Despite not living in Manchester anymore, I still work the door at XS Malarkey . Which I think proves how totally radical it is.
My buddy Ben and I also run a club night, which I think you'll agree, is living the dream indeed.
When I'm not doing that, I'm either at some kind of music or comedy gig, or I'm taking photographs of people or things.
Someone to taste my soup recipes. They will not all be good.
Ok, I've just spent ages typing out the entire list of folders in my music folder, warts and all. My anality knows no bounds. I hope 'anality' is a word. Here it be:
(*'s indicate bands I've seen live)
A
Aloha
Andrew Bird
A Perfect Circle*
ACDC
Aimee Mann
Alkaline Trio*
Animal Collective
Anniversary, The
Anthony and The Johnsons
Aphex Twin
Apparat
Arcade Fire, The*
Arctic Monkeys
Art Brut
Atom and His Package
B
Band of Horses*
Bark Psychosis
Battles
Beach Boys
Beastie boys
Beck*
Beirut
Ben Folds*
Ben Folds Five*
Ben Kweller*
Bens, The
Besnard Lake, The
Beta Band, The*
Big Bad Vodoo Daddy
Bjórk
Blink 182
Blow, The
Blur
Boards of Canada
Books, The
Boris
Bright Eyes*
Broadcast*
Broken Social Scene*
Bruce Springsteen
Built To Spill
C
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone
Camera Obscura
Cat Power
Chemical Brothers*
Chicago
Clinic*
Clor*
Colin Hay
Controller.Controller*
Counting Crows*
Paul Curreri*
Cursive
D
Damien Rice*
Daniel Johnston
David Bowie*
Death Cab For Cutie*
Death From Above 1979*
Death in Vegas
Deftones*
dEUS
Devendra Banhart
Dismemberment Plan
Dispatch
Divine Comedy, The
DJ Format*
DJ Shadow
E
E
Eberg
Eels*
Elbow*
Ellen Allien
Elliott Smith
Elton John*
Emiliana Torrini
F
Faith No More
Farside
Feist
Fenix TX
Fischerspooner
Flaming Lips*
Frou Frou
Fugazi
Fuzz Townsend
G
George Thomas and The Owls*
Go! Team, The*
Godspeed you! Black Emperor
Goldfrapp*
Gorillaz*
Grails
Grandaddy
Gravenhurst
Green Velvet
Grizzly Bear
Guided By Voices*
H
Heatmiser
Herman Dune
Hidden Cameras*
Hold Steady, The
Hundred Reasons*
I
I am Kloot
Ian Brown
Idlewild*
Imogen Heap
Incubus*
Interpol*
Iron & Wine*
Islands
J
Jackson Five
Jane's Addiction
Jarvis Cocker
Jeff Buckley
Jeffrey and Jack Lewis*
Jenny Lewis
Jimmy Eat World
Joan Of Arc
Johnny Cash
Jon Spencer
Jonatha Brooke*
Joni Mitchell
José Gonzalez*
Joseph Arthur
Joy Division
Judee Sill
Junip
Jurassic Five*
K
King Biscuit Time
Kings of Convenience*
Kiss
Koreans, The
Kraftwerk
L
lamb
Lambchop
La's, The*
LCD Soundsystem*
Le Tigre*
Led Zepplin
Leftfield
Lemonheads, The*
Leonard Cohen
Les Savy Fav
Low*
Lowgold
Lynard Skynard
M
M83
M Ward
Magazine
Magnetic Fields
Martha Wainwright*
Massive Attack
Mastodon
MC Honky*
McLuscky
Metronomy
Mew*
Michael Jackson
Midlake
Minus The Bear
Minutemen
Mint Royal
Modest Mouse
Moldy Peaches
Mountain Goats, The
Mouse On Mars
Múm
N
Neil Young
NERD
Neutral Milk Hotel
New Found Glory
New pronographers
New Order
Nick Drake
NIN*
Nirvana
Notwist, The
O
Oceansize*
One Line Drawing*
Optiganally Yours
Orbital*
Outkast
P
Patrick Wolf
Pavement
Pharcyde
Pixies, The*
PJ Harvey*
Placebo*
Plaid
Police, The
Portishead
Postal Service, The
Prodigy, The*
Promise Ring, The
Pulp
R
Radiohead*
Reggie and the Full Effect
Regina Spektor
Reindeer Section, The
Relaxed Muscle
REM*
Royal Trux
Rufus Wainwright*
Run DMC
Ryan Adams*
S
Saves The Day*
Sea and , The
Shins, The*
Sigur Rós*
Silver Jews*
Simian
Simple Kid*
Siz Organs of Admittance
Skunk Anansie*
Slackers, The*
Sleater Kinney
Sleepy Jackson
Slint
Smashing Pumpkins*
Smog
Sol Seppy
Sonic Youth*
Soulwax
Spinto Band, The*
Squarepusher
Stars
Stereo Total
Stereolab
Stevie Wonder
Strokes, The
Sufjan Stevens*
Sunny Day Sets Fire*
Swearing At Motorists*
T
Talk Talk
Teardrop Explodes, The
Thee More Shallows
Thome Yorke
Tilly & The Wall
Tom Vek*
Tori Amos
Tortoise
TV On The Radio*
U
U.N.K.L.E
Ugly Duckling
V
Volcano!
