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I support Saints FC. The fact I suffer clinical depression is entirely coincidental. History. The future. Life, the universe and everything. Reading. Writing. The long term plan is to be writing scripts professionally. Sent my first script to the BBC aged 14, and would have continued to pester them if I hadn't dicovered I was even better at drinking gallons of alcohol. The 12+ years I was drunk were (The) wasted years, and sobering up (unwillingly!) in 2004 was like coming out of a coma. It really does feel like being a teenager again mentally, but finding the body has got into a bit of a state while I've been out of it... It's only when you stop drinking that you realise how much you have changed, and how far you've strayed from your path. As my health has returned, so have my youthful ambitions. I'm in the process of tidying up the mess my life got into during those years, and when I'm fixed up I intend to resume bothering the Beeb. Music is my other obsession, the overriding obsession - primarily underground/independent music. I went on a bit of a rant here, so I have shifted it to the blog.

What, you need more???!!! Okay then, but I really think you are being a bit difficult...

10,000 Maniacs 13th Floor Elevators 14 Iced Bears 2 Bad Mice 33.3 4Heads in a Fishtank 5678s 6 Day Riot 70 Gwen Party 808 State 80s Matchbox B-Line Disaster 999 A Certain Ration A Flock of Seagulls A Guy Called Gerald A Tribe Called Quest Abba AC Marias AC/DC Adam and the Ants Adam F Add N to X Adicts Adorable Adverts Afghan Whigs Afrika Bambaataa Agathocles Air Air Formation Airiel Alexander Robotnick Alice Cooper Alien Sex Fiend Altered Images Altern 8 Alternative TV Althea and Donna Amazing Space Frogs Amon Duul Amon Guru Anal Fleas Ancient Ones Andy Capp Animals Animotion Anita Ward Anti Pasti Aphex Twin Aphrodite’s Child Arab Strap Arcade Fire Art Attacks Artery Ash Asobi Seksu Astralasia Astrobrite Atari Teenage Riot The Attack Au Pairs Augustus Pablo Avengers B52s Babes in Toyland Back to the Planet Bad Manners Bad Religion Bambi Slam Bananarama Band of Joy Bang Bang Machine Bangles Barbecue Bob Barbecue Bob Barbel Bardo Pond Bardots Bark Psychosis Bat For Lashes Bauhaus BBC Radiophonic Workshop Beach Boys Bears Beastie Boys Beat Beatles Beatmasters Beck Bee Gees Beethoven Belly Berlin Bert and John Big Black Big Youth Bikini Kill Bill Haley and the Comets Billy Childish Birthday Party Bivouac Black Black Blue Fish Black Dog Black Flag Black Grape Black Sabbath Black Tambourine Blancmange Blessed Ethel Blind Willie Johnson Blondie Blood and Roses Blossom Toes Blue Cheer Blue Orchids Blur Blurt Bo Diddley Boards of Canada Bob Dylan Bob Marley and the Wailers Body Snatchers Bodycount Bomb the Bass Bonnie Prince Billy Booker T and the MGs Bow Wow Wow Boys Brainticket Bratmobile Brave Captain Breeders Broadcast Bronski Beat Buddy Holly Butthole Surfers Buttsteak Buzzcocks Byrds Cabaret Voltaire Camera Obscura Can Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band Caravan Carcass Cardigans Carl Orff Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine Cat Power Cats Against the Bomb Chaka Khan Chapterhouse Charlatans Charlottes Chemical Brothers Cherubs Chesterfields Chic Christian Death Chuck Berry Clash Claude Denjeane Clouds (at least two bands with this name!) Cluster Coathangers Cocteau Twins Coder/Mainline Colourblind James Experience Comet Gain Comsat