A farmer or a citizen? [Archive]

Ruben A

9th April 2003, 20:09

Hey!
Where do you live now and where did your childhood take place?

I lived all my childhood in a little town (the ones where people only lives - and travel to the nearest city to work...) - my parents still live there. It´s a nice little place located very central in Denmark.
I moved to central city Copenhagen two years ago.. ofcourse everything is greater here.
But I´m still a "farmer"-boy..!! ;)) Would never think of end my days here!!Gotta move back to where I belong... hrhrh lol

What´s your story?

decadnids

9th April 2003, 20:11

lived in a little village on the south coast of england, then went to chelmsford (for university of all things), then moved to brighton... cities are ok, I like the country side better. I will move to the country again.

jukka

9th April 2003, 20:14

i was born in münster and lived there for a year (but can't remember anything..hehehe )..then my parents, my brother and me moved to wolfsburg where i am sadly still live...i really gotta move away from here as soon as possible..i would like to move to berlin and hopefully that will happen in the future but who knows.
and i definately wanna move to a nice natural place when i am older...no stress no hectic..a place in the woods maybe...with some nice lakes to go fishing ;)

tsr_tomas

9th April 2003, 20:17

i´m born in stockholm/tensta... tensta at that time was the worse place to live in. lot´s of drunken finnishalkoholics and various robbers lived ther. when i reached the ages of 2 we moved two train stations closer to the city (rissne). now i live on the other side of the town. 20min with train to the central/downtown.
well. thats basicly what i´ve done so far.

/boing

jukka

9th April 2003, 20:19

hey tomas....stop talking bad about ma finish(alcoholics) mates :-p

Loz

9th April 2003, 20:33

I grew up near Brighton, used to visit there every weekend. Even though I hate the sea.

My parents divorced, and I moved up to near Cambridge with my mum and her boyfriend and my sister.

Stayed here ever since.

The end.

r_v

9th April 2003, 20:40

I grew up on a farm in the Scottish highlands. Moved to Edinburgh for university in '96 and ended up getting a job here. My parents still live up north and I plan to move back there and get my own place some time so I can crank up the volume in my studio without annoying the neighbours! :)

pille'ocheoni

9th April 2003, 20:43

i grew up in a suitcase moving from one major city to the next, but i have lived in many small towns and prefer the country, because of the less noise and calm skies.soon

Atarythm

9th April 2003, 20:43

I grew up in Plagne near Biel-Bienne, a small village on a mountain...
Then I lived some months in Geneva and then finally moved to Schaffhausen, where I live since three year.
But now I'm trying to go back because I'm too far away...

grobelaar

9th April 2003, 20:47

I escaped from a Lego set...

Weishaupt

9th April 2003, 21:14

i am 35 million years old.............i cant remember............
puhh.......

it was a hard time when we found this planet.........
we had to configure the natives...that was very difficult..........

hm...but...the air was better...jes...i remember the air was better.........

grobelaar

9th April 2003, 21:31

Originally posted by Weishaupt
i am 35 million years old.............i cant remember............
puhh.......

it was a hard time when we found this planet.........
we had to configure the natives...that was very difficult..........

hm...but...the air was better...jes...i remember the air was better.........

You reconfigured the natives??? Well guess what? Lizard!

Get some better coders, coz you did a lousy job... :-)

Ruben A

9th April 2003, 21:33

karitek

9th April 2003, 21:35

i grew up in a large-ish town on the beach in virginia (creatively named virginia beach). it's the largest city in virginia, but is basically just one big suburb. in retrospect, i liked growing up there - we used to take our surf and body boards to school with us and go to the beach afterwards. a lot of my teenage years were spent drinking on the beach, a past time i still love.

but while i was there, i hated it and was counting the days til i could move to a 'real' city. went to uni at columbia in nyc at age 18, then moved to london after that, and now back to nyc. i cant really picture myself not living in cities...i feel at home in them. but i can picture myself living in a slightly slower pace one like portland or something when i get older.

phaedrus

9th April 2003, 22:24

I grew up in the suburbs of a moderately big city (+/- 100.000). We lived very close to the woods and farmland. When I went to college I moved to a bigger city, in which I still reside. I like it here. There's plenty of stuff to do, but it's also not that big that you start to feel lost. I don't want to spend the end of my days here though. I might move back to a smaller town in the distant future.

invisibleplanet

9th April 2003, 22:33

I lived in Singapore City, then rural Lincolnshire, then Lytham, then London, then Dorset, then St. Annes-on-the-Sea, and then Wakefield City

I'm a citizen and a farmer lol

emef

9th April 2003, 23:23

i was born and lived most of my life in blackpool
then lived in neath, s wales for a year
then cardiff for 3 years
back to blackpool
and now accidentally living in preston.
planning on moving somewhere different but not made up my mind yet... north or south ????

invisibleplanet

10th April 2003, 00:52

sideways?

