Conference marvin::uk_music

    Ello everybod!
    
    My name is Mary Fell but you will recognise me from my
    nickname of Mazzer.
    I work in Enterprise House London and have worked for
    DIGITAL for 7 years i.e. 5 years in FS Installations and 2 
    years in FS DECsite.
    
    I enjoy a wide variety of music tastes such as Prince, U2,
    The Pogues, Alexander O'Neal, The Mission, Level 42 and much much more
    but I don't really like House Music.
    
    I hope this notesfile is as enjoyable and entertaining as I found
    LIVE_Music_UK.
    
    Be seeing ya - and keep on noting!
    
    Mazzer
    

    
    Hi,
    
    As you all know, I'm the foreigner among you!  I'm a secretary for
    IN-DEC FS in Marlboro MA.  
    
    I like a wide variety of music, really only dislike heavy metal
    and country.  *Some* of my faves are Bruce, U2, Eric Clapton,
    the Eagles, John Cougar Mellencamp and Fleetwood Mac.
    
    Ditto (from Mazzer's intro) on the hopes for this notesfile and,
    the old one was fun, wasn't it??                                
    
    Sue

    Hi! The contributions in this conference that I will value a lot
    will be gig/record reviews, but more than that will be gig
    announcements so that I can write reviews too! I like virtually
    anything that the majority of sub-sixteen yr olds don't.
        
    Brendan.

    
    
    Ello Boy !
    
    In the Blue corner representing the Noth.....it's Rexley a retired
    Spanish Waiter...
    
    My tastes start with Prince, Alexander O'Neal, Cherrelle, Sheila
    E, SOS Band, Springsteen, Hue & Cry  and so on.....
    
    I would like to see a formal list of forthcoming tours and also
    reviews....I'm due to see Alexander O'Neal, George Michael and Michael
    Jackson (well someones got to do it!) currently, so I shall report
    on all of these. Perhaps a list of decent ticket agencies would
    also be useful as some people have awful trouble trying to get tickets
    for shows......
    
    Anyway, hasta la vesta...
    
    
    Rexley
    

    
    Hi there,
    
    I'm Declan Walls, working in End User Computing in DECpark...you
    all know me anyway...!
    
    I listen regularly to Bruce, U2, Lou Reed, RUSH, INXS, Fleetwood
    Mac and my favourite album of present is Robbie Robertson's first
    and only solo album....
    
    where's ma car y'all ?
    
    
    

    
 
    I'm Michael Donnelly working in the FMIC in sunny Ayr-by-the-sea!
    
    I've been with Digital for 10 years (joined when I was 11 :-) )
    My musical favs include Steely Dan, Hue & Cry, Joe Jackson, Hipsway,
    Jackson Browne, China Crisis and many more.
    
    And unlike everybody else in the universe, I'm NOT a Bruce Springsteen
    fan.
    
    
    Hope UK_MUSIC is as enjoyable as LIVE_MUSIC was.
    
    
    Michael
    

    Hi all !!
    
    I am Mark Lawson, I work in Finance as a project mangler in the
    wonderful Millennium building. I have been with Digital since 79.
    
    I enjoy a wide range of music from real heavey classics through
    to solid rock. Current favs are Eric Clapton, Jethro Tull, T'pau,
    Simply Red and ... and ....
    
    I too am not a BS fan ( so there are two of us then 8-) - the rumours
    where true 8-))
    
    I am a born again Christian.
    
    I look forward to some good and interesting noting here  !
    
    Mark

    	Hi, I'm Keith Edmunds... I work in CSSE doing whatever people
    in CSSE do. I like lotsa different types of music, and, after consuming
    sufficient alcohol, have been known to sit on the floor and play
    guitar along to Eagles' music and the like.
    
    	I, too, hope this conference continues in the spirit of the
    old one, and I too don't think Bruce (Springsteen, I think his surname
    is) is that brilliant. Never mind: there are plenty of bands I *do*
    like...
    
    	Keith

    I'm Rod MacFadyen, working for ESDP in the Millenium, Reading. The
    best way to say what I like is to list the bands, so...
    
    Associates, BAD, Cocteau Twins (fave of faves), Julian Cope, the Cult,
    Echo + Bunnymen, Felt, Hendrix, Grace Jones, Jesus and Mary Chain, Joy
    Division, Magazine, Mountain, New Order, Passions, Psychedelic Furs,
    Prince, Rain Parade, REM, Smiths, Scars, Scritti Politti, Simple Minds,
    Specials, Talking Heads, Television, The The, Traffic, U2, Zeppelin 
    
    ...are all in the record collection. Who's this Springsteen (sp?)
    fellow everyone keeps talking about?
    
    LIVE_MUSIC_UK has recently been very enjoyable, despite the rotten
    taste you all have, so I hope UK_MUSIC will be just as good.
    
    Rod

    
    
    I'm Stuart Goudie .
    
    Feel as if I've spent my whole life down here in Manufacturing
    (actually 10yrs) I'm now with the AYR Engineering Technology Group.
     
     Like all good music ,in particular indie' 
     Don't like middle-of-the-road sounds ,chart stlye disco/funk 
     and Pomp Rock ( ie Queen)
    
     Have Fun now.
    
     _Stuart_.
    

    
    	'lo,
    
    	Doug Chisholm, IS (ptui) Munich (brill), current faves -
    
    	Aztec Camera, Sydney Bechet, Big Country, Fleet/Mac, Dire Straits,
    	Doobie Bros, Pablo Cruise, Husker Du, Pat Metheny, Chuck Mangione,
    	Hue and Cry, Beat Farmers, Mellencamp, Miles Davis, Little Feat,
    	Weather Report, Bob (the man) Seger, Joni Mitchell, Robert Palmer,
    	Pat Benetar, Simple Minds, REM, Stranglers, Run Rig, Sadao
    	Watanabe, U2, Suzanne Vega, Bruce Hornsby, Huey Lewis, and others
    	too numerous to mention.
    
    	just remember "Rock and Roll Never Forgets"...	Doug	

	Hello out there,
	
	My name is Dave Keating and I'm a Manufacturing Engineer in
	the Mid-Range Business here in Galway.The music I listen to,
	buy and hence like ,NOT in any particular order of preference,
	is as follows....
	
	Dire Straits,J.J.Cale,Eric Clapton,Talking Heads,Bryan Adams,
	Stevie Ray Vaughan,Robert Cray,Johnny Winter,B.B.King,Muddy
	Waters,Prefab Sprout,Timbuk-3,Dave Edmunds,Rory Gallagher,
	Sade,Jennifer Warnes,Juice Newton,Joan Armatrading,Rosanne
	Cash,Mary Black,George Thorogood,Fleetwood Mac,The Blues
	Brothers,Planxty,The Bothy Band,Moving Hearts,Horslips,
	Cactus World News,Thin Lizzy,Paul Brady,Van Morrison,The Who,
	The Doors,The Style Council,Billy Braggs,Led Zepplin,Robert
	Plant,Robert Palmer,Jimi Hendrix,Emmy Lou Harris,Gram Parsons,
	Bob Dylan,The Eagles,The Byrds and lots! more including...
    
    	       *U2 and Bruce Springsteen.*

	So that's where all my hard earned money is going to !!....
	ah well it keeps me out of the pubs(espiecally after closing
	time).

	Best of luck to everyone concerned with the new SHOW and let's
	hope it's a ZZ-TOP'er.

	- Dave K.
	

    
    Good day A,
    
              My name is Adam Herrera and I work in R/D in COLORAD SPRINGS,
    COLORADO on designing disk drive.The music that i like to listen
    to is.........
    
    
    Pink Floyd,Led Zeppenlin,The Who,The Kinks,The Alarm,Fleetwood Mac,
    INXS,U2,Aerosmith,George Michael,ZZ-Tops,Eric Clapton,The Eagles,
    Robert Plant,Stevie Nicks,Jethro Tull,Rush,Dokken,Styx,Yes,Supertramp,
    R.E.O. Speedwagon,Zebra,The Firm,Icehouse,The Church,Midnight Oil
    and Kingdom Come(A lot like Zeppenlin).
    
    
    
    I'm trying for my 300th concerts this summer at RED ROCKS  and hope
    to come to BIRMINGHAM OR WEMBLEY to see a concert there as well.
      
              SO KEEP ON ROCKING FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH
    
                                 ADAM
    

    Hi,
    
    My name is Kelly Robinson, and I work for Industry (electronic)
    Marketing in Stow Mass.  I've been with Dec for almost 2 years now.
    
    Ok, music likes....
    
    Pat Benetar,John Couger,The Hooters,Heart,Brian Adams,Rainbow (remember
    them?),Foreigner,George Thorogood,U2,Springsteen,Scorpions,The Cult,
    Loverboy (just the Get Lucky album),INXS,Smithereens,The Fixx...
    and the list goes on... 

I've been with DEC for 5 years and am a Software Engineer (short hair,
no beard, wash regularly) in DEC Park II.

Born Worcester, raised Stranraer, schooled Glasgow, worked Reading,
moving soon to Valbonne (AFSG).

Like all sorts of music apart from pretentious stuff.   Soul, Indie
and AOR principally.   Favourite band, Simple Minds of course.
Media buff and trivia freak.

Ray

    Hello,
    
    	My name is Baldrick ( for 'tis he :-) ) a.k.a Clive Summerfield.
    I am a programmer analyst in Field Service End User Computing in
    DECPark Reading. I am with DEC for the second time and hope, someday,to
    break the record for the most number of times a person can rejoin
    the same company.
    
    	To music ( that's not a toast Declan, so put the Guiness down
    :-) ).
    
    	Likes: Jethro Tull, All Genesis before 1980, ELP, Yes, Rush,
    	       Deep Purple, Whitesnake, Mike Oldfield, Clannad, Steeleye
    	       Span, Fairport Convention, Peter Gabriel, Led Zep, Jimi
    	       Hendrix, Al Di Meola, John McGlaughlin, Mahavishnu, The
    	       Pogues, The Dubliners, U2, Pink Floyd, Twelfth Night,
    	       Steve Hackett, GTR, Magnum, early Queen.
    
    	Hates: The Boss, George Michael, Ponce ( I mean Prince ), The
    	       Pet Shop Dorks, Stock Aitken & Waterman, House Music,
    	       anything else which I amy not know the name of, but hate
    	       when I hear it.
    
    	
    	I am addicted to Real Ale, Polish Spirit, and Assam tea, and,
    completely unrelated, am a wee lad of 22. I was a great fan of
    Live_music_uk and hope that this conference keeps the same feeling
    of fun and interest.
    
    Bye for now,
    
    Balders.

    Mark Chequer.. living, working (well work for IS) in Munich.

    Not been to any live concerts for a few months now, apart from
    Sundays when I pop down to the local Jazz club (Tomato), for a midday
    jazz thingie... 
                   		Gru�
    					Mark

    Hello All,
    Matt (le rat) Robey, working for IS in Dec Park.
    
    Likes - Floyd,Rush,Steely Dan,Fleetwood Mac,Gabriel,Boston,Led Zep,
            Andy Sheppard, R & B, etc,etc
    
    Loathes - 99.9999% of anything on Top of the Flops, Hip Hop,House
              music,and anything that it is 'Hip and Trendy' to be into.
    
    
    Cheers,
            Matt.
           

    
    This is .... David Cohen (ex Mr. Gig Guide).
    
    Born ... Manchester; Work ... DEC for over 5 years.
    
    I've read all the replies to this NOTE .... well impressed by the
    range of musical tastes.
    
    I've now been to over 220 gigs (name bands), and faves include:
    
    Jethro Tull, Zep, Purple, Prince, Horslips, T. Heads, Vollenwieder,
    Floyd, Gabriel/Genesis, Kraftwerk, Everything But The Girl, Bill
    Nelson, Bill Bruford, Miles Davies, Wishbone Ash, Zappa, Neil Young,
    The Fall, The Smiths, Twinkle Brothers, U Roy, Yellowman etc. and
    loads more - there isn't that much I really don't like.
    
    I've "been away" but it sure is good to be back.
    
    Might even start listing gigs again .... now where did that all
    start?!?!?!
    
    David.
                                      

    
    LOID COTTON, Decpark II reading.
    
    Music includes Woodentops, Waits, Smiths, Cocteaus, Fall, Pogues,
    New Order/Joy Divvy, Cure, V.U., Wedding Pressie, Laurie Anderson,
    Bhundus, Nick Cave, Bunnymen...
    

    
    
    Hi, I'm Gary McShane, one of those 'Chauffeurs'.
    I'm based at Queens House, Reading.
    
    Likes are....
    
    Led Zeppelin (Seen 'em Twice!!), Pink F., Sammy Hagar, Rush, Hendrix,
    Fleetwood Mac, Queen, Chieftains, Van Halen, Eagles, AC/DC (pre
    - Johnston) , Robert Plant, ELO, Kate Bush, T'Pau, etc.....
    
    
    Dislikes....
    
    Disco Music, Most of the Current chart, George ('init') Michael,
    Michael Jackson (spit!), Barry Mannilow.........You know the sort
    of Stuff.
    
    
    Gary 

    Hi, 
    
    I'm Marc Watkins. I arrived at DEC Park in Reading 6 months ago from
    Manchester University. I'm currently missing the Mancunion music
    scene. Went up to London to the other week to see the Wedding Present
    only to discover the concert was over as they turned the venue into
    a night club at 11pm. 
    
    Anyhow likes ...
    
    Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Morrisey, Wedding
    Present, Sugar Cubes, Danielle Dax, Marc Almond, Physic TV etc...
    
    Marc.    

    Hi
      I've written something so I suppose I should introduce myself.
    Roland Scott, working in RDC in Basingstoke. Very broad music
    tastes, in fact I can listen to anything from Mozart to Meatloaf
    and enjoy myself. Not really into HM or HR enough to buy much but
    can listen to it (sometimes).
    
    Likes  Genesis & Phil Collins on his own, Tina Turner, Meatloaf
           Kate Bush, Eagles, Tears for Fears, Queen, Cream, Black
           Sabbath (you can now guess my age...) Eurythmics 10cc &
           lots of others to numerous to mention.
    
    Dislikes - punk music and the Bay City Rollers

    Hello,
    
    I'm Eem-Gee.
    
    I like to consider myself something of a renaissance man!!!
    
    My musical tastes are of a more mature taste than mentioned here,
    extending as they do to cover -
    
    		SWEET
    		DOLLAR
    		DAWN
    		SLIK
    
    or if I'm in a more introspective mood -
    
    		THE FIRM
    		DOLLY PARTON
    		THE MIKE SAMMES SINGERS
    
    I hope this file is a great success and look forward to conversing
    with many people that share my like in music.
    
