Speaker 1: Let go KFM Morning, Darren Sherlin Sibbs and you.
Speaker 2: It's Martin Garrick's as fog clouds the entire city. You
Speaker 2: see that, Eh, We're we're driving through a cloud. So
Speaker 2: we have got a prank. It is throwback Thursday one
Speaker 2: that we pluck out of the archives. It's a great memory.
Speaker 2: And guess what you be forties next week.
Speaker 3: County.
Speaker 2: Yes, the yeah, in Cape Town soon. They are still
Speaker 2: tickets available if you want from ticket Master, but we
Speaker 2: are revisiting something from there.
Speaker 1: Stop stop what you're doing. Here is another world famous
Speaker 1: crank call from Darren Wackhead Simpson six exclusive to KFM mornings.
Speaker 3: Okay, right, let's go into the ark. So you be
Speaker 3: forties in town to June.
Speaker 2: That's uh, they're gonna be boarding the plane soon to
Speaker 2: come here. It's just a around the corner. And so
Speaker 2: we've dipped into the archive. So every time that U
Speaker 2: Beforety comes here, we get to have a wonderful chat
Speaker 2: with the lead singer, Ali Campbell, one of the nicest guys.
Speaker 2: All right, but I want to take you back to
Speaker 2: when it started, my very first interview with Alie Campbell. Okay,
Speaker 2: and I was.
Speaker 3: Like that they gave.
Speaker 2: They were like, Okay, they're coming and there's only one
Speaker 2: interview that he has time to do, so you're going
Speaker 2: to get it. So he was under the impression this
Speaker 2: is like, this is the main dude, you know, this is.
Speaker 4: Serious business music journalism.
Speaker 3: This is the main radio station.
Speaker 2: This is giving me the max coverage.
Speaker 3: What could go wrong?
Speaker 2: So I was like, let me be a DJ stuck
Speaker 2: in a TimewARP that classic eighties.
Speaker 4: Journey which you are reerially good at all.
Speaker 3: Right, don't touch that dial. It's crazy how you just
Speaker 3: switched that on. Don't touch that dial.
Speaker 5: You could have had this or even laughing in radio,
Speaker 5: but you laugh through your nose.
Speaker 3: Very polite.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that era. So I wanted to take him
Speaker 2: back there and make him think, like put him in
Speaker 2: a world where he goes, what is this like? Where
Speaker 2: am I the worst interview? And I'll make it like
Speaker 2: it's live. So he's got no option to put the
Speaker 2: phone down.
Speaker 4: And he's such a professional, he is so generous with
Speaker 4: his time. Yes, and here you are.
Speaker 2: So I have callers, I have all that lined up right,
Speaker 2: and and so now they said listen, give him a call.
Speaker 2: He was on his way. He was driving from Birmingham
Speaker 2: to London. They said, call him in his car, he
Speaker 2: has his number. Happens in the afternoon, and I'm like, great.
Speaker 6: Okay, So.
Speaker 2: This is me being in eighties DJ interviewing the legend
Speaker 2: that is Alie Campbell UB forty.
Speaker 3: Hello, Hi, is that Alie Campbell?
Speaker 7: It is that Darren?
Speaker 3: Oh yes, it is Ali. Let me just explain quickly.
Speaker 5: We're gonna be starting interview in a minute, and we're
Speaker 5: going to start it with the jingle that opens my
Speaker 5: radio show, and then we're gonna get straight into it
Speaker 5: after that because we're going to be recording it live
Speaker 5: to tape.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, stand by sounds awful already.
Speaker 4: I can't.
Speaker 3: Let's wack it in the morning, yn.
Speaker 5: Dude, he waged in the morning sixty nine and a goodly, goodly,
Speaker 5: goodly morning to you all. And oh yes, remember this
Speaker 5: show Bradley brought you by coat takes penny liners, wear
Speaker 5: them so you can play tennis, go river rafting and
Speaker 5: do all the normal day to day stuff ladies. Okay,
Speaker 5: now we've played my salary this morning. It's a privilege.
Speaker 5: We're speaking to Ali Campbell, the late singer.
Speaker 3: Of the band you two. You'll be fuddy.
Speaker 7: Yo yo yo. What's up Darren?
Speaker 3: Oh, welcome to wake in the morning.
Speaker 7: Well, it's good to be here or good to be
Speaker 7: talking to you anyway.
Speaker 3: Yes, Now, first time in South Africa? Alan, are you
Speaker 3: looking forward to it?
Speaker 7: Did you say he's our first time in South Africa?
Speaker 3: Yes? Are you looking forward to it?
Speaker 7: No, we've been here. We've been to South Africa about
Speaker 7: six times.
Speaker 3: What I go on holiday yourself?
Speaker 7: No, we've played. We've played penny of shows there. We
Speaker 7: love South Africa. In fact, we hold the attendance record
Speaker 7: in Johannersberg for when we came and played at to
Speaker 7: Mandela was released, which still stands at eighty thousand people.
Speaker 5: Well ell yeah, I think you should take your facts, mate,
Speaker 5: because the current record for concert attendance is eighty seven
Speaker 5: thousand by Michael Bolton. Okay, now, I just want to
Speaker 5: tell you if there is a rat in your kitchen,
Speaker 5: what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 7: Well, I'd shake that rat. That's what I'm doing.
Speaker 3: So be the reggae band. Alan.
Speaker 5: I take it you all grew up in Jamaica.
Speaker 7: No, we grew up in the south part of Birmingham
Speaker 7: called Borsel Heath, which was predominantly a West Indian sort
Speaker 7: of area, West Indian and Indian.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I must have got the wrong brief. I
Speaker 2: think I got the brief for Shaggy, Yes I did.
