Damon

Instrument –
Guitar

Equipment –
Fender guitars, Marshall Amps, Boss Effects, D’Addario Strings and Jim Dunlop picks

Favorite bands/musicians –

Sonic Youth, Cable, YCNI:M, Reuben, Mad Capsule Markets, Dead Kennedys, Daisy Chainsaw, Butthole Surfers, Pixies, Nirvana, Juliana Hatfield, Kaki King, Pavement, The Breeders, Polysics, Tripping Daisy, The Sex Pistols, The Specials, The Muffs, Melt Banana, The Amps, Helmet, Kaito, The Smiths, Sleater Kinney, Rival Schools, dEUS, Queen Adreena, The Shabazz Lovemonkeys, Beck, Interpol, Soulwax, The Jam, The Doors, Serafin, The Beatles, Graham Coxon, The Pillows, Rage Against The Machine, Quicksand, Mudhoney, The Jesus Lizard, Shellac, The Ramones, Buddy Rich, Beastie Boys,  Bob Dylan, Tool, Me First And The Gimme Gimmes plus all the others I forgot to mention

Favorite films –
Anything by David Lynch, Amellie, The Basketball Diaries, The Chumscrubber, The Science Of Sleep, Best In Show, Withnail and I, The Italian Job (the original), United States Of Leland, Requiem For A Dream, My Wrongs Number 8245-8249 And 117, L.I.E, If…, Eternal Sunshine Of A Spotless Mind, The Player, All The Real Girls, The Hudsucker Proxy, Capturing The Friedmans, Black Sheep, The Devil And Daniel Johnston, Bob Roberts, Rope, I Am Sam, Brain Candy (kith), Cannibal The Musical, Cradle Will Rock, Dead Mans Shoes, This Is England, The Descent, Fargo, Harvey, The Laramie Project, Lord Of The Flies, Man On The Moon, My Life Without Me, Office Space, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Spun, Rebel Without A Cause, A Tale Of Two Sisters, Sideways, Scum, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, Mean Creek, Drugstore Cowboy, The Road To Wellville, Reign Over Me, The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers, Happiness, 21 Grams, Elephant, Dig, The Constant Gardener, A Clockwork Orange, Rope, The Big White, 28 Days Later, Eulogy, Igby Goes Down, Love Liza, Lifeboat, Quadrophenia, About Schmidt, Being John Malkovich, Jude, Romper Stomper, Monsters Ball, The Gift, Goodfellas, This Is Spinal Tap, Reefer Madness, Donnie Darko, Ed Wood, All the Monty Python films, Ginger Snaps, The Woodsman, The Acid House, American History X, Bubba Ho-Tep, Control, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, House Of 1000 Corpses, In America, Drugstore Cowboy, Crash, Half Nelson, 10 Rillington Place, Thirteen, Team America World Police, The Wicker Man … ok this could very easily go on for ever so i’d better stop now

Favorite TV Shows –
The Prisoner, The Day Today, The Kids In The Hall, Twin Peaks, The Adam and Joe Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Brasseye, Not Only But Also, Monty Pythons Flying Circus, South Park, King Of The Hill, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Black Books, Father Ted, Arrested Development, The Larry Sanders Show, QI, Big Train, Anything with Alan Partridge, Monkey Dust, Anything with Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, Nathan Barley, Mash and Peas, Rock Profile, Dispatches, Panorama … i could do this for hours!

Favorite Books -
The Satanic Bible by Anton Lavey, Naked Lunch and Junky by William Burroughs, Gideon by Russell Andrews, The House Of Sleep by Jonathan Coe, The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time by Mark Haddon, The Testiment Of Gideon Mack by James Robertson, Englands Dreaming by Jon Savage, Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, The Size Of Thoughts by Nicholson Baker, Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy, Othello, King Lear, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Loves Labours Lost and The Comedy Of Errors by William Shakespeare, The Wasp Factory and Espedair Street by Iain Banks, The Talk Of The Town by Ardal O’Hanlon, Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, Generation X, Shampoo Planet and Girlfriend In A Coma and Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland, Selected Poetry by John Keats, A Million Little Pieces by James Frey, Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, In His Own Write by John Lennon, For One More Day and The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom, The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, The Outsider by Colin Wilson, A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian by Maria Lewycka, Agent Of Evolution (Bill Hicks Biography) by Kevin Booth, Peter Cook A Biography by Harry Thompson, Heavier Than Heaven (Kurt Cobain Biography) by Charles Cross, Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, The Liar by Stephen Fry, The Burglar Diaries by Daniel King, Filth by Irvine Welsh, Lord Of The Flies by William Golding, Rotten by John Lydon, Manhattan Nocturne by Colin Harrison, My Name Escapes Me by Alec Guinness, Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, X20 by Richard Beard, Stoned by Andrew Loog Oldham, Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre, The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, My Family And Other Animals by Gerald Durrell, Paradise Lost by John Milton, Dangerous Parking by Stuart Browne, The Long Rain by Peter Gadol, Veronica Decides To Die by Paulo Coelho, A Thing Or Two About Curtis And Camilla by Nick Fowler, Snow Blind by PJ Tracy, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, The Dreadful Judgement by Neil Hanson, If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things by J T Leroy, Coast by Mathhew Branton, How To Lose Friends And Alienate People by Toby Young … this list could easily go on forever

Interesting Fact –
I have incredibly long eyelashes

Likes –
Brothel Creepers, Classic Mini’s, Music, Racing Jackets, Fender Guitars, Reading, Root Beer, fizzy vimto, Altoid Sours, Manhattan at night, Bill Hicks, Peter Cook, William Burroughs, David Lynch, Michel Gondry, Gus Van Sant, Tim Robbins, Port Meirion, coffee, Hair Clay, Blazers, Holiday In Cambodia by The Dead Kennedys, Cheese  and being a nihilistic, angry, miserable, sarcastic, jaded, spiteful, arrogant, selfish curmudgeon!

Hates –
Tim Westwood, Shaving, Boy bands, Pork, Lamb, corporate pop stars, Actors turned musicians, Clowns (they creep me out), action films, Beef, Parsnips, Tea, Eastenders (soaps in general to be honest), Bands that only play cover songs, my addiction to smoking, Sleeping, The Kurt Cobain murder conspiracy, Parking in Southsea, Football, Couples that are just annoyingly happy (everyone knows at least one couple like this and if you’re honest you’ll admit that you almost want to stab one of them just to see the others face) and … myself!

Tea Or Coffee –
Coffee

What is in your pockets right now –
A couple of guitar picks, £7.34, a pack of Marlboro lights, a lighter, mobile phone and my car keys

What’s the best thing about being in Psychogenetic –
Making god awful noise with friends and having fun doing it

Favorite Psychogenetic song –
M.S.U

Have you ever been attacked by an animal –
When I was a kid a goose spat at me if that counts

Anything you’d like to add before its too late –
That’s it? I feel used!