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Richard

Is it Christmas yet?

About Me

It's all here in the other blog...

My Interests

Walking, Writing, Music, Tshirts, drinking, travel, blogging, reading, pies, dispensing pointless facts, giant crabs, general scheming

I'd like to meet:

Sir David Attenborough - a living treasure.

Music:

The Arcade Fire, Asobi Seksu, Bob Dylan, Broken Social Scene, Calexico, The Capes, The Charlatans, CSS, The Dears, The Decemberists, Delays, Diefenbach, Doves, The Hold Steady, Idlewild, Kings of Convenience, Ladytron, Lake Trout, The Magnetic Fields, Malajube, New Order, Phoenix, The Postal Service, Rogue Traders, The Shout Out Louds, Sigur Ros, The Ting Tings, Underworld, You Say Party! We Say Die!, Youth Group, Sugababes (ahem)

Movies:

Dune, Escape to Victory, Phase IV. Just the good ones...

Television:

Iron Chef, Oz, Homicide: Life on the Street, Spooks, Band of Brothers, The Amazing Race, The A-Team, Bullseye, NYPD Blue, Phoenix Nights, The Day Today, anything featuring or by Sir David Attenborough.

My Blog

CSStastic

Managed to see the mighty CSS last night at the Liquid Rooms in Edinburgh, they have been on a healthy tour since their debut album came out last year. I knew it would be busy, and got the ticket in J...
Posted by Richard on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:23:00 PST

Albums of the Year 2006

Here are my top 10 albums of the year, in alphabetical order (and I know it's only November). It's almost impossible to pick a favourite out of the list, but if I absolutely had to, I'd probably go fo...
Posted by Richard on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 04:54:00 PST

Why I'm not muscial in any way

I was at an open-mic night in London over the weekend, talking to a number of extremely musical people, when I was inevitably asked if I play any instruments. To my eternal shame (well, one of them at...
Posted by Richard on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 01:17:00 PST

My first gig

Time for another short music-based nugget, I think. After revealing my hideous secret involving the first album I ever bought (surprisingly I received no kudos for that - but possibly some sympathy), ...
Posted by Richard on Mon, 15 May 2006 08:49:00 PST

After further exploration

So I bumbled around a bit more on MySpace last night, and it seems it's more than a music-related site. That was just the impression I had as everyone I know on here use it to publicise their music. I...
Posted by Richard on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 01:03:00 PST

How it started

As you can see if you go over to 'About me', I have a blog where I waffle on about things that interest me or places I go. In this mini-blog I suppose I should write about music, as that seems to be w...
Posted by Richard on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:36:00 PST