Here are eight random things you may not know about me. It's an internet craze, apparently, and who am I to defy an internet craze? Oh. Anyway...

One! Ages ago I worked for a year as an optical technician, making glasses lenses and tinting them and fitting them into frames (or glazing, as we optical technicians call it), and if anyone were to ask I could still tell them what plano and meniscus mean, and do them a mean Crookes Alpha.

Two! My secret for young-looking skin? Every time I have a shave, I slap some cream on me face afterwards – it's like a moisturiser with oil of evening primrose. I'm actually 83, you know.

Three! I once visited Canada, but only for about 20 minutes, and I didn't actually set foot on Canadian soil because a car took me over the border from the USA and we didn't have time to stop and get out before we had to head back. Sorry, Canada – I'll try and stay longer next time!

Four! The first song I ever wrote was called 'Cashing in on Love'. It was an impassioned tirade against the capitalist exploitation-fest of Valentine's Day, or something, and nothing to do with being 14 and miserable and not having a girlfriend, oh no.

Five! Since the start of this year I've been writing a haiku every day and publishing them all in a blog, which hardly anyone reads!

Six! Last weekend I got drunk with my mum and stayed at her house and her bathroom is really bright so the next morning when I was hungover I had a bath with my sunglasses on. It was most therapeutic.

Seven! At my leaving do just before I moved from Birmingham to Sheffield, we went for a curry at the Nawab in Quinton and I ate an entire vegetable phaal without even flinching. Phaal is one up from vindaloo. So, not so twee now, am I, eh? Raaaaah! Oh look – a daisy.

Eight! You may know that I've recently played on the same bill as Emma Hall, the charming chanteuse of my Atomic Beat labelmates Pocketbooks. But you may not know that nearly two decades ago, in my first band when I was a young kid back in Grimsby, I played on the same bill as Emma Hall's older sister, who used to be in another local band called Debaser. Isn't it funny how things turn out?

Um. I gather that now I'm supposed to 'tag' some other people with this 'meme'. I've no idea if they'll read this or not, but let's try...
Emma Hall | Stu Fletcher | Andy Holt | Atomic Beat Records (any of you!)