Q. Introduce yourself – name, nickname, where you were born, how old you are, where you live, what your job is or what you study
A. I’m Martin Antonelli, a.k.a. tribal or tribal2873 for those that know me on the internet. I was spawned in London at forest gate maternity hospital but have somehow the majority of my life living in Canvey Island Essex (really it’s not as exotic as it sounds) in Essex. I’m a strapping young 33 years old and have a collection of jobs the main one being a lecturer in Audio/Media at South East Essex College whilst also working as a Media technician there too I teach beginners/intermediate guitar for Basildon adult community college and run my own Dj busines /Club nights called Dark Dayz dealing with Rock/Metal/Goth/Cyber/industrial/punk

Q. What do you do in your spare time? What are you passionate about?
A. Due to my copious amount of jobs I don’t get a huge amount of spare time but in the spare time I do have I have a variety of things I like to do whether its going out to clubs, the internet, computer games, cooking, and sometimes I just like to relax alone. I’m most passionate about music and films, I have a huge rather eclectic collection of both comprising of over 500 films and probably about the same or more with Cd’s which generally cater for all genres.

Q. What is you most treasured possession?
A. That would have to be my sanity. ha ha ha

Q. Which living person would you most like to meet?
A. On reflection I think it would have to be Simon Pegg

Q. Name your top three bands.
A. 1. White Zombie
2. Slayer
3. Dimmu Borgir

Q. Name your top three movies.
A. 1. Blazing Saddles
2. Lord of the rings Trilogy
3. The trilogy of the dead (George Romero)

Q. What is the most important book you have read? (can be non-vampire)
A. Warriors, Settlers and Nomads by Terence Watts.
Based on evolutionary psychology it is a journey into the inner Psyche teaching us the inherited traits from our savage ancestry featuring three main aspects of warriors, settlers and nomads. I’d recommend this as a read for anyone who is looking to delve deep into their own personality and find out who they really are.

Q. Which is your favourite horror/vampire book?
A. That would have to be Clive Barkers books of blood. An incredible collection of short horror stories, that explore a variety of themes such as sexuality, fantasy and mystery all of which have a strong horror theme. The books of blood have such intriguing stories that a couple of them have been adapted and made into blockbuster movies (Rawhead Rex & Candyman).

Q. Do you think vampires are real? Explain
A. As much as I love vampires there is a realist in me that denies their existence. The world we live in is rather humdrum and boring and I would never expect anything that exciting to happen. Although, I would like it if they really did exist.

Q. What were your reasons for joining the London Vampyre Group? What do you want to get out of being a member?
A. To meet like-minded people and hopefully make lifelong friends.

Q. What is your favourite word?
A. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
Try saying it with a mouth full of breakfast cereal. Ha ha ha messy!!

Q. What is your greatest fear?
A. Spiders and losing people.

Q. What is the most important thing life has taught you?
A. Never give people too much of your trust as they tend to abuse it as soon as they feel they need something more from you.

Q. Give a song lyric/quote from a film or person or a passage/sentence from a book that you feel embodies your approach to life
A. My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
Dame Edna Everage (1934 - )

Q. Do you have a livejournal or personal webpage that we can link to?
A. I have a pretty empty Myspace profile at the moment – fo rboth myself and the LVG events… www.myspace.com/dark_dayz and http://www.vampirefreaks.com/u/tribal2873