About me:
I'm a Jack of all trades, master of none... seems the way it has to be in the music industry these days. I am, in no particular order:
Music Writer: The Independent (online), The Fly (magazine and online), Notion (magazine) and Rockfeedback (online)
Promoter: Club Stripe @ Cross Kings, Kings Cross, 450 capacity
Music Publicist (Orbit PR): Spiritualized, Secret Garden Party, Blissfields Festival, Orbital, Frank Sinatra, The All New Adventures Of Us, Die! Die! Die!, Guildean Gang, Arrows of Love, Dub Pistols, The Siegfried Sassoon, The Wallbirds
Panelist: Red Stripe Music Awards
"...i read the nme, i read artrocker, and i read the fly, but for all different reasons. when i'm feeling hedonistic, i read notion magazine.
i write for notion magazine and rockfeedback mainly, while offering a music hand to the independent and red stripe...
that aside i'm a press manager with orbit pr... a small company with a roster which truly excites me; spiritualized, orbital, die! die! die!, dub pistols, secret garden party and blissfields, along with the all new adventures of us (tanaou) are all projects i so utterly believe in.
live music is certainly where i find my feet... my heart belonging to the sugarmill in stoke-on-trent, from my first live gig there i still owe a lot to the place through the growth of my old fanzine to the support of its establishment now. i still venture there if there's a good show on, which sadly is almost every day of the week... if only i could reserve a seat on the national express, daily. i write about the city in the fly magazine. again, with the love. cue the devine comedy.
camden, london is my current home and though the town is becoming washed in corporate britain there's enough charm to light my candle i think
back to live music... or more so, festivals... on average i'll hit a gazzilion a year from the camden crawl and secret garden party to big chill, V and leeds... i find it amazing to see the diference in local culture and how crowds offer diversity. T in the park rightly has the best crowds, but it's the boutique; like blissfields, that i think offers what glastonbury has forgotten about. love.
neatly to my close here... i can often be found on the dancefloor or backstage at some of the most exciting shows in london and stoke... so give me a shout if you see me. i'm hard to miss. buy me a drink. tell me about your band. tell me about you. there's too many people out there, and they're not all as shit as people i'll leave unmentioned at this point.
let music speak where words fail... and all that bollocks.
always end on a quote.
I got dressed up, up to the nines
I took a look in the mirror, i wish i was thinner then everything would be fine
At least I smell nice, so come on and breathe me in
whats the point
coz everybody look’s famous
and they’ve been wasting lots of time
everybody feels special tonight
up all night
and its a showdown and its down to the wire
the faces are warm, so pale and drawn
the last ones to retire
and if no one can manage a smile
well whats the point?
coz everybody looks famous
and they’ve been wasting lots of time
everybody is special in their minds eye
night up all night up all night…
we’re not sleeping we are staying up all night
up all night
rock bottom
rock bottom, you’ve hit rock bottom
rock bottom
rock bottom, you’ve hit rock bottom
Who I'd like to meet:
Tony Wilson (RIP), Michael Stipe, Jools Holland, The Hives, Win Butler, John Peel (RIP) and Bill Murray
And i'd like to see the following people live... The Who, New Order, Blink 182, Elton John, The Vines, Sex Pistols, Talking Heads and Roxy Music ...having already seen the following (from memory)...
