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I sing like a ruptured donkey with punk legends The Gonads BUY HERE; I managed the Cockney Rejects and The Blood, and co-founded the Orgasm Guerrillas and Prole. I currently manage Maninblack and
Leah McCaffrey; I conceived and compiled the first four Oi albums, "Oi! the Album", 
"Strength Thru Oi", "Carry On Oi!" and "Oi Oi That's Yer Lot". 
I contributed tracks to "Son of Oi" (they're my eldest kids on the front cover)
and "The Oi Of Sex" (that's my brother-in-law, John Cousins, RIP, on the cover).
I contributed tracks to "Kings Of StreetPunk" (GandR London), and 'Oi - F*** You' (Ascalon Records).
As a rock writer I interviewed too many bands to mention here, from The Clash 
to the Dead Kennedys via Madness, Blondie, Motorhead, the Jam and the Specials; I have written authorized 
biographies for Ozzy Osbourne, Iron Maiden, Jeff Turner and Twisted ****in' Sister. I covered 2-Tone and New Mod extensively, publishing Dance Craze - The 2-Tone Story in 1981. 
Random current bands I rate: Rancid, Green Day, Agnostic Front, Dub City Rockers, Darkbuster, The King Blues, The Masons, The Thirst, Pope, the Upsessions, Tommy Schitt & The Punishment F**kers; Iron Cross, the Dropkick Murphys, Bouncing Souls, the Aquabats, Stomper 98, Runnin' Riot, The Delegators, Sonic Boom Six, the Pepper Pots, Street Dogs, the Briggs, Skaville UK, the Gaslight Anthem.  
Control, Buster Shuffle, Argy-Bargy, Resistance 77, the Misfits, Deadline, Discipline, the Reducers SF; the Zutons, Agnostic Front, Liberty Hayes, the Pink Spiders, the Bermondsey Joy-riders.
Guns On The Roof, Koopa, Airbourne,
The Big, Pama International, The Unseen, Ava Leigh, Bobby Kray, the Cockney Rejects, Runnin Riot, Krakatoa of course, and Viva Las Vegas.
Random other bands/acts that mattered to me: Rose Tattoo, the Ruts, Guns & Roses, Nirvana, Bowie, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Upsetters, Slade, The Distillers, Sublime, the Vandals. 
Sabbath, Oasis, Purple, The Kinks, Offspring, T. Rex,
The Damned, The Faces, Sham, Dave & Ansell Collins, the Temptations, Elvis, Johnny Cash, Horace Faith, Secret Affair, ZZ Top, Menace, Iron Cross, Bad Manners, the Pietasters, Chas & Dave, Pluto Shervington,
UFO, Thin Lizzy, the Pioneers, Desmond Dekker,
The Jam, The Who, Judge Dread, Bill Perry, John Lennon, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, Chuck Berry
Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly, Edwin Starr and Little Richard.

I play a clueless gangster in "Hell To Pay" and get brutally gunned down. Some you win... 
I've just co-written Join The Rejects - Get Yourself Killed, currently in pre-production.
Random movies I could watch indefinitely:
The Long Good Friday, The Wanderers, It's A Wonderful Life, Carry On Up The Khyber,
The Godfather I & II, Goodfellas, If, Quadrophenia, The Matrix, Scum,
The Rebel, Zulu, Pulp Fiction, Passport To Pimlico, I'm All Right Jack, Sexy Beast, The Warriors, 
The Producers, Lord Of The Rings, Casino, Spartacus, First Blood, Shawshank Redemption, Life Of Brian, Rocky,
Predator, The Wild Bunch, Die Hard, A Clockwork Orange,
Repo Man, Blade Runner, The 300, Whisky Galore, American History X,
Lawrence of Arabia, The Lavender Hill Mob, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Trainspotting, The Bridge On the River Kwai, Henry V, National Lampoon’s Animal House, Get Carter, American Graffiti,  Terminator 1 and 2, 300, Repo Man, Whisky Galore, Cool Hand Luke,  The Adventures of Robin Hood, Oliver!, The Man in the White Suit, The Ipcress File, The Dam Busters, A Hard Day's Night, The Belles of St. Trinian's, The Searchers, The Alamo, Alfie, The Italian Job, Bronco Bullfrog, The Third Man, Apocalypse Now, The Usual Suspects, The Great Escape, Dirty Dozen, Excalibur, Mad Max, Theatre of Blood, Hell Drivers

