About MeHello and welcome to my website. My name is Jyoti Mishra. According to my server stats, there’s an 83% probability you’re viewing this page because in 1997 I had a brief flirt with fame when my band, White Town, had an international number one hit with my song ‘Your Woman.’ You can find out plenty of detail behind what happened then in some of the rants on this site. Though I’ve left out the bit about EMI reducing me to crying in the bath. (You can listen to and buy all my non-EMI stuff by clicking here!) I was born in India and moved to Britain with my family when I was three. We moved around a lot when I was young and I ended up in Derby at around the age of ten. I was the annoying know-it-all kid at school, a title I held alongside fattest lad. I left school at 16 specifically to go on the dole and join a band. I’ve been a songwriter since then. I became a revolutionary Marxist in the ’80s, via the orthodox Trots known as the Militant Tendency. It was the best education I’ve ever had. Nowadays I tend more towardsu0026hellip;
HeroesThese are a few of my heroes:
White Town
Synthlover
Photography

Rushmore Again

It’s 4.28am and I should have gone to bed early. But instead I just watched ‘Rushmore’ again.

It’s still a magical film and only becomes more so as I age. The notes of regret that Murray passes, well, I hear more of those now.

Miss Cross is, unbelievably, even more beautiful than I remember and now I can love her both as Max and Herman.

If you’ve never seen it, make a little time for it. If you have, go back and say hello, you’re missing it more than you know.