Meet the team
Location: Burnley
Beard: Yes
Tattoos: Covered
Favourite Tipple: Single Malt
1st Music Purchase: Jackie Wilson - Reet Petite
Best Famous Beard: John Martyn
Guilty Pleasure: Justin Timberlake
Favourite Saying: I'll do it in a bit.
Twitter: @honcho_beard
Location: Colne, Lancashire
Beard: Yes
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: LeffƩ (Blond)
1st Music Purchase: Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Pt II
Best Famous Beard: Mushtaq Ahmed (England spin bowling coach)
Guilty Pleasure: ABBA
Location: Manchester
Beard: No
Tattoos: Big Ones
Favourite Tipple: Good 'Ol Whiskey
1st Music Purchase: Adam and the Ants - Prince Charming
Best Famous Beard: Harold Hardrada
Guilty Pleasure: Duran Duran
Location: Manchester
Beard: No
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: Sambucca
1st Music Purchase: Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Best Famous Beard: Terry Riley
Guilty Pleasure: Calvin Harris
Location: Glasgow
Beard: No
Tattoos: Yes
Favourite Tipple: White Russian
1st Music Purchase: Limp Bizkit- Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavoured Water *Facepalm*
Best Famous Beard: Neil Fallon (Clutch)
Guilty Pleasure: Kanye West
Location: Sunny Lancashire
Beard: No
Tattoos: Yes
Favourite Tipple: Olde English
1st Music Purchase: Paula Abdul - Opposites Attract
Best Famous Beard: Charles Darwin
Guilty Pleasure: Will Young
Favourite Saying: For fuck's sake
Twitter: @lizzybanoffee
Location: Glossop
Beard: Yes
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: Coffee
1st Music Purchase: Rocky IV OST
Best Famous Beard: Victor Brox
Guilty Pleasure: High School Musical 1, 2 & 3
Favourite Saying: Yurrz
Location: Foulridge, the foulest of all ridges
Beard: Yes
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: Vimto
1st Music Purchase: Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Best Famous Beard: Either Moondog or Robert Wyatt
Guilty Pleasure: Bow wow wow
Location: England
Beard: Yes
Tattoos: Yes
Favourite Tipple: Single Malt - Hakushu or Balvenie
1st Music Purchase: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles OST
Best Famous Beard: Brian Blessed
Guilty Pleasure: Dr.Hook
Location: Derry/Belfast
Beard: Yes
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: Bushmills on the rocks
1st Music Purchase: Rammstein - Sahnsucht
Best Famous Beard: Alan Moore
Guilty Pleasure: Video Game Music
Location: Cambridge
Beard: No
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: Guinness with a Jager-bomb chaser
1st Music Purchase: KLF - The White Room
Best Famous Beard: Charles Darwin
Guilty Pleasure: the Pet Shop Boys version of 'You were always on my mind' which is better than the Elvis Presley one
Location: Rochdale
Beard: No
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple:
1st Music Purchase: Dizzee Rascal-Boy In Da Corner
Best Famous Beard: Gil Scott Heron
Guilty Pleasure: Robbie Williams
Location: London Town
Beard: I Wish
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: Rum & Ginger Beer
1st Music Purchase: Snoop Dogg - Whats my name
Best Famous Beard: Seasick Steve
Guilty Pleasure: Robert Palmer - Addicted to Love
Favourite Saying: Ask a silly question you'll get a silly answer.
Twitter: @catsbandcrushes
Location: Sheffield
Beard: Yes
Tattoos: Hurt
Favourite Tipple: Milky Tea 3 Sugars
1st Music Purchase: Motley Crue - Decade Of Decadence and Metallica - Metallica (both on my 8th birthday).
Best Famous Beard: Brian Blessed
Guilty Pleasure: Pet Shop Boys, J-Pop...
Location: Somewhere in Cyber Space
Beard: Yes
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: Pretty much anything, but if I had to choose it'd be Glenlivet 18 year single malt
1st Music Purchase: Falco - Rock me Amadeus (on 7")
Best Famous Beard: Sebastien Tellier
Guilty Pleasure: Devo
Favourite Saying: It'll be Reyt
Location: Burnley
Beard: No
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: Jager Bomb, followed by a Jager Bomb
1st Music Purchase: Queens of the Stoneage - Queens of the Stoneage
Best Famous Beard: Baberaham Lincoln
Guilty Pleasure: Queen
Favourite Saying: If one nun equals 5 nuns; how many conflakes are there in this ironing board?