    Mama Levi Rules
    
    Regards
    
    Eem-Gee 

    
    I'm currently stuck out here in Valbonne, far away from the happening
    scene (man), but I like to keep up with what's going on over there.
    
    Favourite music - well, there seem to be lots of "heavy/rock" fans out
    there, and I'd include myself under that heading - I like MeatLoaf,
    AC/DC, Hendrix, Trower, the Stones, Lynnyrd Skynnyrd, Queen. I also like a
    bit of folk - Don MacLean (no, not the one on Crackerjack - 
    CRACKERJAAAACK!), Arlo Guthrie - and I recently bought the Jennifer
    Warnes re-make of Leonard Cohen's Greatest Hits, and promptly went
    out and bought the CD.                              
    
    BTW, whatever happened to the Gig Guide ? - it led me to many excellent
    concerts when I was in the UK.
    
                                                               

    Hi all.....
    
    I'm based on the third floor of the mighty Polo Mint and I'm
    one of those "wierd lot with the phone headsets on !!"
    
    My taste in music..well: Floyd,Rush,Tull,Zep,Marrilion,Sabbath,
    "David"Lee Roth,Halen,Hillage,Gong,Tan Dream,Genesis,Oldfield,
    etc..etc...
    
    What don't I like: " Boil in the bag music "
    
    Speak to you soon folks..............
    
    
    
    JEZ
    

    
    Hi, there.
    
    I'm Etsuko Nakagawa, working as an administrator for US. Export
    Compliance in Tokyo.
                                                           
    I really love "Queen" anyway, and I'm also a collector of recoreds
    of "Queen". It was a big fun to come to see their concerts in Europe
    before. 
    
    Favo group;	Sweet	I didn't know they were still working ! I enjoyed
    			their gig in London.
    		Kate Bush, Yes ( Old one ), Rod Stuwart(sp?), Led Zep.
    		                                                     
    Hope to see some gigs of them in London someday.
    Regards, Etsuko                                              
    
    

    As usual, I'm a bit late getting in here - Dougie Robb's the name,
    and I toil in the Field Mnfg. Info. Centre in Ayr, Scotland as a
    Materials Analyst (covers a multitude of malpractices!) within the
    Manufacturing Support Group.  I've been with DEC (oops, I mean
    DIGITAL!) for nine years, although it was over eight before I
    discovered VAXnotes.
    
    Anyway, I have an extremely wide taste in music, some of favourite
    artists being David Bowie (esp. '71-'76 and definately discounting
    anything post-'Let's Dance'), Steely Dan, The The, Aztec Camera,
    Deacon Blue, Danny Wilson, Hue And Cry, Hipsway, U2, Bruce Springsteen,
    Frank Sinatra (mid to late 50's stuff), George Benson (prior to
    his commercial bland-out), the first two Heaven 17 albums, Human
    League 'Dare', early Depeche Mode, Echo And The Bunnymen, Julian
    Cope/Teardrop Explodes, The Robert Cray Band, Anita Baker, early
    Style Council...and a fair smattering of others.
    
    There's not a lot that I positively abhor, but let's just say that
    my (fairly) extensive collection contains minimal heavy rock/metal,
    house/hip-hop and suchlike, throwaway female pop/pap.
    
    Burning issue with me at the moment is trying to judge the best
    time to dive in to the world of CD's.  I keep hearing that the price
    of the discs is coming down, but apart from the introduction of
    budget labels and mid-price issues, I'm not yet convinced.  I can't
    wait to get into this medium mind you - it's just mind-boggling
    thinking about where you'd start in selecting those all-important
    first few discs.  Y'know, whether to buy new titles, or go for classics
    that you already have on vinyl/tape.  
    
    Ah well, there's still a few weeks of the soccer season left for
    the pools to come up!!!

    Hi 
    
    Andy Lane, Reading IOSG, Contractor.
    
    Musical tastes are very catholic.
    
    Likes include but are not limited to:
    
    Beethoven, Vivaldi, Motzart, List, Chopin, Greig, Mussorski,Brahms,
    Bach, Albioni, Tellemann, Wagner, Any ancient (pre 1500) music on
    original instruments etc.,
    
    Grover Washington, John Mclaughlin, Larry Corryll, Stanley Clark/Return
    to Forever,  B-Baker Chocolate Co, David Byrne,   etc.,
    
    Genesis, Phil Collins, Alice Cooper, IZU, Incantation, Black Sabbath,
    Hawkwind, Grace Jones, Sade, Marianne Faithfull, Jethro Tull, Bowie,
    Tangerine Dream, Nena, Kraftwerk, Joni Mitchell, Throbbing Gristle,
    Simple Minds, Michael Jackson, Jackson Browne, The Beatles, John
    Cooper Clarke, Ann Clark, Clannard, Johnny Hates Jazz  etc.,
    
    I have about 900 recordings, so I can't list them all.
    
    I listen to music quite a lot, and find it a big part of relaxation.
    
    Andy.

    Hi
    
    i'm Harvey Lang and work in the Telephone Support Centre in sunny
    Boringstoke.
    
    Present faves include:......................
    Zappa/mothers, mahavishnu, Pete Atkin, Family, Mike Bloomfield,
    Elvis Costello,early Santana, early Kinks (pre-1976),B-52's,
    some Jazz,Lenny Cohen,Nick Drake,Pete Banks,Cream,Scientist,Clash,
    Magazine...did  i  say present????!!!! Must admit that a lot of
    the stuff i hear today is pretty poor compared to late 60's -mid
    70's, but having said that, i will give most groups a listen.
    
    Dislikes:-The charts (LP's AND 45's).
    
    Keep on listening
    
    
    Harv

    
    Hiya peeps...
    
    I'm Ian Boyd-Livingston, and I work (well.....um....yeah) in the
    Text Retrieval Unit at Aching Rot (Acre Road to the uninitiated).
    I've been a regular contributor to the RECORDS conference in the
    States for quite a while, and am glad that I now have the chance to 
    witter away on the subject without waiting until Doomsday for the 
    network to get it's act together.
    
    Rather than being an afficionado of artistes, my tastes tend to be
    confined to particular albums, they change so often.  Currently
    occupying a fairly sizeable chunk of my listening time are such
    items as;-
    
    "Idlewild" - Everything But The Girl
    "Goodbye Blue Sky" - Godley & Creme
    "Wooden Foot Cops On The Highway" - The Woodentops
    "Love" - Aztec Camera
    "Miracle" - The Kane Gang
    "Under The Covers" - Various (a WEA compilation of cover versions
    featuring such marvels as The Jesus & Mary Chain doing "Surfin' USA"!)
    "Out Of This Dream" - Mathilde Santing
    "The Lion & The Cobra" - Sin�ad O'Connor
    "Treasure" - Cocteau Twins
                                               
    I wouldn't say that I dislike The Charts as an entity, since there
    is good music in them if one only digs deep enough, but I *hate*
    the current crop of Mall-rats (e.g. Gibson/Tiffany/Kensit/Sinitta)
    Just so much piped garbage, you know?  (oops...that's probably upset
    someone!)
    
    							Ian!
    
                                                            

    
    RE: .28
    
    I stopeed the Gig Guide when I moved to Viables - couldn't really
    be seen to do it between 9.00 and 5.30 ya know. Anyway, might just
    find time to do some gig listings, but no promises.
    
    Thanks for kind words though.
    
    David.
    

     RE: .35
    
    > Anyway, might just find time to do some gig listings, but no promises.
                                                                   
    Please try it ! It was really healpful.
    Regards, Etsuko
    

    Hello there,
        I'm Ian who works in Reading but doesn't have to live there
    thank god. I have a claim to fame in that Bros went to the same
    school as I did and they were three years below me. Incidentally, at
    the time we nick-named them 'The W*nker Twins'. Very apt.
    
    Anyway, someone out there must remember The Cockney Rejects (Micky,
    Stink and Vince) and what of Peter And The Test Tube Babies?
    The Stranglers (older material) counts as a favourite, as does anything
    that sounds good. Recently purchaesd some Woodentops (prompted by
    this file) and thats good stuff too.
    
    Happy listening!
    
    Ian

    
    Greetings,
    
    My name is Larry Vigneault, and I work in Stow Massachusetts.  I've
    been playing guitar for 23 years, and presently play in a band called
    Sapphire.  It's an interesting perspective reading this notesfile
    versus the stateside MUSIC notes.  My taste in music tends to lean
    towards jazz/fusion.  Favorite influences/artists are Dave Grusin,
    Howard Roberts, Jeff Beck and others to numerous to list.
    
    Regards, Larry

    
    I'm Tim O Connor and am currently working for ESDP in Holland.

Music:
      Most (Paul Simon-free) African music, The Pogues, Stump,
      Joy Division, Flying Lizards, Throwing Muses, Laurie
      Anderson, The Fall, New York Dolls, Pere Ubu, Bothy Band, 
      Louis Jordan, Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock.

      - Tim
    

    Arthur J. Saarinen
    Graphic Designer
    BUO/E36 Bldg. F
    "Computer Images"

    Music:  I am a big fan of Reggae and Ska.  English Beat, Alpha Blondy,
            Ziggy Marley, Public Image, Sting, Peter Gabreil, Iggy Pop,
            Steel Pulse, also the Clash, Big Audio Dynamite, and the
            Sex Pistols.

    My name is Andy Logan and I work in M.I.S. in Clonmel. Yes I know
    it's along way to Tipperary.
    
    My taste in music includes Dire Straits, Jennifer Warnes, Chris
    Rea, Christy Moore, The Statlers ( But don't tell anyone ;-) ),
    Mike Oldfield, ABC ( remember them ), Bob Seger, Arlo Guthrie (
    Are there any more Arlo Guthrie fans out there ? ) and any other
    good music. Definitely no Heavy Metal and no Rick Astley.

    Dave Sallitt, Field Service, Tyne-Tees.
    
    Likes: Blues, R&B, Soul (although not a lot of the newer, Whitney
    Houston-clone kind), Jazz (modern more than trad), modern Folk (like
    Clive Gregson/Christine Collister, Cat Stevens), Steely Dan (what 
    category do they go in?), AOR (such as Fleetwood Mac), some classical 
    (but nothing too clever/complex for my feeble brain, such as Schostokovich).
    
    Dislikes: Most chart stuff (the musical equivalent of frozen peas),
    anything that calls itself house/scratch (which is just another
    way for those with ingenuity but no talent to rip off the real
    artistes),the current teen-queen phase, heavy metal (it's all been
    done *years* ago, man.....).
    
    I also miss the Gigs Guide; it forewarned me about the Paul Simon
    tour, and my missus is now forever in my debt...:-}
    
    Dave

                                    
    name's Jonathan, work in Marlboro, MA, and was born on the wrong
    side of the Atlantic.  Oh, well, I'm getting by.
    
    Likes range from local Boston bands (O-Positive, Classic Ruins,
    Rick Berlin the Movie, Pixies, and a host of others...), to underground
    American bands (Dead Milkmen, Violent Femmes, Replacements, Alex
    Chilton), to groups that take a while to catch over here (such as
    Echo+TB, Cure, Depeche Mode, Joy Division, Robyn Hitchcock).
    
    If I dislike something, I just change the channel or pop in a cassette
    tape, so I couldn't really tell you any names.  Who is this Bruce
    Springsteam person that everybody seems to be talking about?
    
    Have a __________ day!
            (^insert adjective here)

    	
    
    	Greetings,
    		  Maurice McMullin here in Ballybrit, Galway.
    	I will listen to anything once.
    
    	Favourites -	Paul Brady
    			Woodie Guthrie
    			Ry Cooder
    			Planxty
    			Bothy Band
    			(oodles of other Irish folk groups)
                        Ella Fitzgerald
    			Cole Porter
    			(Forties & early 50's stuff like Bing)
    			Stefan Grapelli & Django Reinheardt
    
    	Dislikes   -    House 'Music'.                     
    
    
    	Play bits & pieces on guitar & mandolin to pass the time.

     
    G'Day,
          Allen Coates here in good 'ol Winnersh. 
    I too will listen to anything once. 
    
      Favourites ---   Tangerine Dream
                       The Stranglers
                       The The     
                       Icicle Works (when will they have a hit ?)
     
      And many many more!!!!!
    
      T.T.F.N.
    
      ALLEN
     
                                 
    
    
    

    
    I'm Dave Edwards. I work in the (wait for it) Manufacturing Industries
    Application Centre for Technology (MIACT) in Birmingham.
    
    I'm mainly a 60's / 70's music person. My absolute favourites are 
    Steely Dan, Santana and Caravan (anybody remember them?). But then
    there's The Who, Free, Paul Simon etc.........
    
    I have 200 or so LPs, 100 or so cassettes and 0 CDs.
    
    I used to go to quite a few concerts, but I don't get out much these
    days.
    
    Dave

    Hi, I also work in the "great polo" in the ivory tower (5th floor).
    I'm another one with varied tastes.......from Whitesnake, Deep Purple,
    Led Zep, Dio, etc to Stevie Nicks, Fleetwood Mac, Poco, Tangerine
    Dream, Rick Wakeman, Genesis, to Simon & Garfunkel, Bread, to
    Vivaldi...and back to Alice Cooper (where are all the Alice Cooper
    fans?!)  I think i'm the first one to have mentioned him!  
    He's still "alive and kicking" you know.  If any more of his devoted
    fans are out there, let me know.
    
    It's nice joining you all.
    
    PS  I've just created a Name That Tune for you all to try.
    

    
    Hi Sharon, welcome to the conference - if you're an Alice Cooper
    fan then try the HSSWS1::HEAVY_METAL conference. 
                                 
                  
    -Tony Dallison               

	Hello every bods ....

	bit late here but such is life - so many other conferences to 
	keep up with !

	Name: Jane Pryer 	logical : Beagle/Rock
	Loc:  REO 	 	logical : Duck Park
	Title : Ops Analyst 	logical : Note reader

	music interest: rock	logical: 'Eadbanger

	Seriously tho' music likes range from Big Bab's Streisand to
	Meatloaf via the Clash and that Vivaldi bloke.

	Enough from me for now...

	Beagle

    Hiya,
    
    This is Pat Barratt ex 3rd floor, now 5th floor Queens House, Social
    Secretary.
    
    LIKES: Climbie Fisher, Dire Straits, Bruce Springsteen, Whitney
    Houston, (for Gary McShane's benefit) BARRY MANILOW, Sting & everyone
    that appeared at the Nelson Mandela concert, apart from George Michael.

