Favourite genre?
Reggae
Most listened to genre?
Reggae
Favourite artist?
No
Most listened to artist?
Couldn't say.
Most potently nostalgic music for you?
Anything I had on tape in the mid 80s. John Peel stuff, goth stuff, indie stuff.
Favourite music memory?
GX Jupitter-Larsen destroying a tractor tyre with an angle grinder.
Snow falling outside Cafe OTO whilst Elodie and Jessica Kenney/Eyvind Kang played.
Iration Steppas vs Abashanti in a cold warehouse with yer trousers flapping and rib cage thumping.
Seeing some anarchopunk bands playing a church hall as a teenager and being in awe of all the fully hatched weirdos.
Music you associate with your childhood?
Muppet Show LPs
Star Wars theme.
Hanna and Barbera Jazz.
Music you associate with your mid-late teens?
Synthpop, goth, industrial.
Musical opinion most likely to piss off dissensians?
Techstep, breakcore and gabba are good.
That music is just music and probably not worth getting that het up about.
When was music last great?
Last night
First time your jaw dropped listening to music?
The biggest one was Psychic TV's "Dreams Less Sweet" LP on headphones, under the covers, in the dark. Aged 16/17.
Last time your jaw dropped listening to music?
Pat Thomas and Steve Noble at Cafe OTO, 15th Feb.
Music you associate with your children?
Wu-Tang, Girls Aloud, stuff on cheesy Now compilations, bits of grime and afrobeat. Kehlani.
Music you associate with your parents?
Both: Sgt Peppers, hymns.
Mum: Alan Price, chart reggae and disco.
Dad: Classical, Duane Eddy, Tubular Bells
Music you associate with your partner?
Big Beat, Jungle, Reggae, Johnny Cash. Things being turned down, lol.
When did you first realise you were into music more than others?
Secondary school - like Martin said it was football or music really.
How did you get into the nuum/dancehall/rap side of things?
I heard Tony Blackburn play "The Message" on the radio circa 1980 and loved that, so always kept any eye on hip hop throughout the 80s but was never fully into it.
Acid House through Psychic TV etc stuff in 1988 but didn't have a car or many mates who liked that stuff so was a bit of a bystander. Kept an eye on techno and jungle and the like. Always liked the stuff with breakbeats in.
Reggae just chugged along a bit really with things like Smiley Culture and dub tapes. I basically missed ragga until the big tunes like "Who Am I" and "Heads High" came out in 1997. Then went mad for it all.
Favourite live music experience?
These days a really good gig in a small venue near where I live with good beer.
What music would you like people to associate with you?
Just cool stuff that they haven't heard of, obviously. They actually think "weird stuff which is probably shit" though.
What have you been listening to recently?
The Fall and Black Flag back catalogues in chronological order. Steve Reich. A load of reggae from Woebot. Bokeh Versions gear.
What music have you gone off after loving at some point?
Industrial as documented in the "music for wrong 'uns" thread.
How avant guard can you go and still enjoy it sober?
I did not enjoy a particularly punishing set by Seymour Wright last year, to my surprise. He hurt my ears with a brass instrument and I was still angry about it when I saw him propping up the bar at Cafe OTO last week. Other than that, a fair distance.
Best drug-music combination?
Dub + Weed, I mean come on.
What year does music start to be good?
1742
Most embarrassing musical tastes of your younger self?
Marillion? Howard Jones? It's only embarrassing if you are still hung up on being the coolest kid in the class though. (I wasn't and am not).
Music that everyone’s wrong about?
Everyone is a lot of people.