EP 6: It's been a while...

It's been a while... - Re-uploaded

Come grab a slice with us and see what we've been up to... it's been a while!

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The following podcast is intended for mature audiences. Discretion is advised. We are two idiots, so please take everything we say with a pinch of salt. Hello and welcome to our little corner of the internet. I'm Neil. Yo, and I'm dead. We're back again. It's been a while, to be fair. Yeah, a few minutes. Yeah, a few minutes. I mean, if you've listened to the last episode, it's obviously just been like two seconds for you guys, but for us it's been approximately five months since we last did one of these. Um to be honest, we've just been that busy with shit that we've just kind of forgot to come in and record. But with that being said, we do have five months worth of stuff to catch you up on. Yeah. So we've been to lots of gigs, lots of planning for download, lots of games that we've been playing, lots of music that's come out in that time that we've been listening to. Um so yeah. Yeah, get your strap on on tight, yeah, sit back. It's gonna be a bumpy ride, kids. Um so yeah, first of all, how are you? I can't complain. Yeah, yeah, it'll be not been bad. Um works less stressful at the moment because uh everyone has to go through a uh a process before they give me work. And the process is that complicated, they don't want to give me work. So I can work on the uh the important stuff. The important shit. Yeah. Um yeah. Looking at getting a new car, uh been a couple of gigs, looking at holidays, that's it, really. Just getting ready for download, getting all my bits were you thinking of going on holiday? Um I was planning uh to use one day off of holiday for work to get a five-day holiday out of it because of the double bank holiday. Right, yeah, that makes sense. Um but transfer because I'm gonna take my mum away for uh Mother's Day. Um but that's not gonna happen now because the transfer is like two hours. Right. And she can't be asked for that. Fair enough. So next best thing Blackpool. Blackpool. Two nights in Blackpool, get on Pleasure Beach, go up the uh the Eyeful Tower. The discount I fall tower. Yeah, fair enough. Um, yeah. Um that's that's it really. I'm just gonna chill out on the beach. Hopefully it's the weather's nice. And uh I'm gonna go on Valhalla. Oh, nice. Which uh is half sunk in water before you get in it. Okay, so you you're it comes up halfway up your shin of water when you're in the boat. Right, okay. Yeah. That's a good one. Sounds like it, dude. But it's like a 10-minute ride. Oh man. A water ride for ten minutes. Mate, are you not pissing by the end of that? Oh, that's all the random water. That is that is probably all piss anyway. Oh yeah. They've got a vacuum to get the water out before you get any. Because the boat's just getting drowned. Really? Yeah. Wow, okay. Oh, yeah, it's good. That's fucking weird. Alright, fair enough. You go through one of them tunnels where they like shoot water over your head. Oh that stuff. Sounds like uh like sea life type vibes. Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's cool. It's so good. That sounds good. Just bring a couple of pets. Well, I've got I'm gonna wear me crocs, so I should be fine. Yeah, you you'll be dry as fucking them crocs, mate. We know what they're like. Yeah, yeah. You've plugged up the holes now, and you got some little bits. Oh, I've got some ducks and stuff in there. The classic duck, the download ducks. Yeah. Um, if you are coming download, make sure you get some ducks. Yeah, well, to be fair, if you see us there, yeah, then yeah, come come say hello. Yeah, you know what the logo looks like, because clearly this is a podcast. So if you do see a black flag flying the pizza time logo, um, we all be in black camp again this year because that's kind of just where we go now. You know, it'd be really, really cool. Go on. If we did a podcast in the download. In the oh my god. Bro, we actually could. Yeah. Uh that's an idea, an actual at download podcast. I don't think anybody's ever actually done that before, besides being on the stage. Yeah, that'll be that's gonna be sick. That yeah, I'm down for that. Oh that's a brilliant idea, mate. Yeah, mate. You heard it here first on the podcast, an at download Wednesday podcast on site. On site. Drunk, drunk as fuck, as well as other things, but we won't talk about that. Umalia. Yeah, other other other items are available, yeah. Um, but yeah, no, I mean that's sick. That'd be cool, yeah. Let's do that. Let's do an actual at download podcast episode. Because, as well, we are planning on vlogging it too. Yep. We've discussed this, so we're thinking we'll probably vlog it while we're there as well, and then you'll actually get to see our thing. What would be really good is if we all film, because it can be loads of us. Yeah, and then put it in. And then we can do some kind of splice melding, yeah. Some like TPD type. We are all gonna be splitting up to see certain bands anyway. Yeah, so you probably get to see me, Damon, Connor, Talia, Fred, Kel, your mate, Matt, was it? Yeah, Nikki, my wife, um loads of us, you'll get to see us all as well in our natural habitat, as it were. Yeah, yeah. Um, so I think that's quite good. Um, oh, and Chloe and Ricky as well. So for you Southerners who listen to the podcast. Is um Chris coming? No. No. No, he's not, he's not coming this year, he's going to Australia, so savings cash. Ah, cool, cool. So we've gone on a massive holiday there for a couple months. But nice for you Southerners who are from downland anyway, um, our mates Ricky and Chloe are gonna be there, so you will get some commentary from them as well, because they've got the furthest journey to travel, so yeah, typically they will stay with us at Fred's the night before, which means they could do it again this year. Which is when the blog starts. Yeah, that's when it'll start, is from then. Um, so it'll probably be us arriving. Um, so you'll probably get some quite in-depth detail from them about how they get up to our neck of the woods, um, because they meet us in Cannock, which is where Fred lives. It's also where Connor lives, and it's also where I'm from originally. Um, so yeah, you'll kind of see perspectives from all of our journeys of actually getting to Fred's house, meeting up, and obviously what it's like for us all going down. So, because I don't know about you, but our car is quite the laugh when we're on the way down. Um, so yeah, I mean, um, excuse me, it is uh gonna be quite a good one this year, and I've already predicted that it's gonna be an absolute scorcher, hopefully, because that so far the weather has reminded me a lot of 2023, and we all know how hot that download was. So, and after last year, it would be nice to actually have a bit of heat on there. I'll go back to that, yeah. Uh sorry, Damon just wrote something down, so I was being nosy. Um, but yeah, life for me. What's happened since November? Uh well, I've started doing driving lessons again. I'm coming up to doing my test at some point soon. I'm not disclosing the date because nobody knows apart from me when it actually is. Yeah, you don't know when when we recorded this, so that's true. Well, I've kind of given it away saying it was five months in the making. Ish, ish. I did say Mother's Day, but I didn't say is it Mother's Day yet or when. No, that's very true, you didn't. Um but what we're gonna discuss next will probably give it away as to where we are, so possibly nothing of real notability happened for either of us, I don't think, towards the end of the year. It was just quite a quiet end to the year. I had my mum over here, we had a very nice Christmas meal, all the classic family stuff, you know, playing games, getting absolutely shit faced. Um I stopped drinking for four months because of how much I drank at Christmas, so that kind of gives you an idea of like I've only started drinking again now because of like how bad it's been over the Christmas period, so yeah, it kind of just put me off to be honest. Well, you know, you gotta drink to live. That's true, actually. Again, that's another daemonism. You need you need liquid liquid bread, yeah. Um but yeah, uh first gig of the year that we did was Bullet and Trivium. Oh yeah. And my god, what a gig it was. That was that was beautiful. Trivium stole the show. Yeah. I think Bullet would have done, but there was an incident in the pit where somebody passed out and I had to stop it was it was like building momentum so I had to build it back up again, and it didn't really reach the peak of what it was beforehand until like the last song. Oh no, it was great, don't get me wrong, but I think the nostalgia for me trivium was the better band because those songs meant more to me than the bullet songs did. Yeah. Apart from Hand of Blood, like I absolutely lost my shit when that came on. Um so that was that was a very interesting time. I mean, although one thing that I did notice obviously we talk about download a fair bit on it, um despite it not actually being a download podcast. Um, you know, the the one thing that struck me was the food prices and the beer prices at that gig. Because it was like this is about the same, if not worse, than download. Oh, much worse. So the amount of food that you got for what you were paying, it was like a pittance in terms of food for like, you know, like you're paying like 12 quid for like chips. I did not buy any food, I don't think. No, you didn't actually. I did because I was like, I I haven't eaten, I'm starving. So no, um what happened was is me and Fred uh went for a pizza. Yeah, you did, didn't you? Uh a 20-inch motherfucking giant ass passenger it was a passenger in my car, it was that big. Was that on the way back? Yeah. I dropped them off and went to some pizza joint, can't remember what the name was. Was it Hollywood pizza? No. No. Was it Al Aladd Aladdin's or something like that? Aladdin's. I think I know where that is, actually, if memory serves. Um that was a nice nice pizza. Well, this is a very appropriate topic of conversation, isn't it? So, what were the toppings on said pizza then? I had meat fixed with uh stuffed crust. What kind of stuff? Cheese or tomato? Uh I cheese, I think. I can't remember. That it lasted it lasted three days. Fuck me. It was uh a big pizza. How did you keep that fresh for three days? I got ways. Tell me your ways. Well, I ate four slices when I had it. The rest of it went in the fridge. Then the next morning had it for breakfast, and then for dinner, and then for breakfast. Fucking man. That's a heifer if you can do that with a pizza, Jesus Christ. I lived on pizza for three days, that was it. So it literally was your pizza time. Oh yeah. The slices were like 30 centimetres long. Fucking hell, but it's a big pizza. Christ man, yeah. Nah, I mean, that gig was awesome. I mean, me and Nikki stayed in a hotel, so we literally I work away a lot from my job. Um, so I literally was on site and I was ill as well. I was down in London um doing a show called Festival of Genomics, which was I don't know if that picked that up then, but uh Damon just added something into that there, which was perfect. Reverb. Oh yeah, I might actually pitch that up and reverb it in the mix, but um yeah. Uh we were like I literally came back, I was sick as fuck. Like I was ill. I lost my voice when I was on site, my back gave out, literally come back, met Nikki at the house, got changed into my gig clothes, had a well, I had a quick shower, then got changed, fucked off on the train, took Nikki to the cat cafe that's in um Oh yeah, because you got to stay the night, didn't you? Yeah, we did, yeah. We uh stayed at a hotel, I can't remember what it was called now. I think it was called the Leonardo something. I don't know. It was it wasn't far from the Black Sabbath Bridge anyway, so it was like a literally like a 10-minute walk away. Um well it was really nice hotel. Um the room had two double beds in it, which I didn't ask for, I asked for a a king, but you know, I guess it can't be choosers because it was last minute, so refund. And it only cost me £72. Yeah, not bad. It's not bad. It was quite annoyed like a walking shower. I didn't use it, obviously, because we'd be less like fuck it, let's leave in the morning. Um I don't think the hotels around Birmingham are that bad, really. No, they're not. Are you gonna get one for um Sabbath? Well, this is what me and my mum are debating because I'm so again just to reiterate there's a Hilton in um not far down the road. Is it not? 20 minutes, something like that. You get an Uber and you get free breakfast. Oh, okay. And it's like 70 quid. And it's a Hilton. It's not bad. Hilton breakfast are quite nice. Yeah. Um it's in a jewelry quarter. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, to be fair, I mean like I don't know, it depends whether or not I'm driving at that point, because if I am then Yeah, but you're gonna be there for like 12 hours. True. And you're not gonna not want to drink. Well, the original plan was is that we were gonna get the train. You could. Because mum was like just stay at mine the night before so we can leave early in the morning and then we'll um go down from where she lives and then come back of the evening and I'll just stay the night. So then there's no driving, so she can have a drink as well. But yeah, she did have a she did have a bad dream about it. She told me yesterday when she was on the phone that she had a dream that it was a massive wall that they put in front of all the state all stands, so no one could see, and she was looking through the gap, and the bands were just playing like the albums on a thing, and the bands were all just getting pissed and stoned together in the bottom of the pitch instead of playing the shows. I was like, Mum, that just sounds like a pure anxiety dream to me. That does. I was like, they ain't gonna do that, so but uh so I've got tickets for that. Uh, me and my mum have. Uh, my mum was very kindly paid for them, which I'm still not happy about because you know it's a lot of money. Um, yeah. But one of the guys at work came in clutch because he's a villa, uh villa season ticket holder, so he was like, Oh, I'll get your tickets for you. I was like, Really? He was like, Yeah. I was too late on that. My boss is a season ticket holder. It was the day after because he was um out of office. Fuck. Yeah. Otherwise, the only option I had was a three grand golden circle thing. You know, ain't happening. I was gonna say that's like all of a bonus gold for the whole year. Yeah. On that. No, so no. No, absolutely not. To be fair though, Nikki's on about going with Talia and Connor to um Aston All. Because they're apparently gonna have some big screens there and like food vendors for people to go watch there, so it might be worth keeping an eye out for that. Yeah, sound good. Um so but other than that one, me and Connor went to see Pantera in Birmingham. Um I was invited, but I never went. Yeah, you had some of the crop up, didn't you, last minute? So um that was amazing. But what that gig made me realise is that I can't really headbang anymore. I just get a practice, that's all. No, mate, I can't do that again. Like literally, my neck was hurting for three weeks after that gig. I've not done it enough. I did it too much. The problem was, and it wasn't Pantera because I did headbang for that and accidentally headbutted the person in front of me, but that ended up sparking a conversation, so you know, happy accidents, but um it was Power Trip because I fucking love Powertrip, they're one of my favourite bands, and they're a download as well. Nice. So me and Connor were gonna drag you and Fred to go see them. I don't well, what's the clash like? God knows, I haven't looked to be honest, but um yeah. That was what did it in because like Connor got a video of me headbanging, I was like windmilling, and oh my god, yeah, I can't do that anymore. So I think after download my long hair is gonna go. I think that'll be it for the the headbanging days, really, because I just I just can't face that anymore. Have you got the the clash finder above? Just having a look now. I can't remember what day they're on, to be honest. It's um not too sure. I'm definitely gonna try see Silosis. There's uh Eagles of Death Mill. Not really that fussed about them, to be honest. No, Southern Southern uh River Band there. Yeah, they're on the Sunday, I think. Who was Silosis clashing with uh Day Seeker Sex Pistols? Sleep token, no, I'm not seeing them. Oh I could catch a stock. You can catch some, just leave 20 minutes early. I mean, I would like to be at the front of the stage. What for sleep token? Yeah. Really? I it's it's in my to-do list. I need to be at the front stage of every stage at least once. So you want to do it with sleep token? Sleep token would be ideal. You're gonna get someone like Sky! Oh man. I'm gonna be that guy at farts in the uh in the uh when it just cuts down really low and quiet. Oh, it's gonna be good. There they are, the Southern River band. Yeah, there they are. Um I can't remember what fucking there they are, Power Trip. They're not clashing with anyone. That's like the other than nothing more. I'm not interested. Just the guy who sounds like Ronnie Radkin. Nah, I'm not interested. Power trip. That's where I'm gonna be. I'll uh on the main stage. I'll have a quick listen in a bit and then uh mate. It's like it's like early Metallica mixed with Slayer, but with like hardcore in there, it's fucking savage, dude. And he was like like he hadn't ever listened to him, and I was like, Yeah, we'll listen to him on the way to the gig. And he was like, I'm glad you left it till now because I'm really excited about seeing this band now. Um I don't want to get too much into the clash right now because we haven't uh done the episode yet. No, but um, you really want to go and see because I'm not gonna be able to see Ginjack because I want to see Survivor said the Prophet. So I want to go see Municipal Waste, and I want to see Heads of Protection. There you go. There's a split for the day episode. I'll be going to Municipal Waste, so yeah, Nick sits at so just to give you an idea, guys. Nicky sits at main stage with the chairs all day, so any bands that are on the main stage, Nikki is the best bet for recording them because that's where she just chills all day. It's like she doesn't mind, she just is quite happy sitting there and watching people and stuff like that. Whereas I this year I didn't do it last year, I didn't do it the year before, in fairness, but this year I want to kind of get out and about a bit more and kind of see more. Um, and obviously we've got all the stuff in District X now that's been announced. Um, and there's more to come, and there is more to come as well. Um so yeah, it's gonna be quite a busy one, I think, this year. Oh, yeah, for all of us, I think. Um, but yeah, Pantera was sick. Uh obviously I got the Aussie Osborne gig that I'll be going to, so I'll do an episode on that. Yeah. So I might get my mum on that episode as well, which would be quite funny to get my mum on the podcast because she's um she's brummy through and through, my mum bless her. Um she's hilarious as well. Like proper funny, some of the shit she'll come out with, so just be warned. She's very uh off the cuff, is my mum. Um and then obviously we've got download, and then after that, I've got Disturbed and Megadeth in October, got tickets for that as well. So me, my mum, Nikki, and Nikki's sister Vanessa, we're all going to that one. Um, which I'm driving that one. So I'm gonna be the designated driver for that, so I can't headbang too much because just take a neck breaking. Well, one I won't have any hair to headbang with anymore. Or it'll be very short at that point. That's kind of what I'm thinking is go for like a faux hawk. Yeah, shave the sides and I'm thinking crazy taxi. Oh god, no. I've had a couple one what you like that Mim McGeezer from fucking guitar hero. Yeah, man. Yeah. What was his name? Johnny something. Can't remember what his name was. Um yeah. And possibly Volbeat because they're coming back in November, I think. So, and um my work colleague has invited me to go see Nova Twins on the 17th of October as well. Oh nice. Um down, I think they're at Civic actually in Wolves. So cool. Might might be a Nick of the Woods. Yeah, yeah, your neck of the Woods mate, that one. Um I might go, I don't know. I'm still living in Ring because that's rang mine and Nikki's anniversary and I booked it off, so I don't really know if I'll I can swing that one to be honest, because it's kind of second wedding anniversary. Don't want to piss her that off that early on, to be honest. So um but yeah, that's that's kind of it for gigs, really for me, for the whole year. I am potentially going to Reading Festival for one day. Yeah, she did mention this this morning. So uh I can definitely blog that. Uh definitely gonna get some Bill Murray, bring me into Shikari. It's gonna be good. Yeah, man. To be fair, I did want to do a day uh the first day of Bloodstock for Trivium, but with all the gigs I've been spending money on, I just can't afford it because now me and Nikki are saving up for a house. So we're rare. I think this year I'm gonna have to like cap it next year, really. I think the only one I'll probably go to is download next year. You don't do bloodstock. I don't know, like it depends because if we've got enough money to buy a house. A hoose. A hoose or a bungalow or a flat because we can't wine up our options really. Um God, this is rather adult, isn't it? But basically, what I'm saying is definitely download next year, the year after, it depends on the lineup. Because we're hoping we'll have a nipper in tow by then. Oh, I'm reckoning download next year is gonna be a statement. It's yeah, it's got to be. It's gonna be an absolute game changer. This year is a game changer because one, it's the first time we've had three brand new headlines since the thing started. Yeah. Um, correct me if I'm wrong on that though, guys. Um but also the last band that headlined that had never headlined anything was Slipknot. And now it's Sleep Token who were doing it, but yeah. Sleep Token. I reckon Slipknot will be there next year. Oh yeah, I think it will be Slipknot Lincoln Park. Oh yeah. And probably maybe Ghost. Bill Murray. Oh, they'll be there. They'll probably have like second stage, I reckon. Oh, if Bill Murray comes, I'll be coming. I'm coming. Oh man. But no, to be fair, like um, as I say, the year after, like so 2027, it depends where we are with things. Like, if we've got a kid in tow, I don't really want to do that, maybe. Maybe I'd just do three days instead of five. I don't know. Could do? It depends on where we are with things. Nikki said she doesn't mind me going. But obviously that is a long time to leave someone who's yeah, um, you know, a new parent on their own, so I don't really want to uh we're back trying to do that. Yeah, fat shit. Yeah. Um sorry, I had to be honest, go drop something upstairs, so that'll be a very weird hard cut there. No, it wasn't a shit, it was actually ice cream. Um that's what it could- that's that's called soft surf. Now that's what I call soft surf. That's everywhere it downloads, straight from the horse's cheat. Yeah. But no uh no, I mean like I don't know, we'll see how things lie really with it all, but um I honestly don't think um it would be a good idea for me to do download for five days when there's a new kid in tow. I could do it, but to be honest, I do want to do bullet stop though before I kind of um resign myself to not doing as many festivals anymore. Yeah. Just purely because it seems like their lineups at the moment are absolute bangers. I mean, this year's one is fuck. I I need more legs. Yeah. I need um some kind of I need a moped to just to get from a one stage to the next. It's gonna be difficult. To be honest, mate, I think I need a new spine. To be honest, in my job, like um I'm I'm absolutely fucking knackered at the moment because we've had a big run at the moment, but now it's quiet for a couple weeks. Nice. Um so but yeah, um, that's kind of everything really that I have to talk about in terms of what's been going on. It seems like it's been a very boring start to the year, but yeah, you know, it's it's kind of one of them, is it? They always start off a bit slow and then they always pick up. And I mean, we are now on the run-up to festival season, yeah. Um and we both have new tents. Oh yeah. Well, I say I've got a tent, Damon's bought a bus. Uh I mean it hasn't got wheels. I mean But it has more than big enough. It's big enough, to be honest. I mean, I've we me and Nikki bought the Ride O5 after seeing um one of the YouTubers that I watch who does a deer download podcast, Simon Bond. Shout out to that podcast. Oh, yeah, I watched that video recently. Yeah. His uh vlog from last year. Yeah. Cause um with a cat jumping in. No, not that one. When he was actually at the festival and it was just like filming all the tents. Yeah, yeah. I went, oh done, that's similar to mine, but he's got um fucking poles going through it. Yeah, that's what we've got the exact same tent as that. So because like I'd seen the video last year and I was like, oh, it's a fucking banging looking tent, but we'd obviously got our um Van Gogh 3 or whatever the fuck it's called. I can't remember what it's actually called. Yeah, um, we've still got the tent, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just not really nice to stand up, yeah. Like we want a bit more room as well, because we kind of felt like we were sort of living like in a fucking pig sty, really, and we want to get a bit more organized so when we come back. We haven't gotta go, oh, I've got to dig through bags or try and find this or that. It's just like, oh, there it is, there's Babby wipes, there's the shoes, all that stuff. You know, we've got everything in its place and a place for everything, really. So yeah. Uh extra. And Damon has bought the one up from that, which is the Air One, I think you bought. Yeah, I have the Rodell 600 Air, uh, which means I have not gotta put fiddle with fucking poles and shoving them through tiny holes and they get stuck all the time. I've just got to pump it up. I'm gonna start playing that pump it up song, bump it up, and then um or you could do electric call boy, I'd probably get it done even quicker. Yeah, true. Um so I've just gotta pump three beams, spread it all out, stick the pegs in, job the good. Nice, and then uh hook all the inside up and I'm done. And then party. That's uh well, I'll be partying beforehand. Yeah, we will, we'll probably be parting in the queue, we'll probably be off cut when we're in the queue, to be honest. We were last year. Oh yeah. I'm thinking we while we we are carrying alcohol