WEBVTT - Ep 37: Wesley Gonzalez 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:21.119 Loud and Quiet presents Midnight Chats. Hello and welcome to 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:23.959 this week's episode of the Loud on Quiet interview podcast 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:29.680 Midnight Chats. I'm recording this part of the podcast in 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:34.960 my car, which is outside our office, and this car 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:39.400 failed it's mot this week and now there's not really 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:41.879 much use for it. I mean, I will deal with 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:45.040 it in a responsible manner. I'm not going to abandon 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:49.240 the car here before anyone thinks otherwise. But it's quite 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:52.080 noisy upstairs in our office, so I've come down here 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:55.520 to record this awkward part where I have to introduce 0:00:56.080 --> 0:01:00.480 who my guest is this week. So currently sat in 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:06.320 a car park in Hackney in the cold, looking kind 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:09.160 of strange to the people in the office below us 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:12.720 who are looking out their window at me. But they 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:16.039 will get over it, I'm sure. So my guest this 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:20.679 week on the podcast is a friend of Loud and Quiet, 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:22.480 so I would say, I mean, he's just a musician, 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:25.640 like anyone else that we interview in the magazine and 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:30.240 online and here on the podcast. But Wesy Gonzalez is 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:35.640 someone that I have followed his music endeavors since he 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:39.520 was a child. Actually, he formed Let's wrestle around the 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.559 time I was starting Loud and Quiet around two thousand 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:47.600 and five, and that band has now split up. They 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:52.919 were quite a tumultuous threesome, a punk DIY slacker group, 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:57.440 and this year he released his first solo album, which 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:00.680 is called Excellent Musician. Now, if you do read Loud 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:03.080 and Quiet as well as listening to this podcast, then 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:05.920 you may recognize the name Wesley Gonzalez. As a cover 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:08.840 feature that we did earlier this year, Wesley was on 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:12.560 the front under the headline man versus Indie. That was 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:17.760 because Wesley has decided that guitars just aren't for him 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:21.720 anymore so, having made his name in a guitar band 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:26.000 and very much in the indie rock sphere, he's over 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:29.240 it now and he's made an album called Excellent Musician, 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:33.280 which how doesn't feature any guitars. It features synthesizers and 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:37.200 piano mainly, but strangely, it kind of sounds like there's 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:39.120 a guitar on there. I don't know how he's done that, 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:42.080 but you you know, you have to be reminded that 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:44.519 there isn't one on there. Anyway. We did a feature 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.880 earlier this year and had a really fun day where 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:52.560 we walked around the guitar shops of London and we 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:57.760 tried to get guitar people to listen to Wesley's new 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:01.440 single and tell us what they liked it. It was 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:05.880 good fun. We start the conversation reminiscing about that and 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:08.400 also talking about Wesley's videos. I'm going to put a 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:11.760 link on our website below where this podcast is being 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:15.600 posted on our website at least to Wesley's videos, because 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:20.480 he's made five videos this year and that all quite 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:23.440 something to behold. So if you're listening to this on 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.160 your phone or via the ACRS st app or the 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:29.239 Apple app or whatever, then do take the time to 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:31.639 go on YouTube and just put in Wesley Gonzalez and 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:34.880 check out some of the videos he's made. The ultimate 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:38.920 one is his trip to Why Betha, which is where 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:41.960 we will pick up this conversation. Thanks to Wesley for 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:45.720 coming in. It was a really fun one. This so 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:51.160 it's a bit longer than they usually are, and yeah, 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:52.680 what more do I need to tell you? There's a 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:55.720 bit of swearing in it. Wesley is a bit of 0:03:55.720 --> 0:04:00.440 a potty mouth. He freely admits that. And as long 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:03.800 as you're okay with that please enjoy this episode. We're 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:05.960 going to have a couple more episodes of the podcast 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:09.680 before Christmas time, and then we'll take off, like you know, 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:12.960 a couple of weeks. Nobody really wants to be listening 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.760 to our podcast over the Christmas period, I'm sure, so 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:17.880 we pick it back up in January. So there will 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:20.960 be a couple of more but for now here is 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:24.440 Wesley Gonzalez. And if you're currently in the market for 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:31.080 a Perjo two six four series without an mot and 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:34.400 very little hope of passing one, I can help you 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:54.839 with that. Last time, what I saw you was when 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:56.000 we did the cover feature. 0:04:56.160 --> 0:05:00.760 Was that March, Yes, something like that March praul When 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:02.359 did the record come out? That came at June? It 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:07.080 was a couple of It was a little bit yeah then. 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:10.880 So to bring any listeners up to date. That was 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:13.640 for a feature for the magazine, a cover feature where 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:19.440 we went down Denmark Street and attempted to play people 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:23.920 in guitar shops your albums, which doesn't feature any guitar, 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:26.320 no guitar at all. Yeah, to get their opinion. But 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:31.280 we weren't that successful, not all because they were essentially 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:32.760 because they were just too grumpy. 