2. My Grandad used to be a set rigger at Elstree Studios. He worked on such greats as The Railway Children and all of the Cliff Richard films. If you look closely in Cliff Richard's Wonderful Life you'll see my Grandad as an extra, riding a horse.
3. I used to like bananas so much that I'd eat four in a day (and probably have a slice of banana cake and drink a banana beer). Now I can't even eat one.
4. I sometimes get really pissed off because i'm good at nearly everything but exceptional at nothing (eeemo!).... n.b. see fact 8. for a direct contradiction of this fact.
5. When I was 17 I won a competition on Steve Lamacq's Evening Session to get work experience at NME by writing a scathing review of a Slipknot single. I didn't discover this until too late because my phone broke, I missed the confirmation phonecall, and they awarded someone else my place.
6. I used to be in a girl band between the ages of 13 and 15. We were kind of like All Saints (in that we wore baggy trousers and one member was black). Highlights of our career include: playing at a members grandads 70th birthday party; and getting through to the second round of auditions for Jane McDonald's Star For A Night.
7. For my eighteenth birthday my brother paid for me to have a tattoo. I chose to have Jimmy Page's symbol from Led Zep IV tattoed on my lower back. I almost never show it off because it causes 50 year old men to like me a bit too much.
8. When I was in primary school I was so good at spelling by year six that my teachers decided I didn't have to go to spelling classes anymore because there was nothing more I could learn. Instead I did grammar... alone. The other kids thought I was so cool. Honest.
9. Between the ages of 8 and 10 I was such a 'tomboy' that people actually thought I was a boy. Once, when I was on holiday in Great Yarmouth, a woman shouted at me for being in the female toilets. I cried.
10. I can think of nothing better to do with my life than marry a rock star and have his kids. This angers me.