2. What was the first musical instrument you learned to play?
The flute, just like every little boy.

3. Name a band that you are ashamed to like.
My own.

4. When you're in Los Angeles, what do you miss about London?
Paris.

OK that's a bit glib, but I don't miss London. It's like an ex and you just don't want to go back. I was born in London, within sound of Bow Bells in fact which makes me a genuine cockney, but I never felt that I fitted in very much. Real Londoners seem quite rare in London, like finding a native Angeleno in LA, certainly as soon as you start hanging around with the music and club people they're all outsiders. I suppose the London that feels like mine would be real Eastender stuff like West Ham United football club with its claret and blue colours and chant of 'Come on you Irons', street markets, and the local accent. I miss the Indian food I guess, it's very good. 

5. When you're in London, what do you miss about Los Angeles?
Reality.

I like the snappy answers, don't I? Everyone says 'Yeah, LA's so fake'. I think that's lazy. I think southern Califonians are pretty open and real. I guess I miss the blue skies, the mountains, and Terry's Mexican Grill on Melrose. I like the dominance of guitar culture as well. Electric guitars tell the truth. Music can't lie anyway, I mean if it sounds exciting.....it's exciting, but if you feel hesitant on an electric guitar you hear it immediately, and if you've got something to say it translates. It seems to me a super human (as opposed to Superhuman) instrument. Electronica.....well, I don't want to know what a machine feels.....that's bottom of the foodchain for me, I'm more into animals and plants, I care more what a potato feels than a silicon chip. It's all about life, that's what we're here for, and LA's got life.

6. For those of us who missed it, what was Kitsch Bitch?
Kitsch Bitch was a London club and the center of a scene. It was described in the papers as a 'mixed gay' night, but it was just kind of 'everything goes', pansexual really.....and lots of recreational drug use. But it was very friendly, and always open to the open people. It had influence way out of proportion to its size due to the high percentage of fashion stylists and designers that attended. Kitsch Bitch flyers became ubiquitous amongst the fridge magnets in scenesters' kitchens, and keeping journalists out of our scene really kept the lid on it for about 18 months, then of course the party ground to a halt like eventually they always do. The music was early rock'n'roll, Detroit rock, glitter rock, early punk (London, LA, and NYC), disco, and queerpunk. It traced a sort of underground continuity, and that's what the scene was really about: queer/outsiders culture. After all, we're all Rock'N'Roll Niggers aren't we?

7. Besides music, what are you passionate about? Building Utopia. One dead greedy person at a time.

Previously featured in Shiner:
Lloyd
Raquel Contreras
Saul Acuna