Music: listening, writing, arranging and recording; Web design; eating/drinking; occasional travel... but not sport (apart from swimming and ping pong).
Music
Too much to mention... old French pop (Françoise Hardy, Serge Gainsbourg, France Gall, Polnareff), Beatles, Manfred Mann, Tony Hatch (esp. Pet Clark), Jazz (esp. 50s/60s avant-garde and a bit of Dave Brubeck), '60s soundtracks, '70s TV themes and incidental music inc. BBC Radiophonic Workshop and Johnny Pearson (Mary, Mungo & Midge), light/pastoral psychedelia, soft pop (Association, Strawberry Alarm Clock etc.), The Seekers, Kraftwerk, St Etienne, Japanese Pop (P5, Cornelius, Hideki Kaji of course!), Clientele, 'golden era' él Records (Marden Hill, King of Luxembourg, Louis Philippe, Would-Be-Goods etc.) European indie pop, Young Marble Giants, G!st, Weekend, Pigbag, Higsons, Razorcuts, Talulah Gosh, Ivor Cutler, Caravan, Davy Graham (thanks Ian G), romantic era piano stuff: Fauré's Dolly Suite, Satie, Debussy et 'Les Six' (although I'm no expert).... the list goes on and will be updated from time to time.
Movies
The Family Way, Amelie, North By Northwest, A Mighty Wind, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Party, The Odd Couple, L'Argent de Poche, Diva, Groundhog Day, Gregory's Girl, Jacques Tati (esp. Playtime and Les Vacançes de M. Hulot)... I'll come back to this one.
Television
Black Adder, Victoria Wood, Lipstick on Your Collar, most music programmes, social history archive stuff, Question Time, Antiques Raodshow, Flog it!, Dragon's Den, natural history stuff (I love tapirs)...
Books
I don't read much, but: Emile Zola, biographies, humour (Meaning of Liff again, again and again), instruction manuals...
Heroes
The RAC ... on several occasions over a short space of time ( ...including Christmas Eve 2006!).
I'm now based in Bristol, having moved from Cleethorpes in 1984; studied at Bristol Polytechnic (UWE) until 1987; started work at University of Bristol in 1988, and, a few months later, joined The Groove Farm. Since 1997, I've recorded/produced albums for several labels under various names (Death By Chocolate, Tomorrows World, Continuous Electric now etc. etc.), whilst moving into Web design and training at Bristol University.
I also have a Myspace music site: http://www.myspace.com/jezbutlermusic
(as I signed up for the wrong type of account in the first instance... typical!)
It's the video for our new single, "BRIGITTE BARDOT".
It's from our new album "LOLA DUTRONIC IN BERLIN", and it's available exclusively from iTunes and CDBaby.com The single is starting to get airplay all over the place including Rodney Bingenheimer's show on KROQ-FM in L.A. , and it just showed up on the NME's website!
You can download both the single and the album today by clicking here:
Hi Jez. Thanks for the comment, very glad you are enjoying the album. Don't forget I want to buy one of those 6th Form albums off you - the first copy got badly damaged!
"An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them." Andy Warhol
so on that note , here is a reminder to all U U's out there in myspaceland ..........incase you didnt know
or receive the cordial invitation ............. our new little debut EP "Phazes" is out and available to U
for a limited time free dowload ! ! !
it is 4 your listening Pleasuah
:> VV
PS if you already have downloaded or have a copy, then thanks a gazillion, and thanks for being a power animal
