From a humble beginning - first record bought being something by Pinky and Perky (I was only 2 at the time), first proper record bought - Queen - Killer Queen (still no change in musical taste - I think it was the cheekbones, teeth and feathers that did it for me) - first musical love - Generation X (getting worse all the time) - first proper musical love - Echo and the Bunnymen. Reared on the Stones, Shadows, Elvis, Gene, Velvets, Monkees and Beethoven (how I got to my teens is beyond me) - discovered punk, new wave and late 70's electronic music shivvering in a place in the pantry where there should have been a tin of baked beans - needless to say I was disappointed, hungry and slightly preturbed by the fact that punk, new wave and late 70's electronic music where hiding in the dark in our pantry beneath the stairs....it was around this time that our kid discovered the Wombles under the sofa in the front room. To this day I've always maintained I drew the short straw (see it's the dressing up, funny voices, ears, teeth and stuff) - never again did I venture into the pantry for fear of discovering heavy metel (funny voices, dressing up, ears, teeth and other such things were all well and good - spandex I drew the line on). But then discovering music in the strangest of places has been the burden I carry asides discovering goth behind a set of crimpers (not mine I hasten to add), psycho-punk-a-billy free inside a packet of crisps (worcester sauce in case you were wondering) and other such like is then any surprise that I'm scared to answer the call of nature. In fact only a month or five ago we discovered the latest loves of our lives Hush the Many hiding under a small shrub would you believe and the equally thrilling Victorian English Gentlemens Club most curiously of all kicking the crap out of our Hi-Fi. But as to musical loves pick the bones out of the following - Magazine, Joy Division, Dormannu, Cocteaus, Hey Paulette, Weather Prophets, House of Love, Levitation, the Loft, MBV, Sonic Youth, Volcano the Bear, Nyman, Debussy, Stereolab, Chron Gen, Phantom Surfers, Porcupine Tree, Nick Drake, Tim Buckley, Seeds, Sonics, Link, Fall, Merzbow, FortDax, Jarre, Cale, Stockhausen, Raymond Scott, Radiophonic Workshop, Walking Seeds, Barret / Floyd, Ex Post Facto, Wah (including either / or Shambeko, Heat or plain old Wylie), PiL, Banshees, Radiohead, Shaggs, Shonen Knife, GMFTPO, ACR, XTC, Wire, Micro Disney, Xmal, DK's, Thunders, Flamin Groovies, Soft Boys....or better still go to www.losingtoday.com and check for Singled Out to see which of the current crop are floating our boat (musically you understand).......