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Morrissey - First Of The Gang To Die

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Ummmmmmm . . . . Born: Aberdeen, Scotland
Moved to: Colerne, Wiltshire, England . . . . Bridgend, Wales
Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland . . . . Linne, Limburg Region, Holland
Elmpt, Bruggen, Germany . . . . Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Leuchars, Fife, Scotland . . . . Wigginton, York, England
Southbank, York, England . . . Santa Ynez Valley, California, USA.


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My Interests

Music
Movies
Reading
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What I'm Currently Reading
Winter's Tale
Mark Helprin

Faith "There is nothing we can do to make God love us more. There is nothing we can do to make God love us less" -
Philip Yancey

reality

Clothing "Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear" -
Oscar Wilde

Something Sacred

Food "Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity" -
Voltaire

Cafe Concerto
(York)

Photo "Do you know it's costing me more than two thousand pounds to have my house painted . . . Wouldn't it be cheaper just to have it photographed?" -
Anon

Jason Bell
Photography

I'd like to meet:

. . . . . ALL OF THE PEOPLE BELOW

Music:


IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:
Kate Bush
The Blue Nile
Danny Wilson
R.E.M.
Beth Orton
Neil Young
Genesis
U2
Angelo Badalamenti
Doves
Elvis Costello
Elbow
Suzanne Vega
Lloyd Cole
Pearl Jam
Steely Dan
Kings Of Convenience
Counting Crows
Pink Floyd
Gomez
Stereophonics
David Bowie
Stone Temple Pilots
Peter Gabriel
Ben Folds Five
Cardinal
Dave Matthews
Matthew Sweet
XTC
David Gilmour
Ben Folds
King Crimson
ELP
Bjork
Rush
Led Zeppelin
Eric Matthews
Badly Drawn Boy
Glen Phillips
Glenn Tilbrook
Travis
Texas
The Fat Lady Sings
The The
Echo and The Bunnymen
Joe Jackson
The Jam
The Psychedelic Furs
Bic Runga
Jamie Cullum
Madness
The Smiths
Stone Roses
Paul Weller
The Beta Band
10,000 Maniacs
David Gray
Prefab Sprout
Richard Davies
The Moles
Thomas Lang
Crowded House
Neil Finn
Roxy Music
Morrissey
Eddi Reader
Supergrass
John Coltrane
Philip Glass
Oasis
Blur
The La's
Tom McRae
Talk Talk
Portishead
Mark Hollis
Beth Gibbons and Rustin'man
Roddy Frame
Jason Falkner
The Sundays
Aqualung
David Sylvian
Fiona Apple
Starsailor
Gorillaz
Maria McKee
Rosie Vela
Harold Budd
Tori Amos
Roger Eno
Squeeze
Big Country
Natalie Merchant
The Nice
Everything But The Girl
Lisa Loeb
The Police
Gary Clark
New Order
The Who

Gigs
These are the bands I’ve seen through the years
80's

Gillan
Motorhead
Genesis (x3)
10cc
Peter Gabriel (x2)
Bryan Ferry
Deacon Blue
Marillion
Level 42
R.E.M.
Rush
Moody Blues
Steve Hackett

90's

Aztec Camera (x2)
Danny Wilson
Big Country
Texas
Cast
Elvis Costello
Suzanne Vega
Bill Nelson & Harold Budd
Peter Gabriel
Crowded House (x2)
Del Amitri
Eddi Reader
Boo Hewerdine
Gary Clark
The The
Emerson Lake & Palmer (x2)
Indigo Girls
Iona (x3)
Amy Grant
Divine Comedy
Lisa Loeb
Tori Amos (x3)
Maria McKee
Jimmy Page & Robert Plant
Peter Hammill (x2)
Prince
Stanley Jordan
The Stranglers
Thomas Lang (x2)
Tori Amos
U2
David Sylvian & Robert Fripp
Terence Trent D’Arby
Everything But The Girl
Wilco Johnson

00's

Pearl Jam
Glen Philips
Counting Crows
Matt Costa
Glenn Tilbrook
Sonic Youth
Travis
David Crosby & Graham Nash
Harry Connick Jr.
Tori Amos
David Crosby & Neil Young
R.E.M.
Morrissey
Genesis
Fleetwood Mac
Steely Dan

Radio
Stuart Maconie & Mark Radcliffe

Jonathan Ross

Favourite Songs
I know some of the artists didn't write these particular songs. I love their versions though
- The Everthere -
Elbow
- Fortress Around Your Heart -
Sting
- Long December -
Counting Crows
- World Exploding Touch -
The Fat Lady Sings
- Tuesday Morning -
The Pogues
- Fire & Rain -
James Taylor
- I Can't Wait -
The Sundays
- Orpheus -
David Sylvian
- Fallen -
Sarah McLachlan
- The River -
Bruce Springsteen
- After The Goldrush -
Neil Young
- Wichita Lineman -
Maria McKee
- I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You -
10,000 Maniacs
- Nightswimming -
R.E.M.
- Shipbuilding -
Elvis Costello
- Only One I Know-
The Charlatans
- I Believe -
Stevie Wonder

Movies:


"Withnail & I"
The Greatest Film You've Never seen
IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER
Tristam Shandy - (A Cock & Bull Story)
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.
The Star Wars Trilogy.
Layer Cake.
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Solaris.
Amelie.
Serendipity.
Shooting Fish.
Fight Club.
12 Monkeys.
Legend of 1900.
Swingers.
Shopgirl.
The Matrix Trilogy.
Gregory's Girl.
High Fidelity.
Restless Natives.
Vanilla Sky.
Local Hero.
Sliding Doors.
Twice Upon A Yesterday.
The Filth and The Fury.
Live Forever.
About A Boy.
Chariots Of Fire.
Bladerunner.
Brazil.
Grosse Point Blank.
The Spanish Prisoner.
Heist.
Wimbledon.
A Beautiful Mind.
Truly Madly Deeply.
So I Married An Axe Murderer.
Possession.
Fever Pitch (Original).
Withnail and I.
Elizabethtown.
When Harry Met Sally.
Cyrano de Bergerac.
Diva.
The Double Life Of Veronique.
The Unbelievable Truth.
Trust.
Shallow Grave.
City Of Lost Children.
Roxanne.
Lost in Translation.
The Godfather Trilogy.
The Cotton Club.
A lot Like Love.
Children Of Men.

Television:

"Television, Drug of the nation. Breeding ignorance & bleeding radiation" -
Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy

Little Britain
Seinfeld
Blackadder
BBC News
Friends
The Office
Still Standing
Coupling
Extras
Pushing Daisies

Art "No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist" -
Oscar Wilde

Bo Bartlett

Banksy

Books:

- The New York Trilogy -
Paul Auster
- The Rachel Papers -
Martin Amis
- High Fidelity -
Nick Hornby
- Show Business -
Mark Radcliffe
- The Comfort Of Strangers -
Ian McEwan
- The Handmaids Tale -
Margaret Atwood
- Rotten -
John Lydon
- A Walk Up Fifth Avenue -
Bernard Levin
- Pure Drivel -
Steve Martin
- The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy -
Nick Bantock
- The Raggamuffin Gospel -
Brennan Manning
- Dance Dance Dance -
Haruki Murakami
- The Sensationist -
Charles Palliser.
- McCarthy's Bar -
Pete McCarthy
- Chasing Cezanne -
Peter Mayle
- The Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy -
Douglas Adams
- What's So Amazing About Grace -
Philip Yancey

Magazines
Q

Paste

Craziness
LaLaLand

Hammer & Tongs

Heroes:

Anyone who steps up in a time of need and tries to create positive change