I'd like to meet:

Anyone at Glastonbury 2007!!!!

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

Music:

All sorts of stuff.
Changes every day really. Here is a Top Ten of songs I like: -
Teenage Kicks - Undertones
Thunder Road - Bruce Springstein
Everlong - Foo Fighters
Pardon Me - Incubus
Live Forever - Oasis
Man with the Child in His Eyes - Kate Bush
Could You Be Loved - Bob Marley
Hands Down - Dashboard Confessional
Romeo & Juliett - Dire Straits
Should I Stay or Should I go - The Clash
Grew up listening to The Beatles, Beach Boys and The Rolling Stones. The Undertones,Thin Lizzy, Sex Pistols, Ian Dury. Elvis Costello, Squeeze & The Jam were what I liked when I was a teenager.
Wreckless Eric was a bit or a hero too. I have a plaster that fell off his thumb when he was playing a gig in 1978. That was before the days of ebay and I imagine it would be worth a fortune now. I mean I could have it DNA tested to prove it was his. Have it framed and authenticated. Of course my mom may have thrown it out when I left home 30 years ago. I'll ask her. She better not have.
I often used to wonder where my future wife was, hoping she was out there somewhere. I think this sums it up beautifully (she was in Burnley at the time btw and I was in Penzance hundreds of miles away!)
(I'd go the)Whole Wide World by Wreckless Eric
When I was a young boy
My mama said to me
There's only one girl in the world for you
And she probably lives in Tahiti
I'd go the whole wide world
I'd go the whole wide world
Just to find her
Or maybe she's in the Bahamas
Where the Carribean sea is blue
Weeping in a tropical moonlit night
Because nobody's told her 'bout you
I'd go the whole wide world
I'd go the whole wide world
Just to find her
I'd go the whole wide world
I'd go the whole wide world
Find out where they hide her
Why am I hanging around in the rain out here
Trying to pick up a girl
Why are my eyes filling up with these lonely tears
When there're girls all over the world
Is she lying on a tropical beach somewhere
Underneath the tropical sun
Pining away in a heatwave there
Hoping that I won't be long
I should be lying on that sun-soaked beach with her
Caressing her warm brown skin
And then in a year or maybe not quite
We'll be sharing the same next of kin
I'd go the whole wide world
I'd go the whole wide world
Just to find her
I'd go the whole wide world
I'd go the whole wide world
Find out where they hide her
words and music Eric Goulden / Wreckless Eric (Zomba Music)
This pic of Paul Weller is one of my favourites from then
This pic of Kate Bush was stuck to the cabinet by my bed c.1978-1982 until my mother redecorated my room :( when I was away at college
nice to find it again on the net!
Always loved Bob Marley. More recently Audioslave, Incubus & Blink 182 (+ 44) seem to do the trick.
New Order, Nine Black Alps, Brian Wilson and Coldplay were all amazing at Glastonbury last year. No apologies for the latter. They were on top of their game and their set touched me deeply and I don't care if you want to sneer, coz you are not me and I am not you so there!
Sex Pistols in '77 had a similar emotional effect and you can't get much more different than that. The picture below is one of the few I've found of that 'secret'gig that was seen by just 400 people, including me and my mate Steve
Pic from www.dennismorris.com
Pam & I saw Bruce Springstein at Wembley Stadium in the early 80s and that was a great show. All the gigs I saw The Undertones, The Jam and Thin Lizzy play were amazing. Squeeze were brilliant live.
On the local front I enjoyed Unused Toys so much! I'm going to miss them, but am grateful to them all for helping to give me a second childhood!

Movies:

Far From The Madding Crowd West Side Story, Theatre of Blood, Walkabout, American Beauty, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Bladerunner, Alien, Airplane!, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Galipoli & Shaun of the Dead.
I laughed out load watching Ice Age with my youngest daughter, so that must be good too. That'll do for now.

Television:

Don't watch that much tv. Can't sit still long enough. Sport sometimes I guess.

Books:

Started with Tintin
and read comics mainly when younger, Superman, Batman, Swamp Thing etc. Silver Surfer was my favourite but I leant all my comics to my best mate one night and he was sick over them and his mother threw them all out! I'm still sure some of them could have been saved. Oh well.
I only read one book before I was 18. That was the History of Aston Villa because I had to read a book in English classes. I don't even support them but it was a book my grandad had given me.
Since then I read everything, everywhere, anytime. Mainly factual books still though. Recently a book about 19th century industrialists (the people who built the lighthouses 200 hundred years ago - what amazing men they were!), another one about the lives of British Redcoats (soldiers not Butlins entertainers!)and another about how to be a pop star (not for me personally of course you'll be relieved to hear!). The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom, Oh and Nick Hornby's books are good too. A Short History of Everything by Bill Bryson is worth sticking with for the amazing things it teaches you about the world. Take pity on those who say, "Nah, books aren't for me" because you are never totally alone when you have a good book with you. They make journeys pleasurable especially.

Heroes:

My Dad.
Miss him loads. See him in the mirror sometimes though now which is kind of spooky. Genes eh, what can you do!
My wife - too many reasons to contemplate. But here's a few - humour, beauty, immense strength, talented teacher, patient, common sense. My rock. Tolerant beyond belief. The centrepiece of my amazing family
My son

and two daughters
and of course, no music lover would be complete without paying respects to John Peel