התמלול המלא של Episode 17: Weasel Busting Out Of Alcatraz

was like, Okay, yeah, thank god. 00:04:25.439 --> 00:04:27.199 And you get what's it like Andorra? 00:04:27.279 --> 00:04:28.000 He's like, No. 00:04:30.079 --> 00:04:37.120 Okay, well, I'm drinking asahi currently for a good cause, for a good cause. 00:04:37.199 --> 00:04:39.279 I I I actually do, I was gonna do a whole bit. 00:04:39.360 --> 00:04:45.759 I do like asahi, but I'm drinking it because we need the bottles, but hence why there's lots of bottles there. 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:48.560 It's not because I'm an alcoholic. 00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:53.439 That's for whole has a whole bunch of other different artifacts it produces. 00:04:53.759 --> 00:04:56.160 Um joking. 00:04:56.319 --> 00:04:59.040 Uh no, basically, yeah, I'm just saying need the bottles. 00:04:59.199 --> 00:05:05.920 So uh Mark gets his allocation, so he sent it to me because we need the bottles for the brewery because we're brewing some beers. 00:05:06.079 --> 00:05:07.920 You see the fermenter there, yeah. 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:10.879 And so, do you know how expensive buying plain bottles are? 00:05:10.959 --> 00:05:17.439 By the time you've fucking bought plain bottles, you might as well as well have just bought crates of beer because it's not that different, and then just take the labels off them. 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:20.319 But I've got a drink through all the asah you now, woe is me, you know what I mean? 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:21.120 Oh no, yeah. 00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:23.199 That's a PG tip right there. 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:28.160 Uh, if you're going to if you need bottles for anything, uh just just get a crate of beer. 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:30.560 It's it's it works out cheaper, yeah. 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:35.199 Like whatever the beer from Aldi is, that'll be cheaper than buying blank bottles. 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:37.199 It's just the world that we live in. 00:05:37.439 --> 00:05:40.720 Get get the knockoff fucking cron, was it Cronbacker? 00:05:41.199 --> 00:05:42.160 Knock off fucking eroding. 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:46.319 Yeah, uh per per no, not Perla. 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:49.360 Uh per per ah, it's on the tip of my tongue. 00:05:49.439 --> 00:05:50.079 I'm so close. 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:56.639 There's Galero, that's the fake Stella, and then there's uh Perlenbacker, Perlenbacker, which is the fake Heineken. 00:05:57.279 --> 00:06:06.160 I'm I'm reaching in because I actually don't I used to shop at Little back uh when I lived in uh near Limehouse back in the day in that old place. 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:11.120 Um yeah, why are we talking about the drink update? 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:12.560 Welcome to PubGolf transmission. 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:13.040 We're back. 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:16.560 Welcome to PubGolf transmission, we're back on the important shit. 00:06:16.879 --> 00:06:27.040 Like trying to remember the names of the knockoff uh little beers, yeah, which I believe is Galaro, Perlanbacker, uh, Ryan Backer. 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:32.319

I feel like there's the the uh fake Guinness, or am I hallucinating that? 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:35.680 Uh I think I'm hallucinating that, then that's real. 00:06:35.839 --> 00:06:37.439 Nah, fake fake Guinness. 00:06:37.600 --> 00:06:39.279 They'd come they'll come down hard on them. 00:06:39.439 --> 00:06:41.199 I wouldn't want to press those guys off. 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:45.120 Like usually instead of getting fake Guinness, you just get a different Irish stout in. 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:48.800 You get like a Murphy's, which is a bit bit spicier. 00:06:49.439 --> 00:06:50.959 No, it's not, it's just a bit uh richer. 00:06:51.360 --> 00:07:01.600 And you got fucking Beamish, which you only drink if if either you are from Ireland or you're an East London twat who thinks he's Irish and then wants to drink the blandest stout on the menu. 00:07:01.839 --> 00:07:02.800 I've never had Beamish. 00:07:03.040 --> 00:07:05.759 I have I think I've had Murphy's, but I'm not a stout man. 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:08.240 I'm not a big stout person. 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:12.319 I will enjoy like one Guinness, uh, but I wouldn't have a second one. 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:14.399 Um I like Guinness. 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:16.399 I don't get it as a personality trait, though. 00:07:16.480 --> 00:07:18.959 I don't get the whole this place does good Guinness. 00:07:19.040 --> 00:07:22.319 I'm like it's a part of it, it's just become a big trend, hasn't it? 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:26.079 I mean, and I'm not, you know, it's just it's not a bad trend. 