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Rob Sowden - July 1999


Name: Robert Brendan Sowden

Born:
the year of ‘the summer of love’. Lincoln.

Married:
no one could take me for more than a week.

Kids:
Flute (name from Eddings book) and Cleo.

First album bought:
Top Of The Tots. With stuff like Granddad, Two Little Boys and Yellow River (big influence).

Last album bought:
Swervedriver, 99th Dream.

First gig:
Gary Numan, Rock City, Nottingham, ‘83.

Influential & favourite artists:
Bowie, Zep, Nick Drake, Chet Baker, Duran (Yes, I said that), Prince, Michael Jackson, Blondie, Cure, Rush, Abba and everything else.

You can wake me up for:
a shag or lunch. (late lunch).

Favourite song ever made:
No Quarter, Zep.

I hate:
hate.



Non-musical hobbies:
playing and watching football (liverpool f c). Reading, collecting 
videos, drinking, talking and meeting people and eating. 

Favourite books:
All by Eddings. The illuminatus, Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea; The Magus, John Fowles.

Favourite film of all time:
Bladerunner.

Favourite drinks:
jd&c and seize cent soixant quatre. 

Whose phone number would you most like to have:
Melanie Sykes. (‘d'you want a flake in that luv’).

Favourite day off:
a day off what. All my days are on.

What would you take to a desert island?:
Not what. Melanie Sykes.

Favourite three albums ever made:
Houses Of The Holy, Zep; Honky Dory, Bowie & Songs From Lets Get Lost, Chet Baker, but this changes all the time.

Jobs:
everything from being a motor cycle mechanic to a window cleaner to managing bars and a sort of music therapy for people with learning & physical difficulties to busking.

Wish for the future:
that there is one. Health and wealth (knowledge & money) in that order.

Which song would you most like to cover:
Sugar Sugar by The Archies. Vienna by Ultravox.

What do you do when you wake up?:
Go to sleep unless Melanie Sykes is there... I'm not fixated.

An
ything else to say?: Wake up! Time to listen to Arena.