Gill H.

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'Near Life'. It's like a terrifying step into The Great Void. Awesome.

Manchester Apollo on 14th October 2006. It was an exceptionally good night. In fact, that whole weekend was a bit of a riot. What I can recall of it, that is.

Much though I love them all, it has to be TGWO. It’s magnificent and the one I go back to most often. But DFM is pretty damn fine as well ...

I’ve thought about this a lot and it would have to be ‘Madelaine’. ‘Whatever it Takes’ though is up there too. This just blew me away the first time I heard it. So much pain, glory and despair in seven minutes. Embrace never cease to amaze and delight me. Mind you, there's also 'YOGTSTGB', 'Perfect Way', 'Red Eye Shot' and 'I Ache' … too many top tunes to choose just one. Embrace give good B-Side.

I don't have a list, really. Having said that, 'Near Life' has got to be no. 1 (the drumming is impressive, to say the least and the harmonics are astonishing). 'Spell It Out' is a bit of a cracker too. Oh, and 'Out of Nothing'.

I can’t make a list for this either. Some of my standout tracks though are 'Sainted', 'EM', 'Target' and 'ESS'. 'TEIN' is also immense live.

On the 25th March 2006. I can’t remember what it was about now, but it was probably silly.

It was Hayley/LM at the SBE meet in April 06. I've met quite a few others since then, though.

I got stopped on my way into Embrace at SBE in April 2006 because their muppet security people thought my camera was a professional one (it isn't). Went to see Whitesnake once at the Brighton Centre, when I was a student. I arrived at the venue to discover I’d forgotten my ticket and had to get a taxi back to the halls of residence to fetch it. I also fell asleep during a particularly shitty support act at a Status Quo gig I went to in 1984 (my excuse is that I wasn’t feeling well).

There was also the car and ditch incident after the forest gig at Bedgebury on 11th June 2006. 'Mad' Hayley knows about this one. It was all her fault, anyway. She lost her Richaaard balloon as well.

Davy Spillane, Editors, Genesis, God Speed You! Black Emperor, Gram Parsons, the Hilliard Ensemble – they’re amazing – I really love early polyphony (medieval vocal music), Jeff Buckley, Sigur Rós, Coldplay, John Martyn, Keane, Labradford, Led Zep, Mike Oldfield, Arctic Monkeys, Neil Young, Nick Drake, Paul Weller, Pink Floyd, Yes, Rush, Dire Straits, Snow Patrol, Peter Green, Stars of the Lid, Steve Hackett, Tangerine Dream, Stone Roses, The Lo-Fidelity Allstars, The Streets, Guillemots, The Libertines and many more.

Takk by Sigur Rós
A Grand Don't Come For Free by The Streets
Tapestry by Carole King
TGWO
Solid Air by John Martyn
Pet Sounds - who doesn't love that!
Whatever People Say I am, That's What I'm Not by the Arctic Monkeys
Dire Straits by Dire Straits
In Paradisum: the music of Victoria and Palestrina, sung by The Hilliard Ensemble. It's 17th Century French chant (in Latin as well as French) of the Requiem with polyphony written by Tomas Luis de Victoria and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. It is completely sublime, like being in heaven and being sung to by angels!

There are others …

Various things. Mostly The Arctic Monkeys, TGWO, DFM, The Streets, 'How How to Operate With a Blown Mind' by The Lo-Fidelity Allstars, a couple of playlists on my iPod, The Spin Doctors. Right now though, I'm listening to 'Takk' by Sigur Rós (my current obsession).

The black one.

I’ve never watched it, so I don’t know who any of them are.

Anything at all, really, I've been told I waffle a lot! Probably: “I’ve thought about this a lot“ (see above). Also: “If that makes any kind of sense”.

“No thanks. That's enough vodka for me."

Meh.

Thai vegetable curry at lunchtime.

Sometimes I wanted to be a nun, unlikely as this may seem to those who know me (all convent-educated girls go through a nun phase, I understand). Sometimes a nurse, with the odd phase of wanting to be a great singer in a really cool band thrown in for good measure. I turned out to be none of these.

Should it be decided on who looks the most domesticated, or who you might fancy having a food fight with? I think I’d go for Super Firtho, as even if he couldn’t chop a carrot to save his life, he would be cool in a crisis and would make me laugh. And he likes cats. Mind you, from what I can tell from his posts on the forum, Mickey's quite into cooking and food, so he'd probably be quite handy as well.

Cats. Actually, both, but only cats live in my flat.

Being happy and loved. That's all that matters, when it comes down to it.

Overdraft, lack of pension, dying alone, people who don’t use their indicators & noisy neighbours (death to all noisy neighbours, the bastards).

I couldn’t possibly say. Assuming 1 is not at all mad, probably 1.

I’m actually a

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Lush rating: 9.5 (37 votes)
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Created: 12 May 2006
Last updated: 15 September 2007

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