CURRENT MISSION

Life isn't about how to survive the storm..but how to dance in the rain.

ABOUT ME

I am a motorbike riding, world traveling, puma walking, festival producer. I'm a good mixture of totally bonkers, social butterfly and zen master grounded happy chappy. I have been sent here to find like minded positive travelers for fun and adventures!

I'm incredibly Silly, chilled, unruffled and always seeking adventure and mischief everywhere I go!

Here is what makes me tick!

http://youtu.be/3wqMywPpa6M

I LOVE:

I love laughing
I love hugs
I love taking photos
I love intuition
I love animals of all kinds (especially cats)
I love lucid dreaming
I love long journeys on my motorbike to pretty places
I love to sew (I find it very relaxing and therapeutic)
I love to make a quite cosy corner and read
I love to eat delicious food (especially spicy food)
I love goth music
I love sneaking movie quote into conversation
I love massive adventures
I love dressing up and going to crazy nightclubs (TG's, Slimelights, Rumpus, Pirate Radio Boat Parties)
I love dancing
I love good coffee and black leaf tea, both without milk or sugar.
I love psychedelic music like The Doors
I love frogs and snails
I love wooded areas
I love meditating
I love cycling
I love cooking
I love dreadlocks
I love balkan beats
I love pixies
I love a French accent
I love real ale
I love nesting
I love incense
I love stand up comedy
I love tattoos (I currently have over 24 hours worth on my body)
I love making long lists ;)

I DON'T LOVE:

I don't love war
I don't love overly salty foods
I don't love the routine
I don't love excessive sugar (though I do have quite a sweet tooth it's mainly for quality sweet things)
I don't love instant coffee
I don't love coriander or beetroot
I don't love being tickled
I don't love negative people

I love my life so much! I get to do the two things I love the most, festivals and traveling :D

I have been working freelance on the festival circuit since 2007. I am a production manager for Secret Productions who produce Secret Garden Party and the Wilderness Festival.

I license festivals and events, manage teams of stewards, look after welfare departments and am crew manager at many large festivals through the UK.

When I'm not at festivals I am usually traveling somewhere in the world. To date I have traveled for a combination of 20 months.

Places travelled so far:

Bolivia, Peru, USA (San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, New York) Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain, Israel, Jordan, Scotland.

Places I would love to visit in the next few years:

Australia, India

I'm really good at:

Laughing, not taking life to seriously, procrastinating, then meditating to try to break free and then eventually back to step 1...repeat! ;)

Finding fun and adventurous people to hang out with.

Hugging, finding beautiful places, being happy and positive, traveling, taking photos, making amazing breakfasts :)

Fav foods:

Anything with garlic
Cheese!!!
Raw foods
Healthy foods
Vegetable juices
Did I mention cheese?
Seafood (Especially sashimi)

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Festivals and gatherings of days gone by:

Alchemy 2015
Audio Soup 2017
Beautiful Days 2012/13/15
Bearded Theory 2013
Bestival 2006/07/08/09
Bimble Inn Bandada 2010/11
Bloc Weekender 2012
Boomtown 2012/17
Buddhafields 2008
Croissant Neuf 2008
Doune The Rabbit Hole 2018
Download 2003/04/05/06
Eden 2017
Fire Gathering 2006/07/08/09
Galactic Rave 2011/12
Glade 2011/12
Glastonbury 2000/04/07/08/09/10/11/13/14/15/16/17
Hatfair 2011
Hop Farm 2009/10/14
Infest 1999
Kelburn Garden Party 2016/17/18
Knockengorroch 2016/17/18
Latitude 2010/11/12/13/14/15/16/17
London Feis 2011
London Pleasure Gardens 2012
Lughnasadh 2016/17
Meteor Camp 2007/10
Mugstock 2017/18
Noisily 2015/16/17
O2 Festival 2007
Olympics 2012
Over The Moon 2012
Out Of The Ordinary 2010/11
Ozzfest 1998
Playfest 2011/12/13
Proms In The Park 2010/11/12
Reading 2000/08/09/10/11/12/13/14
Red Rooster 2015/16/17/18
Rewind 2018
RiRa 16/17/18
Rollright Fayre 2012/13/14
Scottish Anarcho Folk Festival 2017
Secret Garden Party 2009/10/11/12/13/14/15/16
Shambala 2015/17
Small World 2014/15
Sonisphere 2011
Strummer of Love 2012
Sunrise Celebration 2009/10/11/12/13
Whitby Gothic Fest 1999
Wilderness 2012/13/14
Willow Festival 2013
Winter Wonderland 2010
WOMAD 2008
Wychwood Fest 2012

Total 131 And counting!

