Music, sport (especially cricket and football) and collecting CDs by the aforementioned dodgy old punk and hip hop bands. Also, anything a bit daft (odes about lovelorn lorry drivers, songs featuring whistling or dogs barking, the sound of mating hyaenas etc) I am also fond of alcohol, oaky Australian whites being a particular favourite at the moment.
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Dead Kennedys - Tom Waits - Public Enemy - The Fall - PJ Harvey - Killing Joke - Echo & The Bunnymen - Bauhaus -Interpol - Stranglers - Monochrome Set - Undertones - OutKast - Eminem - X-Ray Spex - Tom Lehrer - Radiohead -Damned - Men They Couldn't Hang - Throwing Muses - Chameleons - Buzzcocks - Dylan - Smiths - New Model Army - Gang Starr - Magazine - are we nearly there yet Dad? Also, some of the great lost, obscure but beautiful bands -the Dancing Did, Youth In Asia, Rudimentary Peni, Normal, Dodgems, Private Dicks, Pink Industry, Instant Automatons etc. I particularly love the Messthetics series of comps, as this gets around playing silly money for the vinyl.
Still adore Romper Stomper. East Is East, some Mike Leigh, etc. I'm quite partial to a bit of that Star Wars light sabre fandango. The Team - that hysterical film about Aussie Rules football. And some of the Roddy Doyle adaptations, especially the Snapper.
I admit it, I love Doctor Who. And it's fabulous watching the rejuvenated series in the company of two small boys who could not be more enthralled.
Just started Gary Imlach's Working Class Football Heroes.
I'd rather recite the lyrics to Stiff Little Fingers' Nobody's Heroes.