Favourite chocolate bars

1. Malteaser bar
2. Twirl
3. Wispa
4. Double Decker
5. Fredo
6. Galaxy with cookie
7. Ripple 
8. Galaxy
9. Dairy Milk
10. Nestle Crunch
11. Flake
12. Crunchie
13. Drifter
14. Lion Bar
15. Toblerone
16. Picnic
17. Toffee Bar
18. Kit Kat
19. Aero Mint
20. Dime
21. Bounty
22. Biscuit Boost
23. Aero
24. Yorkie
25. Time Out

Favourite Live Albums

1. I am Kloot - Hold Back the Night
2. Bob Dylan Live 1966 (Bootleg series vol.4)
3. Bob Dylan at Budokan
4. Neil Young - Unplugged
5. The Decemberists - We All Raise Our Voices to the Air
6. Richard Thompson - Ducknapped
7. Richard Thompson - Celtschmerz
8. The Doors - Alive, She Cried
9. David Bowie - A Reality Tour
10. U2 - Under a Blood Red Sky
11. The Doors - Absolutely Live
12. Bob Dylan and The Band - Down in the Flood
13. Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same
14. George Harrison (and various artists) - Concert for Bangladesh
15. Bob Dylan - Trouble No More (Bootleg series vol. 13)
16. Jethro Tull - A Little Light Music
17. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - Live 1975-85
18. Dire Straits - Alchemy
19. Neil Young - Live Rust
20. Neil Young - Time Fades Away

Favourite Toys when I was a kid

1. Star Wars action figures and vehicles
2. The Six Million Dollar Man (and his enemy, Maskatron)
3. Action Man figures and vehicles
4. Tin Can Alley
5. The Lone Ranger and Butch Cassidy
6. Evil Knieval stunt cycle
7. Etch-a-sketch
8. Mastermind
9. Fuzzy Felt
10. Stretch Armstrong
11. Richochet
12. Toy soldiers
13. Something where you made clay statues and painted them
14. Nookie Bear
15. Chemistry set
16. Matchbox cars (especially James Bond's Austin Martin, Starsky and Hutch's and Kojak's)
17. Fisher Price toy garage
18. Busy bodies
19. Battleship (electronic)
20. Weebles
21. Doctor Who TARDIS
22. Spirograph
23. Farm set
24. Sooty and Sweep glove puppets
25. Chocolate vending machine

Film Soundtrack Albums

1. The Commitments
2. The Blues Brothers
3. Fever Pitch
4. Pulp Fiction
5. I'm Not There
6. Inside Llewyn Davies
7. The Big Lebowski
8. Grease
9. O Brother Where Art Thou?
10. Elizabethtown

Sit-coms

1. I'm Alan Partridge
2. Phoenix Nights
3. Father Ted
4. The IT Crowd
5. The Thick of It
6. The Young Ones
7. Porridge
8. Curb your Enthusiasm
9. Steptoe and Son
10. The Mighty Boosh
11. Soap
12. Cheers
13. Happy Days
14. Blackadder
15. Dad's Army
16. Dinner Ladies
17. Only Fools and Horses
18. Open all Hours
19. One Foot in the Grave
20. On the Buses
21. Please Sir!
22. Friends
23. George and Mildred
24. The Good Life
25. The Likely Lads
26. Rising Damp
27. It Ain't Half Hot Mum
28. The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

Top 20 Fantastic Five Year Periods for Bands /Artists

1. The Beatles 1965-69 (Help, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Pepper's, White Album, Abbey Road)
2. Bob Dylan 1963-66 (Freewheelin', Times they are a-changin', Another Side of, Bringing it all Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde)
3. I am Kloot 2001-05 (Natural History, I am Kloot, Gods and Monsters)
4. David Bowie 1970-4 (The Man who sold the world, Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, Pin Ups, Aladdin Sane, Diamond Dogs)
5. Madness 1979-84 (One Step Beyond, Absolutely, Seven, Rise and Fall, Keep Moving)
6. Led Zeppelin 1969-73 (I, II, III, IV, House of the Holy)
7. The Doors 1967-71 (their entire career - all 6 albums)
8. The Rolling Stones 1968-72 (Beggar's Banquet, Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street)
9. Neil Young 1972-75 (Harvest, On the Beach, Tonight's the Night, Zuma)
10. Blondie 1976-80 (Blondie, Plastic Letters, Parallel Lines, Eat to the Beat, Autoamerican)
11. The Smiths 1984-87 (their entire career - all 4 studio albums and main compilations)
12. Pink Floyd 1973-77 (Dark Side of the Moon, Wish you were here, Animals)
13. Bruce Springsteen 1973-75 (Greetings from Asbury Park, The Wild the innocent and the E St shuffle, Born to Run)
14. REM 1984-88 (Reckoning, Fables of the Reconstruction, Life's Rich Pageant, Document, Green)
15. Jethro Tull 1968-71 (This Was, Stand Up, Benefit, Aqualung)
16. Kate Bush 1978-82 (The Kick Inside, Lionheart, Never for Ever, The Dreaming)
17. Simon and Garfunkel 1966-70 (Sounds of Silence, Parsely Sage Rosemary and Thyme, Bookends, Bridge over Troubled Water)
18. The Decemberists 2002-06 ( Castaways and Cutouts, Her Majesty, Picaresque, The Crane Wife)
19. The Police 1979-83 (Regatta de Blanc, Zenyatta Mondatta, Ghost in the Machine, Synchronicity)
20. Queen 1973-76 (Queen, Queen II, Sheet Heart Attack, A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races)

