back Scottish pop legends Altered Images will be warming up New Year revellers in Edinburgh as special guests of Sophie Ellis-Bextor. In our Q&A, iconic singer Clare Grogan discusses haunting Boris Johnson, rebirthing as a dog and being mistaken for a certain pint-sized Aussie
Who would you like to see playing you in the movie about your life? Me please! I love making movies and I’d probably need the job. What’s the punchline to your favourite joke? Because I love you! If you were to return in a future life as an animal, what would it be? Can we go backwards with this? A dog living in the Doris Day pet sanctuary in California. What’s the best cover version ever? The Slits’ ‘I Heard It Through The Grapevine’. Whose speaking voice soothes your ears? Stanley Baxter.
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If you were a ghost, who would you haunt? Boris Johnson. I’d make sure he never got a good night’s sleep ever again. When was the last time you were mistaken for someone else and what were the circumstances? On a visit to NYC, they closed Prada so that I could shop in peace because they thought I was Kylie. It got a tad embarrassing in the end. Tell us something you wish you had discovered sooner in life? It wasn’t necessary to try and please everyone. Describe your perfect Saturday evening? It would have to involve a big gang of family and friends at one of our restaurants.