1. Love
2. Music
3. Art
Sir Peter Blake
1. A mother’s love and support for her children
2. The scent of magnolia
3. Waterfalls
……….and you for putting this together
Chaz Jankel – The Blockheads
1. Graeae
2. Theatre
3. Company
Jemima Dury
1. ET
2. Leicester City Football Club
3. Paul McCartney
Tom Meighan – Kasabian
1. The music of the Spheres
2. Racking up the beers
3. A friendship of the soul
4. Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
5. The rising of the sun
6. The love of my mum
7. The end of money owed
8. The Blockheads on the road
Mick Gallagher – The Blockheads
1. I’ve got 2 wonderful grandchildren, Joe & Mia and they make me very happy
2. I’ve been with my wife for 38 years now and she hasn’t changed the lock on the front door
3. I’m still making programmes
John Sullivan OBE – Writer
1. Theatre is booming in the recession: ta da!
2. While the world has boundaries, the imagination is limitless
3. The sun is always shining somewhere…imagine you are there
Robin Sheppard – Award winning & Bafta Nominated Director
1. The Beatles
2. Gypsy Caravans
3. Ice cold white wine
Terry Rawlings – Pop Historian
1. Watching my beautiful wife Diane while she sleeps
2. My Roland Jupiter 4, the classic analogue synthesizer my wife bought me for Xmas last year
3. Ian Dury – the punk cripple hero of this punk cripple
Mik Scarlet – Actor / TV Presenter
1. Performing: As a singer I am lucky that I get to perform at some amazing places, to great audiences and with great musicians
2. Motherhood: Seeing my kids grow in to amazing adults and doing so well makes me so proud
3. My dogs: Make me smile every day. So lovable. Always unconditional love and so funny too
Rowetta – Happy Mondays & X Factor
1. One copy of The Times contains more information than a 17th century man would have seen in his lifetime
2. We are blessed with Cancer Research UK
3. Sky+
Martin Roach – Author
1. My daughter Mia’s smile
2. The music of the Beatles
3. Primrose Hill on a clear sunny morning
Gary Crowley – Radio DJ & TV presenter
1. Not watching oil run into the gulf of Mexico!
2. My dog and cat
3. A new tattoo
Paul Rutherford – Frankie Goes to Hollywood
1. The smell of a puppy’s ears
2. Swallows on the wing
3. Ken Dodd
Joe McGann – Actor
1. My daughter’s smile. It could light up the room
2. Being indoors with a cup of Earl Grey while the rain pours down outside
3. A rare lie in
Nicola Stephenson – Actress
1. The big smile my beautiful baby boy gives me when I go to get him out of his cot in the morning
2. The love and support of my friends and family even when times are tough
3. The opportunity to travel – experiencing new countries, new cultures and meeting new people
Paul Popplewell – Actor
1. I was lucky enough to know Ian Dury well and to be able to play SOME – although not all (too naughty!) – of his songs on the radio