28 Costumes,
4 or 5 Magicians,
50 Cent,
A Genuine Freakshow,
A Line and a Dot,
A Silent Film,
Absentee,
Agent Blue,
A Ha,
Alabama 3,
Alanis Morissette,
Alkaline Trio,
All American Rejects,
Alphabeat,
Alterkicks,
Ambulance Ltd,
Anastacia,
Andy Gower,
Angels and Airwaves,
Angry Band,
Apples,
Arcade Fire,
Arcadian Kicks,
Arctic Monkeys,
Arrows of Love,
Art Brut,
Ash,
Avril Lavigne,
BabyShambles,
Barfoot Confessor,
Basement Jaxx,
Beans on Toast,
Beautiful South,
Beck,
Ben Howard,
Big Cash Prizes,
Black Cherry,
Black Kids,
Blind Archery Club,
Blisskreig,
Bloc Party,
Blue,
Blur,
Bombay Bicycle Club,
Boy Kill Boy,
Brakes,
Brassroots,
Bright Eyes,
British Sea Power,
Broken Records,
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band,
Brut Chorus,
Busted,
Cage The Elephant,
Capital,
Captain Phoenix,
Captain,
Cerys Matthews,
Charlotte Hatherley,
Cheeky Cheeky and the Nosebleeds,
Cherbourg,
Chew Lips,
Chuck Berry,
Chumbawumba,
CODA,
Code Pie,
Coldplay,
Con and the Mochasins,
Cosmo Jarvis,
Cribs,
Cyndi Lauper,
Dan Le Sac (vs Scroobius Pip),
Danananananaykroyd,
Das Pop,
Datarock,
Dave Matthews Band,
Delphic,
Delroy Williams,
Derren Brown,
Dido,
Die Mannequin,
Die!Die!Die!,
Dirty Circus,
Dirty Pretty Things,
Dizzee Rascal,
DUELS,
Dylan Moran,
Eagles Of Death Metal,
Echo and the Bunnymen,
Ed Harcourt,
Eddy Temple Morris,
Editors,
Elle S'Appelle,
Emiliana Torrini,
Esser,
Eugene McGuinnes,
Every Move A Picture,
Everything Everything,
Faithless,
Feeder,
Field Music,
Fields,
Fightstar,
First Degree Burns,
Flaming Lips,
Fleet Foxes,
Florance and the Machine,
Flykiller,
Foals,
Foo Fighters,
¡Forward Russia!,
Frankie and the Heartstrings,
Franz Ferdinand,
Friendly Fires,
FrYers,
Future on the Left,
Futureaheads,
Futureheads (acoustic),
Gaggle,
Gary Numan,
Gaslight Anthem,
Gavin Thorpe,
Gerry SixNation,
Get Cape Wear Cape Fly,
Giant Drag,
Giddeon Conn,
Girl Talk,
Glasslights,
Glen Tilbrook,
Gogol Bordello,
Golden Silvers,
Goldfinger,
Gomez,
Good Charlotte,
Good Shoes,
Grace Jones,
Graham Coxon,
Grammatics,
Green Day,
Groove Armada,
Gruff Ryhs,
Guildean Gang,
Hadouken,
Hafdis Huld,
Happy Mondays,
Har Mar Superstar,
Hard Fi,
Hatcham Social,
Hijak Oscar,
Hives,
Hockey,
Hoodlums,
Hot Club De Paris,
Hot Hot Heat,
Hot Puppies,
Human League,
Humanzi,
I Am Kloot,
Idlewild,
Imperial Leisure,
Interpol,
Ipso Facto,
Jack Penate,
James,
Jamie T,
Jamilia,
Jarvis Cocker,
Jay Jay Pistolet,
Jeremy Warmsley,
Jessie,
Jimmy Carr,
Jimmy Eat World,
Jo Lene and the Jing Jang Jong,
Jock Scott,
Johnny Flynn and the Sussex Witt,
Josh Weller,
Juliette And The Licks,
Kaiser Cheifs,
Kasabian,
Kasms,
Kate Nash,
Kate Walsh,
Keane,
Kid British,
Kid Harpoon,
Killers,
King Creosote,
Kings of Leon,
Kitty Daisy and Lewis,
Kiwis Ned,
Klaus Says Buy The Record,
Klaxons,
K'Naan,
Kooks,
KT Tunstall,
Kubichek!,
Kyte,
Ladyfuzz,
Ladytron,
Larrikin Love,
Last Shadow Puppets,
Laura Marling,
LCD Soundsystem,
Legs Eleven,
Lenny Kravits,
Lethal Bizzle,
Let's Wrestle,
Libertines,
Life In Film,
Lightening Seeds,
Lightspeed Champion,
Little Comets,
Little Man Tate,
Long Blondes,
Lucy and the Caterpillar,
Lykke Li,
Lyrebirds,
M Ward,
Magazine,
Magic Numbers,
Make Model,
Manic,
Maple State,
Maps,
Marina and the Diamonds,
Mark Ronson (and his Wakestock version players),
Married To The Sea,
Master Shortie,
