Your Hero of 2021?

Ireland’s greatest living writer, much better than a lot of the dead ones too; Mr Pat Carty

Villain of 2021?

The man who lives at numero 10 that completely overlooked the needs of UK touring artists when negotiating the Euro divorce, then structured a pandemic response to overlook UK touring artists completely, even when sports events were allowed back. Fuck You, Boris.

Best Personal Moment?

Performing ‘Welcome Tae Glasgae’ at Glasgow Barrowland last night. I was moved to tears, for the first time since I saw The Fox and the Hound in the cinema.

Best Movie or TV show?

Peter Jackson’s Get Back series. A privilege to watch.

Best record?

MotorHeart by The Darkness. It’ll take your face off.

Best book?

The Chibson USA Activity Book illustrated by Brian Langan. 40 pages of guitar based fun.

Best thing you saw online?

It’s not new and it took some digging because the powers that be tried to hide it from YouTube forever, but the utterly woeful Take That performance of 'Shine' and 'Everything Changes' from X Factor has resurfaced in Korea, wherein Gary Barlow tries to reinforce the narrative that he’s musical by pointing and shouting 1,2,3,4 at some session musicians, who were playing (possibly miming) along to some pre-recorded backing vocals.

Your hope for next year?

I hope our Irish shows go ahead. And all the others. Most of all, I want to be able to spend some quality time with my parents. I might get Dad to train as a roadie and mum can just chill on the bus.

What tickled your funny bone?

Pat Carty singing 'Baby Shark' in the style of Leonard Cohen during our podcast, available only on my Patreon.