Favourite Novels

1. Birds without Wings - Louis de Bernieres
2. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
3. 1984 - George Orwell
4. Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger
5. Brighton Rock - Grahame Greene
6. Northern Lights/ The Subtle Knife/ The Amber Spyglass - Phillip Pullman
7. Trinity - Leon Uris
8. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
9. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
10. Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem - Peter Ackroyd

Most enjoyed gigs

1. I am Kloot (every gig, but especially Islington Academy 22-06-07)
2. Madness (Roundhouse 15-12-19)
3. Pink Floyd (Wembley Stadium 05-08-88)
4. Bob Dylan with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (Wembley Arena 17-10-87)
5. The Decemberists (Brixton Academy 21-02-15)
6. Paul McCartney (The O2 23-05-15)
7. James (Brixton Academy 15-10-08)
8. The Waterboys (Oxford Apollo 16-06-89)
9. Madness (support from Ian Dury and Morrissey) (Finsbury Park 08-08-92)
10. Richard Thompson (Croydon 01-07-03)
11. The Rolling Stones (Wembley Stadium 04-07-90)
12. Jimmy Page (Hammersmith Odeon 24-11-88)
13. REM (support from Radiohead, The Cranberries, Sleeper) (Milton Keynes Bowl 30-07-95)
14. David Bowie (Milton Keynes Bowl 04-08-90)
15. Ryan Adams (Cadogan Hall 01-11-11)
16. Robyn Hitchcock (The Betsy Trotwood 17-10-18)
17. Bruce Springsteen (Hyde Park 14-07-12)
18. Blondie (The Roundhouse 03-05-17)
19. Neil Young (Hyde Park 27-06-09)
20. U2 (Wembley Stadium 12-07-87)

Top 50 Beatles Songs

1. For No One
2. While My Guitar Gently Sleeps
3. Don't Let me Down
4. You've Got to Hide your Love Away
5. Help!
6. Things We Said Today
7. In My Life
8. Here, there and Everywhere
9. Nowhere Man
10. Eleanor Rigby
11. Blackbird
12. From Me to You
13. Girl
14. Something
15. We can work it out
16. Paperback Writer
17. Come Together
18. I'm Only Sleeping
19. Ticket to Ride
20. Got to Get You into my Life
21. Yesterday
22. Day Tripper
23. I Feel Fine
24. Old Brown Shoe
25. The Ballad of John  and Yoko
26. A Day in the Life
27. Hey Bulldog
28. A Hard Day's Night
29. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
30. Taxman
31. Golden Slumbers
32. Yer Blues
33. Helter Skelter
34. Strawberry Fields Forever
35. Penny Lane
36. All You Need is Love
37. I am the Walrus
38. Can't Buy Me Love
39. I Want to Tell You
40. If I Needed Someone
41. Dear Prudence
42. Back in the USSR
43. Revolution
44. Get Back
45. Rain
46. Fool on the Hill
47. Drive My Car
48. Eight Days a Week
49. I saw her standing there
50. All My Loving

Top 40 Madness Songs

1. It Must be Love
2. Embarrassment
3. The Sun and the Rain
4. One Better Day
5. Tomorrow's (Just Another Day)
6. Primrose Hill
7. My Girl
8. Shut Up
9. NW5
10. Disappear
11. The Return of the Los Palmas 7
12. Michael Caine
13. On the Town
14. Lovestruck
15. Forever Young
16. Our House
17. Grey Day
18. Night Boat to Cairo
19. The Prince
20. Keep Moving
21. Shadow on the House
22. One Step Beyond
23. Rise and Fall
24. The Liberty of Norton Folgate
25. Victoria Gardens
26. House of Fun
27. Drip Fed Fred
28. Johnny the Horse
29. Razor Blade Alley
30. On the Beat Pete
31. A Town with No Name
32. Crying Shame
33. Believe Me
34. Not Home Today
35. Yesterday's Men
36. (Waiting for) The Ghost Train
37. Uncle Sam
38. Never Knew Your Name
39. Clerkenwell Polka
40. One's Second's Thoughtlessness

