Film, Music, love the internet, figuring out gadgetry, driving maneouvres, yoga (and Yoda!), the Crobar and their excellent selection of bourbons. I hate wine!
Interesting and funny, sexy people who understand the complexities of stuff ... and like Dr Who of course!
IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT ALREADY get the long-overdue DAVE KUSWORTH ANTHOLOGY double CD called “In Some Life Let Gone†featuring material from 77-07, includes Bounty Hunters, Tenderhooks, The Jacobites and DAVE KUSWORTH GROUP tracks as well as previously unreleased material.
Notting Hill's “THE PARLIAMENT CLUB†@ THE INN ON THE GREEN returns for another fine evening of cherry-picked live music hosted by the enigmatic and fabulous THE FALLEN LEAVES , featuring the audacious REVEREND ROB GREEN on vocals and the guitar pyrotechnics of original and defining Subway Sect guitarist ROB SYMMONS. "THAT'S RIGHT!" say THE FALLEN LEAVES at
“THE PARLIAMENT CLUB†on SATURDAY 17TH NOVEMBER - DON'T MISS IT this time or you'll have to wait until 2008 for the next one!
INN ON THE GREEN has a great balcony for smokers, good BBQ and very friendly bar staff and clientele.“A mesmerising cacophony of clashing rock and roll destroyed and re-assembled with strange and awkward angles†Plan B Magazine
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"Marvin Gaye-meets-Brian Eno"
"Holy bionic spawn of a sensible Lee Perry and a stoned Goldie"
"The very soul of esoteric eclectica"
"The album is sheer invention from start to finish with its rich, quirky sounds and idiosyncratic invention"
"A provocative collection by a wonderfully warped artist"
Paul Lester - Guardian (4th May 2007)
The Brian James Gang (featuring the great Brian James (clearly!) and talented Mr Dave Tregunna)...
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www.officialbrianjames.com
www.easyaction.co.uk
The Dave Kusworth Group (and The Jacobites, The Bounty Hunters, The Tenderhooks)...
The Flaming Lips - check out 2006 album At War With The Mystics... Blondie, Ramones, The Pretty Things, Muse, Goldfrapp, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Minnie, Beck, Saints, Kinks, Green On Red, Carole King, Box Tops...and Big Star, AND Raconteurs... Outkast, Killers, Josh Rouse's 1972,the Hollies, Carpenters, Todd Rundgren, Hall and Oates (love 'em), 10cc, Kraftwerk, Kylie's Fever album, Kate Bush, Johnny Cash (new fan), N.E.R.D., David Bowie is a God, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Little Feat, Portishead and so many many more. Guilty pleasures are Barbra Streisand and ELO!
Where are my boys... 10cc and "Don't Hang Up"...aah
On the radar are the brilliant and tantalizing HUSKI!!!
Night of the Hunter, The Third Man, Sunset Boulevard, White Heat, Pygmalion, Les Enfants Du Paradis, all of Steven Soderburg's films but especially Out of Sight, Coen Brothers, Takeshi Kitano (Hanabi, Sonatine, Dolls), Eraserhead, Memento, Insomnia, i love..Klute, Eyes of Laura Mars, Dressed to Kill, Dog Soldiers, American Werewolf in London, The Thing, Alien, Aliens, Sound of Music, Cabaret, Matrix I, Star Wars Trilogy (not GL's self-indulgent, soul-less prequels), Jaws (never tire of), Edward Scissorhands, All About My Mother, Live Flesh, Spider-man 1, 2 & 3 (Sam Raimi is cool), Lord of the Rings trilogy, Batman Begins, On the Waterfront, To Kill a Mockingbird, Marnie, The Godfather 1 & 2, Donnie Darko, Charlie Chaplin and the list goes on and on. I'm new to Manga movies. Newish films i like are Million Dollar Baby, A History of Violence, Walk the Line, Goodnight & Goodluck and the brilliant Casino Royale.Best music documentary goes to: The Flaming Lips - The Fearless Freaks (DVD), a film by the fabulous Bradley Beesley. The film very deservedly got the Mojo vision award in 2006 and if you've never seen it - YOU SHOULD, NOW!
Best thing on TV in a long long while (apart from Doctor Who) - Life on Mars...
The Prisoner (the most incredible tv show)...
Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Murder One... AND Doctor Who (past and present) - this is a spoiler for anyone who hasn't seen the 3rd Season yet...
AND Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
...and Angel, Firefly (and Serenity) - all that is Joss Whedon, Sex and the City, Twin Peaks, Lost, Alias, UFO, Space 1999, Star Trek (Original and Next Generation), Colombo, Cracker, Prime Suspect, Dennis Potter... and Oh the new reimagined Battlestar Galactica series - it's incredibly good and Starbuck's a very cool woman this time round!
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Jane Austin, Iain Banks, biographies...
Takeshi Kitano, Joss Whedon, Wayne Coyne, Helen Mirren, Bjork, Billie Holliday, Carole King, David Bowie, Dave Gilmour, Fred Astaire, Johnny Depp, Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, George Costanza, Charlie Chaplin, Bette Davis, Katherine Hepburn, Vivien Leigh, Jane Fonda, David Lynch, Jodie Foster, Samantha in SATC, The Doctor and No.6...