Have you ever taken tap-dancing lessons? Really?
No. Really, no. The only dancing classes I've had were in Kindergarten, at the age of five. We learnt a "toys coming to life" routine, to the tune of Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies. There was also a...
View ArticleHow would you approach an interview with Extreme Noise Terror?
Eagerly. It would give me a reason to gen up on an area of music that I know next to nothing about, and I'd relish the chance to quiz them about their appearance with The KLF at the Brit Awards. (As I...
View ArticleWhat would be your ideal way to spend the next 24 hours?
I'd like to knock off work this lunchtime, then spend the rest of the afternoon finishing the book I'm reading: Gong Dreaming 2, which is the second volume of Daevid Allen's memoirs, spanning the...
View ArticleDo you have any phobias and, if so, of what?
Swimming. I spent a lot of my childhood weekends on canal boats, and managed to fall in four times - including at a boat rally, where my father jumped in to rescue me and made the pages of the local...
View ArticleWhat is your guiltiest guilty pleasure?
I'm too guilty to admit it. I also question whether it has ever been a true pleasure.
View ArticleSunday destination: Columbia Road or Old Spitalfields Market? (by jovike)
Not being a Londoner, I have never knowingly been to Columbia Road. But I have Googled, and it does look awfully pretty. I have been to Old Spitalfields Market a couple of times; once in the Eighties...
View ArticleWhen you were a child, what was the first thing you can remember wanting to...
The first thing I wanted to be was a circus clown. This lasted until I was actually taken to the circus. It was a rather disillusioning experience. Next came architect (I saw us all in globe-shaped...
View ArticleIf a magical being bestowed upon you the ability to play one musical...
Jigs and reels on a fiddle, please. This would see me happily through my later years.
View ArticleAssuming you haven't already, what's the question that you're...
Pass! I have a hard enough job coming up with questions for pop star phoners...
View ArticleRe Cliff Richard, here: "I can't say that the embers were...
I was referring to the embers of lust, dear iterrogator. However, the gig Cliff/Shadows was marvellous in every other way. Grizzly showbiz cheese was kept to a minimum - no mean feat when Cliff's...
View ArticleTroubled Diva the blog... I get the feeling you'd rather it died...
I just want to keep my options open, should the mojo return. Never say never, and all that. Also, I am a contrary sort of fellow; if I ever formally closed the blog down, the mojo would almost...
View Article"The first - and only - girl I ever snogged became a celebrity in...
Nice try; no dice! I'll tell you when I next see you.
View ArticleWhich was your best ever birthday, and how did you spend it?
Probably my 40th. I hired the upstairs room at Harts Restuarant, and treated my friends to slap-up posh nosh. Then we went down the pub. It was a very happy day.
View ArticleIf someone were to ask what you do, would you now feel confident to say...
Yes, I regularly give that answer. Or to be more exact, I explain that I do one job for money, and another job for love. :-)
View ArticleDo you read books? If so, what kind?
I do read books, but few of them are fiction; I tend more towards memoir. Recent examples: Daevid Allen "Gong Dreaming" (Parts 1 & 2), Luke Haines "Bad Vibes: Britpop and My Part in Its Downfall",...
View ArticleDo you read books? If so, what kind?
I do read books, but few of them are fiction; I tend more towards memoir. Recent examples: Daevid Allen "Gong Dreaming" (Parts 1 & 2), Luke Haines "Bad Vibes: Britpop and My Part in Its Downfall",...
View ArticleWhat did you have for breakfast?
A cup of Twining's English Breakfast tea. Milk, no sugar. A glass of orange juice (only half full; we've just run out). A banana (just on the turn, ripeness-wise, but still fully edible). A bowl of...
View ArticleWhat is your favourite charity, and why?
Oxfam. My sister worked for them for many years, and I've been a monthly donor for even longer - twenty years exactly, I think.
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