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Mandy

With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes

About Me


Liverpool based and just slightly into bands as you may have gathered - but no moody shoe gazing queen as my photo and occasional musical choice seem to indicate. Work to live in education which enables me to pursue more life affirming pursuits that generally include chatting, eating lovely food at regular intervals, buying too many pairs of shoes and going to the cinema in the afternoon. I'm also a music and film reviewer and have taken to incessant writing like a fat kid to cake.avlays MyGen Profile Generator

My Interests

Music, mainly indie - serial gig goer, writing, films, art, reading, travelling, dancing, swimming, theatre. When time allows sporadic bursts of gardening and cooking.

I'd like to meet:

Gig/festival buddies. Can you recite the complete works of the Smiths? Do you remember the eighties? Are you well travelled? Are you an amusing muso without a debilitating drug habit - own hair and teeth preferred but not essential. Do you sing badly in the car? Ever slipped on a banana skin while descending a mountain? No - just me then! Do you cut to the chase and are "tempus fugit", "carpe diem" or "life's too short" your mantras? Have you tried to get your mum into the arctic monkeys? Are you available at short notice for activities such as dancing and laughing? If any of the above apply to you come on down!

Music:

Elbow, The Charlatans, Arctic Monkeys, Billy Bragg, The Smiths, Echo and the Bunnymen, Nirvana, Joy Division, New Order, Arcade Fire, The Libertines, Midlake, P J Harvey, The Weddoes, Teenage Fanclub, Smashing Pumpkins, Grandaddy, The National, The Teardrop Explodes, The Lemonheads, Jeff Buckley, The Pixies, Elliott Smith, Foo Fighters, Larrikin Love, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Interpol, Julian Cope, Blur, Graham Coxon, The Clash, The Verve, Richard Ashcroft, The Jam, Morrissey, Pavement, The Shins, Half Man Half Biscuit, Death Cab for Cutie, Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins, Mazzy Star, Kings of Leon, Art Brut, Arabstrap, Dogs die in hot cars, Bromhead's Jacket, Josh Rouse, Prefab Sprout, Polytechnic, Fountains of Wayne, Doves, Hard Fi, Sons and Daughters, They Might be Giants, Violent Femmes, Gang of Four, Weezer, Kings of Convenience, Nick Cave, The White Stripes, Roddy Frame, Aztec Camera, The House of Love, The Delgados, The Strokes, Richard Hawley, Fields, The Blood Arm, The Dears, Devendra Banhart, Mark Lanegan and Isobel Campbell, The Go! Team, The Young Knives, The Bravery, Scott Matthews, The Killers, The Stoneroses, The Magic Numbers, Happy Mondays, Bloc Party, The Futureheads, Maximo Park, The Pale Fountains, I am Kloot, Belle and Sebastian, Turin Brakes, The Fall, The Postal Service, Tim Burgess, Sonic Youth, The Presidents of the USA, British Sea Power, And you will know us by the trail of dead, The Duke Spirit, Orange Juice, The Buzzcocks, The Editors, The Kooks, CSS, Malcolm Middleton, Stephen Malkmus, Squeeze, Joyzipper, Everything but the Girl, The Raconteurs, The Raveonettes, Supergrass, The Guillemots, Dead Sixties, The Go Betweens, Shout out Louds, Field Music, We are Scientists, Hot Hot Heat, Phoenix, Matafix, The Delays, The Decemberists, Rilo Kiley, The Crimea, The Cribs, Muse, Primal Scream, The Dresden Dolls, The Little Flames, Cherry Ghost, Milburn
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Movies:

Goodbye Lenin, Me You and Everyone We Know, The Sea Inside, The Edukators, Cinema Paradiso, Ealing Comedies, All about Eve, Annie Hall, Wings of Desire, Betty Blue, Almost Famous, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Dig, Withnail and I, City of God, Amores Perres, Pedro Almodovar movies, Clerks, Breakfast at Tiffanys, My Own Private Idaho, Sunset Boulevard, Rebecca, Carlitos Way, The Wonderboys, American Beauty, Jean de Florette, Shortcuts, Sideways, Life is Beautiful, Being John Malkovich, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Television:

Six Feet Under, Scrubs, Twin Peaks, Sex and the City, Sensitive Skin, Desperate Housewives, Jonathan Creek, The Culture Show, Grey's Anatomy, rock biographies and loads of really bad detective shows.

