BARSTOOL PREACHING with JOEI SUPERNOVA

Episode 2 is with North London Dj and Musician Joei Supernova.

A Camden aceface with a amazing record collection and who is also frontman and songwriter of BLESS. Joei tells us tales of growing up in Holloway, picks his jukebox classics, tackles the Marquiz and gives us his Preachers Perfect Pint!

Hosted by Tommy McGuinness

Guest Starring Joei Supernova

Shot & Edited by Ciaran K. Walker

Sound Recorded & Mixed by Jamie Whitters

Logo & Graphics by Laura Whitters 

Guinness poured by Robin McCormick

In Memory of Andy Palferyman

See you at the bar for a jar!

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:34

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Bastall Preaching. This is episode two, and um thanks for all the feedback on the first one. Loved it. Um it was the pilot, so there's a few bumps in the road, but we were really happy with how it came out, so thanks for your support and all the lovely words. And thank you for all the ones that said the other bits and all. And uh, but yeah, we've got uh another great friend of mine on a day, um, Joey Sylvester, otherwise known as Joey Supernova. Oi! Oi! So um all good, brother. Are you well? Yeah, good. We should clean these glasses now before they uh let's have a little go on these, yeah. I've got the shakes, man. There's a couple of beers in last night. Love your job. Yeah, so um, Joey, yeah, those that don't know you, can you let us know a little bit about yourself? Not too far off. Yeah. I still like you.

SPEAKER_01 1:20

Yes, uh, I'm a DJ, I play regularly at the uh Marquis and other various venues around uh London and the country at large. I do um the Thursday night at Glastonbury on Somerville stage every year. Uh we first met through the bands I played with in the past, the Supernovas. Yeah, man. And uh and now currently in Bless, which was sort of Supernovas Mark II to begin with. Yeah. So yeah, just general um London bar fly of the last 40 plus 38 years.

SPEAKER_00 1:53

I was trying to put my finger on it, actually, when we did first, it would have been like through Dave. It would have been when uh Dave started playing in Revolve. That's it, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then like Nambuka days and stuff. Yeah, yeah. Because I think didn't we play what would that have been your 21st birthday party? Yeah, was it your age? What was that?

SPEAKER_01 2:11

Um I did have my 21st birthday.

SPEAKER_00 2:13

So yeah, we had everyone got on stage and yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, cool, mate. I was trying to um trying to gauge when that was, like say what like like late 2000 2007, 2008.

SPEAKER_01 2:23

Um it would have been I would have been 21 in 2008.

SPEAKER_00 2:26

Yeah, there you are. So there we go. Um nice one, so yeah, we've had a little um chink, so with beauty in the eye of the beer holder. What you're drinking the day for those who are not.

SPEAKER_01 2:36

I'm having a Guinness for a change, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:38

You do like a Guinness.

SPEAKER_01 2:39

I do actually, uh I'm quite a fan of a stout, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:41

Yeah. Nice one. I had a few last night, and you can probably those watching can probably see the shakes. Sit back here and not good, so hopefully this will sort that one out. Yeah, I've been better for myself lately. We went to see the scratch last night, me and Dave actually, yeah, they're great, aren't they? Yeah, really good. Um, over the ballroom. They played here not too long ago, like a little mini set blue, blue. I was talking about it earlier, it's like cross between sort of like trad and metal.

SPEAKER_01 3:04

Yeah, which would you the the great thing I uh thing I really like about them is like I'm not like a metal fan, do you know what I mean? But there's something about uh the way that they do it with that sort of uh Celtic kind of like trad, sort of almost like a tribal uh flick on it, and we were saying like the difference, like whereas like a metal chug is like really straight and it's like dun dun dun dun dun, they've almost it almost sounds like you're chugging on the border, it's like and then they've got all those like Celtic harmonies and stuff, it gets the fucking hairs out there. It's like you're marching into war, like watching it.

SPEAKER_00 3:35

Yeah, it's so good, man. I'm yeah, all over them. Yeah, great.

SPEAKER_01 3:38

No, I'm a fan.

SPEAKER_00 3:39

What I'm gonna do, Joe, is give you a quid. I didn't get this back from Dino last time, I'd probably won't get this back from yourself. This is uh to put in the drood box.

SPEAKER_01 3:45

Lovely.

SPEAKER_00 3:46

And um, so we're gonna go for three songs, we'll stagger it out during the interview, but um three songs that you'd put on in a pub when you're in there.

SPEAKER_01 3:53

Yeah, okay, so I've had a think about this, and what I'm gonna do is sort of group them. So when I was uh growing up in well I'd say growing up in the Crown is like my local pub in Holloway, yeah, well one of my uh favourite sort of memories of like the jukebox was they had like an old CD one, you know?

SPEAKER_03 4:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:13

And one of the uh albums that was on the uh was on the box was uh B and L, which is obviously uh Oasis's most fucking Friday night charged up record. Yeah. But it was wicked for playing pool to. Do you know what I mean? Because you know when you're flying around the pool table and you got that sort of like the Freddie Mercury uh vibe, but like that's just a great, great record. Because every album, every every song on it is is in that sort of mode. So I used to like you know, it's like girl in a dirty shirt, hope I think I know all those tracks would just fly, but my big mouth is the first track. Yeah, that's not my sound when you're gonna be able to get a few years. Yeah, you have a that's like the uh yeah, so that's that's track one. Track one, nice man. Oasis My Big Mouth.

SPEAKER_00 4:53

I did I'm not sure Didn't they put an Oasis track in it? Didn't it last week? So that's the first one. For a pub, man, you can't like you can't not like Nah absolutely mate. Um brilliant. Right, so um kind of a bit of a generic question, but it's an open one. Um so what's your like what's your first memory of a pub?

