Beau Brummel - old and new romantics - exquisite food - Danny Saville's smirk - sunbeams on the water - Shakespeare's sonnets - films and philosophy - 70s & 80s Dutch girlgroups - sushi - moonlight - literature and ice cream - early issues of The Face - nostalgia - Grace Jones' style - Guy Garvey's beard - cats - graphic novels - Disco, Paradise Garage, Northern Soul, Deep Soul and anything on Salsoul...
You.
Who I don't want to meet:
Racists, homophobes, mysoginists, fascists, people who'll "only have a little salad" for lunch, or like to listen to Phil Collins or Nickelback.
Ten all-time favourite songs:
01. Scarlet Fantastic: No Memory (Extra Sensory Mix)
Maggie's sultry voice and lyrics about freedom and anarchy make this the best pop song ever recorded. Starchildren of the world unite!
02. Shock Headed Peters: I, Bloodbrother Be
Empowering lyrics and one of the most important records ever made (and it had some fantastic B-sides, too. Plus "Miserable Worm" and "Kissing Of Gods" and...).
03. S-Express: Hey Music Lover
This is sheer joy. Can there be a song more uplifting than this? I dare you to resist Eric & Billie Ray Martin's plea to take you higher.
04. Arcadia: Election Day
Two words: Grace Jones. Simon Le Bon's greatest moment.
05. Prince: She's Always In My Hair
Total Bliss. He used to record the most amazing B-sides in the mid-80s.
06. Rachel Stevens: Some Girls (Richard X Extended)
Richard X made Rachel sing this ode to oral sex. This is perfect pop. And the champagne makes it taste so much better better.
07. The Associates: Schampout (Extended Version)
Otherworldly brilliance.
08. Propaganda: P-Machinery
Power - Force - Motion - Drive
09. Curtis Mayfield: You're So Good To Me
Probably the best male singer ever. This song makes you want to fall in love and forget about all its dangers...
10. Mansun: Legacy
... and this one makes you want to kill yourself, because "nobody cares when you're gone" and "all relationships are emptying and temporary".
Shock Headed Peters (Karl Blake) / Furiku / The Whip / Scarlet Fantastic / S-Express / Duran Duran / Prince + The Revolution / The Associates (Billy Mackenzie) / Morrissey / New Order / Curtis Mayfield / Basement Jaxx / John Foxx / Blondie / Arcadia / Hadouken! / The Smiths / Twilight Singers / The Black Ghosts / Mansun / GvsB / Shangri-Las / Noblesse Oblige / M.I.A. / Death In Vegas / Avenue D / Saint Etienne / Atomizer / Japan / Adam And The Ants / Hot Chip / Jill Jones / Girls Aloud / Scritti Politti / Rachel Stevens / The Modern / Blow Monkeys / Angelo Badalamenti / The Avalanches / Kraftwerk / Nitzer Ebb / Client / Marvin Gaye / Siouxsie And The Banshees / Chic / Theatre Of Hate / Nas / Afghan Whigs / The Cult / Sheena Easton / Cazwell / Dragonette / Depth Charge / Chris Isaak / Kate Bush / Divine / Adult. / Propaganda / Julee Cruise / Steps / Richard X / The Go! Team / Bananarama / Lo-Fidelity Allstars / Bomb The Bass / Altered Images / Billie Ray Martin / The Ritchie Family / Daphne And Celeste / Haysi Fantayzee / Robert Owens / Paul Jabara / First Choice / Loleatta Holloway / Black Box Recorder / The Charlatans / Add 'n' To (x) / Apollonia 6 / D.A.F. / The Polyphonic Spree / Elbow / Goldfrapp / Velocette / Cathy Dennis / The Divine Comedy / The Flaming Lips / Pay-TV / Lil'Kim / Eighth Wonder / Robbie Craig / Cabaret Voltaire / Claudine Longet / Flying Lizards / Clout / Sinitta / Betty Boo / Slow Children / The Mobiles / Fuzzbox / Silver Convention / Mis-Teeq / Tweet / Lio
