FirstWord The List
We’ve chosen our very favourite interviewee for the 25th birthday First Word – ourselves! So here’s The List on Bowie, The Balmoral and beard rash
First record you ever bought ‘Dancing in the Street’ by David Bowie and Mick Jagger. Number One from 7 Sept–5 Oct 1985. First film you saw that really moved you Schindler’s List . . . and latterly The Bucket List.
First movie you ever went on a date to We coaxed Russell Brand into a date in 2006, but we won’t kiss and tell about what happened . . . OK we will. See page 15.
First thing you do when you’ve got time off work Time off work!? Scotland’s entertainment bible is here for you 24/7.
Last great meal you cooked Tony Singh’s Jhinga Malai Cream recipe from our Good Food Fast feature of August this year (issue 663). Last extravagant purchase you made Champagne and caviar at The Balmoral. LOL, jkng! We mustered enough money to buy a paperclip last month.
First crush Clint Eastwood. He could give us beard rash any day.
Detective. Five stars in issue 659, and she’s a former List editor! First great piece of advice you were given !!! is pronounced ‘chk chk chk’ (not ‘exclamation mark, exclamation mark, exclamation mark’).
Last time you were star struck Interviewing George Clooney in 2003. First thing you’d do if you ran the country Save the arts.
First song you’ll sing at karaoke ‘Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenocerous’ by Flight of the Conchords, as ably performed by The List’s current editor in May of this year (see issue 656). Last time you exploited your position to get something Near constantly. Anyone want to butter us up . . . anyone?
First time you realised you were famous When Aidan Moffat wrote a song about us (see page 18).
Last meal on Earth – what would it be A dozen oysters, squeeze of lemon, pint of 80 bob. Who'll serve it? Gandolfi Fish in Glasgow or the Café Royal Circle Bar in Edinburgh.
Last book you read Alice Thompson, The Existential First three words your friends would use to describe you
Inspiring, accurate, essential.
Last time you made an impulse buy and regretted it Daphne and Celeste’s 2000 album We Didn’t Say That! after reading our own five-star review in issue 390. What were we thinking? First concert you ever attended
Tom Waits, Edinburgh Playhouse, Tue 15 Oct 1985. First thing you think of when you wake up in the morning Listings.
Last thing you think of before you go to sleep Mmm, more listings.
WeLike The things making our world just that little bit better
■ We must confess, we do like to see an animal adopting human poses and cavorting around just like we do. No, we haven’t been watching Animals Do the Funniest Things, or old YouTube hits of Dogtanian for that matter, but we did get our anthropomorphic kicks from seeing
Santra the brown bear doing a 15-minute morning stretch workout in the zoo. And we weren’t surprised
to see that she was a bear living in Finland. They seem like very outdoorsy, yoga types over there. Very much like
The List team in fact*.
Besides the animal antics, we also like showing our love for British arts, and signing the petition to convince the government not to slash funding (find out more and show support at savethearts.org.uk). The campaign is backed by UK artists including David Hockney, Antony Gormley, Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor and our recent List contributor, David Shrigley, creator of a very excellent new animated short (see above) to drum up support. *parts of this We Like feature may be bullshit.
This fortnight on list.co.uk
The List’s Student Guide, given out to freshers this month, is now online, and features some great out-of-town trip recommendations for students and non-students alike, including the lowdown on Cramond, Anstruther Harbour and Loch of the Lowes. www.list.co.uk/students
2 THE LIST 23 Sep–7 Oct 2010