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Nicky

... it's alright Andy! it's only bolognese!

About Me


My name is Nicky, i'm 21, i entered this world on August 10th 1985 at Heath Hospital, Cardiff. I've played in a band called GUNRACK? since September 2006 with two friends of mine called Ashley and Andy T, before this time the little cash i earned from odd's and sod's temp jobs in the City centre used to go towards getting wasted and increasingly bitter and resentful towards the human race on the weekends at grotty clubs and pubs. Now pretty much all my money/time gets haemorrhaged into the band, through practices and recording costs amongst other little things. Somewhat tragically, i seldom attend gigs anymore... unless GR? is playing, in which case i'm THERE, sober as a judge before the set, wasted as a very wasted thing afterwards. All good fun. I love music, always been very important to me since i was a little nipper... i have lots of favourite bands, but right now i find myself putting on THE NATIONAL, HUSKER DU and THE HOLD STEADY more than anyone else. Thanks for reading.
"Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances" - Mark Twain
South Wales' very own DAMAGED RECORDS. Support it! www.myspace.com/damagedrecordsuk
Newest Industry Records. Cardiff punk rock record label. www.myspace.com/thenewestindustry
Best band in the world.
"These could be the good old days..."

My Interests

Music (mostly), writing, getting SILLY drunk on 'quiet' nights out Sarah, reading etc.

I'd like to meet:

Louis Theroux, the entire cast of Spinal Tap, Bill Murray, Mike Judge, Chris Morris, any surviving member of The Clash, Mark Heap (in Dr. Alan Statham character), Dwayne Dibley, Steve Coogan (in Alan Partridge character), Ryan Adams, Will Self, Scarlett Johansson... off the top of my head. Meeting these folks would be nice, but hardly essential to my very existence.

Music:

60ft Dolls, A Death In The Family, Against Me!, Alkaline Trio, American Steel, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Anti Flag, Aphex Twin, Arcade Fire, Archie Bronson Outfit, Armalite, Army Of Ponch, Asshole Parade, At The Drive-In, The Automatic, Beastie Boys, Be Your Own Pet, Billy Reese Peters, Bjork, Black Flag, Blink 182, Bloc Party, Bob Dylan, Bob Mould, Bright Eyes, The Broadways, Broken Social Scene, Bromheads Jacket, The Bronx, Bruce Springsteen, Burning Airlines, Cap n' Jazz, Chuck Ragan, The Clash, Coldcut, Constantines, Cosmo, Cowboy Killers, Crass, The Cribs, Dag Nasty, The Damned, Dangerdoom, Dartz!, The Dauntless Elite, Dead Kennedys, Deftones, Desparacidos, Dillinger Four, Dinosaur Jr, Dismiss, DJ Shadow, The Draft, Editors, Eels, EL P, Elvis Costello, Embrace (Ian MacKaye), Face To Face, Farside, Fay Wray, Fifth Hour Hero, Fionn Regan, Fiya, Fluf, Forward Russia!, Four Letter Word, Frank Turner, Fucked Up, Fugazi, Garrison, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, Git Some, Glassjaw, Gogol Bordello, Good Shoes, Government Issue, Grabass Charlestons, The Great St. Louis, Greenday, Guided By Voices, Guillemots, Gunmoll, Heavens, Herbaliser, The Hold Steady, Hot Club De Paris, Hot Snakes, Hot Water Music, Husker Du, Icons Of Filth (RIP Stig), Iggy Pop, iLiKETRAiNS, Innercity Pirates, Interpol, Jamie T, Jawbox, Jawbreaker, J Church, Jets To Brazil, Joe Strummer & The Mascilleros, Josh Rouse, Joy Division, K Line, Kid Dynamite, Kid Koala, Killing Joke, Kings Of Leon, K-Line, Klaxons, Kubichek!, Kudzu Wish, Latterman, The Lawrence Arms, Lazy-B, LCD Soundsystem, Leatherface, Leftover Crack, The Lemonheads, Lifetime, Los Compesinos!, The Loved Ones, Lucero, The Maccabees, Mars Volta, Marvin Gaye, Massive Attack, Maximo Park, McLusky, Midlake, Million Dead, Milloy, Misfits, Mission Of Burma, Modest Mouse, The Motorettes, Murder By Death, My Bloody Valentine, Naked Raygun, The National, Nation Of Ulysses, Navajo Code, Neil Young, New Bruises, New Mexican Disaster Squad, No Choice, None More Black, North Lincoln, One Reason, Pavement, Pearl Jam, Pegboy, Pendulum, Pinhead Gunpowder, Pink Floyd, The Pixies, Planes Mistaken For Stars, The Pogues, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Prodigy, Propagandhi, Pull Tiger Tail, Q & Not U, Queens Of The Stone Age, Radiohead, Radon, The Rakes, The Ramones, Rancid, The Rapture, Ratattagg, Read Yellow, The Replacements, Refused, The Rezillos, Rise Against, Rites Of Spring, Rival Schools, Rocket From The Crypt, Roddy Woomble, Rosa, Ruin You!, Rumbleseat, The Rumble Strips, Ryan Adams, The Sainte Catherines, Samiam, Scouts Honor, Secret Machines, Shapes Apart, The Shins, Sigur Ros, The Slowdance, Small Brown Bike, Smashing Pumpkins, The Smiths, Smoke Or Fire, Sonic Youth, The Soviettes, Sparta, The Specials, STD, State Run, Stephen Fretwell, Stiff Little Fingers, The Stranglers, Stressface, Strike Anywhere, The Strokes, Subhumans, Sufjan Stevens, Sugar, Sunny Day Real Estate, Super Furry Animals, System Of A Down, Taint, The Take, Team Sleep, Therapy?, These Arms Are Snakes, This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb, This System Kills, Thom Yorke, Tom Vek, Tool, TV On The Radio, Valliant Thor, Varsity Drag, The Walkmen, We Are Scientists, The Weakerthans, Whiskeytown, Whores Whores Whores, William Elliott Whitmore, XTC, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, You Me & The Atom Bomb, Young Prisioners, Young Livers, Youthmovies... amongst others.

