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Playing guitar. Playing games and wrestling with my two boys - I always lose! Going out for meals - not done enough. Watching Newcastle United - been going since I was 6. Cycling - prefer watching the Tour de France to any other sporting event. Watching good bands - when I get the chance. Having a pint with my brother, cousin and mates - when I get the chance! Going to the gym - when I finally get round to it. Reading history books and biographies. Listening to music - mainly in the car then I'm not competing with the bairns! People watching. Walking - being able to walk anywhere is fantastic. Having a pint of Guiness after a gig - or indeed anytime!
The Edge - don't know what the hell I'd talk about!! - I'm not normally starstruck but...Clint Eastwood - he drinks Newcastle Brown Ale!!Ian McCullogh - a canny bloke I've met before.Robert SmithKelly Dalglish - she's loverly!Bono - he wouldn't get a word in!!Mark Steel - a very clever and funny guy who loves history and cricket.The guy that stole my bike when I was 12!!!!Any of the Newcastle United players - past or present!Bill Nelson from Be Bop DeluxeRobin Guthrie from The Cocteau TwinsMorrissey - a genius I'd be happy to stay quiet for!
NEU2 - my band!U2 - a canny NEU2 tribute band!! The Cure, The Smiths, Echo and The Bunnymen, The Beatles, The Band, Big Country, Morrissey, The Pixies, Johnny Cash, The Cocteau Twins, The Who, The Beach Boys, Joni Mitchell, The Moody Blues, The Kinks, The Small Faces, The Sex Pistols, Goldfrapp, Madness, Be Bop Deluxe The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Wedding Present, The Stone Roses, The Doors, Drill - my old band! XTC, The Fall, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, David Bowie, REM, Tool, Porno For Pyros, Janes Addiction, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Half Man Half Biscuit, Beethoven, Pink Floyd, Lindisfarne, That Petrol Emotion, Louis Armstrong, Django Reinhardt, Donovan, Ennio Morricone, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Electrafixion, Johnny Marr and the Healers, Radiohead, The Byrds, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Blur, Oasis - first two albums. The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, Neil Young, Elvis Presley, Beck, Carl Perkins, Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, Simon and Garfunkel, The Police, Sting, Paul Simon, Dean Martin, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Bob Dylan.
Clint Eastwood movies, The Godfather Trilogy, The Deer Hunter, It's A Wonderful Life, Some Like It Hot, Back To the Future, The Day of the Jackal, Apocalypse Now, The Rutles, Monty Python's Life of Brian, The Odd Couple, A Chump at Oxford, Little Big Man - infact almost any Western! Das Boot, Stalingrad, Downfall, The Incredibles, almost any good war film! Gettysburg, The Indiana Jones movies, Papillon, Zulu, Master and Commander, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Star Wars, Restless Natives and many more......
Frasier, Phoenix Nights, Mrs Merton and Malcolm (which I'd love a copy of by the way), Auf Wiedersehen Pet, Early Doors, The Royal Family, Band Of Brothers, The Mark Steel Lectures, documentaries and history programmes. Reeves and Mortimer - preferably without Mortimer cos he threatened to deface my house with milk.
Vive La Revolution - Mark Steel Reasons To Be Cheerful - Mark Steel
My mam and my late dad - my two little boys.