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All Woman
All Woman
Andy Tijou

Andy Tijou

Andy Tijou has been with Epsom Hospital Radio since June 2005.

Andy is the on the stations managment committee as the station's Chief Engineer.

In 2015, Andy was appointed as an honoury life-time Vice President for his work building the stations new studios when Epsom Hospital Radio moved.

You can join Andy every day from 1 - 2pm for an hour of music on a tedious theme, and some Monday afternoons from 4 - 6pm.

Questions and Answers: 

What's your favourite genre of music?
I'm a big fan of indie and rock, it's hard to choose a single favourite band, it would either be The Beatles, Muse, Radiohead or The Stone Roses. I also like most music from the eighties!

When you're not at Epsom Hospital Radio, what are you doing?
During the day and sometimes the night, I'm an engineer for the BBC, I spend most of my time in the newsroom, running into their TV studios and galleries restarting the KVMs (anyone who works there knows...), and fixing responding to faults and other issues. I am also a keen photographer, and enjoy going for walks, mainly in the Surrey Hills.

If you had £1,000,000 to spend on yourself and no-one else what would you spend it on?
Going by house prices in Epsom, I'd say just about scrape together the 10% deposit for a one bed flat!

What is your ideal holiday destination?
I have certainly been hit by the travel bug this year, currently planning a trip to Canada, with a coupl of weeks in the Rockies. I'd also like to visit Japan.

What is your favourite film?
I like either comedies or action movies, things like the Bourne Trilogy, Naked Gun, Aeroplane, In The Loop, Star Wars and the Bond movies, I'm also obliged to say that "Tomorrow Never Dies is the greatest movie ever made" it's not, it's good, but it's not, but it's become something of a catch phrase among me and a couple of my friends. Further to that, I should add Short Circuit 2... I have a tough time persuading friends to watch adequate movies!

What is your favourite TV programme?
I love a sitcom, my highlights there would be Yes Minister/Prime Minister, The Thick Of It, Father Ted, Alan Partridge and the IT Crowd. I also enjoy the Last Leg. Oh, and that programme they seem to show quite a lot lately, whats it called... "The News", you wouldn't believe what rubbish "The UK Government" depicted in it are up to, great comedy script writers for that!!! (Please tell me it's not really happening!)

Who is your favourite comedian?
I think Frankie Boyle, Jimmy Carr and Milton Jones are really funny.

Who is your favourite sports team/star?
AFC Wimbledon, though I'm a bad fan, shift working makes it hard to follow!

What is your favourite drink?
Non Alcoholic - Either a flat white coffee, or San Pellegrino Lemon and Mint. also, you can't beat a good cup of tea. I quite enjoy red wine. Also partial to the odd pint of Guinness.

What is your favourite food?
I love Italian food, I also enjoy slow roasting meats, particularly beef in a red wine sauce I make (don't worry, I have a fixed rate energy tarrif).

What inspires you?
The beauty of the planet and the people that we share it with, all pretty amazing really!

Middle name?
Stuart

Star  sign?
Scorpio

Weird & wonderful talents?
I can take a brilliant joke and ruin it!

Most treasured belongings?
My camera, photos and my music collection.

Favourite smell?
Breakfast being cooked (preferably for me!)

What was the Number 1 single on the day you were born?
It's My Party - Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin.

What record drives you mad when you hear it?
Does the 'Go Compare' advert count? No? Well, I know she did it for charidy mate, but Sophie Ellis Bextor's cover of Rebellion (Lies) originally by the Arcade Fire. The original is up there with my favourite songs ever, but Sophie ruined it, slaughtered it, absolutely destroyed it beyond all comprehension. The first time I heard it, I cringed and every time subsequently I want to throw up it's that bad! Is that a little harsh? Nope, the webmaster says that’s fine!

What is your favourite album?
Very tough question, I recently tried compiling my top ten albums of all time that I own, I currently have a top 16!
These are (Alphabetical by artist excluding "the"):

  • Arcade Fire - Funeral
  • Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
  • The Beatles - Abbey Road
  • Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
  • Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
  • Green Day - American Idiot
  • The Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
  • Muse - Absolution
  • Muse - Origin Of Symmetry
  • My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
  • Nirvana - Nevermind
  • Oasis - Definetly Maybe
  • Pulp - Different Class
  • Radiohead - OK Computer
  • Radiohead - In Rainbows
  • The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

God knows how I'm going to narrow it down to ten?!

Have you met anyone famous and if so, under what circumstances?
Loads and loads and loads, a part of my last job was to look after some little contribution studios in the BBC's Wogan House (or Western House as it was known then!) in Central London, all the celebs come in there to promote various books, DVDs, CDs and so on. Naming names, my personal highlights are Kylie Minogue, Sir Roger Moore, Sir Stirling Moss, Billy Ocean, and very briefly Paul McCartney, though his entourage got in the way of speaking to him, oh and Brian Johnson (AC/DC) who was chuffed that Chris Evans let him borrow a Ferrari he was thinking of buying a similar model of, hopefully one day Chris will let me drive his Ferraris too, though I'd probably have to get a job at Virgin Radio for that!

Who is your favourite radio presenter?
Mark Radcliffe & Stuart Maconie.

Apart from your current partner, who would be your ideal dinner date and why?
Really tough one, easier to answer who I wouldn’t like to invite around for dinner: Chef Nigel Slater. Every week on his show he seems to walk into a shop and end up going home with one of the staff to cook them dinner. Now, luckily for him, and them, they always seem to have some interesting ingredients in their kitchens, I think he’d be rather disappointed when he rifles through my cupboards to find no peppers, no asparagus, no quails eggs or anything else these peoples' houses he goes back to just so happen to have! Also, I quite like eating whilst sat down, which seems to have been outlawed by Slater, so he’s off my list.
I few years ago, I jokingly answered this question with "the future Prime Minister of the UK, Boris Johnson."
I'd like to strike that answer from the records, besides, I'm sure that if we did dine together he'd deny it happening

If you were marooned on a desert island, what would be the items you'd need most?
My digital SLR camera, a digital photo frame, and some magic solar powered power source to charge the batteries for the camera and run the photo frame. Might as well have an MP3 player in there too!