1. You dream about steam trains. Seriously.

2. You always spell 'sorry' with three rs.

3. You own at least three different recordings of Starlight Express, at least one of which is in a foreign language. And you listen to all of them at least once a week.

4. If you find it difficult to say something, you spell it.

5. Before exams or other stressful things, you mutter 'I am the Starlight - I can achieve anything' to yourself.

6. (for Hannah) Your friends have promised to lynch you if you sing 'Crazy' in their presence ever again.

7. You have competitions with your friends to see who can get the most Starlight Express quotes into their GCSE General Studies paper (ie 10 points for 'Nobody can do it like a steam train', 20 extra points for getting 'woo woo' in as well).

8. At the end of 'Make Up My Heart', you long to jump onto the stage, slap Pearl round the face and shout 'For goodness' sake, woman! Choose Rusty, it'll save everyone a lot of heartache in the long run!' (or is that just me?)

9. You actually do number 8.

10. 'I'll be your Engine of Love' seems to be an incredibly sensible chat up line.

11. You join the Starlight Express RPG mailing list (http://www.onelist.com, search for Starlight Express) and actually find something to talk about.

12. You can sing the entire score in two different languages.

13. When Rusty sings 'Did you have to break up my heart' you long to jump on stage and give him a big hug.

14. You actually do this.

15. You take skates along to the theatre, knowing you could fill in for any of the characters (Sparky).

16. You ask people if they want to 'feel your frequency' (Sparky)

17. You're making a Starlight costume (Sparky).

18. You ring up the theatre, RUG, and email the website demanding to know when the video is going to be released (Sparky).

19. You wonder why only parts of the rewritten version are on the CD (Sparky).