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I host the Weekend Breakfast Show on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 6 Music, broadcast Saturdays and Sundays, 7am – 10am… also a new specialist music showcase ‘6 Music Recommends’ on Wednesdays at 12-midnight-1amI left school at 16 and went to work in an egg packing factory for the princely sum of £39 per week. At 18 I ran away to London and lived on a bus in a carpark for a year with a rock band called Heretic, and published my own fanzine.

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At 19, I was hired as a freelance writer for Sounds music paper, and promptly bought a ticket to Hollywood where I lived in a garden shed for a year writing about the dark underbelly of the West Coast rock scene. On my return to the UK, NME invited me to work for them as News Editor and writing major features including Nirvana’s first cover story.

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I was part of the team that originally established XFM in London, before I went to ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 1, where I spent 14 years, hosting the Breezeblock (which became ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio1 Experimental), the Rock Show, and documentaries about David Bowie, The Sex Pistols.

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I worked on sound design for Darren Aronofsky and Clint Mansell on their Oscar winning film Black Swan, and the soundtrack was nominated for a Grammy.

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I toured the world as a live DJ for 7 years, playing to my biggest crowd of 15,000 people at Sonar festival in Barcelona, one of the many international festivals at which I’ve also curated.

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I worked for the academic year of 2010/11 as Media Development Coordinator at Sheffield University, mentoring 700 students involved with the Student Union’s Forge Media, re-configuring their Radio, TV, Online and Press department.

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I’ve also worked on a myriad of TV shows, including the global biker-culture series for the ´óÏó´«Ã½ ‘Mary Anne’s Bikes’.

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I can ride any motorcycle you care to park in front of me.

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My 2012 TED Talk on ‘Passion’ is