David Musker's Homepage

Welcome to David Musker`s homepage. I live in Kent, England with my wife Anne, and Michael, and Alexandra, not forgetting our Border Collies, Jo, Sky and Bledri.

These days, I work as a patent agent - here is a link to my work, and here are some wacky patents. I also do a bit of lecturing on Intellectual Property Law, at Queen Mary & Westfield College (University of London), ETH in Zurich, and CEIPI in Strasbourg.

Here is a link to a website on CEIPI's London tutorials.

Music

Before that, I spent a while in obscure bands; sleeping in vans, freezing on German motorways, hauling unfeasibly heavy amplifiers around, and occasionally playing organ. Here are some of my vinyl residues:

Singles

• "A Sense of Belonging/Paradise Estate", Television Personalities, Rough Trade Records
• "Flowers in the Sky/In the Afternoon", The Revolving Paint Dream, Creation Records
• "Fifty Years of Fun/Then When I Scream", Biff Bang Pow, Creation Records
• "Think", Jasmine Minks, Creation Records
• "Cold Heart", Jasmine Minks, Creation Records
• "Trancefloor", Lethal Poor, Poor Records

Albums

• "The Painted Word", Television Personalities, Illuminated Records (reissued on Fire Records)
• "1234567, All Good Preachers Go To Heaven", Jasmine Minks, Creation Records
• "The Jasmine Minks", Jasmine Minks, Creation Records
• "Soul Station", Jasmine Minks, Creation Records
• "The Pied Piper of Feedback", Slaughter Joe, Creation Records

Compilations

• "Alive in the Living Room", Creation Records
• "Wow Wild Summer", Creation Records
• "Creation Soup Volume 1", Creation Records

Videos

• "Gimme Shelter", Rough Trade Records

Some of my more musically persistent, or successful, contemporaries from those days are:

Joe Foster's excellent Revola Records
Television Personalities
Jasmine Minks
The late lamented Creation Records

Ancient History

I grew up in Finchley, in Barnet (North London) and went to Finchley Manorhill School (now closed and re-branded). I did my A Levels at Barnet College of Further Education, and my degree at Imperial College, London University.

Robots

We are having a bit of family fun with robots - here are my robot pages.

Work in Progress

Here is a link to Pride and Priority, a paper on Albert Peter Thurston's disute with Handley Page and his slotted wing patents.

Reading Matter

There isn't much worth reading that isn't in:

• The Guardian;
• Private Eye; or
• The Fortean Times (no FT, no comment)

Fencing

I do some foil and sabre fencing - follow this link to find out what it`s all about.

Contact

Feel free to email me at

dmusker@hotmail.com - no spammers please!