Daddys Girl

10th April 2003, 01:14

I was born in East London, and still live here. I know it's not the most picturesque place in the world to some, but I totally love it - there are some pretty interesting and nice parts of the place

(some of which are labelled the 'trendy areas' - which to some extent includes Hackney.... if anyone knows what I'm talking about - ie: the old building which looks like an old school - which was recently converted into huge expensive apartments...)

It's easy to get to West london etc from where I am, so transport is never an issue...

London - you gotta love it
D_G ;o)

tsr_tomas

10th April 2003, 01:42

jukka: hahahhaaa. no way !

Sheridan

10th April 2003, 01:47

I grew up in northern virginia just outside Washington DC. my 'town' is called burke. it is boring suburbia. but the city is fairly close and baltimore is about a 40 minute drive. as are the mountains. I have lived in several places in northern virginia again just outside the city. except for last year when I was living in orlando florida. now I am back in burke living in the house I grew up in. but I am thinking of moving to atlanta georgia to be closer to my sister and hopefully find a job since I am having a tough time finding one here. not sure I want to go to atlanta though.

wired

10th April 2003, 06:04

i was born in waiblingen, east of stuttgart... and i never moved more than 20km away from there :-) since one year i live in a town with 30000 inhabits, before this i lived with my parents in a small village with 300 lost souls, in a deep valley where the sun gone down one hour before it was dark (valley was closed to N/W/S)
the fine thing here is that we have the b14 & 29 (federal roads) and i'm inside stuttgart in 20minutes

aleks

10th April 2003, 08:13

i was born in braunschweig (BTSV für immer und ewig:)) at the age of three my parents unfortunately moved to wolfsburg...i am still here with jukka living down the road, but next year i am going to move away, yay:) moving somewhere where i´ll find a job, but i´d prefer going to berlin,but i can easily picture myself not moving to a city, living on the land...

Weishaupt

10th April 2003, 08:30

i was born in cologne
wuth 2 years we travelled to a city called bergheim(jes..like the record).....
i grow up in a big tower block......it was a area wich was very dirty...
the most citizens of our town called a kind of getto. 10 % of germmans...90 % of turks, marokaner and stuff..........
hehe..i wonder that i not become a rapper.........
we was three...my mother, my brother and me...........
with 18 i had a big trouble and i moved to my father..............

this was the best i ever done!

dirtyho

10th April 2003, 09:15

Grew up in bedford and milton keynes, shit places. Moved to london for a bit for college, moved to brighton was on the dole for a bit, did a degree in brighton, lived here ever since. May move to London if I get on the MA I've applied for. I like cities, couldn't live in the country until much older with kids etc. Like visiting though ;)

Lady E

10th April 2003, 10:17

i grew up in the suburbs, commutersville from london. surrey, one of the home counties, a little place called walton -on thames. it is next to shepperton film studios and that whole area was very wealthy - its where the beatles lived in the 60s, tom jones, his manager (whose son went to my jr school they had a zoo in their back garden!) my dad was a car mechanic and once picked me up from school in tom jones rolls royce. cliff richard still lives there. also where jonathan king did his picking up of young boys in the 1970s (the walton hop - including jimmy percy from sham 69 who everyone knows in the area). lots of minor celebs... but fucking shit and boring. a lot of the people i grew up with were incredibly rich (we werent) and had life handed to them on a plate, but now are drug abused fuck ups who cant leave. all the people who wanted tom make a go of their lives left.
keith tenniswood and control tower people and meat katie were from walton too. im still mates with keith. him and his crew were called the fear teachers and used to do aWESOME free parties. so it wasnt all bad. but the suburbs and the country are bad places for disaffected youth. my kids will grow up in brighton and know the beauty of the countryside and the cultural diversity of the city, london and brighton

