DJ Food, Bad Brains, Wagner, Brian Eno, King Tubby, Mike Patton's various projects, Iggy Pop/Stooges, Throbbing Gristle, Public Image Ltd, DJ Shadow, DJ Vadim, The Clash, Lee Perry, Skalpel, Chuck Berry, Howlin' Wolf, John Coltrane, Saul Williams, Bonzo Dog Band, Dead Kennedys, Fugazi, Kool Keith, Led Zeppelin, ADF, Tom Waits, Pere Ubu, The Doors, Iron Butterfly, Johnny Cash, The Contortions, Wilson Pickett, Miles Davis, DJ Krush, TC Izlam, Total Science, AC/DC, Melvins, Sun Ra, Scientist, Schoenberg, Varese, Blues Explosion, Kate Bush, Jill Scott, Neil Young, Count Five, Dr John, Herbie Hancock, Elvis, Bach, Gravediggaz, John Zorn, Josh White, Grieg, KRS-One, Metallica, Black Flag, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Herbaliser.
Movies
Scarface, Tetsuo: Iron Man, Brazil, Dead Man's Shoes, The Funeral, Apocalypse Now, The War Game, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, How To Get Ahead in Advertising, Time Bandits, The Addiction, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, The Great Escape, Twelve Angry Men, Dr Strangelove, Existenz, City of God, Chinatown, Fight Club, The Big Sleep, The Shining, Barton Fink, Donnie Darko, Blue Velvet, La Haine, Unforgiven, Night of the Living Dead, The Wicker Man (UK), A Streetcar Named Desire.
Television
Shameless, The Singing Detective, Our Friends In the North, Edge of Darkness, anything to do with Chris Morris, some things to do with Armando Iannucci, news programmes, football, cricket. Comedy: Chris Morris, Doug Stanhope, Bill Hicks, George Carlin, Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor.
Books
Marx, Chomsky, Foucault, Sartre, Terry Eagleton, Raymond Williams, Lermontov, Wilde, Blake, Byron, Shelley, Baudelaire, Dostoevsky, Yeats, Thomas Pynchon, JG Ballard, Philip K Dick, Will Self, Poe, Christine Brooke-Rose, Alan Moore, Chris Ware, Raymond Carver, Angela Carter, Plath, Hunter S Thompson, Burroughs, Faulkner, Don DeLillo, Neal Stephenson, James Ellroy, Norman Mailer, John Pilger, Howard Zinn, Terrance McKenna, Celine, Michael Moorcock, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Benjamin Zephaniah, Levi Tafari, Germaine Greer, Michael Smith, Ken Nordine, Ginsberg, Iain Sinclair, Frank Miller, Borges, Rousseau, Junji Ito, Warren Ellis, Tennesse Williams, Brecht, Tom Stoppard.
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Tom Sykes was born at a very young age in Portsmouth, England in 1979. He grew up in southern France, Norwich and Portsmouth before attending the University of East Anglia. He was the co-compiler/editor of 'No Such Thing As A Free Ride?' a book of hitch-hiking stories published by Cassell Illustrated. The book was serialized in The London Times and named Observer Travel Book of the Month.
Tom's short stories have appeared in Lighthouse, Nocturne, Lunar Harvest, Jupiter SF, Spoiled Ink and Writer’s Muse. His 'Ringroad to Immolation' was named as one of 'the top online stories of 2004' by storySouth.com. His story 'Super Fly-Tipper' was featured in the international anthology 'Small Voices, Big Confessions' (Edit Red, 2006). He writes a regular column for Quill magazine in Malaysia and lectured at the THE INDIAN OCEAN WORLDS ACADEMIC CONFERENCE, UNIVERSITY MALAYA, KUALA LUMPUR ON AUGUST 11TH 2007
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DECEMBER 30TH 2007 - Reading from my newly-completed novel 'Bad Territory' at Tongues & Grooves event, Portsmouth
COMING SOON
MARCH 1ST 2008 - Novelette 'True Sounds of Infamy' to be published by Pendragon press's Triquorum series.
MAY 28TH 2008 - Canadian publication date of 'No Such Thing As A Free Ride?' North American edition.
LATE 2008 - Novella 'The Blank Space' due to be published by Pendragon Press.
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Who I'd like to meet: Rupert Murdoch - a man who, over the last 30 years, has enriched our cultural life and moral constitution. Heh heh.
Thanx Tommy, better late than never hehe:)yeah shame bout bali but we'll see you soon anyway, looking forward to it, The well traveled Tom and Bekki, have you found yourselves and lost it again?lol. Till the great reunion i bid you fairwell. stay safe rev.
Tommy. Tommy where are you now? Tommy where are you now? Tommy. Where are you? I owe you emails my friends. I hope you are both cool - keep the blogs coming, very entertaining! I live my life vicariously through you two! Lots of love, keep looking after each other xxxxxxx
The tea plantations were nice in the Cameron Highlands. Was a pretty good place to chill out and cool down too…… or you could just go back to ABC!!!! Happy days ha ha. Hope you guys are well! Where are you at the mo?
Hows it going rev? just a little link for you and Bec to listen to on shit speakers or headphones in a amazing place somewhere......... http://www.myspace.com/chessachess
miss you loads but see you in Bali baby!!!!!!!!! love to bec stay safe,Rapid keith
Hello Tommy, hows you? your online quality. hope everythings cool in the wild far out east. missing you both loads. where you at at the mo? loving your writing keep at it and lay off the cobra blood:) much love your loyal protege, Veneficus
Tommy, hello! Love reading everything you write - you have confirmed my belief that you are in fact a genius! Miss you loads! I survived an earthquake last weekend - only a small one but it was pretty wierd to feel the ground bouncing!! That's about as exciting as my news gets though - for now! I love you lots, as you know. Look after each other! Big cuddles x
Tommy have fun on your adventure, at last you don't have to suffer dull old england! I'll miss you though - lots. Keep in touch and look after each other. Enjoy it. Love you xxx
oh forgot to say go to youtube and search 'lollypop man trailer' its our trailer for our documentary for uni, ive just finished editing the film so il let you know when its on youtube. hope you like the trailer, its quite funny:-)
hey tommy hows it goin? havent seen you in a while,been workin very hard at uni! looking forward to your party, not long til your off on your amazing adventure.. how exciting! see you soon x