Hate List

Behaviour in Public

1. Rushing past others to get on a train first
2. Walking in crowded areas staring at a phone
3. Playing anything loud on a phone instead of using headphones on public transport
4. Littering
5. Spitting
6. Being angry or abusive with people in customer service roles for something they are not at fault for
7. Rudeness to staff in restaurants, especially youngsters
8. Eating and making any sort of noise on public transport
9. Talking loudly on the phone with headphones in, instead of holding the phone to your ear
10. Feet on seats on public transport
11. Putting bags on the seat next to you on trains
12. Stopping in front of train barriers to look for your ticket and holding up a crowd behind you
13. Walking around holding a carton of some form of over-priced, frothy hot drink
14. Chewing gum
15. Whistling a tune

Attitudes/ opinions

1. Prejudice born from religious (or cultural-religious) beliefs
2. That individual rights over-ride responsibilities or duties
3. Being offended on behalf of others
4. Calling for people to be banned for making (what some people think are) offensive remarks (but are not abusive towards anyone)
5. Excusing unnecessary personal insult and rudeness as honest opinion
6. That saying something to someone's face is an attribute
7. Virtue signalling
8. Misapplication of the term 'racist'
9. Castigating all men for the sexism without realising the ironic reverse sexism in such criticism
10. Mocking white middle men aged as Gammons on the assumption that they are racist, without realising the irony of introducing a racial element into that criticism
11. Defending immigration as a default position, because to be slightly critical might seem racist
12. Being willing to criticise or ridicule one culture/ religion/ political group (etc) but claiming it to be wrong to do so for another
13. Belief in cultural relativism
14. An unwillingness to acknowledge that lots of people conform to stereotypes
15. Hand-wringing sentimentality
16. Aggressive social justice activism that demeans others who don't conform to the same opinions

In social interactions

1. Egocentrism in general
2. Specifically.... People who can't wait for you to finish your sentence so they can tell you about themselves and consequently don't listen to you or ask follow-up questions about anything you tell them
3. Interrupting someone talking to change the subject or make an irrelevant comment
4. Looking away constantly when you're talking to them
5. Being addressed as 'Bruv' or 'Geez'
6. Telling you what 'you should do'
7. Use of trite, faux wisdom / cliché truisms / platitudes / pocket philosophy
8. Use of particular vocabulary, fully aware that the audience won't understand it, in a deliberate show of intellectual superiority
9. The '2 shits' habit of responding to something others say with a claim to have done something similar but better (You've had one shit, well I've had two)
10. Claims to be mad/ nutty/ wacky, when clearly the person is a complete dullard
11. Kids who address each other as 'Fam'

Driving

1. Anything aggressive/ bullying
2. Non-disabled people parking in disabled places
3. Tail-gating
4. Under-taking in the wrong lane
5. Speeding
6. People with no children parking in parent-and-child spaces
7. Not bothering to indicate
8. Personalised number plates
9. Cyclists
10. Parking across 2 spaces

Domestic Annoyances

1. Things breaking down or house problems (e.g. leaks, boiler, appliance break down)
2. Untidiness (a) Allowing unwanted clutter to build up
3. Untidiness (b) Allowing wanted clutter to build up instead of putting it away somewhere
4. Food being thrown away (having been bought or cooked and not used before it goes off)
5. Noisy neighbours
6. Dirty dishes/ pans left in the sink instead of on the side
7. Un-emptied shopping bags left in front of cupboard doors in the kitchen
8. TV on too loud
9. People walking mud into the house
10. Clothes left lying around in the lounge
11. Curtains half opened

Most irritating celebrities

1. Diane Abbot
2. Jamie Oliver
3. Alan Davies
4. Danny Dyer
5. Stewart Lee
6. Lewis Hamilton
7. Michael McIntyre
8. Owen Jones
9. Sinead O'Connor
10. Charlie Stayt

Things I hate that most people like or don't mind

1. Dancing
2. Singing
3. Wearing shoes (I always opt for a boot or a trainer)
4. Going to the cinema (unless it is one with tables and sofas, for grown ups)
5. Parties (with few exceptions)
6. Cars
7. Football
8. Tracksuit bottoms
9. Drinking coffee at work

High St Shops

1. Starbucks, Pret or anywhere specialising in over-priced, frothy hot drinks
2. McDonald's
3. Over-priced clothes shops that play loud music
4. Nandos

