Clive Gregson
I know Clive from the Manchester pop scene in the early 80s, when his band Any Trouble was signed first to Stiff and then EMI. He now lives in Nashville, Tennessee and is still writing great songs and making great records. He tours UK folk clubs regularly, and is worth going miles to see. One of the best acoustic guitar players you'll ever hear.

The Society for the Promotion of New Music
Home of everything pretentious and worthless, and a symptom of all that is wrong with post-war classical music. That's when they don't have any of my pieces on their prestigious shortlist. But at the moment they've got my Second String Quartet there, so at least for now they're a vital force for new music in the UK, and every British composer should be a member!

John Muir Trust
Named after the young Scotsman who emigrated to the USA and persuaded the President to set aside vast tracts of land, including Yellowstone, as national parks, the JMT aims to buy and administer wild land in Scotland to preserve it from despoilation and restore to something like its former glory parts of the pre-historic Wood of Caledon which once covered the country. Every British mountaineer should be a member, but only about 8000 are.

The Rainfall Chart
Sadly, this is my favourite web-page of all time. It shows where it's raining at the moment in Britain. It's how I know whether to put my washing out or not.

Sad Twats
This site is run by a friend of a bloke I used occasionally to rent cars from, and catalogues their drunken mini-breaks in various European capitals. Marginally more amusing than it sounds, I felt sorry for them and thought I'd try and direct some of the thousands of server-jamming visitors to this site in their direction.

Wet Roads
There are some bizarre things on the internet, but surely none more bizarre than this.

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