Best Club
Duckie's
Mulholland Drive / Orphée / Eastern Promises / Lost Highway / Dust Devil / Naked Lunch / Pink Flamingo / Female Trouble / Blue Velvet / Les Roseaux Sauvages / The Pillow Book / Les parapluis de Cherbourg / The Saddest Music In The World / Faster Pussycat Kill Kill / Imitation Of Life / C.R.A.Z.Y. / Idioterne (The Idiots) / Third Man Out / Purple Rain / Braindead / Le Clan / Party Monster / Freaks / Manderlay / Les amants criminels / Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? / Sin City / Brick / Gummo / Eraserhead / 8 Femmes / Barbarella / Polyester / Crash (Cronenberg) / Wuthering Heights (1939) / Beautiful Thing / Palindromes / Bully / The Return Of The Living Dead / Another Country / The Blade Runner / Io Non Ho Paura / 30 Days Of Night
Directors
David Lynch / John Waters / Jean Cocteau / Lars von Trier / Jacques Demy / Hal Hartley / Pedro Almodovar / Gaël Morel / David Cronenberg / Russ Meyer / Rainer Werner Fassbinder / Jean-Marc Barr / Todd Solondz
Twin Peaks / Supernatural / Deadwood / Ashes To Ashes / Prison Break / Millennium / Six Feet Under / Heroes / Buck Rogers / Riget (The Kingdom) / The Herbs / Sopranos / Dynasty / Funland / Torchwood / Footballers Wives / Starved / American Gothic / Arrested Development / Medium / Dr. Who / Never Mind The Buzzcocks / Life On Mars
Actors
Stéphane Rideau / Robert John Burke / Chloë Sevigny / Jean Marais / Udo Kier / Divine / Wentworth Miller / Edith Massey / Peter Weller / Jensen Ackles / Haji / Élodie Bouchez / Carmen Maura / Sebastian Spence / Sherilyn Fenn / Tura Satana / Catherine Deneuve / Jean-Marc Barr / Brittany Murphy / James Purefoy
Will Self: The Book Of Dave / David Llewellyn: Everything Is Sinister / Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion / Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights / Will Self: Dorian / Mandy Smith: It's All Over Now / Enki Bilal: Nikopol Trilogy / Paul Burston: Lovers & Losers / Alan Moore: The Black Dossier / David Llewellyn: Eleven / Neil Gaiman: American Gods / William Shakespeare: The Merchant Of Venice / Garth Ennis: The Boys / Warren Ellis: Gravel / David Lynch: The Air Is On Fire / Cookie Mueller: Ask Doctor Mueller / William S. Burroughs: Naked Lunch / Garth Ennis: Preacher / Alan Moore: Watchmen / Daniel Allen Cox: Tattoo This Madness In / Tom Doyle: The Glamour Chase / Mark Simpson: Saint Morrissey / Mike Carey: Lucifer / William M. Thackeray: Vanity Fair / Boy George: Take It Like A Man / Benjamin Hoff: The Tao Of Pooh / Pete Waterman: The Autobiography / Jae Lee: Hellshock / John Woo: 7 Brothers
Smells
petrol / cinnamon / caramel / freshly baked cookies / plastic / Casual Friday / chocolate / most people I like / autumn / orange petals
"I should be so lucky/lucky, lucky, lucky/I should be so lucky in love...there is more meaning in those three lines than in the entire works of Morrissey"
The KLF - The Manual
Don't Like
organized religions / brussels sprouts / PhilCollins / onions / Davidoff / MTV / fast food / BillWyman / garlic / H&M (for dumping Kate Moss and instead inflicting the most annoying ad-campaign ever, by David LaChapelle, on every unsuspecting cinema-goer, which was most probably even longer than any of the actual films you wanted to see in the first place. Impertinent twats!) / celery / mobile phones in restaurants / German TV / football / envy / Disney.