What is your first musical memory?
Listening to Aretha Franklin in my mum’s car when I was about 5
What was the first album you owned?
Probably a Best of Marvin Gaye compilation.
Were you not a musician, what would your profession be?
A carpenter.
What song do you wish you had written?
‘Only Love Can Break Your Heart’ by Neil Young
What was the first concert you attended?
Michael Jackson
What three bands or artists, dead or alive, would be part of your ultimate one-night concert performance?
Jeff Buckley, Notorious B.I.G. and Otis Redding
What instrument would you like to play, that you currently cannot?
The drums
With whom would you like to collaborate?
Rick Ross
Which one of your songs would you put in a time capsule?
‘When We Die’
What one album can you not live without?
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Who was (or is) your biggest influence as a musician?
Jeff Buckley
Photo: Ewen Spencer
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Jack Penate’s Matinee album is out January 22, 2008 on XL Records
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