SPEAKER_01 5:11

So my first memory of a pub, but basically every Sunday I used to see my dad, and it was always in the pub. My old man was a fucking good old-fashioned alcoholic, do you know what I mean? Just like I don't fucking I don't build him like that anymore. Do you know what I mean? Just fucking yeah. So my mum my mum would drop me off to him at about 12 o'clock in the pub every Sunday and come and pick me up at six. Was it Holloway? Was it all? It was uh it was at the Eaglet in uh in Holloway, yeah. It was called Swan and Lamb in them days. Nice. So yeah, like my entire childhood and my whole relationship with my dad for those years was being taught to play ball in the pub. Yeah. So like to the point that I remember uh you know, like when your kids go to school and at the end of the year they've got like their little exercise book or whatever, and it's like the you know, the show pieces like so the first sentence, they'd obviously gone on a Monday. We used to do the news. What did you do at the weekend? And every week, and you have to draw a picture and write a sentence, and every week on the Monday, I would draw a small stick man, a big stick man, a house, and put I went to the public. Beautiful, yeah, yeah, yeah. Ah no, I smell so yeah, that's my earliest memory, is that actually seeing that fucking that thing from the actual uh you know from my what my school for Hebrew section. That's lovely. Do you remember your first point? I don't know if this is weird. I've asked people about this since we you're from Irish stock as well, uh assumed Catholic. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:42

Did you get bought a pint at your first Holy Communion? Uh don't think so. I remember having one at a first drank, I think, beer at a funeral. Right. I wouldn't have been very old at all. Yeah, yeah. Whether I was given it or I just did it, I don't know. But um, yeah, no, not first, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 7:00

I mean I'd have to ask my folks, but I feel like this was a like a tradition thing. Yeah. That like you make your first holy communion at seven. Yeah. And then put it in young.

SPEAKER_00 7:12

And then they give you a pint after you bigger than me on the phone. And it was a big one.

SPEAKER_01 7:16

And you know, there was a certain amount of like bravado about it. Do you know what I mean? Because it was a pint of shandy and you basically tasted it and went, ugh, and then someone else drank it.

SPEAKER_00 7:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:25

But I distinctly remember being bought a pint at seven years old. I think that would take some beating that. I know yeah, it should be you should have a thing like a pocket.

SPEAKER_00 7:33

But it's like how early. We'll do that when you first. It's like, can you be joking when over seven years in bucket 42 days? Do you know what I mean? That is gonna take some beating up.

SPEAKER_01 7:44

But yeah, and I've spoken to people about this since no one seems to share this memory, but it was definitely like I remember it specifically being things, oh, you have to have a maybe it was a half and it looked like a pint, do you know what I mean? And it was big. But there's something there. Definitely for I don't know, because I remember my mum's boyfriend's mate drunk it for me. Oh right, yeah. So and I was seven, so I fucking yeah, it was exactly so yeah, that's not fair.

SPEAKER_00 8:05

Yeah, so I do quite specifically remember my first pint once. That's great, man, yeah. Um yeah, we'll go song number two, mate.

SPEAKER_01 8:13

Right, little hack. This is going back, I mean it's still the same principle anyway, even with like uh like digital jukeboxes. But another way of approaching the jukebox is to be like really tight and try and get as much music out of your quid as possible. So there was if I remember my mum telling me about a geezer that they used to drink with, like, whenever he got like it was his turn up the jukebox, he'd put on like Dark Side of the Moon by fucking pink point because there's only like six tracks on it, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or whatever, but they're all like 15 minutes long. So for his pound, he'd get like 40 minutes, whereas everyone else was getting 10 minutes, yeah. I mean so in that uh spirit, I'm gonna go for Marky Moon by television.

SPEAKER_00 8:58

Oh, what a track, man. Because it's 10 minutes long, yeah. And it's the same thing for 10 minutes, don't it? Pretty much.

unknown 9:04

Did it?

SPEAKER_00 9:05

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Really long, drawn out story. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a yeah, that's a great track, man. Yeah. We've got we picked up the 45 just recently, didn't we? We've got it that displayed most days. Yeah. It's a belter man. Yeah. That old record's good. I remember when I used to the Al Verde records in um it's now Primark on Oxford Street. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:24

We knew a we I actually used to know a girl that worked there, and they remember they had the massive guitar store downstairs. Yeah, downstairs, yeah, yeah. He got us a discount, and uh Panash had like smashed his bass in half, just like uh fucking just for a shit buttons. Uh yeah, just literally just like we was doing a bad gig, so he just got a big. Oh what? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And uh and then he was like, Oh shit, I broke my guitar. So then and we spoke to this girl and she got he he got like an Epiphone Thunderbird for like 200 quid or something because you've got a like still off discard.

SPEAKER_00 9:53

Yeah, I I used to work in there and I like they had like a radio station in there, and I managed to blag this job where I instead of like following the CDs away, I ended up sitting in this room playing records all the time. But then sometimes you need to go to the bathroom, then so like that's when you'd be working like your marquee moons and all that. So you've got ten minutes, you know you're half all right, yeah. Um that when that closed down that guitar place downstairs, they kind of they took everything that was valuable, but then they left everything, so like guitar strings and stuff, that was all there. So we're gonna be able to get a few.

SPEAKER_01 10:28

I've got a great story about that room actually. I once went to see uh Jet, right? We're doing they did we're doing an in-store. Yeah. Oh, was this at the HMB? It's the same principle, right? So anyway, we went to this in-store and uh they were doing a gig for uh like competition winners that night at Eastern Academy, and you had to have won like a phone-in on uh on XFM, yeah. And we had it. And uh so we were we've gone and watched like them do like six songs at this like acoustic in-store or whatever, and we sort of bad like fucking hell. You know, you're like, we've got to get this gig to my proper, like it was in that that age where you're like you have to be everything. And just this you couldn't make this up, just as like sent from God, we're just like standing around waiting for something to turn up, and then two rows down in the uh like flicking through the hours is fucking Zane Lowe, who was the DJ on XFM at the time before he went off and done all like became like you know the biggest DJ in the world. We're like fucking Zane Lowe and he heard us say it, and he's like, Alright boys, what you say? Like, we really want to go to that gig tonight of thingy, and he's like, What's your name? And he literally just took his phone out and got us bang on the guest list for it, and he's like, Have a great night. So we were like Zane Lowe, hero. Yeah, man, that's good to hear about. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, just completely turned up out of nowhere. It's funny that, innit? You know, he's like, Yeah. Do you want something enough? Manifested. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Literally was that, yeah, yeah. Hang around and something will turn up.

SPEAKER_00 11:50

Yeah, that's great, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 11:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:52

Um, yeah, what's your stand-out memory of a of a pub?