Places of leisure

1. People who talk at gigs
2. People who hold up their phones (often blocking your view) at gigs to take lots of photos or, even worse, video
3. Allowing someone to serve you in a pub when someone next you was clearly at the bar first
4. People who take photos of interesting things/ views without stopping to actually look at them
5. People who stand in front of you while you look at a painting

Sport-related

• Football tribalism
• Acceptance of cheating as a strategy in football (e.g. inviting contact and falling to the ground to gain a penalty)
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Music

• Misogynistic / self-promoting/ brash/ arrogant/ aggressive lyrics in rap
• Rap, grime, urban, R n B.... all that sort of shit
• Improvisational Jazz
• Singers who constantly go up and down the scale while singing one word
• Boy bands
• World Music

Social Media

1. Soundbite arguing on Twitter
2. Trolling
3. Caring about unfollowing on Twitter
4. Preaching
5. Posting something copied and pasted for a cause that includes a line like, 'most people won't pass this on, but real friends will'

Regional Accents

1. Scouse 

People in certain professions/ jobs

1. Politicians
2. Estate agents
3. Barmen in cocktail bars who spin/juggle bottle

TV

1. Love Island/ Big Brother style shows, full of thick, egotistical millenials
2. Mrs Brown's Boys
3. Eastenders
4. Most news programmes
5. The Big Question
6. Irrelevant sex scenes in dramas
7. The Politics Show

Smells

1. Salami breath
2. Sour milk
3. Dog shit
4. Garlic breath
5. Whiskey breath
6. Scrumpy

What people wear

1. Bandanas covering half he face
2. Hoodies with hoods up 
3. Tracksuit bottoms (in Chav-grey)
4. Skinny jeans
5. Crocs

Animals

1. Rats
2. Wasps
3. Cats
4. Flies

Top albums based on overall emotional impact

1. I am Kloot - I am Kloot
2. Gold - Ryan Adams
3. Sky at Night - I am Kloot
4. Reading, Writing and Arithmetic - The Sundays
5. Small Town Heroes - Hurray for the Riff Raff
6. Oh Mercy - Bob Dylan
7. The Unforgettable Fire - U2
8. Together Alone - Crowded House
9. Martha Wainwright - Martha Wainwright
10. Look Out Mama - Hurray for the Riff 
11. Cold Roses - Ryan Adams
12. Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys
13. Clutching at Straws - Marillion
14. Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel
15. Play Moolah Rouge - I am Kloot
16. Wish you were Here - Pink Floyd
17. Old Kit Bag - Richard Thompson
18. Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
19. Misplaced Childhood - Marillion
20. The Joshua Tree - U2

Saddest celebrity deaths (as felt at the time)

1. David Bowie
2. Elisabeth Sladen
3. David Rocastle
4. Roy Kinnear
5. Carrie Fisher
6. Freddie Mercury
7. George Harrison
8. Prince
9. Victoria Wood
10. Muhammed Ali
11. Ronnie Barker
12. Richard Wright
13. Dermot Morgan
14. George Cole
15. Larry Hagman
16. Michael Conrad
17. Caroline Aherne
18. Yootha Joyce
19. John Hurt
20. Peter Sellars
21. Tom Petty
22. Gary Holton
23. Rik Mayall
24. George Michael

(there were 25 on the list, but I found out later that Paul Michael Glaser is still alive, so I think I was sad about his wife and son dying of AIDs)

Favourite Lines from Songs

1. Don't let the clouds clutter up your sky (Shoeless, I am Kloot)
2. And it's only the giving that makes you what you are (Wondrin' Aloud, Jethro Tull)
3. Colour is its own reward (Fingers of Love, Crowded House)
4. Only one thing I did wrong, stayed in Mississippi a day too long (Mississippi, Bob Dylan)
5. And who am I, to dare to pull the stars from your favourite sky? (Your Favourite Sky, I am Kloot)
6. You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright, and that's alright by me (Thunder Road, Bruce Springsteen)
7. My finest hour that I've ever know was finding a pound on the underground (My Finest Hour, The Sundays)
8. The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face (Visions of Johanna, Bob Dylan)
9. Leave alone the empty spaces (John Bramwell, Leave Alone the Empty Spaces)
10. Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose (Kris Kristofferson, Me and Bobby McGee)
11. If Heaven is a place upon your skin, that I might have touched from without to within, then dust yourself for fingerprints and grin, and grin (Fingerprints, I am Kloot)
12. Don't even remember what her lips felt like on mine,  most of the time (Most of the Time, Bob Dylan)
13. Don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to (Oh Well (part one), Fleetwood Mac)
14. God said to Abraham, 'Kill me a son!' Abe said, 'Man you must be puttin' me on.' (Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan
15. She was a rare thing, fine as a bee's wing (Beeswing, Richard Thompson)
16. All aboard Brenda's Iron Sledge, please don't call me Reg, that's not my name (Brenda's Iron Sledge, Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians)
17. A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest (The Boxer, Simon and Garfunkel

