Trivia

• My name is an exact anagram of Balding Weirdo

  • As well as Boiler Wadding, Bad Ringo Wilde, Warbling Diode, Gilded Rainbow and Ribald Widgeon. Make of that what you will

• I have been backstage with Motorhead at Hammersmith Odeon and accidentally ate the cheese and grapes in their rider

• I have played "The Ace of Spades" by Motorhead live, at a gig where a member of Motorhead was in the audience

• My first band was called Suction Valley Wombat Killers

• I interviewed Ian Astbury of The Cult live on MTV

• When I left my first job in 1996, a farewell video was made for me featuring fake glowing tributes from Davina McCall, Zoe Ball, Jamie Theakston and Henry Kelly

• Piers Morgan shouted at me when he was editor of the Mirror newspaper in 1998

• My voice was used on the recorded message for major TV phone ins e.g. This Morning with Richard and Judy, and for automated phone lines in Mirror Group newspapers: bingo, horoscopes, tarot, crossword solutions and competitions

• I have been to a garden party with Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace

• I own a sitar that I bought off the guitarist for Faithless