What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Playing good music, eating good food, drinking good wine with good friends.
Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Napoleon.
Which living person do you most admire?
Even though he has passed, I still have to stay Ustad Ali Akbar Khan Sahib.
Which is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Misappropriated anger.
What is your greatest extravagance?
Surfing.
What is your favourite journey?
From Blackheath to Bilpin, Bells Line of Road, Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia.
On what occasion do you lie?
Well technically, whenever I am telling a story…
Which living person do you most despise?
Sting (see misappropriated anger!! ).
What or who is the greatest love of your life?
My gorgeous wife and the irrepressive gods of music...both in different ways
When and where were you happiest?
Either my wedding day or sometime in Kolkata 2005.
Which talent would you most like to have?
Uninterrupted Divine inspiration.
What is your current state of mind?
Let me get back to you on that one...
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Learning to follow my bliss.
If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what do you think it would be?
A polar bear...that could play sarode.
What is your most treasured possession?
My sarode.
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
The inner wars...
What is your favourite occupation?
Fringe musician.
What is the quality you most like in a man?
Beardedness and musicality.
What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Warmth, sparkle, humour, and earthiness.
Who are your favourite writers?
Rabindranath Tagore, Herman Hesse, Samuel Beckett.
What is your motto?
Tog e go bog e ach tog e.
Mattu Noone is leader of the Galway based Indian classic/Irish trad/American blues group The Bahh Band, whose debut album, Worlds Colliding, has just been released.
Kernan Andrews