in, I think we need pre-alcohol before we carry in. Well, to be fair, this year me and Nikki were about getting all our booze from the co-op. Yeah. Um rather than carrying it. But still bring some in. Oh yeah, we'll still bring some for the Q beers, but not thinking of this is for the five days, this is this is for one or two nights. Yeah, that's the problem. Last year we kind of bought enough what we thought would be enough for the five days, and it just turned out to last like three three minutes. Actually, my my whiskey and coke lasted all of an evening. That's all it lasted. I drank the whole fucking two-litre bottle in one evening. Um I'm thinking Soju this year. Oh, which um it's a very nice uh like Korean drink. It's like 13%, and it just tastes like you're drinking pop. That's dangerous, though. Oh I I've knit two bottles in one go, and my god, my god, my god, I'm I and I'm bringing it in two litre bottles. Fucking hell, dude. That's one penise. It's fucking hell, that's another level of lives, dude. Yeah, but yeah, um I don't know. I I kind of like we've obviously got the go outdoors thingy that Nikki's signed up to so we can get like a new mattress, because I fucked up. This is one thing that's quite funny for the people. You fucked up. I did fuck up, so I was clearing out the garage a few I say a few weeks ago, it's probably like two months ago now. Nice. Um was that? There it is. You can see it on the same wave. Um, but yeah, I was clearing out the garage two months ago, and my stupid ass fucking thought, oh I'll just move the ironing board over, and it got caught on the fucking airbed and ripped a hole in it. I was like, fuck. I was like, right, okay, well, that's a new one of them. I'm gonna have to buy. Sorry, fat Franks. I'm gonna need a new one. What you could do is just buy one for fat francs and go, oh, it was broken. Just return the broken one. I could. Are you gonna get one for fat francs or you no no? I want to get one of them like proper ones that you blow off on big ones. Remember that one I gave Chris? The one the one from the the wedding. Yeah, yeah. The one that was shit. Yeah, the one that kept going down. Died at download and we left it at download. I don't know you bought that one, yeah. We did. We originally bought that one with us and then it died at Fred's. Oh, we can't turn back now. Oh yeah. So we slept on it the first night and then we bought the new one the second day because we was like, fuck this. Yeah, yeah. So that stayed at download and died there. That was its final resting place along with your original tent. Nice. Um yeah. I'm assuming this tent you've bought is coming back with your oh yeah, this is not a £40 tent. I I was gonna say, yeah, like this is a brand new, not a used £40 tent. Yeah, this is a big one. Yeah. So, I mean our tent, we've still got the other one, like I say, but uh I've kind of promised Chris that one for like when he comes again. I'll just be like, look, just use that tent. You can have it for like 50 quid. Oh yeah. So because it's it's there's like I say, there's literally nothing wrong with the tent, it's just too small for us. Well, if you want to sell it, my mate Matt needs a new tent. Does he? Yeah. Fair. Yeah, I mean he can't. Because his tent's like 15, 20 years old, and all the all the plastic pi it's like it's like uh it's like these plastic things in the corners, and you put your you bend your poles and stick them into the plastic. And because the plastic things are that old, they've gone really brittle. So it's not holding very well. Yeah, if he wants it, just message him and say Nail said he can we can have his old tent. Yeah. Nothing wrong with it. We've only done two downloads in it, so it's still got another three or four in it if you look after it. So um other than if he doesn't have it, then he'll probably go for the uh Ronadel 400, is it? No, no, the Sandero 4. Uh Sandero, yeah, the classic one that everyone has a download. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, the seat of green. We we're gonna need uh planning permission. How many tents we're taking. I think well, to be fair, speaking of planning permission, you've got a uh floor plan, haven't you, for your tent? Oh yeah, yeah. We haven't, we're just gonna just wing it, I think. Yeah. Just see how we feel on a day with where things go. We've got a rough idea of what we want anyway, so it's just putting it where it'll fit and kind of going from there, really. Yeah. Did you I presuming you didn't put your tent up this morning? No, we no we didn't because we we we wanted to, but I come back from a driving lesson. Um immediately got back in bed because I was napping still, and then we went for lunch, so we went on a bit of an impromptu date. Um spent about 70 quid in the pub on food, nice, had three courses and then a shitload of drinks, and then came back home. I fell asleep for about an hour, and then you you messaged saying that you were here, and that was it. Yeah. So that's been today. It's been a bit of a chilled one to be honest. So uh and then we started recording this bad boy, so that's kind of are we still gonna do that pre-download camping session? Yes, we are. That'll be something to look forward to. Yeah, we might vlog that as well, actually. That'll be a good one too. Uh oh yeah. To vlog. I'm actually thinking you're your little notepad that you've got. Yeah. You