    
    Yoooohoooo.........

    Name:	Gavin Burke
    Occupation: UK A&L Systems Support Ubergrouppenfeuhrer (Queens House)
    
    Musical likes: Anything that has a bit of thought and originality
    
       "    hates: Churned out moneyspinners (ala scott aitken waterman)
    						  ^	^      ^
    						 delib. lower case :-)
    
    
    
    

    Hey Now!
    	I like a lot of different kinds of music, but my favorite is
    	The Grateful Dead. I also like many others ranging from Van
        Morrison to Kitaro.
    
        I work in Marlboro MA. (mro2)
    	
    	
    					Kevin

    Hello!
    I am Michele McQuay.  I work in Stow, Ma. USA.  @OGO  I am in the
    purchasing dept.
    
    I love music - everything from David Bowie to Tracy Chapman to 
    Terence Trent D'Arby...I like the Talking Heads, Eurythmics, Lou
    Reed, Laurie Anderson, Iggy Pop, The Rolling Stones, and much more...
    
    
    - Michele
    

    
    I wouldn't normally ask this sort of a question, and indeed I may
    yet get squished into the concrete by a rampaging moderator, but
    anyway....
    
    Why is Walker angry?
    
    What drove Ian to kill a hippy?
    
    			          	Confused of Basingstoke
      

    Well IBL, I think an explanation would remove some of the mystique
    from that subtle art of choosing an incomprehensible personal name.
    
    One thing though. Is your personal name rhyming slang?  8^)    
    
    Ian.

    Re .55
    
    Walker is angry cuz he can't play golf and follows a duff fitba
    team..........   :-)
    
    	- Robin........

    
    re: HippyKiller.....[8^)]
    
    Nope, no rhyming slang.....mind you, I dare say some enterprising
    cockney could make something of it.  I just hope it's polite...!
    
    And NOW ladies and mantlepieces....back to the main topic.
    
    Ian!

    Please - intros only in this topic.
    
    Enquiries re personal names by mail, preferably, or a separate topic
    if you must!
    
    Keith

    My name is Sue Fossnes.  I work at DECdirect in Customer Service
    in beautiful downtown Nashua, New Hampshire USA.  My tastes do vary
    a bit, but some of my favorites are ....
    
    The Alarm, BAD, Chuck Berry, Big Country, David Bowie, Eric Clapton,
    The Clash, Elvis Costello, Robert Cray Band, Dire Straits, Doors,
    Dave Edmunds, Buddy Holly, The Kinks, Little Richard, Nick Lowe,
    Pretenders, Lou Reed, Robby Robertson, Rockpile, Rolling Stones,
    Sex Pistols, The Smiths, Smithereens, Southside Johnny & the Asbury
    Jukes, Stray Cats, *PRE-Born in the USA* Springsteen, Talking Heads,
    U2, Van Halen, The Who, Frank Zappa (Just Another Band From L.A.) 
    and Led Zeppelin.
    
    Is it possible that I left something out?  Definitely, but I've already
    taken up enough space...
                     
      Happy Trails,
    	                   
      Sue                     

    Hi there pop pickers :-)
    
    Since I've now written a couple of notes, it's time to say hello.
    
    I'm John Wallace, from Birmingham, a software techie working in/from
    the Manufacturing Industries Application Centre for Technology. 
    
    The record collection at home includes a fairly wide variety of
    stuff, but major featured artistes include:
    Beatles/McCartney/Lennon, Clapton, Doobies, Robert Palmer, Prince,
    Todd Rundgren, Squeeze, Stevie Wonder, etc. 
    
    There's a whole load of others too, but no time/space/point to list
    them, (and anyway you won't have heard of half of them...)
    
    I'm not often in the office these days so I don't write many notes;
    I read the stuff in batch when I get in. My favourite LPs tend to
    be the ones I have on tape in the car at the moment. 

    regards
    john wallace

    ALRIGHT FINALLY SOMEONE HAS SOME TASTE AROUND HERE. FOR AWHILE I
    THOUGHT EVERYONE WAS A ALEXANDER ONEAL FAN IN THE UK..
    

    Hi!
    
    My name is Shawn McLaughlin, and I work at the Mill in the Eastern
    Massachusetts Financial Management Center as a Closing Accountant.
    I've been with Digital for about 3 years, but have only recently
    started using notes.  I enjoy reading UK_MUSIC because I have always
    been partial to British music versus American midwestern arena
    schlock-rockers such as Toto, Kansas, Journey, etc.
    
    I have varied interests within pop, and like:  Eurythmics, Dire
    Straits, Bowie, the Stones, Stevie Wonder (the older material),
    Beatles (respect 'em but rarely listen to 'em), George Benson, Diane
    Schuur (semi-obscure U.S. jazz/blues singer), Tracy Chapman, etc.
    
    I like most singers who are on key, can't stand MJ but do enjoy
    small doses of Prince (especially like Sign 'O the Times).
    
    I think that Whitney is okay, could be better with improved production
    and material (her voice is severely compressed on CD).
    
    Country & Western and heavy metal have no place in my CD collection.
    
    I look forward to getting a jump on the latest music coming out
    of the UK, and hope to be corresponding with you soon.
    
                                                  Shawn
    

    re .61
    
    ...finally someone using capital letters...

    See #2 in COOKIE::WHOAREYOU

    "Hello...my name is..."
    
    "My name is " JOHN " and i'm a head case !!!!"
                           
    "Wide eyed and legless..." again !!
    
    "I've gotta get out, I've gotta get out... "
                                              
    Gru�
    
    
    John Townshend
    
    PS. I AM NORMAL !!!!!

    .66>    PS. I AM NORMAL !!!!!
    
    Ah...but do you dig Bert Weedon????
    
    Hi everybody,
    
    My name is Paul Ciclitira, and I work as a development specialist 
    in sunny Ayr. I've been here for a year and a bit; previously I 
    worked for a software house in London although I'm from Manchester 
    originally.
    
    My tastes include The Adventures, The Bible, The Christians, Spruce,
    U2 and lots, lots more, ...and Boddies...
    
    Bye for now,
    
    Paul

    hello everybody,
    I am Bauke Schuurman, working for fieldservice Hoogeveen Holland.Worked
    for Digital for 8 years now. I must say you all have splended taste
    in music.
    I consider myself as an expert.Who the hell is Bruce
    Springsteen????????
    My favorites are: John Lennon & Plastic Ono Band,Joe Jackson,Herman
    Brood,Herman van Veen,Genisis <-----1980,Brainbox,Cuby & Blizzards.
    
    I certanely forgot some, but for now it's enough.
    Bye

    Sorry to diversify, but ....
	                                                      
    � Herman Brood                                            
                                                              
    That's the first time in *any* conference that I've seen this guy's
    name mentioned.  About 8/9 years (could be a bit out there) ago he
    brought an album out (with Wild Romance) that we just couldn't stop
    playing.  Can't recall the name but at the time ..... it was one of
    those sounds.
    
    David.
    

    My name is Andy Joyce and I'm an ALL-IN-1 specialist in the UK-SRAC.
    
    Likes:
    
    Bon Jovi, Pat Benetar, (early) Van Halen, Dave Lee Roth,
    Whitesnake (with Moody/Marsden), Deep Purple, Dire Straits,
    Rainbow (all 290 line-ups), ZZ Top, Billy Idol, The Cars,
    Def Leppard, Belinda Carlisle, Robert Cray, The Blues Brothers,
    The Police, Squeeze etc etc.
    
    Dislikes:
    
    Sting's solo stuff, Bruce Springboard, Reggae, House music, 
    Anything by Stock/Aitken/Waterman, George Michael, Jesus and Mary
    Chain, The Smiths or any of those other talentless manic depressives.
    
    I also play a bit myself (guitar) and have been in and out of bands
    for about ten years.
    
    Andy

    steve owen-thermal engineering lab
    MLO11-1 maynard,ma USA
    
    ....Noting wrong with a good song being in the top 40, it's just
        those songs made with the sole purpose of going to #1 that drive
        me batty.... 
    
    Likes: U2, THE ALARM, U2, LED ZEP, U2, THE CURE, U2, THE SMITHS,
           U2 (O.K, I THINK YOU GET THE POINT NOW), DEF LEPPARD, HOWARD
           JONES, AEROSMITH, GUNS 'N ROSES, METALLICA, VAN HALEN, INXS
           ZIGGY M.,PINK FLOYD, BOWIE, ROBERT PALMER, J.C. MELLENCAMP,
           BEACH BOYS, ART OF NOISE, SIGUE-SIGUE-SPUTNIK(GREAT MUSIC
           IF YOU GIVE IT A CHANCE) BILLY IDOL, THE CULT, R.E.M., DURAN(AND
           THEIR VARIOUS SPINNOFS)  ELTON JOHN, PRINCE, AND U2.........
    
    DISLIKES: LIKE I SAID BEFORE, IF IT'S BOUND FOR THE TOP BEFORE IT'S
              RELEASED, THEN TRASH IT!!!!
    
    ANY HUGE U2 FANS OUT THERE PLEASE GIVE ME A CALL AT EUCLID::OWEN.

    hello again to all of you,
    Bauke Schuurman back in conference.
    I think, david must have brought Herman Brood's album CHACHA home!
    His latest album YADA YADA is even better!!!!!!
    
    More of my favorites now: Il preto rosso:"Vivaldi",Peter Shostakovic,
    Man at work,U2,Normaal!!!!!!!!!!
    
    To be continued!
    

    Hi,
       I am Kirk MacDonald and work in CSS(Irvine),warehousing function
    I have been with the company about 1 year now, so still fairly new.
      
    likes:- Deacon Blue,Housemartins,Alexander O`neal,Erasure,Yello,
    Fleetwood Mac,Soul music and to the other extreme House music
    
    dislikes:- in one go heeeaaavy rock
    
    
    Keep in touch with yourself!!
    
    Kirk...
    

    Well hello!!
       I'm Vicky, and I work in.....wait for it, UK Expenses.
    Don't kill me NOW please!!!!!!
    One day I had this idea that we should have a DEC Reading Theatre
    Co.
    And now we have!
    Reading R.A.T.S. are putting their first show on in Feb.But this
    is the wrong subject for this conference. I'm into a wide variety
    of music,:
    Steve Winwood, Heart, Hue & Cry, Erasure, (Sorry),Dire Straits,
    Billy Bragg, etc.
    I hate: Status Quo, Rap stuff, Acid stuff, etc.
    

    Hi my name is Judy Pilotte and I work for GIA Mfg in Marlboro Mass
    Usa.
    my likes are: Chameleons, Alarm, Bunnymen, some Boston local bands
    who havent made it big yet!, New Order, Cure, Psych Furs, Simple
    Minds, and others...
    Dislikes: Cocteau Twins, heavy-metal, most country music, Bruce
    (tho i hear he puts on quite a show!)
    	I am glad this note is here. I've been to the UK twice and loved
    every minute of it. I saw bands like the Kissing Bandits,Lost
    Loved Ones, Faith Brothers etc (some no longer together)  and others 
    who opened for the Alarm and Chameleons.
    I met lots of people and a few have visited me here. I hope to visit
    again some day!			Judy
    

   

    Hello all,
    
    My name is Phil Lee , I play drums . I am stuck in The Crescent
    , Basingstoke . I am in a rock band at the mo and we are ready to
    gigs so if you want a band to play at any social avent get in contact
    . If you are interested in playing drums I give lessons , Good Rates
    .
    
    
    Mail --  CHEST::LEE		DTN: 7781-4367 ...
    

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    Bill Wark, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    
    Doors fan(atic)
    
    Great Conference!

     Hello.... Ray Street. Work at the Crescent, Basingstoke (UK).
    
     Pretty wide range of interests... Led Zep, ELP, Dire Straits,
    Van the Man, Steve Winwood, Fleetwood Mac, Joan Aramtrading....
    ... and most 60s stuff (nostalgia aint wot it used to be eh!)
    
     Not into this modern stuff 'house' 'hip-hop', maybe if I was
    younger.....and dont have much time for the 'chart' stuff either.
    
    Ray.

    Hi,
    I'm Joe Minville and work for Semiconductor Business Operations
    in Marlboro.  I like music of almost any genre.
    Major infuences [and some favorites] in my musical life include:
    
    The Beatles  			Smithereens
    The Rolling Stones                  Los Lobos
    Jimi Hendrix                        Jimmy Cliff
    Cream                               Jamaican Vacation
    The Who                             The English Beat
    Led Zeppelin                        Echo and The Bunnymen
    Joni Mitchell                       The Jam
    Miles Davis                         Racer X
    Steely Dan                          Metallica
    CSN&Y                               Thelonius Monk
    The Grateful Dead                   Duke Ellington
    Jefferson Airplane                  Van Halen
    John Mayall                         Anthrax
    Jeff Beck                           Sex Pistols
    Doc & Merle Watson                  blah, blah, blah
    Deep Purple
    ELP
    Ian Dury & The Blockheads
    The Clash
    The Stranglers
    Patti Smith
    Todd Rundgren
    
    I look forward to enjoying this conference.  P.S. Heard anything
    by Edie Berkelle (sp?) esp. "Shallow Water"???
    
    joe.

    
    	The name is Cook. I Goderate Heavy_Metal. My influences are
    	every style of music written. I play drums and have recorded
    	on vinyl with my former band, The Gorehounds.
    
    	/prc

    Hello from the Colonies !  I'm Jerry White and am a devout metalhead.
    I like *some* pop, country, and jazz.  I play guitar and sing a
    bit too.
    
    
    				Scary 

    
    Hello , my name is Odijp . Silly name really , just call me John.
    
    Enjoy acoustic guitar , complex drummming , tickled ivories ,
    coordinated bass rythms , and female singers with big t...
    
    As long as it sounds good , I'll listen to it .
    
    John J

    Hi
    My name is Jon Button and I work in DecPark II.
    My favourite bands atthe moment are Talking Heads, New Order,
    and The Proclaimers, but I will listen to most music.

    Hi,
     
    	My name's Phil Gardner. I am an Instructor with EDU SERVICES
    in James Watt House in London.  I would describe my tastes as 'wide'
    but I really enjoy Pink Floyd and most female vocal (strange mix
    eh?).  I am a CD freak, so almost any piece of music - if well recorded
    will be 'checked out' - so to speak.
     
    Phil G

    Hello - my name is Karina (maybe) and work in Enterprise House in
    London. Like a wide range of music (bar SAW, but I did say music).
    I don't mind country (Emmylou) and folk (Corries) - definately don't
    mind the Smiths/Rush/Voice of the Beehive... bla bla bla ... and
    sometimes go out busking with the boyfriend (guitar time!)

