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1. As you usually present as a friendly chap, I’m interested in your dark side.
So then, who really pisses you off IRL, and just what is the fucker’s problem?
Lots of things. At the low end of things: newspapers not folding back correctly. After the third attempt wrestling with a broadsheet, I tend to get very angry and shout a lot. More than that, though, lots of things about "other people" can irritate me - usually perfectly intelligent people being wilfully ignorant. That really gets my goat. Crassness, vulgarity, ignorance, disinterest. That kind of thing - the wasting of one's innate ability. Also, people who walk five abreast down a pavement, or stop in the middle of supermarket aisles so you run into the back of them. I may seem nice, and these may seem like crappy examples, but trust me, I've got the dark side, and you won't like me when I'm angry.
2. Have you got any interesting anecdotes? The stranger the better.
Not really. Strange things don't really happen to me. I've had some amusing ones or little scenes that made me smile - most recently, the busker-in-a-bin in Cambridge. There's basically the shell of a council litter bin, and out of one side at the top is a hand and the end of the neck of a guitar, and there's this guy contorted in the bin busking. Which is really rather funny, and you tend to forget his at-most-average musical ability and just enjoy the site of a singing bin. If it's the stranger the better, though, I'm doing pretty badly.
3. Why is making music important to you?
It's always been a part of my life, really. Playing it, singing it, I've been doing for the past fifteen years, learning new techniques, new instruments, new things all the time. In the studio, I'm slowly discovering what I can call "my" music. My styles haven't settled down - I'm still learning how to play with sound, what sounds and music I wish to make. It's a form of expression that I have a degree of skill with - it's not just fun for me, it entertains others. I'm not bad with words, but I'm better with music sometimes. And nothing beats the joy of creation, really. Listening to music informs my playing and making of it: it's a daily, hourly presence in my life and my head. I couldn't live without it. And the weird thing is, when I'm watching a band or artist live, I just want to be up on stage playing - with them, if they're awesomely brilliant and I am envious; instead of them if they're shite; or just joining in. It's why i loved DJing at University: suddenly, I had the power to make people enjoy themselves. The most fun in a club for me, a lot of the time, is in that booth. Nothing beats the sight of a crowd, most of whom you don't know, some whom you do, shaking ass like never before and walking over to tell you that you're good. Especially when all I'm doing is playing what I like. Something in my brain has an affinity for music, I just need to be making it, playing with it, learning new things about it. Or I'll fall apart. Some days, I consider insuring my hands...
4. It’s Christmas, and, seeing as you’ve been so good, Santa decides to bring you some pretty astonishingly cool presents. In fact, he offers you a selection:
a. A lovely new girl/boyfriend
b. £1500, cash.
c. Boundless creative energy, guaranteed to last for at least six months.
Which one do you choose and why?
C. Because I have a lovely girlfriend as it is, and if we're being all capitalist, I can easily make more than £1500 from boundless creative energy. But mainly because the latter will give me so much fun; I often have lots of creative energy, but for it to be boundless and consistent, no strings attached... I could churn out novels and music and that'd make me happier than anything else. The ability to create is what I love; if I've got it, if I'm not blocked, then the creations will be fine, and I ought to love them because they are mine. And then I can use my creativity to entertain or inform others.
5. Do you fancy anyone on Barbelith? If so, What makes them so great? No need to say who.
I'd be lying if I said no. Yes, there are a few suits I fancy, simply for the way the express themselves, their way with words, the way the observe the world, the edge to their insight, how interesting they are, and the fact that they're goddamn funny. There's one suit and its owner, though, that I love. Which tends to override the other things  |
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