Each week Bristol Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Doug Hobbs, founder of Hobbs Salon and the Hobbs Show, answers our 10 questions.
What was the LAST: 
Film you watched? Deadlock (really twisted!)
Book you read? Operation Ironman by George Mahood
Music you bought/downloaded? Lou Reed Walk on the Wild Side
Concert or play you went to? The Hobbs Show. Not quite a concert or a play but lots of music and entertainment!
Sporting event you attended? Bristol Rovers – every home game.
Holiday you went on? St Kitts
Restaurant you ate in? Galley Cafe for Sunday Lunch
Thing that annoyed you? Negativity
Thing that made you laugh out loud? Reading a book the other day which had the line ‘I want to Roger Mrs Rogers’
Piece of good advice you were given? Keep the faith!
Doug Hobbs, owner of Hobbs Salon in Park Row, is one of Bristol’s best known and most respected hair stylists. He began as an apprentice aged 15 and later managed the successful Bristol salon Shaggers in the 1970s. After suffering a serious mountain biking accident in 1997 he conceived the idea of The Hobbs Show which has become the largest event of its kind outside London. He said the recent Hobbs Show would be his last. Photo by Jon Craig © JonCraig.co.uk
