Name - Findlay Mackinnon.

Date and Place of Birth - 28 April 1970.

Instruments Played - Drums and percussion.

Where Do You Live - Stourbridge, West Midlands.

Favourite Films - Shoot The Pianist, The Maggie, A Bout De Souffle, The Ladykillers, generally anything by Ealing Studios, and right now anything by Francois Ozon, especially Swimming Pool.

Favourite Books - Don Quixote, House With The Green Shutters, The Rotters Club, Peter Pan, Of Mice And Men and Robert Frank: The Americans.

Favourite TV Programme - The Wire.

Favourite Coronation Street Character - Fred the Butcher. My wife calls me Fred and says I look and act like him!

Favourite Records - Machine Gun Etiquette by The Damned, Buena Vista Social Club Volume One, Historie de Melody Nelson and Gainsbourg en Concert Theatre le Palace 1980 by Serge Gainsbourg, Carnegie Hall Concert by Benny Goodman, Odelay by Beck, Oracular Spectacular by MGMT, The Hour Of Bewildebeast by Badly Drawn Boy, Morven Callar soundtrack, Thin Lizzy's Greatest Hits, Loaded by The Velvet Underground.

Favourite Flavour Of Crisp - Seabrooks Worcester Sauce.

Favourite Food - Tartiflette, creme brulee, chorizo.

Favourite Drink - Batham's Bitter.

Greatest Embarrassment - Being locked out of a motel in my boxer shorts at night, trying to have a crafty cig with everyone else asleep!

Favourite Place To Eat - Le Train Bleau Gare de Lyon, Paris, Cafe Pause Rue de Charon, Bastille, Paris.

First Job - YTS machine operator.

First Crush - Probably Debbie Harry.

First Record Bought - The Funky Gibbon by The Goodies.

Previous Bands - The Clique, Melodia and Hard Left.

When Did You Last Cry - Watching a programme about the abuse suffered by so-called witch children in Nigeria.

What Books Are You Reading At The Moment - Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

What Would Be Your Ideal Holiday - Anywhere in France with my wife.

What Do You Wear Around The House - PJ bottoms and my "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" t-shirt.

Who Would You Least Like To Be Stuck In A Lift With - A cannibal.

Have You Ever Seen A Ghost - No, but I've felt the ghost of electricity.

What Have You Got In Your Pockets - Leaky pens and stained bits of meaningless scraps of paper and keys for cupboards that I will never open!

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