Well, you must be having a good old explore of the site if you come to this page .... either that or you are a bit bored!

Anyway, I just thought I'd have a small page which talks a bit about me and why I do this website!

So, you've read this far .... you must be actually interested then .... bit of a shocker that, but I shall continue!

My name is Pete Croxson and I am 26 and I currently live in Portsmouth (UK). I work for a major computing company but that's boring so I'll not talk about that! I am shockingly not single and even met my gorgeous girlfriend through the Feeder messageboards!

I've been running this site since March 2002 .... and the main reason I set it up was that I am a collector of Feeder stuff and I am passionate about the band! I first heard of them through a friend who had a sampler which featured Chicken On A Bone. We went to the Reading Festival that year (1996) and so we went to one of the small tents to see them play. This was still the days of orange boiler suits and long hair .... I was impressed!

After that, I went to Uni and didn't hear much about the band until I noticed that one of the writers of Kerrang listed Stereo World as on his playlist .... there was a picture of the cover on the page too ... and it came back to me! I went out that day and bought the single. I've not looked back since.

I've almost grown up with the band .... the first time I saw them live on their own was my 4th or 5th gig ever. I traveled during an Easter break from Uni to The Varsity, Wolverhampton. It was a tiny place with the "dressing room" opposite the toilets behind the stage! The gig was marvelous but to only about 40 or 50 people! After the gig I managed to meet the guys, got some autographs and had a chat to Grant about his new song High and what I thought of it and also the lack of crowd reaction, despite my best attempts to jump around like a loon! Now, I'm up to 35 Feeder gigs (amongst many others) and it just feels like they are a part of my life! (I'm not a stalker or anything like that .... I promise!!).

I've always been a keen collector of records and I was always fascinated by Feeders artwork, their image and most of all, the music. I have always been impressed at the vast wealth of top quality B-sides that Feeder have produced ... I've got 4 CDs I made full of B-sides .... it's like having 4 more albums! A lot of bands these days just don't seem to bother with B-sides which is a shame!

I was also fascinated by the fact that with each new release, a whole raft of promotional items are also issued, sometimes with different artwork or edits of tracks. So, I've kinda devoted a large part of my life and bank balance to finding them all!

I March 2001 I joined the Feeder Messageboard and found some like minded people who I could chat about Feeder stuff and I kept getting asked questions about the back catalogue ... so much so, that I created this site to try and answer the questions before they were asked! And here it is, the fruits of my labours .... I hope you enjoy it!

Oh and the other thing I get asked a lot ..... why call it "The Feeder Anorak" ? Well, as you may or may not know, the term, "to be an anorak" about a subject means you know everything about it and if you find something new, you want to know all about that too! That kinda sums me up in relation to Feeders back catalogue! It stems from the train spotting world, where trains spotters would wear anoraks on cold windy train stations on the search for that elusive carriage number or engine ... well, I'm no train spotter, but I have been know to search long and hard for that elusive record or bizarre foreign edition of a CD!

Oh well, I've waffled enough and if you are still awake then I congratulate you .... enjoy the site!