Favourite Cities Visited

1. New York
2. Seville
3. Copenhagen
4. Reykjavik
5. Athens
6. Florence
7. Paris
8. Vienna
9. Dublin
10. Salzburg
11. Washington
12. Budapest
13. Philadelphia
14. Rome
15. Paphos
16. Munich
17. Madrid
18. Berlin
19. Venice
20. Cologne

Favourite Writers

1. George Bernard Shaw
2. Kurt Vonneugt
3. George Orwell
4. Graham Greene
5. Nick Hornby
6. Louis de Bernieres
7. John Wyndham
8. Peter Ackroyd
9. J D Salinger
10. H G Wells

Favourite Musicians

vocals

1. Alynda Lee Segarra (Hurray for the Riff Raff)
2. Ryan Adams
3. Harriet Wheeler (The Sundays)
4. Neil Finn
5. Freddie Mercury
6. Conor Oberst
7. Townes Van Zandt
8. The Everly Brothers
9. Natalie Merchant (10,000 Maniacs)
10. Waylon Jennings

guitar

1. Peter Green (Fleetwood Mac)
2. Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)
3. Richard Thompson (Fairport Convention/solo)
4. Peter Buck (R.E.M)
5. David Gilmore (Pink Floyd)
6. Johnny Marr (The Smiths)
7. Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits)
8. Robbie Kriegar (The Doors)
9. Keith Richards (The Rolling Stones)
10. Robbie Robertson (The Band)
11. Brian May (Queen)
12. John Squire (The Stone Roses)
13. Bernard Butler (Suede/solo/other)
14. Richie Havens
15. Dave Rawlings (has backed Gillian Welch and Ryan Adams)

bass

1. Pete Jobson (I am Kloot)
2. John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin)
3. Paul McCartney (The Beatles)
4. Trevor Bolder (Spiders from Mars)
5. Mark Bedford (Madness)
6. Sting (The Police)

drums

1. Ringo Starr (The Beatles)
2. Andy Hargreaves (I am Kloot)
3. John Densmore (The Doors)
4. John Bonham (Led Zeppelin)
5. Stewart Copeland (The Police)

keyboards/piano

1. Mike Barson (Madness)
2. John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin)
3. Billy Preston
4. Mike Garson (backed Bowie)

flute

1. Ian Anderson

Favourite Actors/Actresses (so far as I can think of them)

1. Robert de Niro
2. Toni Collette
3. Rod Steigar
4. Robert Duvall
5. Dustin Hoffman
6. Gary Oldman
7. Sally Hawkins
8. Peter Sellars
9. Henry Fonda
10. Gene Hackman
11. Frances McDormand
12. Al Pacino
13. Christopher Walken
14. Albert Finney
15. George C Scott
16. 
    

Favourite Films

Drama

1. The Godfather Part II

2. The Godfather

3. The Deer Hunter

4. Dirty Harry

5. Rocky

6. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

7. The Omen

8. Psycho

9. Midnight Cowboy

10. The Parallex View

11. Made in England

12. The Elephant Man

13. Dog Day Afternoon

14. No Country for Old Men

15. Once Upon a Time in the West

16. In the Heat of the Night

17. Mississippi Burning

18. Schindler’s List

19. The Man who would be King

20. Inside Llewyn Davis

21. Blood Simple

22.  Taxi Driver

23. North by Northwest

24. Twelve Angry Men

25. The Third Man

26. The Pawnbroker

27. Scarecrow

28. Network

29. On the Waterfront

30. Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (1956)

Comic/drama

1. The Graduate

2. Lost in Translation

3. Fargo

4. Little Miss Sunshine

5. Fever Pitch

6. Pulp Fiction

7. Hunt for the Wilder People

8. True Romance

9. The King of Comedy

Comedy

1. When Harry Met Sally

2. Please Sir

3. The Big Lebowski

4. The Pink Panther Strikes Again

5. What we do in the Shadows

6. Kenny

7. Dr Strangelove (Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb)

8. About a Boy

9. Bridesmaids

10. Steptoe and Son Ride Again

11. American Pie 3: The Wedding

12. American Pie

13. Austin Powers: The Spy who shagged me

14. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

Sci-Fi/ fantasy

1. Star Wars

2. The Empire Strikes Back

3. Superman II

4. Superman 

5. Return of the Jedi

Musical/Music-comedy

1. Scrooge

2. The Blues Brothers

The Five Best Years in Popular Music History (based on album releases)