    
    Hi, my name is Thomas (Tommy) and I'm working at DEC since 
    
    1st June 1988 (DRC Vienna). I'm reading this conference since two
    
    months but I must say, that I don't know 80% of the bands here
    
    discussed. That's very sad because I'm a Vienna DJ and I think there
    
    are many good UK-songs I don't know.
    
    But I >don't worry< and >be happy< and hope that I here (see) some
    
    songs in sky or super. 
    
    						rgds	B.M.F
    
    

    Hi there,
              I'm Julian, and have worked at Long Lane Logistics for
    almost 3 years. Fascinating conference this, quite a lot of people
    out there into similar stuff as me. Favourite period late 60's/early
    70's, not much time for any of this #rap business or 99.99% of chart
    (material?).
    
              Major musical influences include: America, B.J.H., Beatles,
    CSN&Y, Chicken Shack, John Cooper Clarke, Cream, Doors, E.L.P.,
    Enid (saw them last week), Howlin' Wolf, Jethro Tull, King Crimson,
    Freddy King, Kinks, John Mayall, Pink Floyd, Jimmy Reed, Rolling
    Stones, Savoy Brown (yes, all readers in the states please note!),
    Smiths, Steely Dan, Stranglers, Tangerine Dream, Ten Years After,
    The The, Who, etc. etc.........(amongst others too numerous to mention)
    
              Dislikes: disco, soul, heavy metal, reggae and Michael
    Jacklinson (or whatever his name is).
    
              I've played in a couple of bands before now, bass for
    one and drums for the other, but don't get much time for such activity
    mainly due to shift work, etc. I play acoustic/slide guitar and
    sing a bit too.
    
              I think that's it for now, 
    
                                J.O.
    
    
    

    Hello !
    
    I live in Helsinki, Finland, so my name must be
    a bit strange to pronounce. Here I am called
    Tero Tammisalo.
    
    I like every kind of music.
    Disco - rap - house etc
    heavy (not all but there is several good pieces)
    AOR (Mr. Mister, Cock Robin, Springfield)
    Bruce, Dire straits, YES and so on
    Also classical
    
    that's all folks
    

    I think I will use tt as my name.
    tt
    

    Hi,
    	Spose I should do it properly although I've had some input
    elsewhere already.
    
    I'm Graham Bennett F.S. S.P.S. (T.S.B., P.S.I.). on the Starship.
    Tastes change rapidly with me 'cos I play a 'style of music' 'till
    I get really board. (But often come back to it).
    At the mo' I listen mainly to 60's soul and R'n'B this is the stuff
    I'm trying to play on my guitar ! Have been through loadsa phases
    though Started of with sum of that Glam Rock (My first single was
    Tiger Feet by Mud - what was yours ? another topic ?) I think that
    was in '72 when I was 8, Gary Glitter was a bit special as well.
    Then it was the Elvis Bit 'till he copped it ! I was very sad -
    the day before my B'day as well. Then I hit the Long Haired bit
     - then I grew up :-) and did the MOD bit short hair, tonics, scooter 
    the lot I think a bit of the punk thing crept in there somewhere.
    Yolk Yellow Hair, Black Feather earing all black clothes ...
    After that I've just drifted here and there really, Much like
    the music being played commercially, or is it that I have just got
    older and the fads are parsing by (under, over) me ?
    Anyhow these are a few entries in my collection. FAD order.
    
    o	Gary Glitter Mud 	Slade 	The Sweet	
    
    o	Elvis 	Showaddywaddy 		
    
    o	Queen	Quo	Zepplin	AC/DC	Black Sabbath
    
    o	The Who	Small Faces	Specials	Trojan Reggae	
    	Tamala Motown	Stones  Madness		
    
    o	Sex Pistol 	Ten Pole Tudor (Who Killed Bambi ?).	Clash
    	Guana Batz	Reckless	Milkshakes	Sham 69
    	Buzzcocks	Undertones
     
    o	Associates 	Mark Almond	U2	Depeche Mode	Thomson Twins
    	Alison Moyet	Echo and the Bunnymen	The Cure	
    	Cocteau Twins   Spiro Gira !   	Grace Jones	
 	Soft Cell	Blancmange	Communards
    
    o	Muddy Waters 	Sonny Terry	Brownie Mcgee	B.B. King
    	Chuck Berry	Steevie Ray Vaughn  ZZ Top	E.C.
     
    	Etc ... Etc ... Etc ...
    
    	Boring Possibly, but thats my musical history.
    
    Thanx
    
    Graham ...

    Otha Smith	Musician/Songwrite/Producer
    		Based in Reading/Wokingham Area
    		I'm a Yank, but I live here, and looking forward to
    		the notes in this conference.
              
    @wlc 7852-4221
    

    Name:             Tony Purmal
    Work:             SWS/E Pacific Systems Group
                      Mountain View, California
    Home:             San Jose, California
    
         I came in here just to ask a question, but I think I'll stick
    around and look at the conference for a while.  I have a wide variety
    of tastes in music, but I tend to be most interested in the new-wave,
    post-punk bands these days.  I listen to college radio here in the
    states, and enjoy the variety of music I hear.
    
         Current favorite groups include They Might Be Giants, fIREHOSE,
    Rank & File, Camper Van Beethoven, Dinosaur Jr., Bong Water, The
    Dickies, Game Theory, Gun Club, Let's Active, The Godfathers, Head,
    Holy Sisters of the Gaga Dada, Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians,
    The Jazz Butcher, Jane's Addiction, The Pixies, Iggy Pop, Pop Will
    Eat Itself, The Ramones, Lou Reed, Salem 66, Siouxsie and the Banshees
    Soul Asylum and XTC.
    
         All time favorites include Blondie, Be-Bop Deluxe, Alice Cooper,
    Devo, David Bowie, The Beatles, Cheap Trick, Ten CC, Rick Wakeman,
    The Tubes, Patti Smith, The Cars, Focus, Talking Heads, The Police,
    and many more.
    
    I sign my notes "ASP"

    
     Hello,
    
    My name is Mark Tanner. I have no preference to a particular type
    of music, except that I like all ZAPPA & THE MOTHERS, hence my personal
    name.
    
    I think I have heard of all the bands mentioned so far, and like
    a good deal of them.
    
    And now I will go. Bye bye.
    
    Mark.

    HI,
      I work in DECpark in information services,Iam only on work experience
    and am intersted in U2, Simple Minds and Queen
    
                       PETE
    

    
    Hello U.K.
    
    	I work in Digital Rome, Italy, as a sales rep., was born in
    France, and have british parents .
    
    	I am and have been since the age of fourteen (am now 28), an
    unconditionned fan of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.
    
    	I also listen to a lot of jazz, fusion (as long as the musician
    doesn't play just to show off his technique), love the blues and
    rock music. I can only think of one kind of music I definitely
    hate and that's artificial cheapo pop or disco ! I can even stand
    heavy metal if the band is good !(Joe Satriani and Eddie Van Halen
    are just great !) 
    
    
    Michel Abramovici.
    Rome, Italy.
      
                                
    
    

    HELLO
    I WORK IN QUEENS HOUSE READING AND TUT NAMES PHIL GLOVER.
    ( TAKES OFF LOCK!)
    after reading the rules i want to open a file on anything to do
    with queen, dates, interests, etc.........
    
    anyway,ive been here 4 months and work in telemark.age 25.
    
    anything else?

    Hi!
    
    I'm Dave Morris and I work at CSS in the South of England (SBP).
    I am new to Digital and am still overawed by the variety of information
    available in this Notes facility!
    
    My musical tastes are varied - I have albums by Dire Straits, Pink
    Floyd, XTC, Pogues, Beatles, Beach Boys, Kinks, ABBA (yes!), Yes,
    Eurythmics, Elvis Costello, Chris Rea (a current favourite),
    Stackridge, Pretty Things (vastly underrated), ZZ Top, Stevie Winwood,
    Curved Air, Talk Talk, U2, and so on and so on...
    
    Hates: The current vogue in "Dance" music, most of the current charts
    (am I getting old?), Soul, ...you get the idea?
    
    Look forward to continued reading of this fascinating set of topics...

    Welcome Dave,
    
    Ya know everything was going fine until you mentioned ABBA...AHHHhhh!
    But not to worry....we'll soon change that :-)...BTW agree totally
    with your views of so called *modern* dance music...Yeuch...are we 
    getting older....not really...lets just say your tastes are *maturing*
    Oh and finally don't take everything you read in hear too serious ;-)
                                                                     
    - Dave K.
                        

    I'll have you know that Abba have made some damn fine records!
    
    Bobba

    -- one such damn' fine record was making more money than theh Swedish
    motor industry!
    
    Richard.

    
    Yeah, but who buys Volvo's anyway 8^)

    Hi,
    
    I'm Ken Miller, and I work at the Spit Brook Facility (ZKO3) in Nashua,
    NH on the "left side of the pond".  Came cruisin' thru here mostly
    because it dawned on me that most of my favorite groups are either from
    or reside in the UK.  Great stuff in here!  I'm guessing I'll spend
    more time in here than in the US sister conference.
    
    My tastes are pretty varied and ever changing, but my die-hard
    favorites are Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, XTC, The Cure, 10,000 Maniacs,
    Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton, Jethro Tull, Dire Straits, and of course,
    KT Bush (when *will* her new album be out anyway)!
    
    Regards,
    
    	 	== ken miller ==

    
    Hello,
    
    Mark Saxby's the name and I'm a scummy contractor at The Crescent
    in Basingstoke.
    
    I like all sorts of music. For instance in my record collection
    I've got ABC (a bit of a  favourite), Sam Cooke, New Order (like
    them), The Clash (the GREATEST punk band of the lot!), Vivaldi (not
    really relevant here!), JM Jarre, Japan, Talking Heads, Level 42,
    Bryan Ferry, and... I could go on.
    
    I used to attend lots of concerts when I lived in Bournemouth and
    reckon that Kid Creole and the Coconuts were one of the best groups
    I ever saw (twice in fact), a real SHOW. I was also favourably
    impressed by Siouxie and the Banshees and Spandau Ballet, but Madness
    and Depeche Mode were rather dissapointing!
    
    I recently saw Level 42 at Wembley and they were FANTASTIC! Definitely
    the best concert I've ever seen and I'm now a dedicated fan of this
    group's music (I had a friend who thought they were great long before
    the Chinese Way, and we all laughed at him, maybe I'll find out
    what he's into now!).
    
    Mark

    Hi, I'm Lani Almeida.  I work in the Colorado Springs Law Department.
    I enjoy listening and dancing to the likes of The Cure, Echo & the
    Bunnymen, General Public, Ministry, Moev, Psychedelic Furs, Joy
    Division/New Order, Front242, The Feelies, Depeche Mode, The
    Sugarcubes, Sisters of Mercy, Nitzer Ebb, etc.

    I'm having a ball reading/writing in the Radio_Radio, New-Wave,
    and UK_Music notesfiles.  I enjoy learning about alternative
    music and look forward to noting with people who have the same
    taste in music that I do.
    
    Lani
    

    
    Hello kiddies,
    
    My name is Stuart and I'm working (Temp contract unfor) for the
    New Products Group in Ayr.
    
    Fav bands -
    
    	The Sisters OF Mercy
    	Fields Of The Nephilim
    	The Rose OF Avalanche
    	Bauhaus
    	Propaganda
    	Simple Minds ('80 - '81 stuff only)
    	Guns N'Roses
    	Julian Cope + The Teardrop Explodes
    	The Rolling Stones (60's stuff only)
    	Joy Division (and early New Order)
    	
    Hates -
    	
    	House/Rap etc
    	Stick, Cube And Waterbucket
    	Bross and Brother Beyond
    	Most popy "Nice" garbage
    
    
    Glad to be here
    
    Stuart B...
    
    AYOU08::BELL   (soon to change to   ::FRUIN)
    DTN:  823 - 3108
    
    

    Hi Martin Bone ,
    
    I thought i'de better introduce myself as i have been adding Replies
    and Notes here and there.
    Ayr Manufacturing Plant
    Started with Digital in October 1986 at 7:30 am TILL 9:30PM
    (Good First Day!)                                   
    
    Stay: Maybole Scotland (9 Miles from AYR)
    
    Started on the Production Line with Decmate III but then became
    their Repair Technician, where i have Stayed in The Desktop Stage
    2 Group repairing all small Systems.
                            
    Began having an a Interest in Music when i was 11, when i began
    my DJ'ing carear with my local Youth club in Maybole
                           
    Then went on to Bigger thing's in Club work when i was at the Legal
    age of 12 (18).
    
    I have my very own Mobile Roadshow Called "Starlight Promotions"
    and at the moment i am Currently getting ready to be a Broadcaster
    on my Local Radio Station "Westsound Radio  96.7FM 290m 1035 KHz"
    
    My Audition for this is on Friday 28th at 6:30 pm til 8:30 then
    I'll make a quick dash to Maybole for a Gig at my Resident Club.
    
    My Music Tastes cover everything from Frank Sinatra to  Hithouse!
    
    Being a Music Plugger i really have to have an open mind to Music
    but i Must admit to liking SAW material a great Deal.
    
    Soul, Jazz Funk, Acid House , House, Newbeat, Disco/dance,
    Contemperary MUSIC etc etc.
    
    Age : 22 years old   (11.02.67)
    
    Scottish and French Built in! (Great Grand Father was French "Bone")
    
    That's all i can think of at the moment, so i'll just keep adding
    my replies .
    
    I think this Conference is Really Great.
    
    
    Martin Bone
    -----------
    

    Good luck with the audition Martin!
    
    Bob

    
    hello all of you again!
    
    tonight he is on superchannel!!!!
    The one and only ELTON JOHN
    
    live can be beautiful!
    
    Bauke
    

    Hi!
    
    I am Christine.  I work and live in Massachusetts.  I love music
    all kinds, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, Clapton, Springsteen, 
    Windham Hill.  But my passion is THE WHO, *especially* Pete
    Townshend - what an extraordinary man!
    
    Cheers!!
    
    ps  If anyone is interested in having conversation regarding
        the Who  let me know CIPIC2::Carignan

    
    
    	Christine,
    
    
      Check out some of the names of noters in this conference, then
    check out ELF, (not sure if thats a valid comment in the US)
    
    
    		Interesting ???!!???
    
    
    			Grub...

    re: -1
    
    Not sure I understand your comment.  Did I say something wrong?
    
