I play five-a-side football for The Sonics at Goals in Beckenham. We currently specialise in back-to-back relegations. I support Spurs and Dorchester Town FC. I also like cricket, Somerset CCC are my team. Obviously I quite like music. I work for a newspaper. I read a lot of books.
Adam and the Ants, Spacemen 3, Joy Division, Ride, The Beta Band, Aphex Twin, Bronze Age Fox, Blur, King Biscuit Time, Black Affair, Caribou, Maximo Park, Autechre, Minotaur Shock, Four Tet, Feedle, My Bloody Valentine, Talking Heads, New Fast Automatic Daffodils, Roxy Music, De La Soul, BDP, EPMD, Joni Mitchell, The Futureheads, The Soulsavers, Roxanne Shante, Blondie, The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Electro, Wisp, The Aliens, The Fall, Rising High, Guerilla Records, Missy Elliot, Aaliyah, Maps, Jimi Hendrix, Slowdive, Spitfire, Laura Groves, Plaid, The Orb, Boards of Canada, bravecaptain, Casino Versus Japan, Can, Depeche Mode, Boom Bip, Pedro, Warp Records, Dangermouse, Jeff Mills, The Longcut, Northstation, Pavement, Certainly Sir, Andrew Weatherall, Sonic Youth, Public Enemy, Ultramagnetic MCs, Sand, Tim Wright, Acid House, Cable, Junior Boys, Cybotron, Claro Intelecto, Bitstream, Plastikman, Broadcast, L. Pierre, Ulrich Schnauss, The Telescopes, Black Dog Productions, The Nightjars, Windmill, Field Music, Art of Noise, Lady Sovereign, Campag Velocet, Autokat, I could go on...
Dead Man's Shoes, Smalltime, 24 Hour Party People, Morvern Callar, Elephant, Dazed and Confused, Suburbia
Chris Morris, Peep Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Heroes
Raymond Carver, Alan Warner, William Faulkner, Hari Kunzru, John Steinbeck, Natsuro Kirino, Haruki Murakami, Sam Lipsyte, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Donna Tartt, Jeffrey Euginedes, Chekhov, Michel Faber, A.M. Homes
Ray Mears, Morgan Khan, John Peel and Sir Vivian Richards