Movies:

Bubba Ho Tep, Dead Man's Shoes, The Boy Stays In The Picture, Lost In Translation, Coneheads, Switchblade Romance, Straight To Hell, American History X, Silent Hill, Fright Night, Lord Of The Rings, Midnight Express, Super Size Me, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 1984, Harry Potter, Loose Change, Friday The 13th, Halloween, Spinal Tap, Fahrenheit 9/11, Donnie Darko, Requiem For A Dream, Nepoleon Dynamite, The Devils Rejects, Silent Hill, We're Never Going Home, Bolwing For Columbine, The Corporation, Roger & Me, American Movie, Witches, Beetlejuice, Garden State, Stand By Me, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Hot Fuzz and more...

Television:

I'm Alan Partridge, The Daily Show, Green Wing, Nathan Barley, Brass Eye, The Office, Lost, Red Dwarf, The Mighty Boosh, The Thick Of It, Extras, The Young Ones, Louis Theroux's Wierd Weekends, Trigger Happy TV, South Park, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Bremner Bird & Fortune, The Blue Planet etc.

Heroes:

See 'Music' & my friends. Aaaaaaaaand...

My Blog

DARTZ! IS GOOD FOR YOUR BRAIN!!! (updated Feb 07'!!!)

February 13th 2007 Another mint DARTZ! gig. BUY THE ALBUM - it's friggin' ace. They're top blokes too. November 11th 2006 Any of you FOOLS who went to go see some ogre-metal b...
Posted by againstnick! on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 06:44:00 PST

The FEST V (in pictures)

So the writing up of the journal was taking ages, and then my home computer took a shit and died - taking down with it the word document which i was gradually updating in the hope of eventually cutti...
Posted by againstnick! on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 08:24:00 PST

Aberfan Disaster 40th Anniversary

Tomorrow marks the 40th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster of 1966, where 144 people (116 children) were killed in the South Wales town when a waste tip slid down a mountain, engulfing a school and s...
Posted by againstnick! on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 03:23:00 PST

'Loveless' by My Bloody Valentine

... is currently blowing my balls clean OFF, so thank you again to those souls who largely demanded that I part ways with some of my holiday savings for it. You will be rewarded with whiskey and warm ...
Posted by againstnick! on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 06:44:00 PST

"the best things come from nowhere..."

Fyfe Dangerfield will never sing a truer line Yes, i'm STILL listening to the Guillemots... if anybody has a problem with that then I suggest you do one. Now! Best weekend in a long, long time... got...
Posted by againstnick! on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:56:00 PST

Albums Of The Year So Far...

Right, this is BOUND to eat up at very least 20 minutes of work time... againstnick!'s albums of the year thus far: S/T - The Drips (hands down best punk rock party album of the year, i really can't s...
Posted by againstnick! on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 04:43:00 PST

A Few Random Things...

Bullet points are brilliant, so here goes: * I stayed up til' three yesterday learning to play Pogues songs. I learnt 'Streams Of Whiskey' and not a whole lot else. * I actually feel quite sorry for t...
Posted by againstnick! on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:03:00 PST

OIL Companies Are Destroying Parts Of The World...

This is a cut'n'paste from some myspace profile I just read, but neglected to remember the address or write down the name. If you have a spare 10 minutes on your hands I recommend giving it a read, th...
Posted by againstnick! on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 02:09:00 PST

Steve Irwin R.I.P - The World Loses Another Good Guy...

Just woke up to read that one of my IDOLS has just died. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/5311298.stm Steve Irwin was a legend. Not only did he geniunely care for and respect every animal...
Posted by againstnick! on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 01:08:00 PST

Mighty New Guitar (Update)

... it's fucking shit. Absolutely fucking bollocks. Not only are the pick up's battery operated wank, but the it transpires that the guitar itself is barely worth the 'ultimate knock-down bargain pric...
Posted by againstnick! on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:48:00 PST