    Christine

    I think he was referring to me ?
    
    John

    I'm Tammi Taylor and I work in finance & Administration, Landover,
    MD.
    
    I worked for a rock promoter in Boston for 8 years as a private
    secretary for rock bands, so my taste in music is wide and varied.
     I absolutely HATE heavy metal (except maybe Van Halen, sometimes
    I like Guns 'n Roses, ok, there are exceptions!).
    (And I have tons of "war stories" from working with these bands,
    believe me!)
    
    I've been with DEC for 2 years in May.

    Bye!
    
    

    Hi everyone                                                             
    My name is Norma Nicol and I work in CAS in sunny Livingston,I'm
    22 years old.
    Having worked with DEC for the past Year and a half!!!! I have finally
    sussed out how to use Vaxnotes.(Or should I say someone has shown
    me how to use them.)
                 
    I'm interested in this file as I enjoy most kinds of music except
    from Heavy Metal.
                 
    My Likes are:- Luther Vandross,George Benson,Jonathon Butler,Fleetwood
    Mac,Deacon Blue,Texas,Hue and Cry (some good Scottish Bands there)
    Gloria Estafan,Steve Winwood and Chris Rea.
                 
    Definately a mixed group.
    Look forward to joining in with more notes.
                 
    Norma....... 
                        
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

    
    I've been wandering about aimlessly here for a fair while now, so I
    guess it's time to come clean....
    
    My name is Richard Roberts, & I work for IOSG (ALL-IN-1 Development) in
    DEC Park II. Off and on I've been with DEC over two years, this last
    incarnation has lasted just about a year. Oh I'm 23 too.
    
    My musical taste waddles sporadically like most people's, but currently
    includes such rock legends as: Faith Brothers, Elvis Costello, Marc
    Bolan, Journey, Bill Staines, Squeeze, Rolling Stones, Billy Bragg ... 
    as well as some nostalgia from 60s/70s Motown, The Sweet (!), The Jam,
    Rainbow, early Chris de Burgh... I may have fibbed about the 'rock legends'
    bit. I love good lyrics, as long as they are sung with a voice that
    doesn't sound like a tractor reversing up a 1:3 incline. Don't much
    care for much Heavy Metal, but do think some of the greatest ballads
    ever written/sung have come from so-called HM-groups...
    
    Cheers,
    
    R|tch^d
     

    
    Hi all
    
    Here is a short introduction.
    
    I'm 24 Years old. (for the non-mathematics, I'm born in 1964, 12th
    July)
    
    I'm working as student here with DEC (only 20 hours a week)
    I study (in Germany called Informatik) 'computer related things'
    (can anyone tell me how this is called in English ?)
    
    I like most (in Music) Dire Straits, Tina Turner, Boston, U2,
       Simple Minds, Pink Floyd and and and and......
    Let's say all between Abba and ZZ-Top (but absolutly *NOT* Stock/Aitken/
    Waterman )  
    
    I'm working here in Western Germany, Frankfurt/Main
                        LEG (Local Engineering Group) 
                             QA (Quality Assurance) (mainly for ALL-IN-1
    						     and VTX)
                
    
    	Any corrections to my English (which is very very bad, I know)
        is welcome. Please send it to:
    
    		mail/phone  PAULUS::SCHUT
    		ALL-IN-1    SCHUT@FRO
    
    	Guido�
    
                                      

    
      >>      -< � I think I'm the first one from Germany ??? � >-
        
    
    I think not !
    
    However your English is very nearly as good as mine, but alot better
    than one Grub.
    
    Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
    
    John

    Greetings
    
    My name is Paul Amann, I work in A & L in wonderful Winnersh and
    have been in Digital for the past couple of years.  I am 20 and my
    music taste is therefore moderately newish though quite varied.
                                                      
    Eurythmics/Annie Lennox	Dire Straights		Tracey Chapman
    Suzanne Vega       		Climmie Fisher		
    Feargal Sharkey/Undertones	The Jam			Chris Rea
    Pretenders			Blondie/Debbie Harry	Simon & Garfunkel
    Erasure			The Police		Some Paul McCartney
    Kim Wilde	 		Enya			Chris de Burgh
    Bill Withers		Some Billy Idol		Jean Michel Jarre
    Mike Oldfield		Boomtown Rats/Bob Geldof
    
    A local band in Reading that a friend introduced me to, are "Blindman's
    Rainbow" which you have just got to hear.
    
    Be noting you soon
    
    Paul

    Just some I forgot - 
    
    Phil Collins/Genesis	Lindisfarme		Deacon Blue
    Prefab Sprout		David Bowie		Elton John
    Kate Bush			Eric Clapton		The Clash
    Sting			John Lennon		Clannad
    Some U2			
    
    and as much Eurythmics as can be got!!

    My name is Paul Glynn
    
    I work in A+L at Winnersh.
    
    My musical taste is varied but I suppose I'm a Blues man at heart.
    
    Re : 5.119 ---- I used to manage Blindman's Rainbow and theyr'e
    crap (Sorry Paul)Most of the Band agree with me.
    
    Thats about it.

    
    
    Hallo!!
    
    My name ist Guido Hockelmann.
    
    I work at FRO(Quality assurance) Neu-Isenburg/Germany 
    near to Frankfurt.
    
    I work 20 hours each week, for the rest I'm student of
    economics.    

    Hi, my name is Jonathan.
    I am writing from ADG Valbonne were I am working for the summer.
    Normally, I am a student at the University of London, reading
    Computer Science.
    My musical interests range from mature groups to new, up and
    comings also :
    
    	Pink Floyd, Genesis, The Who, Whitesnake, Yes, Phil Collins,
    Mike & the Mechanics, Tony Banks, David Coverdale, Depeche Mode,
    simple minds, Blondie, etc.
    
    I also like a smattering of the Charts, generally those that made
    the headlines between 80 and 85 only :
    
    	Pet Shop Boys, a-ha (a little, not too much), and a couple of
    others.
    
    Then there's the different stuff :
    
    	Mike Oldfield, etc.
    
    And finally, hard rock, metal, heavy metal, etc :
    
    	AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Deep Purple, (Whitesnake should really be
    in this class), Def Leppard, Scorpions, ZZ-top, etc.
    
    There's a load more I haven't mentioned in all of the classes. I love
    music; 'tiz ma life !  My only descrimination between good and bad
    music is : if a human plays it, it's normally good. If a computer
    plays it (and a couple of ponces prance about on stage in front of a
    bank of flashing lights (BROS !)), then it's crap !
    (To any BROS fans : I'm not sorry !)
    
    Keep the music alive, live and good...
    
    		Jonathan (alias Pynk (as in Floyd)).
    

    
    juju here, to tell you bout me, if anyone is interested!
    
    Name is Julian Cole, but answer only to juju, unless it is all in
    1 mail.
    
    I like the Doors, Jim Morrison, The Jesus&Mary Chain, Police, much
    indie music, especially groups like the Spacemen3 Loop and much
    of the lineup at Reading this year. Also older stuff like Boomtown
    Rats, Elvis Costello ect.
    
    I am learning to play Guitar, and my favourite colour is Black.
    
    juju
    xxxx
    

    ...how come it's only all headbangers and U2 fans that've been noting
    in here lately ??

    There has for sure been the odd few English Eccentrics (any recent XTC
    notes ??) but other than that ye all seem as peaceful as students in
    May...

    - Bored of DEC Pk

    I resent being called a 'eadbanger 8^)

    Dear Mr JUMBLY::OCONNOR,
    
    Ed and I, the odd few American Eccentrics, have been somewhat 
    active in here lately - sorry to have bored you!  (Must've been 
    the album & CD stats I entered the other day)
    
    If we have been "as peaceful as students in May" then God (or 
    whomever) help you!  Over here, that is the time students have 
    their last death-defying flings before breaking up for summer.
    
    (Ed,  I'm not so old that I've forgotten what it's like to wake
    up after one of those parties [at Rutgers, a hop, skip and a jump 
    from NYC])
    
    - Argumentative of Marlboro ;-)  
    

Re: .127

 >  <<< Note 5.127 by HYEND::SCHILTON "When they said sit down,I stood up" >>>
 >                  -< Waddya mean headbangers & U2 fans???? >-

    I mean headbangers and U2 fans! All you other tasteful noters are
    excepted. 

 
>    Ed and I, the odd few American Eccentrics, have been somewhat 
>    active in here lately - sorry to have bored you! 

     You didna bore me...I was complaining about the lack of noting in this
     file recently....just felt very quiet in here...but that might be a
     bit presumptuous of me as I hadn't entered a note for about a year.

     Which music do you listen to then ?

     Have a good day.

     - Tim

    Well I thought I'd better sign in as I have been reading this file
    for a little while.
    
    I am employed in FMIC - IS ( I didn't say work).
    
    My musical taste is quite varied but on reviewing my collection
    I seem to have an affinity with Singer/Songwriter types rather than
    groups.
    
    My prime interest is in the Blues, and no I am not old enough to
    have met Robert Johnson, but I have seen B.B. King.
    Have quite a few Blues albums and like the older Miles Davis and
    John Coltrane.
    
    Musical tastes are : Joni Mitchel, Tom Waits, Ry Cooder, Rickie
    Lee Jones, Carmel, Eric Clapton, Billy Joel, Chris Rea, Joe Jackson
    etc.
    
    I almost hate to admit it but I have nearly got into C&W as I have
    some KD Lang, Lyle Lovett and Steve Earle albums. 
    

    Iain
    

    
    
    How do!!
    
    	One of DEC's latest hires here to let you know that the current
    stock of Irish bands are second to none and that hopefully I can 
    bring this home to you all. Before I am finished , bands like :
    
    The Four of Us, Tuesday Blue, Fleadh Cowboys, Hothouse Flowers,
    Something Happens, Aslan and of course the BIG four..
    
    will become "canteen"hold names. Thanks for taking the time out to read
    this.
    
    			Take care
    				John
    

	Well, I've been here for a while, but hi anyway.  Brian Meagher
based in Galway, Ireland - Dub at heart.

RE: -.1
>>>    the current
>>>    stock of Irish bands are second to none 
>>>
>>>    The Four of Us, Tuesday Blue, Fleadh Cowboys, Hothouse Flowers,
>>>    Something Happens, Aslan and of course the BIG four..

	Agreed!  I think that the Irish bands are great, but you did 
leave out Cry Before Dawn, which IMHO is inexcusable.  (On the other hand 
you also left out A House, so I'll excuse you after all).

	Favorite bands are Something Happens, Cry Before Dawn, Deacon Blue, U2,
HH Flowers, The 4 of Us, P Floyd, Tom Waits, but will listen to anything
(except Kylie).  Love children.

Be seein' ya,
-Brian.

    re .131
    
    >> Love children
    
    y'want mine, Brian???
    
    Anyway, glad to see there's someone else who listens to old Tom
    here, too....
    
    Bob

    
    Brian G.
    
    I work at the dec plant in ayr.
    Current likes in music are anything like funk, rap, house and fusion
    also i like Prince, Queen, Deacon blue and Hue and Cry.
    
    bye.

    Frances Barron here, I work in New Products Purchasing in Ayr.
                           ----
    Music tastes range but favorites include: Chris Rea, Bruce Springsteen,
    Robert Cray,John Cougar Mellencamp,Silencers,Deacon Blue,Van the
    Man Morrison,Nanci Griffiths,Roseanne Cash,Cyndi Lauper,Ry Cooder,
    John Hiatt,Steve Winwwod and and whole lot more.........
    
    Oh yes, and Joe Jackson. Saw him last week in Glasgow, and thought
    he was superb, one of the best concerts I have been to.
    
    I dont really have specific "hates" but I dislike discoish type
    music........and Tom Waits. 
    
    Hope to contribute now and then
    
    Frances :-))
                                

    Hi,
    
    hope it's still allowed to join this conference.
    
    My name is Brigitte Jaeger, am living in Vienna, Austria, working
    for Digital for 6 years now, currently as ALL-IN-1 instructor with
    Ed. Services (or is it already EIS??)
    
    My musical favourites at the moment are Tears for Fears (I LOVE
    "The seeds of love" - hope to see them someday in concert), but
    I also have other all time favourites like Pink Floyd (seen them
    twice), Prince, Peter Gabriel, Genesis, etc.
    
    I don't have specific dislikes, maybe the real heavy sort of heavy
    metal or acid house (still in fashion?). Mostly I pick out one or
    two songs of an artist/group that I like (f.i. "If only I could"
    by Sidney Youngblood - even top ten music does sometimes sound good
    to me). And sometimes I like to listen to classical music like
    Beethoven, Mussorksky, Ravel.
    
    No "famous last words" from me
    Brigitte
    

    Hi there...
    
    My name is not Melissa Jones, but Karina Meerman, aka The Dutchess,
    formerly at HHL. I took a wrong turning at Harwich and here I am 
    in Sydney... It's only  for three weeks, but I promiss I'll be a
    faithfull reader. :-)
    
    My musical tastes are pretty varied (but no SAW) and by the time I get
    back (yes I will get back to Sunny England - ARGH) I'll probably start
    to promote Aussie bands... (haha)
    
    Yours,
    Still talking rubbish...
    
    

    Hello 
      My name is Mike Dorsey.i work in Tempe.Az.I worked for D.E.C. for
    5yrs.I have a varied interest in music.Clapton,The stones,The fixx,
    some R&B,Some soul. so I'll be keeping up on this file.
    
    Later
    Mike
    

    Hi!!
    
    
    My name is Sarah O'Coy, I've been working for DEC for just over
    12 months, in Logistics @ the Fort in Birmingham.  I'm now working for
    CAS/Birmingham.
    
    Sarah
    8-)

    Hello
    
    I'm Matthew Brown who works at the Crescent in Basingstoke, CRA
    logistics.  I'm 19 and have worked at here for 18 months, but I'm
    moving to Warrington in March, to the Merchandising Group at the NLC.
    
    I'm into everything from Joy Division to Acid, Pet Shop Boys to
    Strauss, Beatles to Stone Roses.  I collect records (I have about �2500
    worth), picture discs, imports etc.  There are 4 artists/groups that I
    collect everything of;
    
    Madonna (�600 worth so far), New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure.
    
    I am also collecting every No1 single since 1959, so far I have 63.
    
    
    
    regards
    
    
    MattyB (the vinyl junkie)

    Hi, I'm James Bushnell. I work at Queens house in reading and I
    thought I ought to put a reply in here as I have already started
    noting.
    I am slowly building up a collection of rare sixties soul records
    (when finances allow). That is my main passion along with going to
    allnighters ( all night "soul nights").
    Look forward to talking to y'all.
    
