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Hi there - Please continue reading - I might not be as terminally boring as you think. I live in Leatherhead, Surrey. I am 20 years old (I was born just two minutes into my parents' third wedding anniversary, on the 30th of July 1991). I have been to a record number of schools and colleges (seven), considering that I've only moved house once, due to various problems (of these, I only left one because I had come to the end of the highest year). I feel that, if I didn't have more important things to do, that I would be campaigning to end bullying by staff in schools, which I have experienced a number of times. I am a bit of a rebel when it comes to churchgoing - or maybe the exact opposite. I hate the modern Catholic rite, and the lack of good music therein, so I go when I can to Tridentine Rite Latin Masses, in which I find I can bury my general dislike of present-day organised religion. My musical tastes are fairly varied - my mum has been a church organist since when she was my age (she's 55 now), so I've been heavily influenced by that. Otherwise, I'm into anything that counts as rock, apart from nu-metal and emo. I am proud of my Scottish ancestry and claim reasonably close relationship with the Chieftan of Clan MacLennan.

This is basically a list of composers and bands whose music I enjoy or find interesting.

Classical

John Adams, Jehan Alain, Alfonso X ("El Sabio"), Gregorio Allegri;

Johann Sebastian Bach, Mily Balakirev, Samuel Barber, Béla Bartók, Arnold Bax, Ludwig van Beethoven, Alban Berg, Hector Berlioz, Leonard Bernstein, Hildegard von Bingen, Enrico Bossi, Johannes Brahms, Frank Bridge, Benjamin Britten, Anton Bruckner, John Bull, Dietrich Buxtehude, William Byrd;

Antonio de Cabezon, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Frédéric Chopin, Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Aaron Copland, Arcangelo Corelli, François Couperin; Claude Debussy, Frederick Delius, John Dowland, Paul Dukas, Marcel Dupré, Maurice Duruflé, Antonín Dvořák;

Edward Elgar;

Gabriel Fauré, César Franck, Girolamo Frescobaldi;

Giovanni Gabrieli, George Gershwin, Orlando Gibbons, Gregorian Chant, Edvard Grieg, Nicolas de Grigny;

Naji Hakim, George Frideric Handel, Franz Joseph Haydn, Paul Hindemith, Gustav Theodore Holst;

Leos Janáček, Clément Janequin, Scott Joplin;

Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Aram Khachaturian;

Jean Langlais, Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wely (when I'm in the mood for a laugh), Franz Liszt, Sergei Lyapunov;

Gustav Mahler, John McCabe, Felix Mendelssohn, Olivier Messiaen, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Modest Mussorgsky;

Carl Orff;

Johann Pachelbel, Niccolò Paganini, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Charles Parry, Robert Parsons, Gabriel Pierné, Francis Poulenc, Michael Praetorius, Sergei Prokofiev, Giacomo Puccini, Henry Purcell;

Sergei Rachmaninoff, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Maurice Ravel, Max Reger, Josef Rheinberger, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Joaquín Rodrigo, Gioachino Rossini, Edmund Rubbra;

Camille Saint-Saëns, Erik Satie, Alessandro Scarlatti, Domenico Scarlatti, Franz Schmidt, Arnold Schoenberg, Franz Schubert, Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, Alexander Scriabin, Dmitri Shostakovich, Jean Sibelius, Bedrich Smetana, Charles Villiers Stanford, The Strauss dynasty, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Karol Szymanowski;

Thomas Tallis, Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky, Georg Philipp Telemann, Michael Tippett, Giuseppe Torelli, Jean Titelouze;

Ralph Vaughan Williams, Giuseppe Verdi, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Louis Vierne; Antonio Vivaldi.

Richard Wagner, William Walton, Peter Warlock, Carl Maria von Weber, Anton von Webern, Thomas Weelkes.

Rock

AC/DC, Arctic Monkeys, Ash, Athlete, The Automatic; Bloc Party, Blur; The Clash, Coldplay, The Cure; Deep Purple, Doves; ;
Feeder, Foo Fighters, Franz Ferdinand, The Fratellis, The Futureheads; Genesis, Green Day; Joy Division, Judas Priest; Kasabian, Keane, Klaxons;
Led Zeppelin, Lostprophets; Manic Street Preachers, Maxïmo Park, The Moody Blues, Muse; Nirvana; Oasis;
Pearl Jam, Pere Ubu, Pink Floyd, Primal Scream, Probot, The Prodigy; Queens of the Stone Age; Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, R. E. M, Roxy Music;
Sex Pistols, Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Smiths, Stereophonics, Stone Roses;
Talking Heads; U2; The Verve, Virgin Prunes; The Young Knives.

Italics indicate an article now rewritten out of all recognition.
RAF Finmere – BMW F10 – St Mary's Church, Ewell – St Peter's Church, Brighton – Truro Cathedral – WP:Surrey – Portal:Surrey
WP:Sussex – Portal:Sussex – J. L. van den Heuvel Orgelbouw – Pipe organs of Brighton and Hove – Pipe organs of Blenheim Palace
Downside Abbey#The Organs – Bath Abbey – Church of St. Mary & St. Nicholas, Leatherhead – Bill Buckley (radio presenter)