MUX

10th April 2003, 11:47

Kieth is THE man...
my personal favorite when it comes to prodution.. and it's great to see him play cause he generally dances more than the crowd!
well i grew up in downtown / Dundas Toronto
and now i live in a fishing village in malta...

what does that make me?

platinumray

10th April 2003, 11:52

i'm from a dublin suburb called tallaght, pronounced tala. it's a bit shabby. when i was two my family moved to a place called knocklyon which is very new suburb full of young families. there's nothing but housing estates for miles around. it was a good place to grow up in because of the building sites, which we used to ride our bmx bikes in and steal wood for skate ramps. i've managed to stay friends with most of the people i used to hang out with at that time. i now live in elephant and castle in london. i'm here because of a girl. i miss dublin but whenever i go back there i feel very restricted because there's not much do except drink and complain about the weather.

bitch one

10th April 2003, 11:53

glasgow is a cool place to live because it's quite a big city, lots to do, places to hang out and be trendy, but it's also close to the start of the highlands. you can always see hills...london makes me feel claustrophobic because all you can see everywhere is buildings buildings buildings, there's no escape.

Lady E

10th April 2003, 11:58

glasgow is wicked - i could happily live there...its really pretty in parts, close to the countryside and vibrant...one of the few other UK places i could imagine myself living.

aleks

10th April 2003, 12:25

Originally posted by MUX

what does that make me?

maltamux, perhaps?

MUX

10th April 2003, 12:38

the city fisherman

bob

10th April 2003, 12:44

born in glasgow and still live there. I love it, its big enough to have all you want but really small in a lot of ways ie, you can easily know a lot of people there. On the whole i like big cities, don't think i can see myself not living in one

Yer_Maw

10th April 2003, 12:56

grew up in east kilbride which is a large post ww2 new town near glasgow, rows and rows of same houses, trees, recreation areas, sports centres, fuck off shopping centre, more trees, parks but still manages to do anyone sensibles nut in after the age of about 16.

so moved to glasgow for uni a few years ago. and its weird cos loads of folk i used to know in EK live here too. it's a totally brilliant place to live. as i look out of the 10th floor windowin uni now i see tenaments, hire rise buildings, the uni gothic building and the campsie hills. ah.

@bob where abouts in glasgow did u grow up?

Thud

10th April 2003, 13:05

Originally posted by aleks
maltamux, perhaps?

i'd say it makes you lucky! ahhh, i've already been to malta once this year to play and i'll be back as soon as i can for a longer stay. i love it and would love to spend a few years living there.

my path goes:

gravesend, kent : 0-1

Doncaster: 1-3

York: 3-5

Wokingham, Berkshire: 6 - 18 - a nice place to grow up, kinda like Walton-on-thames like Emma said i guess (i also used to work in Walton and currently work about 5 miles away in Chertsey). I like suburbia to be honest, i like the anonymous nature, the space, the mixture of countryside and inhabited space.

18 - 21: Leicester, lovely city. love it. weather sucks a bit though.

21 - 22: Epsom, lost year of my life - broke, no friends close by doing a shit job - spend a lot of time learning how to use a sampler and writing jungle music.

22 - 24: Earlsfield, London - lovely leafy part of London that i really liked.

24-26: Balham, London - Nice place - one of the few places in london that is busy and dirty and such that I would move back to

26 - 28: Camberwell/Peckham - Yuk. What a shithole. Camberwell has lots of cool stuff going on but jesus - who needs people being stabbed on your doorstep...not me.

28 - now: back in wokingham whilst with folks whilst i save up to move out to ....i dunno where to though but as soon as i can move to a nice quiet villiage in a detached house so i make lots noise i will do.

decadnids

10th April 2003, 13:16

Originally posted by MUX
Kieth is THE man...

he is playing on the 17th of April at Sabbath at Ocean Rooms Brighton.
I am doing a live set up stairs (ahem...)

Lady E

10th April 2003, 13:29

thud - i was born in chertsey, st peters. well actually that's sheerwater - the town the jam wrote A Town Called Malice about!

decadnids - 17th april - next thursday - i should come to that then. lovely. what are the sabbath people like? i rang them when cris and jamie were last here for a few weeks and said if they wanted either of them to come and play at their night for nothing as guests, to let me know, as they were both in brighton anyway doing nothing. but if not, no worries. and they didnt even bother to ring back. so i wasnt really that impressed - they constantly book warp artists, jamie's on warp - it seemed like it could have been good just getting in touch to say thanks but no thanks, making some contact...also my best mate runs the ocean rooms and deals with them all the time, and they know that she knows me, so finding a contact for me would have been easy, even if they had lost it.
oh well. a small niggle. i hate things like that though.

