Who the hell are you?

[Snoo Gliffer]

We've had this post before and we'll have it again I'm sure.

Who the fuck are you?
What the rape do you do?

Come on you guesting scrotes, join in and lets get this out in the open. You too Flick. Cards on the table time.

[Snoo Gliffer]

Right then.

I be Snoo/ Shawn. Ranty bloke of Fruit Of The Doom and one of the old skool Choketeers.

I'm quite flat chested but working on it. I like to drink cider and eat chips.

[Flick]

Well Im Flick. What do you wish to know? I dont usually post on here anymore under this 'alter-ego'. I have new names and new approaches.

Occasionally I do get the old spirit in me but I post under a new nickname given to me by WTD. Mongoloid Cunt.

[Mongoloid Cunt]

And that would be me... :lol:

[Snoo.]

And that would be me... :lol:

Wha's yo name fool.

What dae ye doo?

[photex]

Simon

Chemistry student, 2nd year.

Originally from Exeter/Plymouth but been in Bristol for 2 years.

Guitarist for 'Falling science', Drummer for nobody.

My current addictions are nicotine, caffiene, eBay and guitar fx pedals.

[drummer]

Ok well Im Darren. I am an American. I play drums. I am also a studio producer, sound engineer, stage manager, and run a small band management company as well as creative director for my wifes successful jewellery business. I am a father of two. I smoke alot of weed. Im honest to a fault and I cuss too much!

I have played in many bands in America but have only played in a couple over here. Swelter, Lyme and now a band called Mandanga with a bunch of European slackers. I am looking for other projects to get into. Will play almost anything(other than jazz), but prefer interesting alternative music.

I have been apart of the U.S. Tae Kwon Do Championships three times and I placed only once in the top ten for my weight class. But that was along time ago. I dont train anymore after a few too many injuries.

I practice/rehearse in the same place as Snoo and Flick is/was my alter-ego. 8)

Now you know....
-Darren

[Frater Maiof]

Anton Maiof / Tony Goodfellow
Guitar / Voice for Geisha
Guitar for Engle
Guitar / Voice / Percussion for Dead Bass Player
Computers for My Ambulance Is On Fire

Writer . Producer . Composer . Arranger .

[gagarin]

am gagarin

my name is martin
singing/guitaring with gagarin
drumming with dalmaine
chemistry @ uwe 1st year

i like making music

^g^

[Milo]

Stuart Harris
Ivory Springer's shouty Bloke

Not much else........

[Lensman]

Thanks for starting this, Snoo, I was about to do the same thing.

I'm Hugh. I met the Chokers mainly through coming to their gigs and taking photographs, some of which are on my site, lensmanship.com. I make electronic music as Id Lab, and I lead an improv / ambient ensemble called Bubble Chamber Orchestra, which is currently dormant. I play bass, guitar and other things, most of them very badly.

I am one of the Fact Fans, a collective currently comprising Nick (Cab) and me, and together we organise events. The main one is Sausage Time, a free monthly variety show for new entertainment strategies.

Links below.

[Decode Mag]

WE are a 12 issue old Creative Arts Magazine, distributing about 8,000 copies around Bath & Bristol on a bi-monthly basis (issue 13 out very, very soon - stuff on babyhead and New Grand Smoking Palace. We will write about anything we think will be of interest - Art, Music, People and Play. Each issue has a theme which we write features around - the next one will be work, the last was 'home'. We are FREE and none of the editors/writers/photographers get paid for what they do - they do it because they love it -

We are the magazine equivalent of the unsigned band.

We love the local Music scene and we try and promote unsigned bands as much as possible - we've got some showcases coming up: Unplugged (The Folk House, May 29th), TigerCountry (Invention Arts, Bath, June 12th) & 'Plugged (The Croft, June 18th).

The editor's a lecturer at Bower Ashton, UWE.

we have a website: http://www.decodepublishing.com

[Decode Mag]

sorry couldn't resist the plugging opportunity.....

I'm theo, I'm 22, I'm a youth worker and I'm the world's worst drummer ever. so bad I'm not sure I'm actually allowed to call myself a drummer...

oh yeah I'm the Music Editor and organise the Bristol showcases

[JJM]

I'm Matt, I use to play guitar with Madnomad, now playing with Thee Go! Commando.

