Name: Jamie

Name: Jamie

 

Age: 36

 

Height: 5'7"

 

Hair colour: Strawberry blonde

 

Eye colour: Blue

 

Born where: London, UK

 

Live where: London, UK

 

Instrument: Bass guitar

 

Favourite Bands: Joy Division, Gary Numan, Depeche Mode, Sol Invictus, In The Nursery.

 

Favourite Musicians: David Bowie, Peter Hook, Martin L. Gore.

 

Top Film: Withnail & I, Bladerunner.

 

Best Authors/writers: Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy.

 

Best Actors: Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, John Malkovitch.

 

Most watched TV: Babylon 5, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Twin Peaks.

 

Funniest Comedy: Monty Python's Flying Circus, Frasier, Blackadder, Red Dwarf.

 

Well-deserved tipple: Red wine, porter, wheat beer, Belgian beers.

 

Pub in which to drink it: Anywhere selling the above drinks, but Fullers and Samuel Smiths both have some particularly fine London drinking establishments.

 

Favourite Food: Indian, cheese.

 

Place to be: Belgium, Italy, The Netherlands, Germany, Finland.

 

Interests other than music: Walking, cricket, nature.

 

What was the last book you read? Klaus Mann 'Mephisto'.

 

What was the last album you bought? Duo Noir 'Marseilles'.

 

What is your best asset? I don't know- it's easier to know your friends' than your own.

 

Your worst? Shyness.

 

What annoys you? People who drop litter or spit on the streets, selfishness, ignorance, misuse of the apostrophe... I think I'll stop there!

 

What makes you laugh? An evening spent in the company of my fellow Lemoras.

 

What makes you cry? Racism, homophobia, destruction of the environment, cruelty to animals.

 

Does God exist? I haven't bothered thinking about this for years.

 

What’s the most embarrassing thing to happen to you? Whatever it was, I've repressed all memory of it.

 

If you were Prime Minister, what would be your first task? Where to start? Reinstate the array of civil liberties and democratic rights that have been eroded over the last few years.

 

What is your motto? I don't really have one, but Gandhi's 'Be the change you want to see in the world' would be a good place to start.