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antonye

Now with broken bones!

About Me

I'm currently 34 and work in the City of London. Born and raised in Lowestoft, Suffolk until I joined the Escape Committee after leaving school and fled to the bright lights of London (along with fellow Lowestoft dwellers Justin Hawkins and his brother Dan Hawkins of The Darkness fame, and my old mate and fellow pop-tastic DJ Steve Smart) and haven't looked back since (except to visit the rellies). I race motorbikes at the weekends and work in San Francisco for one month in every three. I have a penchance for pink Moët, lager (Stella), blondes with big boobs (pref female) and playing Guitar Hero. That's me in the pic on the side. Webshite at www.horrible.demon.co.uk .



My Interests

Motorcycle racing, music and the art of socialising.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone; I'm not fussy (this has got me in trouble quite a few times).

Music:

Where to begin? Everything except Country & Western. Nothing currently being played to death on the iPod so flicking through everything from Arctic Monkeys to Kanye West to Thin Lizzy. Local boys The Darkness rock too! Also my mates like Francis the drummer in The Stabilisers and wee James Hurst too (although he never records the lyrics I send him).

Movies:

Anything with guns, cars, bit of sci-fi and preferably the lot. Anything early Al Pacino - Scarface or Carlito's Way. Any James Bond film. Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back, natch. Or a good comedy; old or new. Animal House, 40 Year Old Virgin, Blazing Saddles, Shaun of the Dead. The Departed was pretty good too, actually!

Television:

Lost at the moment, and 24.

Books:

Biographies of interesting people. Life is too short to read about people who think of stuff they'd like to do - read about people who have done it. Currently reading Richard Dawkins "The God Delusion" and then Derren Brown's book next.

Heroes:

Aaron Slight, Troy Bayliss, Valentino Rossi, Morecambe & Wise, Gene Wilder, my Grandfather, my parents, my sister, my missus, my kids.

My Blog

Honey, I’m Home (again)

Just back from a few days in New York to hit the shops and catch up with friends. Spent a fortune as per usual, so the credit card has just about melted. Luckily it will all get paid off in December ...
Posted by antonye on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:39:00 PST

Castle Combe bites back

Castle Combe bit me (again) today and added another to the smashed collarbones in the series, making a total of eight so far this season. I got skittled from behind by an orange bib numpty who then p...
Posted by antonye on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 12:03:00 PST

Oulton Park Results

Qualifying: 9th 2:08.64 Race 1: 8th 2:04.35 Race 2: 6th 2:05.26 We were first out in qualifying, and it had rained overnight so there were still some wet patches around, hence the relatively slow qua...
Posted by antonye on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 12:10:00 PST

Assen Results

I am so fucked today! Got sunstroke on friday - it was 33 deg out there! Sick as a pig all day saturday and qualified 13th in Q1 on 2:13, then 8th in Q2 on a 2:09, so got the last slot on the second r...
Posted by antonye on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:24:00 PST

Donington Bikefest

I'm back from Bikefest UK at Donington Park, which was fun and boring in equal measure! We had to be at Donington at 7am to get the bikes into the paddock and on display for people to laugh and point ...
Posted by antonye on Tue, 29 May 2007 04:15:00 PST

Crash Bang Whallop

Mallory didn't quite go as expected... We got to the track in the morning, got through scrutineering fine and were ready for our untimed practise session with at least 3 minutes to spare. Heading out ...
Posted by antonye on Thu, 24 May 2007 02:59:00 PST

Mallory Park - Sunday 20th May

I know I haven't posted a blog for a while, so here's a little one for you... This weekend it's Round 2 of the Desmo Due championship and we're at Mallory Park in Leicestershire. It's a track that I'd...
Posted by antonye on Wed, 16 May 2007 03:06:00 PST

Results from Brands Hatch

My results were: Qualified: 11th @ 59.85sRace 1: 9th @ 58.29sRace 2: 8th @ 58.28s So the championship table looks like this: 1=  Kyle Hinton (66)        651=&...
Posted by antonye on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:13:00 PST

The Rebuild Begins

The engine was picked up last week (on my wife's birthday, no less!) having had a split in the crankcase welded up from what looked to be a smack from a split chain in a previous life. It now also has...
Posted by antonye on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:51:00 PST

Situation Normal

I was bored so I've just stuck a video onto my profile page. Sorry for the autoplay but I couldn't find Danzig's "Mother" in any music form, so you get the video instead. And you only get this because...
Posted by antonye on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:25:00 PST