1969 -

• Abbey Road - The Beatles
• Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
• Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin
• The Soft Parade - The Doors
• Stand Up - Jethro Tull
• Everybody Knows this is Nowhere - Neil Young
• Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake
• Let it Bleed - The Rolling Stones
• Liege and Lief - Fairport Convention
• Unhalfbricking - Fairport Convention
• Nashville Skyline - Bob Dylan
• Then Play On - Fleetwood Mac
• The Band - The Band
• Space Oddity - David Bowie
• Townes Van Zandt - Townes Van Zandt
• Our Mother the Mountain - Townes Van Zandt

1970 - 

• Morrison Hotel - The Doors
• Let it Be - The Beatles
• The Man Who Sold the World - David Bowie
• Led Zeppelin III - Led Zeppelin
• Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel
• Benefit - Jethro Tull
• New Morning - Bob Dylan
• After the Gold Rush - Neil Young
• All Things Must Pass - George Harrison
• Paul McCartney - Paul McCartney
• Self Portrait - Bob Dylan
• Deja Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
• John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
• Tumbleweed Connection - Elton John
• Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd

1971 - 

• Hunky Dory - David Bowie
• L.A. Woman - The Doors
• Untitled 4th album (Led Zeppelin IV) - Led Zeppelin
• Meddle - Pink Floyd
• Aqualung - Jethro Tull
• Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones
• Imagine - John Lennon
• Ram - Paul and Linda McCartney
• Bryter Later - Nick Drake
• Nursery Cryme - Genesis
• Madman Across the Water - Elton John

1980 - 

• Absolutely - Madness
• Zenyatta Mondatta - The Police
• The River - Bruce Springsteen
• Saved - Bob Dylan
• Never for Ever - Kate Bush
• Autoamerican - Blondie
• Closer - Joy Division
• Boy - U2
• Scary Monsters and Super Creeps - David Bowie
• McCartney II - Paul McCartney
• Sound Affects - The Jam
• Making Movies - Dire Straits
• Searching for the Young Soul Rebels - Dexy's Midnight Runners
• Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel
• More Specials - The Specials
• Get Happy - Elvis Costello

1995 - 

• King - Belly
• The Bends - Radiohead
• Different Class - Pulp
• The Sound of McAlmont and Butler
• Tigerlily - Natalie Merchant
• To Bring You My Love - PJ Harvey
• What's the Story, Morning Glory? - Oasis
• Roots to Branches - Jethro Tull
• Stanley Road - Paul Weller
• Worry Bomb - Carter USM
• Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morrissette
• I Should Coco - Supergrass

Tube stations remind me of when...

Piccadilly Line

• Cockfosters - Parking here to get the tube to Arsenal (in my 30s/40s)
• Oakwood - Getting the tube to primary school with Peggy and her funny kids Jon and Thomas Caulfield (aged 6-12)
• Southgate - Living near here (aged 6-12) and visiting Wimpy and Our Price  - opposite the station - a lot
• Arnos Grove - Got off here for primary school (aged 6-11), visited the park here a lot (mid teens) and parked here to get the tube to work in Coutts (aged 19-21)
• Wood Green - shopping in Wood Green Shopping centre and high street (aged 6-18)
• Turnpike Lane - going to the cinema (mid teens), drinking in the Wellington on the way to the Archway Tavern (late teens) and taking students from D&K on trips into London from here (in my 20s)
• Manor House - going to Cats (Catacomb club) after the Archway Tavern (late teens)
• Finsbury Park - getting off here for Arsenal games, when we thought Arsenal tube would be packed (in my late teens, 20s, 30s and early 40s)
• Arsenal - going to Highbury and the Emirates (as above)
• Covent Garden - evenings out at the Roadhouse (early 20s)
• Leicester Square - don't know, just seems I've used it constantly for days/nights out over the decades
• Hammersmith - have seen lots of gigs here and also always got off the X1 bus from Reading here to get a tube home when returning from university for occasional weekends

