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JadeWeb : What is your first musical memory ?
Singing and playing recorder to a crackly 7" of Little donkey by the Beverley sisters

Which artist or song has ?affected? your childhood ?
Depends how old you mean by childhood. I grew up listening to a lot of old 7" singles and the wombles and then i got into the Grease soundtrack in 1977

Did you think of working in music ?
Never, it didn't occur to me that i might work in the music industry.

What did you really want to become later ?
I think i wanted to study psychology and become a therapist or social worker, failing that a teacher like a lot of my family.

Are there any disturbing or nice sounds that have ?affected? your childhood ?
The hurting by tears for fears was a big influence as i got older. It affected me a lot. through that album i got into psychology and spent hours in the library reading psychology books such as The Primal Scream by Dr Arthur Janov. there were chapters in there called things like The prisoner and i realised how much the hurting was influenced by that book and tears for fears took their name from a chapter in that book too.

5 Did your parents give you a musical education ?
My parents didn't really. i took up recorder at a very young age and played in the school plays. then i played violin and later the double bass. My parents sang a lot though and we have an old reel-to-reel tape player with my brother and i singing and telling stories.

6 Can you tell us about a musical memory of your childhood (a concert, a show..) ?
when i was really young, my dad was a member of a club through his work.we used to go there to play skittles and drink pepsi cola through straws in those thin glass bottles. one christmas i stood in front of everyone in the club and played little donkey on my recorder!
But if you want to know about a show i went to, then I guess one show I loved was spacemen 3 and Loop at the benn hall in rugby. the event was called 'easter everywhere' and there were loads of bands playing. i was kind of scared and small and shy and there were all these psychedelic lights. i think that was easter 1987

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