    James

Hello,

My name is Sorin Vlasiu, I'm 35, I live in Brussels (Belgium) and work in
Digital EIS Projects & Consulting.
I like music of all kinds but I have a strong preference for heavy metal and
progressive rock.
I'm a long date fan of Uriah Heep and actually also of Queensryche.
My main preferences are:
Uriah Heep, Queensryche, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, King Crimson, Pink Floyd,
Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Q5, Oliver Magnum, Dire Straits, Santana, Steely
Dan, Kansas, Iron Maiden, Chick Corea, Return to Forever, Fates Warning,
Annihilator, Metallica, Kraftwerk, Aphrodite's Child, ELO, Eagles, Talk Talk,
Metal Church, Accept, Scorpions, Chris Rea, Rolling Stones, Beatles, Joe
Satriani, Vangelis, UB40, U2, Burning Spear, Bob Marley, Aswad, Ramones,
Zamfir, Barclay James Harvest, 10CC, ABBA, Platters, Nat King Cole, .. 
.. wow I'm tired so I stop here.
I cannot say that I dislike some kind of music but in the some genres of
music I only like specific songs or artists. For example I don't like
all Michael Jackson's music but only the "Thriller" LP and from his last LP
the "Dirty Diana" song.

Best regards,
Sorin

    Hi there everyone!!
    
    My name is Ilse and I work for Digital Holland for about 2.5 years
    now. (time flies when you're having fun). I'm 23 years old and I
    love music. My favourites are ... a lot!! Just to name a few:
    Level 42, Phil Collins, Toto, Bryan Adams, Abba, Tears for fears,
    Pet shop boys, Gloria Estefan and MSM, Sade, George Michael,....,
    eh...,And I can go on like this! But I can't forget to mention here
    my Most favourite band which is: Spandau Ballet!! I have been a big
    fan of them for about 5 years now and I had lots of great times
    being an SB-fan!! I recently saw them 'live' again, and I reckon
    they are one of the best live bands that I've ever seen!!
    I'd like to "meet" some more Spandau Ballet fans via this 'medium'!
    I'm looking forward to reading any reply!!!
    Cheerio!!
    
    Ilse. 
                             

    Yo.
    
    Mike from Component Engineering, Littleton, Mass.
    Been reading this conference since Aug.'89.
    The reason I joined? Simply put - Marillion
    
    This band is unreal -
    
    - phenomenal
    
    Later!
    
    ____
    \ \ \o\ , __
     \ \ \\\L_\_\
      \ \ \\\ \\__>

    Hello World!
                My name's Steve Harris and I work for the Manufacturing
    Dept in South Queensferry,near Edinburgh (am I the first?). I have
    worked for DEC for 6 months. 
                I like most music apart from Kylie,Jason,Bros + Thrashing.
    My favorite band is Erasure and I try to catch them Live whenever I
    can. 

    Hi,
    
    My name's Craig Harris and I work for Customer Services in Warrington
    Nr Manchester.  I have been with DEC now for 18 months.
    My likes..Dance/Soul/House/Rap/Jazz Funk/Synth music/Bruce Hornsby/Hue & cry
    My dislikes..Stock/Atkin/Waterman, Metal, Indie, Big fun, Yell.
    
    ..Craig
    
    

    
    My name is Christophe Bernard; I live in Lyons and work as a consultant
    for French IS-ADG in Evry (near Paris).
    
    I am 24 and I like mainly Indie music ( British/French/US ) but also
    some dance music as well .
    
    I dislike French varietes and all kinds of rock/pop designed for US
    radios, i.e. Springsteen, Rolling Stones 70's-90's, Dire Straits, U2 
    and the likes - I could even say that sometimes I truly hate that.
    
    Still looking for the adequate therapy, though...

    Hi Christophe, you don't travel from Evry to Lyons every day do you ?? I
    wouldn't like to try it. I lived in nearby Grenoble for awhile and
    sometimes popped up to Lyons for concerts. A lot less `sportif' than
    Grenoble (mercifully). I remember walking out on Bowie's 1983 concert
    (The Serious Moonlight Tour) in Lyons. He was going through his
    `greatest hits' at the time.

    You also have better weather and venues for music festivals (e.g. Orange). 
    Your hates seem to be impeccably well chosen, so don't worry about
    finding a therapist just yet -;)

    - Tim

    PS If you'd like to reply Mr Mod may feel this is more suited to the
    "Odds and Sods" note - it is no 168.

    Hi.
      My name is Steve Wright (in the afternoon)and i work as a
    manufacturing tech at South Queensferry.
     I like Depeche Mode, Erasure,The Blue Nile,INXS,Devo,Bowie,Aztec
    Camera,etc.
     Cant stand S A & Waterman   And Jive Bunny.
    
                                              Steve... 

    
    
    Afternoon, Rich is back and working at USH. I'll be writing again
    soon.
    
    Rich.
    
    P.S Boston, Ed and Thailand were groovy!
    
    

What about McSorley's?

    
    OK McSorleys, The Commonwealth Brewery, BBQ, Red Sox, Empire State
    were all groovy. HAPPY????
    
    Rich.
    
    
    P.S Stay off the Dunkin' Donuts Ed.
    
    

    
    Can you believe it? Supertemp is on the move for the 4th time.
    
    Bye!
    
    Rich.
    
    P.S Anyone got any work going???
    

    
    Kirsten Richmond
    Design/Technology Group                   
    
    
    Hi,
    
    I've been reading and writing in these notes for a while now, so
    I think I'd better introduce myself.
    
    I'm YTS working with the Design & Technology Group in Ayr, I've been
    here for two years but that's about to change, I leave next Tuesday 
    for pastures new...
    
    Music likes....
    
    INXS, U2, Spear of Destiny, Simple Minds, Gene Loves Jezebel, 
    All About Eve, The Cult, The Stone Roses, The Wonderstuff,
    Cabaret Voltaire, The Soup Dragons, Midnight Oil, Gun, Texas,
    The The, The Thieves, The Darling Buds, Lita Ford, The Silencers,
    The Alarm, Crazyhead, Pop Will Eat Itself, Danielle Dax and
    hundreds more...
    
    Bye,
    
    KIZ

                            -< ..I sent for juice....>-
    
    'Ello matey peeps!
    My name is Keith Wales and I thought I'd put a wee note in aboot
    me-self.
    I work in Ayr and my job is a trainee production operator in the
    desktop business....better than nuthin I suppose!
    I have one more year of my contract to work and then I was thinking
    about the R.A.F.!!!!??????
    
    Musically I'm heavily into.......
    
    Happy Mondays,The Stone Roses,Northside,The Soup Dragons,Inspiral
    Carpets......most INDIE music......and a lot of dance stuff as well.
    
    My interests are raving,socialising etc.,etc.,etc.......
    
    Thanks for listening!
    Cheeeerz........Keith.

    I've been told not to read this conference but I thought I'd write now
    and then.
    
    Raving Dolorous

    why have you been tole not to read this?  this is where it all happens,
    possibly.  Where else can you keep in touch with Mattys flares and
    Stuart Potters humour?  errrr, well, maybe it wasn't such bad advice
    after all.
    
    Mikef

    
    Hi I'm Tim Price, I thought I'd better introduce myself as I've been
    noting for a while in this conference and just come across this topic.
    
    I'm working in Queens House, Reading in the Marketing Services
    department as my industrial placement year from Brighton poly.  Now the
    important bit, music, my taste is mainly indie stuff, including most of
    the dance crossover stuff, particular groups are The Smiths (had to
    mention them as they were so good in their time), Stone Roses (older
    stuff is better), Wedding Present, Ride, Billy Bragg, Happy Mondays,
    the Fall, New Order... the list is endless and quite wide as it
    stretches back to The Byrds and Stones and out to Depeche Mode and some
    of the new dance stuff.
    
    I have interviewed several bands for Brighton Poly's paper and have
    published a fanzine (copies going out soon I promise).  I buy quite a
    few records but not as many as Matty and get to as many gigs as
    possible and that's about it.
    
    Tim
    ---

    Well, prompted by the flurry of entries in this topic, I've decided to
    put in my 2 penneth. I'm Andy Wilcock (nice name) and I'm working in 
    Reading too (hi Tim), but at DECpark in IOSG (as you probably guessed).
    I'm on my year out from the lovely Portsmouth poly.
    
    I mean, this is the UK music conference, so I'll stop wittering on about 
    Poly's etc and get to the thing you all (don't) want to know... MUSIC !!
    
    My tastes are well varied...
    	Pink Floyd & Roger Waters (the greatest)
        Genesis & Phil Collins Solo stuff
        Jethro Tull 
        Eagles & Don Henley
        Metallica (Told you it was varied)
        Marillion & Fish 
        Rush
        Faith no more (doesn't everyone ? - Teenybopper headbangers)
        Even some classical (what? classical AND metallica?) 
       
    	And utterly hundreds of others spanning a wide range...
    
        	Well that's me intro out of the way,
    
    			Andy.

    RE-1,
    
    You didn't mention Acid House, or Happy Mondays, or Enya, or Sting, or
    Bananarama, or Kylie, or....
    
    			ARE YOU NARROW MINDED OR WHAT????
    
    
    matty
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    only joking!

    RE .156
    
    Mikef,where it also happens is the POBOX::DJ confr.
    So guys,join us in there too huh?
    
    YO� ;^)
    
    Jan.

    Teenybopper headbangers my dimpled a$$ !!

    Faith No More used to be a punk band until they started
    sounding/acting like the Red Hot Chili Peppers.  They've
    been around for about 10 years.
    
    "Teenybopper" is not one of the words I'd use to describe
    them.                         
    
    -Vicki

"Good", "exciting" or "interesting" are not words I'd use to describe them,
either, having made the mistake of buying their latest :-)

--patrick--

(yes, I know I should keep my mouth shut if I've nothing good to say, as my 
mother always told me!)

    without ratholing this topic, I'd just like to justify my teenybopper
    headbanger comment. I mean the way some rock bands (most) have changed
    to pander the chart buying public, and some have become 'the bad boys'
    to the 14 year old girls. Don't get me wrong, though, I do believe 14
    year old girls CAN like the music, but there are quite a few who only
    like the band 'cos the lead singer is sexy...
    
    		Andy.
    

    
    Doesn't anybody know what a ' 8^) ' is anymore ?

    I'm touchy early in the mornin' (ooh err)  ;^D
    
    		Andy.
     

    Well the first time I look at vax note's and I have to read a mail
    saying the above.
    

    New Noter *-
    
    Paul Rankine Manufacturing DCC , Birmingham (@BBP)
    
    Current Likes :
    Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, Philip Glass, Tangerine Dream, Pale
    Saints, Lush ...well almost anything on 4AD actually.
    
    From the past :-
    
    Punk ...i was in there from the start, especially the Clash, until they
    went to the states and wasted themselves (how they could bring out
    trash like Rock the Casbah, is beyond me !!!.
    
    Other likes ...SAHB, Free, Focus, Cure, Reggae, Dub, early Simple
    Minds, DAF, Kraftwerk, Joy Division  etc
    
    Recently plunged into buying a CD, and looking to increase my CD
    library..perhaps by supplementing my LP collection by filling in some
    gaps. 

    G'day peps!
               I would like to hear from anybody who has discoverd
    the superb talants of sam Brown.
                                    ferret

    Has her record company got access to Notes? ;-)
    
    matty
    
    ps.  I thinks she's got a good voice and `Stop' is almost a classic.  I
    think she could do with an abundance of quality material though, but
    then who couldn't?

    I suppose I'd better sign in again (originally in 5.39).

    I've been back in grey-day Reading for a couple of years and am
    listening to pretty much the same stuff (808 State aside).

    I've also discovered the joys of Agnes Bernelle's music. If anyone's
    interested, HMV Reading is kind enough to have one LP on display.

    Apart from that I'm afraid it's the usual world music stuff for me:
    Thomas Mapfumo, Rai music, The Bothy Band (still), Nusrat Fateh Ali
    Khan and Ali Fark� Tour� among others�. 

    The only notesfile that seems to discuss this stuff seems to
    world_forum though.
    
    - Tim (no relation)
    
    � That makes me sound like a bigger name-dropper than Piers!

    Bigger name-dropper than Piers? I don't think so; why, only the other
    day Clapton was telling me no-one is a bigger name-dropper than Piers.
    
    Not_Tim.

    ;-)
    
    Bob, the tapes are on their way!

    I thank you, I thank you.

    Hi again.
    
    I was last here about 3 years ago (see 5.17). Since then become a
    changed man with unchanged musical tastes.
    
    Balders
    (Anyone seen, or remember, an turnip shaped thingy)

    Hmmm, guess you won't want me to bring my Smiths tapes on monday then?
    
    Mike

    
    Hello musiclikers,
    
    here's another new (old) noter.
    I'm reading this conference for about four month, and I think now is
    the time, to give you some background on my person.
    
    Name:  Peter Bruehl
    Age:   28
    
    I'm working at DEC since July 1987.
    
    My current Job ist Data Base Management for SMART Application.
    I work in Hamburg, living in Jork (not York or New York).
    
    I like: Music, biking, darting and to have some lovely envenings a
    week, to be with my beloved wife and my beloved daugther
    
    I like bands like: It Bites (absolutely number one), IQ, Genesis,
                       Toto, Rush, Gong, Sting, P. Gabriel, S. Hackett,
                       Big Country and a lot more.
    
    My favourite albums are: 1.) Once Around The World - It Bites
                                 Seconds Out - Genesis
                                 Voyage Of The Acolyte - S. Hackett
                                 The Big Lad In The Windmill - It Bites
                                 Living Proof - IQ
                                 The Seventh One - Toto
                                 Nothing Like The Sun - Sting
                                 Hemispheres - Rush
                                 Eat Me In St Louis - It Bites
                                 Time Is The Key - Gong
    
    I also do like Stern Combo Meissen. Does anybody know about Stern
    Combo Meissen?
    
    I'm playing drums in a four peace band, called Common Ground.
    I enjoy this a lot. And I'm sure, that will have some success, soon.
    
    That'a all for now.
    
    Let's have some fun.
    
    |PETER|
    

It looks like we need to start another topic, a "I won't be reading this
conference anymore" note.  Well, I'll put my goodbyes in here.  I leave DEC 
today after almost 4 years & 3 years of noting (but mostly read-only) in this
conference.  Considering that I'm based in Galway which isn't exactly the
musical centre of the universe, this conference has been a godsend for me - ya
beat all other conferences hands down, so thanks & keep on notin'.  Since the
company I'm going to isn't even on the Internet (yet), I shall be completely
without musical guidance.  Sigh.