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:36.080 They weren't. Overall, they weren't that grumpy though, whether they 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:39.120 were quite polite. There was a couple of guys who 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:41.520 just told us to bugger off, but overall they were 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:43.440 like frustratingly polite. 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:44.159 Yeah, the ones. 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:47.200 I did want them to sort of really start slating it, 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:49.560 but I couldn't. They didn't ever get to that. 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:52.479 Point because basically the people that would have been cruel 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:55.640 about it wouldn't even talk to us, And the people 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:58.080 that would talk to us were just too polite. So 0:05:58.120 --> 0:05:59.080 they said, oh I like it. 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:00.720 Yeah, what was it going? Guy said, it sounds like 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:04.120 mystery Jets? Just a bizarre reference. 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:06.039 I don't know where you got that from. But the 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:08.760 but everyone was quite pleasant. It was a fun day 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:12.200 out though, Yes, in Nevertheless, they're just weird shops, so 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:14.720 aren't they? They are generally like. 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:17.760 I don't know why I keep on putting these ideas 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:20.120 out there that it's putting myself in a situation which 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.800 makes me the most anxious and nervous I could possibly be. 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:24.520 Were you really anxious that day? 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:26.960 Yeah? I get so terrified of doing it. I get 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:29.320 really terrified of talking to people. I'm very good at 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:34.800 pretending I'm not terrified. I don't exude anxiety in any way, 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:36.720 but fucking. 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:37.920 Terrified inside you are. 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:39.599 Yeah, I'm dying, You're dying. 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:45.080 Yeah, very well, you sat on that. I remember that 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:48.040 day very well, and you seemed with it. You were 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.240 straight in there, walking up to them and saying, Hey, 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:51.960 can I play you my record? 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.800 I think I gear myself up into it. I don't know. 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:57.360 I think it's I'm paying too much attention to John 0:06:57.440 --> 0:06:59.800 Ronson or something, and like that's, you know, going into 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:01.720 this sort of like I'm going to do it. I'm 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:04.000 going to do it, but I've gotten, I've gotten all right. 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:05.680 It's like we did that video and I Betha and 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:08.960 that's the same. That was the most terrifying two days 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:12.240 I've ever I've ever had. It was really there was 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:14.600 about two or three occasions when I thought I'm genuinely 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:15.720 gonna get shit kicked out of me. 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.240 So this is the video for Amsterdam. Yes, this is 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:19.760 the this is the video of the year. 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:21.640 Yeah, well I think so. 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:27.360 This is for anyone listening that's not not seen this yet, 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:29.520 I suggest you stop listening to this podcast now, go 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:33.000 and watch that. I'd take three minutes of your day 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:35.239 and then come back to this podcast. This is where's 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:39.360 his video for his track Amsterdam and it's you on 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:41.520 a Lad's Holidays filmed in Iviefa. 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:42.080 Right, it is filmed. 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:45.200 Yes, let's just set the scene of it. 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:48.080 If we If we start off from the beginning. We 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:51.360 found out what the budget was from the label. I'm 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:53.720 sat with my mate Danny does all the videos, We 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.320 do them all together. He's an old old friend of mine. 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:58.320 He also does a bank called Charles Hall, who are 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:01.840 very good and we sat there found out how much 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:05.400 the budget was. We talked up this ridiculous idea that 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:08.200 was slightly vic and bob esque that we were planning 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:11.200 and then just not really feeling it, and then found 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:13.280 out how much more was. We were like, let's see flights. 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:17.720 Where can we go with this budget? And it matched perfectly. 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:23.760 The budget was one hundred pounds off for spending on 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:26.600 the video and then two hundred quid on the flight. 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:30.080 On the flights so go to Ibeth. 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:31.640 I think this because we watched an episode of sun 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:34.679 Sex Suspicious Parents as well. That's the that was the 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:37.720 influence behind it, and originally the video was also going 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:40.760 to be us interviewing my mum afterwards and her watching 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:43.040 the footage and getting subtle, but the song was too 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.000 short to get it in there. We even went around 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:48.520 and started setting everything up at my mum's house. But 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:52.720 so we fly over. We had about an hour's sleep 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:55.400 on the way over, when neither of us had been 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:56.920 to our breather before, neither of us had been on 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:57.960 a lad's holiday before. 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:00.480 Why had you only had an hour's sleep this point? 