Sonic Dice co-founder, groove metal enthusiast, and real ale lover. Anything else anybody tells you about me is untrue. I didn’t play football for Cambridge City, I don’t like cider, and my favourite album of all time is actually either Metallica’s ‘Black Album’ or Nirvana’s ‘In Utero’.

Top-10 Artists (since joining last.fm–ed)

The other co-founder of Sonic Dice, Rich keeps the website in check whilst moaning about bands that are popular despite the fact that they can’t seem to be able to play their instruments. Rich also takes most of the photos that appear on the site, which can be viewed in the gallery. Feel free to contact him about any images and their usage.

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Ioannis (pronounced ‘Bob’ in Pub English) likes both kinds of music; punk and hardcore. Every full moon, he is known to ‘turn’ into an opinionated robot. His diet consists of red meat, fruit smoothies and Jack Daniels. His favourite words are crucial, beatdown and go. He is known to publicly preach at any given opportunity his belief in MOSH Ontology and the gospels of Ian, Roger, Jello and Mike. His natural habitat is down-town Athens, Greece, but there have been regular sightings in Cambridge, UK since the turn of the century, leading prominent members of the clergy to interpret them as the first signs of the forthcoming Apocalypse. His intentions are shrouded in mystery.

Bob’s Top-10 Weekly Artists

Michael Copus enjoys music from all walks of life, from bone crushing metal such as Pig Destroyer and ISIS to the lighter side of the spectrum such as Godspeed You! Black Emperor and a guilty pleasure for electronic music, most notably Amon Tobin. Heck, he even listens to Final Fantasy soundtracks when he’s trying to get his revision groove on. He’s a fairly cynical bastard which doesn’t bode too well for anything that drops through his mailbox, but fortunately his Victor Meldrew side can be counterbalanced if the music is actually good. He also used to sing in a band y’know, but we won’t go there…

Mike’s Top-10 Weekly Artists

Ian Buck listened to nothing but The Smashing Pumpkins between the ages of sixteen and twenty. Slowly but surely, he allowed new bands into his life, and his CD collection now features an impressive five different artists. He has a BA in Studying the Bottom of the Beer Glass, with a (very) minor in English Literature. After featuring in a number of terrible bands, he has contrived to find himself playing guitar and warbling in a very good one, and has decided to rectify this situation by moving hundreds of miles away from his band mates. Ian’s current loves are post-metal, real ale, SGs, Jeff Noon and Percy Pigs.

Ian’s Top Listened To Artists

Jon Sidwell (Sid) is a self proclaimed music junkie, engaging himself with all forms of music from straightforward Indie Pop Punk to old skool Hip Hop, with cuts of heavy Drum and Bass and Electro thrown in, and all mashed together with some down right dirty Hardcore Metal. Basically he’s into anything and everything as long as it’s made with the right intent and gets his ears foaming. He’s currently based in Chepstow which is on the border of England and (ahem Wales shhhhh…).

Sid’s Top-10 Weekly Artists

Lee Smart has accepted in life that the majority of mainstream music sucks worse than a 12 year old with a brace, but finds his solace and zest in a screaming pit of break-beat and house artists that squirm his brain to the point of boiling and make him want to jump up and down like a little girl whilst reciting the alphabet backwards in Japanese. However, his real heart and soul in music lies within in a dying breed of proper British rock bands that were laid down through the sixties and seventies with The Clash, The Who and the Sex Pistols.

Lee’s Top-10 Weekly Artists

Computer geek by day, hard rocker by night - Jam has a penchant for grunge, symphonic power metal and progressive rock with self-indulgent twenty-minute guitar solos, although he admits with no embarrassment that his CD collection contains everything from Savage Garden, Kool & The Gang and Stevie Wonder to Iron Maiden, Blur and Kanye West. He also has an inexplicable urge to make lists and will spend the majority of his life trying to categorise, alphabetise and prioritise everything down to the smallest detail, despite incurring heavy mockery from his friends.

Danny Sambuca is best described as a ‘soul-punk’. He is essentially a fan of ‘the rock tunage’ but actually has a listening spectrum as wide as Jade Goody’s arse. Displaying a love for music even as a toddler (his father played him Thin Lizzy and AC/DC songs whilst still in the womb) it was actually during the long hot summer of 1993 that a passion and obsession really began to manifest. A copy of ‘Siamese Dream’ by The Smashing Pumpkins came into his possession and literally changed his life forever.

A creative chap in general, Danny currently works as a freelance photographer with music imagery a particular speciality. A number of bands have also featured the boys talent on vocals although currently he is working on taming the 6-string beast of an SG he recently purchased. A self-confessed social whore a mighty concoction of Red Bull, Cider and Jagermeister normally see to his happiness continuing well into the night. Oh and more then a few sambucas tend to help too…

Danny’s Top-10 Weekly Artists

Angeline’s first and only true love is Gary Lightbody. Given that the chances of waking up next to him are quite slim, she has opened her heart to a world of unashamedly whimsical folk, soft rock and singer-songwriters. She likes to own actual CDs (especially now that they’re hitting shelves in cardboard cases) and it makes her happy when musicians realise it’s definitely okay to involve tambourines and harmonicas.




Angeline’s Top-10 Weekly Artists