John
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""Mah soul's bin' psychedelicized!!!""
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43 years old
United Kingdom
Last Login: 10/11/2008
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| General | Music, books, film, art & visual stuff, food & drink, travel, architecture, favourite spots in Glasgow include the Britannia Panopticon Music Hall, the Sharmanka Kinetic Gallery, Mono, CCA & Cafe Mao.  | | Music | Syd Barrett/early Pink Floyd, Joe Meek, Captain Beefheart, Colleen, Nalle, Bridget St. John, Delia Derbyshire, Pefkin, Sharron Kraus, Larkin Grimm, Fursaxa, Led Zeppelin/Robert Plant, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Edgard Varese, The Byrds/Gene Clarke/Roger McGuinn/David Crosby, Incredible String Band, United States of America, Espers, James Blackshaw, Oddfellows Casino, Judee Sill, One Ensemble of Daniel Padden, Ivor Cutler, Olivier Messiaen, Ladytron, Pam Berry, Kuupuu, Islaja, Del Shannon, Buddy Holly, Lali Puna, Lol Coxhill, George Burt & Raymond MacDonald, Mount Vernon Arts Lab/Astral Temple, Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, Niagara Falls, Scatter, Pastels, Melody Dog, Anne Briggs, Jackson C. Frank, Bill Wells, Isobel Campbell, Vashti Bunyan, Kama Aina, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Bert Jansch, Roy Harper, My Bloody Valentine, John & Alice Coltrane, Ken Hyder's K-Space, Kemialliset Ystavat, Robert Wyatt, Jacqueline DuPre, Sir John Barbirolli, The Beatstalkers, The Poets, Be Bop Deluxe/Bill Nelson, Jean Sibelius, Carl Nielsen, 1990s, Lungleg, Yummy Fur, Brigitte Fontaine, Jimi Hendrix, The Misunderstood, Marc Almond, Scott Walker, Pia Fraus, Arthur Lee & Love, Kitchen Cynics, Moondog, The Zombies, Phantom Buffalo, Caroline Lufkin, Cahier, This Heat,Park Attack, Dragon or Emperor, The North Sea, Rameses III, Electroluvs, Petra Haden, Vivian Stanshall, Markus Makki, The Black Keys... and so on.... | | Movies | Roman Polanski films, from Repulsion to The pianist, Doctor Terror's House Of Horrors, Wicker Man, The Red Balloon, Hard Days Night, Pandora's Box, Amelie, The Collector, Eight and a Half, The Ladykillers, I Walk The Line, The Black Sheep Of Whitehall, Lost Highway, The Fall, Psych Out, The Trip, The Committee, Withnail & I, Harold and Maude, Ed Wood, The Sorcerers, Scandal, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Old Boy, Dead Clean, Modesty Blaise, Theatre of Blood and anything else with Vincent Price in it... | | Television | Classic ITC: Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased), The Prisoner, The Champions, Danger Man (esp. Not So Jolly Roger) etc. Doctor Who, Bagpuss, Clangers & anything Oliver Postgate, Budgie (series now 1 on dvd... highly recommended!), Roberta Leigh's Space Patrol. Can't think of much more... too much going on to watch a lot of tv! | | Books | The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Love in the Time of Cholera, Kenneth Grahame: Wind in the Willows, Jenny Fabian: Groupie, William Burroughs (too many to mention), Barry Miles' biographies, Brothers Grimm, Edward Laing's anthologies of tales, Oscar Wilde (anything!), Ian Rankin, Iain Banks, Robert Anton Wilson, David Crosby's Long Time Gone, Stoned and 2 Stoned by Andrew Loog Oldham, How Bluesgrass Music Destroyed My Life by John Fahey, Ivor Cutler (all of it!), Algernon Blackwood's John Silence stories, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, Hunter S. Thompson... currently reading: Lord of Misrule, the autobiography of Christopher Lee. | | Heroes | Delia Derbyshire, Ursula & Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sir John Barbirolli, Alan Freeman, John Peel, Ken Hyder, Ivor Cutler, John "Hoppy" Hopkins, Peter Whitehead, Robert Wyatt, Robert Plant, Vincent Price, Salvador Dali, Terence Stamp, Sir Frank Whittle, Fred Gaisberg, Jacob Bronowski. |
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Six Words, michael clunkie vinyl junkie's pop shop, Kenneth Tynan, Elwood Snock (Michael Hurley Group)
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| Status: | Single | | Zodiac Sign: | Capricorn | | Smoke / Drink: | No / Yes |
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New Phosphene & Friends 7"... Bridget St. John, Nalle, Isobel Campbell & Bill Wells...
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New PHosphene cd on Rusted Rail Records of Galway!
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Colleen, Nalle & Phosphene live in a wonderful Victorian music hall
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Joe Meek film.... a new preview
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Joe Boyd on Syd Barrett
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About me:
I live in Glasgow, Scotland, where I make music under the name Phosphene, on my own and sometimes with friends. There've been 3 albums so far and recent releases include a single which has guest appearances from Bridget St. John, Isobel Campbell & Bill Wells on one side and a collaboration with Nalle on the other, from Pickled Egg Records and an e.p. on the estimable Rusted Rail label of Galway. Previous collaborators have included John McKeown (1990s/Yummy Fur) and saxophonists Lol Coxhill & Raymond MacDonald. There is a myspace music page for Phosphene and another for Electroscope, a duo formed in 1996 by my friend Gayle and I... see links below.
I've made all sorts of music radio programmes for the BBC and, on a station called Radio Six International, I have a weekly show called the Soundwave. This goes out from Glasgow at www.radiosix.com, on Sky/Astra channel 0195 and on FM stations in Slovakia and New Zealand. Apart from this, I've written a book about the early days of Syd Barrett & Pink Floyd and their wonderful Piper at the Gates of Dawn album. You can find out more on all of this at: http://www.phosphene.debrett.net
Phosphene live shows are rare, but the one with Nalle & Colleen at the Britannia Panopticon music Hall in Glasgow on 20th June 2007 was a lot of fun and a great success. There are a couple of photos here and more at the Phosphene website. This is the lovely poster Iker Spozio designed for the event. 
In late 2006 I released a long overlooked album by the amazing Delia Derbyshire. Two vinyl editions have come and gone, but a cd edition is now available from the Melodybar distro: www.apexonline.com/melodybar and an lp version of another gem from the KPM library catalogue by Ron Geesin is now pressed and ready for your turntable!
Please read the blog notes on the project for more details.
There's also an interview which has recently gone up at: http://www.foxydigitalis.com/foxyd/feature_detail.php?id=194 if you fancy a look!
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Who I'd like to meet:
Kindred spirits with open minds.
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