Name: Gemma Martin
Title: Researcher
Status
Gemma is… feeling it, man!
About me: I love music, art, animation, people watching, laughing uncontrollably and going to the pub with friends.
Music I like: The Rapture, Talking Heads, David Bowie, CSS, Janis Joplin, Hot Chip, The Klaxons, Wild Beasts, Prince, Ian Dury, Clor, Blackalicious, Johnny Cash, Whitest Boy Alive, Beck, T-Rex, Tribe Called Quest, Bjork, ELO, Man Man, The Smiths, The Coral, Gossip, Davendra Banhart and the list goes on…
Favourite Books: Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins, Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, The Man That Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks, And anything by Carl Hiaasen.
Favourite TV Shows: The Mighty Boosh, Spaced, Charlie Brookers Screen Wipe, Peep Show, Blackadder, Faking It, Nevermind The Buzzcocks, QI, Eastenders, Hollyoaks. Strictly Come Dancing and most cartoons.
Favourite Films: Disco Pigs, Headwig and the Angry Inch, School for Scoundrels, The Man That Wasn’t There, Buffalo 66, A Clockwork Orange, Harvey, Cry Baby, Love Liza.
Heroes: Jan Svankmajer, Rik Mayall, Prince, The Childlike Princess, Vik Reeves, Stephen Fry, Jim Henson, Dick Van Dyke, Margot Leadbetter and Twiggy