Danny Elfman

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What music are you currently grooving to?

Wow! What am I grooving to? That’s soooo hard! I’m listening to a lot of heavy stuff. Tool’s Fear Inoculum is high up on my list. For some reason I’ve returned to a lot of Portishead and Massive Attack from the past. But as I’m in the middle of writing a cello concerto I’m also listening to a lot of Shostakovich and Bartók classical works and then mix in some Moorish Music From Mauritania by Khalifa Ould Eide & Dimi Mint Abba and Sleepwalking Through The Mekong by Dengue Fever and that

might be it for this week. It’s a mishmosh and next week… who knows? A different brew.

What, if push comes to shove, is your all-time favourite album?

If push came to shove I’d have to choose David Bowie’s Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps).

What was the first record you ever bought? And where did you buy it? I’m not 100 per cent sure but it might have been Revolver from The Beatles. If that includes 7-inch singles, I’d have to go way back to The Four Tops’ Reach Out I’ll Be There. I haven’t the foggiest idea what record store I’d have gone to when I was a kid. I just hope I paid for it!

Which musician, other than yourself, have you ever wanted to be? Oh God, that’s the longest list ever.

Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev,

Dmitri Shostakovich, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Philip Glass, Miles Davis… shall I go on?

John Lennon, John Coltrane, David Byrne, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Kurt Weill, Kurt Cobain, Stéphane Grappelli, Steve Reich… this list can go on forever, so I’ll stop here.

What do you sing in the shower? Any Freddie Mercury song I can conjure up.

What is your favourite Saturday night record? Radiohead’s The King Of Limbs.

And your Sunday morning record? Miles Davis’s Round About Midnight. Big Mess is released this month on Anti-/ Epitaph.