PROFILE – Dave Rhodes – Keyboards

FAVOURITE BAND – The Beatles - they were the originators. Best current bands include Kaiser Chiefs, Maximo Park, The View, The Kooks, The Fratellis, The Shins and Keane

BEST TV PROGRAMME – The Prisoner or The Avengers (with Linda Thorson, not Diana Rigg).

BEST FILM – Groundhog Day – I could watch it again and again

FAVOURITE BOOK – Instruction manuals

FAVOURITE SPORT – Womens' Olympic Long Distance Snooker.

BEST DRINK – QC Sherry - half a bottle puts a smile on your face.

FAVOURITE FOOD – Potatoes – hence Shepherd’s Pie and Chips, as you get both chips and mash

FAVOURITE HOLIDAY DESTINATION – Back Garden

BEST SHOP – Knocking

BEST PUB – The Broadway, Dewsbury Road, Leeds, as it was in 1980 - with deep pile carpet, individual wicker furniture and small table lamps. This was John Smiths' flagship pub at the time and was way ahead of the usual dodgy Tetley boozers with lino and hard wooden stools. A close second was Amnesia in City Square, Leeds. It was the in place for New Romantics and had large comfortable sofas - unheard of in those days. A place to see and be seen casting angular shapes against a backdrop of Electronic sonic cohesion.

FAVOURITE TAKEAWAY OR CHIPPY – Barkly Parade chip shop (lovely soft greasy chips). It is the best and always has been. I was a bit upset when they moved the counter from the North wall to the West wall and put in that cafe. I got over it eventually though.

FAVOURITE SONG COVERED BY THE STANDARDS – Private Hell - a Jam album track. Our version was rock solid - much stronger than the Jam. I would love to do it now, but it's so good it might overload the pleasure centres in people's brains again.

EARLY MUSICAL INFLUENCES – The Beatles, early Roxy Music, Sparks, then through Punk, Kate Bush, New Romantic and Ska. I gave up when Stock Aitken and Waterman came along.

WHO WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO MEET AND WHY – Myself as a small boy, as I can’t remember what it was like

FUNNIEST MOMENT IN THE STANDARDS – The band had just broken up for the first time and 4 of us had gone to Scarborough for the weekend. We were trying to get in to a nightclub, but the bouncer said ‘Sorry lads – no groups’, to which came the reply ‘it’s alright, we’ve split up’.

MOST OUTRAGEOUS THING YOU’VE DONE – Drank 10 pints of cider, got barred from The Broadway and severely damaged a shop window with my foot.

MOST MEMORABLE DREAM – The dreams in which I’m flying are the best I’ve ever had.