SPEAKER_01 11:56

Uh standout memories, so I've been thinking about this like since you sort of gave me an idea of what the questions were gonna be. Yeah. And there was sp so many, because obviously, like I spent from the age of like five to twelve drink like you know, playing pool in that pub the Eaglet on Hollow on Holloway in Holloway with my old man. And then I spent the ages of 12 to 18 playing Paul in the Crown every Sunday with my mates. And then I spent the ages of 18 to about 25 or 20, or however long now Buchar was good for until it burnt down. Just like in the pub every night at Buchan watching millions of bands and all of that. And then um and then and then and then going back to uh the crowd, and then and then like working in like the Crown on Holloway Road and stuff like that. So there's so many, but I think one standout memory is from DJing, and uh fucking brilliant. Do you know the track Give Me Love by Sorrone? It's got this chorus, right, and it's it's the sort of like a disco track, and the chorus is like, Give me love, give me your extra girl, right? It's a banger.

SPEAKER_03 13:09

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:10

And um this one night I was DJing in the Abbey Tavern in Kent's Town, and I'm playing this track, and this massive fucking like barroom brawl kicks off. It's like glasses flying everywhere, tables going everywhere, right? And when the pub, when you're DJing, you've got like a certain position of responsibility, right? So it's like the pub's packed and there's this massive raw kicking off. So you're now faced with the question do you cut the music and make a scene and alert everybody into the venue to the fact that there's a fight happening, or you just let it flow and let the bouncers do their job? So I decided to offer the ladder, right? So there's all this chaos going over to the right of me, right? And um all these geezers, and it's like a huge pylon, like there's like lads on top of lads, like fists and fucking shit flying everywhere, right? And this geyser wriggles out from like the bottom of the uh of the pylon, jumps up onto a chair, and starts singing the chorus of his track to the geezers he's fighting, right? And I swear I shoot you not, it's really happened, right? And he was like, the music's still blaring, and the bouncers are trying to get across, and he just gets up on like it's like a sofa, and he's going like, give me love, give me all that you got, singing in these guys' faces. There's no way you would have known that song as well, because it's quite a niche track. Yeah. And I was like, this is like something kind of a Guy Ritchie film. Yeah, yeah. Do you know what I mean? It's like if you wrote that and put it in a film. That'd be a good scene in a film, but it wouldn't be that unrealistic. Yeah, well, yeah. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, that wouldn't really happen. But if it did, yeah, yeah, and I just like did it out for I guess it did. So I mean, no one got no one no one died. Do you know what I mean? A few glasses got broken, you know, the batteries came and broke it up, and it was just I just thought this this kid right now is one of the coolest people I've ever seen in my entire life. Yeah, he probably took two or three shots like in the build-up to it, and he's still out there dancing, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 15:09

Yeah, yeah, yeah, ready to go again, yeah. It's quite a good hour, like a song can change an atmosphere in the room. Do you remember that Stone Roses geek when they did the Reform Music Manchester? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:18

Yeah, I was off my phone.

SPEAKER_00 15:19

I remember that now. It was.

SPEAKER_01 15:21

I came up just as uh uh you know, just as um Stone Love came on at the beginning. Say that, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:29

Um how like that was a perfect choice. And then at the end, I can't remember what waders trying they played at the end. They played like It was Redemption Song. Redemption song. So the fireworks. Yeah, and like just you had a field full of a lot of blokes of the same age with a lot of stuff in them. Yeah, and like it could have gone one way or the other. Completely that song for me is. And they didn't play an encore. No, that's right.

SPEAKER_01 15:50

And everyone was waiting for the encore, and then that just started playing, and it was like it felt right, didn't it as well? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:56

Yeah, I'm just brought it all right down, yeah, yeah. Kind of what a song could do to a rookie.

SPEAKER_01 16:01

There was something special about that day as well, because I remember we all did you get like the picker bus up in the morning, we all travelled up together. And I remember like from going to Oasis Gigs, you're like, oh fucking, this is gonna be a bit hairy, like, do you know what I mean? You're going up to like you're going up to Manchester, it's gonna be like a home game for them. We're like all these like away fans coming up from London or like off the bus. Yeah. And I remember we got off the bus and it was like everyone was in like Stone Island jackets and fucking it. And added that, it's just like casuals everywhere, and you're thinking, fucking, it's gonna be hairy. And within like five minutes of just walking through Manchester, you could feel like the vibe was completely different. It's like an Oasis gig where everyone wants to kick each other's heads in.

SPEAKER_00 16:40

It's so euphoric, wasn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:41

It was just you could tell that like the love in the in the city was like because it was Stone Roses, it was a totally different vibe. Yeah, so it's a good gig that, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:49

Oh man. Right, where we are, so um okay, pub quiz questions. So again, I put that out this morning.

SPEAKER_01 16:58

Yeah, I'm shit.

SPEAKER_00 16:59

There's three of them, you you more than welcome to be shit, mate, completely. Um we can throw it out there as well to anyone else. So this is the first question. This is from Paul Hancock. Um he's a good fellow, he's in maze. Really good lads. Um yeah, I know. Yeah, yeah, Paul, yeah, real good fun. Um what food item did Ringo star bring in India in abundance because he was worried about the food over there.

SPEAKER_01 17:23

I want to say like English tea or something, but not fucking India probably makes fucking tea, I don't know. We probably nicked it from like Nick nick it from over there. Yeah, yeah. Do you know what I mean? Like, yeah, yeah, yeah. English tea's probably fucking India tea, isn't it? Do you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 17:37

Like, anybody got an idea what that might have been? Anyone at all? Any guesses? Kieran Jamie are back here again, by the way, everyone. Love them. On camera too. Yeah, yeah, Kieran's on camera too, you've got a bit more camera. Robin's over there, he's brought the Guinness over. Um, a little shout-out, actually, to so this is Laura's design, and Lulu's not big boards. Are they good? Wicked. Um yeah, so anybody here for a quick pub quiz question? Alright, Chris, is it mate? Hello, mate. So, um what food item did Ringo Starr bring to India in abundance because he's worried about the food out there. Any ideas? Chips, not chips. It's got to be served with chips, though.

SPEAKER_01 18:25

It's gotta be something that's not perishable, so it can't be meat or anything like that, can it?

