Biography
Born in Walton Hospital, 1962. Raised in a house on the banks of the Mersey. Played football each break time for the entirety of my school life. Never much good at it but thoroughly addicted. Varied working life has included engineering apprenticeship, welder, draughtsman, volunteer in an outdoor pursuits centre, unemployed, civil servant, computer programmer, community worker, and now a Church of England vicar on a Liverpool housing estate. Have lived in Waterloo, Llanbedr, Cardiff, Crosby, Toxteth, Cambridge, Wavertree, and now Norris Green. Small man with big music collection. This cartoon graces my bathroom wall and sums up my default approach to life.
Interests
Greenbelt Festival, Iona Community, Everton FC. Church Action on Poverty, Campaign Against the Arms Trade. The Fall, Julian Cope, PJ Harvey, Coil, Waterson-Carthy, Sufjan Stevens, Jim White. Urban walking, psychogeography, trying to understand situationism. Iain Sinclair, Bill Drummond, Patrick Keiller, Martin Parr, The Caravan Gallery. Mis-Guide, Adrift in Caledonia, Notes from a Small Island. Spaced, Reginald Perrin, The IT Crowd, Match of the Day 2. Walt Brueggemann, James Alison, Tim Gorringe. Lloyd Robson, TS Eliot, Bill Griffiths, Stewart Henderson. Michael Leunig. The City of Liverpool. Aberdeunant, Walton Lane (approach to Goodison), The M62.
Visit my main website: www.johndavies.org
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