Festivals Per Year

1998 - 1
1999 - 2
2000 - 2
2001 - 0
2002 - 0
2003 - 1
2004 - 2
2005 - 1
2006 - 3
2007 - 5
2008 - 7
2009 - 7
2010 - 11
2011 - 14
2012 - 18
2013 - 11
2014 - 8
2015 - 9
2016 - 9
2017 - 14
2018 - 6

PHILOSOPHY

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once - Neitzsch

Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for." -Bob Marley

Life moves pretty fast, if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it!! - John Hughes 1986

Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music. - Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. - Frank Sinatra

24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not- Stephen Wright

When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven! So, let's all get drunk and go to heaven! - Brian O'Rourke

Talking to yourself is just a verbalisation of reflective self-consciousness - Will Self

Life Is Too Short,
Break The Rules, Forgive Quickly,
Kiss Slowly, Love Truly,
Laugh Uncontrollably,
And Never Regret Anything
That Made You Smile.
Life May Not Be The Party
We Hoped For,
But While We're Here, We Should Dance...

The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired - Seneca

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I cannot host at the moment as I am travelling but would love to host again in the future, till then I will hope for the generosity of others :DUpdate:Dec 2011The generosity of others has been overwhelming! I've met so many wonderful people while couchsurfing! I now know this is certainly a community for me :D

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

From Gregor and Moritz in Germany to Verena in Paris, couchsurfing has been some of the best experiences I've had! happy to be involved!

Interests

FESTIVALS & TRAVELLING!!! - PLEASE CONTACT ME IF:

You have questions that you think I can answer and festivals or travelling

You're curious about the UK festival scene (which festival should I go to?)

Or getting into volunteering at UK festivals.

You have information about the Australian festival scene which I want to get into

You're wanting to jack it all in and go travelling

You'd quite fancy living in the jungle and walking big cats/looking after monkeys/parrots/tajons

You'd like to know what the hell a tajon even is!?

• animals
• cats
• tattoos
• festivals
• dancing
• seafood
• cooking
• walking
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• swimming
• volunteering
• fire spinning
• ale
• goth music
• beltane
• face paints
• torture gardens

Music, Movies, and Books

Favourite Movies:

12 Monkeys, The 39 Steps, Alice in Wonderland, Amelie, American Graffiti, Batman, Beetle Juice, Betty Blue, The Big Lebowski, Brick, The Breakfast Club, The Crow, Dark City, Edward Scissorhands, The Devil's Rejects, The Devil's Advocate, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Fifth Element, Fight Club, A Fish Called Wanda, Four Rooms, From Dusk till Dawn, From Hell, Heat, Goodbye Lenin, Goodfellas, The Goonies, K-PAX, Killing Zoe, Heathers, House of 1000 Corpses, Labyrinth, The Ladykillers, Life is Beautiful, Léon, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Matrix, Memento, My Cousin Vinnie, Near Dark, The Never Ending Story, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Pans Labyrinth, The Pink Panther, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Pretty in Pink, Pulp Fiction, Run Lola Run, Scarface, Sin City, Sixteen Candles, Sleepy Hollow, Snatch, Things To Do in Denver When Your Dead, True Romance, Uncle Buck, Very Bad Things, The Wizard of Oz

I've been to way too many gigs to list here, however below are the epic ones!! The ones that stand head and shoulders above the rest:

