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Grippage, Gripping and Grippery, Yorkshire, Flamborough, Fangs, Real Beer, Birding, Twitching, Dirty Blank Jamaican pre-release 45s, Old school black metal and '8ts UKHC.
I'd like to meet:
..Ska lovers and listeners and anybody in Jamaica who wants to sell me old ska 45s! Anybody who revels in sweet sweet rocksteady!
Holocausto from Beherit, Mitch Hale from the Arena Heavy Metal documentary (circa 1989) and Andeh Stick (you know who you are!).
Any twitchers with similar music taste as me (if there is such a thing!)
Music:
6ts ska, rocksteady, Ken Boothe, Stranger Cole, Derrick Harriott, Jackie Opel, Dave Barker, Blues Busters, Justin Hinds, Alton Ellis, Prince Buster, The Melodians, The Jamaicans, The Soul Brothers, Skatalites, Coxsone, Studio one, C&N, N&D, Rolando & Powie, Dutchess, Delroy Wilson, The Sensations, Phyllis Dillon, The Heptones, Roland Alphanso, Lord Tanamo, Kentrick Patrick, Lord Creator, Ernest Ranglin, Don Drummond.
Stafford-era Northern, "Save Your love for me", Freddie Butler, Wheelsville, "Hurt by love", Silky Hargraves, D-Town, "Did my baby call", Steve Mancha, "How", The Ambassadors, LA Beat, "Somebody Help Me", Donald Jenkins, Cortland, "Say you'll be mine", The Shufflers, Crackerjack, "I Cried my life away", Tommy Navaro, De-Jac.
Killing ballads, Little Esther Phillips, "Am I that easy to forget", Donnie Elbert, "What can I do".
Beherit/Darkthrone (up to TOTAL WAR only)/Xasthur/Drudkh/Marblebog/Infernum/Nortt/Manes/Early Ulver/Early Satyricon/first ARCTURUS 7" and MCD
REPULSION/ENT/FILTHKICK/DOOM/HERESY/RIPCORD/NAPALM DEATH (up to Harmony Corruption but includng the totally killer "Enemy of the Music Business")
Old school death metal, preferably of the Swedish variety - AFFLICTED (INGRAINED!!!!!), TREBLINKA, NIHILIST, TRAUMATIC, NIRVANA 2002, MACABRE END, GROTESQUE, AT THE GATES (demo only!!)
Old school balearic thudders....
Slowdive, Cocteau Twins, Spacemen 3
ETHEL BEATTY - IT'S YOUR LOVE
JEANNIE REYNOLDS - THE FRUIT SONG
Movies:
Kes, Underground (Emir Kursturica), Nuts in May, Napoleon Dynamite, The Return (Andre Zvyagintsev), Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay), The Lives of Others, ZATOICHI
Television:
I haven't had a TV for about 10 years!! My favourite ever broadcasts (from when I was weird and had a TV) include Big Deal (early 8ts series about a hapless gambler, Robbie Box), the legendary Arena Heavy Metal Documentary (1989?) and the first few series of Time Team (when Tony still had hair and Mick the dig had a big beard)
Books:
Pretty much any book about birds or birding....
Heroes:
Alfred Evans (RIP)
