CURRENT MISSION

To find a new horizon and live there for a while.

ABOUT ME

A young lady with a verve for life, experimentation and absurdity. Have recently relocated from London to Northampton after a divorce. Author/music blogger by day, club/events promoter by night, brazen chancer all the time.

I am a contradiction most of the time - hugely cynical but still a romantic, with big plans for the world if ONLY I could get up earlier in the mornings. I'm a writer, an actor, a dreamer and a player. What I want most out of life is true happiness. I always want to be shown something new... taken on an adventure.

PHILOSOPHY

Right now I'm hacking the existential Gibson due to my general approach of 'they can only say no'. If you don't ask, you don't get.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I travel a _lot_ for gigs around the country, and am generally doing it on a shoestring budget... plus I like meeting people and getting to know the place properly rather than staying in anonymous hostels.

Interests

My loves in life (in no particular order) are music, films, books, writing, acting, dancing, costumes, sleeping, road trips, mischief-making, LARPing, singing and long walks in beautiful places.

• pets
• cats
• writing
• books
• singing
• acting
• dancing
• drinking
• movies
• music
• live music
• cycling
• road trips
• gigs
• rock
• punk
• having a good time
• folk
• frank turner

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Only Forward, Spares and One Of Us by Michael Marshall Smith, Lost Souls, Exquisite Corpse and Drawing Blood by Poppy Z Brite, The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks, The Shadows Of The Apt series by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Moab Is My Washpot, The Hippopotamus and The Liar by Stephen Fry, The Lies Of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies and Republic Of Thieves by Scott Lynch, Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, Falling Out Of Cars and Vurt by Jeff Noon, the Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz, Set This House In Order by Matt Ruff, The Straw Men, The Lonely Dead, Blood Of Angels, The Intruders, Bad Things and Killer Move by Michael Marshall, The Gospel of Loki by Joanne M Harris, Neverwhere and American Gods by Neil Gaiman, The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson, My Not-So-Shameful Sex Secrets by Girl On The Net, My Heart Is An Autumn Garage by Anne Thériault, Gun Machine by Warren Ellis, Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan, anything by Edgar Allen Poe.

Movies: Garden State, Secretary, V For Vendetta, Empire Records, The Boondock Saints, Singles, High Fidelity, Killers, Contact, The Last Kiss, Crash, Velvet Goldmine, Office Space, American Beauty, Quills, The Commitments, Almost Famous, Brick, Black Snake Moan, Inception, The Cabin In The Woods, Deja Vu, Brotherhood Of The Wolf, Deadgirl, The 51st State, Divine Secrets Of The Ya Ya Sisterhood, Shortbus, Pacific Rim, Crimson Peak, Dangerous Liaisons, The Silence Of The Lambs, Cruel Intentions, The History Boys, most of the recent Marvel films, Flatliners, The Lost Boys, Mad Max: Fury Road, the only three Indiana Jones movies that exist, Practical Magic, The Craft, Attack The Block, Only Lovers Left Alive, Interview With The Vampire, Leon, Odd Thomas, The Breakfast Club, The Descent, The Cornetto Trilogy, dodgy slasher flicks and anything that makes me think.

Music: Frank Turner & the Sleeping Souls, Dead Can Dance, Blue October, Breaking Benjamin, VAST, Nine Inch Nails, The Exies, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Seth Lakeman, Levellers, Birds Of Tokyo, Karnivool, The Prodigy, Tim Minchin, Rammstein, New Model Army, David Bowie, Imelda May, Losers, Pearl Jam, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Smiths, Three Days Grace, How To Destroy Angels, A Perfect Circle, Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine, Placebo, Pop Will Eat Itself, BB King, Blind Willie Johnson, Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker, RL Burnside, Voltaire, The Sisters Of Mercy, Crowns, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly, The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing, The Offspring, The Stone Roses, Ghouls, Manmademan, rock, goth, industrial, EBM, punk, folk, grunge, electro, Louisiana blues, Cajun and zydeco, country, psytrance, goa trance, did I say Frank Turner?

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Negotiating New York City at 2am. Pretty hair-raising when you're dressed in a black PVC ball gown.
Hot air ballooning over The Valley Of The Kings in Egypt.
Quad biking across the Algarve wilds.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Ridiculous stories of shenanigans, mishaps, derring-do, and hijinks that you won't believe actually happened.

Countries I’ve Visited

Egypt, France, Ireland, Namibia, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom