#99 | Glastonbury And Other Music Festivals

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Go. Oh. Have you seen the, photo floating about of Bonnie Blue? That she could be potentially a man? Like there's a photo floating about. It's Bonnie blue. There's another photo next to her of a guy in the lead shirt. Yeah, and it's a guy, and they look identical twins, for sure. Yeah. I mean, there's a couple of things it could be I that that'd be so easy to generate by.

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And you would never, Yeah. Go on. What is that? I don't think it is. Well, maybe it is. I don't know, it would be. Well, funny if, all these men would end up. But this is the thing is, it is it does that make them the virtual? That's. Of course it doesn't. Because in their mind, it's ego.

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Yeah. And she is, outwardly portraying the go. Yeah. And they all think she's a woman and she thinks she's a woman. That is all completely straight. And if they think that checking a woman, then it's probably like, yeah, then they are. Then that makes her a woman. And now we're gonna do identity politics, aren't we? Because what is a woman?

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Yeah, yeah. No, she doesn't have a womb, but she. Everybody thinks she's a woman. She thinks she's a woman. She's got the bits of a woman. Although in the little bits that I've seen, you know. Yeah. Of her, I've seen it doesn't look right. But then you think that she's the batter and it takes. Then maybe it would, like, you know, Ricky Hatton's face look different at the end of his career, is what I'm saying.

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Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Someone else sent me a, a news article of, a, you know, woman who was picking up guys from the bar, taking them back to her gaff, having sex with them. But she only liked it doggy style, and she wanted a sheet between them for hygiene purposes. One of the guys pulled the sheet off.

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Turns out it was a guy. Yeah, it wasn't a woman. Yeah, but tackle there. And so? So you think he got dumped for that? What for? Like the hair? Yeah. What's the crime here? I don't know, I, live here. And false pretenses. Yeah. I guess you could lure someone to your flat and fall asleep. That probably is a crime.

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So I'd say I've got. I've got a bike to sell on Gumtree, and you get there and. Right. No bike is just a sheet because you get a refund because the product isn't as described. Yeah. I, So. So at what point is it what point does the man give in between the sheet? Yeah. What? At what point is it a homosexual act when the sheets are moved?

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It's like Schrodinger's cat, innit? Yeah. Gay and not gay. Time. Isn't it? Because he's, for all intents and purposes, like it would if you turned up. Come with you pull. Someone pulled you a club and and you got there and it's like, I want to have sex in a sheet of the fuck? What's weird? First off. No, no, I'm going home.

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Yeah, but I know if you're holding the sheet, if you think it is holding the sheet, if you've had a skinful and and you're up for it, that would be part of me. That be like, this is weird, but it's still going to. You live five minutes away from this bar, okay. That's probably most meant to be fair.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is weird, but this is just going to do it in which you would just go for it. I wouldn't. Yeah, I certainly wouldn't. Probably. On, Well, well. And it's like, yeah, it is like, how do you, you you're not, a heat guy, are you? I would say no. No, I would almost definitely say no.

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I mean, there's one thing there's like at 26 degrees in Spain and the 26 degrees in the UK. Two completely like it's not even sunny. It's overcast. The cricket today is going to be sensational. Ricky. Because the Indians your lot. Yeah, yeah. Fucking posted up a big, big opening day yesterday. You know someone up 351 for free. I know you hate all this shit, but that's good though, innit?

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351 for free. That's that's in it. I mean it's it's not mental but it's really, it's like going two nil up half time in football that 251 free. That feels like that's unbeatable. Well it depends. But if you want to get into this it depends on the wicket. Right. This is a batting wicket. High scoring outfield. So you know that you can with decent.

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Oh all in the always great test. Even England a good good test team. So. But yes it was good. It's a good opening day. It's frustrating. Yeah I was watching it know just slapping the ball all over the place and I was getting frustrated. Right. But it was sunny, clear clear sky. The thing with England England, Ricky.

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Yeah. Is the ball swings like nowhere else on Earth. Why is that? I don't know, really. I don't think there is any kind of. It has to be the right conditions. So humid. It's probably to do the air pressure. The humidity in the same reason, I don't know someone who's listening to this will know and I don't know.

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But in the same way that the heat at 26 degrees in London feels unbearable compared to 26 degrees in Spain, it's something to do with the humidity and the air pressure. Anyway, today overcast and if it's like this in London but it's overcast. Second day India got a face the England attack. In these conditions, which are perfect, the balls will move all over the place when the ball about what will you be.

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Will you be indoors watching it? Yeah. As soon as I've done this I'm going to go about. You see, they started going about an hour and 40. Shit, man. I'm going to be out in the garden. Doing the garden in my back garden is. It's not good, man. It's not good that I've got a lot of work ahead of me.

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But I'm going to say before I interrupt you about the heat, I, my door, obviously we spoken about it before, and she is going to take McCray on Tuesday. Oh, yeah. Oh, she's going to got tickets in India. Yeah. Go and got tickets. I was just like, oh, my, I don't even know because I had to pay for my missus and both my daughters.

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So at the I kind of remember how much it was now. Yeah. Something like that. Absolutely disgraceful. But that's where we're at now. And it hasn't been 100 pound for that. May it's insane. In it. I don't like it when read it. If Radiohead do tour, I'd be I would be like 400 pounds a lot. But it's just like, yeah, it is.

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Just seems to stand it now. It's all the prices. Prices have gone up or what? What petrol? Yep. Price. Right. Food prices are up. Tate McRae tickets. Well under quid. Really? Yep. Prices that everyone's got. My wages are not going up. No. Well stop in every now and see my wages up as well. Like football tickets like £6,580 like standard.

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It's just like I don't I don't understand it. How does I understand any of this anymore. How do you maintain it. How do how do we I mean, you've lucked out because, you a missus who's now the breadwinner in it. That's. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She's making your name off of the mortgage soon, Rick. She'll be home.

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No. Good, good good good bad. Yeah. So, like, obviously she's going to see Tate McRae, but she's, She. Because obviously she loves this artist. She has gone back and bought her three albums, which is fine. Bought them. But she's she's bought CD's. Really. She's bought CD's. And every time she comes back from the shopping center, every Friday, she goes there off to school with her mates, and she shows me her new Tate McRae CDs, and she is, like, beside herself.

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Dad, have you seen this? They look at the colors on this disc. Show me the disc. And then she slides out the album artwork and she's flicking through the photos and saying, the lyrics are here and all that, and I'm like, this is so fucking cool. She's so, like, involved in it. I mean, it's just like, I remember those days of when I used to go and get my CD, the little cellophane wrap, ripping it off, going through it.

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What photos are in there? What lyrics? Who did the photography? Where was it? What was the location producing that stuff. So yeah yeah yeah yeah, I must have read Through Your illusion. One and two boxes of roses. The booklet that came with that, like a probably a million times. I'd sit on the and listen to the music and read the words as, as, as I was listening to.

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Yeah. See, that's, I mean, Spotify factual. I mean, it's incredible things. Spotify. But, you know, people aren't typically releasing albums anymore. It's released song a song every two weeks, which is fine. And this is the way that the platforms gone and you're the platform. The medium is the message, isn't it? So the way you absorb something is that is is how there's a correct way for each, platform.

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And it changes the way you absorb, music or film or whatever. Like Netflix has done the same thing. It's too much choice. It's hard. And that some some mental films. Because I didn't have a choice. Yeah, yeah. And you'd have to persevere with albums and you'd fall in love and develop a relationship with albums. You think of an album in the past, and if I think of, like Alanis Morissette, for example, I think of my first girlfriend and Jagged Little Pill, that album.

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Yeah, I feel like I've, I've lined in my bed. My, my dad just bought me, a Sony, CD player, a Sony sound system and two little speakers. And then it had a cassette CD. Nice. Yeah, they're on it. They weren't one of the most garish ones of all the lights and the bars, I remember them, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was quite cool, sort of sleek.

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And I used to sit and listen to that and pump the music out. And you just have to sit there when you're not distracted by your phones, you just sit there and listen to an album from start to finish is amazing. So that's what my daughter's doing. I mean, she's got she's got a little CD player pops it in.

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She's really careful with the CDs as she's listening. She's flicking through the booklet and all of that, and I'm like, that's not quite, that's not a lovely little. Yeah, it's a nice, nice little, nice little throwback. It's lovely. I was taking the boys to school on Friday and we got there and he went, oh no. And I went, well it's non-uniform day.

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And he's got me fully dressed up in his uniform. In high school, like two minutes before the bell, guys, he looked at me and went, Foxy, please. So he calls me. They will call me Foxy. It's a long winded. So we talked about that on this podcast. Yeah, I did internet dance the other day and I that came out as well.

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I know I am, I don't, do you know what? I don't actually think we've gone into the foxy on here. We went I saw I posted a clip on our Instagram account. If you want to follow us at lads anon pod. And it was when you were describing how many different names. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know if you mentioned Foxy, I can't remember because Jess in the comments, mentioned it and they will call me thought so quickly.

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Very quickly I went I went to when I met my missus, we were in in, in Lisburn in another live and basically we'd managed to I don't know, can I say this? I don't want to go and get me gone. We smuggled loads of drugs over into Portugal. Oh, market loads. How did you do that? I think we put them in,

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No, no, we put them in, vaginas. Not. No, no, no body orifices. Fuck. You know you can't. Those those machines, can you? They can do your body, can't they? I think you can. Maybe if you stick you up your ass, you might be right. Shampoo bottles. Oh, yeah, it does. Wrap it up. And working on shampoo.

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Well, there you go. Anyway, I probably would never do that again in my life, but in this time I did do that. And, you know, for ten years ago. Right. And obviously, despite the drugs being decriminalized in, in Portugal, it's this not easy to get. You have need some new people. In fact, the biggest ball like I've had trying to get drugs is in Portugal.

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Yeah. Like, I don't know, it's just a there aren't there doesn't seem to be a that it's weird in it. But in Lisbon, you know the guy in Lisbon, he just drives around on a moped. But outside of Lisbon. But I'm. It's poor. It's impossible. You're not. There's nothing. There's no drug culture there. Because, well, it exists, but it's managed.

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And so you don't necessarily get people on the street, or you don't need to find a dealer because people have got it all locked up there. You like you, you're allowed to carry a gram of, I think it's a gram of cocaine without being arrested. So it's not completely legal, but it's decriminalized and it was more over drugs.

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Nick will tell you about this. More. Better. Maybe it was, it it I had incredible results in I think it was, heroin overdoses and sort of aid. There was a bit of an Aids epidemic in Portugal and it with lots about shared needles and stuff. So they just took sensible approach and decriminalized it. So and and you know, just that was easy.

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I mean, you said one at one time there was like 1 in 5 people, addicts been exposed to the HIV virus in Portugal. Yeah, I think that seems a lot. That is a lot anyway. So it makes it really difficult. It just couldn't get drugs over there. And it was at a party. It was at the festival. And she, I had a, I had a shirt on that he used to pull girls basically because it was a white.

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It was, it was, it was a dog that was on a pin striped shirt. It was a pretty lary shirt, but you get a I remember it well. It's a good icebreaker. Basically. Some often a girl would mention it before I'd even have to say hello. So, obviously that worked works on them then bunch of girls, because I kept pointing at the bloke with the because they knew we had MDMA as well.

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So they, they would just, like it was MDMA and it was a fox on it. It wasn't a fox, it was a dog, but it was a mash. They thought it was a fox. Do you have a photo of that of you in, that, I might checked it away, mate. To be honest, I did. I took it in my wedding.

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Do you remember how the wedding. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You ever find a photo of you in that shirt? Send it over. I don't have a photo in shirt within the shirt, but I might have the shirt at home, so, I might take of it. I'll never get it on. Take a no. It's just take a photo of it and send it over.

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Yeah. Talking about, festivals. Should we, run the theme tune, get into it. Just just just just to say before we do that, that would have been a lovely segue, right? But I'm going to ruin it by saying Portugal has one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in Western Europe.

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On the night, I see, like, Band of Brothers playing tunes high is quite midnight. Waves surfing through till daylight breaks. Rhythm hit us different ways. Love of music that we prayed with our tongues in cheek. Band I we like to speak and yeah, times change. But no matter what the bond remains. Brothers.

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Hello and welcome to lads anonymous. Is episode 99 on Ricky? He's Flav two best mates. One main topic we answer your life dilemmas and confessions in our feature. Something only you know. And everything remains anonymous always. So sit back, relax and enjoy the podcast. First of all, I want to say there was no quickie with Ricky that came out this week.

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We had, you know, we had a nuff submissions for me to be able to do the part, but it would have been a bit more theory as well. And I've said before on here that I don't really want to put stuff out just for putting stuff out sake. I don't want to waste people's time. I don't want to just stick someone out just to say, oh, well, I said, I put everything out on for 30 minutes every Wednesday or Thursday.

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So I'm sorry about that. And I think we did receive emails and DMs asking where it was. The technical, you know, issues or whatever. I just didn't put it out. So apologies. It will be back when I'm on next week. Yeah, yeah I don't yeah I know. Right. Yeah yeah. No yeah it is. Yeah. What is today's topic?

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Flav. It's, today's topic. Is it festivals? Yeah. Before we get into the festivals, historically, injecting drug use was the major transmission route for HIV in Portugal, but heterosexual contacts is now the most significant. Hence what I was saying earlier about the decriminalization of drugs and, you know, sharing, you know, it's not just like Dixon fans are doing it.

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I was going to say you said heterosexual. Yeah. Heterosexual. Wow. Yeah. That is well, why is it so high that I am? Why is it I, I think that because of the needle sharing issue in Portugal was so prevalent that aids HIV spread much quicker than other Western European cities. Right. And then when you know the virus is in the community and you're not wrapping up.

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So I mean, so we've you've got choice. Would you rather have a country full of drugs or a country full of Aids? Well, you generally you've got you're much likely to have a country full of Aids if you have a country full of drugs. I think. So they go hand in hand. Yeah. Especially if there's not enough educated education in young people.

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Yeah. Wrap up. Sorry my mum, that, Sorry. Wrong answer. Might.

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So festivals. Glastonbury is about to kick off. Yeah. Glastonbury is the only like fireworks on New Year's Day or New Year's Eve. It's the only time I put the telly on and watch fireworks. Glastonbury is the only time that I would sit that the vast majority of the weekends. Yeah, I'd been watching bands with my missus, having a glass of red wine, getting some snacks, and I would discover I actually discover artists that.

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So you wouldn't really. Yeah. It is. It's so much fun. It's the best weekend. Like you're right. And it's exactly the same. My mum is is like, she's got I think she's got five days off. Yeah. Oh she's off. So we, we so originally Rick what we'd planned we got mates if you ever Babington House. But this is where it's celebrity.

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Yeah. Whatever the celebrity. Yeah. Yeah. They when they're at Glastonbury, they get on the choppers and they come to Babington House. Wow. Which is like in Froome I think in West Baden, Wiltshire. And we somehow we thought we had tickets to get in right now. So we were going to go and watch it there. But we don't have I don't know why I'm telling the story, but we nearly did.

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We nearly did. But we that's what we plan to do. But now we're just going to. It'll be absolutely fine. We're just sitting on a sofa, a glass of wine, watching all the bands, and I will sit there and watch it all as a no. Yeah, yeah, yeah, same. And like all. Yeah, like I'll be, you know, the earmarked bands that I want to watch and I know I'll enjoy it discovering new bands as well.

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That's brilliant because I didn't know who these people were. Like the tunes then. Also, there's other people that I'm like, I don't really like their music. But then the stage presence and I like what they're about on on the stage as well. So you it is such a kind of, what's the word I'm looking for? It's just you have a lot of, emotions when you're watching these people, because not only that, you're watching bands that you want that you like, but it's discovering new bands and new people and seeing the whole atmosphere there.

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It's absolute equality. Yeah, right. Have you ever, Well, I mean, I know the answer to this, but have you ever been to Glastonbury? No. I've tried. How many times you've applied every year for about 15 years. And now I'm the I know what I want to go. Yeah. I don't I feel like I don't understand how everybody can get tickets and I can't for every year for 15 years I haven't.

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I get so angry thinking about it. I'm like, how surely I'm, I don't know, maybe this is the fairest way. Or maybe these wankers have set up these sniper bots and just get tickets that way. How can I compete with that? Do I have to do that as well? And is that the future of getting tickets to Glastonbury or any festival is just you have to have a bots to snipe everybody else.

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And if everybody's got a bot, what, what? Who wins? Yeah. Do you know, I do think that you have to invent a Super Bowl to beat the bots. I like, I know, I know people as well and much like, London Marathon because I think the, applications were not the applications, but people found out whether they had been accepted to London Marathon this week as well.

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And I know people like London Marathon and Glastonbury that have not been given places at the marathon or got tickets for Glastonbury the years, years on years. And you just think after a while, so am I ever going to get a ticket? It's like, what am I even doing this for? Like, you get to stay in your life?

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No, I've never been, never, never, never, never applied. They never applied. It's always been, it seems quite spendy, like it needs to be. I think if you go to Glastonbury, it's like a holiday, isn't it? Yes. Because you're there for like 3 or 4 days. 350. Yeah, exactly. All right, so I do know people that just bought spend their way in so they get like special wristbands and then they just they go in and buy a premium pass, basically, which lasts for a grand.

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Yeah, I did, because they have those like little, not little bit those types, those luxury kind of. Yeah, glamping. And you can buy those and get your, you know, your wristband and all that lot and that would cost thousands and I'm sure like what a guy. But I'd, I'd like to stay in a bit too much. Yeah.

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I mean we can't. How much are we going to talk about festivals. All of my festivals. And with both talking about one we've never been in. Yeah, I know that this world will get round to the ones that we up and. But what I would say is, the idea of going to Glastonbury is less and less appealing the older I get.

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And to sort of point where I'm probably not even gonna bother ever again. Really? Yeah, I just can't. I mean, I can't, if, unless I'm in one of them lovely tents or better off not on site at all, like out of sight that whenever I've done a festival, the only one time I've come to at a festival and that was Boomtown and that was hellish.

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What? You actually had a tent and you know, all that stuff because my brother was my little brother was playing, so he was a part of a music collective that got wristbands. So he got me a bit. Me and my wife, a wristband. But there's nowhere off site. You can't get off site. Boom. Time's up. Based in the middle of a field in the middle of nowhere next to a motorway.

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It's not like there's not much there unless you can drive in and out and get in, and that's impossible. But yeah, we camped there for three days. That was a happy couple of days, to be fair. Yeah. I mean, I say this like this time of my life, 42 I couldn't think of anything worse than camping for 3 or 4 days.

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Whilst I'm camping for 3 or 4 days, the food I'd be eaten is look like burger vans and all that lot for 3 or 4 days. Doesn't have to be they. They've got tons of stuff now. The is the AC can sections. You can I mean your choice would be burger vans is what you said kebabs and what.

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Yeah it would it would be that. But then also you'd have the, the nice kind of like stuff that they serve up. But again that's got you spending like ten, 10 pounds a meal for a cardboard box and some coriander sprinkled over some of this. I mean like, yeah, but but you don't go there because it's cheap.

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You go to like, if you go in there again, this is going to be expensive. Then don't go in it is that would be your probably charged down the food's ten. No no it I would obviously do it. But in the back of my mind I'd better go. This is but it is it can be on top in it.

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I mean, I know I don't my brain doesn't operate like that at all. I know it doesn't. Oh, I went Amsterdam and spent on the first weekend of the month after being paid and spent all my pay and I got back and I let my bank out and it was nothing left. I've got nothing left. And I was like, how am I going to do another 27 days till payday has come down in my life?

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That was that might have been the lowest point in my entire life that that moment really? Probably. Yeah. Well not really. Well, yeah. Because I was on the comedown. I, I've said this before, I felt like I had fundamentally rearranged my DNA because I'd taken so much MDMA and, and so I felt pretty low about it. Ricky, honestly.

00:26:39:02 – 00:27:01:03
But, yeah, if you did the festival now, does the idea of 3 or 4 days of drug taking, is that not. No. Yeah. All of that stuff is just I. I'm not built for it anywhere. No, I'm just not that guy. You have a Wall Street? Not for me, not for multiple days. No, I'm not like it is the worst thing I could ever say.

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It's so unhappy. It looks so unhappy, right? It's just like. Yeah, it's so terrible. Yeah I did yeah. And the thing is, like, back then, I could of got just got my way through it and just, you know, soldiered on. But not not at the moment. Have you ever been to a UK festival? Boomtown was in UK.

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Oh, shit. Yeah, yeah, that was. It's just around the corner from where we live. It's in Andover, which is, Yeah, like a 45 minute drive for me. I've got some stories and been, like, go on then. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you, if you're watching, if you're listening to this, I want to, I want you to go in your phone, open up Google and,

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When. Right. Okay. Don't do it yet. I'm going to tell you what to put in after this story. All right, so, we were in this this, this business bit, which is like a punch bowl in, in, in, in the ground. It's like a crater at some point that started hitting create this massive crater. That's what it looks like.

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And they put stage down there. Is it is it actually or the. It's just it just looks like it looks like, you know, 10,000 years ago, an asteroid came down and created this, hit the Earth and created this ball out of nowhere, it looks like. Yeah, if you if you put a like a if you put, like a punch bowl.

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Yeah. Or a cereal bowl just sunk it into a. That's what it looked like. This is kind of crater. Yeah. Anyway, the, the, they had a big, they have a big stage there. Often it's sort of like drum and bass or reggae or something. I've been times a bit of a bit more of an experience than a festival.

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It is a festival, but it's isn't a bit like proper on top there. It's like, yeah, there's a lot of this guitar genius. It's not so. So it's not like a bad vibe, like it's not edgy. It's not like, oh, this is going to. Oh right. No, no, no. The opposite. It's very hippie and lesbian and and lots of drugs and like, open drug use and much when I went much more, just really good vibe.

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Lots of people having fun. It was the there's no edginess to it. It's not it's not Redding or Leeds, for example, where there's just like, no beds everywhere. Oh, God. Yeah. So,

00:29:26:12 – 00:29:45:12
Just thought, just as I pause there, my, daughter's going to Redding Festival to watch Travis Scott, of all people. Oh, no. Oh, no. Yeah. And there's a documentary on Netflix about when all those people died at one of his concerts. And obviously I watched it the other day and, oh, for fuck's sake, Flav. Oh, I don't know that I need to know these things.

00:29:45:12 – 00:30:04:17
Well, I'm here and then I'm thinking, well, it's a documentary anyway. She's excited about it. So she says, well, you listen to it. It's just shit. But anyway, whatever. It's not for me, is it? Right. But listen to it really honestly. It's like more on music, but it's not for me. It's not. It's not for me. It's a different generation.

00:30:04:17 – 00:30:28:03
I don't have to me, lots of surely listen to some Beatles fuck. So anyway, so I'm walking around, and we're in this punchbowl and we're listening to some music and, and I've dropped a drops of pill and for some reason and. No, I know it doesn't sit with me. And I know that's why I don't touch it very often, but I had a spliff.

00:30:28:05 – 00:30:49:06
Oh, yeah. Yeah. And it sent me sideways as it came. Does like THC and me just do not mix I feel like, yeah, I had that cake for my mum. Made a day. I was dead. Yeah. So it sent me sideways and I was like, fucked. And then came up on the pill at the same time, and I was like, oh, I know I'm feeling numb in a bad way.

00:30:49:06 – 00:31:08:13
And I was like, well, get me out of here. The one and only time I've worked out on drugs, I think, said sort of wife, you got to get me out of that, right? And I'm walking around. She's walking me around this festival as I am praying it out. Now, I don't even really know where I am. It's like I can see what's going on around me, but I don't know what's real or what's not.

00:31:08:13 – 00:31:24:14
It might not even be the pill it feels like. Now I'm saying it might be. It might have been TCB. It's just like a it's like a hallucinogenic, but also a bit like ecstasy as well. At the same time, it's quite a nice combination, if you like that sort of thing. But maps, I didn't realize that because I was tripping out.

00:31:24:16 – 00:31:43:24
And I'm walking around and there's. So what happens at Boomtown and I've got my missus on my, what happens in Boomtown is that they have. It's the theater throughout the free dates, so they've got a theme to it on. And this time it was like undercover, sort of big brother thing that existed at this festival all the time on your wrist.

00:31:43:24 – 00:31:59:24
But on your wristbands, you had, like, a QR code that you had to be scanned to get into different sections. It was like a dystopian future. And that was it. Yeah, yeah, it doesn't sound ideal if you're tripping book. I mean, it was fine before bits and bobs, but then when I was, I was like, oh wow, this is a lot.

00:32:00:01 – 00:32:18:07
And then there was this. They would do this set pieces. Rick. Where it would, they would play out. It would be like drama. So this bit where this man left, the bit left the like there was doors and buildings, fake buildings everywhere where these plays would take pace for ten minutes and then it disappeared. And something else that happens elsewhere.

00:32:18:09 – 00:32:42:12
It's all part of a big story. And this policeman, it's not arresting this man and pinned him down on the floor. And I'm like, is this real? Or is this is that actually happening or is it is this a play or is someone actually being arrested? I'm praying out and I'm and I'm like, if I'm chatting away chewing my Mrs..

00:32:42:12 – 00:33:08:00
His ear off like for ages and then after a couple of hours. No, no. So we're walking on one bit and I'm obviously tripping balls and I'm looking to my left and there is the biggest fire I've ever seen in my life. And the smoke plume, it was like was in a war zone. It was like an oil refinery had been hit and the smoke was black.

00:33:08:00 – 00:33:33:05
Thick smoke was traveling up into the air. And I'm like, is that real? Is this real? Well, it looks real. Was it real? Well, it looks real. And I'm like, this is this is a lot. I'm not sure. I'm not sure I'm going to be all right anyway, in a couple of hours past. And I was like, Holy, I'm so sorry I didn't stop.

00:33:33:07 – 00:33:55:02
I didn't see your ear or I should turn your ear off for about three hours. I'm so sorry. And she went, you haven't said a word. You haven't said a single word for three hours in my head, I was down rabbit and rabbit and rabbit in and red. Anyway, as I came round, it turns out that someone had dropped a cigaret in the car park.

00:33:55:02 – 00:34:21:00
It was a obviously hot, dry day. Yeah, and it caught fire. One and basically 300 cars in the car park caught fire. And that blow away. Yeah, that was happening while I was tripping out. For real. And if you Google Boomtown car fire, I think it's 2025, something like that. You'll see how bad this was. So. Oh, so it was real and it wasn't part of the fucking.

00:34:21:00 – 00:34:41:00
Oh, man, it was real. Yeah, yeah, but 20 years, 2016, mate. Google it. Look at it now. Ricky is insane. Can you do that? Yeah, yeah, I'll do that. Mate, that sounds fucking. Absolutely. Yeah. That is not, That's not I do. I want to send you an image. I'm going to send you an image or send me an image.

00:34:41:02 – 00:35:22:10
I mean, yeah, that is you. Yeah. I couldn't think of anything worse. So this is this is the thing. You did get there again. Take me back. This is the worst. So this is kind of like, how I feel with, festivals at the moment, if that was to happen to me. And I think going to a festival now, I, I would have in the back of my mind the kind of if I was, you know, taking anything or how much I was drinking because the amount of people and how big these places are fills me with a bit of fear, you know, not being split up with people.

00:35:22:12 – 00:35:46:11
So running out of battery, not being able to find anyone, like that kind of stuff is just a bit more of a anxiety kind of, yeah, I didn't thing I've got to into these festivals now. Like, God, I've just seen the fire. That is fucking insane. That's what I was looking at. So I didn't know that the fire existed.

00:35:46:13 – 00:36:14:20
I was just walking around, tripping my boat, tripping balls. I looked at my lesson. That's what I saw. If you're listening to this, we are post it on our Instagram as well. That is fucking horrid. Yeah. When, my first music festival that I went to, I didn't actually stay either, but I went to Redding and I believe it was the Friday night and Arctic Monkeys were headlining.

00:36:14:22 – 00:36:47:04
This must have been around 2009. Maybe. Maybe even earlier, I can't remember. But in my mind, right. I was, you know, I grown up like music festivals, you know, rock and roll, dude, that kind of vibe in my mind. Ozzy Osbourne and LED Zeppelin, that kind of thing. And I was so excited and I was with my mates and we're all kind of like together and we're all trying to like, we got to stay together, lads, you know?

00:36:47:04 – 00:37:19:12
We don't wanna lose each other and everyone be sensible drinking and drugs and all that. And as soon as I got into the festival until, like, the, the main, the main stage Wolf Mother was playing and there's a song they have called woman. Yeah. And it is kind of like real like a throwback. Yeah, yeah. And I like, I could see a sea of people and it was like a swimming pool of people, and I just ran away from my mates and just died straight into this crowd.

00:37:19:14 – 00:37:56:04
Literally minutes before was saying, stay together, don't get lost. And I was just like, I was so overcome with emotions. I'm like, this rock and roll guy. I just fucking ran into the sea of people. And I was like, this is what it's about. This is insane. And it was it was amazing. And then obviously with my nostalgia of rock and roll bands and what it's like to go to a music festival and stuff like that during, the set of Dirty Pretty Things, I said to my mates, I'm going to crowd surf.

00:37:56:06 – 00:38:19:08
They're like, you're going to do what I said, get me up. I want to crowd surf. So they got me out and we shout out to the people around us, help him. He's going to crowd surf. So I got started crowd surfing. You got you. They just lifted you up into the crowd. They lifted me up, lifted me up into the crowd and said to the other people helped pass him along.

00:38:19:10 – 00:38:42:18
And that got me going. Yeah, come along. You pass him along. And that got me going right. And, and crowd surfing. You see it on TV, you lying on your back, and everyone's like, got you underneath your back and supporting you. And you're gliding like you're on a bed across the crowd. Now, that didn't happen. I was spun round like I was in a fucking washing machine.

00:38:42:20 – 00:39:04:01
I didn't know where I was, I didn't know where up was. I didn't know where time was. I didn't know where my mates were. I didn't know what was happening. And then before I knew it, I was at the front of the crowd and they just threw me over the metal fence at the front of the stage. So I just started, wanted to throw people for you were like, But I'm in a panic attack was always was.

00:39:04:03 – 00:39:21:19
And I know they just threw you over the gate. If they threw over the gate, they're like, you know, like what holds people from that? Who was ever at the front of the main stage? I got to that bit and they just threw me over and it just smashed onto the floor. And I got up and they stormed, picked me up a pointing to the side of the stage.

00:39:21:19 – 00:39:38:05
You said, run down there and you'll have to rejoin at the back of the back of the thing. I thought, oh no, I'm never, ever going to find my mates like, what the fuck am I going to do? So I started panicking. So I started running down this kind of aisle. Yeah, that's adjacent to the main bit where the main stage was.

00:39:38:11 – 00:39:57:10
And I was obviously Barcode Man, and I started running and I tripped and you know, when someone tripped and they're running for like 50m that they're just about to fall over and they just tumbling. And I was just doing that for ages. And then all of a sudden I just banked onto the floor and I was like, how fucking embarrassing is this?