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:38.079 Actually, no, lies, it is a bad trend because it now has added at least like I would say on average, 1.2 minutes to my queuing at the bar just because of how much longer it takes to pour Guinness to the regular lager. 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:43.839 There's that's definitely delayed me from when I enter the pub to when I've got a pint in my hand. 00:07:44.079 --> 00:07:47.920 I would say on average it's added about 1.2 to 1.8 minutes on. 00:07:48.079 --> 00:07:49.360 That's my scientific calculator. 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:52.079 It's done fucking great for the brewery though, the whole Guinness book. 00:07:52.399 --> 00:07:53.600 We could calculate that though. 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:54.879 Could we could calculate that? 00:07:54.959 --> 00:07:58.959 We need to figure out what the uptake in Guinness has been recently as a proportion. 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:03.839 We then need to look up the average time it takes to pour a Guinness versus a regular lager. 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:13.519 You can combine those numbers together, and you probably could calculate how much longer your average uh drink takes as a result of the uptake in Guinness. 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:24.000 So I could I could scientifically validate my uh slight irkedness to invent a word towards this uh Guinness trend. 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:31.600 Maybe it's because I don't like it as much, so I can't join in on the trend, so I'm going but it's going longer. 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:34.080 I don't get a fucking like split the G thing though. 00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:39.440 I'm like like that's something that I don't apparent I've I've heard wasn't made up by Guinness. 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:40.879 Um what is it? 00:08:42.399 --> 00:08:54.799 What is it like when when they've got the fucking the word Guinness on the fucking glass, you try and the first gulp your pint, you try and drink so much that it it the drink is like at the line in the middle of the G. 00:08:55.120 --> 00:09:24.080 Well, as a Londoner, split the G usually means something else, but um Yeah, yeah, I know it's it's yeah, you get get get the bags in usually a bit like uh speaking of the same. 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:32.399 So today our the our main theme after a bit of like classic waffle, and that's relevant to what's coming up, uh, we're gonna talk about our experience at Alcatraz Festival, uh, which is a metal festival in Court Court Courtic. 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:44.399 I heard somebody say quarterick, and then some people say Court Rike, but to me, they can't make their mind up, and that's the theme of the Belgians that we're gonna be exploring. 00:10:44.639 --> 00:10:52.240 Um, but yeah, it's in Belgi it was in Belgium and we went and it was hot and it was dusty, but it was enjoyable, but there were some weird aspects. 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:54.399 Um yeah, do you know what? 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:59.039 One thing I'm gonna do, you right, so we went slightly different ways in, right? 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:08.720 So uh Adam went straight to Antwerp, whereas I, Scarlett and I, we went first to Rotterdam, and we had a sort of a few days before then. 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:22.879 Uh, so you know, up until the point that we meet up, maybe first, Adam, you can talk about your experience getting to Antwerp, and I will pull up the uh festival headlight lineup because I always forget who the hell played. 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:29.840 So I'm gonna pull that up in the background while you tell everybody about Antwerp, and you can pull it up while I'm telling everyone about Rotterdam. 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:40.559 See, well, Antwerp was fucking sick because I was like, okay, I recently read this book called Q by Lief Blisset, in which there's a bunch of like smuggling and like forged banknotes, I sit in Antwerp. 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:42.000 I'm like, yeah, fuck it. 00:11:42.080 --> 00:11:45.279 I like Belgian beer, I kind of like Belgian food. 00:11:45.440 --> 00:12:01.759 Uh I'm gonna go to this weird fucking border town from the Holy Roman Empire, which turns out used to be like the place where all of the fucking commerce in Europe used to go through and then uh see a couple of cathedrals, then get pissed, and then wait for everyone else to show up. 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:03.759 Um it was pretty sick, you know. 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:16.799 Got to Antwerp, fucking Eurostarred, uh saw the sunny hills of Dagnum