The Arctic Monkeys, Alabama 3, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Adam Freeland, Alice in Chains, Alien Sex Fiend, Amy Winehouse, Morrissey, Anthrax, Apoptygma Berzerk, The Automatic, Bauhaus, Beastie Boys, The Beat, Bedouin Sound Clash, Black Sabbath, Bloc Party, Bloodhound Gang, Blondie, The Chemical Brothers, Coal Chamber, The Correspondents, The Cranes, The Cult, The Cure, Cypress Hill, Daft Punk, The Damned, The Darkness, David Bowie, Deftones, Delerium, Demented Are Go, Dirty Pretty Things, The Distillers, Dizzee Rascal, The Dresden Dolls, Dropkick Murphys, Eat Static, Eminem, Faith No More, Fat Boy Slim, Foo Fighters, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Gabriela y Rodrigo, Garbage, Gogol Bordello, Greenday, Hawkwind, The Hives, Horror Pops, Hot Chip, Iggy Pop, Infected Mushroom, James Brown, Jamie T, John Cooper Clarke, Juliette Lewis & The Licks, Kaiser Chiefs, The Killers, Killing Joke, Korn, Lamb, Leftfield, Levellers, Lily Allen, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, London After Midnight, Machine Head, Madness, Manic Street Preachers, Marilyn Manson, The Mars Volta, Massive Attack, Megadeath, Metallica, The Meteors, Ministry, Monster Magnet, Motorhead, Muse, My Chemical Romance, NFD, Neville Staples, New Model Army, Nine Inch Nails, The Offspring, Ozzric Tentacles, Ozzy Osbourne, Pantera, Pet Shop Boys, Pearl Jam, Pil, Prodigy, Project Pitchfork, Queen Adreena, Queens of the Stone Age, Rammstein, Rob Zombie, Roni Size, Sepultura, Sensorium, Scissor Sisters, Sheep On Drugs, Skunk Anansie, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Sisters of Mercy, Shirley Bassey, Shpongle, Slayer, Slipknot, Soulfly, The Specials, Squeeze, Static X, The Stranglers, Stevie Wonder, The Strokes, Stonesour, Suede, System of a Down, Tears for Fears, Tenacious D, Tura Satana, Type O Negative, Ultraviolence, Underworld, VNV Nation, White Stripes, Wide Eyed Order, Zub Zub

My favourite bands are The Cure, The Cult, The Cranes, The Pixies, Placebo, David Bowie and Gogol Bordello (I've seen them live 12 times!) :D

Bands I'd like to see live but can't because they don't gig anymore or are dead: The Doors, Siouxsie and the Banshees, X-Ray Spex, Joy Division, White Zombie, No Doubt, Buddy Holly, The Ramones, The Beatles.

Authors:

Hunter S Thompson, Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Mark Thomas, Bret Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk, Nick McDonell

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

When I can I head off to Bolivia to look after animals here: http://www.intiwarayassi.org/articles/volunteer_animal_refuge/become_a_volunteer.html

It is an amazing place! I have spent over 7 months volunteering there walking pumas, ocelots and looking after a 32 strong group of wild spider monkeys. Anyone can go there, they always need volunteers! I will be heading back there at the end of 2014. It will be my 3rd time working with the animals :)

Here is a movie I made: http://youtu.be/3wqMywPpa6M

Teach, Learn, Share

After hearing the story of the man who traded a red paperclip with items and ended up with a house, I have decided to try the same thing. I am not necessarily after a house, a motorbike would be nice though ;)The Beginning - It started with my good friend Sharon who gave me a fresh tube of Lucas Papaw Ointment.Level 2 - I traded this with Billie for a pair of size 9 Safety Rigger bootsLevel 3 - I traded the boots with Jacob. He lives in Dresden, Germany and responded to a poster I put up in the street advertising the boots. Jacob gave me a brand new (British made) bowler hat!!Level 4 - I traded the hat with Shirin. She also lives in Dresden. She gave me a clarinet.Level 5 - I traded the clarinet with Ilya, he lives in Rishon LeZion (Tel Aviv) He gave me a guitar. If you don't include the word 'Orange' in your request to me, I will not host you. I get way too many copy and paste requests.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Bolivia, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Peru, Spain, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Bolivia, Israel, Switzerland, United Kingdom

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