Secret or guilty pleasures

Oh my god! If I were your father I would disown you. Yep me too!Although I get asked at work what that eternal dark blue backgrounded website that I keep minimising whenever anyone appoaches me is..... And my missus refers to my time here as "conversing with the sect".Basically nobody knows that I am here.........(Phew!)

If you come to London and start kareokeing "cock rock" or MOTRD at the first opportunity you are on your own. I manage the internet access where I work......So that will be all too believable.....

Hey I know BG! (Well..I know one of BG's dancers who knows BG who wouldn't know me from a puddle). But I have been in the same room as BG. True. True. Better that than the Evc Truth though.

Actually I was never a fan of Boy George. Nor did he particularly excite me. It was just this particular dancer It was a looong time ago. If you were my kid you could at this point consider yourself disowned. How incredibly naff whilst at the same time being unbelievably cool. You have both my respect and derision in equal measure.

I was never really a fan but I saw them at Glastonbury Festival in 2005 and was actually pretty impressed.I was so concerned by this undeniable indication of encroaching middle age that I immediately went to the stone circle and did what I needed to do to escape the world for a few hours.In terms of musical embarressing guilty pleasures..... Well when I was 14 or 15 (whilst most were enthralled by the likes of Boy George and the "New Romantics") my first real interest in music was stirred by the likes of Public Enemy, NWA and Boogie Down Productions. I was an undeniable product of my environment. I wanted to be black and angry. This was somewhat ridiculous as:A) I am very obviously not black
B) My parents were well educated hippy dropout under-achievers who, whilst poor, were the very opposite of angryAnyway to cut a long story short I still get together with some of my fellow old school "wiggas" and pump out the PE from time to time."YEAH BOY"

I went to college and regressed to Hendrix, the Stones, Velvet Underground and a whole host of other retro stuff as well as REM, Chilli Peppers and the other simlar not-quite-pop stuff of that era. Then grunge in the form of Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden were obligatory for anyone my age (at least anyone white who had stopped pretending to be black). Was still listenin to the Ices T and Cube on the gangsta front though. Plus some rap/rock stuff of the Rage Against The Machine type.Then during my young teacher years the whole Britpop thing kicked off. Oasis, Blur, Pulp, Manic Street Preachers, Charlatans, Radiohead etc. etc. etc. etc. I have always been a keen festival goer and have seen pretty much all of these bands live at their peak. Musically I have never really got over that particular era in truth. I probably never will now.White Stripes, Radiohead and Kasabian are probably my current favourite bands. Make of that what you will. Nahhhhhh. You really wouldn't!!!Edited by Straggler, : No reason given.

I was indeed. In fact that year I had a backstage pass for one of the days as some mates were playing on the smallest stage at the crack of dawn (well mid-day or so but you know what I mean).I was there. And it was indeed awesome.

Thanks and Ouch!! In equal measure.But having said that having my musical taste condemned by a self confessed fan of power ballads is something I will take as a compliment.

Blasphemer!!!But could we have another guilty pleasure on our hands......? Consider yourself outed.