MUSIC! Travel, art, photography, books, films, cooking, backgammon, alternative living, single malt.
I've been a touring sound engineer and occasional tour manager for about 20 years now and I still LOVE it. I'm currently looking for gigs and tours, so let me know if you hear anything!
I'm working on a novel. I have the entire plot worked out and am in the process of summoning it into the real world..
I'm interested in history- the middle ages, the reformation, the Tudors and WW2 particularly- not so interested in Scottish history, far too tragic..
Politics: I'm a screaming Liberal and can't quite figure out why human rights, social justice, the Geneva convention and the role of the UN haven't been expanded and enforced to a point that politics are redundant.. Let's turn the Houses of Parliament into an art gallery theme pub!
Oh, and I'm in Senser too by the way, don't you know.
And NO STEP and Fuselage.
I used to be in Lodestar, who were freekin awesome..(And I did play bass for Ozric Tentacles for a while, then it all went nasty..)
PET HATES Ozric Tentacles, the current US and UK governments, Family Guy, Lost, the UK property market bubble (written before crash haha suckers), Soduku, house music, Mozart, Frank Zappa, 4x4s, celery, dogs, Eastenders, McDonalds.
DREAM GIGS (People I haven't yet, but would really like to mix)
Grace Jones
Radiohead
P J Harvey
Beck
Peaches
The Kills
Eels
Kate Rusby
Music
Rock, Jazz Fusion, Glitch, Early Classical, Folktronica,
Dub, Hip-hop, 70s Ambient, Krautrock, Electroclash, Folk..
Current favourites:
Good Arrows - Tunng
The Information - Beck
Impeach my bush - Peaches
The Eraser - Thom Yorke
Warm Leatherette - Grace Jones
On The Corner - Miles Davies
O Gemma Lux - Guilaume Dufay
Original Soundtrack - The Life Aquatic
Loud like Nature - Add N to (X)
10 - Kate Rusby
UH HU HER - P J Harvey
Living My Life - Grace Jones
Movies
The Good German
Me and you and everyone we know
The Life Aquatic
Barry Lyndon
Eyes Wide Shut
Young Frankenstein
The Lair of the White Worm
Casablanca
Sense and Sensibility
No Country for Old Men
Any crappy old Western on a rainy afternoon..
Television
News
Comedy
History
Science
Reality
Books
Poor Things - Alasdair Gray
Great Apes - Will Self
Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut
Lolita - Vladimir Nobokov
America - Franz Kafka
A Happy Death - Albert Camus
I'm struggling to find books I like these days so any suggestions would be fantastic.
I like stuff that isn't a chore to read, but makes some kind of impact or causes some kind of shift.. If you no wot I meen.
About me:
Gawk at me or talk to me, I'll be doing the same to you.
I'm originally from Scotland, but have been living in England- with my amazing, talented and beautiful Scottish wife- for the last 21 years.
I am prone to sudden, powerful insights as to the reason and importance of ART. Therefore- between finding acceptable ways to survive (no bank jobs allowed)- it's all about trying to find a way to make some good art for me.
I've produced/written/played on/programmed for/engineered/mixed a number of albums- most of which I'm proud of and some of which were quite successful- and I enjoy mixing live gigs much more than should be humanly possible (i'm definitely some kind of FOH mutation/freak), but I'm looking for something which I can put all my efforts into, something I can be in awe of once it's finished.. Any ideas?
Been working on my mic collection of late. Hoping to open a new studio in Brum soon. You'll have to come for the opening party! You heading to Brum for Music Live next week?