Northern Line

• Edgware - shopped here a lot when living in Colindale (mid 20s)
• Burnt Oak - lived here (mid 20s)
• Colindale - lived here (mid 20s) but rarely used the station as Burnt Oak was nearer
• Hendon Central - Jack's first childminder lived here; also we visited a great Chinese restaurant here (mid-late 20s)
• Brent Cross - went to the shopping centre a lot (as a kid and mid-20s) but never from the tube
• Golders Green - drove through it every time I drove my wife to/from work when living in Colindale and Borehamwood (mid 20s and early 30s)
• Hampstead - can't recall living here, but visited the area a lot when my wife trained as a nurse at the Royal Free and lived close
• Belsize Park - Went to primary school here (aged 4-6) and spent a lot of time in the area when my wife trained as a nurse at the Royal Free and lived close
• Chalk Farm - lived opposite (aged 3-6) and currently work opposite too
• Camden Town - visited a lot on the 29 bus to visit Stiff Records (Madness's record company) early to mid teens
• Tottenham Court Road - Visited the big HMV and Virgin shops here a lot (mid teens)
• Embankment - don't know, just seems I've used it constantly for days/nights out over the decades
• Waterloo - met my wife here in the early days when she travelled from Surrey to visit me, also did my PGCE/teacher training here (early 20s)
• Angel - Lots of nights out in this area (30s)
• Archway - went to the Archway Tavern a lot (and proposed to my wife here) although never travelled here by tube (late teens)
• Kentish Town - first place I lived (can't remember) and currently get off here for work

Jubilee Line

• Stanmore - parked here a lot, when living in Borehamwood, in order to get to Wembley for Arsenal games (30s)
• Canon's Park - parked here a lot when living in Colindale, in order to do the same
• Wembley Park - first ever concert at the stadium was U2 and have been to a few others since (Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Springsteen, Oasis) plus several at the arena (REM, Beautiful South, Madness, Bob Dylan) and visits to cup finals/semis/Arsenal Champions' League games
• West Hampstead - since living in St Albans, I seem to always have a reason to change here when travelling into London (a family in-joke); also lots of nights out with Mount Grace Humanities friends here
• St John's Wood - both parents grew up here and visited a lot as a kid (until mid teens)
• Swiss Cottage - shopped here a lot (aged 3-6 with my mum obvs)

Bakerloo Line

• Regent's Park - visited a lot as a kid when visiting grandparents in St John's Wood (but never via the tube)

Circle and District Lines

• High St Kensington - worked at Coutts Bank here (in my late teens)
• Sloane Square - worked at Coutts Bank here (late teens/early 20s)
• Blackfriars - always changed here on the way to hospital appointments for my daughter (late 40s)

Victoria Line

• Victoria - accompanied my wife back here in our early days of going out, when she'd visit me in London from Surrey and went home from here on Sunday evenings

Best TV programmes of the 70s and 80s (as enjoyed at the time)

1. Doctor Who
2. Minder
3. The Sweeney
4. Hill Street Blues
5. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
6. The Young Ones
7. Porridge
8. Dallas
9. Soap
10. The Six Million Dollar Man
11. Rainbow
12. The Two Ronnies
13. Starsky and Hutch
14. Going for Gold
15. Mr Benn
16. Bagpuss
17. Rising Damp
18. George and Mildred
19. Happy Days
20. The Dick Emery Show
21. Bruce Forsyth's Generation Game
22. Robin of Sherwood
23. Brookside
24. Dad's Army
25. The Good Life
26. Roobarb
27. Dick Turpin
28. Coronation Street
29. Mr Men
30. Upstairs Downstairs

Countries Visited in order of preference

1. Switzerland
2. Iceland
3. Denmark
4. Ireland
5. USA
6. Cyprus
7. Greece
8. Spain
9. Austria
10. Germany
11. Portugal
12. Italy
13. France
14. Tunisia
15. Belgium
16. Hungary
17. Holland
18. Turkey

Favourite Music Artists (with album and gig count)

1. Bob Dylan (7)
2. I am Kloot (10+5 Bramwell solo)
3. The Beatles (1 McCartney solo)
4. Madness (4)
5. David Bowie (1)
6. Neil Young (2)
7. The Doors
8. Led Zeppelin (2 Page solo & Plant solo)
9. The Decemberists (2)
10. Robyn Hitchcock
11. Kate Bush
12. Pink Floyd (1)
13. Jethro Tull (c.3)
14. Bruce Springsteen (2)
15. Richard Thompson (c.6)
16. The Rolling Stones (1)
17. Ryan Adams (2)
18. Blondie (2)
19. R.E.M. (2)
20. Simon and Garfunkel (1 Garfunkel solo)
21. Queen
22. Johnny Cash
23. Fleetwood Mac
24. Willie Nelson
25. Hurray for the Riff Raff
26. The Smiths (2 Morrissey solo)
27. The Police
28. Crowded House
29. 10,000 Maniacs/Natalie Merchant (1/1)
30. The Sundays (1)
31. Fun Boy 3
32. Marillion
33. Bobbie Gentry
34. Belly (1)
35. Dire Straits
36. James (1)
37. U2 (1)
38. Townes Van Zandt
39. Waylon Jennings
40. The Waterboys (1)

number in brackets = Number of gigs attended.

