Bobby Gillespie
Singer and songwriter
Standing on stage in between Robert Young and Andrew Innes, blasting away.
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Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I’m a lucky woman – I was walking in the rain yesterday and was really happy.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 March 2024 source ↗
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My son's second birthday. It was a typical autumn day – bright sky, cold fingers. He was dressed as a skeleton and we ate chilli in the garden.
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Right now. It's a beautiful thing to find yourself "the wrong side of 40" and more in love with life than ever. I never tell people this publicly as they wrongly assume the only valid creative state is that of the cliche of the tubercular, tortured artist coughing up blood in his garret.
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I’m lazy domestically. I don’t do housework. My mother would have called me a slut.
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A full-time driver/butler/chef.
I take my family on holiday. We went to Egypt just after Christmas. Golly, it’s expensive.
I was very sorry to stop at two children – I would have liked to have had a third – and I am very sorry to have got divorced.
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