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Ed

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About Me

Highly successful professional musician trapped in the body of a mediocre Symbian software engineer :)
Me elsewhere on the web...
    My Flickr page More photos, if the Flickr ones aren't enough My YouTube page

My Interests

Music! Playing, arranging, and very occasionally a tiny bit of composing; unfortunately I usually start something and can never be bothered to finish it. I could release an album called "16 Bar Pieces" or something.
I'm also into Musical Theatre - I'm the Musical Director of a local group and I would love to do it professionally one day. This also entails a lot of arranging - both orchestral and vocal, something which I have done for years with various bits of kit to help me (yes, I did once have an AWE64 but not any more).
It also means a lot of accompanying for singers (we have some excellent singers in our group), something which I love doing. Would love this to be part of my job one of these days! Not much requirement for that at Teleca though...

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who likes Top Cat or Neighbours!

Music:

Hmm. This is a tricky one. I like a lot of individual songs by artists, but rarely warm to a whole album full of them. When I was at college/uni I used to buy loads of singles - my collection of 90s dance still takes up a lot of space in my bedroom! I don't buy much music nowadays though.

Movies:

I don't tend to go to the cinema much - too busy most of the time and I can think of better ways to socialise (why on earth do people go on dates to the cinema?!). I tend to like films with clever storylines, so forget your US blockbusters. Having said that the last thing I saw was Casino Royale...!

Television:

Hmm. Shall I be honest here or try and make myself seem classy?! I watch very little television, but amongst the things I do sit down for are Neighbours, Home & Away (these 2 really help you unwind after a day at work!), Dr Who (historical) and occasionally a music-related "reality" show (X Factor etc).

Books:

I don't read books, although I've started spending a lot more time on trains recently so maybe I should take it up!

Heroes:

I can't really put Simon Cowell here can I? If I said Chris Hatt you wouldn't know who I mean!! Raymond Kurzweil?!