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Weekend Breakfast with Jim Coulson

DJ: Jim Coulson

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Jim On Air

My name is Jim and I get up on a Sunday morning to play records whilst you lie in a pit of hungover despair, vowing that you will never, ever drink again. We all know that this will fall by the wayside when your mate Jeff rings half an hour later and suggests sampling the hair of the dog.

Of course, there’s plenty of you who are up and at work like me. Together we can laugh at the above and feel that smug sense of self-satisfaction that only Schadenfreude brings. Unless, of course, you happen to be at work AND hungover, in which case we’ll all laugh at you.

For my part, I’ll play you some of the greatest new music around, some stone cold classics and I’ll canvas your opinions on the important matters of the day (recent examples include ‘What happened to the Hamburglar from the McDonald adverts?’, ‘Why do golfers wear such terrible trousers?’ and ‘Who thought it was marketing gold to get The Darkness to promote a curry house on the Holloway Road?’). It’s pretty much like Newsnight, but on the radio. In the morning. With more tunes.

Catch Jim between six and ten every Sunday morning.

The Great Xfm Questionnaire

1. Your chief characteristic(s)?
Wit, intellect, joie de vivre. Compulsive liar.

2. Your idea of happiness?
Scunthorpe United winning a bloody game once in a while

3. Your idea of misery?
Easy. James Blunt.

4. Your favourite virtue?
Easy virtue. Ahem.

5. Your biggest flaw?
This is the bit in any interview where you’re meant to say, “my only flaw is that I’m too much of a perfectionist”

6. For what fault have you most toleration?
Supporting Scunthorpe United. Is ‘toleration’ really a word?

7. What was your worst ever job?
Manning a pensions hotline. The line was rarely hot. 3 months of sitting, twiddling my thumbs for about £3 an hour. Joy of bleeding joys!

8. What would your favourite occupation be?
You have to go some to beat ‘radio presenter’: talking and playing records for money ain’t bad. Other than that, I’d have to say ‘President of the World’

9. Where would you most like to live?
I fancy living back in Yorkshire again eventually, once I’ve saved up for the flat cap, whippet and …(insert other Yorkshire cliché here).

10. Where do you live now?
Finsbury Park. Home of Johnny Rotten, Ho Chi Minh and Osama Bin Laden’s son. And the greatest pub in all of London; The Faltering Fullback, but shhhh, don’t tell anyone about it, we don’t want outsiders discovering it.

11. Which characters in musical history do you most dislike?
Blunt, Dion, Carey…take your pick.

12. Which characters in musical history would you like to be?
I imagine it would be pretty cool to be Jarvis Cocker. Plus we’ve got the same initials. And so’s Jesus. Now that would be a night out to remember, the three of us. Cheap too, what with one of us being able to turn water into wine and that. I can turn wine into water – not quite as impressive, I know.

13. Your favourite album ever (yes, I know it’s impossible, but try dammit)?
Oh man…it’s tough. Probably ‘The Queen Is Dead’ by The Smiths, although that seems so tiresomely obvious. It’s cracking though.

14. Who’s your favourite DJ?
Ray from Reef Radio off of the Bacardi adverts.

15. What was the first single you bought? (and be honest about it)?
*mutters something about ‘Leave Me Alone’ by Michael Jackson under his breath*

16. …and your first gig? (ditto)
The mighty Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine and I’m not ashamed to admit it.

17. Your favourite qualities in a band/musician?
Doing good music. Obvious, but entirely correct.

18. Your favourite author?
Currently Jonathan Coe, but that will probably change when I find a duff book of his. I’ve read four so far and they’ve all been good, the law of averages suggests the next one I read will be a stinker.

19. Your favourite film director?
You know what? I don’t really know. I guess I like most of the Coen Brothers films, so probably them

20. Your favourite hero or heroine in real life?
Mark Linkous from Sparklehorse. He makes the greatest music pretty much ever

21. Your favourite hero or heroine in fiction?
Peter Griffin from Family Guy. He funny.

22. Your favourite food and drink?
Greek food. Always Greek food. Man, I really want some now you’ve mentioned it…

23. Your pet aversion?
Cotton Wool, Polystyrene, Linda Barker from the DFS adverts.

24. What three songs would you have played at your wedding?
God Only Knows – Beach Boys Baby You’re My Light – Richard Hawley Such Great Heights – Postal Service

25. What three songs would you have played at your funeral?
The Birdie Song / Agadoo / Shadappa Your Face. I’m not going to be there to hear them – Ha! Unlucky, mourners!

26. What is your present state of mind?
Really hungry after question 22

27. Your favourite motto is?
“Weaseling out of things is what seperates us from the animals. Except the weasels” H. Simpson.