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Looby-Lou

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About Me

I have recently started helping Nine More Lies in their quest for bigger and better things which is fantastic and I wish I could do it as a proper job. :-) I did a little in the past to help the Pineapple Thief and will never stop spreading the word to anyone who will listen. They are just amazing. It has all been fantastic and I am loving every minute helping NML. Apart from that, I love, in no particular order France and speaking French and teach it at the local primary school, salsa dancing which is the best fun and if you haven't tried it, you should... reading - Harry Potter is great escapism - and of course I love going to gigs which brings me back to the music - it is my greatest passion and my biggest downfall probably.:-

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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

I have actually already met him - I would just like to meet him again and again and again...

Music:

I love music - I was brought up on classical music and opera - my Dad played nothing else. I hated the opera back then but I loved the classical music - still do. Tchaikovsky was my favourite. Mum was into all the old musicals and I am still a sucker for the old Barbra Streisand films - esp Funny Girl. Then I discovered boys and along with them ROCK - Genesis, The Police, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Floyd, U2... Then came Marillion, who were my all time favourites for years until a Thief stole my heart! The Pineapple Thief are Britain's best kept secret – I hope that soon they will get the recognition they truly deserve. Now as well as the Thief and still Marillion of course, there are tons of others I love to listen to depending on my mood. From jazzy stuff like Michael Franks to Kate Bush, Tori Amos and Sarah McLachlan, from David Gray, Damien Rice to, recently, Nine More Lies and of course Satellites! There are just too many to list!

Books:

I have loved and read all John Irving, but my favourite is still ‘A Prayer for Owen Meany’, the Brontes have been favourites of mine for years – I am a sucker for Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. I loved studying Le Petit Prince and Madame Bovary for A’ Level and always wanted to read Papillion in French (still to do that, I have managed it in English though!!). If I am feeling low Harry Potter cheers me up – such good escapist fun. I also love Pullman’s ‘His Dark Materials’ – I love his idea of parallel worlds! The Jasper Fforde series has been compulsive reading as were the two books about Sarah Prine - ‘These is my words’ and ‘Sarah’s Quilt’ by Nancy E. Turner. One book that changed my thinking on some issues (always a good and amazing thing) was ‘The Poisonwood Bible’ by Barbara Kingsolver – fantastic!! There are so many others – I just love reading. I read a fabulous book recently, 'To say nothing of the dog' by Connie Willis which was hilarious. At the moment, 'The Historian' is certainly different.

My Blog

Broken Toes and feeling low.

I broke my toe today - I know because I heard it crack and it hurts like hell.  But do I get any sympathy?  No.  I am accused of being melodramatic and my 'performance' apparently ...
Posted by Looby-Lou on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 04:03:00 PST

Nine More Lies and Marillion

Well - what an amazing night it was.  Sarah and I met up en route for Nottingham and ended up... in traffic... several times.  At one point I didn't think we were even going to make NML set ...
Posted by Looby-Lou on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:04:00 PST

PMT

PMT is crap.  I felt like a complete psycho today.  Ranting and raving over the slightest little thing and then finally bursting into tears and having a sobbing match for half an hour.&...
Posted by Looby-Lou on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:48:00 PST

Beyond You...

There are so many things I would like to post on here, so many things I am desperate to say and certainly to one person in particular but it is just impossible which is how my life feels at the moment...
Posted by Looby-Lou on Wed, 16 May 2007 03:10:00 PST

Nine More Lies support Marillion - 12th June

 Wow!  I nagged Ed to get on to Marillion and am so thrilled they have been chosen to support them at Rock City in Nottingham on the 12th June this year.  I am now helping Nine More Lie...
Posted by Looby-Lou on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 04:00:00 PST

Conventional thoughts

Wow!  Still haven't come down off the ceiling which is rather disturbing - this has to be the longest high I have ever had. Let's hope when I fall from the moon I don't hit too hard - t...
Posted by Looby-Lou on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 02:33:00 PST

Back on air

Thank God for that.  My computer was broken for what seemed an eternity and I had no way of getting messages to people except via work's computers.  I had a feeling that if they ca...
Posted by Looby-Lou on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 02:01:00 PST

Feeling Conventional

Cannot believe that it is only 8 weeks until the next Marillion convention.  Let us hope that this one is not the earth shattering, life changing experience that the last one was, otherwise I ain...
Posted by Looby-Lou on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:05:00 PST

Enlighten me please

I have just bought Takk by Sigur Ros - someone was quoted as saying that Nine More Lies sound like them and as I love Nine More Lies I thought, "what the hell..."  It really is a lovely album - d...
Posted by Looby-Lou on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:22:00 PST

Very quiet

Life has gone so very quiet now that all the fun and frivolity is over - didn't realise quite how much it had taken over everything...  The gig itself went so well and I had such a good nigh...
Posted by Looby-Lou on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 03:23:00 PST