Maccy D's at Elephant & Castle on my way back from Camberwell -  I have not lived in Elephant since 1984, I went to that Maccy D's on my 5th Birthday, there are photos of me and my ...
Posted by Esther Pester on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:13:00 PST

One rule for them...

I did enjoy coming back from the drinks we went for in mile end after not getting in to the fratellis. I was at the bus stop at Liverpool St at about 12:30 and the police pulled up opposite the police...
Posted by Esther Pester on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:44:00 PST

We love queues we do!!

Aaaaaaah - 2 hours standing in the cold to get into see the fratellis at the apple store just for them to stop people coming in about 15 people in front of us! My feet were fucking freezing by the tim...
Posted by Esther Pester on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:57:00 PST

1, 2, 3, 4, We don't want your fucking law!

"Strict movement controls are in place, poultry must be kept indoors, there is a prohibition on gatherings of poultry and other birds and on-farm biosecurity measures will be strengthened." http://new...
Posted by Esther Pester on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 11:09:00 PST

Jazzy D loves The Holloways - Oh Yes!

My monkey loves Dancefloor!  She says, "it's great to dance to, and there's no better tune for swinging around my tree to!"  She also loves it cos she's very pretty, like you! Give it a go,...
Posted by Esther Pester on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 09:41:00 PST