"That's not helping!"

Wayne joined his first serious (ish) band at 20 and was lucky enough to record in the same studios where Idlewild put together their early albums. The resident producer and sound engineer were quick to draw comparisons between the bands… mainly that Idlewild were good and Wayne’s band sucked royal duck (A Windsor speciality); they took solace in the fact they were considerably better at pool, apparently.

Musically, he appreciates bits and pieces of most things from classical through jazz and blues to metal, chillout and random screaming, but his main influences have always been classic rock and metal … if they had outrageous hair, played ridiculously fast or struck rock poses without the slightest hint of irony he probably loves it:

Jim Steinman/Meatloaf, Iron Maiden, Spock's Beard, Whitesnake, Dream Theatre, AC/DC, Purple, Queen, Floyd, The Stones, The Chilis, Kansas, Journey… all that sort of thing.

To date there has been no reported sightings or video evidence of Wayne taking his foot off the sustain pedal.

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Jovi

WHY JOVI?: “Always” hit the charts and was an immediate stand-out track… I decided to buy the single, but after hearing an ad for “Crossroads” I realised that it was this one band that had written so many of my favourite childhood songs. I bought the album, then “These Days” and was so impressed I picked up the entire back catalogue.

FAVOURITE JOVI TRACK: A close call between “My Guitar Lies Bleeding in my Arms” and “Dry County”. To play it has to be “Livin' On A Prayer”.

FAVOURITE JOVI ALBUM: These days

LIKES: Fencing, American Football, Forres Mechanics, Aberdeen FC & Vodka.

DISLIKES: Corporate clowns, Lothian buses, bad journalism, Yas, people who pronounce it “ab-sol-ute-alay”, chavs, wannabe punks who don’t realise they are listening to pop, Jonny Wilkinson, Ronnie O’Sullivan, coffee or mint flavoured ice-cream, bureaucracy, American cream soda, The New England Patriots, chart music, Citroens, excessively short people with a grudge against the world, Casios, Manx cats, emery boards, French film makers, Clachnacuddin fc, morris dancers, grapefruit, Sundays, boy bands, marmite, French handle grip foils, The Finns, hangovers, Kilroy, cheap toilet paper, whiny accents, watching the country get thumped at everything at international level except curling, indoor bowls and elephant polo, Sambuca, cricket, powerwalkers, recorded cold calling, labyrinth, David Blaine and people who complain about everything.