Matt Willis,
Maximo Park,
Mayday,
McFly,
Meme Love,
Metallica,
Metronomy,
MGMT,
Micachu and the Shapes,
Mickey P and Kerr The Dudes,
Milk Teeth,
Minus IQ,
Misty's Big Adventure,
Mitchell and Webb,
Momeraths,
Monday Street,
Monsters of Folk,
Morcheeba,
Morning Runner,
Morning Sparks,
Morrissey,
Mumford and Sons,
MUSE,
My Chemical Romance,
My Morning Jacket,
My Pretend Orchestra,
My:Audio,
Mystery Jets,
Natty,
Neil Young,
Neil Young,
Neils Children,
Nelly Furtado,
New Found Glory,
New Homes,
New Young Pony Club,
Nick Cave and the Badseeds,
Noah and the Whale,
Oasis,
Official Secrets Act,
OK Tokyo,
Okkervil River,
One Night Only,
Oneeyesblue,
Operator Please,
Orbital,
Ox Eagle Lion Man,
Pacific,
Paolo Nutini,
Parka,
Parva,
Patrick Wolf,
Paul Heaton,
Paul McCartney,
Peggy Sue,
Pendulum,
(We Are) Performance,
Pete and the Pirates,
Pete Tong,
Peter Doherty,
Peter Green,
Philadelphia Mainline,
Phoenix,
Pipettes,
Pogues,
Poison Zoomak,
Polarbear,
Polytechnic,
Post War Years,
Pun Lovin' Criminals,
Queens of Noise,
Radiohead,
Rage Against The Machine,
Rakes,
Razorlight,
Red Eye Banquet,
Reel Big Fish,
Regina Spektor,
REM,
Remarkable Rocket,
Rogues,
Rosie Oddy and the Odd Squad,
Royal Treatment Plant,
Rumble Strips,
Sam Sparro,
Scissor Sisters,
Scouting For Girls,
Scroobius Pip,
Sean Hughes,
Sexy Kids,
Shapeshifters,
Shiny Toy Guns,
Shit Disco,
Shout Out Louds,
Shuffle,
Sigur Ros,
Simian Mobile Disco,
SixNationState,
Skulls,
Sky Larkin,
Smashing Pumpkins,
Soko,
Sons and Daughters,
Sound and Fury,
Spiritualized,
Stars,
Stephen Fry,
Stereophonics,
Stranglers,
Subliminal Girls,
Subways (acoustic),
Subways,
Sugababes,
Sum 41,
Super Furry Animals,
Switches,
Take That,
Team Waterpolo,
Tellison,
Temper Trap,
Tenacious D,
The All New Adventures Of Us,
The Alones,
The Answering Machine,
The Author,
The Big Pink,
The Bravery,
The Breeders,
The Calling,
The Charlatans,
The Corrs,
The Courteeners,
The Crimea,
The Cure,
The Delays,
The Departure,
The Disappointments,
The Dodgems,
The Doves,
The Dykeenies,
The Egg,
The Enemy,
The Fall,
The Go Team,
The Good The Bad and the Queen,
The Gossip,
The Grates,
The Hair,
The Hoosiers,
The Horrors,
The Hours,
The Human Value,
The Humanity,
The Invisible,
The Kills,
The Kissaway Trail,
The Lancashire Hotpots,
The Longcut,
The Lovvers,
The Maccabees,
The Men They Counldn't Hang,
The Molotovs,
The Momeraths,
The Motorettes,
The Music,
The Naturals,
The Neat,
The Noisettes,
The Offspring,
The On Offs,
The Others,
The Paddingtons,
The Pan I Am, The Pan I Am Ziggy Stardust era,
The Pigeon Detectives,
The Prelude,
The Pretenders,
The Prodigy,
The Remarkable Rocket,
The Rifles,
The Runners,
The Siegfried Sassoon,
The Specials,
The Sport,
The Streets,
The Sunshine Underground,
The Targets,
The Tears,
The Teenagers,
The Ting Tings,
The Tommys,
The Twang,
The Veils,
The View,
The Walkmen,
The Wallbirds,
The Whip,
The Wombats,
The XX,
Thea Gilmore,
Them Crooked Vultures,
These New Puritans,
They Came From The Stars I Saw Them,
Thomas Tantrumn,
Thomas Truax,
Tims And Sams Tim And The Sam Band With Tim And Sam,
To My Boy,
Tokyo Police Club,
Tom Allalone,
Trip,
TV On The Radio,
Underground Heroes,
Vampire Weekend,
Von Bondies,
VV Brown,
We Are Scientists,
We Smoke Fags,
We Start Fires,
White Belt Yellow Tag,
White Rabbits,
White Rose Movement,
