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What's your favourite day of the year?

 

Have you ever stolen anything?

 

I think I'll choose the saturday of the Beautiful Days Weekend, it's been fun for the last 4 years now.

 

Loads of lighters, but if your really asking about deliberate theft, then yes but not very often. The last deliberate would of been about 14 years ago when I stole some petrol from a garage when short from driving back from london, and before that I would reckon a childhood shoplift.

 

Someone I know stole candyfloss from a kid at a funfair recently - pretty muchy as close as you get to stealing candy from a baby!


What's the worst thing you've ever done?

 

Thats just bloody sad ain't it.

Looks over shoulder. I've feel I've been very active in living a life with the principal of no harm so again nothing particularly bad. The worst thing is love outside of marriage, which I firmly deny was within my control, but unfortunatly does still involve the concept of betrayal, that would have to be the worst.

 

I've always thought my friends' parents who have done drugs have been pretty cool. Do your children know that you do drugs? If so, what do you tell them about drugs? If not, would you tell them about them? And what advice would you give them if they wanted to do them in later life?

 

I have a 19 year old son and two girls of 10 and 12.

Been a regular smoker since the boy was 3. All three children observe me skinning and smoking, I've never deemed it something I should hide, so it is perceived as narural behaviour, my visitors if inclined are able to do also. Chemical substances are not part of my life except when attending a party, but then the little ones aren't around.

We are obliged to discuss drugs when the children hear of it from schol teachers. I tell them that everything they consume can be classed as a drug, and the most widely used and abused is of course alcohol, I ask them to observe the behaviour of their friends parents, they're bound to know the odd alcoholic. Nothing is bad per se, just legal and illegal.

Had bigger conversations with the boy because of his age and the same line exists but with the obvious caution about mind altering substances, namely find a guru to do your first with. The best prevention for misuse is hard work, if your a busy body then you won't have the time for dependence.

 

What's your favourite high?

 

I have enjoyed many a pleasant evening on MDMA, I enjoy a dance and smiles to go with it.

 

Always good fun. Do you tend to get pills, or powdered MDMA?

 

Always been powder, except for very early doors when it used to be called Ecstacy.

 

Where do you end up finding good MDMA powder? Never had much luck. Though never had any cause to complain about quality of pills either....

 

lol, now that I can't say can I.

Local is about as good as it gets. I would say I don't have to ask very often the boys are usually at the same parties I go to.

 

If you could design the line-up for next years BD Saturday, who would you put on?

 

Good one Al. I would assume the Levellers to do the Sunday.

11-Dawn The Grateful Dead​

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9-11 Neil Young​

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7-9 3 Daft Monkeys​

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5-7 Faithless​

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3-5 Tori Amos​

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1-3 Waterboys​

 

You've put the Daft Monkees in some distinguished company! But they are a wicked band. Their performance this year was probably the best I've seen from them. What bands have you discovered at Beautiful Days that you've really liked?

 

Well the Monkeys for a kick off, saw them first time at the first BD's.

Alabama 3 heard the name but only heard them for the first time there.

Others that come to mind:-
Dan Donnelly lovely Irish singer, saw tears in the eyes of the audience.
Jill Sobule a sweet canadian lady with quirky songs.
The Dhol Poundation, brilliant drumming.

 

Dhol Foundation were pretty good. I was sceptical at first. Tahmina loved them and rushed backstage to accost one of them straight after their performance.


If you could see one great band or artist from history, at the height of their careers, who would it be?

 

I would of loved to of been around for early Dylan, not just him but the whole vibe of the era.