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Gareth Brooks

added 03 September 2008 at 15.33

Gareth will be getting out of bed early to bring you breakfast in bed on Xfm Manchester. Note: you don't have to be in his bed to hear it. Just flip the radio on...

Get in touch! Text Gareth on gareth.brooks@xfm.co.uk, call the studio on 08457 83936 or text 83XFM (83936) and start your text with "GARETH".

1. Your chief characteristic 
   "According to my wonderful colleagues... I like a good moan."
   
2. Your idea of happiness
   "Either being at the top of a mountain on a good day or lying on a beach tanning my ass off!"
   
3. Your favourite virtue
   "Honesty."
   
4. Your biggest flaw
   "Speaking without thinking about what I'm saying."
   
5. What was your worst ever job, and why?
   "Making lobster pots was pretty bad... I only lasted a day!"
   
6. What would be your favourite occupation, and why?
   "Things couldn't get any better than they already are to be honest."
   
7. Where would you most like to live?
   "I've lived in a lot of different countries and places within the UK... and there's no place like home."
   
8. Which character in musical history do you most dislike?
   "Doherty! Never met the guy... but he just winds me up!"
   
9. Which character in musical history would you most like to be?
   "Any one of the Beastie Boys would be good, or 3D out of Massive Attack."
   
10. Your favourite album ever? 
    "Massive Attack - 'Mezzanine'."
    
11. Who’s your favourite DJ, and why?
    "Apart from myself, Clint Boon and Mark Kaye... ahem... Pete Tong."
    
12. What was the first single you bought?
    "J Geils Band - 'Centerfold'."
    
13. …and you first gig?
    "Public Enemy at the Barrowlands."    
    
14. Your favourite qualities in a band or musician?
    "Image... and obviously they'd have to play a bit."
    
15. Your favourite author?
    "Irvine Welsh."
    
16. Your favourite film director?
    "Lucas."
    
17. Your favourite hero or heroine in real life?
    "My mum"
    
18. Your favourite hero or heroine in fiction?
    "Frank Gallagher."
    
19. Your favourite food and drink?
    "Italian, Red Wine."
    
20. Your favourite restaurant?
    "Piccolino's."
    
21. Your pet aversion?
    "I could be here a while, so I'd have to say people that are full of themselves."
    
22. What three songs would you have played at your birthday?
    "Prodigy 'Smack My Bitch Up',  Ian Brown 'Golden Gaze',  Happy Mondays 'Hallelujah'."
    
23. What is your present state of mind?
    "Annoyed at having to fill in random questionnaires!"
    
24. ...and your motto is?
    "Don't have one."

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