When I were a Rocknrolla this is how I looked.

This picture was taken round a bout 1989 I think (from what I can recall).

The band was called The Liberty and we played a mixture of Punk and Goth style rampant melodic anthems where the gigs were always very lively and often slightly riotous affairs. We conquered quite a significant following around the South West and went so far as to turn down a contract. Clearly youthful arrogance afforded us the choice to fuck the system and of course eventually we split up, in true differences of opinion style.

The band members though, all these years later, continue to be great friends and we meet up from time to time.

When I look at this picture the memories come flooding back and I do recall being utterly wasted at many points around those years. Of course I consider those years to be highly informative and instructive for me which shaped me somewhat, but I do look proper "rocknrolla".

There are a bunch more from a similar time fond here in The Liberty set.

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This is a post which I picked on from from Thayer and as she tagged and made me accountable I had to oblige.

I like the idea of stating a few random things about, the indulging with you, and sharing, so here we go:

1. I'm not a fan of dogs. It might be selfish, it might not be, but I don't "get" the whole dog-love thing. Why would anyone wish to be tied to taking a dog for a crap every day? What's the return, what's the benefit?

2. I love to run. I have run all my life sometimes miles and miles a week, though these days I tend to go about 3 times a week and about 5 miles at a time. I did start recording many of my runs recently and called it Running Man Radio, though I'm getting bored of that and I'm enjoying my own space again without you listening.

3. I use to play rugby semi-professionally. Yeah I know, rugby, real mans sport!

4. I do most of the cooking within my own family. This comes from having a VERY good cook in own my mother and sister (both amazing) and also having lived in Italy for a total of about 5 years, where eating is a religion, and eating slowly with friends.

5. I've been working on the web since about 95, and would consider myself very conversant at using tools to build a virtual community, that's been my core business since 2000. Social media has been what I've done for that long.

6. I've played guitar in many bands ranging from punk to jazz and some candy pop in between, I also love my nylon string hand-built Spanish guitar.

7. Whilst I speak some practical Italian I excel at swearing in the lingo and I'm a dab hand at Italian gesticulation too.

8. I'm not very hairy and it is all dead straight.

And there you go.

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SAMISMAIL
Eaon Pritchard
Jason Jarrett
Nicholas Butler
Julie Joyce
Gary Day
Julia Roy
Doug Haslam

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