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David Barron
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Me, Myself, and I
Well I am a single male who is now working for Wales & West Utilities. The rest of the time I like listening to music, watching the Premiership football on Sky and BBC.

Home away from home for me is to go to twice a year, to Pontin's Wall Park in Brixham (Now Wall Park Holiday Village). I like to go down in September and again for the Party Weekend in the penutlimate weekend in October, and join the many friends that I made over the years and join the many friends that I made over the years since first going down there in 1994. Plenty of great memories from many holidays at the camp, including the photos.

I think that this profile shows what a boring person I am at times, and if given the chance I can bore anyone witless.
Music
The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynryd, The Kinks, The Who, The Byrds, Greatful Dead, Buffalo Springfield, Traffic, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Fairport Convention, Queen, Curtis Mayfield, Parliament/Funkadelic, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, The Band, Stephen Stills, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Crosby Stills & Nash, Moody Blues, Yes, The Clash, Oasis, Cast, The Verve, Ocean Colour Scene, Jimi Hendrix and many more. I have a large record collectiion as you can guess.
TV/Films/DVD
The Shawshank Redemption, 12 Angry Men, Once Upon A Time In The West, Farhenheit 9/11, The Last Waltz, Almost Famous (Although I prefer the longer version which is titled Untitled), Some Like It Hot, The Odd Couple, Elizabethtown (well worth buying when it comes out on DVD and I have now actually bought), Bowling For Columbine, V for Vendetta, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Good Night and Good Luck and many more.
Well I enjoy watching MASH, Scrubs, Only Fools and Horses, Porridge, Auf Widersehen Pet, Monty Python (Both TV and Films), Drop The Dead Donkey
Sports
Cricket (enjoy the five-day test more than the one-day game), Football (I do not support any team in England, although I always look out to see how Heart of Midlothian (DO NOT LAUGH, THEY ARE ALREADY A JOKE) are doing in the Scottish Premier League. I ALWAYS PREFER TO TAKE THE MICKEY OUT OF ALL THOSE WHO SUPPORT TEAMS LIKE MANCHESTER UNITED, CHELSEA, LIVERPOOL, TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR AND ARSENAL. (For those of you who support those teams don't tell me, you'll end up getting sarky messages from me)
Drinks
My drink is either a pint of bitter (although can anyone out there please tell me where I can buy Theakston's Best Bitter on tap, it's disappeared, no longer being sold at the Wetherspoon's pub The John Wallace Linton) or Double Southern Comfort and Lemonade.
Sometimes I drink in Rileys American Pool and Snooker where I have a four pint jug of John Smith Extra Smooth for £7.50. Also a few pints of Caffrey's at the Potters Bar (pub by Newport Bus Station) during the Monday Night Quiz.
Radio
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. Usually on Monday Nights at 6.30PM on Radio Four. Sadly they only have two series a year, and it is absolutely wonderful to listen to. Music documentaries on BBC Radio Two take my interest.
Old's Harry Game, a Comedic look at hell, written by and starring the very funny Andy Hamilton (Drop The Dead Donkey, Shelley, and has appeared in QI).
The Now Show, Radio 4 satrical show with Punt & Dennis, Marcus Brigstocke, John Holmes, and comedy songs provided by Mitch Benn. Able now to download or podcase for a week after original transmission.
Books
Anything by Michael Moore, "Lies (and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them)" and "The Truth with Jokes" by Al Franken, "Like The Night (Revisited) : Bob Dylan and the Road to the Manchester Free Trade Hall" by C.P Lee, "Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now" by Barry Miles. Anything by John Grisham. Two books about one of my favourite groups - The Band, "This Wheel's On Fire" by Levon Helm (The Band's drummer) and Stephen Davis and "Across the Great Divide: The Band and America" by Barney Hoskyns. "How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered The World" by Francis Wheen. Beginning to get into "As Used On The Famous Nelson Mandela" by Mark Thomas, "Reasons to be Cheerful" by Mark Steel. "Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers" by Daniel Ellsberg. "The Great War For Civilization: The Conquest for the Middle East" by Robert Fisk (I'm on Page 700 at the moment, another 530 pages to go) "White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s" by Joe Boyd.
Newspapers/Magazines
Read The Independent and The Guardian weekdays and some weekends. On Sunday - The Observer and occasionally The Independent on Sunday.
Also enjoy reading Mojo, Uncut, Word and Classic Rock magazines every month. So if anyone is bored witless by my long e-mails, I blame the above publications for writing that long.