2. I’ve got a roof over my head whereas a lot of people haven’t
3. I seem to be able to look on the positive side. I try to be a ‘glass half full’ person!
Annie Nightingale – Radio DJ
1. A mashed potato
2. A smiling dog
3. Playing ‘Reasons to be Cheerful’ on big speakers
Dave Brown – The Mighty Boosh
1. It’s the same life whether we spend it complaining or laughing
2. My children grow strong day by day
3. I love my iPad, my Blackberry and twitter
Ade – Actor Snatch & Casino Royal
1. A child was born today, a precious new life, a new beginning
2. Somewhere right now, at this very moment in time, the sun is shining
3. Music, the gift that keeps on giving. It’s cheesy, but so true!
Best wishes
Skye – Morcheeba
1. Just have to sing at the top of your voice
2. Finding a quid
3. Running about in your pants in a thunderstorm in your own garden
Mark Bazeley – Actor
1. The love of a good woman
2. Playing with my cat Charlie Pud
3. Riding my lambretta anywhere on a sunny day
Mani Mounfield – Stone Roses / Primal Scream
1. Opening your eyes in the morning and realising that God has
given you another chance to put right all your mess-ups
2. Getting a big hug off your kids
3. The smell of my kid’s hair
Peter Hook – Joy Division / New Order
1. Moods of Norway
2. Miyajima
3. Hope
Kirk Originals Eyewear – Jason Kirk
1. After 43 years finally being able to go to the cashpoint and not cross my fingers that the machine will eat my card
2. Having the skills to cook with confidence and the posh Jap knives to do it!
3. Waking up as a married man
Jason Flemyng – Actor
1. To have met Ian Dury and been impressed by him
2. To be making a living doing what I like best with my clothes on
3. To know that tomorrow is always another day
JJ Burnel – The Stranglers
1. There’s always someone much worse off than you!
2. All you need to be cheerful is a smile. It works all the time!
3. That the beer in the UK is still cheaper than Ibiza!!!
Brandon Block – DJ
1. Drawing back the curtains on a lovely sunny day
2. Keeping myself busy
3. Making others happy and cheerful!
Steve Strange
1. I live in Wales
2. I love Sushi
3. I got out of the music business
Alan McGee
1. A midwinter ramble
2. Producers who gamble
3. The great Ken Campbell
Josh Darcy – Actor
1. A new day
2. A well stocked fridge
3. Sat in on a Friday night in front of a roaring fire eating curry whilst watching a double bill of Come Dine With Me
Dean Lennox Kelly – Actor
1. West Ham beating Spurs
2. West Ham beating Spurs
3. And finally, West Ham beating Spurs…in that order
Perry Fenwick – Actor – Billy in EastEnders
1. Sunshine
2. Fingers
3. Jaffa Cakes
Hugo Speer – Actor
1. Singing
2. Family
3. Football
Wee Willie Harris – Singer
1. Eating Sandwiches stuck on the M25 in heavy traffic with a broken car stereo
2. Riding a bike with a strong tail wind!!
3. Listening to “New Boots and Panties”
Dan – The Noisettes
1. Mum
2. You can dance it off
3. It could be worse
Shingai – The Noisettes
1. Frothy coffee – no froth
2. Best mates
3. Son!
Glen Matlock – The Sex Pistols
1. The beheading of Charles I
2. Finding a contact lense, thought lost
3. The invention of the hand axe, 1.5 million years ago
The Gang of Four
1. Freedom from the tyranny of Hip after 40
2. Ducks
3. Red horse-chestnut blossoms in the month of May
David McAlmont
1. Seeing a Graeae production
2. Still chilled out from Tobago
3. A text from my son
Jenny Agutter – Graeae Patron
1. A long walk in some beautiful countryside with the missus, the boy and the dog
2. A perfectly cooked steak
3. A cold pint of Dublin Guinness
Mathew Priest – Dodgy
1. Sunshine
2. Good health
3. Great mates
Julie Graham – Actress
1. Watching the kids do endless ‘shows’ in their pyjamas at home
2. The knowledge that there are still people in the world like Stephen Lawrence’s parents who will relentlessly fight for what’s right
3. High heeled shoes
Emma B – Radio DJ
1. The belief that there are multiple dimensions, parallel universes, and if the universe that we know started with a speck smaller than an atom and was created within a second, anything is possible
2. Listening to Debussy’s Prelude à l’après-midi d’un faune while cooking a tasty vegetarian meal
3. Preparing for a painting, with canvas, the smell of oil paint and turpentine
4. Sitting in front of a Victorian fireplace, gazing at a coal fire on Christmas Eve
5. To imagine that you can make love to royalty
6. Driving round the mountains of northern Mallorca
7. Sitting round a table for a meal with all my eight children
Davey Payne – The Blockheads
1. Love
2. Wife
3. Child
Rankin
1. Guitars. 6-string or 12 or even 4
2. Performing in a Blockheads concert…Veterans of Rock Funk Reggae Poetry in motion. Born to be a Blockhead
3. Laughing, dancing, singing like there’s nobody watching… Loving like you’ve never been hurt
John Turnbull – The Blockheads
1. Radio 4
2. Single expresso, 1 sugar from a proper cup and saucer
3. Cycling to Whitstable
4. Moondog and Robert Wyatt
5. Passport to Pimlico
Mark Thomas – Comedian
1. Sex
2. Drugs
3. Rock & Roll
Steve Diggle – The Buzzcocks
1. My wife
2. My children
3. Robin van Persie
Mark Strong – Actor
