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LinDsaY

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Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Answers on a postcard please.

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  • LinDsaY

  • 99 / Female
  • UK
  • Last Login: 12/26/2009

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Interests

  • Music

    Strawbs, and a great many more bands and musicians of varying ilks, including Fire, Cry No More, Roy Hill, Yes, Rick Wakeman, The Oliver Wakeman Band, Brian Willoughby and Cathryn Craig, Blue Weaver, John Hawken, Rod Coombes, High Society, Adam Wakeman, The Blue Angel Orchestra, Louis Ribeiro, Cousins Conrad, Sandy Denny, Tony GW Fernandez, Ruthless Blues, The Monks, Lambert Cronk, The Good Old Boys, Ming Hat, Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera, King Earl Boogie Band, Paper Bubble, Unfolk, The Janskys, Elvis Costello, The Buzzcocks, Graham Parker and the Rumour, The Hamsters, Bad Influence, Paul Weller, The Clash, Morrissey, The Who, The Jam, Ocean Colour Scene, Bebop Deluxe, Aztec Camera, The Kinks, Simon and Garfunkel, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Dr. Feelgood, Kursaal Flyers, Big Country, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, The Records, lots of Stiff stuff, Wilko Johnson, Eddie and the Hot Rods, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Alison Moyet, Colin Scot, Cat Stevens, Blackmore's Night, Razorlight, Illusion, Squeeze, Snow Patrol, Keane, Uriah Heep, King Crimson, Yes, Eurythmics, Dave Stewart, Annie Lennox, Madness, David Bowie, Rod Stewart and the Faces, Porcupine Tree, Jonathan Kelly, Roy Harper, Wally, Magna Carta, Tir Na Nog, Dead Like Harry, Pitchfork, Seth Lakeman and lots of talented people I have listened to here on MySpace (some are now good MySpace friends which is a great unexpected bonus I wasn't expecting when I signed up). Oh yes, I saw the Kaiser Chiefs for the first time at V this year and thought they were brilliant live.

    The Strawberry Fools. Not yet a household name, but keep watching, and Symphonic BCC - oh what a find!

  • Movies

    Several, but I can't be bothered to think right now and I just want to mention "Slumdog Millionaire" which I saw recently and thought was a terrific film.

  • Books

    I recently read Tony Visconti's book "Bowie, Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy" which was interesting and amusing.

    Also of interest to music lovers and particularly those of the psychedelic persuasion: “Then Now and Rare: British Beat 1960-1969” by Terry Rawlings. Brimming with interesting facts and highly nostalgia provoking, the book includes lots of photos of bands and associated memorabilia from the 1960s, including an impressive full page photo of Fire, together with biog.

    "The Philosophy of Risk" by Dougal Haston (Scottish mountaineer (sadly now deceased) who conquered Everest with Doug Scott in 1975) and also another of Haston's books, "Calculated Risk", which is a rare thing, a well-written novel by a mountaineer. An intriguing read with extra interest added by allowing you (the reader) to get into the mind of someone who has done such amazing things as climb Mount Everest!

    "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins and a great many other books which discuss and evaluate religion, and both the obvious and less obvious impacts upon individuals and society. I have a particular interest having been raised as a Jehovah's Witness. "The God Delusion" deserves to be read by anyone who likes to think they have an open mind in my opinion.

    Always found stuff by Erving Goffman (and those who have taken up where he left off) such as "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life" interesting and thought-provoking - all about how most of us are taught to present so many different personas all the time to be accepted. Is there a true self? Aren't I boring!! .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

Blurbs

About me:

Ok, here's an (amateur) video clip of Strawbs. Sorry the footage quality isn't great, and you'll have to put up with the excitable whoops from the audience, but it does give the uninitiated an idea of what Strawbs are about (and thanks very much to the person who posted it on Youtube!). This was shot in Toronto in March 2009, and the line-up includes the excellent Oliver Wakeman on keyboards (like father, like son) who joined Strawbs for their 2009 UK tour.

Strawbs - Out in the Cold/Round and Round

Aw, and now this is a very sweet video from Cry no More from the early '80s...

Cry No More - Tears on the Ballroom Floor

Aw again

And...I like this video clip of Fire (Dave Lambert of Strawbs psychedelic band from the late 60's/early 70's) who reformed in 2007 to play two concerts after 37 years! The performances were so good that a new album recorded live at the concerts called "The Magic Shoemaker Live" was released in October 2008.

FIRE - Only A Dream

Who I'd like to meet:

..At the moment Louis Theroux, but ask me again in five minutes.

5 minutes later:

Ok, it's still Louis Theroux.