Michael Ouldred

Tailgating HGVs are the worst problem for me within the variable speed limits on motorways too. Really hate that.

I was travelling on a Sunday morning last Summer from Kingston to Staines and it was the first time I had driven in a permanent 20 zone. It did feel very odd for about 15 minutes but you adjust quickly, like driving a van or on the right.

Eighteen. I would be hard pressed not to have a dozen Dead albums in any similar list.

Albums by IQ, Magnum, REM and Hawkwind.

Impossible to choose. Here’s four favourite covers from the year I turned 18.

They don’t like draughts…

Cotoneaster isn’t ‘cotton easter’ apparently.

Eleven thanks to Geoff Love (and his orchestra)

Sudden urge to listen to Bob Dylan’s Saved?

There will be plenty of people on here who were at that one!

I read a 100 greatest guitarists list in Mojo or Q or one of those magazines thay put the Colonel at number two behind Hendrix and I wouldn’t argue with that.

I can still smell the damsons bubbling away in my Mum’s battered old jam pan 40 years later.

What was wrong with just “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year”?

The next stage after that will be the elasticated trousers from Chums that my late father couldn't stop buying...

Ditto to both, sadly.

Based on listening frequency alone, it would have to be After the Gold Rush.

Sad Cafe.

Pre-pyramid times.

Correct, but it's on Qobuz, so I can at least give it a listen later.

Three including my least favourite Tull.

I thought that would give me the confidence to tackle Dhalgren by Samuel Delaney. 40 years on and that still remains uncompleted...

I read it as a teen and really struggled with it!

Centre Point, one of my favourite buildings in London.

Just five, nothing in the top ten.

Four

Ten

Five, Harold Budd to Wordy Rappinghood!

XTC and Buzzcocks, obviously. I wouldn't mind seeing how bad or good U Boat actually were too.

Twenty, I play the album at number 50 a lot more than I play the number one.

Peter Banks sees Time and a Word on there and leaves a second time.

We are still waiting for someone to take on St Mary in the Castle.