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Art & Design, Reportage Photography, Illustration, and all manner creative stuff. Love my music - especially Northern Soul/Motown/Ska/Bluebeat sounds. Cinema (am a huge film buff), Theatre, Going to live gigs, Live comedy at the Glee Club on Thursday nights. Mod Culture, Vespa and Lambretta Classic Scooters, old films, Eating Out (Indian, Japanese, Italian cuisines are a must), Aston Villa FC, Reading good Novels, Creative Writing, Learning to play guitar, Going on rides in the country on my Vespa on Sunday afternoons, Audrey Hepburn, old friends and good times.
Music
You just can't beat a good John Barry filmscore: a la 'Get Carter' - otherwise I can usually be found filling my earholes with: The Jam, Beautiful South, The Kinks, The Small Faces, Kasabian, Kaiser Chiefs, Supergrass, Air, Tamla Motown, Northern Soul, 70's funk, Madness, The Specials, Buster Bloodvessel, The Beat, Ska and Bluebeat, The Move (good Brummies), The Yardbirds, Soul Brother No1 James Brown, Bobby Bryd, Portishead, Massive Attack, Groove Armada, Jean Jaques Perry. The Who. Happy Mondays, Stone Roses, The Smiths, The La's, The Coral, Cast, Soup Dragons, Propeller Heads, The Prodigy, Doves, Jet, The bees, The Hives, Snow Patrol, Elvis Costello, The Clash, Bomb the Bass, Ocean Colour Scene, Beatles, Stones, Pink Floyd, Desmond Dekker, The Verve, Black Grape, Mad Capsule Markets, Crowded House, Talking Heads, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Electric Six, Stereophonics, Frank Sinatra, Queens of the Stone Age, Franz Ferdinand, Bootsie Collins, Manic Street Preachers
Movies
Roman Holiday, Charade, Two for the road, Breakfast at Tiffany's, How to steal a Million, The Dawn Patrol, The Blue Max, Vanishing Point, 12 Angry Men, Battle of Britain, Shawshank Redemption, Jaws, Quadrophenia, Citizen kane, Das Boot, Lock stock & two smoking Barrels, The Good The Bad and the Ugly, original Star Wars trilogy, Forbidden planet, plan 9 from outer space, Fargo, The Lavender hill mob, Dr Strangelove, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, The Godfather, Falling down, the keep, Leon, Cassablanca, Little Caesar, Brighton Rock, A matter of Life and Death, Return of the Pink Panther, Bladerunner, D'jango, Europa Europa, Betty Blue, Our man Flint, In like Flint, Apocalypse Now, Deathwatch, Goldfinger, Blue Velvet, King of New York, Raiders of the lost Ark, All quiet on theWestern Front, 2001, A Clockwork Orange, Blow up, Airplane, The Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Akira, Downfall, Scarface, Carlitos way, Anne of green gables, Hearts in Atlantis, The Omen, North by Northwest, Psycho, Manhatten, It's a Wonderful Life, Singing in the Rain, Barbarella, The Life and Death of Cournel Blimp, The Boys from Brazil, Romper Stomper, The Enemy Below, Reach for the Sky, The Grifters, The Odd Couple, The man who would be king, Get Carter, The Italian Job, The Ipcress File, Funeral in Berlin, Predator, Alien / Aliens, The Life of Brian, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, ....I could go on, but I think you're getting bored already
Television
And here are just two reasons why the 1970's rocked!!!
The Prisoner, 24, The Office, The Simpsons, The Day Today, Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, Little Britain, Pheonix Nights, Brasseye, Monkey Dust, Soccer AM, I'm Alan Partridge, Extras, Takeshi's Castle, Life on Mars, Prison Break. - The 70's and early 80's were the golden age of TV as far as I'm concerned = The Goodies, The Muppet Show, Battle of the Planets, Tales of the Unexpected, Chips, The A-team, Airwolf, Knightrider, Monkey Magic, Rentaghost
Books
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulkes. My Name Escapes Me - Alec Guiness. Hornet's Sting - Derek Robinson. Vroom with a View - Peter Moore. Are you Dave Gorman - Dave Gorman. Join Me - Danny Wallace. Stalingrad - Anthony Beevor. The Keep - F Paul Wilson. The Guv'nor - Lenny McClean. Silent Night - Stanley Weintraub. The Motorcycle Diaries - Che Guevera. Execution Hour - Gordon Rennie. Audrey Hepburn 'An Elegant Spirit' - Sean Hepburn Ferrer. The Rats - James Herbert. Day of the Jackal - Fredrick Forsythe. Adolf Hitler, My part in his Downfall - Spike Milligan. Gunner Who? - Spike Milligan. Crossfire - Jim Marrs. Something to do with Death - Christopher Frayling. Double Eagle - Dan Abnett.
