Nicky Roubles profile picture

Nicky Roubles

About Me

A Drunken Gentleman and writer.

Used to play keyboards for The Aarons (see below)

Collaborate with Dapper Ed on Sanctimonious Little Pip Squeaks (see below)

Other tinkerings can be found in They've Got Fleas & The French Toys (see below)

I wish I'd made one of those person pages instead of a music one, so I can add other people's music, but it's such a lot of hard work to do another one.

If anyone is interested in hiring a private detective, please leave a message.

DISCLAIMER: "Saxophone Sam" is, in fact, a Drunken Gentlemen song, NOT a Roubles song.

BORED? Why not pour a red wine and have a YOUTUBE session with Mr Roubles: The Roubles Summer 2009 Top 10 Watchlist

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 29/05/2006
Band Members: Various parts of my person.
Influences: The Drunken Gentlemen, Roxy Music, Serge Gainsbourg, Magazine, Depeche Mode, Rimbaud, Lee Miller, The Associates, Man Ray, The Futurists (apart from the war bit), Dada, Rimbaud, Di Chirico, Yves Tanguy, The Ukrainians, Boris Vian, Larry David, Morrissey, Lord Byron, Franz Kafka, Anna Netrebko, Monica Vitti, Vladimir Nabokov, Anthony Burgess, Kingsley Amis, Sebastian Flyte, Colin Wilson, Blaise Cendrars, Ernest Dowson, Dorian Gray, Duncan Grant, Tom Waits, Scott Walker, Ivor Novello, Ennio Morricone, Betty Blue, Greg Bright, The Pink Panther, John Taylor, Alex James, Monica Bellucci, Terence Stamp, Fantomas, Laeticia Casta, Ken Russell, Harry Palmer, Paddington Bear, Rebetika music, From Russia With Love, Fred Snow, Jacques Miami, Anthony Reynolds, Helen Mirren, Daniel Miller, Fad Gadget, John Wilmot - 2nd Earl of Rochester, Charles Dickens, Emile Zola, Mikhail Bulgakov, Bruce Robinson, F Scott Fitz, Saki, Joseph Roth, Richard Burton, and these pictures:


Sounds Like: Bit like the Drunken Gents, only the same.
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Cheltenham / Luton Activity

Cheltenham is a glamorous old woman with a bitch's heart.  And don't look to closely at her nether regions.Jacques flew in for a Friday night in the town, and we drank cocktails.  His involved Kahlua ...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:38:00 GMT

Coffee & Doppelgangers

I went for a run the other day using my legs, and I was doing OK until I started getting palpitations.  So I've pretty much give up coffee; I'm tea-only now.  So far, so much calmer.&n...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:38:00 GMT

Tuxedomoon

I've always been scared of classical music.  I've always thought it's like the effect of unrefined drugs - just too powerful for my fragile sensibilities.  You've got to know WHY you're scar...
Posted by on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:00:00 GMT

Location Crisis

I'm not actually here, mentally. I'm in a railway cafe, the grand one in Budapest, sipping absinthe cocktails, as a band plays exotic music.  And I'm wearing an immaculate suit of foreign de...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:10:00 GMT

New songs

If you pop over to my THEY'VE GOT FLEAS site, you will find 2 new 'pieces'. One is a four on the floor remix of the DGs' 'Lascars' - ("Fistful of Euros Mix") and the other is ...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:34:00 GMT

My listening material 2008 & what I have done recently

My favourite songs at the moment... SILENCIO!  You DO need to know. 1. Einstuerzende Neubauten - Blume 2. Einstuerzende Neubauten - Partymucke 3. The Ukrainians - Shche Raz 4. The Drunken Gentlem...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:57:00 GMT

Cogito ergo sum

I'm me, I am.  If you can be sure of one thing in this life, it's that you are you.  Even when you change your name.  This is heartening news.  I put the washing out but it keeps r...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:33:00 GMT

Hello to Berlin

BERLIN - and in particular the Kunsthaus Tacheles has made me go all arty.  I really was heading for planet rock before I left, but now all I want to do is listen to Einstuerzende Neubauten. ...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:42:00 GMT

New Songs

The 2 new tracks are now up.  These are: Fond Affections (Rema Rema) & While My Heart Is Still Beating (Roxy Music) There'll be more in due course and you can download them and make your own ...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:07:00 GMT

Nothing funny about the Welsh

Why is Paul McKenna on Dragon's Den these days, eh?  And what right does Dr Fox have to judge food on Masterchef?Having lots of fun at the mo.  I've been thinking up shedloads of new songs f...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:36:00 GMT