pass by my fucking window, uh, then went to Kent, and then thankfully got out of Kent pretty quickly. 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:24.000 Because it's you know proper Frisbee, proper, proper fucking reform country there, if it's restore is fucking point. 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:40.000 Um ended up in France, changed eventually when we got from France to Bruchelles, uh got the train for about half an hour to Antwerp, got out, realised I'd got there too early, and it was 30 odd fucking degrees. 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:47.200 Uh immediately found a place to have a pint, walked around the old town being like, oh yes, yes, this is a typical European old town. 00:12:47.279 --> 00:13:00.480 It has big cathedral in centre, it has table service, it has only one metal bar, which was called kids, um, which felt a little bit lost profit to me. 00:13:00.720 --> 00:13:03.759 Um and there wasn't really much else to that to it. 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:07.200 But other than that, I just like I activated Creep Boy mode. 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:08.799 I hadn't been on holiday in a year. 00:13:08.960 --> 00:13:19.120 So I'm like, okay, I'm gonna sit down somewhere, I'm gonna get some steak tartare, I'm gonna get stovelaze, which is just uh stove laze is like the rum ham of the Low Countries. 00:13:19.759 --> 00:13:25.360 It's just what if we take an 8% beer and we make a stew out of that and then just pour it over chips. 00:13:25.600 --> 00:13:26.720 I'm like, yes, please. 00:13:27.279 --> 00:13:37.519 I got to taste the uh the regional beer, which was De Kernink, which is uh it's called Boleka, or as of course I had to call it, it was the bollocks. 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:42.720 Uh was drinking the bollocks in the castle, it was like six percent. 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:45.279 It was in this beautiful chalice. 00:13:45.519 --> 00:14:04.559 Had I had had the bollocks uh friend who is called Triple Danvers, which is eight percent, and therefore I was sort of stumbling around for a bit, and I was just literally just with my notebook in front of the cathedral, drinking eight percent beers for about six or seven hours, uh just writing my notebook, any old shits. 00:14:04.879 --> 00:14:15.840 Uh came up with a weird strategy of how to organize my fellow benefits claimants on restart, but then I realized uh I'm too knacker because I'm a restart to do any of that shit. 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:24.320 So I just kept drinking until uh well until the next day, really, when uh everyone else arrived. 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:27.919 But Antwerp, Banging City, good good bollocks. 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:30.080 Yeah, the bollocks was good actually. 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:31.919 Um that was perfectly timed. 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:33.759 It I was struggling. 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:36.960 Why is it so hard to pull up a festival lineup? 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:39.440 Because now it was only showing me 2027. 00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:45.759 I couldn't remember how to get the clash finder thing up on the app

on my phone, and I've opened about nine tabs to try and actually get the lineup. 00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:47.120 I've finally managed to get it. 00:14:47.360 --> 00:15:00.000 So, anyway, meanwhile, uh Scarlett and I we got the Eurostar to Rotterdam, and we went right past Lille, which is right near where the festival was. 00:15:00.159 --> 00:15:02.879 Uh, but yeah, no, we stayed in the IBIS in Rotterdam. 00:15:02.960 --> 00:15:06.879 We had two nights there, met up with our Dutch mate, shout out Moritz. 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:08.960 If you're listening, big up. 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:16.799 Um, we, you know, I well, not we, I frequented a few coffee shops, uh, and it was great. 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:20.639 I was they had a coffee shop shout-out, coffee shop with dewit. 00:15:20.720 --> 00:15:22.559 Don't know if I'm pronouncing that right. 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:27.519 Um, but they had some very rare stuff, some very old school stuff. 00:15:27.679 --> 00:15:30.559 Uh, they had some cracking Afghan hash. 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:35.360 Uh, they had some uh presumably cracking Nepalese hash as well. 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:45.279 They had loads of classics, they had uh AK 47, but what was really exciting to me is I looked on the haze menu, they had mango haze and they had C5. 00:15:46.399 --> 00:15:49.519 Uh and the mango haze and it tasted like mango. 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:51.519 It tasted like fucking mango. 00:15:51.679 --> 00:15:54.960 It's on that strawberry cough bollocks where you've got to like throw your throat at doing it. 00:15:55.039 --> 00:15:56.080 It just tasted like mango. 00:15:56.320 --> 00:16:04.240 It just tasted like mango, and yeah, like strong high, and the C5 was like uh I smoked a bit of that outside the Ibis Hotel, and I wanted someone to chase me. 00:16:04.320 --> 00:16:05.440 I wanted to get up and run. 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:09.279 And I'm a fat, lazy pubgoth, so that's very unlike me. 