Favourite meal cooked by Flying Saucers?
I'm too nervous to eat before a show... don't want to throw up on the front rows

 

Favourite recent gig?
Radiohead

 

Current favourite album?
The Verve

 

What is currently in his pocket?
A chestnut, khaki y-fronts, a compass, a map of Connemara (west of Ireland), Ernest Hemmingway's "Garden of Eden", a lighter, deutschmarks, francs, 2 million lira, an Irish pound coin, a virgin airline sickbag with a new song called "Giving Up The Smokes", a bible, a chess set and a dolphin called Rainbow

 

Most frequently used word?
There are 4... Drink, Arse, Feck and Girls

 

Favourite hat?
Howie B gave me a Judy Blame tartan hat with tufts of red hair on both sides

 

Favourite art museum?
Andy Warhol in Pittsburgh. I went there recently only to discover that Andy's first and last pieces of work were exactly 50 years apart and both religious (a holy statue and the Last Supper) - it turns out the President of Pop, the Surfer of Surfaces, the Shopper at K Mart was a devout Polish Catholic... went to Mass every Sunday and worked in food shelters secretly... football's a funny ol' game...

 

Most interesting question asked recently by a fan?
Have you seen Bono?

 

Favourite joke?
Did you hear about the man with 2 left feet who went in to a shoe shop to buy a pair of flip flops...

 

Favourite cartoon?
The Simpsons

 

Favourite new musical artist?
Howie B

 

Favourite gallery?
MOMA - NYC, Tosca - Suffolk Street, Dublin

 

Favourite Painter?
Guggi

 

Instrument I wish I could play?
The guitar

 

Favourite way to spend time while on tour?
Once a scout... always a scout...!

 

Favourite song to sing in the shower?
"Come Back To Sorrento"

 

Favourite meal?
Fish 'n' chips and caviar

 

Favourite ice-cream?
Wibbly Wobbly Wonders

 

Favourite magazine?
The Big Issue

 

Favourite character on The Simpsons?
Maggie

 

Favourite Frank Sinatra song?
"Mack The Knife", that old Italian anthem... "That's Life", "Wee Small Hours" from way back and more recently "One More For My Baby" from the Duets album ... for the ending Frank sings "...it's a long ... long... long... man it's a long, long road", 'til his voice breaks... and you believe him

 

Favourite Spice Girl?
Scary, of course!

 

Favourite Superhero?
The Fly

 

Favourite automobile?
I had a yellow Cortina GTi, an English muscle car from the 70s, with Paul and Alison on the visor and a flashing Christmas tree on the dashboard, my favourite is now the Bristol Britannia, as the brochure said "enough room for 4 tall persons and the luggage" - metallic brown was the clincher...

 

Favourite band from the 80s?
The Waterboys - "This Is The Sea", etc... Mike Scott has a new one out now "Still Burning" and he still is... a bad hair decade, the 80s had more than people think