Favourite 10 and 40 Doctor Who Episodes

Part One - 1963-89&1996

1. Terror of the Zygons (Baker)
2. The Talons of Weng Chiang (Baker)
3. Genesis of the Daleks (Baker)
4. The Android Invasion (Baker)
5. Pyramids of Mars (Baker)
6. The Brain of Morbius (Baker)
7. The Stones of Blood (Baker)
8. Logopolis (Baker)
9. Spearhead from Space (Pertwee)
10. The Androids of Tara (Baker)

Part Two - 2005+

1. Blink (Tennant)
2. Human Nature/ The Family of Blood (Tennant)
3. The Girl Who Waited (Smith)
4. The Impossible Astronaut/ Day of the Moon (Smith)
5. Army of Ghosts/ Doomsday (Tennant)
   
6. Silence in the Library/ Forest of the Dead (Tennant)
7. Heaven Sent (Capaldi)
8. The Stolen Earth/ Journey's End (Tennant)
9. The Angels Take Manhatten (Smith)
10. Bad Wolf/ The Parting of the Waves (Eccleston)
11. Turn Left (Tennant)
12. The Time of Angels/ Flesh and Stone (Smith)
13. Under the Lake/ Before the Flood (Capaldi)
14. The Magician's Apprentice/ The Witch's Familiar (Capaldi)
15. Hell Bent (Capaldi)
16. Rise of the Cybermen/ The Age of Steel (Tennant)
17. Love and Monsters (Tennant)
18. Midnight (Tennant)
19. The Crimson Horror (Smith)
20. The Name of the Doctor (Smith)
21. The Day of the Doctor (Smith/ Tennant/ Hurt/ Baker)
22. The Time of the Doctor (Smith)
23. Deep Breath (Capaldi)
24. The Eleventh Hour (Smith)
25. Dark Water/ Death in Heaven (Capaldi)
26. The Unquiet Dead (Eccleston)
27. The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances (Eccleston)
28. The Pandorica Opens/ The Big Bang (Smith)
29. World Enough and Time/ The Doctor Falls (Capaldi)
30. The God Complex (Smith)
31. A Christmas Carol (Smith)
32. The Rebel Flesh/ The Almost People (Smith)
33. Face the Raven (Capaldi)
34. The End of Time parts 1 and 2 (Tennant)
35. The Impossible Planet/ The Satan Pit (Tennant)
36. School Reunion (Tennant)
37. Cold War (Smith)
38. Hide (Smith)
39. The Girl in the Fireplace (Tennant)
40. Mummy on the Orient Express (Capaldi)

Coen Brothers Films in order of preference

1. The Big Lebowski
2. Fargo
3. Inside Llewyn Davis
4. Blood Simple
5. No Country for Old Men
6. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
7. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
8. Burn After Reading
9. Barton Fink
10. Hail Caesar!
11. Miller's Crossing
12. The Ladykillers
13. Raising Arizona
14. Intolerable Cruelty
15. The Hudsucker Proxy
16. True Grit
17. The Man Who Wasn't There
18. A Serious Man

All Beatles albums in order of preference

1. Revolver
2. Rubber Soul
3. Abbey Road
4. The Beatles (The White Album)
5. Let it Be
6. Magical Mystery Tour
7. A Hard Day's Night
8. Help!
9. Please, Please Me
10. With the Beatles
11. Beatles for Sale
12. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

All Bob Dylan Studio Albums in order of preference

1. Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
2. Blood on the Tracks (1975)
3. Blonde on Blonde (1966)
4. Oh Mercy (1989)
5. Love and Theft (2001)
6. Bringing it all Back Home (1965)
7. Slow Train Coming (1979)
8. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963)
9. John Wesley Harding (1967)
10. Planet Waves (1974)
11. Time Out of Mind (1997)
12. Desire (1976)
13. Infidels (1983)
14. Modern Times (2006)
15. Together Through Life (2009)
16. Saved (1980)
17. New Morning (1970)
18. Self Portrait (1970)
19. The Basement Tapes (1975 rec 1967)
20. Street Legal (1978)
21. Shot of Love (1981)
22. Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964)
23. The Times They Are-A Changin' (1964)
24. Bob Dylan (1962)
25. Empire Burlesque (1985)
26. Nashville Skyline (1969)
27. Knocked Out Loaded (1986)
28. Tempest (2012)
29. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)
30. World Gone Wrong (1993)
31. Under the Red Sky (1990)
32. Shadows in the Night (2015)
33. Triplicate (2017)
34. Fallen Angels (2016)
35. Down in the Groove (1988)
36. Good as I Been to You (1992)
37. Dylan (1973)
38. Christmas in the Heart (2009)