Books:

Englands Dreaming - Jon Savage, Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Head On/Repossessed - Julian Cope, Tales of the City - Armistead Maupin, Prozac Nation - Elizabeth Wurtzel, Easy Riders Raging Bulls - Peter Biskind, Cider with Roadies - Stuart MacConie.

Heroes:

All of the Above.

My Blog

Favourite movie soundtracks on Diskant

Diskant have posted some short pieces on contributors' favourite movie soundtracks. Pieces have been written about The Birds, Lost in Translation, Eraserhead and Paris Texas amongst others. There...
Posted by Mandy on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:33:00 PST

Feature GoFASTER>>, DVD REVIEW Its a Free World & album reviews

FEATURE/INTERVIEW GoFASTER>> - The wit of Half Man Half Biscuit and Inspirals keyboards make up the sound of Liverpool's exponents of trailer trash trisha pop. http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_fe...
Posted by Mandy on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:11:00 PST

Film Review Hallam Foe, album reviews Milburn & The Poise Rite

On Subba Cultcha this week Film Review - Hallam Foe Starring Jamie Bell, Sophia Myles, Ciarán Hinds, Jamie Sives, Claire Forlani & Maurice Roëves. Directed by David Mackenzie Young Adam Dire...
Posted by Mandy on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:21:00 PST

DVD Review All My Loving, Book Review Armistead Maupin, Album reviews Emma Pollock, Bearsuit

On Subba Cultcha this week DVD reviewAll My Loving - The 40th year anniversary release of a ground breaking documentary on the major players of late sixties pop culture. Directed by Tony Palmer, featu...
Posted by Mandy on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:15:00 PST

Album Review BDIs

Another light week because of holiday fun On Subba Cultcha this week The BDIs - 'The BDIs'   BDI Recordings   Shifty Disco's Panda Gang members transform into The BDIs for a funky blues and...
Posted by Mandy on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 02:40:00 PST

Reviews Simon Dawes, Rairbirds, V/A In the Mind of Jamie Cullum

On Subba Cultcha this week Album Review   Various Artists - 'In the Mind of Jamie Cullum'   District 6   An education in jazz and hip hop care of Essex's favourite twenty ...
Posted by Mandy on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 06:40:00 PST

Reviews Le Reno Amps, The Loves, The Tacticians, Fictionplane

Reviews on Subba and Diskant this week diskant is an independent music community based in Glasgow, Scotland and they have a whole team of people from all over the UK and beyond writing about ind...
Posted by Mandy on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:22:00 PST

Live Review Arctic Monkeys, Film review La Vie En Rose, Album Review Hallam Foe soundtrack

On Subba Cultcha this week Live Review - Arctic Monkeys, Supergrass, The Coral, Amy Winehouse   Lancashire County Cricket Ground, Old Trafford - Manchester 29th July 2007 Monkey mania hits M...
Posted by Mandy on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:29:00 PST

Album Reviews Eugene McGuinness and Julian Cope

Album Review - Eugene McGuinness   The Early Learnings of Eugene McGuinness   Double Six records Fine Art's loss is music's gain. Incisive lyricism occupies a sound that's all over the place...
Posted by Mandy on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:45:00 PST

Review Sartorial sampler feat. The Higsons, Gallon Drunk and Serious Drinking

whoops missed one! Various Artists Readymade - Sartorial Sampler II Anyone remember The Higsons, Gallon Drunk and Serious Drinking? Eighties funk-punk, psychobilly swamp rock and original terrace sing...
Posted by Mandy on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:39:00 PST