White Stripes,
Wild Beasts,
Yeah Yeahs Yeahs,
Young Knives,
Zutons,
... but I'll never remember them all to be honest
Comments
Oct 27 2009 5:16 PM
Anna Calvi Tour Dates
22 Oct: Glasgow, Nice N Sleazy (supporting Johnny Flynn)
23 Oct: Birmingham, Glee Club (supporting Johnny Flynn)
24 Oct: Leeds, Brudenell Social Club (supporting Johnny Flynn)
25 Oct: Manchester, Deaf Institute (supporting Johnny Flynn)
27 Oct: London, Water Rats
31 Oct: London, 93 Feet East
11 Nov: London, Bath House (supporting The Brute Chorus)
Download FREE song here - Moulinette (live)
http://www.sendspace.com/file/kxvjdt
Anna x
Oct 27 2009 5:16 PM
Tickets are ridiculously expensive. £9-£10 if ya buy beforehand.
BUT......
Group tickets are £5, and you need to buy 30 tickets to get this steal of a deal. So if you wanna come, let us know in the event below.
It includes the club night after the gig. Which when ya think about it is pretty cheap for a night out in Lahndan.
Check the event here
This is our last gig of the year (we're out of money and have had to retreat to native homelands for home cooking and arguments) so its gonna be a gooden.
Love & Group sex
BB
x
Oct 27 2009 5:16 PM
Oct 27 2009 5:16 PM
Oct 12 2009 9:58 AM
Charlie Sheen's Video Message to President Obama
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Oct 12 2009 9:58 AM
Charlie Sheen's Video Message to President Obama
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Oct 12 2009 9:58 AM
How are you?
Thanks for the friendship, please check out our sounds if you can;)
WN
Sep 3 2009 10:35 AM
Check out my page
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Let me know if you like me YES or NO
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Sep 3 2009 10:35 AM
We're trying to get airplay on Triple J Radio, so if you like our music we have decided to give a free download @
http://www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/View.aspx?artistid=14312 or just click on the banner below. And we ask you in return if you could rate & leave a review of our tunes on the Triple J download page as these two things are what they will be looking at when deciding.
We'd really appreciate it!
Thanx so much,
Dave & The Boys.
Our surf video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pkATt6pRPM
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Sep 3 2009 10:35 AM
Just so you know, we’ve set up a Facebook page now which is nice for chatting to people. Please rock on over and say “Hello horsey”.
New tunes, new shows and all.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kick-up-The-Fire/133132068938
Sarf London, represent!
Just so you know...
KennyX
Sep 3 2009 10:35 AM
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Jun 29 2009 12:01 PM
Hows it going?
Im opening V festival (with your help)
Please vote for me here!
http://roadtov.com/artists/paul-dixon/
Paulxxxxx
Jun 15 2009 1:20 PM
Free Whisky drinks courtesy of Buffalo Trace!!!
click the flyer for £4 tickets...
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Click the flyer for tickets!
May 20 2009 4:40 PM
Hello you,
Twisted ThIs Sat! with 65DaysOfStatic loosing there DJ virginity and Banjo or Freakout who guarantee to freak out at least 80% of the audience, or your money back.
See you there?
Twisted Xx
May 19 2009 8:24 PM