Hosted late night show Bushell On The Box for fifty episodes on
ITV, was resident TV critic on Channel 4's The Big Breakfast, and resident telly critic on Nuts TV. Over 
three thousands other TV appearances ranging from "Celebrity Squares" 
to "The South Bank Show." The show that meant the most to me? The 
"National Alf" on C4.
TV shows I'd take to a category A berth at Her Majesty's Pleasure:
US: The Sopranos, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Bilko, Larry Sanders, Oz, Family Guy, Star Trek TNG,
Late Show, Tonight Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Wire, Boston Legal, Entourage, Craig Ferguson
UK: Steptoe, Hancock, The Sweeney, Minder, Only Fools & Horses,
Python, The Prisoner, Fawlty Towers, Phoenix Nights,
Shameless, the Mighty Boosh, Funland,
Fox, A Sense Of Freedom, Sharpe, Cracker, Q, Python, Porridge, Benny Hill, Boys From The Blackstuff,
Auf Wiedersehen Pet, Out, Widows, The Office, The Avengers, The League of Gentlemen, first series Little Britain, The Firm, Extras, Life On Mars.
Recent faves: Mad Men, Heroes, Benidorm, Moving Wallpaper, Gavin & Stacey, The Black Donnellys, Smith, Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip...  

Yeah, I've written a few:  ....books authored by Garry Bushell 
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A few that mattered to me: Homage To Catalonia by George Orwell, Bonfire of the Vanties by Tom Wolfe, How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered The World by Francis Wheen, The Great Deception by Booker & North, Awopbopaloobop by Nick Cohn.
Rudyard Kipling: The Complete Verse, The Likes Of Us by Michael Collins, Born Fighting by James Webb, Tragically I Was An Only Twin - The Complete Peter Cook.
Peter Simple's Century by Michael Wharton, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, The Third Policeman bv Flann O'Brien, The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley.
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon, Motley Crue The Dirt, 1984 by George Orwell; The Max Miller Appreciation Society's Blue Book, The Boy Looked At Johnny by Parsons and Burchill.
Puckoon by Spike Milligan, Eat The Rich by P. J. O'Rourke, The Lion & The Unicorn by George Orwell.
 

Orwell,  Kipling,  Chaplin, Elvis, Alfred The Great, Paddy Maine; the Ramones, Joe Strummer, Gus Elen; Laurel & Hardy, Stinky Turner; Arthur Schopenhauer;
Johnny Cash; Tom Wolfe, Beki Bondage; Max Miller; Max Wall, Max Romeo; Lemmy; Barbara Windsor; Spike Milligan, Billy Connolly; Chic Murray, Hoxton Tom (for President!); 
Dirty Harry; Shelley; Chaka Zulu; Derek  Hales; Peter Cook; Peter Kay; PJ O’Rourke; Nelson, Tony Soprano; Sugar Ray
Captain Kirk; Roger Miret; Sid James; Ozzy; Lars Frederiksen, JJ Bedsore; Buster Keaton, Galton & Simpson; Robb Wilton, John Sullivan; Elizabeth Montgomery; David Hume; Sid James;
Angry Anderson; Hendrix; Carol White; Carol Cleveland; Malcolm Owen; Alan Moore; Mickey Spillane; Michael Wharton;
Stevie Marriott; Desmond Dekker,  Ray Winstone; Phil Lynott; Seven of Nine; Dolly Parton; Pete Way; Stanley Ogden; Matt Groening; Raymond Chandler
Dave and Ansel Collins; Cock Sparrer;  Judge Dread; John Lydon; Les Dawson; Lewis Black; Billy Butlin, Benny Hill, The Skatellites, Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, Stanley Ogden; Denise Van Outen; Laurel Aitken; Barry Humphries, Peggy Mount, Arthur Haynes...
Marie Lloyd, Vesta Tilley, Charles Coburn, George Leybourne, Dan Leno, Harry Champion, Little Tich, Florrie Forde, Ella Shields, Leslie Stuart, Mark Sheridan, Lupino Lane, Sid Field, Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howerd, Billy Russell, Stanley Unwin, Arthur English, Leon Cortex, Dick Emery, Cheerful Charlie Chester, Jimmy Wheeler, Freddie Frinton. 
And turns, I love turns.