00:39:57:12 – 00:40:15:15
Go up. Got back to the main stage, couldn't find my mates for love normally. Then after 33 pretty things had finished and the craft dispersed and I found my mate and I was like, oh how's it going? And blah blah blah. They're like, I'll call it a. And we were chatting and, and then I was like, fucking.

00:40:15:15 – 00:40:46:17
Now I'm knackered. I need a beer and a cig. So I went to get my cigs out. I was like, oh no. And when I went to crowd surf, I'd had my Lambretta zip up track tied around my waist. In that jacket was 20 Benson Cheeky bag and my Nikon Coolpix two megapixel camera that I'd taken. And back then that camera cost me like £200.

00:40:46:20 – 00:41:13:14
Yeah, so it was all in that jacket and it had come undone while I was crowd surfing. Lost the jacket, lost my cigs, lost the bag, lost everything. And I was like, oh, for fuck's sake, say so you're not aware of what I mean? Where you've got stuff. I'm constantly aware that. I mean, I guess I'm older now, but yeah, but you know what I'm like as well, man, I'm just just in that moment, I was like, I'm.

00:41:13:16 – 00:41:34:08
I'm a music festival and I'm crowd surfing and I love dirty, pretty things like this. Carl Barat like, it was just so much kind of an assault on my senses, of overwhelming, of joy that I just went just went with it. And I didn't check what I had in my pockets and that this jacket was tied round me or anything like that.

00:41:34:10 – 00:41:56:04
Anyway, the day the day wears on and, it's it's England, isn't it? So it's a bit, it's a bit cold, a bit nippy. And I was like styling with other people that we'd met there. And they had a tent and one of the lads that was with me, he said, Rick, I've got a spare jacket back in my tent.

00:41:56:04 – 00:42:13:12
You want me to go back and get it and I was like, yeah, please. I'd be really appreciate it. So he lent me his jacket and he said, about after Arctic Monkeys finishes, please, just like, give me my jacket back. And I was like, yeah, yeah, no problem. So by then I was absolutely steaming Arctic Monkeys. Come on.

00:42:13:14 – 00:42:30:06
My mates are kind of like standing around the back. And again I see a crowd of people and I'm like, I want to be in there. I want to be jumping around. I want to be swaying to the crowd. So I just walked off on my own, got right to the front and was being swayed by loads of people.

00:42:30:08 – 00:42:50:18
Then I was really hot and I was like, fucking hot, man. I think I'm like panicking and just tripping out and I can't get out anywhere. Really hot, sweating, wearing this person's jacket. And I was like, I don't know what to do. And in my mind I was like, this, this is going to be the best solution. I, did this jacket, wrapped it into a bow.

00:42:50:20 – 00:43:13:17
I just threw it behind me. Just let let the gods decide what happens with it. And I just enjoyed the Arctic Monkeys gig being at the front came away from it, you know, after an hour, found these guys again, and it's like, well, here's my jacket. And I saw, I don't know, man, I'm sorry. I've lost it out of lost it in the crowd said that like his own jacket.

00:43:13:17 – 00:43:32:02
What? So he had a night Jack. So he was camping there for the weekend. So he had an amount of clothes here. And so he had a spare jacket with him. Yeah. And I and I took it and. Yeah, I just threw it because I wanted to I didn't want to be weighed down with being really hot and a jacket on mate in this crowd.

00:43:32:02 – 00:43:49:08
So I thought in my mind at that time, just, just get rid and deal with the consequences later, which I had to. And, I apologize for that. Tiny. I'm really sorry. I know you're not listening to this, but if I put that energy out there, then sorry about that. Well, we do a dirty, pretty things guy.

00:43:49:08 – 00:44:20:23
Or a Babyshambles. Grime. Babyshambles. Oh. Did you hear about Babyshambles? But the guitarist, Patrick Walden died 46 this morning. What about what? Well, how? They've not said. They've not said. Be absolutely. Love the hate. Absolutely. Brown. Don't up. Dear. Yeah. The one we saw, play a gig at the open. No, it was the opening. And then.

00:44:21:00 – 00:44:42:21
Boris. Yeah. He might. Yeah, it may have been. I think it was the little one. It may well have been, but they've had quite a few. You know, members. But he, back in the day, I mean, not even back then. Well, respected guitarist and musician. Not like just some guy that's getting up there, but he was like, in the music industry.

00:44:42:21 – 00:45:13:03
He was well thought of and always helped people out and taught them stuff and like, really nice guy. But back in the day, I believe and obviously it might come to, you know like now. But he he was very much a yeah. Not heroin guy. Weirdly, I had this weird feeling about Babyshambles back in the day was that it was just something for Pete to do.

00:45:13:05 – 00:45:38:23
And yeah, it was like. It was almost like throwaway music for him to me. Right. And like, I love I love both those albums. There's two albums in total, right? Yeah. More. Well, all the time. Yeah. There was, what were the names of them? There was one, do you know what this is? I don't even know the name.

00:45:39:00 – 00:46:02:17
And it was one of the songs down in Albion. Yeah. Go. Kilimanjaro. Well, fuck for, But, if you don't mind, I, I, I prefer Babyshambles over Libertines. I've gotta be honest. Down in be shot as they chose my price shot as nation. Well, you're not surprised. Not surprised. Because you know what I. I shouldn't really say it, but I kind of agree.

00:46:02:19 – 00:46:21:24
I don't know. I have a great mind to agree with that. I think if you look at the, the albums two just they're just that in my head. I mean, I like liberty. I think the thing is, is I never got into libertines in the way that you did. And that was it. Yeah, yeah. But Babyshambles really kind of,

00:46:22:01 – 00:46:38:14
I don't really got into it anyway. I guess it's debatable, but the point is to for me, it was like. It was almost like so easy for him. It's so easy to produce this stuff. It feels effortless. The albums, it feels like they. He went in and recorded it all in one take. That's what those albums feel like to me.

00:46:38:16 – 00:46:56:09
Yeah, I think he does because he's, he's obviously always writing. And I think in those lulls that he had this stuff written, but he just didn't. He just needed people to record with him. Yeah. And just to get like, it's like it's kind of like a solo album. But he just need needed people to to do that.

00:46:56:11 – 00:47:29:07
Yeah. European festivals. Yeah. There you have been to one I haven't been to. I've done, I've actually you've been to gone. Yeah I've done, I've done another live three times and Primavera in Porto that last year. So, so not alive I did, I did in two 2010, 2012 and 2016. And the first, Little Pig had listened to headliners for the first year.

00:47:29:09 – 00:47:58:22
It was it was. Stone roses on the Friday night. Nice. It was Radiohead. Oh, thank God. And the cure on on Sunday. I mean, that is like when you said when like, the thing about Glastonbury is you before you buy the ticket, this is right before you buy the ticket. You don't know who the headlines are. You don't know who the main, the main people are.

00:47:58:22 – 00:48:24:08
You buy it. Yeah. And then whoever's there is, there. But like when you're when you've bought a ticket and you know who's headlining and the main bands are going to be, I mean, that is a fucking hell of a lineup. And when I say that about the pain, paying the money for the ticket, that's that's fine. If you're watching this as a as the, main acts, you know, I mean.

00:48:24:12 – 00:48:49:05
Yeah. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah, if you, you would pay 100,000 pound a night to and then the tickets were not euros, but then like, but then was alive. Life was, was the best. Best I think the best best. The best festival on earth. It was cheap. Not many people knew about it. It was too busy the last time I went in.

00:48:49:05 – 00:49:17:11
20. When do we go? 2018. Did I say so? I went 2012, 2014, 2018. That's what went, they that it was too busy. It was, it was rammed like oversold. It, it felt like and it was just the price of it was completely different. And then and then when we went in, I never even heard of it, to be honest, when we went into, 2014, which is the year I met Olly over there.

00:49:17:13 – 00:49:42:05
Yeah. Oh, that was Arctic Monkeys. Oh, the Black Keys, Libertines headline. Oh, God, I know, oh I watch. Yeah. And you had subtracts. Jamie Execs was playing elbow the Eels Ben Howard. It's such a great lineup but it was small is only three stages. That was it. Yeah. And he didn't stay. We stayed in their lovely little apartment.