might want to pop these down so we've got like an actual reference for us. So I've I've got some notes I want to bring up um later on, some tips and tricks. Is that for like a camping special or um it could be. It could be part of um a checklist, it could be part of uh if you're going with a group of people, like we are, um and it's a cheaper way of doing things. So as a hint, have you seen these devices like compasses so you can find your friend? No. It's like a necklace and it's a circle, and every all your mates have one, and it like points. It's just like an air tag, basically. Yeah, yeah. That's cool. But they're 200 quid each. Fuck, that's not cool. Yeah, everyone's got like the round colour triangle and it points to them like a compass. Mine would be orange, it'd have to be orange being me. Yeah. So uh my note is air tags. Because they're on offer. And they're a lot cheaper, and they should work in the field. Yeah, they'll be fine. I mean, as long as we've got some level of signal, we'll be able to find each other. Yeah, because they work on GPS and tally Talia would be the sickiest pink you've ever seen. No, Talia has to be pink if it's Talia. Oh, mine's gonna even be invisible. Like you are the air tags, yeah. Um but yeah, I mean, in terms of um getting ready for the festival, I think it'll just be a case of getting all the niceties and all that stuff, and then just kind of chucking it together on the day, really. But uh I've already had um a test of my trolley with my tent on. Uh I don't know where anything else is gonna go on the trolley. Um, it's pure tent. From edge to handle. Fucking hell no. There is no room. There is a little basket underneath, um, but don't know. Um I've got my um I fent out my old uh camping rucksack thing, like the hiking bag, for the big tall, long things, which I had back in the scout days and use once in 20 years. Wow, so I mean it still looks good. So um I'll probably use that. Um maybe use that to hide some things as well. Fair enough. No one wants to empty that thing. No, no, so that should be good. No, I mean to be fair, I'm like I say, I think it's gonna be a hot one this year, like looking at how the weather's going. Sunscreen. It's very much in the same vein as 2023 was. The only difference is we haven't actually had any snow yet. Yeah, I don't think we are gonna get snow this year. No. Until later later on in the year. Yeah, probably. But uh yeah, I I am convinced this year will be a hot download. I don't think it's gonna be another rainy one like we had last year. Yeah. I hope not, anyway. So touch wood, yeah. Touch wood. Um yeah, I mean uh is there any other main points you wanna discuss before we uh close? Uh check out the clash finder. Yes. Uh what I like to do is take a screenshot on your phone, heart circle the ones that you want to go and see, and if you find any that are clashing, good luck. Yeah, pick the one that means more to you than the the rest or one that you haven't seen, not the one you have seen. And if you can't decide, think about what you're gonna see next, and do you want to walk all the way across the field to that other stage? Yeah, exactly that. I mean, if you're if you're at Avalanche and your next band you want to see is over on the fucking dog tooth, that is a hell of a walk to do to get there. You're gonna have to leave probably halfway through every set to get back. Oh, yeah. Um good luck getting anywhere inside the tent. Yeah, that too, especially if it's a bigger band. You need to get there a band before. That's a point as well, before we go. Who do you think the secret set is gonna be this year besides that weird one that Connor was on about? Um that president ban that Connor was on about. Yes. Besides them, who do you think the secret set is gonna be? Are they gonna have a secret set for president? Because they're already on class five. No, well, it's a secret ban because it's brand new, but I think secret set wise, kind of like it with Parkway last year. Who do you think it will be this time? Um I'm hoping for uh Electric Cowboy. They won't be able to. Maybe. So unfortunately, mate, they won't be at the festival. Really? Um sorry to burst that bubble immediately, but yeah. Okay. Um it's not gonna be it's not gonna be like Linger Park or or um fucking what you call them. Didn't didn't um Trivium say they're gonna be a download? Yeah, they're not on the poster. Not yet, I reckon they'll probably come in the last announcement. There could be a secret set. There could be. Oh my god, can you imagine that? Yeah. I'd have to go see that. I love Trivium. I love Trivium, that would mean that I've seen Trivium on par as the same amount that I've seen Metallica. Yep. Which sounds about right to me in my head. I'm like, yeah, that makes sense to have seen them that many times. Um who um who could it be? Uh if it was Megadeth, I think I'd shit myself. If they were like, oh yeah, Megadaves, they'd be like, oh what? We're like, no. We're like, that's twice some seeing him. Fuck, okay. I was like, go, go, go, go, go, run. You know, bring me. I right. They're at Reading. They are, but that's gonna be a bit of a big one. That's a very big band to have as a secret set. I mean, I know they did it with Metallica, but it's back back a day. Yeah, but who knows? That's true. I reckon it might be your mate, Bill Murray. Hopefully. That'd be cool. Because he's uh at Reading