Who are you and what do you do? Phil Kirby; I mainly write the boring bits for businesses but in my spare time I pretend to have an imagination.
What inspires you? People who refuse to give in, who won’t listen to reason, who don’t calculate every move to the nth degree, who can’t be relied upon to put up a shelf or talk the rubbish out, who never make things comfortable. . .
If you were choosing a theme what would it have been? The birds and the bees, The morning after the night before, Three wishes, If I ruled the world, The writing on the wall, Strange Fruit, The straw that broke the camel’s back, The lunatics have taken over the asylum . . .
If you had five more hours a day, what would you do? I’d finish my novel about Cuthbert Brodrick, the great architect who transformed the centre of Leeds; just a bit of a fantasy about he got up to in those last missing 30 odd years bumming around the seedier suburbs of Paris.
Do you have a favourite building? If so which and why? Leeds Town Hall. People mither on about Manchester, but ours is more magnificent by far! And my least favourite building? Has to be the KPMG headquarters on Neville Street, the most bland, boring, bleak waste of brick I’ve ever seen. Shame on the architect! Someone confiscate his pencils and thwack him with his T-square.
Phil can be found on twitter and more of his madness on his website
Oh, you could have corrected my spelling mistake! Talk/take . . . I do sound a little deranged, don’t I?