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Interests

• Drumming: I have been a drummer since 1978, when I joined the seminal punk rock band (Those Naughty Lumps ) in Liverpool . Our two 45 rpm  releases on the Liverpool "Zoo" label were the single 'Iggy Pop's Jacket' and and the 4-track EP, 'Down at the Zoo'. The former was described at the time by Melody Maker as "one minute and forty seconds of dumb satire". It is available on a Zoo Records CD compilation of the Liverpool bands of the time. Since 1990, I have owned a piano white Premier Projector drum kit. I have played in bands in the UK, Saudi Arabia, and Dubai. I am currently drumming with Melanie's Red Fleece, playing music for grown ups who never grew up, in carefully selected venues throughout East Anglia.

• Music: I like jazz, especially Miles Davis and contemporary small group jazz, Weather Report, 'progressive' British rock of the early/mid 70s, the Canterbury scene (Phil Miller, Robert Wyatt, Hatfield & the North, Gong), Grateful Dead, Iggy Pop, Gong, and of course the Man band from Wales.
   
• Literature: Dead guys mainly, e.g. Hardy, Burroughs, Borges, Stendhal, Sterne, Shakespeare, Revenge & Restoration drama, Beckett.
   
• Football: I follow and Norwich City  Liverpool FC; I also have a nostalgic fondness for Wivenhoe Town FC.

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