as well. Yeah, or it could be Anti Shakari or someone like that. They were here last year, though, on the that's true, so were Parkway when they did the secret set, so yeah. Um so who knows? We'll find out, we will do some digging. We will. I mean, to be fair, like now with the new now we've had this break from the podcast, we're looking at the episode lengths, and we think that now we're gonna start keeping them between 45 to an hour long each because one it gives us more time to kind of split them up a bit more. Yeah, yeah, like gives us more time to like talk about other bits and bobs and shit and shit, and then kind of gives you guys more episodes rather than longer ones and then longer gaps, because it's like we can churn them out quicker than yeah, if we can keep each episode to a certain topic as well, that'll probably be better for you guys. Yeah, because then you can go, I don't really want to wear them chat shit about that. Whereas this is just sort of a general how's your 2025 been so far? Um but yeah, I mean uh we still need to do that who the hell are we episode as well, because people still don't know anything about us. Oh my god. Well, I'm a so good, I am I'm I'm so full of good ideas. Go on. What if at the start of every episode we give an itinerary of what we can talk about, and then you play a tone that gives a spike in the audio file, so then people can look for that spike and click on it to get to that next um section of the the the chat. My god. That's good, but that's a lot of work for me to do. My god, you s you gotta go beep, like put that. What's this like a new broadcast? Honk. There you go, there's a smile. Jesus Christ, I'm gonna have to edit like crap out of that. Look at the size of it, you just red line thing. That's what she said. Jesus Christ. Okay. Yeah, now we now you know where that section is. Oh my god. Right. Well, that's just giving me a bit of work to do on that one. I will. Oh. It'll be fine. It'll be fine. But yeah. I think the next episode we should probably talk about music in general. Like who we've been listening to, stuff like that. Yeah. I think that should be the next the next one. Because there's one band that I've been listening to almost to the point of obsessiveness recently. Venga Boys. No, not Venga Boys, although I am very excited for that. And they are playing download, but I won't say any more about who it is. Electric Six. Until uh Secret Send. Can you imagine? Um but yeah, like I I've I've literally done a massive deep dive on this one band, and fuck me. It's tall secret set. Ooh, tall. Oh mate. I I think I would. I think you'd need to bring a glass and just scoop me up into it and carry me back to the tent site so I can regrow by the next morning if tall played. Uh if Creed is somehow listening to this. Please play. Please play download. Yeah. If you can't get into a stage, my tent is open. Yeah. It's large enough for about 50 people. Yeah. My tent is open! Fucking hell. Yeah, no, god fucking creed. If they played download this year, that would be the perfect download. You know the broken charts again. Have they? That song just it's just come back. Cause it has its fucking creed. There's nothing wrong with Creed. Oh, it's beautiful. That's the one thing I never understood, right? People put Creed and Nickelback. In the same camp of like bands that people love to hate. Why Creed though? I get it that it's a whole Christian thing. But it's fucking Creed, they're brilliant. Nickelback, I get it. Have I told you about the tattoo that I want? No. I want um I didn't know you wanted any tattoos. So I don't have any tattoos currently, but the tattoo I do want is that song from Creed. Hold Me Now. Yeah. But it's gonna be the first letter of every word of that chorus. It's going down my leg. That's cool. That's what I want. You could put that in a cipher as well. So it's like like a symbol cipher. Maybe. Because then only you'll know what it is. It's a cipher code. Yeah, good day. Because then it's a bit more unique rather than just the letters. I was I'm happy the letters. Fair enough. But we'll see, we'll see. Fair enough. Who knows? I I I would make it a bit more edgy myself, but that's just me being a prick. Because I like people to have to think about what it is and go, what does that mean? And I'm like, well. So because that raven on my arm actually does mean something, especially when I get the second one as well, then it'll mean what it's supposed to mean. Um but anyway, I digress. So is there anything else you want to talk about in this episode before we wrap up or are you? Um is there anything we've missed? Talk about tents. Talk about gigs we did. Gigs. You've caught up with what we've been doing for the last five months. Five months, which is not a lot, yeah, to be honest, which is either a reflection on us or just life at the moment, because it seems like everybody's having like a fucking rough, rough, busy year so far. Oh yeah. Oh yeah, it's been a rough one. Yeah. Lisa's sun's coming out, it's been a bit warmer, which makes things a little bit more lively. It does, it does indeed. Um I don't know. I think I think that's it from me, really, for this episode. Yep, and that's it for me. Alright, well, it's been a pleasure again, guys. Thanks for listening and bearing with us over those quiet five months. So it's a goodbye from me. Adios. Yeah, catch you the next one.