Speaker 2: All right, Okay, you in.
Speaker 3: The in your band, You've got your sister.
Speaker 7: Robin right, yeah, my sister Rubbie plays guitar and things
Speaker 7: with me.
Speaker 3: Can you just was the.
Speaker 5: Studio dublues Bresy number of an interview here with with
Speaker 5: Alan Campbell?
Speaker 3: Sorry, Allen, we'll we'll pick it up from there, right,
Speaker 3: all right?
Speaker 5: Okay, So you'll be forty and I beat twenty nine.
Speaker 3: I wrote that one this whole weekend.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 3: So well, I don't know what else to say. Uh
Speaker 3: so what else? What else can you tell me, Elie?
Speaker 7: Well, you'll be forty and again making another brilliant album
Speaker 7: which you'll be out at the end of the year.
Speaker 5: Okay, is there anything else you want to talk about?
Speaker 3: Elan?
Speaker 7: And of course we're coming over to play in South
Speaker 7: Africa with the Live Earth crew.
Speaker 3: So how's the weather.
Speaker 7: Well, it's really sunny.
Speaker 5: I just wanted to find out, So hold on, where
Speaker 5: are we? Where are we? Okay? Great? Oh, I've run
Speaker 5: out of stuff to ask.
Speaker 7: Oh, well, should we talk about our new album and
Speaker 7: my new shallow album?
Speaker 5: Oh no, not really really, we want to talk about
Speaker 5: you BE forty being in town.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 7: Well, the last time we were in South Africa was
Speaker 7: in two thousand and two.
Speaker 3: All right, Allan, that's all we have tid for.
Speaker 5: We're looking ready forward to seeing you in the home
Speaker 5: of the Big Five. This is Waking in the Morning
Speaker 5: and now hearing for the very first time in South Africa.
Speaker 5: It's the brand new single from U B forty. Would
Speaker 5: you like to introduce it?
Speaker 6: Ali?
Speaker 7: Yeah, this is who you're fighting for?
Speaker 5: By no, I don't think we've been sent that one yet.
Speaker 6: Which when you got them this one?
Speaker 5: All right, Okay, I'm going to play that for the
Speaker 5: first time in South Africa. I'm going to play the
Speaker 5: game for you and you can just introduce it.
Speaker 3: Alright, Okay, Okay, we'll just pick it up. Okay, Allen,
Speaker 3: that's all we have time for.
Speaker 7: Okay, Well, here's a brand new single called Red Red Wine.
Speaker 5: Oh that is fantastic hearing it for the first time
Speaker 5: here or ninety four point seven high felt stereo.
Speaker 3: It's Wacked in the Morning. Babies. Thank you early.
Speaker 7: That was great.
Speaker 3: I went down. What a guy. No, he's amazing. I
Speaker 3: don't believe you did that to him. And you committed
Speaker 3: to your role.
Speaker 2: I was in, I was, I was eighties, I was
Speaker 2: locked in and and you know, we've interviewed him about
Speaker 2: three times since. I've never told him that not only did.
Speaker 4: You commit to the role, he committed to that interview
Speaker 4: did not hang up on you once a professional because
Speaker 4: there were trained they were look.
Speaker 3: At least five moments.
Speaker 2: He's fantastic. And you know what, if you haven't seen
Speaker 2: them live, you're in for a treat. You need to guy.
Speaker 2: See it's a it's a bucket list, really it is one.
Speaker 3: Kay.
Speaker 4: Then you track red red wine, red red one, red
Speaker 4: red wine, whatever the other.
Speaker 7: Let's do.
Speaker 2: Let's do red red Wine with Ali Campbell on KF Mornings.
Speaker 2: Brilliant stuff. Listen, we have got out my different contest
Speaker 2: coming up with Wolvers in ten minutes time. All right,
Speaker 2: We've got some messages here from the throwback prank.
Speaker 5: Where you gotta tell me you guys interviewed this time
Speaker 5: around and itway cool to see the ess if you
Speaker 5: tell him that was you, that interviewed him.
Speaker 3: Wow, this is so cringe.
Speaker 4: No, I'm listening to my you want like the lowest
Speaker 4: volume possible.
Speaker 3: Because I don't want to hear it. But I don't
Speaker 3: want to miss the prank.
Speaker 5: No, Mad, you'll be forty, I'll be tweeny.
Speaker 7: My nervous, my broom and you.
Speaker 1: Clo.
Speaker 3: It's very hard to listen to. Yes, it's beautiful, awodness, painful.
Speaker 3: That's right. They give you big interviews.
Speaker 2: Well, let me tell you, suld I was banned from
Speaker 2: any solim interview for about a year after that. And
Speaker 2: then I said, okay, look, I won't do it again.
Speaker 2: And then I said, okay, you can interview James Blunt
Speaker 2: and I did it again. Then I got banned again
Speaker 2: and I said okay, and then I said okay, but
Speaker 2: don't do it again. And then I said I won't.
Speaker 2: And then I interviewed Matt Damon and then I did
Speaker 2: it not Mad Damon.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And but the good news is that I think we're
Speaker 2: going to be chatting to Ali on Tuesday next week.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's time to tell him.
Speaker 4: Maybe it's time, or maybe it's.
Speaker 2: Time, or maybe it's time for a two point zero.
Speaker 3: I want no part of that.
Speaker 4: I don't want to be a part of that.
Speaker 5: I remember, normally we go out to him Maye too,
Speaker 5: he's hotel room man.
Speaker 3: The last time we went to him.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, but but this will be a phone call
Speaker 2: before you.
Speaker 3: You can do a lot more with the phone call. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we'll see, we'll see. Okay, that is UB forty