00:49:42:05 – 00:50:03:14
It's. And leaving noz and leaving Primavera is a walk. It's a two minute walk. And you're out in the festival leading to the streets. So Glastonbury, it's like a fucking for our mission. In and out. And like, now if, if we're going to pick a festival, it's it's somewhere. Somewhere in Portugal. Primavera was perfect that we saw me and the missus went last year to be saviors of Pet Shop Boys.

00:50:03:14 – 00:50:19:20
Rick, may I, I know you love a bit of Pet Shop Boys. Oh, I love them. I like them live. They are something else. I don't know if you've ever seen them, but what happened I I'd happily me and you go to go and watch a mini gig reading anyway. Yeah, yeah we, we do a little road trip anyway.

00:50:19:20 – 00:50:38:06
You want to go? Oh, I'll go and watch them with you 100%. It was one of the best life gigs I'd seen. And, you know, all the songs, you don't realize you know more. Yeah, but the outside voice is so good. Neil Tweedy and the action levels are incredible, and it sounds incredible. And it's like, this is a great way to spend 90 minutes.

00:50:38:08 – 00:50:55:23
See that? That's not that's what you want in it. That's what you want to festival. Didn't you even go? Did you go to Croatia, to a festival am I making. Oh yeah. Yeah we did. Yeah I forgot about our. And that was, Sun Star. Yeah. And we saw. So we traveled to Croatia. We had a week in Croatia.

00:50:55:23 – 00:51:18:11
My missus somehow squeezed in a two day festival, coach trip to the Fitz Lakes, which is like a national park. Then we went down to Zadar. We saw about four different cities, like holidays. And my misses are not holidays adventures. There are, I should pretty quiet you street Rick, I think you I was literally about to say that is my kind of woman.

00:51:18:13 – 00:51:43:16
We would like probably for holidays. We should swap. Yeah, absolutely. You can't just sit on the beach or in a bar and you should get off in your fucking adventures. Although, I've got to say, I've got to say it was. It was the best holiday I've ever had. I loved it, it was amazing. That sounds amazing. Yeah, but we saw prodigy in Croatia and, I can't remember who the second night was.

00:51:43:16 – 00:52:03:10
Oh, Fatboy Slim so good. Oh, my God, that would have been fucking amazing. Yeah. And there was, I would say this was built around a lake, this festival. So I would say there couldn't have been any more than 5000 people. 6000 people there. It's wicked. After all this festival chat, I'm kind of changing my mind.

00:52:03:15 – 00:52:22:04
Yeah, let's do one. In a foreign country, the cheaper. Yeah, yeah, the cheaper you get, like 2 or 3, 4 or 5. Very little. All the out of it might hundred and ten. Whereas Glastonbury you, you're down 15 under two grand probably. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. You're paying for the name it you. But the tax by the time you fly over there you've seen some good music.

00:52:22:04 – 00:52:41:08
Weather's amazing. No rain, no mud. Yeah. Oh great food. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Lisbon and Porto. I've probably two of my favorite cities. I know Porto is for me right now. Number one, I want to go back to Porto. I've never, never been Porto. Number one, I'd like. Yeah. If you say, what do you want to do for a weekend?

00:52:41:08 – 00:53:00:08
If you said less flights, Porto for a weekend, I'll be like, well, up for that, is it? It's, well, nice. So you go to the festival, you go there about 6:00 at night, you get home about two in the morning, you go to bed, you get up, you may be done, get some breakfast or whatnot. Maybe go time out.

00:53:00:10 – 00:53:20:01
They've got a time out square in Lisbon, which is amazing to drink red wine. And they've got all these discounted, high quality food market stalls and you just challenge your fancy bit of fun with my beard. My might want a bit of pizza, you might want steak, and you just go out and get it and sit down. More red wine and then caps at a festival and you go again, mate.

00:53:20:01 – 00:53:43:11
It's a dream. Oh, it's a time you start to. I start to waver a little bit on my day. Free. I'm not. I'm a little bit ropey now. But mate, that's the one, that's the one, that's it, I am. I went to my cousin's stag day and we went to Sonar Music Festival, and that was in Barcelona. And it was, it was it was hot.

00:53:43:13 – 00:54:08:11
It was, it was very good. But when I was going there, oh, it was kind of a bit apprehensive because it wasn't my kind of music. It was I can't even describe the kind of music that it was. Dance music. More to to that. And there wasn't any like, you know, oh, I am looking for bands when I go and, you know, when I look at the lineup, I'm like, where's where's Libertines?

00:54:08:11 – 00:54:37:12
Where's Arctic Monkeys? And everyone's like, it's not that festival. And I'm like, no, yeah, I haven't, I don't understand or haven't read any of those names in my entire life. But when we were, we had this massive, villa that we rented and a pool, massive barbecue area. So during the day when it was hot and sunny, we were just chilling by the pool and eating, but we were blasting out all the music that was going to be there.

00:54:37:14 – 00:54:59:08
And there was a I don't know if you call them a band, you know, but that they were called moderate and everyone was like dialed in to go and see moderate and to hear, a specific song. So we kept playing this song and kept playing it and playing it. And then when we got to this festival, we had night tickets.

00:54:59:08 – 00:55:21:09
Right? So you got there at 9:00, you checked in at nine in the evening, and then you go home like fucking seven in the morning. So you can imagine what kind of like it was like at night time. Would you remember the song moderate? Off the top of my head. More like. No. Hey, let me, I'll find it.

00:55:21:09 – 00:55:37:18
Hang on a second. So. So, Yeah, because I could play a bit so people can know the vibe. What? You listening to? Right. Okay, I have a second. I'll find it. All right. So you want. So. So what I know so far is that you've gone to the festival. There's none of the sort of, the sort of rocky bands that you would like with the.

00:55:37:19 – 00:56:00:06
But you kind of. It was your cousin went into his house and electronic music, isn't he? So. Yeah. So. And you've been playing this song, this moderate song for over and over. When you kind of move, everyone's dialed into seeing this group play their song. What was the song called? I think it was called Bad Kingdom. I'm pretty sure it's called bad or so I want to play.

00:56:00:09 – 00:56:20:13
I want to play a bit now. Right?

00:56:20:15 – 00:56:40:24
Here she pretends no one's gonna shatter tears. No need to shout. Just to stay. The things.

00:56:41:01 – 00:57:16:23
Bay, that is pukka. I might have apparently band only crew, let's call it. Yeah, me. And so we were like, listen to this. Have a band, drink. Like, oh, acts drinking and stuff like that. And we managed to locate some, some beans. So it was that right before moderate comes on, I'm going to do this bean. So did the bean, needed, needed to drop a little dirt snake as it is as it appeared after dropping this bean came out and like, you know, when you know, when you you're, coming up on it, not real hard come up.

00:57:16:23 – 00:57:32:18
And I was like, I need to splash some more of my face to get myself back in the game. And then came out and everyone was like, right, got a drink? And then it was that moderate time. And then when that came on, that kind of euphoric feeling of being with everyone. Yeah. And everyone's like, oh my God.

00:57:32:18 – 00:57:58:01
He's like, it was fucking amazing. Utterly amazing. And it's not my kind of music, but I was so pumped for everyone else waiting for this act to come on and being with everyone I know my cousins makes it just such beautiful people, really nice people are such a great vibe. Yeah, and being at this, festival in Barcelona, you can only imagine, like, how great it would be.

00:57:58:01 – 00:58:23:02
And like, lads listening to this in the sun, there's music, laughter. There's no fucking drama. There's no bad vibes. It's no, you know, alpha males trying to be wankers and all that. Like it was just everyone that love and caring and kindness and all that stuff for each other. It was, I absolutely call it a that's a that's hard thing to capture outside of a festival like you can.