Basic 2: The Revenge

10th April 2003, 13:33

Originally posted by Yer_Maw
grew up in east kilbride which is a large post ww2 new town near glasgow, rows and rows of same houses, trees, recreation areas, sports centres, fuck off shopping centre, more trees, parks but still manages to do anyone sensibles nut in after the age of about 16.

so moved to glasgow for uni a few years ago. and its weird cos loads of folk i used to know in EK live here too. it's a totally brilliant place to live. as i look out of the 10th floor windowin uni now i see tenaments, hire rise buildings, the uni gothic building and the campsie hills. ah.

@bob where abouts in glasgow did u grow up?

Haha, no way. I grew up in East Kilbride as well. Everyone hated us 'cause we were from Mossneuk. It was a bit of a nightmare, hence I started going out in town when I was a mere pup and dragged into all sorts of debauchery. I'm glad it went the way it did because half the people I went to school with seemed to have the idea that if you weren't engaged to somebody by the time you were 21 you had something wrong with you. New Town bollox!! I was asked to leave school at 16 (frustrated at the staleness, it was a blessing), went to college in Hamilton and then Glasgow Uni.

I did grow up beside Calderglen park though before moving to the other side of town. It was excellent. You could have the best of both worlds - city or countryside. I'm keen to get my daughter into a better school, she is currently in one in Priesthill and that ain't the best. I wouldn't mind putting her in school in EK or perhaps Clarkston or Newton Mearns - that way she doesn't need to deal with the scum in some other places including the current area.

Marolo

10th April 2003, 13:45

Hey Emma, do you know Simon Brown (dexorcist)? Him and crew are doing a free party next week to celebrate 12 years of Fear Teacher parties.

0-8 Sao paulo, Brazil
8-11 West Byfleet, Surrey, Uk small village but close to London
11-13 Sao Paulo again
13-16 Rio de janeiro, Brazil
16-20 Sao Paulo again
20-21 Manchester, UK
21-now London, Uk but am moving somewehere else soon hopefully

So mostly city

Lady E

10th April 2003, 13:51

god marolo - sao paulo to west byfleet! i used to live there myself as a small girl.

yes i ve known si brown for years! hoorah! he's a wicked bloke. havent seen him play for some time tho, it was always gabba with him .do you know him then?

Marolo

10th April 2003, 13:55

Yeah, I'm freinds with him. But he plays electro now.

DsD

10th April 2003, 13:57

hm
0- 2 1/2 teheran/iran
2 1/2 - 6 kassel
6 - 22 überlingen at the lace of constance (small but very nice town)
22- now stuttgart
and i want to go back to überlingen :<

Lady E

10th April 2003, 13:58

well say hello to him from me if you see him!

Basic 2: The Revenge

10th April 2003, 13:59

Hehe, Si is a top bloke. We had him up here for a weekend of debauchery in December. I trailed him up to eclairfi's flat as well over the proceedings. It was most amusing. Those Control Tower peeps are a larf!! Keef doesn't need his arm twisted that much either lol

btw they are doing a Control Tower night on Friday - which I recommend highly! Those Dirty Hospital chaps are heading down from Scotchland to play, should be quality. I'm a bit miffed at missing this, but couldn't justify the trip as I'm down for a gig in the Smoke next weekend......

Lady E

10th April 2003, 14:04

is phil klein (bass junky i think he's called now) on control tower too? he was always the one of that lot to be bang into electro years ago. he's a nice chap too. havent seen him for years - they all played at the first freekin the frame gig we did at the end in london which was 2000 i think. i saw si pretty briefly at dedbeat....but yes, no arm twisting ever required!