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    • Paul McCartney – Many years From Now by Barry Miles

      Most biographies of famous musicians are usually with no help from the subject themselves and rely on second hand stories and some things which are patently untrue. So it was really refreshing in 1998 to buy this book, and find that the subject in question was fully involved in the writing of this book, without it becoming an official biography. This was based on hundreds of hours of interviews.

      The 1990s saw Paul McCartney and the other surviving Beatles take part in their own revision of history in The Beatles Anthology DVD, CDs and book. At the same time long time friend Barry Miles started a long series of interviews with Paul which culminated in this book being released in hardcover in 1997 and then again in Paperback in 1998. This is a book still well worth buying even though the paperback version ends with Linda McCartney sad death from breast cancer that year.

      The reason is twofold. Firstly it gives Paul’s own memories of the period from his childhood right up to 1998. This gives his own insights into what it was like to be a Beatle, living the life of one of the most famous people in the world. It is really refreshing to show the excitement of living in London that was becoming the centre of a cultural explosion whose resonance is still with us almost forty years on. Secondly, Barry Miles was much a part of the cultural explosion that took place in London with the setting up, and being a co-owner of the famous Indica Bookshop and Gallery, which was the venue of the first meeting of John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

      It is really hard to describe everything in the book, that to state everything in this recommendation, would be to spoil the entire book. It is something that can be picked up at any point and read without having to go from start to finish. My favourite section from the book is at the point when Allen Klein becomes the Beatles manager (you need to read what Paul thought of him). When James Taylor was on the Beatles’ label Apple, him and his manager Peter Asher asked Paul to have their contract back, as they didn’t like Klein. You will need to buy or borrow the book to read what happened next.

      This book gives an insight into a decade, and although was criticised by some for Barry Miles being too close to Paul McCartney, this is where you get their own thoughts and opinions on the decade, which is something that all Beatles biographers hated because it is something that they did not want to happen, the participants given their own opinions on the rise of their careers.

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    • 2006 CUSTOMER SERVICE AWARDS

      Well it is now midday on the 28th January 2007. Last night I went to The Celtic Manor Hotel, or resort for our Customer service awards for Lloyds TSB Insurance. Photos of which will soon be appearing on this site.

      It was really a great night, we were wined and dined and I even joined in the fun by getting up and dancing. For the record I had three glasses of red wine and five or six pints of John Smith's at £1.60 which was 50% off the cost of a pint at that what is really a resort, that in 2010 the world's eyes will be on us for that year The Ryder Cup will be taking place.

      For those of you interested in wondering where I spent the evening enjoying myself, here is where the entertainment was:
      http://www.celtic-manor.com/360_Tour...

      The evening started with a free glass of champagne, which I decided not to drink as I really wanted to stick to beer, but as we entered the caernarfon suite and the fact there was free wine soon persuaded me to imbibe. There was the awards which always take place before everyone gets too drunk to remember, followed by a performance of another tribute to the blues brothers. It was then followed by two DJs on Red Dragon Radio (Our local radio station) whose names I didn't catch, followed by the disco.

      The night ended at 1AM when the rather bright lights came on and we all had to go home. Got home just after 1.30AM in the coaches that the company provided to get us home. Fell asleep at ?.

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    • FAVOURITE ALBUMS OF ALL TIME - ALL MOD CONS - THE JAM (1978)

      I can now recommend this album as it is now available as in 2006 it was released in a CD/DVD edition with all the original album being added with all the B-Sides from their singles, and a DVD making of the album, directed by Don Letts, better known for his long affiliation with The Clash.

      It is hard to believe that this was the album that started a run of success that would take them through to the time they disbanded in 1982. Yet if this album turned out to be a failure, It would have been all over for them and would have become a footnote in the punk history, and would have not taken their place in the holy trinity of Punk Bands along with The Sex Pistols and The Clash.

      Yet, The Jam were never really a punk band, it is true they took the energy of punk but they as Keith Richards once said “anything you hear, comes out in what you play” and in The Jam’s case it was a love of The Beatles, R&B, The Small Faces, The Who and The Kinks, which shows in the cover of “David Watts” which appears on the album, and was released as a double “A” side alongside “A Bomb In Wardour Street.”

      At the time of the above single’s release, it was by no means certain that The Jam would become enormously successful, their previous album “This Is The Modern World” was not a success and as later admitted Paul Weller lost interest in songwriting, and there was no direction for him to go. Further disheartening was the demos done originally for their third album being told they were not good enough. With that Paul Weller went away and wrote songs that even twenty-eight years later listening to them sound like a person who had taken a whole new seriousness to the art of writing songs.

