| General | Music, sport (cricket,table tennis and football), the media, photography and writing. | | Music | Kraftwerk, The Cocteau Twins, Edie Brickell, The Who, The Doors, The Smiths, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Bob Marley and the Wailers, The Pretenders, Candi Staton, The Jam, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Elvis Costello, Jack Johnson (and Brushfire Records), The White Stripes, KT Tunstall, The Eels, Howling Bells, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Razorlight, Be Your Own Pet, Dirty Pretty Things, Athlete, The House of Love, The Ramones, The Clash, The Sugarhill Gang, New Order, Tori Amos, Pulp, Dusty Springfield, Television, Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley, Neil Young, Motown, Otis Redding, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Anita Baker, John Legend, The Pixies, Booker T, Kate Bush, Johnny Cash, The Pogues, Oasis, Primal Scream, The Specials, The Small Faces, Rod Stewart, The Walker Brothers, The Bees, Gemma Hayes, The Field Mice, Eight Legs, Dogs, Sarah Records, Stax, Olivia, Jess Blake, The Plastiscines, Marie Batchelder, Nerina Pallot, The Zutons, Elliot Minor, Livingston, Cherry Bang, Abi Lanigan, Al Britten, Wes Finch, The Satin Dolls, Eight Legs, Dogs, The Ten O'Clock Scholars and most guitar driven music all hit the key notes.
Guilty Pleasures: Abba, Blondie, early Genesis, Thin Lizzy, Queen, Barry White, ELO, Elton John...
| | Movies | Grease! Abba the Movie! | | Television | Satire (Have I got news for you...), music (Later with... Jools Holland), soap, reality (The Apprentice, Dragon's Den, Soapstar Superstar, Big Brother, X Factor et al), sport, drama (Spooks, Shameless, Desperate Housewives...), current affairs, gameshows (Deal or No Deal) and chat shows (Jonathan Ross, Frank Skinner)... | | Books | Virgil's 'Aeneid' Bk 4.
Jasvinder Sanghera 'Shame'. | | Heroes | David Gower, Tony Currie, Jasvinder Sanghera, Russell Brand, Kevin Pietersen, Lucas Radebe, Basil Brush, my father-in-law and my Dad. |
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