This thing called life...
-Brian.

    Best of luck Brian.

    - Tim

    PS Hope you're not going to Limerick -;)

    
    Brian,
    
    take care.
    
    |PETER|

    All the best Brian
    
    Tim
    ---

    And another one....
    
    I'm out of here at the end of this week - I'll still be in DEC
    (Customer Services), but I won't be able to note any more.
    
    Particular thanks (gush gush) to Tim O'Connor, ::GURU and Bruce
    Sturrock (wherever you are) for pointing me at a whole load of good new 
    music.
    
    Cheers,
    
    Bob

    Bob, not you as well.. 
    Why not get a terminal put in at home?


    Dave

    So farewell then Bob Green.
    You used to like trash,
    Until Kelvin's Mum met you
    And plugged you into
    Boring sound-mixes...

    (Or smt like that -;)

    - Tim
    

    How can you be in Digital and not be able to note! This conference
    needs you - is there no [Digital-speak coming up] workaround that will
    let us continue to share your pearls of wisdom?
    
    
    Rod

    Can I get a terminal in me engineer's van, then?
    
    Bob

bye bye Babs.

    Bob, Can't you Note from customer site?
    
    All the best.  This Notesfile is going to be empty soon.  BTW my Dad
    likes your songs - lots too.
    
    
    matty

    All the best Bob
    
    Tim
    ---

    Cheers. Matty, your dad must be one hip dude.
    
    Bob

	Bob....FRO
	
		p1

    All the best, Bob. I hope you'll be able to find a way to stage the
    occasional comeback...

    �Paul�

    Hopefully so.
    
    Bob (40 minutes to go!!)

    
    My name's Greg (fleg if you want)
    
    I am a YT (ooer missus) student working in the repair centre in
    Winnersh...
    
    My musical tastes vary, but I can normally be found listening to
    INXS, REM, James, Ride, The Wonder Stuff, Airhead and Loads of older
    Stuff (Monkees, Beatles, Rolling Stones etc) 
    
    But i'll really give anything a go once, which can sometimes prove to
    be a mistake (memories of a rave come flooding back to haunt me)
    
    I'm just learning to play the guitar, and I must confess that i'm
    useless in the exteme.
    
    oooh yess I like Nirvana too but forgot to say so.....
    
    
    Greg...

Hi,
	My Name's Alistair Robertson ( But you can call me Al )

	I'm a Software Engineer Working in DEC Park in Reading.
	I've been with DEC since Dec '88.

	I have a varied musical interest, but mainly listen to

	U2, Yello, REM, Midnight Oil, Dan Reed Network, Beatles,
	Marillion, Pink Floyd.

	Also in my collection, and come out for a claen now and again:

	Ultravox, INXS, Wall Of Voodoo, The Stranglers, Eurythmics, Peter Gabriel,
	Phil Collins/Genesis, Queen, Simple Minds..

	I have a definite dislike for rave, rap, House, Madonna &
	Stock Aitken & Waterman Clones.....

	I have been playing the bass guitar for about 3 years ( And boy are my
	fingers sore :-) ). I started learning the guitar about 5 years ago, but
	a friend of mine needed a bass player for a band and I've never looked
	back, although a do pick up the guitar once in a while. In fact if you
	were at the DMO Xmas party at Thorpe park in 1990, you'd have seen the
	band playing.

	I've recently joined another band, playing varied music, but mainly
	Blues/Soul, Clapton & Hendrix Covers. and after 12 weeks of heavy
	rehearsal are now ready to go and play, and we start at the Black Lion
	in Woodcote on Sunday 8pm.

	I've been a reader up to now, but as I'm now up to date, I'll be making
	the odd conmment here and there.

	See you in the Conference

	Al

    Hi,
    
    I'm Hawkesy (My first name is Mark, but no-one uses it !!!)
    
    I work in Technical Support in DECdirect at DEC Park in Reading.
    
    I like most Indie/Alternative music, partricularly Ride, My bloody
    valentine, Curve, Chapterhouse, Charlatans and Airhead etc...
    I respect most music, but I have to say that I really hate Rave music.
    CAN'T STAND IT !$%*!!!. And I really hate being moved around at work,
    I've changed desks at work 5 times in the last 8 weeks !!!.
    
    
    
    Hawkesy.
    
     

    
    Oh $%^*!!!. Did I just say 5 times in 8 weeks !?...
    
    ... I meant 8 months !
    
    H_a_W_k_E_s_Y

    Hi!  I've been reading this file for ages but I guess it's about time I 
    said hello!
    
    I'm Debby and work at Harefield Place, Uxbridge.
    
    Music loves are U2, REM, The Waterboys, Lloyd Cole, Crowded House, 
    Julian Cope, Robbie Robertson, Dylan, Simple Minds, Suzanne Vega, 
    Clannad, Maria McKee, Van Morrison, Hothouse Flowers (can't imagine why 
    those two go together...:^)), and so many more I can't think of.  Hate 
    most of the dance-cr*p around at the moment and the whole 70's revival 
    thang, apart from anything to do with T Rex as Marc Bolan was my first 
    love (aged 4 I had a huge poster of him on my wall - what a hip kid!).
    
    Debs. 

    HI GUYS!!!
    Well I'm working at Morgines in Geneva, Switzerland.
    I listen to a bunch of different music : it goes from Heavy Metal to
    Country Music ... Stuff like MOTLEY CRUE, EXTREME, SKID ROW, QUIREBOYS,
    BLACK CROWES, SMARTASS (they come from Atlanta, GA)and ALABAMA, 10000
    MANIACS, STEALING HORSES, and so on...
    
    HUG YA ALL!
    BIBICHE
    

    Hello, I am Martin Begley working at The Crescent, Basingstoke.
    
    I have just started here after coming to the UK from New Zealand. The
    main sort of music I am interested in is alternative, current favourite
    bands include Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth, Fugazi, Carter USM,
    Leatherface, Buffalo Tom, 3D's, Bailter Space, Spud.
    
    Have seen quite a few bands since arriving here and I'm slowly starting
    to get into the local music but am not impressed with most of it.
    
    Martin

I'm Terry Burgess and you'll find me -- at the moment -- at the exotic
Winnersh Triangle.

At the moment I am listening to, ugh-hum, er, Uriah Heep. Honestly. And
before that we had Wishbone Ash on!

Yes, we are truly with it cats.

I am wearing a TROUSERSHOCK BC tee-shirt, and I like their stuff
quite a lot.

What else do I like? Well, in no particular order of preference:

Be Bop Deluxe/Bill Nelson, Stone Roses, XTC, The Church,
Michael Schenker/UFO/MSG, Mott the Hoople, Gerry Rafferty, Elton,
Georgie Michael, the Beatles, Mega City Four, The Fall, the Smiths,
Trousershock BC, Slug, Beats Working, the Faces, 72-ish Status Quo,
John Mellencamp, Swervedriver, The Orb, KLF(rip), Shamen, and many others...

The problem is that I am an old man that still likes new stuff...


Terry

	Hi everybody,

	I'm a student, working part-time for DIGITAL, and have plenty of time 
	listening to weird UK-music. Besides this I like to watch MTV, getting
	carried away with all those flickering lights and sounds.

	So my favourite UK-musicans are Kevin Coyne, Peter Hammill, Peter Gabriel,
	XTC, Bill Bruford and Twelfth Night (a group which doesn't exist anymore).

	At the end of May I was in London and it was great; sun was shining, a
	magican-festival at Covent Garden and lots of funky people around Camden
	Town. I really learned to love these and many other places of England and
	London. But as a German I love my homecountry too, except for the riots
	in Rostock this week with all the warriors and brutality.

	So, good bye for now, Knud.

Mark Rennison working in Finance in Ayr, Scotland.

I've been with DECfor just over a year and this is me just discovering this
conference.

I like all sorts of music but if I was to try and classify it I'd say late 70's/
early 80's and indie (with a slight tendency towards the dance end of it.)

Cheers,

Mark

    HI everybods
    here's an introduction to ME....
    
    Name: Vic. (or Vicky) White
    
    Age : 21
    
    Occupation: Student / librarian
    
    Position : on a chair, in the Engineering information centre.
    
    Music taste : none.
    
    		 well acksherly I like lots of stuff, like : 
    		- Hawkwind, Psychic TV, The Orb, Spacemen 3, Loop.
    		- Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynryd, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan,
    		  Neil Young, The Doors, Whitesnake (early), Metallica,
    		  Motorhead, oh yes - and Dread Zeppelin too.
    		- The Pixies, Jesus and Mary Chain, Wedding Present,
    		   Throwing Muses, The Breeders, Levitation, Nirvana,
    		   Mudhoney, Cud, Curve, Pavement,and so on...
    		- Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, early Genesis, Kate Bush,
    		  Talking Heads, They Might Be Giants, Killing Joke.
    		- Bob Marley, Back to the Planet, Revolutionary Dub
    		   Warrior,
    
    My mind has dried up. phiew.
     

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    		 well acksherly I like lots of stuff, like : 
    		- Hawkwind, Psychic TV, The Orb, Spacemen 3, Loop.
    		- Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynryd, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan,
    		  Neil Young, The Doors, Whitesnake (early), Metallica,
    		  Motorhead, oh yes - and Dread Zeppelin too.
    		- The Pixies, Jesus and Mary Chain, Wedding Present,
    		   Throwing Muses, The Breeders, Levitation, Nirvana,
    		   Mudhoney, Cud, Curve, Pavement,and so on...
    		- Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, early Genesis, Kate Bush,
    		  Talking Heads, They Might Be Giants, Killing Joke.
    		- Bob Marley, Back to the Planet, Revolutionary Dub
    		   Warrior,
    
 
Vicky,

Is there anyone ou *don't* like ?  :-)


Mark - Who also like a lot of the above     

    errrr
    difficult one ... oh yes. 
    Dislikes: 
    (Kylie etc goes without saying really...)
    I really really hated that hideous Anything I Do by Brian Adams.
    Dire Straights makes me YAWN, as does most Genesis post Peter Gabriel's
    departure. Tangerine Dream make me feel ill. um oh yes GNR and Kiss,
    Wasp and all that b*ll*cks. (wow I'm getting into the swing of this!)
    I hate all Right said Fred tracks except for I'm too Sexy, which I
    think is an excellent joke.
    
    I missed a few important one off my likes list : Rolling Stones
    (sympathy for the devil and all that cal), The Beatles (esp white album
    stuff not written by Mr.Frog Chorus), Sisters of Mercy, Fields of the
    Nephilim, PWEI....the list is endless...
    
    I also play the guitar exceptionally badly, but with great enthusiasm,
    and I can't sing for toffee.
    
    You may recognise me if you're based here in Death Park... I'm the one
    with the scummy DMs and a big black hat.
    Vic.

    Time I introduced myself.
    
    My name is Terry,  and I work at Dec Park in the end of day group.
    
    BANDS I LIKE:  EMF, Curve, Flowered Up, Bongwater, Inspiral Carpets, 
    Happy Mondays, Stone Roses New Order, janes Addiction + loads more
    BANDS I HATE:  REM, Ride, Morrissey, The Farm, Guns N' Roses, U2, 
                   Queen, Shakespears Sister and all rave music.
    
    terry
    
    I don't talk as much as Vic. 

    er pardon?
    
    V.

Vicky,

You sound like a character from Viz's "Student Grant"

Only joking.

Mark

    Hand me the cricket bat someone.
    
    Hilary.
    

    re.                  <<< Note 5.206 by RDGENG::WHITEV >>>
     
>    I also play the guitar exceptionally badly, but with great enthusiasm,
>    and I can't sing for toffee.
    
    You're not in L7 are you, by any chance?
    
    Piers
    

    um Noooo.
    I missed them at the festival but I dimly remember being told they were
    quite good by some friends who saw them...
    
    Vic.

    
    L7 Were excellent!
    
    tcoh! And they can sing too!
    
    Greg...

    HERE! HERE! - and they have a sense of humour too.

    Hi,
    
    I am Jelle Kooi (sorry, the name wasn't my idea), Dutch, and working in
    Apeldoorn, one of the former Philips sites Digital took over.
    
    I like: Luka Bloom, Talk Talk, Peter Gabriel, Tracy Chapman, Van
    Morrison, Gerry Rafferty and Eric Clapton, and much more.

    Hi,
    	I'm Graham Stone working In the Application Support Group at
    Warrington.
    
     My Musical taste is quite varied as anyone out there who knows me from
    the past will already Know; I'm a big fan of 'The Church', 'Rush',
    'Hawkwind', 'REM', 'THe Orb', 'Ozric Tentacles', 'Demon', 'Godivas', 'The
    Loose Leafed Adams' and of course 'The Grateful Dead' but I also like Blues
     - 'Muddy Waters', 'John Lee Hooker', 'Robert Cray' etc - , Rock - 'Iron
     Maiden', 'Metallica', 'Deep Purple', 'Led Zeppelin' etc - as well as
     *some* chart music.
    
     I've tried to learn Guitar and Bass but at the moment I still can't
    do either despite excellent tuition from various musician friends.
    
     I also attend a lot of gigs throughout the year including 'Glastonbury
    Festival' with around 50 friends from my local Pub.
    
    Hope to meet some of you one day , At a a gig perhaps ?
    
    

    HI Graham - what is this 'Loose Leafed Adam' like?  Sounds vague and
    interesting.  Drop by my desk sometime and say HI ('tho not today
    because I'm not in Warrington!). 
    
    Mikef
    
    PS - I thought your playing sounded OK!  

    Hi, Another new subscriber !!
    
    I'm Linsey Giles, an I.T. in IOSG. My Muscial likes include
    
    U.2. (prior to Josh Tree), THe Cure, Carter USM, Split Level, 
    Queen, Kingmaker, Dire Straits.
    
    The last gig I went to was the XFM bash Great Expectations in
    July, and it was excellent. Cater and the Cure were absolutly
    brilliant.
    
    
    Disklike ;
    
    RAVE........

    Greetings!
    
    I`m Tom Watson,I`m in manufacturing at SQ.
    
    I`m a child of the seventies;faves from back then are....
    Man,Caravan,Focus,Wishbone Ash,BJH..etc
    
    As well as this older music my preferences from the current crop are...
    Black Crowes,Pearl Jam,Smashing Pumpkins,Sugar..etc
    
    I also listen to jazz and started listening to classics when doing
    music at night school.
    
