Hobbies and past times,what do you do.....

[Robusto]

Bryan Orwell
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Activities:
Playing music. Keyboards and singing. In my group EK1 and with lots of other folk.

Interests:
Comedy with a brain. Weirdo art. Weirdo artists. Travel. Languages. ICT. Dogs. Fine Havana cigars. Writing, arranging, recording and performing music. Singing. Writing prose. Writing lyrics. Writing nonsense. Watching news channels like an addict. Laughing with people. Joking.

Favorite Music:
Mostly piano/keys led. Bruce Hornsby. Elton John. Ray Charles. Stevie Wonder. Keith Jarrett. John Shuttleworth. Les Dawson. Donny Hathaway. Dr John. Howard Jones. Winifred Attwell. Jamie Callum. Steve Weingart. Jacques Loussier. Michel Berger. Aretha Franklin. Russ Conway. Billy Joel. Kate Bush. For starters.

Favorite TV Shows:
Chris Morris before all else. The Day Today, Brass Eye, Nathan Barley... Alan Partridge. Dame Edna Everage. Sir Les Patterson. Barry Humphries.

Favorite Movies:
Zombie ones. 28 Days Later. 28 Weeks Later. War ones. Sci-fi. Apocalyptic. Futuristic. Mamma Mia in a funny old way.

Favourite Books:
Preferred writers are Evelyn Waugh, Tom Wolfe, Gustave Flaubert, Stephen King. Favourite poet is Dylan Thomas.


Music wins in all this. I'll never release anything, and it has to sit with the day job. I wish I'd done it professionally years ago, but I do enjoy teaching it to young kids as well as gigging and writing on a basic Portastudio at home.

Highlights have been to spend an afternoon in Elton John's management offices in London as a thank you for organising and managing a gig with 40 local musicians which raised a tidy sum last year for EJ's AIDS Foundation. (I am a huge EJ fan, and picked up the piano because of him). Also next Summer I have been chosen from the most able local musicians as the project pianist for a significant rock show in Kent. I'm excited already.

I look after the website for the band and also publicity. We are based in East Kent but travel around the south of England to gig. If anyone needs a band for business functions, anniversaries, weddings or parties, please get in touch.

Also join up on Facebook if you wish. Deano and I have already linked.

Videos of my band EK1

EK1 website

Videos of my playing. (A bit of a joke, btw).

Here are some things I've written:





I know too many teachers who are dispirited and depressed in the UK. My antidote to the nonsense of my job is to be enthusiastic in my me-time, and I know I'm doing just fine. I refuse to go under. Instead I gig up to four nights a week.

And I will mix company with anyone.

That enthusiasm bumps over to interest in cigars.
When's the next London herf, Monte?!

Bryan

[emeraldisle]

The Hobby Debate Continued

Hello folks,

Here in my area during the week, I am I would say fairly active. I tend to walk everywhere, so keeps the weight down. I also play badminton 3 times a week, and have just recently taken up golf. I would be very much a culture/current affairs type of individual. I like creative pursuits like say photography, art, creative writing etc. I also have a wide taste in music but classical would probably be my favourite style.

Gabriel

[Robusto]

I work in a fairly demanding school teaching French (my Degree subject), IT, Drama and Music. I'm a Head of Learning Community, which means I look after about 100 kids' every pastoral and academic need. I organise Work Experience placements for about 100 different kids a year - from nail bars to lawyers' firms - and have to go and visit them in situ. I run a couple of trips to France each year which are sometimes for fun, sometimes for study. I also lead an initiative in my school called Aimhigher which tries to reach out to kids who are able but who have no family history of Further Education. These kids might benefit from considering Post 16 and University education. I have to travel around Kent leading training courses in Peer Mentoring for Aimhigher.

Life is busy.

I'm on this site because I adore good cigars, but also because over the years I have found good cigars to be a wonderful and civilised way to relax completely. If having great sex is A+ for me and the best escape I can find, then a great Havana has to be an A- or B+.

I will write about my hobbies later.
One of them is writing.

[Montesmoke]

I like to do a few weights when i have time down the gym. Also i set up tropical Aquariums for people, used to have a 5ftx2ftx2ft tank of Red bellied Piranahas (serrasalmus nattereri) had them for about 3 years from juvenile & they grew up to 6-7"inches great fish.
Still do abit of DJing from time to time (Hardcore, Trance, House, Techno) gets the hairs stand up on the back of my neck when crowd are lovin it!
Do up/restore old school & new school BMX bikes from scratch have done a few Haros, Redlines, GT's for people.
Also love smoking Cigars
Monte.

[rokkitsci]

Hi its sunday evening and very wet and windy out side 2night down here in devon,so i thought i would do a new thread and see what you do in your spare time.

I play Go.

http://www.usgo.org/resources/whatisgo.html

[smokiejoe]

Hi its sunday evening and very wet and windy out side 2night down here in devon,so i thought i would do a new thread and see what you do in your spare time,,apart from going out and smoking cigars as i see monte has an endless supply of cigaros.lucky bugger,lol.so if you have any hobbies or past times you would like to share then lets hear about it.i have many hobbies as we keep horses and one of them is a very large clydedale,she is about 16,2 hands of pure horse flesh but a gentle giant in many ways,she is a one of a kind down here in the s west as she is the only one known to the s west as nearly all of them tend to be in scotland and midlands.I also as some of you know i restore old cars for a living of which i love,i have been doing this for many years on my own now and find it very satisfying to do as i can smoke cigars in my own enviroment and restore the cars all at the same time,brill eh.I also go out on local digs with some freinds of mine as we dig for old bottles which has been buried in the ground for years.sometimes your lucky and other times not so lucky but good fun all the same as the whole family can join in.i also love music as this has always played an inportant part of my life for a very long time,ive played in bands and been a dj in many of the clubs down here,but this is just a small taste of some of my hobies,would like to see what any of you lot come up with if you can spare the time to read this.go on and lets hear about you.