‘I love number theory, I even watch YouTube videos about higher mathematics to fall asleep’

the realisation of a dream. I also get definite to hang out with Claire and our chil- dren Geronimo, 13, twins Artemas and Galileo, Sable, eight, and Beat- rix, seven, and all my best mates. The happiest moment you will cher- article ish forever… When Geronimo took We ask a celebrity a set of probing over DJing from me at Feastival last year. He was brilliant and seeing him questions – and only accept THE enjoy himself was tremendous. The saddest time that shook your definitive answer. This week: Blur bassist world… I try never to dwell on sad- ness, although I get a bit upset at the turned cheesemaker sight of over-cooked steak. The prized possession you value The pet hate that makes your The unfulfilled ambition that haunts above all others… A Neolithic tool hackles rise... Spurious exclama- you… I’d love to go to Antarctica. called a celt, which was given to me tion marks. I never reply to emails by my best friend. His mum found it that have more than one. The philosophy that underpins your in the woods in Oregon when she was life… As Churchill said, keep The film you can watch time and little. It’s a piece of smooth granite b*****ing on. And treat people as time again… Kind Hearts And that probably doubled as a weapon. you would wish to be treated. Coronets, with Sir Alec Guin- It’s great for pounding spices. ness. It’s funny, but deals with The treasured item you lost The crime you’d commit knowing The order of service at your funeral… The biggest regret you wish you could the morals of greed over love. and wish you could have you could get away with it… I’d It would have to be a full state funeral amend… I genuinely have no regrets. again… A small export unpasteurised cheese to at St Paul’s Cathedral with Carlos The person who I’ve made every mistake in the book, iceberg I pulled America, where it’s illegal. Kleiber conducting the Berlin Phil- has influenced but you always learn something. out of the sea in harmonic and Chorus in the Dies Irae you most… My The song that means most to you… I Greenland where from Verdi’s Requiem. The eulogy The temptation you wish you could grandad, John Emrys love our kids singing Uptown Funk Blur played a gig in 1998. I tried to will be read by my great-great grand- resist… Cheese on toast in bed. James, was a chef and by Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson in ship it home in an insulated box, but child and I’ll be buried on the farm. had a hotel in . He had the car on the way to granny’s. And The book that holds an everlasting it got lost. I still think about it. resonance… I love Elizabeth me flipping rashers and whisking hearing 100,000 people sing The way you want to be remem- David’s cookery books. eggs from a very young age. The unending quest that drives you in Mexico was great. I didn’t even bered… You don’t get to choose. on… To be creative. Creativity is just know Blur were big there. Hogarth spent his life painting, but is Some recipes are just a The figure from history for messing around until suddenly there’s now thought of as a clogged-up few lines, but they whom you’d most like to buy a The way you would spend your fan- something that didn’t exist before. roundabout in west London. tell you everything pie and a pint… I’d love to meet tasy 24 hours, with no travel restric- you need to know. Sir Isaac Newton. He was a The poem that touches your soul… tions... I lived out of a suitcase trav- The Plug… The Big Feastival runs at T h e p r i o r i t y tricky customer but My son Artemas, who’s 11, recently elling the world for years, so the the Churchill Heath Farm, Kingham, activity if you he’d be fascinat- learnt If by Rudyard Kipling. Hear- thought of flitting around different Oxfordshire from 25-27 August. For n w e r e t h e ing company. ing him say the end – ‘And – which countries does not appeal to me. I’m tickets visit uk/thebigfeastival.com. is more – you’ll be a Man, my son!’ very lucky because I get to create As told to Rob McGibbon Invisible Man The piece of wis- for a day… – actually made me cry. my own fantasy world for dom you would a long every I’d love to The misapprehension about yourself p a ss o n to a summer with The Big poke around you wish you could erase… I’m sure child… With five Feastival – a festival of Coca-Cola’s HQ. Nobody there are plenty, but if you stick to kids, my mantra food and music open to knows what they put in it. what you believe in, all misapprehen- seems to be, ‘Clean the public on our farm. sions eventually evaporate. your teeth!’ My wife Claire and I Right: Bruno The unlikely interest The event that altered the course of bought the farm in 2003 Mars. Above that engages you… I your life and character… Meeting when it was in ruins. right: children’s love number theory – I Blur’s in London in Seeing it filled with great toothbrushes and toothpaste. even watch YouTube 1988. He said, ‘Come and meet bands, incredible chefs, Far right: videos about higher and have a jam.’ I did and people of all ages Antarctica mathematics to fall asleep. and the connection was immediate. having a good time is i z feng mages, ka

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