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Graham

A bottle in front of me or a frontal lobotomy

About Me

Male, living & working in Sheffield UK, but with close ties to Stafford. Married to Jackie, my Filipina princess.

DJ with my good mate Phil as Beat Butchers, playing a wide range of funk-based music; breakbeat, dub, electro, reggae, d&b and whatever else we feel like.

I own a property in the South of France that I'm (laboriously) renovating. We visit the building site as often as we can, and hope that some day soon we can invite friends down without them needing to wear hard hats.

My Interests

Music, photography, motorcycling, DJing, red wine, travel, cricket, computers and DIY (more of a necessity than an interest, but there you go)

I'd like to meet:

Old mates and new mates

Music:

Where do I start? Evil Nine, Stanton Warriors, Cramps, Talking Heads, Ian Dury, Tiefschwarz, Little Feat, Jeff Mills, Prince, Ry Cooder, The Advent, Joy Division, Magazine, Tayo, Joey Beltram, Adam Freeland, Iggy Pop, Mauskramp, Aphrodite, Meat Katie, Pixies, Laurent Garnier, Sex Pistols, Chicken Lips, Ed Rush & Optical, Bowie, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, Kraftwerk, Clash, plus a cast of thousands...

Movies:

Name of the Rose, LA Confidential, Things to do in Denver when you're dead (great title), Life of Brian, loads more I can't remember just now

Television:

... is the biggest time-waster known to man (with MySpace a close second). You can stick yer soaps and Reality TV where the sun don't shine, as far as I'm concerned. But I'll make time for stuff like Green Wing, Twin Peaks and any amount of MotoGP, World Superbike and Test cricket.

Books:

I don't read as much as I should or I used to, and that's probably down to t'Internet. Ho-hum.

Heroes:

David Byrne, Lowell George (RIP), Mike Hailwood (RIP), Valentino Rossi, Fred Trueman (RIP).