SPEAKER_00 18:29

Peas? Similar gig a different colour?

SPEAKER_01 18:33

Sweet corn?

SPEAKER_00 18:34

No, you have a colour! Beans? Yeah, mate, there, that's what he's done. Not that you can eat, I mean, if you can have food that makes you fart, you're in India or in you, do you know what I mean? But um, alright.

SPEAKER_01 18:47

So find it fascinating that like baked beans are like that you think of it as the most English thing in the world, but it's from a German company that's actually owned in America. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:59

Yeah, yeah, it's a German name you're gonna get anywhere. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's like, uh you can't fucking get them anywhere else. You know what I mean? Um so this is a bit of local history for you. Um which iconic Islington born singer once said, I'm not here for your amusement, you're here for mine.

SPEAKER_01 19:16

Islington born singer? Yeah, Ray Davis was born in Haringay, I assume.

SPEAKER_03 19:22

What was David?

SPEAKER_01 19:24

Johnny Rotten. Johnny Rotten, mate, you've got him. I used to live on the same street that he did back in the day, Benwell Road. You've met him? No. I wouldn't want to meet your heroes to be like, yeah, you can imagine. Yeah. He's so he's I've he's shown me enough to suggest that he's not gonna be my fucking hero anymore. Do you know what I mean? Like I don't wanna like I wouldn't want to be Morrissey. No. Let's just park the great art where it is and leave fucking everything else over there where I can ignore it, do you know what I mean? By like doing a strap, do you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 19:54

I think you'd be a prick. Um the third question, this is from our mate Dave McSherry. He said, when are we rehearsing next? Maybe Saturday week. Maybe Saturday week.

SPEAKER_01 20:06

Maybe Saturday week, Dave. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can't do tomorrow. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:10

You'd you're going over, so you should record in France, though, right? We're doing writing in France.

SPEAKER_01 20:14

Writing and playing it all, is that it's not a good thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's wicked, so it's like um it's in a place called Anglet, which is in like the best country of France, the It's Bayer is, and it's fucking beautiful, it's like south of France, we're going in June, it's absolutely gorgeous, and this wicked gig. So what they do is they give you like a residency in this, they've basically got like uh like a rehearsal space, but it's like John Henry's level quality rehearsal space, and it's like it's kind of like a showcase room at John Henry's, so it's like it holds like 200 capacity, and you're just on the stage, but you've got the you've got a lock in, you've got a key for the room, so you can fucking it yourself. You can you can just play round round round the clock for like four days, and then on the Thursday night you do an actual gig to like and everyone from the town comes in and watches you, so it just sells out every time. But yeah, they put you up in a gaffe, so we've got yeah, we've got like a four-day writing trip.

SPEAKER_00 21:05

I might try and get myself out there 40 gigs actually. I speak with Dave better last night, and that yeah, that's it. Yeah, at the moment we've got two.

SPEAKER_01 21:10

At the moment we're we're playing on the Thursday and the Saturday. Yeah. Uh but there might be there might be like something in between as well. But yeah, that'll be sick. And it's right by the beach, and it's during the World Cup. Finally, mate, yeah, that's what it's all about.

SPEAKER_00 21:21

You um for the like the listeners or the viewers, um your lineup in Bless. Um so you seem like you've got Moses still on the drums. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you've also got someone we know we've got Booze, also DJ's in here. Um I'm sure Boo will come on and do this one day, so it's a great character. Yeah, a big time. Yeah, man. Um it's kind of like a super group, isn't it really? It's the beast, it's all my mates.

SPEAKER_01 21:42

Yeah, yeah, but Bless is kind of like turning into the four, do you know what I mean? It's like that many fucking members, do you know? It's like, yeah, if it's if it's me and Moses and your nan on fucking base, then it's blessed, basically. Do you know what I mean? Uh Sam Gibbs.

SPEAKER_00 21:57

Uh yes, I can take guitar basically quickly. Yeah, yeah. Do you want ever guineas? Well always, yeah. Can you get two more guineas, please? Yes, please! Robert, cut the guineas, please, mate. Um, so song number three, mate.

SPEAKER_01 22:11

Yeah, okay, so song number three, uh it's a thing long and hard about this one. But um it's it's pub related, and um when I was doing a few shifts in the crown in Holloway, a friend of mine, his marriage was breaking down, and uh it was like he fucking was like enemy number one, like everything was going wrong in his life. But you know what we do in the pub, we keep a fucking smile on our face. Well, you know yourself, like when you're a pub when you're a barman as well, like you're kind of a therapist, isn't it? Yeah. People that would never get therapy. Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? Like, yeah what I mean. So, like, what I used to do, he used to come in every lunch break like time, like from work and have like fucking you know, a few pints and then drive back to work as as they all as they all do or whatever. Five and twelve. But what yeah, but uh what I used to do is every time he was coming in, I'd run around to the jukebox, stick a quid in and put on move on up by Curtis Mayfield. It's gonna be the right start, we got this, come on, we're gonna go. So move on up, Curtis Mayfield. Yeah, what a tune, man. And I'm gonna give you your quid back because I'm right. Yeah, we'll shut the box for you later. Catholic guilt bag. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, I wouldn't have been able to sleep now. Um Do you still get the cran? As not as much as I'd like to. The thing is, because um because I'm always working now, isn't it? Because the DJ Because I'm fucking so hotly sought after. But because I DJ Wednesday to Saturday every week now, that's kind of the fucking like I'm in pubs Wednesday, Thursday, Friday every week, and then I've got Louie Sunday, Monday, and Thursday. So the only night I have to go out is Tuesday, and um, you know, and Alex is great, and she comes to the crowd. Well when you got one night a week when you can do something cool and have you know, like, do you want to come and get beers up with all my old babies? We dad did it for you. Yeah, true. Yeah, but crucially you didn't have a burden getting right.

SPEAKER_00 24:14

Yeah. So I don't get to do it as often as I'd like to, but when I do, I thought, yeah, I like it. I've been there for years. In fact, the last time I was in there, you were working there, I think, so that's that's another thing since I've been. That's 15 years ago. Yeah. Well, if you could um like your Holloway born and bread, eh? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. If you could do a four pub pub crawl down Holloway Road, what would be your four? And you can let let's go with like, because I know like the red cap's not there no more. Yeah, hopefully it's opening again, I believe. But um but like you let's count ones you've known in the world. Okay, ones that yeah have been. Right. Just because I think there's a lot of it. Here we go. Here's what it's like. Just on time as well.

