HaTeS:
Chavs and their cars, or at least the bloody stupid exhausts. What's the point? Go home and play with yourselves!
Music
Skeleton Crew and
Everything EXCEPT:
pop music (ie pop, house, dance, rap and girl/boy bands especially Take That. For god's sake you were hated before and you will be hated again!!)
Modern Jazz
Death and Thrash Metal
View my profile on Nottingham Musicians
Movies
Blade Runner
Tenacious D
Blazing Saddles
and many many more
Television
Virtually nothing! It's pretty much all reality shit shows or X-bollocks!
Where the hell are decent programs hiding nowadays???
Ah, I remembered there is QI with Stephen Fry and Top Gear. Oh, and American Chopper, Myth Busters and Marky's particular favourite - Total Fishing!! Why an 8 month-old would be addicted to a low-budget fishing program I don't know but put it on and he is transfixed all the way through!
I also forgot to mention I detest football so there is no point trying to interest me in it in a conversation.
Books
Anything by:
Terry Pratchett
Anne McAffrey
Julian May
Tad Williams
and The Gunslinger series by Stephen King
Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham, United Kingdom
Graduated: 2000
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Design Technology with Education
1996 to 2000
Drew from the Crew I was right!! Pirate night WAS awesome!!! Fantastic crowd, great atmoshpere and playing the stuff we lve to people who appreciate it. Thanks all!! Excellent gig view more
I am the drummer for Skeleton Crew and can confidently say that in all the years I have been drumming, THIS is the GREATEST band I have ever been a part of. The style is along the lines of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal (nwobhm) with a bit of American rock thrown in (think Guns and Roses/Motley Crue). It may sound like an outdated genre but amazingly it is enjoying a resurgence. Emo and similar bouncy pop rock seems to be slowly fading and more teenagers are discovering bands like Iron Maiden, Guns and Roses, Motorhead, Motley Crue, Magnum, and so many others. The days when these guys were really big was when British rock was a force to be reckoned with. If you want to know what they sound like, go to Skeleton Crew's page (don't forget to add us) myspace.com/skeletoncrewuk and have a look at the friends for these bands. Also check out http://skeletoncrewrocks.com for the official site.
I learnt to play to this style of music and was never in a band playing it, strangely. That rectified I having been loving playing some great gigs with the guys and hopefully we'll play somewhere near you soon.
In the mean time, here is the video for the single that we have just released. If you go to the Skeleton Crew profile you will be able to read that if you pay to download the single, you get a second song free and you'll get the album for only £5 when it comes out. TAHT HAS to be a good deal. Have a think about it while you watch this!!
Here are the videos from our appearance on the main stage at Rock City for the 'Concert For Liam' on Easter Sunday.
This is 'If This Is It' but it was caught half way through. We are awaiting the full version at the moment but it's a taster.
This is 'Soul', a personal favourite of many people I know.
'All Or Nothing', one of my very favourite tracks to play.
The live version of our single 'How Come I'm Never Around'
Finally, the track we finished with. 'All Or Nothing'
Hope you enjoyed them as much as we enjoyed playing them (possibly not, lol)
In other news....Having given up working to stay at home to look after Mark, I am having the time of my life. The lack of money is not so much fun but then, I am not really bothered about that very much. I have the most incredible little boy who is about to turn 2 years old. He is my ultimate joy and I can't imagine life without him any more.
Oh yeah, and I also investigate the paranormal! Yes, I check out hauntings. I don't mind if you don't believe, I do and have had more strange experiences than I can count. If you don't believe me then try a night at the Galleries Of Justice or Derby Gaol and try denying the existance of the paranormal afterwards. There is more going on than we are aware of and it is damned fun checking it out. Check out the stuff on http://ghostsofnottingham.co.uk because there is alot of very real stuff on there gathered by the members. I have recently left GoN and formed a team of my own which just happens to be made up of the GoN investigation team who followed me out. We are known as SPIRIT - Supernatural and Paranormal Incident Research and Investigation Team. If you have a haunting you want checking out then let me know.
Click the picture above to visit the julie Cotton Foundation website
I am working with the Julie Cotton foundation at the moment, building them a website and running their myspace. They are putting on an event called Concert For Liam and is a tribute to Liam Doeherty an 8 yr old boy who lost his fight against Leukeamia on New Year's Day. Rock City are hosting it and it is raising money for Leukeamia Research who will be putting the money into funding for the Haematology Unit at Nottingham City Hospital. Please click on the banner, add the foundation as a friend and display the banner yourselves. It is an eminently worthy cause and your support will mean a great deal to Liam's Family. Thanks.
Who I'd like to meet: God - to ask "Chavs; WHY?????"
Loads of the bands that inspired me to start drumming and gave me something to play along to whilst learning my craft. Of particular note would be to Iron Maiden, Saxon, Magnum, Rush (though I still can't play like Neil Peart), Love/Hate (have met them YAY!!) and The Darkness (good luck Justin).
Hey Drew thanks for the add on this account toooooo! =] Added you to my top friends haha ;] Hope you're ok & that you have a gurd weekend! Speak to you soon! R x
Oh &.. PS I think I am gonna download Acid soon :D PPS Blazing Saddles is an AMAZING movie!
Nice to here from you - been a while - but know how busy you are. Our next gig is at The Britannia Boat club on Trent Bridge (22nd Nov) Be great to see you there - we will have our new member of the band on show. Looking forward to this one xx
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I have a cold? LOL:) my story beats your story! =D I have another story aswell, which just beats every story =D.
You did say blog:) heh. I just got so confused over that lol and lol thing?! >.< lol!
Nauwaf will take me:) he's lovely. bless him i make him buy me cider=D. Pockets, from, Fight Like Apes.. is all like, 'Woahhhh' though;) GAY PREFERENCES, oh god, don't say gay, i'll get put in ieu 8-)x
It wasn't sunny today though?! heh:) I havent seen the blog actually! I could probably get someone that looks about 100 to take me though? I pull old people;) Eh! The ting tings was good =D they're ace live, and the support was oftttt;) x
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Trying to get a babysitter for the SOPHIE gig, The boys would love to go but I'll have a wee bit more fun on my own! But I have added the poster to my profile, going to try to add one of the YouTube videos of you guys to go underneath it! Keep on rocking my friend, the pain is worth it! Hopefully see you soon! Crissie X
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