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.280 Because the flight was it was like you know, cheap flights, 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:07.240 five in the morning. We had to get to Standstead 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:11.720 and so now it wasn't any mad party or anything, okay, 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:15.439 it was we were sober. Just went and got there 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.760 at like seven in the morning. The airbnb we were 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:23.400 staying in was literally just as we like, right next 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:25.280 to the beach, and we walked and we were a 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:27.880 bit worried because it was so serene, but obviously that's 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:30.319 seven in the morning. Yeah, it was a bit quiet. 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:34.040 I'm a bit worried about this. And then we went 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:37.959 checked into the airbnb, sat down for a minute and 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:40.280 then we're like, okay, let's go do it, get ourselves up, 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:42.600 went out and did it. The first shot, we're lying 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:45.040 it's me lying on the beach. It's one of the 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.400 first shots in the video as well. I'm lying on 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:51.720 the beach with whiskey and coke. I'm singing the. 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:53.959 Song wearing like Brown Trouns. 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.000 I'm wearing Yeah, I've got this T shirt made that 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:58.280 says I love excellent musician, which caused a lot of 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:00.480 trouble as well. The whole time was there going you're 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:06.719 excellent musician, and yes, yes I am. And yeah. So 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:09.040 I'm lying on the beach and this Welsh guy just 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:12.280 runs up into as soon as he notices I'm doing 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:17.000 something slightly odd, runs up, tucks his little penis out 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:19.600 at the top of his shorts and proceeds to start 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:22.520 humping my head. And we got this shot and I 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.400 could see Danny filming me, just like, do not move, 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:28.200 do not change. You know, something amazing is happening right now. 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:30.280 You don't know what it is, but something brilliant is happening. 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:32.680 And then we went to the bar and sat down 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:35.480 and we looked at the footage. We've made the complete 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:37.760 right decision. This is the best possible thing we could 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:40.560 have done. I think, like half an hour later, I'm 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:43.439 like and I'm really smashing the drinks back as well. 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.800 To get through this, very very scared, I go up 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:51.440 and start talking to these guys. This again very early 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:53.280 on in the video you see it. Start talking to 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:55.640 these guys doing laughing gas and I was trying to 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:59.200 get balloons off them, and I go, hey, you're right, guys, 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:02.360 I don't know how to approach it, all right, fellas, 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:05.840 how you doing? Could I possibly buy one of those 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:08.839 laughing gas and canisters off you? And you just that 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:11.240 All of them looked at me and just started walking. 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:13.280 And it's one of the shots where I'm walking behind 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:16.959 them and I do this weird like hand gesture like 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:19.480 I'm in with them or something. It's just it's bizarre. 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:21.600 And those are the guys where it was like they're 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:24.440 going to kill me the sense I was following them, 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:27.400 and then they sort of turned around and I ran off. 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:29.160 I was like, I'm going to get murdered now. This 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:33.280 is and everybody was so huge as well, like really 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:36.640 massively beefed up dudes. We got away with most of 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:39.240 the video by telling people we worked for Vice, because 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:43.120 it explained why we were such odd dickheads, you know, 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:46.240 like that in their Vice was sort of enough of 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:49.360 a platform that they understood what that was, understood that 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.599 we were just some hipster dickheads trying to make some 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:54.280 stupid video whatever. So we did get through it in 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:57.319 the end, but it was and we only had two 0:11:57.360 --> 0:11:59.080 hours sleep while we're there. Over the space of three 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:00.839 days we had about three out of sleep, and it 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.800 was just absolutely exhausting and grueling, but it was it 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:06.280 was I'm so happy with how it came out. 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:10.600 Did you manage to enjoy the exp because you've never 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.719 this is the first quote unquote lads holiday you've been on. 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:15.760 Well, we were discussing it when we were there, of 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:19.480 what constitutes the lad's holiday. And I went away with 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:21.400 the two guys I did let's wrestle with and a 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:25.599 few school friends when we were about fifteen to Montpellier 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.800 in France, which I wouldn't call it lads holiday but 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:32.320 it was six lads, but just dorky lads. 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:35.079 Well, this is this is what's changed, I think because 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:37.719 I've been because I'm from Essex, so I've been on 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:41.200 lads holidays willingly. Yeah, and it had a great time. 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:46.040 But then and maybe this is just maybe my complexion 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:50.679 and my build, But now it seems like everyone looks 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:53.520 like you're saying it, Well, the guys are all massive guys. 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:55.679 They all really look after themselves. I don't know if 0:12:55.720 --> 0:13:00.360 this is like since Towie and Maiden Else and all 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:00.719 those things. 