Catching his drift

‘We’ve been out on our surfboard waiting for a wave. That’s kind of hitting now and people are getting wet.’ So says multimedia megastar Malcolm Garrett, putting a West Coast spin on the recent wipe-out of his company AMX Digital, before Real Time Studio’s surfer knight Phil Jones rescued it from disaster.

Fine talk from the man responsible for the Buzzcocks’ Seventies branding. But then he did once say that his Desert Island Discs would be eight tracks from relentless German band Kraftwerk. Eclectic taste or what.