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  Posted: 27 May 2012

Questions, Questions, Questions...

1. Your chief characteristic:
People either love or hate my enthusiasm. A criticism I have heard for years is 'why do you not slag anyone off on your show?' And my answer 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, and it can be a curse as well as a blessing. I'm often treated very badly by people who send me tunes but don't have the good grace to take constructive criticism.

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?
It's 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?
I recently moved to the border of Clapham and Brixton, it's the nicest neighbourhood I've ever lived in. I felt constantly under seige in Archway where I was before.

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 Bellamy from Muse. Matt was the worst because he didn't have an excuse, Marti was a smack addict at the time, so being an arse was an understandable but unforgivable by-product of that.

12. Which characters in musical history would you like to be?
To spend a day being any or all of: John Bonham, Jimi 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)
'Citizen' 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 novel I read was 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, which made me break down and cry. For a book to do that, is astonishing, I think.

19. Your favourite film director
Ridley Scott, such a perfectionist and incredible master of the visual art. I'm also a big Guillermo Del Toro fan.

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
James Bond, of course.

22. Your favourite food and drink
I love all food, Italian, French, British, Asian food, Persian, Thai/Malay, and Japanese. I love ingredients to be good and seasonal. My favourite drink is water, but I do love wine, and my favourite cocktail is a mohito.

23. Your favourite restaurant
Depends: Schmitt's on Clapham Common for breakfast, the Moroccan roadside stall in Golborne road for lunch, or Mohsen (an Iranian place) in Earls Court for dinner. When I'm on the hoof/on tour it's M&S Simply Food on the motorway, Nandos when I arrive, and occasionally Burger King, but NEVER McDonalds.

24. Your pet aversion:
Religious extremism, especially this new Christian movement which gives rise to state funded terrorism. Not just Christians, the Israeli, North Vietnamese and Chinese Governments are basically terrorists with official accreditation, they wind me up something chronic. I also abhor dishonesty.

26. What three songs would you have played at your funeral?
I'd rather have a wake, and cheer people up with uplifting songs, like 'What A Fool Believes' by Michael MacDonald, 'Peg' by Steely Dan and 'The Voice' by John Farnham, to get people laughing rather than crying would be a nice way to be remembered.

27. What is your present state of mind.
Pretty zen I'd say.

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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