• His current (and resurrected) band Khartoum Heroes.
• Growing up with 50s rock n roll and classical music.
• Adam Ant as a musical turning point.
• Buzzcocks covers before his voice even broke.
• Never being discouraged by his parents to pursue an artists’ life even if they don’t understand the art he makes and enjoys.
• King Creosote, James Yorkston, his old band Huckleberry playing T in the Park, doing an NME Tour, playing Reading and Leeds,  having music played John Peel's and Steve Lamaq's radio shows.
• Hedonism, perhaps being dead now if he’d have made it at 22.
• Most artists who are good get better with age.
• Jim Gellatly and how it used to be much harder to get heard. Alternative music used to be alternative, now it’s seeped into the mainstream.
• How he hadn’t thought about journalism at all and how he got involved at the BBC almost by accident.
• How he just took as many jobs related to music as possible, like doing lights in venues, writing for fanzines, doing PR for labels, putting on club nights, DJing…
• Choosing not to move to London and deciding to stay in Scotland.
• The best way to keep your interest in new music is up to keep your interest varied and to mix it up. People get bored of new music because they’re not finding the good stuff.
• Feeling lucky and honoured to have the job he has.
• Songs in the Key of Fife – how that came about and the bands from Kingsbarns and St Andrews: KT Tunstall, The Pictish Trail, The Beta Band, the Fence Collective, King Creosote, The Withered Hand etc.
• How Vic got into acting at school, was in the youth theatre and used to run acting workshops in school, how he applied to RADA but rock n roll got his soul. He hopes to go back to it one day…
• Also discusses how he thinks humans are penned in by themselves and you need to push yourself to have new experiences. If you’re interested in something you have to chance your arm and try it.

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