INSTRUMENT:
Bass Guitar
RESIDENCE:
Ladbroke Grove, London
STAR SIGN:
Libra
HOBBIES/INTERESTS:
Music, history, art, travelling, the Beatles
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT:
Trolley boy, mechanics assistant, landscape gardening apprentice
EARLIEST MEMORIES:
Getting 3rd birthday presents, watching Montreal Olympics 1976
FIRST RECORD TURNED TO R ‘N’ R:
Dynasty- Kiss.
LAST RECORD BOUGHT:
Boedekka, Hapi Nightmares
FAV BOOKS:
Historical fiction- I, Claudius, Agony and the Ecstasy etc, Music Biogs, history/art books
FAV FILMS:
The Deer Hunter, Belle De Jour, The Year My Voice Broke, The Longest Day, The Rutles-All You Need Is Lunch, Little Otik
FAV TV PROGRAMME:
Good history/music documentaries
FAV COLOURS:
Brown, orange
FAV DRINK:
Mango lassi, Guinness, margherita
FAV VEGETABLE:
Parsnip, potato
FAV CURRENT BANDS:
Cotton Mather, the Shazam, Soundtrack Of Our Lives, Beachwood Sparks
FAV ALBUMS:
All Beatles, Rolling Stones- Beggars Banquet, Small Faces-Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake, Pink Floyd- Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, Kinks-Village Green Preservation Society, Byrds-Notorious Byrd Brothers, Black Sabbath-all Ozzy albums, Big Star-Number 1 Record, Bob Dylan-Highway 61 Revisited, Cotton Mathur-Kontiki, Early Motown
FAV MDH TRACK:
2am
WORST HAIRCUT:
Never had one
MOST DISLIKED BAND:
Don’t dwell on negative energies
WORST DRINK/DRUG HELL:
Passing out in phone box after too much of something
DRUG HEAVEN:
You don’t get to heaven on drugs, man
SONG YOU WISH YOU’D WRITTEN:
The Ballad Of El Goodo by Big Star
IDEAL WOMAN:
Catherine Deneuve
BIGGEST TURN-ON:
Having smoke blown up my arse by fans after a gig
WORST/MOST FRIGHTENING GIG:
Anything to less than 10 people
BEST GIG:
Had many good gigs, but hoping best is to come
PERSON HIT BY BUS:
That’s just silly
AMBITIONS:
Living off music has always been a goal
FAMOUS PERSON YOU’D LIKE TO MEET:
Hieronymous Bosch