Angels Concretes Conlon Nancarrow Consolidated Cookie Crew Cooper Temple Clause Cornershop Cowboy Killers Crabs Cramps Cranes Crass Crazy World of Arthur Brown Cream Creation Creatures Crispy Ambulance Cravats Crystal Castles Crystal Stilts Cud Cult Culture Culture Club Cure Cure, The Cursive Curve Daevid Allen Daf Daisy Chainsaw Dalek I Love You Damned Dandy Livingstone Darkside Darling Buds Datbylgu David Bowie David Byrne Dawn of the Replicants De La Soul Dead Can Dance Dead Kennedys Dead or Alive Dean + Britta Death Cult Death in Vegas Deathgrooveloveparty Deep Purple Delgados Delia Derbyshire Delta 5 Depeche Mode Depth Charge Derrero Derrick May Derrick Morgan Desmond Dekker Desperate Bicycles Detachments Devo Dexy’s Midnight Runners Dick Dale Dickies Digital Dance Dils Discharge Discordia Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy Dixie Cups DJ Pierre D-Mob Doc Shoko Dodgy Done Lying Down Donna Summer Donnas Donovan Doors Doves Dr and the Crippens Dr Feelgood Drag Racing Underground Drones Drop Nineteens Drugstore Drum Club Duane Eddy Dubmatix Dukes of Stratosphear Dumpy's Rusty Nuts Duran Duran Durutti Column Early Boo Radleys Early Elton John Early Michael Jackson Early U2 Early UB40 Earth, Wind and Fire Eat Static Eater Echo and the Bunnymen Echobelly Ecstasy of St Theresa Eddy Grant Edward Greig Edward Elgar Einsturzende Neubaten Eisshock Elastica Elecktrafixion Electric Wizard Elika Emily's Sassy Lime English Beat Ennio Morricone Erasure Eurythmics Exploited Extreme Noise Terror Ezee Possee Faces Fairport Convention Falco Fall Fallen Leaves Family Cat Farm Farmers Boys Fast Eddie Fatboy Slim Fatman Riddim Section Faust Felix Felix Da Housecat Felt Field Mice Fixit Kid Fleetwood Mac Flipper Flowered Up Flying Lizards Four Tops Frank Zappa Frankie Goes to Hollywood Frantic Elevators Freddie King Free Front 242 FSK Fu Manchu Fun Boy Three Galaxie 500 Gallon Drunk Gang of Four GBH Gene Gene Pitney Generation X Geno Washington Ghost Dance Girls at our Best Go! Team God is my Co-pilot God Machine Godspeed You, Black Emperor Goldfrapp Goldie Goons Gories Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci Grace Jones Graham Bond Organisation Grammatics Grandaddy Grandmaster Flash Grateful Dead Green Magnet School Green River Grid Grifters Grinderman Grizzly Bear Guitar Wolf Gumball Gun Club Guns ‘N’ Roses Guru Gustav Holst Gyro Hadouken! Hair and Skin Trading Company Haircut 100 Half Man Half Biscuit Half Pint Handel Happy Mondays Hard Corps Harmonia Harry J Allstars Hawkwind Headcleaner Heavenly Heavens To Betsy Heinz Burt Helium Herman’s Hermits Hijera Hives Hole Hollies Holly Golightly Hot Chocolate House of Love Howard Jones Howlin Wolf Hue and Cry Huggy Bear Hugh Cornwell Band Human League Humanoid Humble Pie Huski Hydroplane I, Ludicrous I, Monster Ian Dury and the Blockheads Iggy and the Stooges Ikara Colt Ike and Tina Turner Imagination Inca Babies Inspiral Carpets Invisible Kid Iron Maiden Ivor Cutler Jackson 5 Jacob’s Mouse Jah Wobble Jam James James Brown Jamiroquai Jan Hammer Jane’s Addiction Janis Joplin Japan Jazica Jean Michel Jarre Jerry Lee Lewis Jesus and Mary Chain Jethro Tull Jilted John Jimi Hendrix Experience Jimi Tenor JJ Allstars Joe Gibbs and the Professionals Joe Jackson Joey Beltram Johann Sebastian Bach John and Julie John Cooper Clarke John Fahey John Foxx John Lennon Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Joy Division Juan Atkins Judas Priest