00:58:23:02 – 00:58:43:08
Yeah, but that sort of the sun beaming down at a certain time. I know you were the light, at night session, but I think thinking back to when I was alive in 20 2012, right. There was a moment. And I don't think I've ever felt contentment like this moment where we were in the back. It was the sun was going down.

00:58:43:08 – 00:59:07:01
So it was probably around 9:00, 8089 at night. And it reached a level where at like this beautiful orange glow was over everything. The sun was still up, but it was an orange glow over it, over everything. And I'd obviously taken a pain and like, yeah, there is a common denominator right. But if you had, if you had all of the, if you have all of the attributes sprinkled in.

00:59:07:01 – 00:59:33:19
So a little bit of MDMA great mates. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sun hitting at the right spot and then this great, this song that I've been waiting to hear which is no kind words by Maccabees. And it came on and I was like, this is the best. I'm never going to feel this good ever again. Let me play a bit of that so people know, yeah, please take because I like that.

00:59:33:21 – 01:00:17:03
Dear friend of mine has broken his human broke from tradition. Broken his vision of the future. La la la la. No no no no. Dear friend of mine is testing his body. Tempting disaster. Testing water. Within a month, the sculptor. Allo allo allo. Not alone. To go to someone like such an they've reformed Maccabees. Are you going to go and see him?

01:00:17:05 – 01:00:37:17
I'd love to. They would play. They're playing. All Points East is a day festival. Victoria Park. Yeah. But I don't have anyone to go with. No, we've seen like, because we've seen, I've seen them about six times. Yeah. I think I've kind of met Mrs.. Like them. But I think the sick time is probably like enough for her.

01:00:37:17 – 01:00:55:01
Yeah. I've, I've got the same with the streets. Like if it's on the tour and I just want to go and everyone's like we've, we've seen them like how many times and I've got no one to really go with. It's the thing with this Oasis stuff. Now let's come round. Yeah, I'm speaking to, but I'm just all of our mates who did get tickets all like, I'm not really that bothered now.

01:00:55:01 – 01:01:11:14
The excitement's worn off. I'm, Really? It doesn't bother me that I don't have a ticket. Oh, I don't feel any kind of FOMO. So does it. Yeah, but I want to see the band. But what is it that. Yeah. But if because I said there's a there's a few things because I've seen them so many times.

01:01:11:16 – 01:01:29:05
When we went to. And, this is no kind of, barometer of how the gigs going to go, but, you know, when when Anthony. Joshua. Yeah. And Liam came out and, you know, it wasn't built for, doing an Oasis gig or whatever, but when I heard it, I was like, it wasn't really. Did you?

01:01:29:06 – 01:01:44:01
It wasn't. Was the was a no emotional shift. And it was the sound was terrible, but sound was terrible. Yeah, but that's not on him. Probably. Or you. No, it's not, it's not, it's it's not. And that's why I don't want to kind of pinch you get a ticket right now I didn't. Oh no no no Oasis tickets.

01:01:44:01 – 01:02:04:09
No Oasis tickets. So I mean, the only reason why I really want to go, and I'd love to go is to take my missus because she's never seen Oasis. So that's that. That's all you see and all you see and what you all see. An oasis? Yeah, but, like 15 years older. Yeah, like a lot of it's going to be.

01:02:04:11 – 01:02:22:09
I think I might be wrong, but I think a lot of it is going to be running on nostalgia. Yes, 100%. That's why I'm kind of like, you know, when the tunes come on, you'll probably barely be able to hear it anyway because everyone's singing up top, which is fine. And it is going to be a pure vibe.

01:02:22:09 – 01:02:40:14
Stay, as a point of to say, Teen Oasis at their peak and how it sounds and all that, like I'm. Yeah, I'm not at all kind of, got any fame out of that? The only. Yeah. The only bit is that I'd like to go with the misfits, but I reckon closer to time you'll be able to get to us.

01:02:40:14 – 01:03:11:09
If you wanted to go up to. I think that's. I think that's what I am. I'm kind of like angling for. I think that's what I'll probably do. So it's piss me off. Like Glastonbury Festival. Well, Maccabees are playing, but they're like, they're playing on Sunday, which is fine. But then, like, you can barely read the name on the poster and I'm, hang on a second, because I can read Olivia Rodrigo's name because it's the biggest one on there, and not even in the same ballpark in my.

01:03:11:11 – 01:03:33:19
Yeah, yeah, it's I guess, yeah, we are. We are getting out. I do that. I said, when I look at the times, I'm like, why do you can't even fucking play? They get him on that stage, man. Yeah. Can I have a Biffy Clyro fuck me the fuck off. Biffy Clyro categorically are the worst guitar band there has ever been.

01:03:33:21 – 01:03:43:17
Yeah yeah yeah some shit, yeah, I take that. Great. I don't know anyone who's into him. I don't know anyone.

01:03:43:19 – 01:04:09:05
Like that ever. Did you know what vibe Z Denzel Curry I love about Denzel Curry I it I have no idea. You know. No, Denzel Curry's got, he's kind of like, I guess it's probably in the same ballpark as Travis Scott. Actually, to be fair, no, I'm slightly more. I'm just angry of him because I watched the documentary and he didn't take care of people.

01:04:09:07 – 01:04:37:17
Yeah. That is, listen to the album. If you don't like this album, you won't like any of them. Good. Or is it is rubbish, rubbish podcast in, from from the fucking name of it now first one tattoo. Tattoo. No. Imperial. Imperial related to Imperial. Anyway. Then you'll carry Imperial. Yeah, right. We're going to jump on now.

01:04:37:17 – 01:05:00:18
But having listened to this podcast, I've got mad fame. I of go to a music festival brought in in Europe. Yeah. And 20, 2060. Yes, yes. Yeah, for sure. I'll get my missus on it. We've got to finish the house and then we can start. We can potentially spend some money that isn't on fucking fixing an old house that wants to fall down.

01:05:00:24 – 01:05:25:10
Let's all this house wants to do it all done. It's all it wants to. Just let me go. I can't let you go. You're very expensive. Stay up. I'm leaving you for ages. God bless you, man. Fuck. You know, but we are going to be jumping into. We've got a dilemma this week and something I. You know, the topic for next week is episode 100.

01:05:25:12 – 01:05:44:10
And I thought, because it's episode 100, let's have a bit of fun. Let's not get too serious. We've had so many emails of this over, since we've started, lads and on, and I think it's time to kind of get the monkey off our back with it. So we're going to do a whole episode of Would You Rather?

01:05:44:12 – 01:06:10:23
And we want to hear your, you know, that most disgusting, soul searching, chin scratching, thought provoking, would you rather questions. And because it's episode 100, right? If you want to have your name read out on the pod for sending in this monstrosity, I know it's Lads Anonymous that feel free to say read this out and read my name out.

01:06:11:02 – 01:06:37:15
So we will for episode 100 will read your name out along with your would you rather? And Flav and I will do our best to answer every single one as as as best as we can. Let's get some. Let's get dark. Yeah, let's get, Yeah, let's get really dark. Let's get really the the dilemma is called cut out and something on, you know is right.

01:06:37:17 – 01:07:15:04
I'm off to die over now, which is an absolute bell. So we're going to go into dilemmas. Oh. Just you got an issue for a tissue. You're a big fat cat. We'll give you a can in your soul alone in your flat. Please talk to Vicky Flanagan. Let not stress off your chest. Well, friend, you deserve like you're safe here to get nice warm between breaking your and.

01:07:15:06 – 01:07:34:14
Cut out. I gave up booze almost two years ago. After a major health scare and some realizations about my life and dreams of the set health scare. I've just turned 28, and I'm now living in a new country, speaking a new language and working in a career that's genuinely rewarding. I'm at peace with myself in the world.

01:07:34:16 – 01:07:54:22
These are all things I used to dream about, and honestly, none of it would would have been possible if I'd kept drinking and using. Which brings me to my dilemma. After I left the UK, quite a few of my friends cut contact for no reason. I was even cut from the group chat with without being told why I can't help.

