7 Things
Like all memes the 7 things is a bit of pointless fun and this one seems like it may shed a little light on my murky past. It’s harder than you think as this is stuff I’ve probably mentioned to most people I know already so feel odd saying it again but hey…
- Despite all the music on here being electronic wonkiness I used to play guitar in an awful instrumental band inspired in equal parts by Ozric Tentacles and Pantera called ‘Little Silver Goodchild’. Thankfully there are no surviving recordings of us ‘performing’ that I know of.We arrived at that clumsy name because the band we were in before was called Mortimer’s Cross (equally awful) and as Mortimer was the drummer’s surname the rest of us thought we should have a go the second time round. We used to do a stonking cover of the Starsy & Hutch theme tune however.
- I am rarely able to burp audibly. Which made making friends difficult at scout camp.
- When I was 15 I fell ten feet from a platform above a stage and landed on my head. When I came round about two minutes later all my ‘friends’ were still up on the platform I fell off laughing.I then proceeded to spend three days in hospital having my blood pressure taken every fifteen minutes. The concussion and lack of sleep combined contributed to one of the strangest three days I’ve ever spent.
- When all around me had Spectrum 48ks and the like my parents decided to take a different route and bought me an Oric Atmos. I have never met anyone else who had one, or in fact even heard of it. It was shit.
- I used to be a DJ as part of the fledgling Breakbeat scene. When I released my (only) album my publishers somehow managed to swing it to be the first DJ on the Dance Tent at Glastonbury on the Friday morning. I was expecting to play to a few hundred folk who for some reason decided to chill out in the tent but due to a freak rain shower I ended up playing to about 5000 people. It was fucking amazing and petrifying in equal measure.
- A few years back I was deep into work and on my own in the office. I let out a sneeze and was nearly scared out of my skin by someone saying “Guzuntite” just behind me. I leapt out my chair with my usual highly offensive exclamation of fear and span round to see who it was. I was then even more startled to discover the wisher of good health was none other than Led Zepplin front man Robert Plant. I have a feeling that one encounter knocked about 3 years off my lifespan. I would say it left me Dazed and Confused but that would be too easy.
- Despite my average stature (5’9” and a bit) I became part of the High Jump event at my final years school sports day. I hadn’t trained, it was simply the only event that was under subscribed and the teacher made me do it under threat of physical violence. I’m not sure which of us was more surprised when I equaled the school record that day.
As part of the meme I have to tag some friends with blogs to get them to do the same… Soo.. I’m going to tag…