Occasionally do bits of electronica collaboration with a couple of people - I write a few guitar samples, wave them off and fail to recognise them when they come back.

Then claim half the credit.

If there's any cellists out there who fancy being a bit miserable in a sub-Rachels kind of way, that'd be nice too.

[|dec|]

Ironically I'm dec ... declan fleming.

I'm a chemist too ... but thank fuck only for a few more weeks as I'm a 4th year.

Currently my life is consumed with 3 things ...

Studying for my finals, finishing off my thesis, managing the badger bar up at durdham hall and organising sticklebrick festival and all the shit that that entails ...

*plug* :oops:

[photex]

wow 3 chemists on choke including me. strange that.

[Lensman]

A while ago, the place was infested with librarians. Is this still the case?

On the subject of jobs, I'm an overnight photo-processor. Which explains my inability to show up at weeknight gigs.

[|dec|]

wow 3 chemists on choke including me. strange that.

hehe wait till you get nearer graduation .. never tell people in pubs what you do. the amount of times I've been offered silly money to make large batches of various drugs w/o using licensed starting materials is crazy. these days if a random person asks me what I do, I just say I shred envelopes for a living .. it's easier :)

[mingpirate]

I am John, 23. Sketchy opinionated nonsense scribe for the musysection of a popular commercially-orientated local listings magazine, and some other places sometimes. Promoter under the clunksome 'Controlled Conditions' banner, rearing its confused head periodically to run events that could be described as 'eclectic' in nature, had that word not been destroyed through overuse by lazy writers e.g me. Day worker for bad company. Inhabitant of the leafy trustafarian climes of Upper Montpelier, with KoB and Float's Dyslogic Man. Thorough enjoyer of the WAS 24hrathon. Tired lad.

[photex]

wow 3 chemists on choke including me. strange that.

hehe wait till you get nearer graduation .. never tell people in pubs what you do. the amount of times I've been offered silly money to make large batches of various drugs w/o using licensed starting materials is crazy. these days if a random person asks me what I do, I just say I shred envelopes for a living .. it's easier :)

Thanks for the advice. looking forward to meeting you at the festival. Usually when I tell people I do drug design they say
"Ha ha i bet you get totest them too dont ya' "
It was funny the first time.

[Samuel Realname]

I'm Sam(uel). I record and play music under the 'SJ Esau' name which sometimes includes James/Max who doesn't read this forum (cunt).

Side projects I do are probably called 'The Onanist Homework Robot and the Guano Ignoramus' with Team Brick and definitely called 'Prosthetic Foreheads' with Bernard although we average about 1 session a year.

I've been posting here for a while now and have met some safe people and been introduced to some great music.

I'm currently growing a beard but It's starting to make my face feel weird.

[MPEGATRON]

I'm Rhys. I'm Welsh but I've been in Bristol for 7 years (originally for uni and now coz I fuckin' loves it!).

I play guitar in White Trash Ambition. We have our debut album coming out in June.

I grew a beard until today, when I enxplicably got out of the bath and without really thinking, shaved it off.

My cider phase is just beginning (I seem to crave it all summer and not in the winter), as is my hayfever phase.

[Derek Ultraskull]

I am Nicholas John Talbot. I am a self-employed Life Coach, currently contracted to manage the administrative affairs and personal hygiene of Mr. Max Webertron of Bronnt Industries Kapital. In my spare time I play the guitar and sing in the band Gravenhurst. I also play in ill-advised masked freak-jazz-metal duo Baltic Knot, who have thusfar chalked up one rehearsal and zero gigs to our names, though we did write and record a whole album called 'Galactic Voyage' in one day, but we put the mic in the wrong place so all you can hear is the drums. The drumming is good though.

A while ago I set up a pretend record label called Silent Age, then sat back and took the credit for other people's talent. Now people send me demos, which makes me feel bad.

I have produced some really disgusting and morally questionable material under the name Exercise One, and have also performed ritual music in Palus Somnii.

I can't remember how I got involved in Choke, but before long I was writing stuff for it, then doing the layout for the illustrated (very) occasional. At some point I seem to recall making some badges.