SPEAKER_01 24:52

I've got to say as well, the the the the the Guinness in the Crown. Because I learned to drink it there, it used to come up so good that even when I didn't like Guinness, I wanted a Guinness in the Crown. That's what got me on it. And I'd like I'd been pouring it all day and it's fucking beautiful, and I'd be like, just can I try a half? And I'd be like, nope, don't like it yet.

SPEAKER_00 25:10

Alright. And that's how I got into it. Yeah, well right. This is quite it's predominantly Irish down there, way Holloway, innit, the pubs and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, completely, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:17

Yeah, okay, so we're talking pubs in their heyday then.

SPEAKER_00 25:20

Yeah, cheers, mate. Oh yeah, always. No, cheers. The shakes are settling.

SPEAKER_02 25:25

Um thanks on that.

SPEAKER_01 25:30

You do that split in the G stuff are you? Not intentionally. I think it's bollocks. But what I've realised, I had to eat my words on it a little bit, because a good pint of Guinness shouldn't last more than four sips anyway, because you don't want it to go flat in glass. And actually, that split in the G shape is actually the perfect sip on a pint, on a on a yeah, and annoyingly, yeah. They flute that. Yeah, there's no way that the people that come up with a split in the G crap like would be the wear of that. Yeah, yeah. So I was like, fuck off if you're splitting the G fit. And then I was like, because Guinness is great in here, it's really good in the elephant's head as well. Yeah, yeah, I had a point every week, so it was good, yeah. Like, do you know what I mean? And it's it and it's like a good a good point again, three, four licks at the most. Yeah. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 26:14

Yeah, and um shame the body, so to speak, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 26:17

Yeah, but like button. But that first I've I've I've noticed actually that if you get that first sit perfect, it does land in the G, so you know what I mean. Yeah, I'm uh I had sort of I had to sort of back down on slagging everyone else's. There's an argument for it. And now I found myself checking if I got it. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 26:37

I've become what I hate, you know.

SPEAKER_01 26:39

What was the question?

SPEAKER_00 26:40

Four pubs in all the way, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:41

Yeah, okay, so obviously the crown. Um Nambuka circa fucking like 2000, from 2004 to 2009, it was the greatest place on earth, right? And I genuinely, my mum's gaff is two roads away from Nambuka, and the amount of times I slept on the sofa in Nambuka when I could have walked home. Well, you and it would have taken me three minutes to go home, and the amount of times we just bombed out. That's how I knew you now.

SPEAKER_00 27:07

Like say Joey you'd be like Nambuka. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:10

That was like, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:11

So the people came through there, didn't they? Like bands and stuff, like the Holloways and everything.

SPEAKER_01 27:15

Yeah, yeah, just fucking, just it was just the centre of the universe, man. Like, you know, and even like you know, say like the Hollywood, like you know, the ones it's like well known for are like the bands that really reference it, like say like Holloway's Frank Turner. Yeah, I mean Frank Turner was a was a metal artist before, and then they had a band like Million Dead, like a hardcore band. And then he just suddenly turned up at Nambuka. His cousin was I think his cousin was a girl called Anastasia who used to hang out there, and uh and he just like reinvented himself as a folk singer. Yeah. So like but Moses is a big fucking metal head, he was into it. Yeah, he's like, that's fucking Man Out of a Million Dead. And then there was like just because obviously metal fans are so supportive of the scene, he's obviously gone, listen guys, on his MySpace at the time, probably. Yeah, I'm gonna try something out, it's not gonna be what you're used to, but if you want to come and watch. So there was like 200 goths like standing in the queue for Bucha, like standing in black, yeah, all coming and watch like him playing acoustic something. Haven't got I wasn't given the brief, I was like, What's going on here? There's goths in Nambuka, which is unheard of. There's a queue outside, which there isn't on a Tuesday night, uh, despite what the fucking papers would tell you. Yeah. Like, there's a geezer off Karak and he's playing folks. What the fuck is going on? But yeah, but he but then he became Frank Turner. So it worked out.

SPEAKER_00 28:43

He's great, you know.

SPEAKER_01 28:44

But yeah, but you know, when you some of the you get the old gig posters and stuff. I remember they done a thing at Bucha one time where um Beans on Toast. Yeah, Jay had borrowed was it six someone's fucking van. I think Jay well maybe it weren't him, he put it on, so it must have been his fucking fault. But some band from Buchar borrowed another band's touring van to go on off to some gig and wrote it off. Ah, and they fucking crashed it on a roundabout or something, there was a big fucking pile, and and and the bat and the gig got so then Jay was like we'll pay for it, we'll get you your van back. So they put on a gig called Van Aid, and Jay just got his little black book out and called every band that he knew. Yeah, and the fucking bands that played that day is insane. It was like, I mean like Florence and the Machine used to play there like a lot anyway. But it was like Florence and Machine, Laura Marlin, Mumford and Sons who ended up headlining Glastonbury. Yeah, like yeah, like the bands that actually went through it is mental. Do you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 29:50

Yeah, that really is like was an institution. Is it um back open?

SPEAKER_01 29:55

It's open, and I didn't think they were doing gigs, but then the other week fucking Bombay Bicycle Club just decided that they were doing a 20-year anniversary. They did a two-night stand.

SPEAKER_03 30:04

Did they?

SPEAKER_00 30:04

Yeah, yeah, and uh yeah, and it was banged out, yeah. Yeah, I bet it was, yeah. Yeah, I really love that pub. Like I say, I always kind of relate that to you and and Dave and that. We fucking virginity lived there.

SPEAKER_01 30:15

Yeah, I mean literally half the band lived there. Like Ash was living upstairs when it burnt out.

SPEAKER_00 30:19

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's horrific, wasn't it? All that that happened. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, be the old man, yeah. So that's pub number, so that's two.

