What’s your favorite deep cut from an album?

A jaunty tune with a bleak-as-a-northern-winter lyric

What song makes you feel like you're in a different country?

I went to see this band at what used to be called the Town and Country Club, in Kentish Town

Both the band and the audience made me feel like I was in Paris, or somewhere further South.

They played this song twice. As far as I can make out it's about a fly called Zobi ...but don't let that put you off.

Share a song you feel was ahead of its time.

Anything from the Sun Sessions really

What’s the last song you discovered and loved instantly?

I like the line "I'm working late...because I'm a singer"

How do you discover new music, and what’s the latest gem you’ve found?

It's a mixture of collaborations, compilations, algorithms, books and websites, and podcasts, and the occasional Shazam.

This song is a case in point. I'm not sure how I originally heard of Lisa O'Neill, but I played her LP, then lost touch a bit, and then saw her sing with the Pogues. Then I saw that an old punk rock school chum had picked this as his favourite record of last year (here...and I listened more carefully to this particular song.

imho, it's a masterpiece

What is a song that feels like home to you?

Johnny Cash was the sound of my childhood, and he's followed me through adulthood into what I'm starting to think of as my old age.

A bit of trivia...Rock Island Line an American song, but Billy Bragg says that Johnny Cash adopted a change to the words that comes from East Ham's Lonnie Donegan.

What’s the first song you’d play at a party?

Just because of the title really, and these words

Wailers still be there The Jam, The Dammed, The Clash Wailers still be there Dr. Feelgood too, ooh No boring old farts No boring old farts No boring old farts will be there

Yeah, it's the punky reggae party And it's tonight Punky reggae party And it's alright

What song do you associate with the current season?

My first thought was the Sisters of Mercy's LP 'Floodland' because that's what my bit of the Shire turns into at this time of year...but instead I've gone for something equally Goth-y and very appropriate to the season

What’s your favorite love song, and why?

As Christy himself almost sang, "Oh not Christy Moore, you've picked him loads of times before".

This is a Ewan MacColl song and I'm posting it because it's a great song, and because I do remember the first time I saw her face, as clear as day.

What’s a guilty pleasure song?

This might fit the idea of a Guilty Pleasure in that it probably wouldn't have been positively featured in the NME at the time it came out....and it's also from an LP called Guilty