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:02.719 I'm not sure what it is, but I questioning the 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:06.920 Royds situation. It's some serious steroids shit. Yeah as well, I. 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.559 Think because when I went on Lad's holidays, it was 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:12.679 really like we probably thought we were cool, but it 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:14.880 was more like the in between us. 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:18.920 Well, we saw a lot of people like that. We 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:21.959 were trying to keep away from those people because it 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:24.960 became too real in that sense. We had to only 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.079 get the beef cakes in. But we did see other 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:28.120 people there who. 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:29.560 Looked as awkward as you felt. 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:33.120 Yeah, pretty much, but they in some they obviously didn't 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:35.319 have the confidence in themselves that they knew they didn't 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:37.920 belong there. At least we knew we didn't belong. They 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:40.079 were trying to get along with everybody and it just 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:43.800 wasn't working, and sort of you did feel really bad 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:46.800 for them. And you know, I've only been in situations 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:50.200 like that with like sort of young, youngish testosterone fueled 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:53.959 trying to get laid sort of situations very infrequently. I 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:55.959 think I learned from a very early age that I 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:59.840 wasn't that person, but I did on this holiday to Montpellier. 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:01.920 I think it's because the flights are like a tenor 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:04.800 AND's going to like the middle of the summer, go 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:06.839 to Montpellier and just sort of had nothing to do. 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.679 There's no clubs in Montpelli or anything like that. I 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:11.920 think we did finally find a club, and everybody was 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:14.520 really excited that there was a club. They finally found 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:17.880 a club. We went in and there was nobody in there, 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.880 and I was just being a negative bastard, going, oh, 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:24.840 this is terrible, there's nobody here. What do you think? 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:26.320 I was like, look at you anyway. Do you think 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:28.280 anybody's going to shag you? Look at you? Look we 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:30.640 all look like idiots. What do you think is gonna happen? 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:35.960 And then about twenty Irish girls came into the club, 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:39.520 and everybody I was with got so incredibly excited that 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:41.400 there were these girls there, and it got really and 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:45.640 I think I made one joke that I don't know 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:48.280 if I should repeat. I made one joke to one 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:51.560 of them, just honestly thinking it was quite funny. It 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:55.520 went down so badly that all twenty girls left. She went, okay, 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:58.080 we're all going now, and they all stormed out of 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:01.320 the club and left instantly, And then everybody turned around 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:03.360 and hated me for the rest of the time. You 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:03.800 blew it. 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.280 That was going to be, Yeah, that was everyone's moment. 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:08.720 It was going to be an orgy in the youth hostel. 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:13.040 With the rest of your party, the rest of Let's 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:14.840 wrestle and the friends you're with. Were any of them 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:16.920 getting on with any of the Irish girls, just even 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:18.080 if they were just chatting to them? 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:23.080 And yeah, it's funny because Louis, who who I did 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:24.720 Let's wrestle with it, I think he was more on 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.640 my level. He knew we weren't getting lucky in anyway. 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.520 We were a bit more like realistic about it. Yeah, 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:33.760 nobody wants to fucking fucking fifteen year old boy, but 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:37.440 you know, we were realists about it. But everybody else 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:39.520 was like, this is it, this is it. We're new 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:42.800 people now. Like one of them bought a copy of 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:45.320 Nuts magazine on the plane and I was like, you've 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:48.000 never bought Nuts before? Why you buy a Nuts magazine? 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.800 He's like, well, what it got really defensive. It's like 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:54.360 some reinvention of himself as a lad. It's like you're 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:56.840 a postboy from Mauslil. You're go into Montpellier and you're 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:59.760 buying a copy of fucking Nuts. What are you doing? 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:04.560 But yeah, it was horrific and I never And they 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:06.680 went the next year and they didn't invite. 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:08.360 Me to to the same place. 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:12.080 No, they went. They went somewhere equally as middle class though, and. 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.960 They're like, we're not don't invite Wears because he blows 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:15.720 it of all the girls. 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:19.880 Yeah, in this clubless like culture Land. I think they 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:21.320 went to like Vienna or something. 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:26.720 So when you're in I Beefa and you're hanging out 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:29.200 with like these beefcakes, yeah, how would you get the 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:31.840 shots that you needed of talking to them? Would you 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:33.920 ever say we're making a fit? Would you just like, 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:36.920 how did you go about getting those kind of big 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:38.920 stacked guys in? Do you just start some of them? 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:42.280 We were just some of them, some of them. Danny 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:45.200 was going over by himself because I looked too odd. 