| 1. Amazing hair |
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| 2. He's a member of the Bluetones! (In case you missed that one...) | |
| 3. His son's middle name is Anakin | |
| 4. He drinks Ribena | |
| 5. When they did Home Fires on TOTP :-) | |
| 6. Always seems to be enjoying himself | |
| 7. He lives in London (though comes from County Durham) which is always good | |
| 8. Makes a good tramp (as in, is convincing as one, not that he can create tasty ones) | |
| 9. Cuteness in the Bluetonic promo video | |
| 10. Makes two cardigans at once look good | |
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11. When my friend got her CD signed by the band Eds wrote "season's greetings" even though it was midsummer, proof if any were needed that he is an eccentric genius. |
| 12. His name sounds like a music hall comedian | |
| 13. I vaguely remember reading somewhere that he invents things, which not enough people do so good on Eds for inventing things, however useless and doomed never to be made the things Eds invents probably are. | |
| 14. His drum fill before the last verse of Last Of The Great Navigators is one of the only fills in recorded history that could ever be accurately described as "cheeky". | |
| 15. He gets equally excited (and it is a LOT of excitement) about cooking fish pie and putting up shelves. | |
| 16. He is married to cool person (hey Zazie!) who helps on Tones site by contributing pix of lovely young Tones! | |
| 17. The bit in the Mudslide video where he tries to twirl his drumstick & drops it... (see above!) | |
| 18. You can store things in aforementioned hair, useful for any shopping lover! | |
| 19. Seems somehow familiar... | |
| 20. He is friends with Richard! | |
| 21. He laughs at other Bluetones onstage and thus makes us laugh at him creating a kind of giggle loop in manner of Jeff on Coupling (don't ask) | |
| 22. He takes his tie off for the encore in a dashing, rakish fashion | |
| 23. Bluetonic live | |
| 24. Il parle le francais sur le chanson 'Soup du Jour' avec un peu de charme (?!) et beaucoup de style! | |
| 25. He gives Ben lil Bluetones T-shirts! | |
| 26. He has small children who he makes sing at the end of B-sides (say, for example, Sail on Sailor) in cute manner | |
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27. He appears on TOTP wearing braces. Supoib. |
| 28. Because of the existence of Eds (and therefore this website), the Crew can pretend to have a lot more friends than they would otherwise do! | |
| 29. Ed says she would be worried about MysDik if there wasn't this creative outlet about. Thank Eds there is, eh? | |
| 30. He has a taste for exotic and colourful shirts that we can only admire. | |
| 31. He fully appreciates the title of this site ("General Ed... that really means General Education!") | |
| 32. Has been known to play air guitar | |
| 33. Usually comes with posse of random people | |
| 34. You can watch his hair evolve over the course of a tour (especially fun on heeeuge 50-date ones) | |
| 35. Has spectackylar cheekbones |
Thanks to Johnny Bravo for numbers 11-14 and to JesS for number 18! If you have a reason why you love Eds and it doesn't already appear on this list, email one of us from the homepage and we will put it up with all speed :-)