01:07:54:24 – 01:08:21:18
I can't help but wonder if it's that tall poppy syndrome thing. Brits some think Brits have where people don't like seeing their mates do. Well or change direction. On top of that, one of those might still owes me £400 and it's ignored all my messages about it. Now in three months I'll bet my mates wedding in Norway this May is one who's been supportive and sound since I left.

01:08:21:20 – 01:08:40:23
It's the first time I've returned to Europe, and the first time I'll be seeing all of them since I left the UK will be staying at the same hotel and spending a lot of time together. It's weird, to be honest. I already feel a bit out of place and the only one who doesn't drink, and I'm not sure how to handle the whole situation.

01:08:41:00 – 01:09:02:14
The tension, the money, the energy all around there. What would you do in my shoes? I also wanted to say, wanted to say, good on both of you for making positive changes regarding your lifestyles and self-improvement. As guys, it's something we should all be encouraging each other to do more. I'm here if you need any advice about it.

01:09:02:16 – 01:09:24:04
Say, I think God, he's been cut from the group chat with the lads that I used to knock about with. No one's told him why. Yeah, one of his mates owes him 400 large. Fuck him straight away. Guy. I'm coming over. I need can you bring that money with you? But you owe me £400, and then he's going to be spending a lot of time in a hotel.

01:09:24:09 – 01:09:43:15
A wedding with them. Oh, yeah. That's why it needs to be sorted before you go so. Well. Yeah, that's a good idea, actually. Well, I think you need to address it. So, you know, you let me free up £400, and that's a lot of money. Yeah. The principles there. I know I've been cut out of this friendship group for some reason, but money is money management.

01:09:43:17 – 01:10:00:12
Yeah. This is it's a principle thing I need. I need you to give me that £400 back. Otherwise you means you think nothing of me at all. And, man, it's going to be awkward, but you just got to grin and bear it. I don't know, you can't control what other people do. You can only control how it makes you feel.

01:10:00:14 – 01:10:24:23
Yeah, and if it's amazing that when you stop drinking, how many of your relationships and friendships disappear? And not because, it's not because it's like a conscious decision how he doesn't drink. So we don't want him around anymore. You just realize that the thing that was connecting you all these years was alcohol. In the pub. And if you take that away, you realize the friendship isn't there.

01:10:25:00 – 01:10:48:18
And that doesn't mean that they're not friends. It just means there's different people serving different purposes in your life. Right? Yeah. Ricky and I don't see each other now. I've got another relationship doesn't revolve around alcohol at all. So that wouldn't be affected by it. But I've got other friends who if I didn't drink, I think within a year I'd probably never speak to them again.

01:10:48:20 – 01:11:11:23
So yeah. And it's well, like the only thing I added in, like, even if you haven't spoken to these people when you've been out the group and whatever else, normally what happens in these situations, you kind of pick up where you last left off and it isn't as awkward as you actually think it's going to be. You'll be like, how's it going?

01:11:11:24 – 01:11:31:07
How's Rachel? It's like, do you remember that time when we went to that prick? Yeah, yeah. That's what that's funny. That's right. Yeah. For sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's just that the nostalgia trip. And afterwards when you leave, like. And you're not invited back into the group or whatever, it's just about getting through this weekend and it's just kind of riding that out.

01:11:31:07 – 01:11:49:05
And I know you're probably going in there thinking, God, this is going to be awful, but it's always worse in your mind going into that. And when you see them and you're having a beer and everyone's having a dance, you know, on the dance floor when everyone's being silly and stuff like that, those kind of things just all kind of dissipate and go away.

01:11:49:05 – 01:12:04:17
So I think you're going to be sound. But like flab says, get, get in front of that 400 pounds and message that guy and say, look, I'm going to be going and I need that money and we need to we need to sort something out. We don't have to be friends after it. We don't need a group chat.

01:12:04:17 – 01:12:31:21
We don't need anything. But I need that 400 pounds. So that's what I think you should do. Yeah, I agree. I don't that the something I need, you know is well, let's just say strap on your seatbelts. Okay. Wow. Something, you know.

01:12:31:23 – 01:12:53:22
Right. I'm off to Dover now, once I press send on this email, I will immediately delete it. Then I will go to my recently deleted emails and delete it from there. I will then drive down to Dover and get on a ferry and Chuck is fine into the middle of the English Channel as I can never be revealed and must remain anonymous.

01:12:53:22 – 01:13:17:16
Can I just ask you, did he use an anonymous email to send this in? Like a I can't even I can't even remember and I well, but I say maybe it maybe did. Yeah. Go. I'm 60. I'm a 63 year old man. I see myself for 27 years. I got when I was 18, I met my first wife, we got married and had a couple of kids.

01:13:17:16 – 01:13:35:19
But when I was 36, she told me she didn't love me anymore so much. I try my best to save the marriage and lived at home with her for about a year before I eventually moved out after about 11 months. After she told me the news, a mate of mine was going to Hampstead, and asked me if I wanted to come.

01:13:35:21 – 01:14:04:06
Absolutely, I thought, I haven't had my leg in over a year, and I still write like that with some of the lovely window box women. I didn't take a lot of money with me, as I knew I was moving out and needed it for rent, to live. So my trip to Amsterdam was on a little bit of a budget, but I was allocated about €70 for my visit to Canada or Cynthia or whoever it might be.

01:14:04:08 – 01:14:25:04
So on the first night I said to my mates, right, I'm off. I'll be back in half an hour. I made my way around the red light district. I found it all a bit awkward and didn't really want to walk up to a door and knock, so I just walked and walked and walked until this gorgeous woman beckoned me over and I went straight in.

01:14:25:06 – 01:14:46:02
There was no kissing, but she was fondling me to get me hard, and I was having a bit of, a, grope with the boobs, which was clearly enhanced. She got me on the bed, put on a condom, and started to suck me off, which was great. She then stopped and mumbled something to me along the lines of, do you mind?

01:14:46:04 – 01:15:02:14
I said, do you mind what she said that I'm a ladyboy. I reached down between her legs and sure enough, there was a tiny, withered old dick there.

01:15:02:16 – 01:15:33:21
I quickly assessed the situation. I don't want to waste my money. I'll shut my eyes and do the deed. I ended up shagging him her up the ass. In fairness, he put his hand over his cock and balls so I couldn't see them. I shut my load, got changed, disgusted with myself and walked out of the place. My mate were asking how we, when I lied, said it is fucking brilliant, but not sure that I'll do it again.

01:15:33:23 – 01:15:55:04
They asked why and I made up some excuse about not feeling comfortable paying for it. Yeah, on reflection it wasn't totally unenjoyable. She was gorgeous. My dick was bigger than hers and she did it. Did have a cracking pair of tears. I've been true to my word and haven't done that again since I paid for it. I hope you enjoyed the story.

01:15:55:04 – 01:16:18:03
It took, took me for a while to put this down on paper. Write about down to diver now that is something I need. I know you know, this is the point. This is the whole point of this section coming up in this section is just because everybody's living with stuff. Yeah. So more of that that is about all that could be up there with.

01:16:18:05 – 01:16:43:23
I mean, I think that's up there with the bloke who sucked off an old man in a Holiday Inn because he didn't want to be read. Well, what if you got a folder with all these in Rick? What the the the me reading them out of your. No, no no no, I will I kind of there is want I back through them.

01:16:43:23 – 01:17:04:04
Yeah I think I will go back for emails because it might be the best thing to read out the best one again next week. Oh yeah. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. Do you keep the emails that easily. Yeah I've got, yeah I've got everything. I've got everything. Got absolutely everything as a good idea today. Yeah. Just fine. So find like the top three I don't know who those top three are.

01:17:04:09 – 01:17:24:13
Absolutely. So the next week's topic is going to be a massive bonanza of would you rather. So sending you'll do your worst deal. Worst lads. Send them over. Send it into lads. Unknown pod at gmail.com. And until then we will see you on Monday.