"We're a garage band..." Matt Russell's Top Fives

Matt Russell is the bass player with garage punk band The Outbursts. Formed in 2007, they have played the London circuit regularly ever since, taking in a few support slots to Wilko Johnson on the way. On Wednesday 16th September they headline the Rock-Til-You-Drop punk special at the Dublin Castle in Camden.

The band members' individual histories are littered with crap bands, bum deals and missed opportunities - sound familiar?- so The Outbursts are determined to scrawl 'Fuck You' across the pages of their own history books, and punk rock 'til they drop!

Here's an insight into what keeps their bass-man solid, courtesy of a few of his top-fives:

Punk Songs

Neat Neat Neat - The Damned

Did You No Wrong - Sex Pistols

Erotic Neurotic - The Saints

One Chord Wonders - The Adverts

Kill - Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoias

60's Garage Songs

Making Time - The Creation

Action Woman - The Electras

Medication - The Standells

Reverberation (Doubt) - The 13th Floor Elevators

Mr Pharmacist - The Other Half

Sandwiches

Tuna, Black Olive & Red Onion

Ham & Cheese Toastie

(from anywhere in Amsterdam)

Chicken with mayo & lettuce

Beef & English Mustard

Smooth Peanut Butter & Marmite

Favourite places in London

Snowdon Aviary, London Zoo

12bar Club, Denmark Street

Tate Modern, Turbine Hall

The Temple, off Fleet Street

The Bass Gallery, Camden

Chocolate bars

Twirl

1lb Cadburys Dairy MIlk

Curly Wurly

Aztec

Cream Eggs

Actors

Jean Reno

Marlon Brando

Bernard Hill

Vincent Cassel

Dennis Hopper

Places to drink

The Marquee, Wardour St circa 1977-80

The Chequers, High Street, Walthamstow circa 1980-2

Bar on the north west side of Newmarket, Amsterdam (dunno what it's called)

Pedro's Bar, Benaulim Beach, Goa circa 1991

Gordon's Wine Bar, Charing Cross

Films

Dobermann

Stalker

No Surrender

Two Lane Blacktop

Apocalypse Now

TV shows

The Wire

Boys From The Blackstuff

Nathan Barley

Around The World In 80 Days

Porridge

Recipes

Sausage, Mash & Leek, Mushroom & Green Pepper Gravy

Double Pie, Double Mash & Liquor

Chicken Biryani, Mutter Paneer & Plain Nan

Grilled Swordfish with New Potatoes

Beans on Toast

Websites

www.myspace.co.uk

www.eBay.de

http://www.derelictlondon.com

http://www.sampleswap.org/

http://www.joinmyband.co.uk