SPEAKER_01 30:27

Yeah, so yeah, so Cram Buca, the ankle, yeah, rough as arsehole, but I love it. Proper Holloway pub. That's my dad's local, isn't it? Oh nice. That's a fucking, that's a fucking naughty little pub. And then uh the fourth one I'd have to go with the Florin across the road from yeah, back onto um pub by the bird Una that runs it is proper, like old school island fan, always puts on a dude. We went to uh this this paddy's day. I'd made plans to go to Crowchend for something, didn't really materialise. I was bit of Alex.

SPEAKER_03 31:03

Sorry, right, yes.

SPEAKER_01 31:06

I was like, let's just go back to Holloway and see what's going on. And we were heading to the crown, yeah. Went past the Florent had his fucking all the doors wide open, band blasting out the tunes, packed wall to wall. It was fucking weird. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She just knows how to throw a party, and it's just a proper old school party, like you know, like these days, like pubs are all about mood, and there's like it's all about fucking yeah, I want to be on the right fucking furniture. This was like a cold, bright, and big light on. Do you know what I mean? And it was just fucking jammed, and it was like you know, like any kind of seat that they could get in there, and it was old biddies and it was kids, and it was just like old school fucking it was like going and having a party in someone's like conservative conservatory, but like someone's kitchen in a council estate in 1994. Do you know what I mean? It was like that was it, and I was like, this I was like Paddy's Day's back. Yeah, it was the best I've had in years, it was it was rocking, man, it was wicked, yeah. So that would be my Holloway pub crew.

SPEAKER_00 32:09

Nice man, that's great. I've got to get down there. I lived there for years and I loved it. I missed it actually. I mean, I worked in that coronet, which was I bet that was fucking slime, yeah, yeah. I'll just do a shit.

SPEAKER_01 32:21

It's fucking like waiting rooms to die at times, isn't it? That's exactly what everybody's waiting room. It was a little bit like way up. It's so massive, like and it's such an amazing building that like Yeah, it's been all sorts, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00 32:30

And it's cinema and it's a big thing. Scookable as well. Yeah, yeah. It did open back up again, did it? Then it's open.

SPEAKER_01 32:36

It is open again, but it's not um I haven't been in it since because you know the appeal of it was that the pints were fucking well like two quid away. Yeah, that's it. But it's as a building, it'd just be such a even if you didn't have the whole policy of like not you know not showing the football, not having any music on it, stuff. Yeah, it'd just be a really difficult place to get like an atmosphere going for such a button up the ceilings in the sky.

SPEAKER_00 33:01

It is, yeah, it's some boozer like that, right? Yeah, right, so this is kind of like the when we wrap it up a little bit with a preacher's perfect point. I don't want to nause this up so I'm gonna be paper.

SPEAKER_01 33:12

Um yeah, I didn't know what this meant when you showed me the bullet point.

SPEAKER_00 33:15

So yeah, so preach perfect, so um basically your favourite pub, you I want you to be in your favourite pub. What's your favourite pub ever?

SPEAKER_01 33:22

The Crown Holloway Road.

SPEAKER_00 33:24

The Crown, beautiful. Yeah, so your favourite drink?

SPEAKER_01 33:26

Guinness from the Crown Holloway Road. Right, so you can. I actually love a Murphy's, but well but when in Ireland, but but Guinness is what they serve there, so it's gonna be Guinness. Yeah. But I do prefer the coffee tones of a Murphy's. You see it in all there, don't you? It's everywhere now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's good news, man. Yeah. My only concern though would be is are they selling enough Murphys to keep it fresh? Because as you know, yeah, if you ain't moving enough of it, it goes shit.

SPEAKER_00 33:52

That's right.

SPEAKER_01 33:52

So you need a good busy pub in order to be able to serve more than one second.

SPEAKER_00 33:57

There's a great pub.

SPEAKER_01 33:58

Do you know the Howl on the Moon in Hoxton?

SPEAKER_00 34:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:00

That yeah, Wicked Bar, and they they do all three. They do uh well all three, there's millions, but the three obvious ones. Yeah. Murphy's Beamish and Guinness.

SPEAKER_00 34:08

They've got Beamish and that.

SPEAKER_01 34:09

Yeah, they had it off for a while and there was a whole they did a wicked like uh promo thing where they did like the they did like a they filmed like a funeral of the beamish or whatever because yeah, apparently the like the the the the brewery were fucking them over, they were saying they had to order a certain but they weren't gonna serve it to us. So they coated them off one Instagram and then lo and behold they brought it back, so they must have gone, yeah, fine, right? You win kind of thing. I'll have to go next. They must have blinked first or whatever, but yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:33

Yeah. Right, so you haven't a part of Guinness in the crowd, Joey, and um there's an album playing in the background, so not necessarily the songs on the jukebox, but an album playing. What album would you be playing? Oh shit, I didn't prepare for this.

SPEAKER_01 34:45

Um, I've already used up Marky Moon and and I've mentioned Be Hair now, which are two wicked fucking pub albums. Um my favourite album of all time is not a it's not a pub album. It's Forever Changes by love. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is just outrageous. Um Do you know what? I'd go for the doors by the doors. Oh nice, that's interesting. But it's got waves, man, and like it's not too moody, it's really fucking weird in places. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the fact that it starts with Brave On Through, do you know what I mean? Yeah. That's gonna get everyone's attention. Is that every gonna get cheaper? I just but I just love how it's the like the the flow of that record. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, it's got everything, it's got you know, like Soul Kitchen and fucking the the the lines, speaking secret alphabet is one of my fucking favourite sentences in the English language. Do you know what I mean? Do you know what I mean? But like you've got like that five minute organ solo on light my fire, do you know what I mean? You know, yeah, man. And then you've got the end, which is just insane. Do you know what I mean? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:50

That's a quite record, probably.

SPEAKER_01 35:52

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. One of my favourite albums, man.

SPEAKER_00 35:54

So you've got that on in the background, you're drinking your guinness, you're in the crowd.

SPEAKER_01 35:57

Yeah, I could get moody with that, that's good, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:00

You've got three drinking partners, it's gonna be dead or alive. They can be powers or they can be famous, whatever you want in three.