    Hates:`Manufactured` acts ie Take That,East 17 etc,etc ad nauseam...
    
    				Be Seeing You,
    						Tom.

    Hi, fellow noters!!
    
    My name is Mark
    I'm a trainee for Digital in Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
    I'm gonna be here for a whole year, so you'll probably hear
    some things from me.
    I also hope to be hearing the latest news of my favorite bands.
    
    My favorite bands include : Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Marillion,
    Metallica, O.M.D. New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Iron Maiden, The Mission,
    Propoganda, Tears for Fears etc. etc. etc.
    
    The list could go on and on, but no time for that.
    
    Hope to be reading a lot of good news here...
    
    Mark (who_hopes_to_be_working_for_digital_after_this_period)
    

    Am I late ?
    
    
    How unusual ....
    
    
    
    I'm Zoe.
    
    
    I like all sorts of music..._but_ I cannot remember the single name of
    a single band to a single song on my life ... ask Balders I'm crap.
    
    I love all sorts of music, wouldn't try to pin it down to one or many
    'cause I wouldn't remember them. It ranges from Elton John via
    Aerosmiths to Transglobal Underground.
    
    What I _can_ say is that I was there when House music started and I saw
    it live in the clubs....of course it's not music to listen to at
    home...unless you like taking it Eeeeezy... 'mazing, some of those peope
    moved so fast you couldn't follow the movements.
    
    I saw Carter: USM early on (when there were four of them and they
    looked about 17 years old, they invited me to their next gig)
    
    My cousin is going out with Simon from the Levellers.
    
    Well, those are my claims to fame over with....and my massie knowledge
    in music. I do keep in touch and will let you know if I think something
    interesting is going on. Does anyone like Latin-American music at the
    moment ?
    
    The Zeeee.

>    Am I late ?
>    
>    
>    How unusual ....
 
But you got here eventually. And yes, your memory is somewhat vague before 
lunch and after 11pm, but what the heck :^)

Balders

a

    
    Steve Brooks based in Evry south of Paris. Very varied taste in music
    but heavily into 4AD. I noticed in the Cocteau Twins topic mention of
    '4AD-L' can somebody explain this, please?
    
    S.
    

>    Steve Brooks based in Evry south of Paris. Very varied taste in music
>    but heavily into 4AD. I noticed in the Cocteau Twins topic mention of
>    '4AD-L' can somebody explain this, please?

Hi Steve,

send a mail message to CRL::"[email protected]" (or
[email protected]@internet if you're using allin1) with one
line in the message, `subscribe 4ad-l Steve Brooks', and you'll
receive a load of discussion about 4ad bands.  As the signal-to-
noise ratio is poor, you can send `signoff 4ad-l' to get off
the list again!  You'll get around 40 messages per day.
Cheers,

Chris.

    
    re .-1, .-2
    
    For *lots* of 4AD information, if you have access to Mosaic or Lynx,
    try the following URL:
    
    http://isvpc146.isv.uit.no/eyesore.html
    
    More 4AD info that you can shake a stick at!
    
    Steve.
    

    Hola a todos! (Hi everybody).
    My name is Nicol�s Moya (Nico), I am in Chihuahua City, North of Mexico
    at the border with Texas, US. Unafortunatelly this DEC plant is about
    to close and I just discover the UK_Music conference. 
    I like UK music a lot, since secondary school, just to mention some
    bands: Led Zepp, Deep Purple, Yes, ELP, Jethro Tull, King Crimson and
    Robert Fripp, Marillion, Genesis, Renainsance (spl?), Hathfield and the
    North, Camel and so on.
    Last concert I went: Pink Floyd at El Paso, Texas, best show in my
    life. People from Chihuahua use to go to El Paso for concerts, it is
    about 200 miles, I saw there Jethro Tull, Yes, AC/DC, Deep, recentlly
    they start concerts at Mexico City but it is 1000+ miles from
    Chihuahua. Next concert at El Paso: Rolling Stones, Nov. 3, but I have
    no tickets.
    I would like to know the adress of a company that offers cd catalog sales
    to America.
    Gracias por su respuesta. Thanks in advance.
    
    Nico (From what is left at DEC Chihuahua Mfg. Plant)
    
     

Nico, (our product was slated to be built in Chihuahua, I can sympathsize)

Noteworthy Music 1-800-648-7972 if you can dial 800 #'s. Send me email if
you want the address or direct number. Or maybe someone else can answer
for you today, my catalog is at home.

/Ed

I've been reading here for a while so I thought I would intoduce myself.

I've now lived in Ayr for a whole year now after previously living in
London for over 10 years.

Not quite as many clubs but there's no pollution and the view from my
window is out of this world - over the Firth of Clyde to the Isle of Arran
and Ailsa Craig.

Musical tastes - most things esp. Jazz-tinged Hip-hop (and some of the harder 
stuff), Acid jazz, indie rock, dance (exc trance - too boring as I don't
take drugs).  Hates include Heavy Metal/Rock, Rock Dinosaurs, crap pop songs,
music without soul and people who slag other peoples tastes.

John Hussey

    Finally found it, always thought there must be a notes file like this
    somewhere.
    
    Euan Barker, NIS, Bristol, UK. Currently into Counting Crows, Aimee
    Mann, Crowded House, U2, Paul Weller and music that has generally got
    some feeling to it, an old, out-dated expression I know.
    
    Very biased Jam fan (still consider them to be the best band ever), which 
    led heavily into the mod/2-tone scene in the late
    70's, early-mid 80's and progressed onto scootering scene and 60's 
    Motown and Northern Soul once old enough to get into all-nighters at 
    Scooter runs, and before anyone slates them I still own a Lambretta ! 
    
    Find the current music scene a bit disappointing, there must be good
    music out there, I just can't seem to find it, hopefully this
    conference will help.
    
    Euan

    
    	Another old scooter boy - I think I took the same path in life as
    you did - except I didn't have any lambies - just vespas.
    
    Loved the nothern soul allnighters - only went to the ones on the 
    actual rallies though.
    
    Think Isle of Wight was my favourite rally.
    
    Also I'd go as far as to say I was obssessed with the Jam - I was young
    - long time ago.
    
    
    					Stuart.

    I am UKFURNITURE/UKSTATIONERY/UKARCHIVING otherwise known as Ms Ursula
    Kristin Furniture, of the Wiltshire Furnitures a.k.a Mr Richard
    Ransom. I work down in the forgotten enclave of Digital known as Acre
    Road (that's RYO to all you location code fans), where there's me, my
    boss, a creche, 12000 boxes of archiving, a coffee machine, and that's
    it.
    
    Check out my postings on notes 1296 & 1300 for a selection of my
    musical tastes. (Over 120 records by one of these artists though, sadly)

    Sorry, I've just realised I've been terribly rude, annoyed a lot of
    people and created inane stupid topics about contrived pop groups
    without even introducing myself, oh well hello..."I'm a musician..
    honest.."
            
    Andrea (very bad musical taste and very bad typing skills/spelling)

    Hi,
    
    Chris Sumner
    OpenVMS Support at Basingstoke CSC
    
    Love most music (except for grunge & heavy metal, and even some of
    that's OK).
    
    Favourite Album of All Time : Stone Roses 
    Current Favourite Album     : Oasis  What's the Story...
    				  (Listened to with Odd Man Out
    				   snowboarding video - brilliant)
    Past Favourites		: New Order, Depeche Mode, The Smiths
    				  Pink Floyd ,Rolling Stones ,Eric Clapton
    				  Jesus Jones, Beats International, The
    				  Orb, Orbital (Chime was/is great), 
    				  Prodigy, George Formby, Wham...etc...etc...
    
    Bad I like the least	: Nine Inch Nails, Sonic Youth
    (That I've heard)
    
    I love dance music and fancied myself as a dj a number of years ago -
    so much so that I managed to blagg my way into dj'ing at a Freshers
    Ball at Uni.  I still want to get into bedroom dj'ing, but haven't had
    the time this past 2/3 years.
    
    
    Cheers,
    
    Chris.

    
    Got any decks Chris?

    One SL1200 and one dodgy panasonic linear tracking deck, I'm saving up
    for the other Technics (have been for 2 years now, not done very well).
    
    For cheapness I've got a Made2Fade Mixer, which is basic, but quality
    unlike the Tandy Mixers.
    
    Cheers,
    
    Chris

    
    I've been saving for a couple of technics for a while, I'm not doing
    particularly well either.  The made2fade mixer is the best mixer I've
    come across for its price, you can't get much better.
    
    Who's yer favourite plate-spinner then?
    
    
    I.

    >Who's yer favourite plate-spinner then?
    
    Well, DJ SY was always a firm favourite, his scratching was superb,
    wish I could do that.  When I was in Warrington I used to listen to Stu
    Allen and 808 State, always a good show.
    
    I wouldn't mind getting hold of loads of kit, but it's the money you
    see.  It's not only the kit, but the small fortune you need to spend on
    records to keep up with the latest tunes.
    
    Chris

    is it possible to get a kit which will not play 'Hi Ho Silver Lining',
    or if it does - refuse to turn the volume down during the chorus? 
    These should be compulsory....
    
    mikef

    
    Hmm, a possible niche market there.....
    
    
    I.

    
    ...and of course Freebird should be pre-programmed to play after the
    the last record has been played %^)
    
    	G.
    
    Oh, and auto eject of the Birdie song and anything that requires the
    victims- sorry punters - to sit on the floor lokking like a failed TOW
    team.

    I don't want to be a mobile jock...nah I want Pete Tongs job.  Actually
    I did fill in some gaps at a friends wedding reception that had a band 
    playing... and I finished off with an old favourite...The Wombles Theme 
    Tune  (Wombling Free) - it was well received by all.
    
    Chris 

Hmm, I haven't signed in here either.  Oh well, most people know me already, 
but, just for posterity:

Who:		Chris Hedley

Where:		Bishop's Stortford (not the centre of the Universe, but from
		Newcastle, which is)

What:		Git.

Supports:	Bishop's Stortford FC

Listens to:	(okay, this is already well known and ridiculed, basically
		anything weird and/or nasty) Hawkwind, Toyah Willcox, NIN,
		Black Sabbath, Cocteau Twins, the Macc Lads, Lush, the Damned,
		Mot�rhead, Fields of the Nephilim, anything from the early
		'80s, loads of other things.

Doesn't listen to: Stock, Aitken and Waterman, rap, jungle, various other
		scratchy stuff, crap remixes of crap '50s hits, Keith
		Emerson's piano concertos.

Bands I've been in: Johnny Dysentry and the Heavily Soiled Undergarments;
		Tea, Sympathy and Vomit; More Like a Teacake, Vicar?;
		Anne Heap of Frogs (original line-up)  (Who the hell thought
		up these names?)

Also likes:	beer, women, curry.

Chris.

    >>Also likes:     beer, women, curry.
    
    You are Father Jack Hackett, and I claim my prize!
    
    
    			
    			Stretch.

    
    "Johnny dystentery and the soiled undergarments"?
    
    "Anne heap of frogs"?
    
    
    Good lord!

>>"Johnny dystentery and the soiled undergarments"?

Good'un, ranks right up there with :

"Septimus Gropesporran and the Dangleberries"

And a grand band they wuz too !


Charles

>"Septimus Gropesporran and the Dangleberries"
>
>And a grand band they wuz too !

who the hell were they?  Great name, tho'

Chris.

re .245,

just as well I didn't mention TS&V's original name.  Oh alright, it was `Billy 
F**k and the Scrotums'.  No, it wasn't my idea.

Chris.

    Vernon Vomit and the Lumps had a brief career in the Reading area.
    Vernon (not his real name) was a pretty natty bassist, but
    unfortunately he had a prog rock fixation.
    
    Balders

>    Vernon Vomit and the Lumps had a brief career in the Reading area.
>    Vernon (not his real name) was a pretty natty bassist, but
>    unfortunately he had a prog rock fixation.

another great name, even if he did probably like Keith Emerson's piano 
concertos.

Chris.

    I'm just one more music lover , progressive rock on first instance. I
    wait to find more information about my groups favopurites.
    
    remember: The music is the soul of the man.
     

    Hi
    
    PJ here on short term contract, but well interested in what I have seen
    here, I suppose I should start with a like list, but that would take
    days.  Basically Albinoni to Zappa, but NO C&W, Rap or sickly sweet
    boy/manufactured bands and Stadium rip off is for the mugs.  So that
    leaves lots of room to agree or have a go!!
    
    Enjoy the sounds and don't get hung up.
    
    PJ
    

    This is a boyband free zone now cause the only decent one split up in
    April- ;)  Plenty of boys left to talk about though...
    
    I do agree with the rap comment though..
    
    Andrea

    .252
    
    PJ,
    1. I presume by stadium rip-off you are talking about Oasis?
    2. In strong agreement about C&W
    3. Not in strong agreement about rap, but there is a lot of it I
    dislike.
    
    re. 253
    
    Andrea,
    Is Robbie's own material going to be any good, or do you think he's
    bluffing?
    
    dickie.
    

    PJ,
    
    I see you got the p_name working then.
    
    Welcome etc.
    
    
    			Stretch.

    re Robbie,
    
    Not sure.. but then again he has been keeping some good company so
    maybe some of it will rub off.  He never showed an interest as a TT
    member in writing (apart from 1 co-wrote song with Gary B and Mark
    Owen.)  Looking forward to hearing it - just out of interest.
    
    Andrea

    I suppose I'd better sign in cos I've been reading through a few topics
    for at least 15 minutes and I'm interested in having a chat about music
    'n' stuff !!!
    
    
    Name: Scott Hamilton
    
    From: Ayr, Scotland
    
    Hobbies: Rugby (union), snowboarding, beer, food, going to the gym,
    abseiling, having naughty dreams about Mel C, starting arguements,
    Morgans spiced rum, women, Loaded magazine, Jerry Lewis films, Jimmy
    Bond films, and generally being a top bloke/bit of a rogue !!!
    
    Music tastes: I listen to loads of types of music, fav artists/bands
    past and present include, AC/DC, Lisa Stansfield, Manic Street
    Preachers, George Benson, Eric Clapton, Fugees, Bob Marley, Oasis,
    Stevie Wonder, Ice-T, a whole load of dance music from 6-7 years ago
    when it was still good ie. Cola Boy, De la Soul, Massive Attack, Sounds
    of Blackness, Cast, Paul Weller, Ocean Colour Scene, Skunk Anansi, blah
    blah, blah (The list is endless, but there are ones I don't like,
    honest !!!)
    
    
    BTW:  Spice Girls Rule !!!!
    
    
    
    						Scott