What's on your rider?Fine foreign ale, King Crisps, a honeydew melon.
What would be on your fantasy rider?Fine foreign ale, two bags of King Crisps, a honeydew melon.
What's your pre-gig routine?Snooze, go to the toilet, try to remember lyrics (hence the singing coming from the cubicle), glass of local water.
How do you get to the gig?
In the NSV mobile – a metal and plastic device with four wheels, three pedals and an internal combustion engine that I sit into and steer. Truly, the future of personal transport.
What's the best gig you've been to?Well, it wasn't quite a gig, but I was sitting around having something to eat with David Kitt and David Coverdale in a dream I had last night. The only other David that was missing was Lee Roth. I think we each played a few tunes from our back catalogues afterwards, so that was a great little gig in a low-key kind of way.
And the worst?When David Essex showed up to jam. Lovely guy and all, but . . .
Ecologically speaking, are you closer to Radiohead or Motörhead?Well, Lemmy recycles old Nazi memorabilia, which saves on landfill space, so Motörhead. Also, the fact that there's only three in his band means less of a carbon footprint than Thom and his fun friends, I'd imagine.
Who is the most famous person to have shown up at one of your gigs?God. I didn't see him, but he signed up for the email list and took a free badge, so that was cool.
Most embarrassing on-stage moment?When Simon Le Bon went totally off key during A View to a Kill during Duran Durans Live Aid set. It was cut out of the DVD. We all have our off days, I suppose.
What's your crowd-pleasing number?Twelfty
Chatting between songs – good or bad?If she's good- looking and I think I'm getting somewhere then good, very good. Buying her a mineral often smoothes the way, I find.
How many roadies does it take to change your lightbulbs?Four – one for each corner of my sedan chair.
Have you a special stage wardrobe?Yes, I leap out of it at a particular point in the set. Not telling you when, though – it'd ruin the surprise.
- In conversation with Tony Clayton-Lea. Neosupervital plays Greystones, Co Wicklow on Friday and Dublin on Sunday
