1. Who’s your favourite Muppet?
There can be only one.
2. What was your first home like (that you can remember)?
I was brought up in my late aunt's home in East Wall, down near the Dublin docks (so much so that there is a pub down the road called the Wharf Tavern). It had a fantastic back garden with the most incredible profusion of flowers - my aunt was an amazing gardener - and I think also vegetables, maybe onions and carrots. The flower I always remember is the lupin, tall as myself (at about 8/9 years) and something called London Pride. There was a swing and a broken-down garage which was a death-trap, so of course we spent a lot of time in there. Inside there was an old sidecar, but no motorbike. The neighbour's apple trees overhung our garden and every so often apples would just drop off the branches and land in our garden among the flowers set against the wall. My ma used to make the most gorgeous apple tarts with them.
Standing in the garden you could look over to the left and see the church bell tower looming over you, and of course the bells rang out loudly, making this one of my favourite sounds, the other being that of trains. Walking outside you could look up the road and watch the trains trundle over the bridge on their way into or out of the city. The sound at night was so soothing. A short walk up the road (10 mins or so) was Fairview Park, which you entered by crossing a bridge over the river, which was usually populated with large swans and ducks. You could stand on the bridge and watch the ducks or swans float towards you, vanish for a moment under the bridge and then (if you ran to the other side) watch them float back out. We used to drop bits of bread down for them. I really miss East Wall. We moved out when I was about 10 I think.
3. What, currently, is your main or preferred mode of experiencing music?
Anything from my hard drive using probably VLC player, or else YouTube. DOWN WITH SPOTIFY!
4. What was the last gig you attended?
Years and years ago. Think it might have been Peter Gabriel's Secret World Tour, about 1990?
5. Would you rather take a trip on an old sailing ship, a steam train, or neither?
I don't do well at sea, but I think I'd like to try the sailing ship anyway. I've done the steam engine though I was very young when we went on one.
6. How organised are you, in general?
Now where did I put next week's questions???
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