What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Well, that’s exactly what it is, isn’t it? An idea. Other than that, my own house with a pool and a recording studio.
What historical figure do you most identify with?
Gandalph - “Run you fools!”
Which living person do you most admire?
Julian Assange and Thomas Gabriel Warrior.
Which is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
My temper.
What is your greatest extravagance?
My temper.
What is your favourite journey?
Driving to a recording studio.
On what occasions do you lie?
Only on special ones.
Which living person do you most despise?
Just read a newspaper or watch the news, you will find one. Dick Cheney’s up there. He is Satan’s Spawn, like Kissinger.
What or who is the greatest love of your life?
Music, especially heavy metal,
When or where were you happiest?
God knows, well he said he did.
Which talent do you wish you had?
The ability to chat up women.
What is your current state of mind?
A kaleidoscope of paradoxes.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Working for myself in the world of performing which is the only thing I’ve ever wanted to do. It took moving to the other side of the world, but I did it.
If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what do you think it would be?
See question 10.
What is your most treasured possession?
My heavy metal vinyl collection, which was stolen. Over the years I’ve rummaged through the second hand stores of the world and got a lot of it back.
What do you regard as the greatest depth of misery?
Well if people like Cheney and Kissinger get their way, I think it will be the future.
What is your favourite occupation?
Musician/comedian/perfomer.
What is the quality you most admire in a man?
Passion.
What is the quality you most admire in a woman?
Majick.
Who are your favourite writers?
Songwriters.
What is your motto?
Hail the gods.
Australian comic Steve Hughes plays the Róisín Dubh on Wednesday February 9 at 8.30pm. Support is from John Lynn and Chris Kent. Tickets are available from the Róisín Dubh and www.roisindubh.net Kernan Andrews
