Music
Wright is a fan of live music and regularly attends concerts. The first band that he saw live was Queen at Purley, London in 1979.
In 2003 he performed on stage with his favourite band, space rock band Hawkwind, at the London Astoria, after interviewing the band's frontman Dave Brock on radio. He is now a friend of the band. He also released a single with the band, Spirit of the Age, in 2006. He is also credited on their album Take Me To Your Leader, released the same year, and often mentions the band on The Wright Stuff. On 18 May 2012, Wright was joined in the studio audience by Hawkwind members Mr Dibs and Richard Chadwick, who were there to promote the band's new album Onward and their latest tour.
Wright is also a fan of Frank Zappa, Led Zeppelin, Sparklehorse, Gong, Grateful Dead, Focus, Giant Sand, Lambchop, Will Oldham, Patti Smith, Echo & the Bunnymen, Steve Hillage, Buzzcocks, Cardiacs, Nick Cave, Budgie and Midlake. He claims that Here & Now's Fantasy Shift is the album that changed his life. He also has an extensive collection of progressive rock albums on vinyl and has been interviewed by Classic Rock Presents Prog magazine. As a teenager, Wright was a fan of Phil Collins and has admitted that he used to have a poster of Collins on his bedroom wall, something he is now ashamed of.
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“Let music sound while he doth make his choice;
Then if he lose he makes a swan-like end,
Fading in music.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Good-by, my book! Like mortal eyes, imagined ones must close some day. Onegin from his knees will rise—but his creator strolls away. And yet the ear cannot right now part with the music and allow the tale to fade; the chords of fate itself continue to vibrate; and no obstruction for the sage exists where I have put The End: the shadows of my world extend beyond the skyline of the page, blue as tomorrow’s morning haze—nor does this terminate the phrase.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“But the dark changed to red, and torches shone,
And deafening music shook the leaves; a troop
Shouldered a litter with a wounded man,
Or smote upon the string and to the sound
Sang of the beast that gave the fatal wound.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)