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:27.840 Uh C5 is like uh Northern Lights 5 by C Hayes, it's uh the first famous Hayes hybrid, it kind of was what made Hayes famous across the pond from uh the States, so it's a real throwback to like late 80s, early 90s, golden age kind of uh kind of weed there. 00:16:28.080 --> 00:16:29.200 So that was good. 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:33.360 Um definitely didn't smuggle any across the border or anything like that. 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:35.919 That would have been illegal and not recommended. 00:16:36.080 --> 00:16:37.919 So that did not happen. 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:40.480 Um, but what did happen? 00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:41.840 What did happen now? 00:16:42.080 --> 00:16:42.639 Trying to remember. 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:48.559 We just went around Rotterdam, we checked out the Maritime Museum, uh, checked out the offshore experience. 00:16:48.639 --> 00:16:52.240 I was trying to figure out like what degree, like who was sponsored. 00:16:52.320 --> 00:16:53.919 Like, is this sponsored by Exxon? 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:55.840 Like, is this sponsored by Shell? 00:16:56.240 --> 00:17:09.359 But it really just seems like the Dutch just love their like engineering, they love their like you know, irrigation systems, their dams and their dikes and uh offshore riggs, because there's a lot of like offshore wind stuff as well. 00:17:09.599 --> 00:17:14.240 They love building that, they love infrastructure, engineering, building shit. 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:19.200 There was a whole offshore experience where you could put on like a boots and a coat and a hard hat. 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:20.960 We couldn't be arsed, we just looked at it. 00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:27.359 But you'd sort of uh they had all these great models of like different offshore rigging vessels and stuff. 00:17:27.599 --> 00:17:32.720 Uh, there was a lot of cool boat models there looking around, looking looking at the maritime history and everything. 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:35.200 There was a whole the history of the slave trade bit. 00:17:35.279 --> 00:17:41.039 I didn't go in there because it was a holiday, I already know about all that, and I didn't want to get really depressed. 00:17:41.359 --> 00:17:43.839 Um, it was almost certainly Shell, by the way. 00:17:43.920 --> 00:17:45.599 Like Shell's a Dutch company. 00:17:46.160 --> 00:17:48.720 Probably, but there was a lot of offshore winds. 00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:50.160 I guess they do that shit as well. 00:17:50.319 --> 00:17:51.440 But yeah, I don't know. 00:17:51.599 --> 00:17:52.480 But it was pretty cool. 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:54.000 I'm not gonna lie, it was pretty cool. 00:17:54.079 --> 00:17:55.920 And um, yeah, so that was good. 00:17:56.000 --> 00:17:57.279 The Maritime Museum was good. 00:17:57.359 --> 00:18:01.279 If you're somebody like me and you like boats, I love a boat, me, always have done. 00:18:01.519 --> 00:18:05.440 Um, good little metal bar there called Bar 3, which is pretty good. 00:18:05.519 --> 00:18:07.839 There was another bar where you could drive the tables. 00:18:08.079 --> 00:18:19.519 There was like a steering wheel on the tables, they were all on like a sort of on like a rack of like on rails, and you could basically drive tables closer to each other or away from each other using these like wheels. 00:18:19.839 --> 00:18:20.799 Never seen that before. 00:18:20.880 --> 00:18:22.240 That was that that was fun. 00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:25.519 Um, yeah, so Rotterdam, we had a good time. 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:32.559 Shout out, Morritz, had had some good food there, and then we got the train to Antwerp to meet Adam, and that is where our stories converge. 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:36.559 So, Adam has already told you the story, so I got there on the heels of that. 00:18:36.720 --> 00:18:39.920 He was telling me about the bollocks, and now we had to try some bollocks. 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:44.319 Um, have you told them about the questionable Airbnb layout yet? 00:18:44.799 --> 00:18:47.200 No, okay, the questionable Airbnb

layout. 00:18:47.279 --> 00:18:57.680 So, right, when I when I got to the office and eventually did open, it was staffed by two guys about our age, probably younger. 00:18:58.559 --> 00:19:06.960 Like, they they they they look like they go backpacking, they look like they look like they could be in hackney and charging me nine pounds for a sandwich. 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:10.319 Like, if it wasn't for the accent, I would assume these blokes are Australian. 00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:13.839 Like, and they they give me the keys to this place. 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:23.599 Okay, it's pretty central, it's really quite nice, apart from the fact that it's in this sort of street which is full of shops, and it's so well hidden. 