British broadcaster
He had a regular column on youth issues and politics for the Derby Evening Telegraph between 1983-1987.
He was the winner of the Sony Radio Award in the Best Specialist Music category in 1985 and 1986 for his show on BBC Radio Derby called Barbed Wireless.
He was dubbed the "low budget voice" of television by Jonathan Ross.
He is a big fan of The Smiths and Echo & The Bunnymen.
He claims that he was turned down for a job presenting on BBC Radio 1 because he sounded too much like Andy Kershaw.
I mean, everybody goes on about how great "The Tube" (1982) was.
In France, the government are scared of the people. In this country, the,people are scared of the government.
Funnily enough, when I did start doing "The Word" (1990) , I,suddenly got all these posh girls coming on to me. They thought I was,making loads of money and I was only on 500 nicker a week.
