What is your favourite album and song ever?
That’s such a difficult question. I tend to be too fickle to stick with one thing long enough. But there are certain things that will stick forever, when I was growing up Cyndi Lauper’s ‘She’s So Unusual’ was on a loop. I seem to always gravitate back to Radiohead’s OK Computer. My favourite song ever seems to be the last one I heard. Today it’s Glasvegas’s ‘Geraldine’.

What was the best year for music?
I’m convinced 1987 was good, but that may be because I was too young to know how to feel unhappy. It may be more to do with nostalgia for a time in my life rather than good music. But there was an aspiration in the beats and synths of pop music, they made you feel like you could do anything. Really, I think the mid-90s were interesting. I was a big Britpop-head.

What is your earliest musical memory?
I can remember hearing the Thompson Twins (pictured) in my parents’ car. That and Frankie goes to Hollywood. I would be really cocky and impress my family by being able to tell you the title album and year of a track within the first few notes. I thought I was a pop music encyclopaedia. I probably wasn’t.

What’s the most embarrassing record you own?
Lets put it this way, if I put my MP3 player on shuffle and anyone was there, I’d spend at least half the time bright red. Hanson…

Is there any particular album or song you never want to hear again in your life?
Actually there are a few that cause me to get very emotional because they are linked to really big memories. I shy away from them. There’s a couple of Johnny Cash and Dylan tracks that do that. I can’t listen to ‘Like a Rolling Stone’.

If you could go back in time which musical figure would you like to meet?
Lennon.

Who would you put in your fantasy band?
Has to be Moon the loon on the drums, bass would be Chris Squire from Yes, guitar would be Bill and Ted. The vocals, hmm… Axl Rose.

What’s the best concert you have ever been to?
Blur at the Showbar in Bournemouth, can’t remember when but they played amazingly and it was really intimate. I just felt something that night.

What was the first concert you ever went to?
It was Emerson, Lake And Palmer.

What was the last concert you went to?
I don’t really go to gigs so often nowadays. It tends to be a hassle. I did see the Subliminal Girls though. They are great!

CD, Vinyl or MP3?
MP3.

John or Paul?
John!

East Coast or West Coast?
East, unless you’re talking hip-hop.

Dylan or Elvis?
Dylan, especially if he’s played by Cate Blanchett.