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:25.599 You wouldn't know it was there if he was looking for it. 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:25.920 Fine. 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:28.240 I open the fucking door until you go. 00:19:28.400 --> 00:19:37.920 I open the fucking door, and I can see a big crap door, which looks like someone has laid an ad like laid an additional door on the floor to a basement, which has not been locked. 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:39.359 So I'm like, right, that's creepy. 00:19:39.519 --> 00:19:40.000 Okay, right. 00:19:40.079 --> 00:19:46.319 I take the keys, I go up a set of stairs which looks like it's only just been fitted. 00:19:46.640 --> 00:19:50.240 It looks like a wooden set of stairs they've just nailed on because they have. 00:19:50.480 --> 00:19:57.599 Like someone has I've clearly inherited this and was just like, let's just throw some furniture in it and sell it as cheap apartments to tourists. 00:19:57.680 --> 00:19:58.880 I'm like, fine, fair enough. 00:19:59.119 --> 00:20:06.160 As I'm going up these fucking creaking stairs, I get up second floor, okay, one floor, two floors. 00:20:06.640 --> 00:20:11.119 I notice that our apartment is split into two apartments. 00:20:11.359 --> 00:20:15.039 Uh, the main one, the small one, the small one we left for Archie and Scarlet. 00:20:16.079 --> 00:20:19.039 Um because basically it was like three of us and the other one. 00:20:19.119 --> 00:20:28.079 And then I go into Archie and Scarlet's one, I see there's not there's like one window, there's just a double bed that's been thrown in there, and an inexplicable microwave. 00:20:28.240 --> 00:20:34.559 And I might find out the window, and you think, oh great view, and it's just one of those windows that's just facing a wall. 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:39.200 And there was no blind or curtain on that window. 00:20:39.599 --> 00:20:40.640 Natural night, innit? 00:20:40.880 --> 00:20:53.519 Uh you can grow you can grow plants there, and then okay, I go up one more floor, I open the place, uh, and there's a lovely like sort of like window opening out to a balcony. 00:20:53.599 --> 00:20:56.960 Uh, and you can you can't have smoke there, otherwise they'll yell at you. 00:20:57.119 --> 00:21:12.000 Um but it's quite nice, and then I realised that there's no fucking curtains on this window, and so that you can just see directly through the window from the apartments on the other side into the sleeping area. 00:21:12.160 --> 00:21:15.039 Um, and now like we say close the doors of the bedroom. 00:21:15.759 --> 00:21:26.640 The bedroom just has two double beds thrown in there that don't fit in there, and yeah, they form a kind of a Zed, a little maze, and that maze leads to the only bathroom. 00:21:26.799 --> 00:21:26.960 Yeah. 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:34.720 So not only can you if you need to take a piss, and we have five people staying here, you have to zigzag between the people who were already sleeping. 00:21:35.119 --> 00:21:46.400 If I was going for a Wii, I had to first leave, and and the the other aspect of this our room that was like down a flight of stairs, but there were like other flats in that stairs. 00:21:46.559 --> 00:21:51.200 So, like if we left the door open or if we left it unlocked, like anyone could just walk in there. 00:21:51.359 --> 00:21:59.759 So I have to walk out and then walk upstairs into the main apartment through the living room, then into this bedroom where I then have to zigzag. 00:22:00.400 --> 00:22:05.920 Through two double beds and use the ensuite bathroom to take a pest in the middle of the night. 00:22:06.160 --> 00:22:10.880 And you are completely visible to anyone on the apartments on your side of street doing this. 00:22:13.680 --> 00:22:16.640 I woke up and I'm like, so I was like, is that someone's staring at me? 00:22:16.960 --> 00:22:17.440 Oh, there is. 00:22:17.519 --> 00:22:18.799 Okay, fine, cool, cool. 00:22:18.960 --> 00:22:23.279 Um, yeah, they're very uh very very uh very very liberated, the Lowlanders. 00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:28.720 Um and I was just like, okay, fine, it's it's a base, it's close to everything, fine. 00:22:28.880 --> 00:22:46.000 But I'm like, and then for some reason, despite the fact that uh the actual amenities of everything were pretty fucked, there was loads of random Japanese decor in this place, including an inexplicably random antique Chinese table. 00:22:46.240 --> 00:22:50.079 Um black with a lot of like ornamental marbling. 00:22:50.400 --> 00:22:54.960 Um I described it as Chang Dynasty for obvious reasons. 00:22:55.200 --> 00:22:58.799 Um and also no TVs or anything. 00:22:58.880 --> 00:23:01.599 There's like a kettle, an induction hub. 00:23:01.759 --> 00:23:07.519 I'm like, okay, this is clearly just to meet the bare minimum, so these guys can sell it. 00:23:07.599 --> 00:23:09.680 This is either some sort of weird inheritance thing or something. 00:23:13.200 --> 00:23:15.680 Well, it wasn't Airbnb, it was like its own separate thing. 00:23:15.759 --> 00:23:26.480 And I'm glad it was because it's Airbnb accounts, but like it was just this one separate, like it's just these four apartments that these two blokes rent an office in the back of a mall in central Antwerp. 00:23:28.559 --> 00:23:29.200 Yeah.