Hello you, thanks for dropping in and having a gawp at me. Those who know me will vouch for what a thoroughly lovely specimen of blokness I am! (and soo modest too!) I love to laugh and make others around me laugh, I've been told I'm more fun to have around than a bagful of breakdancing monkeys! (although this was said during a rather booze soaked conversation). I live and work in the sunny concrete metroplois we lovingly refer to as Brum (AKA Birmingham). I work as a Graphic Designer for an agency and love letting my imagination and creative juices flow when I get the chance. When I'm not slaving away over a hot AppleMac, I'm usually found filling my time with Music, hanging out with my friends, riding around on my Vespa (the Modernist lifestyle is tres importante!) or just generally being a right little social monkey - all in all, Lifes Good!
Who I'd like to meet:
Lovers of life and all things fun. People kind of heart, gentle of nature, sweet of disposition, and faithful and true in virtue. And if you've got killer taste in good music, love the mod scene, appreciate the classic lines of a Vespa or Lambretta, and will do absolutely anything to satisfy a longing for good Sushi, then you're in like Flint with me!
THIS IS A SELECTION OF SOME OF MY ARTWORK THAT I'M CURRENTLY WORKING ON. I'LL BE PRODUCING AND SELLING THESE AND OTHERS AS LIMITED EDITION PRINTS LATER THIS YEAR, SO IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN GETTING YOUR HANDS ON SOME COOL-AS-YOU-LIKE MOD ART, THEN DROP ME A MSG AND WE'LL TALK. I'M ALSO TAKING COMMISSIONS TOO! SO IF YOU 'RE LOOKING TO CREATE THAT ONE OFF GIFT FOR THE SOMEONE SPECIAL IN YOUR LIFE THEN LOOK NO FURTHER.
HEY CLUBS! I ALSO DO FLYERS, POSTERS AND ALL MANNER OF PROMOTIONAL GUMPF TOO!
Announcing the addition of 9 sneaky previews of tunes from the forthcoming dc fontana album "six against eight" are now up on our my space page for your delectation plus a snippet of the lack of afro remix of our forthcoming single "the contessa"......from our art to your soul..... Please do stop by and have a quick listen to these snippets (all works in progress) and let us know what you think won't you?
Rowed Out Records are proud to announce the new single on the label;
button up - "I'm gonna leave you" 7" e.p.
Fantastic new hammond mod band from outta Coatbridge, Scotland with 3 tracks of stunning dancefloor jazz!
Side one of the e.p. features the band's version of NINA SIMONE's "I'm gonna leave you", with vocals by ex Del Amitri frontman Justin Currie - a mind blowing version that features appears on a lot of peoples mySpace pages. The second track is an original composition entitled "Sudden groovement" - pure JTQ style hammond funk!! Side two is taken up by a version of Brydie Green's take on FREDDIE HUBBARDs "Return of the prodigal son" - i.e. the vocal version!!
There we go; one e.p. - 3 tracks, in a pic sleeve and with a FREE postcard too!!
have a listen on www.myspace/soullikefire
The price? - the usual £3.00 + P&P (a total of £4 UK, £5 Europe and £5.50 ROW)
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Please do stop by and have a quick listen to these snippets (all works in progress) and let us know what you think won't you?
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Send me a drink back!
Cheers!
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Love, Pattie & Pattie x
May 25 2009 7:37 PM
speak soon
May 22 2009 7:53 PM
NEW 7" e.p. OUT ON ROWED OUT RECORDS
Rowed Out Records are proud to announce the new single on the label;
button up - "I'm gonna leave you" 7" e.p.
Fantastic new hammond mod band from outta Coatbridge, Scotland with 3 tracks of stunning dancefloor jazz!
Side one of the e.p. features the band's version of NINA SIMONE's "I'm gonna leave you", with vocals by ex Del Amitri frontman Justin Currie - a mind blowing version that features appears on a lot of peoples mySpace pages. The second track is an original composition entitled "Sudden groovement" - pure JTQ style hammond funk!!
Side two is taken up by a version of Brydie Green's take on FREDDIE HUBBARDs "Return of the prodigal son" - i.e. the vocal version!!
There we go; one e.p. - 3 tracks, in a pic sleeve and with a FREE postcard too!!
have a listen on www.myspace/soullikefire
The price? - the usual £3.00 + P&P (a total of £4 UK, £5 Europe and £5.50 ROW)
May 20 2009 7:47 PM
How's thing's?
Have a great day!!!
Lisa x
May 20 2009 6:43 PM
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May 7 2009 10:03 PM
Hope you had a fun day? :) x
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