Location: Burnley
Beard: No
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: Lucozade
1st Music Purchase: Michael Jackson - Black or White
Best Famous Beard: Zach Galifinakis
Guilty Pleasure: Elton John
Favourite Saying: Bla Bla Bla
Location: Cheltenham
Beard: No
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: Crabbies
1st Music Purchase: Papa Roach - Infest
Best Famous Beard: Ryan Dunn
Guilty Pleasure: Rod Stewart
Favourite Saying: That is Rad
Location: Sydney
Beard: Yes
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: Good Ale
1st Music Purchase: 100% Hits ā The Best of 1997
Best Famous Beard: Grizzly Adams
Guilty Pleasure: Spandau Balletās āTrueā
Twitter: @alxwlsn
Location: Cheadle, Cheshire
Beard: No
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: Grimbergen
1st Music Purchase: āBuilding a Bridge to Your Heartā - Wax
Best Famous Beard: Frank Zappa
Guilty Pleasure: 'Whatta Man' - Salt N Pepper
Favourite Saying: āIām not stubborn, Iām just correct.ā ā My Dad
Twitter: @timhudsonpr
Location: London
Beard: No
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: Crown Royal Whiskey and Ginger
1st Music Purchase: New Kids On The Block - Hangin' Tough
Best Famous Beard: Kyp Malone - TV On The Radio
Guilty Pleasure: Rihanna
Favourite Saying: Where's the crown, yo?
Twitter: @laurenkeogh_
Location: Burnley, England
Beard: Yes
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: Erdinger
1st Music Purchase: South Park: Chef Aid
Best Famous Beard: J. Tillman (ex-fleet foxes)
Guilty Pleasure: Backstreet Boys
Location: Carrickfergus
Beard: Yes
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: Hoegaarden or Ribena
1st Music Purchase: Michael Jackson: Thriller
Best Famous Beard: Leonardo Da Vinci
Guilty Pleasure: The Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack
Favourite Saying: You're tearing me apart, Lisa!
Twitter: @krystoph-j
Location: Kilmarnock, Scotland
Beard: Some
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: Mai Tai
1st Music Purchase: Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag
Best Famous Beard: John Cleese as big B.Falty
Guilty Pleasure: Haircut 100
Favourite Saying: It was so big even Scientologists find it hard to swallow...
Location: Los Angeles
Beard: No
Tattoos: Yes
Favourite Tipple: G&T
1st Music Purchase: Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual
Best Famous Beard: Warren Ellis (not the writer)
Guilty Pleasure: Fergalicious
Favourite Saying: As one does
Location: Glasgow/Stornoway
Beard: I Wish
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: Guinness
1st Music Purchase: Cliff Richard - The Millenium Prayer
Best Famous Beard: Jesus
Guilty Pleasure: Van Halen
Favourite Saying: Man, pools are PERFECT for holding water.
Twitter: @callummushi
Location: Kent, England
Beard: Some
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: Gin
1st Music Purchase: The Hives - Your New Favourite Band
Best Famous Beard: Franz Mitterhauser
Guilty Pleasure: Anamanaguchi - Airbrushed (RAC Remix)
Favourite Saying: An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way
Twitter: @TPSIQ
Location: Aberdeen
Beard: I Wish
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: Vodka & Orangina
1st Music Purchase: Paul McCartney and the Frog Chorus
Best Famous Beard: Whispering Bob Harris
Guilty Pleasure: Dodgy anime themes
Favourite Saying: I don't understand the world any more.
Location: Sunderland
Beard: Yes
Tattoos: Covered
Favourite Tipple: Wild Turkey
1st Music Purchase: Aerosmith's Greatest Hits
Best Famous Beard: Karl Marx
Guilty Pleasure: Come Dine With Me
Favourite Saying: Om nom nom
Twitter: @MrGrumptastic
Location: Manchester
Beard: Some
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: Absinthe Without Leave
1st Music Purchase: 'Walkin On Sunshine' by Katrina and the Waves
Best Famous Beard: Old School Captain Birdseye
Guilty Pleasure: Nicki Minaj
Favourite Saying: Leave it with me
Location: Manchester
Beard: No
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: Scottish Tea or most alcoholic beverages
1st Music Purchase: Gorillaz- Clint Eastwood [single]
Best Famous Beard: Friedrich Engels
Guilty Pleasure: Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Soundtrack
Location: Wolfland
Beard: Yes
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: Westons Cider
1st Music Purchase: Scatman John - Scatman
Best Famous Beard: Billy Connolly
Guilty Pleasure: I freaking love Paramore.
