boywoolner

I write ads for a living. Usually they don't get made. When they do, sometimes they are good, but most of the time they stink.
When I'm not doing that I'm fiddling about with Macs or listening to and buying music. Foo Fighters, Ben Folds, Stevie Wonder, The Beatles, and lots of new UK indie stuff is what I'm currently into. There's a UK Indie Rock explosion at the moment and it's getting rather expensive trying to keep up with it.
Spent my early years listening to my parents music (Queen, Elton John, Simon & Garfunkel, Leo Sayer, The Police and Rod Stewart) and watched Top of the Pops religiously (even until it was axed in '06). Me and my twin sister were allowed to stay up late to watch it. The first proper l.p. I bought was Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. No, not the Beatles one but the awful soundtrack to the film starring the Bee Gees, Peter Frampton, and loads of other people who couldn't sing.
In my teens I musically became my dad by listening to whatever he had - Clapton, Cream, Hendrix, Squeeze, UB40, old soul (Sam & Dave, Stevie Wonder, Sam Cooke...) and Blue-eyed soul (Hall & Oates and Paul Young). Then when I started earning through a Saturday job, I began to buy 12"s by the bucket load. These where mostly Shep Pettibone and Ben Liebrand remixes. Yes you know the sort - Level 42, more Paul Young (sad, I know), Howard Jones, Seal. In those days, the only indie I liked was the stuff on Top of the Pops like New Order and Coldcut. I spent more time in What Records? in Nuneaton than I did studying for my A levels. That's probably why I dropped out and went to Art College to study Graphic Design. Which was lucky, as I wouldn't have got into more 'alternative' music like Mudhoney, Nirvana, the Pixies and would have stayed a 'pop fan'. I may have grunged-up but I did still manage to go to the odd Roachford gig (I'm sorry, but Cuddly Toy is still a great song). Then later at Uni, I spread my musical wings to include hip-hop, thrash, acid jazz, cheese, easy listening, big beat...the list goes on.
Now I'm just a musical chameleon drifting from soul to thrash to pop to blues to rap to dance to electronica, which means that I do spend a lot of my spare cash (ok, the kid's clothes and shoe money) on iTunes, eMusic, eBay, Amazon and in HMV sales (I never really pay full price for a CD, so that makes it OK, doesn't it?!)
Also, I've just started to dabble with GarageBand, using it to mix up a few Mash-ups. You can listen to them at http://bit.ly/12RqcW if you really want to. Go on, I know you do.

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Generated on January 5 2012

My Music Habits