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Octopus Rex

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real name

Iain Kydd

e-mail address

wtf@lolz.com

website

None specified.

location

Manchester UK

personal bio

Played drums my whole life.

Wasted my whole life.

notable events

My band split up this year in the most text-book fashion possible; cliche-tastic. Got Bioshock. Restrung my guitar. Saw Tool. Spent the year working a 3 1/2 day week. Taught some fucking appalingly bad drum pupils, so bad that you have to say “seriously dude, I don’t want your money”. Ouch. Ah well.

favorite quote

“If ignorance is bliss then why aren’t there more happy people in the world?”

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Comments (23)

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OMG Hippie!

HomeBoy • 9 Nov 2007 @ 10:12 GMT

Nice beard….you after Santi’s crown??

Lor3-16 • 9 Nov 2007 @ 11:31 GMT

You look totally not how i imagined you to look like.

Elukka • 9 Nov 2007 @ 13:05 GMT

What styles of music did your band play? Looks folk(ish)

Ira Aduro • 9 Nov 2007 @ 15:24 GMT

Hey dude! I haven’t talked to you in forever! Sucks to hear about the band thing…it happens I suppose. How are things going musically otherwise though?

FifteenHours • 9 Nov 2007 @ 16:34 GMT

Man, I want hair like that. too bad my own grows into an afro if I leave it to flourish…..

vlad • 9 Nov 2007 @ 17:20 GMT

Waste? there is a cute chick eying you in that pic!

Trinity • 9 Nov 2007 @ 18:00 GMT

That cute chick was the singer (just popping over right now to cook her dinner in fact ) and we were just having a late-night acoustic jam at that point. Prog-rock was the real music.

Octopus Rex • 9 Nov 2007 @ 18:11 GMT

I didn’t know you were in Manc-chester Octo. That pic looks like it was taken about 20 years ago!

El Russo • 9 Nov 2007 @ 18:42 GMT

cooking dinner ftw!

Ira Aduro • 9 Nov 2007 @ 22:34 GMT

Music and progamming don’t mix. Trust me, I’ve tried

Manchester, huh? Not that far from Birmingham . . .

Gorb • 10 Nov 2007 @ 03:09 GMT

True that.
Programming made me abandon my bass guitar.
c# and Java are teh evil…

vlad • 10 Nov 2007 @ 09:40 GMT

HI, OCTO!!!
totally awesome pic… it looks so 70s

Laura • 15 Nov 2007 @ 20:03 GMT

Hippies went out of fashion like…30 years ago dude

AshaD • 15 Nov 2007 @ 21:13 GMT

Hair maketh not the hippy. Hippies are free-loading, liberty-taking, work-shy bastards that spew all kinds of bullshit free-love rhetoric.

I’m surprised no-one’s gone for the old classic “ZOMG you look like Jesus” gag. I still get that in the street from total strangers.

Long hair is awesome fun (it covers my ears which stick out). The beard is just out of laziness.

Octopus Rex • 16 Nov 2007 @ 20:23 GMT

Perhaps the drums also help with the hippy look, not just the beard and hair.. But what do i know ?

Imperial Dane • 21 Nov 2007 @ 10:52 GMT

Jesus probably didn’t wear glasses though.

Moe • 21 Nov 2007 @ 11:46 GMT

Hey, don’t tell me! Tell the rest of the world Moe! I even got called Jesu Christo and laughed at when in Mexico. Ah well. I just like whinging about really, it makes me feel all warm, fuzzy and Emo.

Octopus Rex • 22 Nov 2007 @ 22:43 GMT

you weren’t by any chance in Cardiff seeing Bill Bailey live were you? I swear I saw someone just like you there…

Grabnutz • 30 Nov 2007 @ 12:30 GMT

Hey, did anybody ever tell you that you look like that one guy? Oh, come on… you know his name.

Eh, whatever.

Croaxleigh • 30 Nov 2007 @ 19:09 GMT

Happy

New

Year

Trinity • 1 Jan 2008 @ 04:42 GMT

Greetings Iain! I know you are Hellboy

mdcertainty • 4 Jan 2008 @ 21:50 GMT

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