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Christie Moore |
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Started work as an apprentice with the Post Office (BT), then left to become an aromatherapist and beautician. Didn’t like it and went back into electronics as a repair engineer in a music shop in Notting Hill. After various jobs, I’ve ended up in the print control industry.
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Hobbies Art, especially
cartoons, when I get time. I was originally taught to draw by my father,
and used to draw a lot when I was young. Did most of the artwork for the
band. I used to do martial
arts, but due to lack of time and possible injury to my bass playing
fingers, had to give up the jujitsu after reaching brown belt at the
Ishigaki club in London. I also like watching films, especially sci-fi., some of my favourites are Star Wars, Star Trek, Batman, any film with Arnie or Theresa Russell.
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Literature
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When I get an odd moment or two, I love to read. I used to hate literature when I was a girl, but now I can’t get enough of it. I’ve read some of the classics but my favourite is science fiction. Some of my favourite books have been H.G.Wells, Frank Herberts Dune series, Arthur C. Clarkes 2001 series and Sherlock Holmes. The book I’m reading at the moment is called Chocolat by Joanne Harris. |
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Music
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When I was young, I had very little interest in music. Kids all around me would have their favourite band or singer, but not me. Although I did like all the glam rock thing and used to love watching Sweet and Mud on the TV, my first interest in music came when Sparks had the single “This Town Ain’t Big Enough For The Both Of Us”. It wasn’t until the punk explosion that I took more interest in music. I was fascinated by the “shock, horror, kids with safety pins through their noses” reports in the newspapers. Not long afterwards, I bought my first single “Looking After No.1” by the Boomtown Rats. But it was the Vibrators that were my favourite punk band and still are. A lot of punk wasn’t very good although it did get me into other music styles, because a year later I got into Ultravox. Those first three albums are still in my top albums of all time. When John Foxx left and was replaced by Midge Ure, I felt they weren’t as good any more. In the early 80’s, I discovered rock and bought singles by Saxon and Judas Priest. But it was Billy Idol that I really loved, he had it all in his music. Looks, sex, rock’n’roll, motorbikes. It was about this time I also got into Goth and my favourite goth band (and probably the only goth band I ever really liked), Sisters of Mercy. I followed them through all their incarnations from “Alice”. Then there was a brief exciting period when Sigue Sigue Sputnik came bursting onto our TV screens. I saw them recently and they still rock. When the eighties came to an end and the nineties took off, music for me seemed to die as techno type dance music took a hold. It was the worst music ever to be invented. Still, there was Danielle Dax and Alanis Morisette. I also became very much interested in Classical music, and I started to listen to ClassicFM after going out with someone. Also in the early nineties, I met Leah who was in a band then and I followed them around taking photographs. When a member of the band left, Leah taught me to play guitar and I joined the band. When the bass player left, I took over that role, we found a drummer and the new band became “A Touch of Class”. Now we are in the new millennium, music seems to have reached an all time low. But I do like Rachel Stamp and the Hamsters, so there is still hope for decent music. There are also a lot of covers bands, most of which are very good, like Limehouse Lizzy and Fleetwood Bac. The music is there, it’s just a lot harder to find.
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If you would like to contact me, e-mail me at a letter from No.10 Downing Street
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