jackspearing

Interests:
Film, Art, Music, History, Tea, Sleep, Cycling.

Music taste:
More or less any organised sound from the 12th century to the Present. Classical, Rock, Jazz, Soul, Funk, Country, Pop, Experimental, Singer-Songwriters, Electronic, Hip-Hop, Blues, R&B, World, Post-Punk, Folk. I like to mix it up a bit. But mostly - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, The Beatles, Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert, Johann Sebastian Bach, Bob Dylan, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, David Bowie, Johannes Brahms, Elvis Costello, Talking Heads, The Kinks, Tom Waits, Robert Schumann, Giuseppe Verdi, The Magnetic Fields, The Rolling Stones, Antonin Dvorak, Stevie Wonder, Animal Collective, James Brown, Georg Friedrich Handel, Nick Drake, Arcade Fire, The Beach Boys, Ron Sexsmith, The Clash, Hot Chip, Felix Mendelssohn, Minutemen, The Smiths, Daft Punk, Neil Young, Aretha Franklin, Dmitri Shostakovich, Pixies, LCD Soundsystem, Elbow, Jens Lekman, Led Zep, Radiohead, Brian Eno, Prince, New Order, Sly & the Family Stone, Joanna Newsom, Portishead, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Bjork, Johnny Cash, MIA, Weezer, Sam Cooke, Ella Fitzgerald, Joy Division, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Public Enemy, Marvin Gaye, The Zombies, Sufjan Stevens, Van Morrison, Georges Bizet, Frederic Chopin, The Specials, Gustav Mahler, Gang of Four, XTC, De La Soul, Wire, The Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, The National, Small Faces, Belle & Sebastian, Kate Bush, St Vincent, The Cure, TV on the Radio, Bob Marley, Leonard Cohen, Paul Simon, Massive Attack, The Jam, Joni Mitchell, Buzzcocks, Blondie, Architecture in Helsinki, Neutral Milk Hotel, DJ Shadow, Philip Glass, The Band, Feist, Blur, Dusty Springfield, Sergei Prokofiev, Iron & Wine, Frank Sinatra, The Fall, Otis Redding, Smog, Yo La Tengo, Richard Strauss, Boards of Canada, Sigur Ros, Funkadelic, Parliament, The Pogues, Kraftwerk, Burial, Can, The Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Fleet Foxes, The Knife, Howlin' Wolf, Pulp, T. Rex, Beirut, Chet Baker, Laurie Anderson, Meredith Monk, Steve Reich, Jeff Buckley, Public Image Ltd., Vincenzo Bellini, The Modern Lovers, Battles, Talk Talk, The Stone Roses, Herbie Hancock, Deerhoof, Television, Jean Sibelius, The Temptations, Richard Wagner, Carl Maria von Weber, This Heat, Run DMC, Os Mutantes, The Supremes, Deerhunter, Maurice Ravel, Caribou, Dead Kennedys, Andrew Bird, The Four Tops, Leo Delibes, Dr John, Smokey Robinson, A Tribe Called Quest, The Left Banke, Love, Fela Kuti, Chuck Berry, Curtis Mayfield, James Carr, Bon Iver, RJD2, Dave Brubeck, Patti Smith, Liquid Liquid, My Bloody Valentine, Toots and the Maytals, Lyle Lovett, Hank Williams, The Meters, Henry Purcell, Creedence, Michael Jackson, Count Basie, Martha Reeves, Dinosaur Jr., Scott Walker, The Congos, Devo, Edvard Grieg, Antonio Vivaldi, Michael Nyman, Pere Ubu, Antony and the Johnsons, ESG, Ray Charles, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Etta James, The Upsetters, Nick Lowe, Dizzy Gillespie, The Slits, Elvis Presley, Al Green, Modest Mussorgsky, Modest Mouse, The Replacements, Santana, Hector Berlioz, Elliot Smith, Young Marble Giants, REM, Gilberto Gil, Robyn Hitchcock, Grizzly Bear, Burning Spear, Carl Orff, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Fuck Buttons, Richard Hawley, Eric Dolphy, Art Blakey, Sonny Rollins, The Drifters, The Coasters, Of Montreal, Bedrich Smetana, Muzio Clementi, Little Richard, Camille Saint-Saens, Ruth Brown, Echo and the Bunnymen, Alexander Borodin, Autechre, The Isley Brothers, Wilson Pickett, Meat Puppets, Sam & Dave, Milton Nascimento, Ottorino Respighi, John Martyn, The Beta Band, Baaba Maal, Fugazi, Bill Withers, Rufus Thomas, Tinariwen, Luigi Boccherini, Buddy Holly, Bruce Springsteen, Giovanni Paisiello, Sarah Vaughan, Leos Janacek, Igor Stravinsky, Solomon Burke, Bela Bartok, Bo Diddley, Aram Khachaturian, Noel Coward, etc. etc. etc.

Anything else?:
I write about classical music, amongst other things.