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Syd Howells's Interests
General
Music / Writing / Rebuilding Old Volkswagens / History / Welding Hideous Sculptures / Music / Egypt (misr) / Cuba / Photography / Painting...
Music
Family Fodder / Frank Zappa / Nurse With Wound / Captain Beefheart / Kraftwerk / Neu / Throbbing Gristle / Electric Six / John The Postman / Photographed By Lightning / Steveless / John Coltrane / Crass / Das Wanderlust / The Smiths / Half Man Half Biscuit / White Stripes / Family Fodder (again...the UK's finest band) / The Fall / Coil / Hawkwind / Robert Calvert / The Girl From Headquarters / The Feelies / The Beatles / Kate Bush / Conflict / Peaches / Dead Kennedys / Doris Karloff / Pink Floyd / The Fugs / Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band / Nick Cave / Thee Babelfish / The Soft Boys / Most Arabic Pop Music / Dexy's Midnight Runners / Serpents / Velvet Underground / Tystion / Any Nubian Folk Music / KLF / Danzig / Abba / The Residents / Rocket From The Crypt / Beatnik Filmstars / Pooh Sticks / Bearsuit / The Disasters / The Only Ones / Pere Ubu / The Misfits / The Feelies / Dishpig / William S Burroughs / Lard / Robyn Hitchcock / Gary Clail & On-U Sound System / Buzzcocks / Listen With Sarah / Butthole Surfers / Pixies / 13th Floor Elevators / Gorky's Zygotic Mynci / The Fall / Syd Howells (of course...I'd be a fool not to!) / Robert Johnson / The Fire Engines / Master Musicians of JouJouka / Chrome / Black Flag / Jamos Valentinos...
Movies
Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia / Bad Taste / Anything by The Comic Strip Team / Shaun of the dead / Man bites dog / Enter the dragon / Reservoir Dogs / The Big Lebowski / Pulp Fiction / Comandante / Monty Python & The Holy Grail / The Wild Bunch / Land and Freedom...
Television
My mind is rotten enough thanks...
Books
Naked Lunch / Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas / Songs Of The Doomed / Factotum / Post Office / Collected Poems of Allen Ginsberg / Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep / Margrave of the Marshes / Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy (all five in the trilogy) / To Dream of Freedom / The Gas / England's Hidden Reverse / The Ring O'Bells Mystery / The Rubadub Mystery / The Postman Is Elvis / anything written by Fidel Castro...
Heroes
....generally they only disappoint...however at a push it has to be Fidel Castro.
I have played with (or for); The Disasters/Steveless & Syd Howells/Doris Karloff/Sick New Beatles/A Hat Killed Karen Carpenter/Photographed By Lightning/Zone/Thee Babelfish/Needlepop/Disaster Area and as me...I am available for 'guest' noise
am currently taking a break from music - the performance by A Hat Killed Karen Carpenter will take place this year - other than that nothing. Time is precious. Goodbye.
Syd Howells's Companies
FuKu Recordings/FuKu Industries Swansea, UK El Jefe
oi oi syd cheers 4 the add mate ,how mad is this then the friend who i added b4 u just 2day were called disasters of the masters of the universe- ha ha , it just shows as up as disasters ,i thought it was u old band but its this band from canada ,mad as ey ,crazy fuckin world man love+peace vinny
Chocolate is my thing but I hear rumours that Easter isn't just about chocolate.
What next?
Christmas not being about an orgy of commercial and hedonistic excess?
This Sunday night's show on BBC Radio Wales will feature an exclusive, half-hour mix from Wrexham'sRadio Plastic whose new EP has just been released on Exceptional Records; Lews Tewns is in with the latest Welsh hip hop; Soundhog will also be around with music that contains unexpected delights within a chocolate-y shell.
And - depending up what you send me - there will be a brand new Demo of the Week.
This is the playlist for my 2nd March show with a Demo of the Week for Cyrion, Soundhog talking about early Human League, Peppermint Patti's monthly blog, Bethan Elfyn previewing her Radio 1 Introducing show and first time plays on the show for Newport's Beefcore, Pembrokeshire's Ember + Mac, Cardiff's Touch + The Muscle Club and Denbigh's Streams.
RADIOPLASTIC modern age [napt breaks remix] MAC the wave THE RACKETEARS black queen BEEFCORE kill city AKIRA THE DON giro JAMES MCARTHUR golden rule *KC* electro school bus EMBER a murder song TRUCKERS OF HUSK salad ballad [ep version] HUMAN LEAGUE almost medieval GUTO DAFIS pill sailor CUD purple love balloon THE AFTERNOONS the sun's coming out in your heart
** DEMO of the WEEK **
CYRION y gweddill
VALLEUM shopping trolley HELEN LOVE transistor radio TOUCH girl of my dreams HEAL THE LAST STAND dance STREAMS forever STEVELESS & SYD HOWELLS onlyinsecurepeoplehaveparties HUMAN LEAGUE the dignity of labour part 3 GINDRINKER work it out LITTLE MY all but the beeps meep
-- peppermint patti's monthly blog
KAPUTT family tree BERLIN'S GOLDEN DISCO SHIP girls as a slower ghost ship KING ALEXANDER the carwash that cleaned the cars that ate paris
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KING OF DESPAIR like a sign THE SCHOOL all i wanna do THE MUSCLE CLUB all for the kids SHADOW DANCER cowbois HUMAN LEAGUE path of least resistance ONA BLUE anchoressa
