mark piggott
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"Catch me at the Ted Hughes Festival in Mytholmroyd on 25th October"
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41 years old
London, East
United Kingdom
Last Login: 10/7/2008
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| General | Writing, reading, travelling, drinking, eating, sleeping – in fact most things, apart from JK Rowling…
| | Music | I can only think of three people/bands who’ve written more than 50 songs that I would consider perfect: The Smiths, Joy Division/ New Order, and David Bowie....................
My top ten albums (in no particular order)
The Pogues: 'Rum, Sodomy and the Lash'
Van Morrison: 'Astral Weeks'
David Bowie: 'Aladdin Sane'*
The Smiths: 'Hatful of Hollow'*
The Band of Holy Joy: 'More Tales from the City'
New Order: 'Power, Corruption and Lies’*
Bauhaus: ‘The Sky’s Gone Out’
Stone Roses: 'The Stone Roses'
Joy Division: ‘Unknown Pleasures*
Planxty ‘Planxty’
(* With New Order/Joy Division, Bowie and The Smiths could have picked any of their albums).............................
Honourable Mentions: The Happy Mondays, Theatre Of Hate/Spear Of Destiny, Squeeze, Soft Cell (Non Stop...), Human League (Dare),Smashing Pumpkins, Specials, Madness, Early U2, The Jam/ Weller, Utah Saints, Some Hardcore Punk (Blitz, GBH, Abrasive Wheels, Discharge), Siouxsie Sioux, Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, Stereo Mcs, Sex Pistols, Oasis, Depeche Mode, Nirvana, Pink Floyd's 'Wish You Were Here', Beatles, Stones, Ian Dury, Half Man Half Biscuit, James, Doors, Blondie, Iggy Pop, The Who, Radiohead, Elvis Costello, Stiff Little Fingers (Now Then), Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Bob Marley, Bauhaus, Inspiral Carpets, Theme From Betty Blue, Taxi Driver, Get Carter, The The, that old NME C86 compilation... and hundreds more, some of whom I can’t even name, each of whom I’d like to thank for keeping me not too sane and not too crazy...
| | Movies | Early Woody Allen (esp. Play it Again Sam); Midnight Cowboy; This Year’s Love; Betty Blue; Get Carter; most old spagbol westerns; The Big Heat; À Ma Soeur! Trains, Planes and Automobiles; Spoorloos; The Swimmer; Long Weekend; The Graduate; Scum; Meet the Parents; National Lampoon’s Vacation; Intermission; Badlands; The Magnificent 7; Alien; Riff Raff; Shrek; The Party; anything with de Niro, esp. Goodfellas; Les Blessures Assassines; Oh Lucky Man!; The Firm; most old Clint Eastwood; Duck Soup; Heat; Idi I Smotri (Come and See); Airplane!
| | Television | Mock the Week; My Name is Earl; Porridge; anything by Chris Morris or Armando Iannucci; Curb your Enthusiasm; Seinfeld; Larry Sanders; Trigger Happy TV; How Do You Want Me; Peep Show; Match of the Day (when we win); Rab C. Nesbitt; Dave Allen; One Foot in the Grave; Frasier; Only Fools, obviously; anything with David Attenborough; Minder; Rising Damp; Never Mind the Buzzcocks; 8 out of 10 Cats (mainly for Sean Lock, admittedly); The Simpsons; Have I Got News For You; Our Friends in the North; The League of Gentlemen...
| | Books | Best ever: The Rabbit series (John Updike).
Apart from Updike, and the other obvious suspects (Amis Jr, Hemingway, Roth etc), a number of other novels, writers and short stories have made a huge impression on me, and inspired me in all sorts of ways............... these include:
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
The Ginger Man (JP Dunleavy)
The World According to Garp (John Irving)
My Secret History/Great Railway Bazaar (Paul Theroux – interesting to read together)
Beckett’s Trilogy
Boy A (Jonathan Trigell)
As I walked out one midsummer morning (Laurie Lee)
The Journey Home (Dermot Bolger)
Who Dreams of Katz (Todd McEwan)
Trout fishing in America (Richard Brautigan)
Hide and Seek (one of Dennis Potter’s few novels, very interesting on writers writing... and less irritating than Calvino)
A fox under my jacket (Harriet Graham)
Notebook of a Naked Youth (Billy Childish)
Nothing to say (Mannix Flynn)
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
The Heart of It (Barry Hines)
The Football Factory (John King)
Cloudstreet (Tim Winton)
The Butcher Boy (Patrick McCabe)
Miss Lonelyhearts (Nathaniel West)
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
My Life and the Beautiful Game (Pele with Robert L. Fish)
Old School (Tobias Wolff)
Blood and Guts in High School Plus Two (Kathy Acker)
Borstal Boy (Brendan Behan)
Songlines (Bruce Chatwin)
Childhood’s End (Arthur C Clarke)
My Family and Other Animals (Gerald Durrell)
Sartre’s Roads to Freedom trilogy
The Room (Hubert Selby Jr)
The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling)
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)… ‘“forever,” he said…’
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Some recommended short stories:
The Library of Babel (Jorge Luis Borges)
The Metropolitan (short story - Larry C in “The Fred”, Vol. I Issue VI, December 1985)
Last Rites (Neil Jordan)
The Lottery (Shirley Jackson)
...and Raymond Carver, naturally...
| | Heroes | Maybe “heroes” is too strong a word, but I admire the following in different ways… Homer; Homer; Lou Macari; Bill Hicks; Kathy Burke; Keano; Michael Gambon; George (the artist) Shaw; Paul Merton; Daley Thompson; Brian Glover; Rebecca Front; Shane MacGowan; Craig Cash; Big Vern; John Moloney; Roger Mellie; Richard Dawkins; Robert Carlyle; Omid Djalili; Salman Rushdie; Jack Dee; Anthony Gormley; Michael Caine; Ole Gunnar Solskjaer; Blue Cow (a cow with aspirations); Dylan Moran; WB Yeats; Sacha Baron Cohen; Kent Brockman; Kenny Everett; Richard Burton; Ricky Hatton; Ronnie Barker; Sean Lock; Billy Connolly; Ronnie O’Sullivan; Christopher Hitchens; Muhammad Ali; Timothy Spall; Banksy; Dennis Hopper; Chris Rock; Noel Gallagher; Kelly Holmes; Chris Donald; Dermot Morgan; Caroline Aherne; Paul Scholes; Freda Kahlo; Jerry Sadowitz; Terry Hall; Pablo Picasso; Charles Darwin; Lucy Porter; Leonard Rossiter; Bernard Sumner; Pele; Lennie James; Debbie Harry; Steve Coogan; Ryan Giggs; Siouxsie Sioux; Anthony Wilson; and definitely NOT that mercenary get Cristiano Ronaldo...
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mark piggott's Details
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Body type: | 5' 7" / Average | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Religion: | Atheist | | Zodiac Sign: | Aquarius | | Smoke / Drink: | No / Yes | | Children: | Proud parent | | Education: | Post grad | | Occupation: | writer |
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About me:
“Fire Horses”, my first novel, was published by Legend Press in May 2008. I’ve had fiction published in various magazines and anthologies, including Down the Angel & up Holloway (Pulp Books), and had a few poems published. I’ve had features in newspapers, magazines and websites including the Times, Guardian, Observer, Independent, Telegraph, 3am and spiked-online. I’ve appeared on TV and radio several times and once presented Network 7 on Channel 4. I live in London with my wife Lynda and our two kids Emma and Sean. We might move one day, I dunno. Oh – and I’m happy…
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