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Andy (Nanu) McGill C's Interests
General
Art....Musikat....Photogrpahy....Stop frame Animation....African Drumming...Bicycles....Circus shinanigans....Dancing the legs of meself....Random musical instruments....Freedom of Expression....Fire Juggling....Painting....Other Cultures....Tall bikes n other rotary contraptions....Congas....Insulating Tape....Red Wine whiskers...Pomegranates....Stilt walking....Me Derry muckers....Daydreaming....Hat Tricks....Staff clubs and Devilstick...Fairtrade Coffee....Catalonia....Samba drumming....the good ole reggae nights....Watching Break-Dancers..... Photographing the local graf in other countries....Organising gigs n music promoting....Unicycling....cycling trips....climbing trees and general acting the maggot when I get the chance....Physical Risks....Inventors....Balancing objects from feet fingers and the chin.....The Hellfire Club....Djembe Faso....Super-8 Cameras....the Phenakistascope....Eadweard Muybridge....Jan Svankmajer....Georges Melies....Joel-Peter Witkin....Henri De Tulouse Lautrec....William Kentridge....Nam June Paik....David hockney....Dryden Goodwin....Bill Plympton,
I play Djembe and percussion with "The HellFire Club". Good to get abit of folkey gypsy carnival tunes going from time to time and release a bit of giddyness. Have a listen at "www.myspace.com/thehellfireclubspace".
Here is abit of a ropey video of us to give you an idea: The Hellfire Club play "Another Round" at Exit, Tuesday 30th January, in Thomas House, Dublin.
and also play the DunDun drums in an African drumming and dance group called "Djembefaso". We play traditional West-African rhythms. The bands myspace is "www.myspace.com/djembefaso".
heres a bit of footage of us at the Garden Party Festival and then the Body and Soul stage at the Electric Picnic
Also support the dear cousin Vicky on percussion from time to time, should have a listen to her stuff www.myspace.com/vcappella
Used to love doing fire juggling, doing payed gigs and sometimes just plain busking around on the streets for the fun of it, but ehhh unfortunately I haven't touched them in 2 or 3 years now with the lack of time to practice.
Music
All kinds of old and modern Malarkey...Mamady Keita, Camille, Bessie Smith, KILA, Nina Simone, TOM WAITS, Ray Barretto, Gil Scott-Heron, Can, Beny More, Fourtet, Billie Holiday, Famoudou Konate, Bjork, Fela Kuti, Gotan Project, Louis Prima, Charles Mingus, Machito, The Cinematic Orchestra, Joe Cuba Sexteto La Playa, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Jordan, Toumani Diabate, Oumuo Sangare, Susumu Yokota, Moondog, Joanna Newsom, Howlin Wolf, GoldFrapp, Clarence Frogman Henry, Miles Davis, Van Morrison, Oscar Brown Jr, Dj Shadow, Cachao, James Brown & the J.B's, Mum, Bob Brozman, Giovanni Hidalgo, Mongo Santamaria, The Ink Spots, Quantic, Koop, Paolo Conte, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Sory Kandia Kouyate, Up Bustle & Out, Antibalas, The Jolly Boys, Muddy Watters, Poncho Sanchez, Big Mama Thornton, Portishead, E.T. Mensah & The Tempos, Happy City Samba Band, Northstrand Klezmer Band, Ramsey Lewis, Nouvelle Vague, Sufjan Stevens, Rodrigo y Gabriela, John Lee Hooker, Little Walter, Lil Johnson, Edith Piaf, Marlene Dietrich, Dizzy Gillespie, Taraf de Haidouks, Lemon Jelly, Nicola Conte, Curtis Mayfield, Toots & the Maytals, Aphex Twin, Luke Vibert/Wagon Christ, Grant Green, Bonobo, Kid Koala, Blockhead, Gogol Bordello, Blackalicious, Thievery Corporation, Astrud Gilberto, Ali Farke Toure, Tiken Jah Fakoly, Sali Sidibe, Monobloco, Philip Glass, Jacques Loussier, Paganini, Purcell, Paco de Lucia, Tomatito, Cheo Feliciano, Compay Segundo, Lightnin' Hopkins, Leadbelly, Fred McDowell, Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green days) Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Rory Gallagher, Mr Scruff, The Clash, Coco Rosie, Kalman Balogh, Mulatu Astatke, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Jimmy Smith, King Curtis, Sidney Bechet, Thelonious Monk, Yusef Lateef, Gene Krupa, Tito Rodriguez, Franz Liszt, Eek-a-Mouse, Booker T & the Mg's, The Congos, U Roy, Massive Attack, Django Reinhardt, Lou Rawls, Art Blakey, Hexstatic, Horace Andy, Sister Nancy, Junior Murvin, Frank Zappa, Fats Waller, Incredible String Band, La Lupe, Etta James, Michael Franti, Jeff Buckley, Serge Gainsbourg, Mariam + Amadou, Ravi Shanka, the Ethiopians, Ensemble National de Guinee, Ipelegeng, Company Fore-Fote, Youssou N'Dour, Stravinski, Scarlatti, Sammy Kaye, the Mills Brothers, Marc Ribot, Erik Satie, Lionel Hampton, Fania All Stars, Asa-Chang Junray, Takashi Hirayasu, Calexico, Kruder & Dorfmeister,Skalpel, Matthew Herbert, Tappa Zukie, The Decemberists, Troublemakers, the New Young Pony Club, U.N.K.L.E, Albert Ammons, Herbie Hancock, Hugh Masekela, James P. Johnson, Jimmy McGriff, Funkadelic, Esbjorn Svensson Trio...they're endless
