Star Files – David Preston – 2005

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