Jules Verne Julian Cope Juliana Hatfield Three Justin Hinds and the Dominos Karasmov Katastrophe Wife Kicks Like A Mule Kid 606 Kill Laura Killing Joke Kills King Crimson King Prawn King Tubby Kinks Kitchens of Distinction Kleenex/Lilliput Kool and the Gang Kraftwerk Kristin Hersh L7 Laibach Laika Lamb Las Late of the Pier Le Tigre Leadbelly Led Zeppelin Lee Scratch Perry Leftfield Lemon Drops Lene Lovich Leonard Cohen Levellers Levitation LFO Liars Lightning Slim Link Wray Linus Little Boots Little Richard Lloyd Cole Lo Fidelity All Stars Lonely Drifter Karen Longpigs Loop Lords of Acid Louis Armstrong Love Love and Rockets Low LSD and the Search for God LSG Ludwig Van Beethoven Lush Mad Professor Madder Rose Madness Mae Shi Magazine Magic Magic Magoo Main Mamas and the Papas Mambo Taxi Man or Astroman Manfred Mann Mantronix Manufactured Romance Maps Marilyn Mason Marine Girls Marine Research MARRS Marvin Gaye Mary Springs Massive Attack Matching Mole Matthew’s Southern Comfort Mazzy Star MC5 McClusky Medicine Medusa Cyclone Mekons Members Men Without Hats Menace Mercury Rev Messiah Micragirls Millie Small Mimas Ministry Minutemen Minxus Miranda Sex Garden Miss Mend Missing Persons Misunderstoods Moby Model 500 Monochrome Set Mo-dettes Mojave 3 Moody Blues Moonshake Morrissey Mortician Motorhead Mott the Hoople Mouse on Mars Move Mozart Muddy Waters Mudhoney Muffs Mungo Jerry Musical Youth My Bloody Valentine Napalm Death Necropolis (Southampton) Ned’s Atomic Dustbin Neil Young Neu! New Model Army New Order New York Dolls Newcleus Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Nightingales Nirvana Nitzer Ebb Non NWA Offspring One Speed Bike Only Ones Opus III Orange Goblin Orange Juice Orb Orbital Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark Orchids Orko (Southampton) Orphans Ozric Tentacles Pain Teens Pains of Being Pure at Heart Pale Fountains Pale Saints Pantera Passions Patti Smith Paul Butterfield Blues Band Paul Hardcastle Paul McCartney Pavarotti Pavement Peaches Penetration Perez "Prez" Prado Pet Shop Boys Petticoats Phuture Pilgrim Fathers Ping Pong Bitches Pink Floyd Pioneers Pissed Jeans Pixies PJ Harvey Placebo Plasmatics Poets Polecats Police Polvo Pond Pop Will Eat Itself Popol Vuh Portishead Possessed by Paul James Praga Khan Pram Pre-90s Genesis Presidents of the USA Pretenders Pretty Things Primal Scream Primus Prince Buster Prodigy Prokofiev Psychedelic Furs Psychic TV Public Enemy Public Image Ltd Pulp Purple Gang Pussy Galore Pussycat Trash Quadrant Six Queen Queers Question Mark and the Mysterons Quickspace Supersport Radial Spangle Radiators from Space Radiohead Rage Against the Machine Raincoats Ramones Raouel Raped Real People Red Hot Chilli Peppers Red Red Meat Reef Regina Spektor REM Renegade Soundwave Revolting Cocks Rezillos Richard Hell and the Voidoids Richard Strauss Richard Wagner Ride Righteous Brothers Ringo Deathstarr Robert Wyatt Robots in Disguise Rod Stewart Rolling Stones Rollins Band Rolo Tomassi Ron Grainer Ronettes Roni Size Rosa Mota Rose of Avalanche Rose Royce Roxanne Shante Roxy Music Royal Bangs Roy Orbison Run DMC Ruts S*M*A*S*H* S’Express Salad Sandy Denny School of Seven Bells Schoolgirl Bitch Scientist (dub reggae) Scientist (rave) Scientists Scorn Scrawl Screaming Trees Scum Scum of Toytown Sea Urchins Section 25 Seeds Selecter Senser Sepultura Sewer Rats Sex Gang Children Sex Pistols Shadows Shadows of the Night Sham 69 Shamen Shellac