Music, sport (especially cricket and football) and collecting CDs by the aforementioned dodgy old punk and hip hop bands. Also, anything a bit daft (odes about lovelorn lorry drivers, songs featuring whistling or dogs barking, the sound of mating hyaenas etc) I am also fond of alcohol, oaky Australian whites being a particular favourite at the moment.
Music
Dead Kennedys - Tom Waits - Public Enemy - The Fall - PJ Harvey - Killing Joke - Echo & The Bunnymen - Bauhaus -Interpol - Stranglers - Monochrome Set - Undertones - OutKast - Eminem - X-Ray Spex - Tom Lehrer - Radiohead -Damned - Men They Couldn't Hang - Throwing Muses - Chameleons - Buzzcocks - Dylan - Smiths - New Model Army - Gang Starr - Magazine - are we nearly there yet Dad?
Also, some of the great lost, obscure but beautiful bands -the Dancing Did, Youth In Asia, Rudimentary Peni, Normal, Dodgems, Private Dicks, Pink Industry, Instant Automatons etc. I particularly love the Messthetics series of comps, as this gets around playing silly money for the vinyl.
Movies
Still adore Romper Stomper. East Is East, some Mike Leigh, etc. I'm quite partial to a bit of that Star Wars light sabre fandango. The Team - that hysterical film about Aussie Rules football. And some of the Roddy Doyle adaptations, especially the Snapper.
Television
I admit it, I love Doctor Who. And it's fabulous watching the rejuvenated series in the company of two small boys who could not be more enthralled.
Books
Just started Gary Imlach's Working Class Football Heroes.
Heroes
I'd rather recite the lyrics to Stiff Little Fingers' Nobody's Heroes.
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Sleigh Bells Ring and the Children Sing,
Mums Doing Her best to get the shopping in,
Dads Doing the rest on the Internet,
Its Supermarket Christmas Campaign Time again,
She wants this He wants that, a Micro Pig, a Siamese Cat,
A Builders Set with a Plastic Spanner,
or anything Pink with Hanna Montana,
You got to remember, Never Forget its Not what you Give, or what you Get,
You've got to give it with Love, Give it with Love, Give it with Love, This Christmas Time,
We're gonna have a Low Carbon Footprint Christmas,
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Granny is lost now Woollies (Woolworths) has gone,
Where is she gonna get Tracies Barbie From,
Where she gonna Buy the Vera Lynn Songs,
The Pick and Mix Bananas and the spiderman pyjamas,
This Years Toys Next Years Landfill,
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Soap on a rope for Mum and Put some Punk rock in the Old Mans Sock.
Coz, we're dreaming of a Green Future,
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I have gone over to the other/dark side and am not sure I like it...I keep making daft comments forgetting that on fb everyone in my friends list is possibly reading them...I am finding it a bit addictive and annoying at the same time.
I think I must have read something somewhere about the book but yes its been pretty quiet???? OK will tell all my friends to read it...its about Independant record labels Im sure and some new stories to cover the ones that have already been reported on....
Well everyone went on about Last Shop Standing...and i found it a tad unamusing really and there was a good story to tell if it had been a bit less clinical...
Right off to start writing....although I may have to change some of my friends on here before they see what I am up to ha
Hey Alex...I see that you have a new book out or just about to be out?? Am loooking forward to your shameless pushing of it. Meanwhile am glad I stopped over and discovered your Half Man Half Biscuit article for a friend.
Ever since that fateful time when I discovered that I had the artwork for Das Schnitz and subsequently Myspace, I have been on a weird and wonderous journey akin to a Shakespearian comedy involving all sorts of dodgy members of old bands from your book....in fact I think I need to write one now...It may be entitled "No more stalker heroes please"...
Cheers Sue x ps Am I the only 'real' person left on here?
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THE RETURN OF THE BAT
Specimen will bring their special brand of glam mayhem, The Batcave to London again.
After last year’s wildly-successful 25th anniversary Batcave event, The Batcave returns to its original spawning ground of London’s West End on Sunday July 19 for another night of blasphemy, lechery and blood.
Specimen (Fresh from a fantastic show at Leipzig’s Waves Gotik festival), the original Batcave instigators will headline the lurid frolics at the Embassy Club, (29 Old Burlington St, London W1S3AP) Also on the bill are original Batcavers Sexbeat, with DJs Hamish and Cavey Nick, cavorting from decks to decadence with the usual brutal, trouser-dropping surprises & suitably confronting & barbaric entertainment.
The 2009 Batcave will feature installations from exciting new artists of the ‘Dark London Underground’ and visuals from the upcoming ‘Welco
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Hey there, Thanks for the friendship. I hope to get over to London before too long and get the chance to play for you! How's the weather? Right now Seattle is about as beautiful as God allows.
Well here's to hoping your week is filled with wonder and brilliance!!
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