SPEAKER_01 36:05

Yeah, okay, right. So, first one is my mate Irish Paul, who is a fucking habitual maggot actor. Like, he is. If I've ever just got a free day that I'm prepared to just consign to the bin, the first person I ring is him. He's such good fun, man. He's like wicked crap to go out on the piss with. He's like a family friend, and we kind of have this relationship. I won't go into the the the long version of this, but he's basically my mum's ex-boyfriend for when I was like three. Right. Um, but they stayed on really good terms, they didn't, they you know, they were together for a little while, but they they stayed really good friends afterwards. Yeah. And he'd actually lied that he was a lot older than he than he was. So, like, so we never had a sort of like stepdaddy sort of like relationship. It was always like I got older and they stayed really good friends, and he ended up like like living at ours for a while on the sofa and stuff, and he's like, I've got his real sort of like older brother kind of like relationship with him, and he's like fucking loves a bet as well. So if you ever just want a day of just acting the absolute fucking idiot and just you know, spending money and just being stupid, no better guy, like do you know what I mean? Like loves a whiskey, he's a nightmare on whiskey, shouldn't drink it, sometimes does. You might end up when you go out of him, you don't know where you're gonna end up. Do you know what I mean? You get you might go for a walk, you'll start as oh, we'll just go for a walk around Camden. That could end up in a casino, you could end up in four or five different bookmakers, you might end up in William Hills for an hour, but you're on horses, straight back in the pub. It's like it's like a yeah, he's like a fucking Christmas cracker, you don't know what's gonna what you're gonna pull out of it, do you know what I mean? But just yeah, just always it always gets like you always end up arguing about like fucking stupid stuff and politics and stuff and then laughing about it. He's just yeah, like he's he's one of the most fun people to just cause murder with. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just an old yeah, just an old school fucking mess up. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Good crack, yeah. Uh second, I actually checked out her name. There's a story connected to this, but you know, if a famous dead person, Fidel Castro. Go on. Almost, well, he swerved 600 assassination attempts by the CIA. Can you fucking imagine a better geezer swerving a bar? Like, you right, this geezer's a fucking communist, right? And right, and that's not to everyone's tastes, right? Yeah, I'd probably be a sympathetic to that cause, but I'm probably not like a full-blown fucking commune, right? But you could be the most right-wing geezer in the world. Yeah. Like, you could be like a reform voting black taxi driver, right, from fucking Essex. But if you were in a pint in a round with Fidel Castro, you'd be like, go on, carry on. What were you saying about that? Do you know what I mean? The stories this geezer has got.

SPEAKER_00 39:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:03

Like, imagine just having a drink with this fella, right? One standout is that so the CIA tried to bump him off famously over 600 times and never managed it.

SPEAKER_00 39:11

That's incredible.

SPEAKER_01 39:12

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, these guys are professionals at killing people, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They probably like every single time any country in Latin America elected any government that they disagreed with, they would either overthrow him or top the president. Every single time. The one person they couldn't get was Fidel Castro. And he would just fucking do and the swag of the guy, ridiculously handsome, just bowling around in broad daylight with a massive fucking Lardidar on the go. But one of the if any if ever like a story like stummed up someone's absolute fucking wrist. He had a bird in 1960, and her name's like Martin Lopez or something like that. You can double check this. But they managed to CIA managed to get to her, right? She was German and she was coming over, they knew he was having it off of her, he was like it was his missus, or they were having a fling or whatever. So they managed to sort of compromise her in some way and bring her on side that they were gonna like basically got her in it, you're gonna assassinate Castro for us, and they gave her these cyanide, like cyanide uh tablets to spike his drink. So she went along with it and she was gonna do it, and she hid them in a hand cream, right? And he, after a fucking night of love making or whatever, he goes off to the fucking bathroom and she's like, right, this is the moment. So she opens the fucking hand cream and the cyanide tablets have dissolved into the hand cream. So the it's fucked, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the the story goes, he comes back in from the from the toilet and she's sitting there crying, and he goes, You're gonna kill me, right now. And she's like, Yeah. And she tells him the whole like what's what's happened, breaks down or whatever. He's got a loaded gun that he keeps on his fucking side turret, and he's got like obviously he's fucking sat and fucking like BAM, the fucking Cuban chest, you know what I mean? You can imagine the fucking the banner of love runs from his fucking sash down to his balls, you know what I mean? And apparently, for all intents and purpose, he gives her a loaded gun, sits back on the bed, opens his shirt up, and goes, just do it. He's like, no one can kill it. Can you imagine what shack they had after that? Can you can you I would fucking sit and listen to him with describing the sex they had after the assassination attempt for a fucking hour. Yeah, some fella, mate. Yeah, yeah. So I think, yeah, top top Del Castro is a fucking man's gonna say. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And this is well, I'm gonna sound like a simp now. Because I'm gonna say my girlfriend for the third one. But you know Alex. Yeah, Carl's mate. And yeah, like Alex didn't start out as my bird, she started out as my drinking partner. Do you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03 42:03

Ah nice.

SPEAKER_01 42:04

Uh we were like just fucking great friends, do you know what I mean? Before we hooked up. And yeah, like in terms of just there's nothing that I can suggest that she's gonna go, oh no, fuck that. Do you know what I mean? You know that someone's always so like now we are we always go to Wiling games together. I'll be like, fancy three days in Prague. She'll be like, yeah, yeah. Do you know what I mean? It's like we're gonna go to the footy on the fucking Thursday. We'll have three nights on the lash for the rest of it. Do you know what I mean? I kinda wish I was going out with you to be honest, mate. Sounds good, this. Mate, you wish you're going out with fucking Alex. Yeah, I'm fucking I'm the boring one. There's a thing there's a there's a there's a Dylan Moran thing he says in every uh couple there's a there's there's the fun one and there's the nice one. Yeah, the problem in our relationship is that there's two fucking fun ones and we're both like never like switch them on. When we have house parties, I end up going to R5 Babe, I can't go again. She's like one more hour, babe. And then we'll kick them all out, and I'm like, you're gonna pick it up. Yeah, but yeah, no, she's just fucking weak, crack, like there's there's no there isn't an interest that I have that we don't share.

SPEAKER_00 43:14

That's lovely. For those that don't know Alice, like she's um she's a comedian.

