PROFILE - the unedited version:
Birthdate: 7/2/62   Place of Birth: Aden, Yemen   Height: 5ft 7 and a half inches apparently 
Weight: I don't know at the moment. I was fatter and i've got less. I think it's about 10 and a 
half. I t could be 11 and a half. Could be 11. I'm honestly not sure. 10 and a half I think is what
i'm trying to get to  Eyes: Blue  Hair: Brownish. Changeable. But i'm really a blonde at heart  
Demeanour: Lazy bastard with a huge drive thing. That sort of answers most things, why i'm 
sometimes slovenly and can't get anything done, other times i'm doing a 55 day tour and that's
no problem   State of mind: I'm very curious, very enquiring. I like learning things  Home: London. 
Essentially, where I am.  Not particularly my flat   Habits: Watching telly, watching black and white 
films. Always leaving just enough time to be late for things. I'm always 15 minutes late  Unusual 
skills: All my unusual skills I use now. So i'm looking for normal skills. I can unicycle  Previous jobs:
Two weeks as a barman, three weeks as a waiter. I worked in a self-service cafe in Bexhill.
Apart from that they were all performing. I won't work unless I perform. I didn't want to work as a
waiter, I want to act, and they said "Oh, you can't act. No-one's allowed to unless you're an actor"
Which meant if you don't know actors.....  Likes: Ice cream, I like the Scottish Highlands, and I like
the South Downs and I like the cosmopolitan ting in London. I like communication. I like the positive
application of technology  Dislikes: I dislike people who are sure, people with closed minds
Phobias: I'm not wild on spiders that are big and move fast and tear your head off. I get quite 
worried about large sea storms in dark places. If you go somewhere and it's really blowing, down
some sort of seafront, huge waves crashing. It scares the shit out of me  Music: I like James and 
I like the Wonderstuff and I like Tom Jones' last track. I really like 'Nightswimming', REM, 'Automatic
for the People' - that album I really like. Pulp, Mozart. I really liked ABC's 'Lexicon of Love'. Portishead 
Clothing: I like these boots I got which lace up to the knee, which you get from women's boot shops,
but I don't call them women's boot shops, I call them boot shops. I lke grandad shirts and black Levi's,
Oh and I've got this big red burgundy long coat. It's very swirly. Got it from Jigsaw  Designer: I've
just started thinking I should look at designrs. I like Vivienne Westwood's whole attitude. They seem
to be for very skinny women. I don't think I could cross over, even though I believe in total clothing
rights. I like Gaultier. I wear whatever I want, but certain things are going to work better than others
Cosmetic: I'm pretty exprt on nail varnish. 2000 Calorie mascara. It's supposed to fatten up your 
eyeashes  Food & drink: Haagen Dasz ice cream, which I shouldn't eat and I try not to. I think I'm
allergic to it. I like whiskey at the moment. Irish. Hot whiskey  Shops: I tend just to go into shops
and hunt around. I like Hamleys. I go into tower Records a lot. I'd always buy things for the office 
to keep things going. Which is incredibly boring  Places: North of France, I like Normandy and I like
Berlin, Paris, the Highlands of Scotland, Ireland and London  Journey: If I go South from Victoria
on the train, that's quite wierd because I sort of travel back into my past. A journey back in time  
Buildings: I like the Tate Gallery when you're going along the South Bank. Even though I'm not
into monarchy, it's impressive going down theMall to Buck Palace. I do that drive just for the space
and the white marble or whatever. It's the big streets  Villains: It's so boring but i'm really not 
into the Thatcher style. I think it was a really patronising time of bullshit in politics and business.
Hire people, sack people. power, power, power. 'The people of Britain agree with me....' What gives
you the right to say that, shithead?  Heroes: I have people I really admire. Heroes are dangerous
because they've got to be human at some point. And if they're human they've got to fuck up at some
point. I realy like David Putnam   Films: I like 'Pulp Fiction', I really like 'Robin & Marian', 'Die Hard',
'Cinema Paradiso', I quite like 'Where Eagles Dare', 'The Great Escape'. I have about 50 or 60 films
at home  Actors: Garo Oldman, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Alan Rickman, Lindsey Duncan  
Humourists: Gary Larson, Asterix, Python, Spike, Billy Connolly, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor, Woody 
Allen, Dave Letterman, Bill hicks, Groucho and the Marx Brothers  TV and radio: 'The Goons', 'Cheers'
and 'Roseanne' all of the Hancock stuff, 'The Good Life' I liked. It was bizarre. What was the edge
on that? The edge was that they were living out of his back garden. It was so middle England. There
was one episode when Tom Good takes the piss out of this one guy who talks to his plants which
is now a very positive '90's thing - this was someone who was digging up his own garden. I was
in hysterics. I like 'Absolutely Fabulous', 'Harry Enfield, 'On the Hour', 'Have I got News for You?'
Books & authors: I dont read much ecause I take so long to read things. I'll catch up one day. This
partial dyslexia thing. I just take ages to read. Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings' I really went for. I read
lots of factual stuff. 'All The President's Men'. I'm very thinly read. Stacks of biographies. Melvyn Bragg
on Richard Burton. I've read all about the Kennedy's - a fascinating study of hunger Angered by: I'm
angered by people forgetting what war does  Moved by: I really get moved by people winning races, 
by running really hard and coming from behind to win  Sports personality: Martina Navratilova. Because 
of what she had to overcome. She came out and she won over America. She was a great champion 
because she was so butch and mannish and she won over the world. She got respect, and she won
that respect. it was dificult. She kept going out and fighting and she wasn't arsy about it. I really 
respect that  Words of wisdom: Enjoy the journey. Getting there isn't important, it's the journey.

(taken from 'Unrepeatable' the 1995 tour programme)

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