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About Me

I bought American Psycho for 75p in Oxfam in Exeter but I haven't even read it. Books are so lame, but it looks great on my bookshelf in a kind of retro hip-young-academic kind of way. Christian Bale was great in the film though, his thin-lipped arrogance gave me a definite hard-on.I started playing guitar when I was 13 to help me pull girls, but it didn't really work. So I started writing songs to express my frustration with this incredibly annoying adolescent dilemma. Since then I've blossomed into a good-looking, successful young professional, acquiring an attractive girlfriend along the way and a corporate job that pays me well to browse the Internet for interesting postmodern ephemera and call my friends to make plans for dinner.In my evenings off I live another life, playing rock music in seedy venues across the UK. It's a stealth plan to takeover the world, so watch this space.

My Interests

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Member Since: 25/04/2006
Band Website: www.theyoungplaythings.co.uk
Influences: Thatcher. Nixon. Karl Rove. Richard Perle. For the record, Reagan was a pussy.
Sounds Like: A corporate shithead with a guitar, a crap voice, but very cool lyrics.
Record Label: Smalltown America Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Club Playthings

So, it actually paid off, schmoozing with Huw Stephens a couple of weeks ago. He played Hot Sex the other night on his show and plugged the video afterwards, which was good of him (and right on too - ...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:35:00 GMT

Bateman’s Best Of 2007

I'm not a religiously 'new music' person, more the bargain-bin guy. Every year, before Christmas when I'm supposed to be buying presents for my nearest and dearest, I always treat myself to a shitload...
Posted by on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:07:00 GMT

FUCK DEM PHISHERS!

Thanks to all of you who've let me know that my account was hacked - I apologise on behalf of the evil software and machines that do this pointless hacking and the greedy idiots that ac...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:46:00 GMT

Stimulus Magazine interview, 14 August @ Metro, Hot Sex EP

I did an interview with my friend Amin for Stimulus magazine. The issue it's in is called 'Travel', its last online issue before it makes the move to the real world and is printed, and it's out now......
Posted by on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:29:00 GMT