What was the first/best gig you went to?
My mum took me to see The Beatles as a baby.
It was at Wigan ABC theatre, their penultimate UK gig in 1964
What’s your favourite Northwest
originated song or piece of music?
This Charming Man by The Smiths as of this
minute. May change tomorrow
What was your first/best experience of
going to a gallery or museum?
Saw Elvis Costello at an Edward Munch
exhibition once.
What’s your favourite painting/piece
of art/sculpture?
Oh too many to pick. I love Rothko, Mondrian,
Modigliani, Henry Moore, Gormley….
What was your first/best experience of
going to the theatre?
Robert Stephens Macbeth at Stratford in the
90s is still the most visceral and astonishing thing Ive ever
seen
Do you have a favourite northwest
pub or restaurant? If so, what’s special about it?
I love my Cumbrian locals, Dog and Gun
Skelton and Boot And Shoe Greystoke. And Kyloe’s restaurant in
Great Salkeld and Gianni’s Penrith
Do you have a favourite Northwest
local food?
Hot Pot. Or chip shop Steak Pudding with curry
sauce. Best eaten in a bus stop
Can you suggest a ‘hidden gem’ in your
home town/neighbourhood?
Rivington Pike. A nice hill quite near
Wigan
What’s the one thing in your home
town/neighbourhood that people really shouldn’t miss if they go
there?
Millgate chippy
Was there anything particular about
the northwest culture that inspired you to do what you’ve done/what
you do now?
A certain doughty melancholy and wit
Blue Monday or Happy
Monday?
Blue Monday
Bunny Men or Diddy Men?
Bunny Men
Morrisey or McCartney?
No way could I choose
Peter Blake or Peter
Saville?
Saville.
Beatrix Potter or Brian
Potter?
Beatrix
Welcome to the Pleasure Beach or
Welcome to the Pleasure Dome?
Dome
Eccles Cake or Kendal Mint
Cake?
Kendal mint cake. Eccles cake is horrible.
Sorry Eccles