W
Walkmen, The
Wannadies, The
Weezer
White Stripes, The
Will Oldham / Bonnie Prince Billy / Palace
Willy Mason*
Wire
Wolf Parade
X
XTC
Y
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The*
Yo la Tengo*
Z
Zwan*
But this is what I'm listening to now
Comedians
OK, this might be quite extensive. I'm sorry...
Daniel Kitson, Seymour Mace, Dan Nightingale, Bill Bailey, Toby Hadoke, Stewart Lee, Steven Carlin, John Oliver, Andy Zaltzman, Chris Addison, Simon Munnery, We are Klang, Natalie Haynes, Johnny Vegas, Alexis Dubus, Matt Kirshen, Andrew O'Neill, Wil Hogson, Sarah Kendall, Milton Jones, Howard Read, Matt and Faron, Gary Delaney, Josie Long, Robin Ince, Dom Woodward, Die Clatterschenkenfietermaus, Silky, Michael J Dolan, Lee Fenwick, Jason Cook, Alan Carr, Alistair Barrie, Barry Dodds, Jonathan Mayor, Sean Moran, Justin Moorhouse, Peter Pitzburg, The Unbroadcastable Radio Show, The Book Club, Rob Deering, Anthony J Brown...Obviously in no particular order.
God, there's a lot there, and I know I missed people.
Comedy
Napoleon Dynamite, The Big Lebowski, Shaun of the Dead, Uncle Buck, Plans Trains and Automobiles, The Life of Brian, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Dusk til Dawn, Twin Town, I heart Huckabees
Horror
28 Days Later, Misery, The Shining, Evil Dead (1, 2, 3)
Gangster
Casino, Scarface, Goodfellas, The Godfather Trilogy, Road To Perdition, Lock Stock and Two smoking Barrels, Snatch,
Documentary
Spellbound, The Fog of War, The Big One, Roger and me, Supersize me, Louis THeroux, Heart and Minds, OutFoxed, Watching The Friedmans, Trewmbling Before G-d, One Nation Under God,
Misc
All Coen Brothers Films (except the last two which have been pants, come on boys, STEP IT UP!), Garden State, most Woody Allen (especailly Manhatten and Annie Hall. I thought Melinda and Melinda was utter pants though), Back To The Future, The Karate Kid, The Breakfast Club, Sexy Beast, The Trueman Show, Man On The Moon
"Kids"
Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo, A Series of Unfortunate Events,
Guilty Pleasures
Legally Blonde, Bring It On, Mean Girls, How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days, The Wedding Planner, The Wedding Crashers, Hitch
Many more to come
British Comedy
League of Gentlemen, Spaced, Black Books, Peepshow, Nathan Barley, The day today, Alan Patridge
American Comedy
Friends (I know, I'm sorry), Boston Legal, Frasier, Cheers, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Scrubs, Family Guy, Will and Grace
Misc
Any kind of real life show: What not to Wear, Super Nanny, Relocation Relocation etc etc. ER, Sex and the City, pretty much any TV series that Jerry Bruckheimer touches, except CSI:Miami, that's one spin off to far. However, CSI and CSI:New York are awesome, as is Without A Trace.I love documentaries
Douglas Coupland, Chuck Palahniuck, Oscar Wilde, Hunter S Thompson, T C Boyle, Jonathan Coe, Charlie Brooker, Martin Amis, Nick Hornby,