I don't smoke as much pot as I used to, but still smoke more than I should. I am a sexual deviant, a staunch atheist, and I really really like Big Black.

[firehose]

I am Matt Seigal, a nomadic, half-Jewish, lapsed Buddhist from Middlesex who lived in Sudbury Town, Edgware, Hull, Hertfordshire, San Diego, Nottingham, Sheffield, Bath and Bristol.

I am a burnt out public servant who teaches other people's teenage children how to use computers, but I'm going into a sort of semi retirement in lieu of pre-empting a mid life crisis at the grand old age of 30 going on 31. I'm too bald to grow a ponytail and too poor to buy a red porsche, so I'm going to Shanghai to eat lots of noodles. I don't know when I'm coming back, although I shall visit Bristol every summer to attend Club Choke and Caroline Martin gigs.

I have never learnt how to play a musical instrument, nor do I play in a band. Occasionally, I have been a DJ at C30 because it amuses me to segue the Palace Brothers into Zeni Geva.

[Chipper]

I'm Chipper.
Don't ask me where the nickname came from. I got it 5 years ago and it stuck.
Real name: Charlotte Rose Eclecticism.
I'm an 18year old A Level student [Music, Geography, History and English Lit.]
addicted to CDs [averaging 8 a week] and cookies [my friends are putting me on a rehab scheme]
Play 'cello for North Sea Navigator.
Plan to go on a massive diet next year.
On the surface: harmless beyonce dancing pop queen,
Really: a sinister grind sludge monster with fangs aka the hardcore queen of bristol innit.

[Snoo.]

I'm Chipper.
Don't ask me where the nickname came from. I got it 5 years ago and it stuck.
Real name: Charlotte Rose Eclecticism. .

Another female. Who'da thunk it?

[Steve Shovelhands]

Shovelhands..........30 this year (despite boyish good looks). Bongo bashing, Djembe juggling, dustbin and cymbol smashing smiling idiot. used to play in Screen (now All Live Dymanics) and part time gimp and sex toy in Big Joan. Degree in Music Marketing (really put that to good use !!!)

Currenly in an early mid-life crisis - paid too much to leave job and do something less boring instead.......

Whoring my ass with All Live Dynamics at this years Glastonbury....

[Frank]

Thanks for sharing.


I'm Frank.

I've been contributing to this forum since the days of 2bdiscovered, until I broke the internet and we all had to move here, via a spot of squatting at Mirima's shit gaff.

Like Chipper I also never learned how to play a musical instrument.
I used to shout and pressed "PLAY" in madnomad . I now play bass in Springer.

I work in Knowle, trying to help 16-19 yr olds to take some responsibility for their lives. I am happy in my work.

[Rock n Roll]

Dunny Rock n Roll - changed name by deed poll at a name changing party in Southampton a couple of years ago.
Lived in Bristle for about 4 years, currently reside in Windmill Hill.
Work as computer programmer, currently developing
software emulation models for Apache helicopters.
Play bass in super08
Enjoy drinking & smoking heavily.
Absolutely detest with a passion :
- Fast food chains, esp McDonalds
- Caravans (and their owners)
- Dick-head cyclists
Capable of sleeping with eyes open.

R n R

[Steve Shovelhands]

Work as computer programmer, currently developing
software emulation models for Apache helicopters.


R n R

If you need a new job - gis us a shout (I'm an IT Recruitment Consultant pimp)

[Rock n Roll]

Work as computer programmer, currently developing
software emulation models for Apache helicopters.


R n R

If you need a new job - gis us a shout (I'm an IT Recruitment Consultant pimp)

Cheers, fella.
Pretty settled here at the moment though, just got a permanent contract.

R n R

[Mr Siegal]

This is all a bit blind date suddenly......I'm Toby Field, I spend your license fees helping make programmes for Radio 4. Passionate supporter of BBC Radio in general but thoroughly enjoy being involved with Commonwealth FM and Radio Caroline too, or indeed most radio if I'm honest.

Have played a bit of guitar for Shelbeyville in the past but currently adding delicate piano to the repertoire of the much-talented Mr Roger Tarry. Have thoroughly enjoyed the Choke arguments for better and for worse, for richer and poorer and in sickness and in health.....