Fela Kuti - Teacher Don't teach Me No Nonsense
The Mills Brothers - I Aint Got Nobody ....>
Movies
Down By Law...One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...Withnail and I...Buffalo'66...OldBoy...City of God...Eternal Sunshine for a Spotless Mind...Leon...Deadman...The Big Lebowski...Ground Hog Day...Being John Malkovich...Requiem for a Dream...The Third Man..La Strada...Amelie...Willow...Drop Dead Fred...The Bicycle Thief...Blade Runner...Hurly Burly...Trainspotting...Pulp Fiction...Lola rennt...The Dreamers...Little Miss Sunshine...Broken Flowers...Frantic...Goodbye Lenin...Nikita...The Life Aquatic...Y tu Mama Tambien...Coffee and Cigarettes...Beetlejuice...La Haine...Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo and Seven Samurai...Zatochi...Spirited Away...Chaplin films like the Kid, The great Dictator n Modern Times.
Television
Might aswell make some use of this here TV Box
This was us playing the "Earl King" on BALCONYTV.COM on the 9th of January 2007 "The Hellfire Club"
Heroes
Jan Svankmajer: tma/svetlo/tma (Darkness/Light/Darkness)
About me: I bees one of them Art Students. I'm based in Dublin and currently studying "Fine Art Media" in N.C.A.D. www.ncadfineart.com/amgcoggin.html
Also play percussion and stuff and like stuff and those other things
Here's some shots from still frame video pieces and other photography works I've created for past projects.
Who I'd like to meet: ........I'd like to meet the feckers who stole my bikes or parts of them over the numerous years...
Also anyone who can teach me to dance Lindy-Hop..
Belated Birthday wishes Andrew! Hope you'd a great time ringing in a new year of madness :) A glass is raised to your good health+adventures yet to come your way, sir. mo :)
Hi Andy, I was on my way from band practice when I saw you and it rocked. Sorry about missing you for a birthday drink, I only saw your message today, Hope you had a good one, Eric
Happy Birthday baby, i'm back...just in court this morning for breaking a garda's finger...miraciously all charges we're dropped so i'm free to go celebrate you Andy...you 24?
Yo dude, I'm in town later, so I'll certainly pop the head in to say Hi! Happy Happy Joy Joy Happy Happy Joy Joy Happy Happy Joy Joy Happy Happy Joy Joy Happy Happy Joy Joy Happy Happy Joy Joy
Hows about ye lad... just perusing the web while in the mixing stage here at the studio.. Thinking of you working away.. Good luck with it all - you know it's in ye... But that's what's made this recording so hard - you always know you can do better.. aghhh!! But anyway, I seriously hoope to get down to you within the next fortnight. Keep her lit and shining brightly, boyo.
hey man, lost my phone in the sea again. bosnia is like heaven, great atmosphere and the girls are without a doubt the hottest i've ever seen! you know i wanna hang out with you this summer so just put up with it. i'll be gone for a couple of weeks to mexico, vegas(gonna set my soul on fire) and florida. whats this exhibition you're gracing? peace
Just back from a family jaunt down to Conemara...feckin gerjus....had my wee big dip in the ocean too - the beaches were far more stunning than any Cuban one I saw... Cheers for checking out the Mntic craic - be sure to go to the band page www. myspace. com/experiencemantic and extend the friendship... As for coming down to your exhibition, you know I'd be there only we're playing a gig on the 6th in capital of Culture Li...mavady and then on the Saturday I'm singing for other people's supper in a fancy and very tasy restaurant newly opened here in Derry... Need to start earning the cash, ye know... Anyway, I'm so glad I got down that time to you all (you too Fiona and Darryl!!) - that dancing and catching up with all the other muckers of yore soothed my singing soul.
Hope to see you soon anyway - how long is the exhibition up for???