Favourite Saying: Almost..... almost..... easy..... EASY!!!
Twitter: @schteeeeve
Location: Aberdeen
Beard: No
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: Vodka and anything
1st Music Purchase: Radiohead - My Iron Lung EP
Best Famous Beard: Will Oldham
Guilty Pleasure: The Star Wars Christmas album
Favourite Saying: The mounting lack of responsibility and disregard for resumption of normal life in favour of drinking more can be quite exhilarating
Twitter: @johnskelton
Location: Bolton
Beard: Yes
Tattoos: Yes
Favourite Tipple: Russian Standard Gold Vodka & Red Bull
1st Music Purchase: Iron Maiden - Killers
Best Famous Beard: Abe Lincoln Or Uncle Jesse From Dukes Of Hazard
Guilty Pleasure: Scissor Sisters
Favourite Saying: For fuck's sake!!!
Twitter: @Jayshutt
Location: Widsbury, Manchester
Beard: Some
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: Tea and Champagne (not together of course)
1st Music Purchase: Chris Isaak - Wicked Game
Best Famous Beard: Sebastien Chabal
Guilty Pleasure: Hall & Oates
Favourite Saying: Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all
Twitter: @tirednemotional
Location: Hastings, East Sussex
Beard: Yes
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: Murphy's Irish Stout
1st Music Purchase: ELO - Out of the Blue
Best Famous Beard: Captain Birds Eye
Guilty Pleasure: Adam and the Ants
Favourite Saying: Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
Twitter: @baroncrap
Location: Galston, Scotland
Beard: Yes
Tattoos: Covered
Favourite Tipple: Black Isle Organic Blonde or anything from Black Isle Brewery
1st Music Purchase: House of Pain, 'House Of Pain' (1992)
Best Famous Beard: Daniel Higgs (Lungfish)
Guilty Pleasure: Dexys Midnight Runners
Favourite Saying: What The Fuck!?!?
Location: Laaaandan
Beard: No
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: Mojito! I don't think it's a gay drink.
1st Music Purchase: Shania Twain - That don't impress me much!
Best Famous Beard: Brad Pitt's 5 o'clock shadow
Guilty Pleasure: The midnight BLT
Favourite Saying: Smack into it
Twitter: @nairobiband
Location: Bagshot
Beard: Yes
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: Lagavulin, 16 Year Old Single Malt
1st Music Purchase: The single 'Gold' by Spandau Ballet (I was 8!)
Best Famous Beard: ZZ Top
Guilty Pleasure: The occasional Mark Knopfler song
Favourite Saying: "For the love of God!"
Twitter: @jonny_crane75
Location: Lark Lane via Rossendale
Beard: Some
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: Day: Black Coffee Night: A full bodied Claret or a Brandy and Coke
1st Music Purchase: Edwyn Collins -Never Known a Girl Like You Before
Best Famous Beard: Georges Perec
Guilty Pleasure: Guilt is for those who regret
Favourite Saying: 'Man lives as he dreams, alone'
Location: Midlands
Beard: Yes
Tattoos: Yes
Favourite Tipple: Kraken rum
1st Music Purchase: It was the Marshall Mathers LP, because I watched an episode of Kilroy about how corrupting of today's youth it was and they made it sound really good.
Best Famous Beard: Tony Sylvester of Turbonegro, formerly of the Dukes of Nothing
Guilty Pleasure: Dubstep. Is that so bad? I don't think it's so bad.
Favourite Saying: "Needless to say, I had the last laugh."
Location: Glasgow
Beard: Yes
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: Tea
1st Music Purchase: Depeche Mode's āViolatorā on vinyl
Best Famous Beard: MacReady's from The Thing
Guilty Pleasure: KD Lang
Favourite Saying: āYour sisters cuntā ā Junior Soprano
Twitter: @JPDarkwulf
Location: Stalybridge
Beard: Some
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: A foamy pint of pale ale
1st Music Purchase: Story of The Who - The Who
Best Famous Beard: Alan Moore
Guilty Pleasure: Paul Di'anno era Iron Maiden
Favourite Saying: Duty is in the eye of the beholder
Twitter: @brettsavage
Location: Belfast, Ireland
Beard: Yes
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: Buckfast
1st Music Purchase: New Kids On The Block - Hangin' Tough
Best Famous Beard: Zeus
Guilty Pleasure: Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff
Favourite Saying: Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent












