[yushbombn]

im dan out the band hunting lodge (who are playing at t'arc bar this sunday if anyones interested, its free)...

i dont live in brist no more but i used to... i live in oxfordshite now... in a tiny village called freeland. i do graphic design as my j-o-b. my car is red & made by honda.

[piggy_pie]

hello
my name is gary
i play guitar in band called los conios.our bassist shamelessly plugs our gigs here.
i go to our college and start a degree at uwe this september
ive only made one humble post here so far but you will here more from me.......

pig xxxx

[em@harveymusic]

I'm Em,

the many faces of me!






You can find out all about me here

http://www.users.freenetname.co.uk/~2twistedmindz/emma/
and here!
http://www.harveymusic.co.uk/

I'm 21 next month and live in Wiltshire, Sing in acoustic band Harvey and also Act for stage and TV.

In september i will start my performance training in weston super mare.

Wanna know anything else then ask! xx

[Ian W. Stock]

Born in Poole General Hospital at 12:39pm on Saturday, November 28th, 1981, the eldest of the three children of Peter William Grounds (a plumber and former oil survey ship crewman) and Marilyn Linda Grounds (née Pearson; a hospital catering operative who would later become an infants school SEN teacher), Joseph Howard Grounds showed early intellectual promise, teaching himself how to read before his second birthday and, by age 6, refusing to do maths problems at school because they were "beneath" him. This precocious (some would say twattish) behaviour resulted in his acceptance into the private schooling system, which he began a school year above his actual age at Castle Court Preparatory School, Corfe Mullen, on a 75% scholarship (plumbers aren't big earners). Thence he earnt a further scholarship to the prestigious Winchester College, otherwise known as "the poor man's Eton", and was forced to wear an hilarious black graduation-style gown to lessons, whilst being groomed as a potentially great mathematical thinker. However, one fateful day in 1994, Joe wandered into the Bentall Centre in Winchester town and found a small, independent shop called Falcon Records, and began a life-long love affair with obscure musical forms.

In the years that followed, Joseph was invited to play bass guitar in a band called Quintessence by a frankly terrible songwriter called Marcus Omond, along with a floppy-haired borderline mental classical pianist called Jonny Kennedy, and a spiky-haired green-trenchcoat-wearing Palace fan called Thomas Patrick B******t (later known as the Knowledge of Bugs). Having ditched Marcus, the remaining threesome played and recorded under many embarassing names, which, like Tom's beautiful Huguenot surname, are now consigned to history's unclaimed locker, before splitting in 1999 after an argument about They Might Be Giants. The only release they made was a solitary song on a German fanzine cassette tape. Subsequently, Joe began crafting solo musical material on an Amiga 500+ under the unspellcheckable moniker Twocsinak; this project later graduated to desktop PC wave editor work, and finally over-elaborate CNP work on a diseased Apple PowerBook.

As his interest in music grew, though, his thirst for regimented empirical learning waned, and, having abandoned Mathematics for Art, he threw away 46 of his 47 UCAS points by embarking on a BTEC Foundation course at the Bournemouth Arts Institute. Here, he formed a short-lived no-input noise ensemble called Commodore 64 Pensioner Teadance, who blew up some speakers on a beach. Following this, he gained a place on a Graphic Design BA course in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, where he played bass guitar in the bands Steamboat Shipman (metal) and The Sophie Hare Scratch Orchestra (funk). A C60 of his solo material was produced, one of the twenty-three copies of which was sent to the Knowledge of Bugs in Bristol. He played excerpts from this tape to renegade promoter / jazzy drum 'n' bass DJ Edward "Punksi" Thomas "Punksi" Francis "Punksi" Siebert, who signed up a couple of tracks for his record label Clean Cut's debut compilation release. Later, it was discovered that Ed had also attended Joe and Tom's fancy-posh school, along with Mark Slater (Asteroth / Float Records co-honcho). Ain't life funny?