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.480 So it's like when it's the individual shots, I'm hiding 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:52.720 like around the corner because they as soon as I'm 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:54.880 in it. They know that something's odd. 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:59.200 This is exactly how we did the cover feature with 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:01.800 me going into the shop and saying, I've got this 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:02.920 musician outside. 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:07.120 That's my tactic. And I was hiding because I knew 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:09.560 as soon as I get involved, it goes wrong and 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:11.960 they realize something's up terribly wrong. 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:14.200 Is that just because they think this guy has clearly 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:14.920 taking a piers? 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:18.040 I think so, I don't know. There's something about my 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:23.159 demeanor that I can't I'm very bad at like you know, 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:27.359 I think in the same way that sometimes you, especially 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:29.679 in the music industry, a lot of the time selling yourself, 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:32.320 You're just going like, I'm brilliant, I'm fantastic, and I 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:35.040 don't have the capability of doing that. If something's going wrong, 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:37.679 I'm going to go this is fucking terrible. Everything's awful. 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:42.240 I want to kill myself. This is terrible, and I 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:44.359 can't do the thing. So it's the same thing. If 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:47.720 I know that I'm trying to get a rise in 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:49.680 some sort of way, I am still I've got a 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:51.680 look on my face or and I'm wearing a T 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:54.520 shirt that says I love excellent musician. I've designed the 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:57.240 logo on my phone as well. I designed that T 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:00.240 shirt on my phone, which I thought modern technology wise 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:06.000 was absolutely fantastic. But you know, so a lot of it. 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:08.080 He had to do that sort of side of it. 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:12.360 But then there were but then there were other ones 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:14.560 where I would go and approach them and say, we're 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:17.560 making a documentary. That was the line. We're making a 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:22.360 documentary about lad culture. And there's so many noisy documentaries 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:24.800 on lads in Ibtha or whatever. We knew we could 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:26.359 get away with it, so just doing that and then 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:28.679 they'd just be chatting and a lot of there were 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:31.159 just really sweet guys as well, and they're just like, 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:33.280 oh yeah, brilliant. Like even the guy coming and humping 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:35.280 my head when we talked to him after, he was like, oh, 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:38.760 you're making a video, brilliance, and like, you know, he's 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:41.760 got really excited. So everybody it was weird. It was 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:43.920 sort of sometimes you just as soon as you could 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:45.520 smell I'm going to get the shit kicked out me. 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:46.920 I just get the fuck away from it as quickly 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:49.879 as possible. If there were there was like six lads 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:52.920 on a hendu and they all had tattoos up to 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:56.919 their ears, like completely full body tattooed, looked absolutely they 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:59.119 come out of a gang, you know, they look terrifying, 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:02.440 and oh yeah, I'm just on my hand. Yeah, just 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:04.119 sort of, you know, so last night to night, so 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:06.440 we go have a real mad one. You know, it's 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:08.800 just right, This isn't what I thought it was, but 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:10.680 you look like you look the part. So we're just 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:14.920 sort of trying to find anybody that did that. I mean, 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:16.880 the worst pit was there was one shot where we're 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:19.399 walking down the big strip where all the clubs are 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:22.240 and I'm singing the song walking down and that took 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:25.480 about three hours, where because I was so pissed as well, 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:25.720 I was. 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:28.919 Like, you do look absolutely ship. First, I was going 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:32.520 to say, is that just that's just real? That's not like, 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:33.040 yeah it. 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:35.159 Was, Yeah, I was absolutely ship. But we were going 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:37.480 into every bar. You go into there, they'll give you 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:39.879 a free shot just for going in, and Danny the 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:42.959 director wasn't drinking, so we'd got two shots every bar, 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:44.800 and I do both of them, and then we go 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:46.480 to the next place do both of them. And it 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:48.440 was because I knew at some point I'm going to 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:50.680 have to go and start doing mad dancing in a club, 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:51.560 I'm going to have to do. 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:54.880 That's the best. That's the best moment when you're dancing 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:58.240 and there's kind of a circle, a fague circle around 0:19:58.320 --> 0:19:59.600 your people looking The. 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:02.000 Video could have just been that one long I was 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:03.720 just dancing to a song for three minutes. It was 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:05.520 literally that, and we could have just released that of 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:10.000 me dancing and doing this psychotic, really like weird tribal 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:13.240 shucking that I'm doing and just sort of I was thinking, 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:16.480 like I'm like trying my best to look completely normal, 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:19.320 just going this is the most unnatural thing I've ever done, 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:22.000