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I'm Ty, the bass player for Newcastle's HEAD OF STATE. My band has supported the likes of Wolf & Cub, The Drones, Spoon (USA), Faker, Shihad (NZ), Betchadupa (NZ), Vanlustbader, Dappled Cities Fly, and Behind Crimson Eyes! I have been a circus clown, a bottlo boy, a furniture delivery man, and now work in recruitment. I listen to Tom Waits, Death Cab For Cutie, Pearl Jam, Ramones, The Pogues, Neil Young, The Stooges, Kings Of Leon among a lot of other stuff.

• HEAD OF STATE, 
• Tom Waits, 
• Pearl Jam, 
• Weezer, 
• Stone Temple Pilots, 
• Black Sabbath, 
• Neil Young, 
• The Beatles, 
• Ramones, 
• Gomez, 
• Silverchair, 
• Wolfmother, 
• Death Cab For Cutie, 
• Coheed & Cambria, 
• The Stooges, 
• Led Zeppelin, 
• Jose Gonzalez, 
• Smashing Pumpkins, 
• Queens Of The Stone Age, 
• Nirvana, 
• Alice In Chains, 
• Ben Harper, 
• The Black Keys, 
• Airbourne, 
• You Am I, 
• The Drones, 
• The White Stripes, 
• Kings Of Leon, 
• Cypress Hill, 
• Snow Patrol, 
• Mudhoney, 
• The Drones, 
• Beck, 
• The Pixies, 
• Mars Volta.

• Scarface, 
• Donnie Darko, 
• The Departed, 
• Pulp Fiction, 
• A Clockwork Orange, 
• The Godfather, 
• Mystic River, 
• Borat, 
• Jackass, 
• Platoon.

"The Dirt" by Motley Crue,  "Scar Tissue" by Anthony Keidis,  "Shakey" by Jimmy Donough,  "Tommyland" by Tommy Lee.