Music, gigs, website design, films, and occasionally getting away from it all at mum and dad's cottage in Scotland.
Music
Favourites include The Who, Mansun, Dave Matthews Band, Elvis Costello, Bob Dylan, The Temptations,
My favourite unsigned/local bands include: Los Vencidos, The Uncomfortables, Moco, Armrug, The Marksmen, Thee Neerlymen, The Jackpot Golden Boys, Phlegm Fatales.
Movies
Trilogies and sagas! Rings, Bttf, Star Wars, Indy, Godfather, Superman, X Men, Spiderman.
Music ..aries! Standing in the Shadows of Motown, Dig, Last Waltz, The Devil and Daniel Johnstone.
Foreign Films! Etre Et Avoir, Amelie, Das Experiment, City of God.
Arty crap! Koyaaisqatsi, Pi
Childish Stuff! Muppet films, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, CGI stuff like Shrek and Finding Nemo.
Television
24, Lost, Heroes, Smallville, Band of Brothers, The Simpsons, My Name Is Earl, Peep Show, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, I'm Alan Partridge, League of Gentlemen, Red Dwarf, Black Adder, The Young Ones.
Books
Stephen King (especially his Dark Tower series), Terry Pratchett, Chuck Palahniuk, Douglas Adams.
University of Central Lancashire
Preston, United Kingdom
Graduated: 2002
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: BA (Hons) Contemporary Music
1999 to 2002
Winstanley College
Wigan, United Kingdom
Graduated: 1999
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Other
Originally from Leigh, Lancashire, I had an active interest in the arts, particularly music, from an early age. I have been drumming now for fourteen years and gigging for ten of them.
My love of music, and drumming, has seen me perform in Nice, the Czech Republic and New York, finally setting me down in Preston, Lancashire, where I now live.
Along the way I have met and performed with some amazing people. Here are a few of them:
Jelly's Last Jam
My current band, based in Preston. We seem to be doing quite well! As well as drumming I manage the band.
Nick McCabe
I met former Verve guitarist McCabe at a party in Wigan, where he saw me drum. We got talking and set a date together for a jam in a recording studio. It's six years on and Nick's just putting the finishing touches to the recordings!
Larry Norman
For almost thirty years the press has referred to Larry as “the father of Christian rock” because it he was one of the first who first combined rock and roll with Christian lyrics. I played drums for him on three dates of his 2001 UK tour.
Bill Sims Jr
Had an ace jam with Bill at The Bitter End in New York City!
Further to this I have played on countless recordings and sessions, and performed over 600 live gigs!
I have been teaching drums since 2001, and currently teach at Kirkham Music School.
Hi man. Are you still bashin down at the Ferret on a Sunday, still? I could do with exploitin your talent, alongside relieving myself of a fantasy, and play some Nirvana & White Stripes with you. Just learned 'Lithium'. Awesumb fun!!
Wotcha peeps - Soixante-Neuf is branching out to Calvary in the shape of gigs at Glass Bar in Fallowfield Manchester.
Bands for the first joyous event are...
Rainbow Trout Maybe you kids aren't ready for this but your dad's are gonna love it... http://www.myspace.com/allaboutthetrout
the Uncomfortables Psychedelic Surf-Pop to save your life... http://www.myspace.com/theuncomfortables
Luminol Nirvana meets the Doors on horseback in a thunderstorm. http://www.myspace.com/luminoluk
Ivan Campo Sustained loveliness from the boys from Campodia. Hitchcock meets the White Album. http://www.myspace.com/ivancampo
Also featuring a DJ set from BeatsOfRage and 'Rug favourite the Mix Nihilist aka drumrug aka Matt playing whatever he damned well wants cos he's smashing.
If you fancy a night out to Manchester this eve, ya could do worse I'm very sure!
Just thought I'd pop by to tell you I won't be coming to the Ferret gig on the 11th August cos we've got a gig on the same day, but I should be at the Septemeber one
Also, we're playing in the 2nd Round of the Venue BOTB on friday, we're not arsed about it so we're just gonna take the piss out of the hardcore bands we're playing against, so it should be a laugh
Great memories there, Stix. Must have been a great day out at Riverside Studios. Recall seeing them on TFI, but can't remember which song it was. They appeared twice, I think. Take care!
This is an auto-message, for which I apologise, but it doesn"t mean I don"t love you. Just trying to let everyone know that my newest tracks are available for your listening pleasure on my myspace page so go and have a listen, or all my effort was for nothing. LOL.
Hope you have a lovely day.
Dave
(xx kisses for the girls, manly handshakes for the boys)
You can’t stop circusfilms. No sir, circusfilms can’t be stopped. Why would you even try? Why? We’re an unstoppable, can’t be stopped force which you can’t even stop. Why are you trying to stop us? What has circusfilms ever done to you?
Apart from that one thing that we did, of course, which was a long time ago now and you said you’ve forgiven circusfilms for that. circusfilms thought that we’d both moved on. Are you still angry? Jesus, how many different ways can we say sorry. This is driving us apart.
Let’s build some bridges by you watching our brand new mini-episode.
I miss you :(. I get to see you tomorrow :). Not seeing you for 2 weeks drives me CRAZY. I NEED my Andy.
I LOVE YOU honey. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
