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Martin

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About Me

Music mad, buy far to many CD's. Would spend all my time going to Concerts if I could.
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My Interests

Listening to Music and going to Concerts, Motor Races, Football, building and messing about with Computers.

I'd like to meet:

Jimi Hendrix, Phil Ochs, Janis Joplin, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Michael Hedges, Paul Kossoff, Muddy Waters, Nina Simone but alas that would be impossible.Myspace Backgrounds
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Music:



Anything GOOD.Dont like labels so here is a rough cross section of artists in no order...Ian Siegal, Beth Hart, Eric Bibb, Ruthie Foster, Christine Collister, Free, Paul Rodgers,Show Of Hands,Son Of Dave, Alice Di Micele, Rory McLeod, Rory Block, Jeanne French , K.T.Tunstall, Nina Simone, Catfish Keith, Ella Fitzgerald, Big Mama Thornton, Elaine and Kindred Spirit, Koko Taylor, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, Professor Longhair, Never The Bride, Kerianne Cox, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Phil Ochs, Habib Koite, Michael Hedges, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Grover Washington Jr, Bonnie Raitt, Chris Smither, Thea Gilmore, Rachael Brady, Dilana, Anouk, Muddy Waters, Bic Runga,Jake La Botz, Derrin Nauendorf,Nat King Cole, Bill Withers, Chris Pierce, Papa Mali, Vin Garbutt, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Tommy Emmanuel, Glen Tilbrook, Cat Stevens, Paolo Nutini and 3 new stars in the making Nadine Gingell, a young lad called Robert Bowden, remember this name as he is going to be a huge star, only 19 now but I will be so happy to say I told you so later. He has just been signed to Sony and is making his first CD and BENITA JOHNSON who deserves to be signed and should be a mega star. Also check out Ruby James, great voice, link below.

Movies:

Rabbit Proof Fence, Whale Rider, City Of God, The Pianist, Amores Perros, Downfall, Maria full of grace, Dances with Wolves, Schindler's List,Cry Freedom, Tsotsi, Broken Rainbow (Documentary)

Television:

Not much, Any Music programs, Touring Cars / Formula One, some Football

Books:

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown,Hanta Yo by Ruth Beebe Hill, There but for Fortune: The Life of Phil Ochs by Michael Schumacher,Bob Marley: A Rebel Life by Dennis Morris, Crazy Horse : The Strange Man of the Oglalas by Mari Sandoz, Once They Moved Like the Wind : Cochise, Geronimo, and the Apache Wars by David Roberts, Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin by Alice Echols, Stevie Ray Vaughan: Caught in the Crossfire by Joe Nick Patoski, Bill Crawford, The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman, With My Own Eyes : A Lakota Woman Tells Her People's History by Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun,Daybreak- Joan Baez, And a Voice to Sing with - Joan Baez

Heroes:

Joan Baez, Free and Paul Rodgers, Eric Bibb, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Tina Turner, Muddy Waters, Emmylou Harris, Buffy Sainte Marie, Chris Smither, Rory Block, Mark Knopfler, Rory McLeod,Pura Fe & Eric Bibb "People You Love"
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Add to My Profile | More VideosEric Bibb and Pura Fe - People You LoveSon of Dave 'Leave Without Running' (Live) BEX MARSHALL - BLACK GUITAR BRANDI CARLILE - THE STORYSHOW OF HANDS - COUNTRY LIFEJenna - I Was A DreamerANGIE PALMER - PREMONITION BLUESRACHELLE VAN ZANTEN - GOT TO LET GOERIC BIBB - IN MY FATHERS HOUSERORY BLOCK - SILVER WINGSRory McLeod

Add to My Profile | More VideosRory McLeod short feature.. width="425" height="350" ..ALLISON CROWE - WHETHER IM WRONGSHOW OF HANDS - ROOTS.. width="425" height="350" ..BRIAN HOUSTON - THESE DAYSRACHAEL BRADY - RADICAL IDEA.. width="425" height="350" ..RODRIGO Y GABRIELA - TAMACUM.. width="425" height="350" ..MICHAEL HEDGES - AERIAL BOUNDARIES.. width="425" height="350" ..PHIL OCHS - I AINT MARCHING ANYMORE.. width="425" height="350" ..BETH HART - MONKEY BACKVIN GARBUTT - TEESSIDE TROUBADOUR.. width="425" height="350" ..DILANA - LITHIUMVIN GARBUTT ON INSIDE OUT 16-02-07ANOUK - GIRL

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Brilliant unknown act

If you get the time, please pop over to   http://www.myspace.com/benitajohnson  and give a listen, she is so talented but lacks exposure, the hardest thing to get, but I really believe ...
Posted by Martin on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:38:00 PST

Save theTower Arts Centre, Winchester

Please help try and save the TOWER ARTS CENTRE, WINCHESTER.I know some of you do not know this venue but we use it a lot for music concerts and it really is a great little place run by some fantasti...
Posted by Martin on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:33:00 PST

Benita Johnson needs friends.....lots

If you get the time, please pop over to   http://www.myspace.com/benitajohnson  and give a listen, she is so talented but lacks exposure, the hardest thing to get, but I really believe ...
Posted by Martin on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:38:00 PST