- Can you recite
a line of poetry?
"I stumble and wonder who to blame
But life is eternal and wraps bandages round pain."
(From a poem written for me by my sister Kat when Ted, my beautiful dog,
died of cancer)
- How old are you?
Proud to have reached 38?
- What are your favourite films?
Where do I start? - One flew over the Cuckoos Nest, Angel Heart, Legend,
The Dark Crystal, Fight Club, American X, Midnight Express, Rocky Horror
Show, Cabaret, The Little Shop of Horrors, The Sleeper, As Good As It
Gets, True Romance, Snatch, Pulp Fiction, The Fearless Vampire Killers
(also known as Dance with the Vampires - a Roman Polanski film), Wild
at Heart, Jaws, Dracula (the one with Gary Oldman), The Exorcist, Apocalypse
Now, Nell, Silence Of The Lambs - there's a few!
- What was the first gig you ever went to?
I think it was Generation X at 'The Greyhound' in Croydon.
- What is your favourite album of all time?
Gotta be Plastic Letters, Blondie.
- Which is your favourite Blondie track?
This is a really hard question, have so many, maybe X Offender.
- Which is your favourite Blondie Album?
Plastic Letters or Blondie.
- Who's your favourite band?
Blondie, of course!
- Who's your favourite artiste?
Joni Mitchell
- What music would you have played at your funeral?
Enigma. Cross of Changes. (The whole album!), Fade Away and Radiate.
- What was the first record you ever bought?
Probably Cherish by David Cassidy, or something by The Bay City Rollers
or The Osmonds or something dreadful like that!
- What was the last c/d you bought?
Actually it was three reggae albums I used to have on vinyl, 96 degrees
in the Shade by Third World, Handsworth Revolution by Steel Pulse and
Bob Marley's Kaya.
- Pick five words to describe yourself.
Pre-menstrual, smiley, forgetful, mad, loving.
- What is your favourite food?
Chocolate, Chilli, toast and marmalade.
- What's your poison?
Draught Guiness and Tea!
- Who's your favourite singer and why?
Debbie Harry, she's cool, sexy, attitude, great voice.
- Likes?
My family, sunshine, the sea, tea and chocolate, nice people, walking
and cycling with my dogs. Harry and Sofi our dogs. Polly, our cat, my
kids.
- Dislikes?
Nasty people, curried farts, housework, traffic jams, treading in dog-shit,
spiders, big earrings.