Originally a jobbing bass-player, Eddy's eye was caught by the bright lights, glamour and champagne of presenting a radio show in a tiny cramped studio in London's Leicester Square and lugging a record box around dingy clubs.

Eddy On Air

Eddy presents The Remix every Friday night from 22:00 'til 01:00 (check the Xfm Schedule for more info) where you'll find the very best mash-ups, cut-ups, bootlegs and unbelievably good dance music.

Questions, Questions, Questions...

1. Your chief characteristic:
People either love or hate my enthusiasm. A criticisim I have heard for years is 'why do you not slag anyone off on your show?' and my snawer is always the same why give airtime to something you hate, when you can give it to something you love.

2. Your idea of happiness:
A DJ booth with a monitor, 2 CDJs, a sweaty crowd and a sound system that can jiggle your giblets from 100 metres away.

3. Your idea of misery
Having to stick to a playlist.
 
4. Your favourite virtue
Honesty, but there's not enough of it about.

5. What was your worst ever job?
I've been really lucky to have only been involved in things I love doing, like music for most of my life. I was a motorcycle despatch rider for a year once, but I still enjoyed it cos' I love bikes (and look pretty hot in black leather, obviously).

8. What would your favourite occupation be?
Its a good question for most people, because most people want to do something else - if they're honest - but I'm doing my favourite occupation, making, playing, discovering and supporting new music.

9. Where would you most like to live?
Anywhere by the sea.

10. Where do you live now?
Ah, good question, as I write I am currently homeless and sofa surfing with friends and family but hopefully in a month or two I will be living in North London.

11. Which characters in musical history do you most dislike?
I never met any historical musical characters, but the most horrid popstars I ever interviewed were Marti Pellow from Wet, Wet, Wet and Matt Belamy from Muse.

12. Which characters in musical history would you like to be?
To spend a day being any or all of: John Bonham, jimmy Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley or Marilyn Manson would be interesting. Michael Hutchence was a lovely man and we got on really well when we met... I'd like to have been him for a day...he could have done with my leaving some of my positivity behind, I think.

13. Your favourite album ever (yes, I know it's impossible, but try dammit)
'Aja' by Steely Dan

14. Who's your favourite DJ?
In a nightclub: 2ManyDJs (Stephan and David Deweale from Soulwax). I was the first person to introduce the UK to their amazing talent as DJs. On radio: John Peel, always an inspiration.

15. What was the first single you bought? (and be honest about it)
Roxanne by The Police on blue 7" vinyl.

16. ...and your first gig? (ditto)
Van Halen, with Dave Lee Roth of course, on the VH2 Tour when I was 12. It was in Birmingham, Alabama, where my cousins live. I couldn't hear for days afterwards. My first gig here was Stiff Little Fingers, at Malvern Winter Gardens, shortly afterwards.

17. Your favourite qualities in a band/musician
The ability to rock: On record, playing live and in your life: The way you dress, walk, talk, everything. And you don't have to make rock music to rock, Liam Prodigy rocks like no other, for example.

18. Your favourite author
I have to listen to so many records that I just don't have time to read books, which is a real shame because I love reading on the rare occasions I do...I like biographies, of bands mostly. The last book I read was The Da
Vinci Code, which was ace. It had a fascinating mix of fact and fiction and was written in a really exciting, cinematic way, where every chapter ended on a cliff-hanger...no favourite author sorry.

19. Your favourite film director
Ridley Scott, such a perfectionist and incredible master of the visual art.

20. Your favourite hero or heroine in real life:
Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Emmeline Pankhurst, people who stood up for the oppressed, unsung, dispossessed, downtrodden, and did it peacefully.

21. Your favourite hero or heroine in fiction
Legolas in Lord Of The Rings.

22. Your favourite food and drink
Asian food, Persian, Karajan, Thai/Malay, and Japanese. my favourite drink is a mohito.

23. Your favourite restaurant
Depends: The Tollgate Café in Archway for breakfast, the Moroccan roadside stall in Golborne road for lunch, or Mohsen (an Iranian place) in Earls Court for dinner. Or one of the Giraffes for something quick and easy at any time.

24. Your pet aversion:
Religious extremism, especially this new Christian  movement which gives rise to state funded terrorism.

26. What three songs would you have played at your funeral?
'Song To the Siren' by This Mortal Coil, 'Run' by Snow Patrol and 'Time To Die' from The Bladerunner soundtrack by Vangelis.

27. What is your present state of mind.
Personally in turmoil, but professionally things couldn't be going better - I have thirty gigs in my diary, I'm dead excited about the new Losers album, and I am now not just Prodigy's but Pendulum's tour DJ.

28. Your favourite motto is?
The motto that the wonderful and inspirational Roald Dahl lived by: 'my candle burns at both ends...it will not last the night... But ah my foes and oh my friends...it gives a lovely light'

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