Shirelles Shop Assistants Silicon Teens Silverfish Silversun Pickups Simon and Garfunkel Simple Minds Siouxsie and the Banshees Skatalites Skeletal Family Skids Skinned Teen Skinny Puppy SL2 Slade Sleater-Kinney Sleeper Slits Slot Slowdive Sly and the Family Stone Small Faces Smashing Pumpkins Smiths SmogUK Sods Soft Cell Solex Son House Sonic Violence Sonic Youth Sonics Soulfly Soundgarden Soup Dragons Southern Death Cult Spacemen 3 Spandau Ballet Spare Snare Sparks Spear of Destiny Specials Spencer Davis Group Spiral Tribe Spiritual Bats Spiritualized Spizz Energy Splintered Squeeze St. Louis Union Stackridge Status Quo Steeleye Span Stefano De Girolamo Stephen Duffy (in his London Girls days) Steppenwolf Stereo MCs Stereolab Stevie Wonder Stiff Little Fingers Stimulators Stone Roses Strangelove Stranglers Stupids Subhumans Submarine Subway Sect Subways Suede Sugarcubes Sugarhill Gang Suicide Sultans of Ping FC Sun Ra Sundays Supremes Suzi Quattro SW2 Sweet Swell Maps Swirl Swirlies Symarip T9 Tad Talk Talk Talking Heads Talulah Gosh Tangerine Dream Tar Tchaikovsky Teardrop Explodes Tears For Fears Technotronic Teenage Fanclub Telefunken Television Television Personalities Telex Telstar Temptations Ten Benson Ten Pole Tudor Th’ Faith Healers That Dog That Petrol Emotion The Men They Couldn’t Hang Thee Cybermen These New Puritans Thin Lizzy This Mortal Coil Thomas Tantrum Thompson Twins Three Johns Thunderclap Newman Tight Fit Tights Tim Buckley Tindersticks Ting Tings Tiny Masters of Today Tiny Monroe Tom Vek Tom Waits Tony Chin Toots and the Maytals Tornados T-Rex Tricky Triffids Troggs Tubes Tubeway Army and Gary Numan TV on the Radio Twang Tyrannosaurus Rex UK Subs Ultramarine Ultravox Undertones Unsane U-Roy US3 Van Der Graaf Generator Vangelis Vapors Vaselines Velvet Underground Veruca Salt Verve Vibrators Vice Squad Victorian English Gentleman's Club Village People Violent Femmes Visage Viscous Pink Vivaldi Wah! Walker Borthers Wasps Wavves Weather Prophets Wedding Present Weezer Weirdos Westworld We've got a Fuzzbox… Whale White Stripes (not so much the last couple of albums) White Zombie Who Wild Swans Wings Wire Wizzard Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wonderstuff Wolfmother Woody Guthrie Wool World Domination Enterprises World of Twist Would Bes X X Press X Ray Spex Xmal Deutschland XTC XX Teens Yardbirds Yazoo Yeasayer Yeah Yeah Yeahs Yello Yo La Tengo Young Marble Giants Zager and Evans Zero Zero Zeros Fall Fall Fall

And now the rest... For A Few Dollars More A Fistful Of Dynamite Jacob’s Ladder The Seventh Seal Alien Aliens The Terminator Predator Dirty Harry and sequels The Warriors Highlander Caught on a Train Our Day Out First and Last Zulu Fallen Jaws 1+2 The Ladykillers Oliver! Flash Gordon Crouching Tiger, Hidde Dragon Zatoichi Stargate Clash of the Titans Planet of the Apes (the original version, of course; and its sequels) The Three Stooges Bedknobs and Broomsticks Star Wars: A New Hope Star Wars: Return of the Jedi Ghostbusters The Goonies Fright Night and the sequel Gremlins The Karate Kid The Never-ending Story Time Bandits Life of Brian Monty Python and the Holy Grail Jabberwocky Any Laurel and Hardy, Harold Lloyd, Three Stooges 2001 A Space Odyssey 2010 A Fistful of Dollars Gandahar Buffet Froid Dirty Rotten Scoundrels The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Cartoon version) Jason and the Argonauts Legend The Fisher King Delicatassen