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Simon

...time has told me you came with the dawn: a soul with no footprint, a rose with no thorn...

About Me


I'm a potential town planner, a mischievous morris-dancer, a quiet & quirky Quaker and a hopeless human being, whose interested in exploring those little idiosyncracies in our lives that make us all perfect.

Check out my last.fm music page, my flickr photo page and my blog:
Under The Green Hill

SOURCES OF MUSICAL INSPIRATION

Check out the following amazing musical offerings:

'Glosoli' by Sigur Ros

'Rock Bottom Riser' by Smog

'Naked As We Came' by Iron & Wine

'Hoppipolla & Meo Blodnasir' by Sigur Ros & Amina

'Iron in the Soul' by Patrick Briscoe

'For The Widows In Paradise, For The Fatherless
In Ypsilanti' by Sufjan Stevens

'Mother Dear' by The Divine Comedy

My Interests

Traditional Music and Dance, Quaker stuff, Poetry

I'd like to meet:

Morris Dancing Quakers!

Music:

I love all kinds of "muse-ick"! See my last.fm page. Here is my Top Ten for last week:

Here is a list of my favourites:

Any Morris Tune!

Main Ones:

Sigur Ros, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, Morrissey

Folking Folk:

Waterson: Carthy, Dr Faustus, Spiers & Boden, Van Eyken, Eliza Carthy & the Ratcatchers, Bellowhead, English Acoustic Collective, Chris Wood, Nic Jones, Jim Moray, Seth Lakeman, Roy Bailey, John Kirkpatrick, Gjallarhorn, Sandy Denny, Fotheringay, Circulus, Cara Dillon, June Tabor, Old Crow Medicine Show

Cool Influences:

Zero7, Air, Boards of Canada, The Dining Rooms

Meaningful Twee:

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Belle & Sebastian, Joanna Newsom, Vashti Bunyan, British Sea Power

Reality Bites:

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Smog, Dirty Three, 16Horsepower, Sufjan Stevens, The Decemberists, Youssou N'Dour, Jeff Buckley, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Tindersticks, Leonard Cohen, Tinariwen, Johnny Cash

Early Music:

John Dowland, William Byrd, Emma Kirkby, Dufay Collective, Tallis Scholars

Classical:

John Tavener, Vaughan Williams