00:23:30.640 --> 00:23:33.440 I mean it had worse, but yeah, it was a bit of a funky one. 00:23:33.519 --> 00:23:34.559 I did not sleep well. 00:23:34.720 --> 00:23:36.559 I did not really sleep at all, to be honest. 00:23:36.799 --> 00:23:37.680 I slept on the couch. 00:23:37.839 --> 00:23:39.680 I've like the only place that nobody can see me. 00:23:39.839 --> 00:23:40.480 Yeah. 00:23:40.880 --> 00:23:43.519 But uh, we went for Japanese, that was pretty good. 00:23:43.680 --> 00:23:46.640 We went for to that castle that turned out to not be a castle. 00:23:46.880 --> 00:23:49.759 Well, it is it is a castle, it's just a small castle. 00:23:50.160 --> 00:23:52.880 It's about 50% of a castle. 00:23:53.039 --> 00:23:54.160 Okay, it was a castle. 00:23:54.240 --> 00:23:56.480 The back of the back half of it looks like Stratford. 00:23:56.640 --> 00:24:00.720 Yeah, it's back, it's like Hetstein the Stone. 00:24:01.119 --> 00:24:08.079 It looks it does, you because Adam said to me, like, uh, when you get to the back, it looks like uh Stratford apartments, and I was like, what the hell are you talking about? 00:24:08.240 --> 00:24:13.119 I got some back, it looks like Stratford apartments, it really does. 00:24:13.359 --> 00:24:20.640 Um, and I was like, God, the Belgians, they can't even finish a castle, like they can't pick a language, it's not a real country, is it? 00:24:20.720 --> 00:24:20.960 Really? 00:24:21.119 --> 00:24:23.359 I think it might have been that the British destroyed it. 00:24:23.599 --> 00:24:40.400 Um I think the British might have destroyed it because I think it was Napoleon built up for the port, and because it was such a big port for everything at Antwerp, I think the British destroyed it so Napoleon couldn't take it over again or something, or so or the Germans can take it over again or something. 00:24:40.640 --> 00:24:44.000 Like it it's it's very central to a lot of things. 00:24:44.160 --> 00:24:48.720 Um I mean, to be completely honest, it's mostly evil things. 00:24:49.920 --> 00:24:55.920 Belgian beer to me is lovely because that's you can you can make that the one thing they really have, yeah. 00:24:56.079 --> 00:25:00.720 Whereas Belgian chocolate, when the more you think about it, it's a fucking terrifying sentence. 00:25:00.960 --> 00:25:02.480 Yeah, yeah, exactly. 00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:06.880 Oh, all those uh cocoa fields in uh yeah in Leuven. 00:25:07.440 --> 00:25:08.079 Yeah. 00:25:10.400 --> 00:25:14.160 I'm like, yeah, the feedback works for more than one second, you're like, oh, oh Jesus. 00:25:14.880 --> 00:25:15.599 Yeah, exactly. 00:25:15.680 --> 00:25:18.480 Yes, yeah, they've still got a royal family. 00:25:19.359 --> 00:25:30.720 Yeah, yeah, it just reminds me of uh when uh they were handing over power to Patrice Lemba and uh like grandson of King Leopold II, old hand shopper himself. 00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:39.440 Grand great, I think great grandson of grandson of old hand shopper was giving this speech about how his granddad of this vision and this great stuff and this great work that he did. 00:25:39.599 --> 00:25:47.599 And then Patrice Lemoumba took the mic and he wasn't no one knew he was gonna speak, he wasn't supposed to say anything, and then just fucking tore into him and tore into the legacy of colonialism. 00:25:47.680 --> 00:25:49.759 Apparently they were fucking horrified. 