      There are many moments on the album that show his new found maturity in his songwriting, the second track on the album “To Be Someone (Didn’t We Have A Nice Time)” shows the protagonist going from flavour of the month to outcast, which was a semi-autobiographical attack on those people who treated him the year before after the success of their first album “In The City” and the failure of “In The Modern World”, this song would become more apt in the early 1990s when Paul Weller struggled to find a direction in his solo career, and was covered by Noel Gallagher, with more of a hint of irony in the 1999 Tribute album “Fire & Skill”

      The Kinks influence is there on most of the album, no doubt on “Mr Clean” and yet there is a maturity in the songs that show that he is documenting on a period of time that was very violent and that shows in the last track of the album “Down In The Tube Station Tube of Midnight” which is although about a fictional protagonist, was all too real as the far right thugs who feature were a part of late seventies Britain, with the rise in popularity of The National Front at that time.

      “A Bomb In Wardour Street” was inspired by his disillusionment with what punk had become, from being in Paul Weller’s eyes a street movement that could cause social change, to being of one where everyone looked liked Sid Vicious, and were getting drunk and taking cheap speed. As far away from the last two songs “English Rose” was not even mentioned on the album when originally released in 1978 and was a hidden track after “David Watts” Only in 1997 did it get a track place on the album. Now it is considered one of his finest songs and it shows folk influences that played little in The Jam’s career, yet would become an influential part of Paul Weller’s solo career. Yet the softer side is there and is evident on tracks like “Fly”

      One song that was quickly recorded and released was the Who song “So Sad About Us” released as a tribute to Keith Moon who died just before the album was released, and appears a double B-Side on “Down In The Tube Station at Midnight” single along with “The Night”. There was no doubt that with release that The Jam had moved from being a band that had

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    • Emma
      Emma

      Check out m.bebo.com from your mobile! If you login on your phone now, you'll automatically send me an extra Luv!

      59 weeks ago via Mobile
    • Darren Hope
      Darren Hope

      When was the last time you heard from Sean Alredge, I tried to add him as a freind but see he ain't been active for weeks, anyway how u doing?

      94 weeks ago
    • Lisa
      Lisa

      add me xx,

      96 weeks ago
    • Rebecca Carroll
      Rebecca Carroll

      whos dis, where u in pontins july 07??????
      wbxoxox

      110 weeks ago
    • Sam Elkin
      Sam Elkin

      dave can you send me some on msn samelkin345@hotmail.com am sign on now lol

      111 weeks ago
    • IckleFozzi

      Hi,
      So how often do you go to wall park?
      You should become a photographer for the camp...
      Lol
      Would actuall not be a bad job i guess.
      love me xxx

      111 weeks ago
    • Emma K
      Emma K

      hey i´m not sure if i met you , i can see you´ve added me to myspace and your friends with some of the blues i´ve worked with but i hi hope ur ok.xxxxxxx

      124 weeks ago
    • Charles Knowles
      luv Charles Knowles

      hi dave its chaz nice photos from prestatyn sands but mine are better

      126 weeks ago
    • Tara Griffiths
      Tara Griffiths

      tha names tj lol
      ummm who u do i no u

      129 weeks ago
    • WoodzY
      WoodzY

      no probz m8 who r ya btw ??

      129 weeks ago
    • Kinder Bueno
      Kinder Bueno

      hus dis thanx 4 the add

      139 weeks ago
    • Natasha B
      Natasha B

      lol no im not jealous of u goin wall park coz im going greece for 3 weeks instead :P ill be doing my exams soon which im not looking forward 2 :( can not wait till summer!! 4 long months off ^_^ anyway Justin beats wall park anyday so there! all the good bluecoats are not comming bk now away so it wouldnt have been as fun, i like boogie with the blues though thats one of the best bits and the shows & going down to the habour + beaches when its nice! i would still not mind going bk though another time, but we all fancied a changed this year it should be great! tell me what its like though when you go and have a nice time! :) cya soon.

      140 weeks ago
    • Ashley M
      Ashley M

      hellooooo

      you're welcome:D

      144 weeks ago
    • Ashley M
      Ashley M

      hey dude, thanks for becoming a groupie of Great Music Lovers! nice music taste:D :D
      rock on

      144 weeks ago
    • Ashley M
      Ashley M

      hey dude, thanks for becoming a groupie of Great Music Lovers! nice music taste:D :D :D
      rock on

      144 weeks ago
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      Darren Ball

      hey great taste in musuc :D dont know if ur a willie nelson fan but if you are join this we'r just startin out show ur love for shotgun willie :d lol http://shotgunwillienelson.bebo.com thanks if u do its appreciated

      146 weeks ago