Rach Cherryade
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Student |
| Occupation | PHD student |
| Location | Manchester, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | My name is Rachael, I run Cherryade Records: www.cherryademusic.co.uk described by Radio 1's Huw Stephens in the Independent as 'the most indie label in Europe. I'm doing a PHD in DIY music in the UK and USA since 1995 at Manchester University. I love going to gigs, listening to amazing music, watching tv, making Christmas last all year round, all things pink, plastic and kitsch, feminist and queer activism and talking, oh, and loads of other stuff too! I live with my partner in the most beautiful flat in Manchester, Cherryade Towers. I host a regular show on the wonderful Peel-inspired online station Dandelion Radio: www.dandelionradio.com I'm also currently on the Manchester University University Challenge team taking part in the 2009-2010 TV series, our next match will be shown on Monday 21st December. I'm on Facebook and you can find out more about Cherryade and Dandelion from the links above. |
| Interests | Running a little DIY record label, wonderful music, doing a PHD on DIY music, going out to gigs, dancing, watching tv, christmas, dresses, jewellery and glitter, the colour pink, cupcakes, kitsch, Agatha Christie, BBC7, New York, My Little Pony, Hello Kitty, University Challenge, Norwichcore, tweecore, riot grrrl, antifolk, hand claps, queercore, keytars, keyboards, flutes, cornets, trumpets and recorders, indiepop, tweepop, any kind of pop, bubblegum, cuddlecore, Strawberry Shortcake, cocktails, girls, winter, tea shops, umbrellas, shoes, fancy dress, fairies, candy, snow globes, fancy stockings tights and socks, plastic, pictures of cakes, cherries and strawberries, small dogs and meerkats, frills buttons and bows, piggywigs, ice creams and milkshakes, urban sprawl, preaching to the converted, Cherryade Towers, feminism and queerness, talking, best of all my wonderful parents and my lovely partner Adam and our fab friends! |
| Favorite Movies | I generally prefer tv because I don't have the patience to sit through whole films. I'm also a fan of radio comedy, long live Radio 7! Of course I also love listening to the other shows on Dandelion Radio, really one of the very best places to find new and exciting music (not that I'm biased!) and of course Huw Stephens' show on Radio 1, Mark Riley and Tom Robinson's shows on 6 Music, Jon Kennedy's show on XFM and Grant and Ed's podcast! My favourite tv shows are League of Gentlemen, Nighty Night, Blackadder, Knowing Me Knowing You, I'm Alan Partridge, Caterick, QI, The Day Today, Brass Eye, Black Books, Jam, Nathan Barley, The Apprentice, The Apprentice USA, Dragons Den, Arthur, That Mitchell and Webb Look, Have I got News For You, My Family (yes really!), Murder, She Wrote, University Challenge, Master Mind, Eggheads, A Question Of Genius, Pointless, Only Connect, Bargain Hunt, Sun, Sea and Bargain Spotting, Watchdog, Nigella's Christmas Kitchen, Poirot, Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe, BBC 4 documentaries, The Thick of It, Book Quiz, Deal or No Deal, Come Dine With Me, Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, Doctors Favourite radio comedy: Radio Active, Ed Reardon's Week, At Home With The Snails, Bleak Expectations, Knowing Me Knowing You, Giles Wemmley-Hogg Goes Off, Think The Unthinkable, Revolting People, Hancock's half Hour, The Clitheroe Kid, Round The Horne, Steptoe and Son, Ladies of Letters, Radio Shuttleworth/The Shuttleworths, Old Harry's Game, People Like Us, On The Hour, The Brothers Favisham, Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show, The Colour Suppliment, Rigor Mortis, Chambers, Absolute Power Ok, here are the few films I like: Mrs Claus, A Muppets' Christmas Carol, Beauty and the Beast, A Santa Clause 3 (basically, anything that's about Christmas or that features Angela Lansbury, nothing else though!) |
| Favorite Music | Bearsuit, The Lovely Eggs, The Bobby McGee's, Hotpants Romance, Das Wanderlust, The Deirdres, Los Campesinos!, The School, Ste Mccabe, Little My, Fever Fever, Kids Love Lies, The Kabeedies, Shrag, Tiger MCs, Cruiser Chimps, The Aprons, Hyperkinako, Aislers Set, Altered Images, Aluminium Babe, Angelica, Allo Darlin', Awesome Wells, Applicants, Babybird, Baby Calendar, Balor Knights, The Bells The Bells, Bis, Belle and Sebastian, Beatnik Filmstars, Besties, Betty Serveat, Bow Wow Wow, Bratmobile, Brunettes, Kate Bush, Penny Broadhurst, Camera Obscura, Candy Panic Attack, Cars Can Be Blue, Cats On Fire, Container Drivers, David Craigie, Chalkdust, Chihiro, Detox Cute and the Beauty Junkies, Doris and the Jumpers, Datblygu, Dawn of the Replicants, Electrolane, Essex Green, Fall, Finishing School, Fight Like Apes, The French, Foxes, Fosca, Garlic, Gerbils, Giant Robot and the City of Tokyo, Grand Prix 86, Girls At Dawn, Girl From Headquarters, Gresham Flyers, Girls Against Boys, Adam Green, HalfMan Half Biscuit, Thee Headcoats/Thee Headcoatees, Hefner, Helen Love, Hello Goodbye, Hidden Cameras, The Hi-Life Companion, Housemartins, Helen's Evil Twin, Ryan Hardy, Hello How Are You?, Hot Puppies, Hot Potato Syncopators, Paul Hawkins, Heavenly, Humousexual, Hearts!Attack |
| Favorite Books | All Agatha Christie mystery novels and short stories but especially those featuring Hercules Poirot, Tipping The Velvet, Fingersmith, The Night Watch, The Little Stranger and Affinity by Sarah Waters, The Dorothy L. Sayers Peter Wimsey novels, A Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, The Belljar by Sylvia Plath, Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel, Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson, Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, The Outsider by Albert Camus |