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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