I like funny stuff, me.
And 20th century design. And music. And cooking. I like riding Italian scooters. And driving old Mini Coopers. I can't say I'm really a tit man.
I'd like to meet:
No more heroes...
I'd like to throw a dinner party for the ghosts of Stan Laurel, Jackie Milburn, Bill Hicks, Joe Strummer, John Lennon, George Harrison, John Entwhistle, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan with the ghost Keith Moon as the after dinner speaker and the ghost of Ivor Cutler reading poetry. Minty bullet.
Music:
Put the needle on the rekud...
The Beatles, The Who, The Clash, Hungover Stuntmen, The Ramones, The Faces, The Small Faces, Van Morrison, The Rifles, Paul Weller, The Jam, Neil Young, Carole King, The Animals, Bob Marley, Susan Cadogan, Marvin Gaye, Ronnie Lane, Ocean Colour Scene, Curtis Mayfield, Thin Lizzy, The Beareu, Pink Floyd, Elvis Costello, Stone Roses, Oasis, Otis Redding, Arthur 2 Stroke, John Otway, Elvis, Jimi Hendrix, The Kinks, Roy Orbison, Steely Dan, most Nothern Soul classics & rarities, Trojan compilations, I also like bits of everything from the Carpenters to Motorhead via Nat King Cole and Klaus Wunderlich.
I'm prepared to give anything a go, but music which I really love sticks with me for life. The Beatles Abbey Road and The Who Who's Next were the first two albums I ever bought. I got them both second hand in the Handyside Arcade in Newcastle. Nothing has ever topped them.
Movies:
Business Class Movies... Action, Comedy, Romace...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Get Carter, Withnail and I, Rumble Fish, The Likely Lads, Pulp Fiction, Nuts In May, A Night at the Opera, Kes, A Hard Day's Night, 2001 A Space Odessey (apart from the last mind-numbing 10 minutes), West Side Story, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, The Magnificent Seven, Alien, The Italian Job, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, all the Laurel and Hardy shorts, Snatch, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrells, Stir Crazy, Scarface, Brighton Rock, Little Shop of Horrors, The Producers (original - not yet seen new musical version), Raging Bull, Rocky (easy now!... just the first one) A Shot In the Dark, Trains Planes and Automobiles, Uncle Buck, Mouse Hunt, What's New Pussycat?, The Graduate, Bananas, Take The Money and Run, Play It Again Sam, The Return of the Pink Panther, A Hard Day's Night, Help!, The Creature From The Black Lagoon, It Came From Outer Space, Yellow Submarine, Billy Liar, Villain, Dirty Harry, Slade in 'Flame', Thunderbirds Are Go, Love Me Tender, Batman Begins, Batman (1966)... zzzzzzzz
Television:
I watched the 1966 World Cup Final in a tv shop window in the Grainger Market ...
The Mark Steele Lectures, Snuff Box, Peep Show, 15 Stories High, Rising Damp, I'm Alan Partridge, Father Ted, Brass Eye, Porridge, Fawlty Towers, The Sweeney, Minder, UFO, Later with Jools, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Mighty Boosh, The Day Today, Broken News, The Royle Family, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Batman (1966-68), Vic Reeves Big Night Out, The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer, Catterick, Bilko, Hill Street Blues, Morcombe and Wise, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Columbo, pretty much anything on the History Channel.
Books:
Damn yer fancy learnin' books!...
Due to having once turned up at toga party dressed as a goat I've hardly read books at all in my life, but Diary Of A Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith was so good I read it twice. Buy it!
Heroes:
Stan Laurel
Spike Milligan, Jackie Milburn, Pete Townshend, Marvin Gaye, Peter Sellers, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Malcolm MacDonald, John Lennon, Van Morrison, Bill Hicks, Barry Cryer, John Peel, Paul Weller, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Peter Beardsley, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Steve Marriot, Ronnie Lane, me Mam...
