While I think it's fair to say that Steve Davis kept his passion for leftfield, esoteric music well hidden during his heyday, fellow cult 1980s sportsman Pat Nevin was always out and proud. There can't have been many footballers who've been de facto production assistants on John Peel's radio show and stipulated in contract negotiations that they should be substituted early doors to be able to go and see Cocteau Twins in concert.
So his Baker's Dozen piece for the Quietus was always going to be well worth a read. Dive in to read about his love of David Bowie's Low and The Fall's 'Blindness' (entirely understandable), how he and the Cocteaus' Simon Raymonde used to be regular lunch buddies, the time that Duritti Column's Vini Reilly wrote a song for him and the experience of seeing the reformed My Bloody Valentine perform live ("ear damaging" - very true). If you add in the plug for recent Libertino signees Sister Wives, he can just about be forgiven for continuing to endorse Belle & Sebastian, and for having DJed at their Bowlie Weekender...
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Currently reading "The Accidental Footballer" and needless to say on every page you think "why can't people be more like Pat?", not cos of the music stuff but just the way he carries himself.
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