DEAR DIARY

About the people featured in these pages:
I like writing. It's a habit I've had since I tried to make hand-written "magazines" for my sister when I was nine. That progressed into the fanzine, Souvlaki, the online version of which is on this very site. I have also written for the monthly music glossies "Rock Sound" and "Metal Hammer". Which is very kind of them and has nothing to do with the fact that I Know Where They Live. If you read this section a while back, you would have noticed that my dream to be in a band was superseded by my desire to be in a side project with Marc Heal. That dream has changed again, due to two factors: (a) I've met Marc. He's barking mad, a fact that is blatantly obvious by his insistence that I look like That Woman, when it's patently clear that not only do we look nothing alike, I have much better hair. (b) I'm in K-Nitrate. With Graham who used to be in a band with Marc Heal. Surely that connection's enough for anyone. Oh yes - please buy our records and come and see us live.

I have a dayjob in music copyright in which I get to be Personally Yelled At by stray members of Judas Priest. In true Pratchett style, I'd write about my experiences if I thought anybody would believe me. Instead I write about the day-to-day stuff. Naked commuters. Trains delayed by injured dogs. That sort of thing. Anyway, I used to live in Brighton with my eccentric eco-warrior parents and lots of pet bunnies. I wouldn't say the sea is filthy but when I last threw a pebble in, it bounced. Now I live in a bedsit in South London and watch endless re-runs of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. They never tell you at school that when the mighty fall, it hurts...

Then there are the Other People In My Life
Claire [Best Friend. Semi-alcoholic art student with taste in drum'n'bass, bald blokes and Star Trek] Giles [Best Friend. Didn't drink for eight years until he met me]
Kenny J [Witty wonder e-pal who amuses me with endless conspiracy theories]
PTR [Kenny's pal and fellow Scotsman, who also swaps emails with me]
Paul McGee [ex-colleague and ranter extraodinaire]
Donna [She ran away to work for Mute. She has blue hair]
Nancy [ex-colleague Hippy Pagan and part-time Goth]

These are our stories...