Name:

Tony

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December 19, 2005

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72

Occupation:

Designer

Companies:

Freelance

Hobbies:

trash culture, comics, badges, tacky plastic nick nacks, old shop signs,

Movies:

The Wages of Fear, Les Diaboliques, The Battle of Algiers, Passport to Pimlico, School for Scoundrels, Kind Hearts and Coronets, all of Shane Meadows films but especially This Is England, City of God, Trainspotting, Sophie Scholl, Goodfellas, The Servant, Come and See, Erazerhead, Performance, Gimme Shelter, Cocksucker Blues, Westway to the World, The Filth and the Fury, Don't Look Back and of course the best ever rock documentary - Dig!. TV. Hate it!!! TV these days is for losers. But if pressed well I'll opt for Ready Steady Go, Shindig, Shivaree, Hollywood A Go Go, Thank Your Lucky Stars, The Munsters, Steptoe and Son, Dad's Army, Alan Partridge, Ren and Stimpy, Little Britain, Rising Damp. Favourite TV moment, well it's gotta be a toss up between the Stones performing Sympathy for the Devil on the Frost Show in 1968. or The New York Dolls on The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1973 or at a pinch The Sex Pistols on the Bill Grundy Show.

Music:

Well I've listed them already but here's a few more: Big Al Dowling, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones (1962-1971) but especially the Brian Jones years, The 13th Floor Elevators, Sam The Sham and the Pharoahs, ?Mark and The Mysterions, The Blue Maggos, The Nazz and a lot of those other second banana garage bands from the mid sixties, The Easybeats, The Small Faces, The Byrds, The Doors, The New York Dolls, David Bowie, Eddie and the Hot Rods, Kilburn and the High Roads, The Sex Pistols, The Clash, Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, The Dead Boys, Blondie, The Only Ones/ England's Glory,The Smiths, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream, The Charlatans, The Las, The Stone Roses, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Kills, The Blacklips, Rodeo Massacre, The Violets, The Raveonettes, The Flesh Happening ohhhh... the list goes on and on.

Books:

Please Kill Me, True Crime Comics, Hangover Square, Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, Raymond Chandler, Harold Q Masur, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Dead Men Wear Plaid, C'Etait La Guerre de Tranchees, M R James, Evelyn Waugh, Patrick Hamilton, Anthony Powell