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Likes and Dislikes
Favourite music
JAZZ, JAZZ, JAZZ, JAZZ, JAZZ, JAZZ, JAZZ, JAZZ.
Favourite colour
Blue.
Favourite food
French, Italian, Indian and Chinese (I'm not a great balti fan although I am now starting to like it, particularly at 1.00 am after a gig).
Favourite possessions
My saxes, my Macintosh MacBookPro and my 1997 Porsche 911 (993) Targa.
Favourite football team
Brentford FC (I’m a life member of their supporters club).
Funniest TV Programme
Green Wing (plus the US and UK getamac ads - although not sure they count), Boston Legal, Beautiful People.
Most pleasurable moment
Better not in case Tricia reads this!
Most frightening moment
Late 1960s at East London Stadium playing under floodlights against West Ham United youth team (a West London boy in East London territory thinking he was going to be attacked by somebody with a sawn-off shotgun!).
Most exciting moment
Difficult! Seeing Dexter Gordon and Sonny Stitt live, and the Bees getting promoted to Division One.
Hero
Dexter Gordon.
Most irritating thing
People who spell ophthalmology (and accommodation) incorrectly.
Greatest ambition
To be a very good saxophone player (to get rid of my grey hairs).
If I won the Lotto
I would never have to worry about grants ever again.
Other Interests
Apart from playing sax in Out Of The Blue, I am a Macintosh fanatic and a webaholic (probably an ebayaholic). A number of years ago I played alto and tenor saxes in a band called The Academics.
I keep fit by working out and running about twice a week (Tricia makes me do half marathons with her). I still have a strong interest in football and when I was a student I played a reasonable standard of amateur football. I represented London Schools and Southern Public Schools, and was captain of my Medical School and United Hospitals (I even played for a team called Athletico Neasden!).