What is your favourite soundtrack?

Picking the Wicker Man because it's a great film with a soundtrack that was done for the film and really adds to it.

Also it reminds me of the Scala at Kings Cross where I saw it first.

Which artist did you discover thanks to a music video?

When I was teenage the main ways of hearing new music was through swapping with chums, the occasional listen to John Peel, or Top of the Pops.

I'm pretty sure I saw this song on a video played on Top of the Pops. I remember loving the song, and thinking the singer was really good, not at that time knowing he'd previously been in the Sex Pistols

What would you put on for a long brisk walk?

I think this is about the right tempo for a brisk walk...but a gentle saunter is more me tbh

Last time I saw someone sing this he said it's a long time before you get to take a breath, so I probably couldn't sing it either

Which song makes you emotional? Why?

This is my eldest, so listening to it is always a proud dad, emotional moment.

(If you could all stream it from now until Whitsun, that would be fab.)

Post one of your favorite ballads.

I'm not proud of myself for this. It doesn't say good things about my character that I take nearly as much pleasure in the failures of the Arsenal, as I do in the success of Chelsea, but there you are.

Also, David Seaman seems like a good chap. I should be ashamed of myself.

This hardly qualifies as a 'track', but I know it as 'The Ballad of David Seaman', and it is a good song.

The scene is set at the end of the European Cup Winners Cup final in Paris in 1995.

It was in the 98th minute and the game was nearly gone And Seaman stood upon the turf and urged the Gunners on The crowd expecting penalties were whistling for time But one cruel Zaragozan saw the keeper off his line Oh, and up stepped Seaman's nemesis and his name it was Nayim He kicked a mighty lofted ball so high above the scene And Seaman scrambled backwards to face a final card To be beaten by a cannonball from over 50 yards

Marvellous stuff! 😀

The poets website is https://www.murraylachlanyoung.co.uk/

Post one of your favorite sad songs.

This is an anti-war song. It's sad and angry, and relentless.

A song that you like in multiple versions

I believe kids sing this in school in Ireland. I don't know what the words are about...I did look it up once but instantly forgot.

I've heard a bunch of versions of this song. The Dubliners did it. The Fureys do a version with re written words. Sinead O'Connor had a great reggae version. I previously posted Pauline Scanlon's recent-ish brilliant rock-y version .

This is an accompanied vocal version....I'm not sure if you'd call it 'sean-nós' or not.

Which lyric always gives you goosebumps?

"And somewhere in the darkness The gambler, he broke even"

A song by a band that you haven't yet posted anything by

I looked at last.fm to see which is my most played act of last year that I haven't posted anything by.

I hesitate to post anything connected to FIFA....but there are at least a couple of great world cup tunes (and, clearly, I'm fully expecting England to win it in the summer)

A song that represents where you live

"our accents and our colours change From the city to the farmland From the moorland to the mountain, From the river to the sea.

And the echo from the green hills Runs through the city streets The rain that falls on England Well it washes care from me."