How do, Clashers, I hope all is good in your hood. It’s been quite a busy time since we last spoke. Hopefully someone quite close to me will have bagged a No. 1 album by the time you read this! Thanks everyone – ‘In This Light And On This Evening’ indeed.
Get Ready For The Weekends
I’m a few weeks in to my new home, weekends doing the Breakfast show. Have to say I am totally loving it, really exciting to have a new show, new team and I think change is a very good thing. Having a sixteen-month old little boy, I’m up anyway so I’m used to the early mornings. What we now have to do is convince people it’s the new rock ‘n’ roll, being up early at the weekend and coming on my show live. I’ve already managed to convince Nick Frost and Simon Pegg to do just that. That doesn’t mean to say we haven’t had or intend to have some wicked guests. Least not Mr. Paddy Considine, Shane Meadows and Skor-Zay-Zee who came in to talk about their new film, Le Donk And Skor-Zay-Zee. It’s only being shown at thirty-five cinemas around the country, which I think is appalling – where is your support for British film, Mr. Multiplex? Worry not though, it is due out on DVD by the end of the month, with the added bonus of hilarious extras. See if you can spot my double name check. Yup, I have ‘kind of’ been in a Shane Meadows film. Tick that one off the To Do list.
Dr. Parnassus
The legend that is Mr. Terry Gilliam also came in to chat to me about his new film, The Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus. It’s been worth the wait with this film, a magical fairy tale told in only a way that TG can tell it. Of course, everyone knows that it is also Heath Ledger’s last performance, and nearly didn’t get completed when he so tragically passed away. He really takes your breath away when he appears on screen for the first time, it kind of makes you ache that this is it, the last we will ever get of this great man. He had so much potential, such a talented man, so beautiful and bohemian and different, such a loss for us all. To hear Terry talk about Heath, he just beams when he mentions his name, like he was an adopted son and an inspiration to last year’s fellowship winner at BAFTA. If you haven’t seen the film yet then I urge you to get along to witness one of my favourite films of the year. Also, if anyone knows of any way I can actually adopt Terry Gilliam then drop me an email please.
Ba Ba
I’ve been doing quite a few DJ gigs round the country over the last few weeks and it’s been a blast. I’ve been getting the train there and that has allowed me to a) get loads of work done, b) sleep, and c) watch loads of films. One of those I think I tried to watch before was Lions For Lambs with Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford and Andrew Garfield. It’s another film about the war on terror, the American government and the ones who are really suffering; the troops. It’s really good, Andrew Garfield is definitely one to watch, he’s going to be a huge star. You might have seen him in Kid A or Red Riding, both of which really showcase how diverse he can be. There is one scene in the film where Garfield’s character returns home after a long meeting with his lecturer, really to decide on his future and whether he wants to make a difference. He sits down and the news is on, the top story is talking about the break up of a relationship of some vacuous celebrity. If you’ve seen the film you will know what I’m talking about, it’s a short scene but really hit home to me the state of our media and the state of our popular culture. I posted a Tweet straight away asking, ‘When did our popular culture become trash?’ Someone quite rightly posted back, ‘When did trash become popular culture?’ A question I think we’ll save answering till next time – any thoughts you may have on the subject please drop me an email.
Night Owl
I’m writing this the morning after I’ve done my first night shift on Radio 1. I say night shift, I was covering for Nick Grimshaw (10pm – midnight). It was so much fun and such a joy to play really good music and have nothing else to do than have a chat and play a few awesome tunes. I definitely got the bug and hope to be doing a bit more of it. If anyone was listening and heard me chatting to Jared Leto, I did not email him for a booty call. I just want to be his pen pal!
Reunited
You get to a point in your life when friends go their own way, spread their wings and move to different parts of the world. It really does take a lot of effort to keep in touch and speak or email or Facebook each other and maintain a connection. I think those true friends are the ones that you maybe don’t see for weeks or maybe months, but when you do see each other it’s like you only saw each other yesterday. I had such a good night last week when my friend Ben was over from New York, and God bless him for arranging a dinner for about twenty of us. That is all it takes really, one night and it’s all back to normal. Happy birthday Ben x x x
Happy New Year
Have you thought about it yet? So much pressure on having an ‘AMAZING’ New Year that you kind of forget what it’s all about. Thankfully this year for us it’s been taken out of my hands and we are heading to New Zealand and Australia. My other half is playing at some festivals, which means we are kind of doing a two-week tour of the southern hemisphere, how exciting. Obviously I’ll show you my slides on my return.
From now on I want to end each column with lyrics from a band, so I’m gonna start off with The Maccabees: “If you’ve got no kind words to say, you should say nothing more at all.”
Until next time x x
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