After a couple of live gigs in Bristol with his backing band W*O*R*D, and with his utopian dreams for a better word through Graphics roundly smashed by a dismal 2:2 degree result, Joe took the initiative to move westwards and out of the clutches of our maggot-infested capital city and start a new life in the creative hot-house of Avon. Unfortunately, he failed to live up to his earlier promise, and died alone at the age of 43 under a pile of unsold copies of his debut EP. He is survived by his ex-wife, DJ Sarah Wilson, and their two children, Drew and MC.

"All in all, he was a long-winded man" - Guardian G2 supplement.

DJSWx

[the bureaucrat]

I'm Neil, I live in London but get back to Bristol regularly to catch up with mates & music (I lived in Bristol for 4 years).

I am a librarian, and despite having no musical talent whatsoever am in a band called Dirty Protest (just me, basically).

Known Associates: Max Webertron, Mole Harness, Landslide Purist.

[Snoo Gliffer]

currently developing
software emulation models for Apache helicopters.


R n R

Really? Do I know you?

[Anonymous]

I am-Dan
I do an-aesthetics MA.
In Southampton
I-play in hunting lodge.
On-a guitar.
I-make pretentious-Walter Benjamin inspired pop-on-a-computer
My experiences in-Hunting Lodge have soiled-me.
Forever.

[Methods that Pound]

This ^
Is-me
I
often for-
get to log in

[Anonymous]

46 of his 47 UCAS

show off...

[Rock n Roll]

currently developing
software emulation models for Apache helicopters.


R n R

Really?

Really.

Do I know you?

I have absolutely no idea.
People who have met me generally know me.
Whether we have met or not, I do not know....?

R n R

[Snoo.]

currently developing
software emulation models for Apache helicopters.


R n R

Really?

Really.

Do I know you?

I have absolutely no idea.
People who have met me generally know me.
Whether we have met or not, I do not know....?

R n R

Nah. I'm involved with the same kinda thing that's all. Engine & control based modeling on WAH-64 though.

Anyway, I'm polluting this wonderous thread.

[squibobblepants]

I am Tom,

I Play bass for Los Conios, as Gary up there said, I shamelessly plug our gigs at every opportunity... (except this one, cuz it's all out of context)

I am a 2nd year Computer Science student at Bristol (yawn)

I have just been to see NOFX and was getting 4 drinks for £1.45 all night, sweet

I have spoken
x

[Decode Mag]

This is a great thread - didn't realise I knew so many of you!!!

Oi Toby, did Clumsy tell you they were playing at the Folk House on the 29th? You should come along....

[em@harveymusic]

Do you know me? I think some of you may know my boyf

[Rock n Roll]

Nah. I'm involved with the same kinda thing that's all. Engine & control based modeling on WAH-64 though.

So you too face the daily cognitive dissonance stemming from the
fact that you're essentially aiding and abetting in the creation of
these machines of death........ :-?

R n R

[Old Father Disc]

I am Adam, Prince of Eternia and defender of the secrets of Castle Grayskull.

I play guitar in Big Joan, work in advertising sales for a local publishing company and co-front the new Blood Red Sounds label with Presuming Ed.

I can be seen at every Choke night: a gaunt, helpless figure (or lanky streak of piss if you prefer) feverishly counting money and thanking people profusely when they give me the right change. I will be 28 years old on saturday and plan to spend my evening counting money and thanking people profusely when they give me the right change.

I was born in Peterborough, the crap East Anglian city of St. Peter, in 1976 - the year that punk broke. My favourite city is St.Petersburgh, the great Eastern European city of St. Peter in western Russia. I grew up in Lincolnshire, the West Midlands and North Somerset. I discovered that drugs were great while living in Southampton during what I call "Willie the Disc: The Lost Years". Luckily, I met the rest of my band there and they saved me from narcotic psychosis.

I now live in Bristol, have a boring obsession with the lighter side of Soviet Communism and play a '57 reissue Fender Stratocaster made in Japan.

I also occasionally get round to putting out of Choke Magazine, of which I am the editor by default.

Hello!

[Presuming Ed]

Simon - bassist for Big Joan, band booker for Club Choke, partner in Blood Red Sounds, nothing else of much interest.

[Old Father Disc]

Simon - bassist for Big Joan, band booker for Club Choke, partner in Blood Red Sounds, nothing else of much interest.

Difference in style, there. I'm a gobshite. You get stuff done.