Over tea and cake last Saturday afternoon, my friend Matt commented that Paul Gambaccini would make his fantasy dinner party invitation list, "because he'd be a walking encyclopaedia of music information".
It was an idea that captured my imagination, and over the next hour or so, we concocted lists of people who we think would make an entertaining evening around a dinner table. People were added (Stephen Fry - witty repartee, Germaine Greer - controversial character who might unwittingly provoke interesting male flirting behaviour) and rejected (John Peel - no longer with us, Mark E. Smith - penchant for peeving people), but in the end the gathered 20 or so only featured one game-related person, Sir Clive Sinclair.
It's not that games people aren't worthy candidates for a fancy dinner party; we simply felt that they might not contribute as much to the dynamics of conversation and chit chat as the others we'd nominated. But we could be wrong. What gaggle of games luminaries do you think would sit well around your table?
