The six-times world snooker champion is about to do the big Bloc weekender. Over a korma, he chats about bankrolling a Magma residency, his jerky dancing – and John Prescott on the sewing machine
It’s a Monday night in the Essex suburb of Shenfield and the Tandoori Nights restaurant is playing My Heart Will Go On to its handful of customers. But six-time world snooker champion Steve Davis would rather talk about Oneohtrix Point Never.
“He’s just so clever,” he says. “He’s like a modern-day composer, as clever as Stravinsky or Bartók.” He chucks out the names of more electronic producers he reveres, each more obscure than the last: Patten, Sanguine Hum, Katie Gately. “They may not be able to play musical instruments – it doesn’t matter. They create masterpieces that will be revered in 200 years.”
I missed punk playing snooker eight hours a day in working men's clubs where they still sang Delilah
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