SPEAKER_01 43:18

Comedian, yeah, comedian. She's like, we we run a indie club night together, just you know what I mean, comes to the football, comes to all my little fucking like all the like the moddy sort of like sorry stuff, great taste in music, just a fucking fun person to be around. Nice man. Crazy, same as me, we're a nightmare. Probably both got ADHD. Hers is much worse than mine, though. Which is, you know, I I I think I it Freud would probably have a uh you know a theory that it's like a coping mechanism or something. Like she takes all of the heat off of me in in any in any madness I've got. Nice man. Yeah, but you also um but genuinely.

SPEAKER_00 44:10

That's great. If you could bar one person, who would it be? Missus? After yeah, around half five. Yeah, fucking ready to go to bed, fucking hell enough.

SPEAKER_01 44:22

There's a few answers I was thinking about this, right? And the obvious one is like politicians who use fucking pubs for photo ops, I hate that. I fucking hate that. Because I've got a theory that if you spend that much time in the pub, you shouldn't be in charge of making important decisions. You know, like the geezer that puts the geezer that takes the jackpot out of the fruit machine and then puts it back in shouldn't be making decisions over child poverty. Do you know what I mean? Let that cunt stay in the pub and fucking keep him there. Do you know what I mean? But I'm not gonna do that because that's obvious. I think the people that should be like it's more of a section of society rather than singing anyone else. But people who should be barred from pubs, and this is if this is personal, it's people that annoy the fucking DJ. I seen a I read of I seen an article, I was I was alerted to an article recently in an interview with uh Kate Moss's daughter who's like a big model now. And they said, What's your party piece? She said, Going up to the DJ and saying, No one's really vibing off this, you should play all my favourite songs. She should be barred from every pub in London immediately. I would also add to that, anyone. I've had a drink now. I'd also add to that anyone who suggests any of the f who requests any of the following songs. Mr. Brightside, Chelsea Daggar, Living on a Prayer, Sweet Child of Mine, and Bohemian Rhapsody, shh fucking lifetime bans for all of them. I don't mind if you've got a fucking wedding or something and you put that on your on your list. That's your problem. Right? I'll fucking play whatever you want, right, for the right amount of money. But there's a reason that we charge extra for weddings, and it's because of shit like that. Also, people who fucking request a song and say, but you have to play it next. Well, the best one is when they go, we're leaving in a minute. Well how fucking I'm gonna put anything in there. Do you know what I mean? Well no, we're going in a sec, couldn't you? You're supposed to play it right now. So what you're saying is you're gonna change the entire vibe that I've been building up for the last two and a half hours so that you can have two out two minutes where everyone else is gonna go, fuck this about.

SPEAKER_00 46:27

Yeah. And then leave. Yeah, so true. I've only done it a handful of times, DJ, but Lifetime band. Lifetime bands. Then I'm off. Then I'm off. Get out, my pub.

SPEAKER_01 46:37

All of those people, so yeah.

SPEAKER_00 46:39

Right, mate, beautiful. Now, uh episode one, we did this. We did there you go, Kieran got a bit of that there. The desert island crisps, you've got one bag of crisp, mate, it could be yours. That was last Dino's one, he went for the flying out Monster Munch. Yeah. More sure it's gonna be, brother.

SPEAKER_01 46:56

Being the plasticist of the paddiest, I cannot not say Tato Season Onion. Yeah, it has to be. But I want to give a special mention to Royston's bubble crisps. You remember them? Yeah, I do remember them. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 47:09

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 47:10

They peaked around the same. I remember uh during the 90s, right, when Nutella was becoming a thing in England. And uh they used to sell in like my local like corner shop uh like single-use Nutellas. Remember they had the little tray for like 10p.

SPEAKER_03 47:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 47:26

And at the same time, a bag of roysters crisps, T-bone steak flavour was 25p. I used to get a bag of roysters and dip them into Nutella. And you may be wondering, yeah, yeah. You may be wondering how T-bone steak flavour crisps and chocolate spread work. And I can tell you right now, it's a fucking one and I regret nothing.

SPEAKER_00 47:50

And I would and I would love to taste that again. But yeah, it's gotta be, yeah, it has to be potato cheese. Nice, mate. And then there's a there's a mix, there's two two different ones in there, like northern and southern, isn't that right? With the tattoo.

SPEAKER_01 48:02

Yes!

SPEAKER_00 48:03

Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 48:05

So the northern ones are in like a yellow packet and do you remember King's? Now this is fucking. I don't know. There was King's Crisps, which I believe were the English, the actual English versions of Republic of Island Tatoes. Oh, okay. Um I once made the what's the word? Controversial observation. When tasting aside by I once DJ'd a wedding, right? And uh one of the guys was a Protestant from Antrim. And the bride, one of the guys, the groom was a Protestant could have been two men, no problem about that. And um, so the groom was a uh a Protestant guy from Antrim, and the bride was a Catholic from Dublin, and on their crisp wall, they just had Republic and Northern Irish Tayos, and I did a fucking Daz doorstep challenge, like a Pepsi challenge, on the two. Yeah, and I made the somewhat controversial uh observation that the Northern Irish crisps were better, and I was fucking pilloried because coming from a Catholic background, yeah, I'm not supposed to make such concessions. But I made the point because my family from Derry, right? So I won't like all like you know, believe in like a United Island everywhere. I made the point that a truly united island would need to draw on the best parts of both communities and both things, and I think the prods have it, the prods have it, when it comes to the Tato Crisps, yeah. So yeah, we George Best, Tato Crisps. Yeah, and that Galbraith that plays for the Oh and uh and fucking your man that plays uh right back for Northern Island. Uh Conor Bradley. Oh yeah, nice. Yeah, yeah, he plays for the north. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So yeah, I think it's gonna be alright as long as they uh Yeah. I'll have to break the deal. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They'll do the poll and then I'll yeah, I'll I'll sort the details out. God bless you.

SPEAKER_00 50:05

Mate, that is us. Time at the bar. How did we do? 40 minutes? That sounds a good point. How long was it? Kieran. 50 minutes. 50! 50! Well, that 15 minutes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Love you, mate. Pleasure. I mean, cheers to do it, mate. Any time. Yeah. Any gigs coming up or anything to us? No, mate. Just come and see me at the bar, Chris. Yeah, Joe's DJ. Keep your eyes on the listing. Nice one. Yeah, yeah. Love you. Take care.