Today, Butcher Boy consists of Andy, who is playing the bass guitar, Johnny, who is playing the guitar and singing, and Susie, who is playing a keyboard.

Butcher Boy tries to write songs about people with soft lips and cold hands. People who tortured ladybirds as kids and feel really guilty about it now. People who've spent their whole life looking for a supermarket that stocks lime sorbet. People who foster the little problems so that they can blame them on the big ones later on.

Butcher Boy is in favour of:-

Walks in parks on cold, sunny days; bacon rolls; travelling on half-empty coaches through the night; snow; The Nightmare Before Christmas; watermelons; My Life As A Dog; light brown jackets; looking at streetlights on nights when it's snowing; cheese on toast; the bit in Play It Again, Sam when Alan is trying to impress his blind date in his flat; frost; Ivor The Engine; cellos; cutting toast into heart shapes; those lollipops that are whistles; a perfectly tuned guitar; Benylin; kids with their two front teeth missing; waking up at six and relaising you can stay in bed for another hour; beating the Countdown champion; sliding down an icy hill; cashnew nuts; Pepsi Cola; expandable watch straps; Vince Guaraldi; peeling the back off a sticker; It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown; Mersey Paradise by The Stone Roses; laying out fanzine pages; wind chimes; Newcastle accents; Fall On Me by REM; buying cakes from a bakery; Kenneth Williams; The Hound Of The Baskervilles with Basil Rathbone; Laverne And Shirley; carving pumpkins; 101 Dalmatians; Brookside from 1985; The Phil Silvers Show; Nigel Slater's column in The Observer; getting a parcel in the post; Captain Caveman; listening to The Smiths on sunny summer evenings; cine cameras; the bit in Paul Calf's Video Diary when Paul messes up his Chuck Norris quote; Queens Park in Glasgow; rain that bounces off the road; bonfires; the occasional Famous Five book; Halloween sweets from Marks And Spencer; the sound of trains on cold nights; thinking of Andy's brother strapping a Hoover to his back and asking the neighbours if they had any ghosts they needed busting; peanut butter on the end piece of bread; Adidas ZX600; Hampstead Heath; lightning in summer; reading old letters; finding £5 you'd forgotten about; 7" singles with three songs; someone laughing at your jokes; Twisterella and Vapour Trail by Ride; very smooth stones; the bit in Gregory's Girl when Richard calls on Madeline; cornflakes with ice-cold milk; rainy Sunday afternoons in bed; Sebadoh; Rugrats; Will Hay in a fireman's suit; Nuts In May; shops that have sweets in jars on shelves; ciabatta and Boursin; Farenheit aftershave; blue jeans with 18" bottoms; Holden Caulfield; having warm feet; Jonny Briggs; beer just out of the fridge; pomegranates; long train journeys; football on the radio on Saturday afternoons; the smell of fresh paint and new carpets; Sure Blue deodorant; kissing; pots of tea; burning coal.

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