Indiana Jones (all of them) Rocky 1-4 Superman 1-3 (Christopher Reeve) All the Star Trek films Escape to Victory Escape From New York They Live The Thing Twelve Monkeys Jerry Lewis and Norman Wisdom Close Encounters of the Third Kind Morons from Outer Space Guest House Paradiso Unbreakable Signs The Journey of Natty Gann Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Krull The Prophecy Films Pirates of the Caribbean 1 Shaun of the Dead This Island Earth The Poseiden Adventure Get Carter Men in Black Harry Potter Harry Palmer James Bond Austin Powers Pink Panther (mainly for the Cato scenes) The Carry on… films. Except maybe Carry on Emmanuelle. The Doctor Who Movies with Peter Cushing Serenity Withnail and I Sherlock Holmes (any of the Basil Rathbone films especially) Apocalypse Now Tombstone Taxi Driver Dawn of the Dead Laserblast (don’t ask) Clue The 1976 FA Cup Final The 1966 World Cup Final Labyrinth Total Recall Police Academy (especially the first 3) Shanghai Noon and Shanghai Knights Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires The Black Hole The Wicker Man (yes, the original) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Scanners Videodrome The Howling Dog Soldiers Four Weddings and a Funeral The Shining Leon The Mummy Beetlejuice Romancing the Stone Howard the Duck Willow This is Spinal Tap Pinball Name of the Rose The Hill Enemy of the State Independence Day Starsky and Hutch Malcolm Tron Beverley Hills Cop Trading Places The Die Hard films Outland The Three Musketeers Unforgiven French Connection A Bridge Too Far The Great Escape Dirty Dozen Magnificent Seven Forbidden Planet Airplane Spaceballs Dark Star The Conversation Logan's Run Soylent Green Near Dark Lost Boys First Blood Split Second 30 Days of Night Catacombs Aeon Flux X Men Les Maitres Du Temps - Time Masters Daywatch/Nightwatch Sixth Sense Dune Pitch Black Battle Beyond the Stars Slipstream Freejack Performance Galaxy Quest Saturn 3 Wayne's World Without A Clue Condorman From Dusk til Dawn Young Sherlock Holmes Three Amigos Innerspace Tarzan: Legend of Greystoke Tarzan (the original movies) Duel Legend of the Shadowless Sword Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (Donald Sutherland version) Vanishing Point Slacker Filth and the Fury Ringu Finding Nemo An American Werewolf in London Nosferatu Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Gene Wilder) Silver Streak Cassandra Crossing Beetlejuice Metropolis The Poirot films Pulp Fiction Hope and Glory The Forklift Driver 1300CC Solo Superstitious Man (not the one on Youtube, but an older short with the same premise. I can't find it anywhere. I've probably got the name completely wrong) Dam Busters The Name of the Rose Spiando Marina Repo Man Biggles Usual Suspects Split Second Ladyhawke The Hitcher Fatherland Tremors The Shining Ferris Beuller's Day Off Ghost on the Machine The Omen Nick of Time Warlock Catacombs Good Morning Vietnam ET Flight of the Navigator Clockise The Witches Cube Runaway Big Trouble in Litle China Sleuth (Olivier) High Plains Drifter Quadrophenia City of Ember Hammer Horror before it got just TOO trashy Almost anything with Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Michael Caine (within reason!), Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Boris Karloff, Alec Guinness, Rutger Hauer, Sean Connery, Sid James.

There’s lots more, I’m still thinking. You can probably hear the clanking noises.

Still thinking!