Basic 2: The Revenge

10th April 2003, 14:08

He has brought out a new track on Control Tower now, but him and Si do Kronos Device on Phil's Battletrax label. He releases most his solo tracks on that too. He releases a bit here and there including Breakin' records. I believe he is starting up the IBM project with Scott Weiser from Dynamix II again.

decadnids

10th April 2003, 14:10

Originally posted by emma

decadnids - 17th april - next thursday - i should come to that then. lovely. what are the sabbath people like? i rang them when cris and jamie were last here for a few weeks and said if they wanted either of them to come and play at their night for nothing as guests, to let me know, as they were both in brighton anyway doing nothing. but if not, no worries. and they didnt even bother to ring back. so i wasnt really that impressed - they constantly book warp artists, jamie's on warp - it seemed like it could have been good just getting in touch to say thanks but no thanks, making some contact...also my best mate runs the ocean rooms and deals with them all the time, and they know that she knows me, so finding a contact for me would have been easy, even if they had lost it.
oh well. a small niggle. i hate things like that though.

I need to write my set! (doh!!!!)
yeah, um yeah - my friend has just joined them, as organiser, so that how I got the gig, he asked me to play.
as for your niggle, I reckon that totally reasonable, at least they could have called you back, and jamie or cristian would have been good gigs. my beef, before my mate joined them, was that they never put on any local people. but now they have two floors, so my mate is basically organising the other room (upstairs).

karitek

10th April 2003, 14:10

@ emma...i always thought i'd like to raise my kids in brighton as well. i like that its by the sea, has stuff to do and aint that far from a bigger city. i need to find a town stateside that is like that (any suggestions anyone?!?)

yeah, phil klein is with the whole control tower crew as well. god, i wish i could go to that party...

Yer_Maw

10th April 2003, 14:25

Originally posted by Basic 2: The Revenge

Haha, no way. I grew up in East Kilbride as well. Everyone hated us 'cause we were from Mossneuk.

woodie ya bas. :) oh and yep, there still there drinking up the calderwood shops. fannys.

I'm glad it went the way it did because half the people I went to school with seemed to have the idea that if you weren't engaged to somebody by the time you were 21 you had something wrong with you. New Town bollox!!

yeah i think EK is like a filter people leave, people stay. the people that stay have kids, some leave some stay. etc etc until all thats left are a certain gene pool that go to crystals on a friday and saturday night and think victors pizza is the best there is. :) i kinda did the same arsed about in ek (sadly enough at the Key) ended up at TEST as an underager and reliesed i had to leave ek.

I'm keen to get my daughter into a better school, she is currently in one in Priesthill and that ain't the best. I wouldn't mind putting her in school in EK or perhaps Clarkston or Newton Mearns - that way she doesn't need to deal with the scum in some other places including the current area.

yeah thats problly a good idea, it was good to grow up there, i mean theyre were a few maddys at school but not even close to level of maddys my mates tell me about at places like penillee high school, it was fine. also trees and all that but not a wee tiny village. my mums selling her house there now by the way :) :)

Basic 2: The Revenge

10th April 2003, 14:47

Yer_Maw!!

haha, you have summed it up perfectly. Can you believe the age of some of those people drinking up that square! Unbelievably, I still get stared down by folk that had a beef with me 10-12 years ago if ever I need to pop down the centre taking the lil un to her skating lessons. You have to laugh at this. There is me going about my business and they still think that I'd be up for going toe-to-toe - in the middle of the shopping centre. Grow up wankers!!

Spot on observation. Hudsons, Crystals, Victors, back to the factory on Monday morning. I too flirted with socialising in EK in my younger years, but always preferred heading into town (even as far back as going to the Under-18s). I got dragged to Technodrome in 91, and that was my first real eye-opener. I think half the folk on our bus ended up on the front of the Sunday Mail hahaha.

As for your comments about the schools. Yes, I would agree. There tends to be a lot more conscientious kids than troublesome ones. The only advantage of coming from a new town, there is always that middle class, bourgous "keeping up with the jones' "element.

Tomoki

10th April 2003, 15:30

Born and raised in Frankfurt/Germany and I am still living here.Perhaps I will move away when i have finished university.
My dream destination is Vancouver/BC.

ischo

10th April 2003, 15:50

i waas born n raised in frankfurt, moved to montevale new jersey when i was about 10 (cuz of dad's work), moved back here with 16.
so i'm kinda a city-kid, but traveling oz made me into a total
landscape-lunatic.

farmer, yes

4md

10th April 2003, 15:50

childhood in a little village in north france and Right now I live in Lille ... the bigger town in north france

aleks

10th April 2003, 15:55

Originally posted by ischo
so i'm kinda a city-kid, but traveling oz made me into a total
landscape-lunatic.

farmer, yes

me too...

bob

10th April 2003, 17:17