Your favorite live version of a song.

I don't often listen to live versions more than once. There are a couple of exceptions - Christy Moore is one, and the Cramps are the other.

They were terrific fun live, so this LP is a great reminder of their shows. Also I don't think any of the songs are available anywhere else

A song from your most listened to artist of the last 20 years.

Two artists for the price of one. Tragically neither are still with us.

Cracking song...it should have been a huge hit

A song from college or early adulthood.

I'm tempted to pick Bowie mentioning the London School of Eco-gnomics, but I've had that before....so instead a song of the time,and also a song of London

I remember in "Fresher's Week" discussing whether the college's Irish Society could book the Pogues (who were probably still Pogue Mahone at that stage). They couldn't , but I got to see the band at the end of my first year, at a free open-air show in Battersea Park.

This is a cover by a band that supported the Pogues this year, at the Brixton Academy. It was an emotional night

A song from your teenage years.

Sadly, both Elvis and Marc Bolan died within a couple of months of me becoming a teenager.

This was the Elvis song that posthumously charted in the UK. In my memory, it was number one for ages.

Great song, in any case.

If you were a professional athlete, what is your walk up or intro song?

This used to be the Pogues' walk on music. While none of the Pogues are professional athletes, this was always quite dramatic so I will use it too, when the need arises

What's a song that you like but most of your friends don't.

My partner likes this but I don't think any of my other friends have heard this, or would much like it if they did.

What is a song that makes you think of your first job?

My first job was in a posh proto-Waitrose supermarket called the Country Market

I earned a whole pound an hour. I mainly spent that on Guinness, and on going up to London to see bands. At that time a pound an hour could cover that. This lot were the most famous of the bands I saw at that time. I think they cost £3.50

What's a song that instantly makes you smile?

This makes me smile because it's a funny song, and because Damien Duff picked it for a CD compilation of the Chelsea teams favourite songs.

The Duffer made me smile as a footballer, and putting this song in amongst the rest of the songs - Spandau, Bryan' Adams, Europe - on the CD makes me smile too..

A song that reminds you of somewhere you lived.

Having lived in London there are lots of songs, both generic London ones and more local ones.

I've already posted Hilly Fields. There are a bunch of songs about Camberwell (Basement Jaxx, Dub Pistols). The Barron Knights were 'from Catford, ain't we eh?.' The Kinks had a song about a road we once lived in - Lavender Hill - and Squeeze's Up The Junction referenced the local railway station.

I've picked one of the generic London songs though, by 'the dear old towns favourite bard '

it's got a lyric I really like

Your eyes are full of sadness Red buses skirt your hem Your head-dress is a ring of lights But I would not follow them

Your architects were madmen And your builders sane but drunk But amidst your fading jewels Shine acid house and punk

What is the oldest song you like?

Some of the folk songs I like go back hundreds of years, but I'm interpreting this as the oldest recording I like

There are a few candidates from Hank Williams, from Louis Armstrong and from Louis Jordan, but I've picked this song as I know I listen to it most frequently

I lived in London for just short of twenty years...and the song provokes nostalgia both for London and for the wartime generation that I grew up with - grannies and grandad, aunts and uncles, and blokes in pubs....I miss them all.