I'm a big fan of music - all genres - including
Metal, thrash metal, speed metal, techno metal, goth metal, death metal, black metal, red metal, yellow metal, red lorry, yellow lorry, hardcore, grindcore, applecore.
Art. graphic design, illustrating & drawing things. Especially bondage art and furniture.
Artists I like include HR Giger, Escher, Dali, Bosch, Magritte, Botticelli - and most things Pre-Raphaelite. I particularly like the Uffizi gallery Florence, Dali's Theatre-Museum in Figures, and the Louvre.
The Lady Lever, Tate and Walker art galleries have fine works too - and are a lot nearer to me in Liverpool!
In like to travel - and have visited the Netherlands - Amsterdam, the hague, many times, Athens & the Greek islands Aegina + Hydra, Malta, Austria - Vienna, Germany Berlin + Pottsdam, Norway - Krsitiansand, Denmark - Copenhagen, Luxembourg, France - Northern coastline Rouen to Paris, Spain - Alicante, Zaragoza, the region of Navarra, and Valencia, Italy - Florence, Pisa + Tuscany, and long distance trips have been on include Cuba (which is amazing) Hong Kong, Tokyo and in Australia, Sydney & Adelaide.
Literature. Horror movies. John Carpenter. In general!
And I own a number of cats somehow.
Music
Everything avant-garde or smart, or plain just too clever for its own good. With lots of notes.
I also dig intense music from any background - be it Jazz, classical, as long as its got and edge and demands the listeners attention.
Fave Bands include:
Van Der Graaf Generator, Carcass, Voivod, Fantomas, Mr Bungle, Ornament, slayer, anthrax, megadeth, Napalm Death, Dr And the Crippens, Bomb Disneyland,
Not just metal though - I listen to all good stuff!
Peter Hammill. Van der Graaf. Stravinsky. Cat Stevens. Zappa. Tommy Emmanuel. Caravan.
My current faves are THE LENINGRAD COWBOYS Who are utterly brilliant! Check out their new album!
Movies
Pufnstuf, Devil's Rejects, Romero's Dawn of the Dead,
I'm a web designer, artist, writer and musician. (I say musician, what I mean is I've been playing thrash metal guitar for about 18 years!!)
I illustrate graphic novels, erotic art and *things*. Contact me for details! (email shargraves@yahoo.com)
I design album covers and band logos too. See the ORNAMENT logo above - very metal!!! And I can also do Band or Personal or Corporate websites.
(In case you need a website that looks a bit more interesting than a CSS customised Myspace page!)
I used to build latex animatronic monsters and things - for special FX props, but I dig rubber and latex for an entirely different reason now though. And PVC, leather and of course the great Bettie Page.
I play lead guitar in Liverpool Heavy Metal band ORNAMENT - and you can see our Myspace page by clicking here! And you can also listen to our stuff now by clicking that PLAY button across the page, OR - click on my videos link!
Into watching footy - and I support Liverpool FC naturally - as its my local team.
I studied Art in Hugh Baird College bootle, then at the KIAD in Rochester Kent, then Multimedia at the University of Liverpool.
I also teach web design and ICT skills in Liverpool.
I paint leather jackets too - if you need a band logo doing or an orignal design let me know:
I currently drink in the Swan Inn liverpool - where I manage to arrange gigs for my band thru drunken dealings - and I also remember what it was like to be young enough to go the Krazyhouse every week!
Back then it was called Sloanes of course, and I'd have been drinking Snakebite and Blacks in Wilsons all satruday, with a bag of new thrash albums from Penny lane records or probe... Ah happy days.
The Rubber Room returns on Saturday November 28th for a round of hard hitting rock'n'roll from howlin' blues through stuttering rockabilly, into surf and frat before winding up with some killer 60's garage.
come on down and do the stroll, the shimmy, the shake, whatever moves you and let's have a party!
Spinning the savage 45's will be Nick Smith & Tom Lawrie plus friends
sleazy video projections all night.
The Maze (Forest Tavern), Mansfield Rd, Nottingham
10.30 - 3am £3 Sat. 28th Nov
next night will be December 11th with Louie & The Louie's + Hipbone Slim & The Knee Tremblers LIVE on stage - killer frat/surf and rockabilly party from a great band comprising Sir Bald Diddley and Ex Milkshakes/Headcoates man Bruce Brand.
Hi! Just wanted to make sure all my friends know that my new erotic horror novel THE 13TH is now in stores everywhere! I hope you'll check out this debauched and demonic horror ride!
There's even a website devoted just to the book, with an interactive map of the places and characters at www.the13th-horror.com.
Edward Lee called THE 13TH "A double-barreled shotgun blast of macabre entertainment -- an expert amalgamation of grotesquerie, eroticism, mystery, and pitch-black occult horror that no fan of the genre can miss."
And Gary A. Braunbeck said, "John Everson's The 13th is the first out-and-out horror novel in a long while to actually scare the **** out of me while reading it. It's stylish, extremely well-written, filled with richly-drawn characterizations, and boasts a labyrinthine plot worthy of Umberto Eco. Trust me -- this one will fry your nerves and break your heart."
Thinking about you my friend. Hope all is well. Had to go to a funeral this weekend,my Son's father was killed so it's been a tough one, things will get better soon i hope. xxoo kim
We have put a new song up for you, it’s only a rough demo which hasn’t really been mixed well and hasn’t been produced but it will give you a taster of what may come next in our next recording sessions which we are trying to set before Christmas.
Enjoy! It’s called 'Stop'. Please tell us what you think.
The Rubber Room presents a Night of Crazed, Derranged, Psychotic and downright Degenerate Halloween Spookiness.
We will be dressing the room up and projecting vintage monster edits through the night as well as spinning some of the strangest and most disturbed 45s in our collections. Alongside the usual mix of blues stompers, rockabilly, sixties garage and frat, surf instros and rock'n'roll.
Hope you can make it!
The Maze, Forest Tavern, Mansfield Road, Nottingham.
We are playing at the O2 Academy in Liverpool on the 31st October which is HALLOWEEN!!
Because of this we have decided to make this the biggest ever FANCY DRESS gig on Halloween in Liverpool EVER! Tickets are £6 and are on sale now - you can get them from the O2 Academy box office or click HERE to get tickets.
If you want more info just send us a message and make sure to let us know what you are coming dressed up as..... x
Hi! Just wanted to make sure all my friends know that my new erotic horror novel 
Online Now!
