STEVE SULLIVAN
May 03, 2019
5 minutes
Words: Jo Kendall
Portrait:
Carsten Windhorst
“I heard McDonald and Giles, and what a musical odyssey I went on.”
“Although I was born in one of the proggiest years, 1974, the first music I was aware of was Madness and 2-Tone. But I’d grown up with The Goons and some quite strange music, such as The Crossbeats, which was a band that played religious songs in the style of Merseybeat. I was also fixated by things such as ITV show , a garish take-off of the . Anything unusual and nightmarish I was usually drawn to! [Laughs] That, and soundtracks for obscure children’s TV shows – such as this Japanese one for – light up a massive serotonin part of my brain and I have to have it.
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