00:25:49.839 --> 00:25:51.119 Like they never heard of it. 00:25:51.359 --> 00:26:08.160 It was like when Elon Musk got booed at Dave Chappelle, it's probably like an equivalent of that, like them having to face like a just a smidgen of real people for a second, and they're like one of the last guys still alive from the plot to uh to kill the member um is actually being charged, apparently. 00:26:08.480 --> 00:26:08.960 Really? 00:26:09.119 --> 00:26:10.720 Yeah, yeah, he's like 90 odd. 00:26:10.799 --> 00:26:13.039 He's just like some sideways. 00:26:13.200 --> 00:26:13.680 Yeah. 00:26:13.920 --> 00:26:18.960 I mean, they could I mean I I hope they gave the parts of his fucking skull they took. 00:26:19.279 --> 00:26:21.119 Oh yeah, yeah. 00:26:21.200 --> 00:26:22.880 I think we talked about that in the last episode. 00:26:25.759 --> 00:26:44.000 Like the Low Countries is so fascinating because it's just like it's just like what if the Spanish um somehow kept them in line through subjugation and now they're they became the the purely like the the the the the most of course they're the most Caucasian people in the universe next to us, of course, so we can get away with saying this. 00:26:44.240 --> 00:26:48.240 Like some of the most ruthless and capitalist imperialists. 00:26:50.799 --> 00:26:58.079 I learned like quite recently, I might have said this on a previous one that the French people are whiter than English people. 00:26:58.160 --> 00:27:04.559 I didn't know that, but um, we had a French band come and shout out um they're now called Sick Mind. 00:27:04.880 --> 00:27:16.319 Uh, they came and stayed here, and I cooked a curry for them, and I was like, right, I don't know what their spice tolerance is gonna be like, so it's gonna be very mild, just the red chilies, not the bird's eyes, just your regular Tesco red chilies I put in there. 00:27:16.559 --> 00:27:19.440 And I was eating it, I was thinking I should have put more chili in it. 00:27:19.519 --> 00:27:21.279 There's not even barely even any heat there. 00:27:21.359 --> 00:27:28.319 And they're eating it, I said, Oh, it's really uh it's very nice, but uh it's very spicy, it's very, very hot. 00:27:28.720 --> 00:27:36.240 They were they were finding it too spicy, and I was like, God damn, I didn't realise that French people were whiter than us, but they are so by extension. 00:27:36.319 --> 00:27:39.359 I imagine the Belgians are also whiter than us as well. 00:27:39.759 --> 00:27:40.799 I didn't go to the curry. 00:27:41.039 --> 00:27:46.480 I mean to be fair, the um about the Japanese food was

great, but Jap Japan is the Anglos of the East. 00:27:46.559 --> 00:27:51.920 They are the neighbour who is split into north and south due to their colonial activities. 00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:53.599 Um yeah. 00:27:55.519 --> 00:27:57.920 The spiciest thing they've got is horseradish. 00:27:58.000 --> 00:27:59.039 Yeah, fair enough. 00:27:59.279 --> 00:28:02.559 But to be fair, yeah, so we did go for Japanese, it was good. 00:28:02.799 --> 00:28:06.240 Um and yeah, no, that's pretty much all we did in Antwerp. 00:28:06.480 --> 00:28:08.240 Oh, wait, one fun fact. 00:28:08.400 --> 00:28:09.359 Uh, all right. 00:28:10.160 --> 00:28:15.359 I'm gonna let you do what do they call an off license, an offie in Belgium, Adam? 00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:17.440 Well, it's not the same as every drop in the call. 00:28:18.400 --> 00:28:21.759 Yeah, if you need to grab a couple of cans, you go to the Nachtwinkel. 00:28:21.920 --> 00:28:24.079 You go to you go to the Nightwinkle. 00:28:24.240 --> 00:28:27.519 Um I do a couple of cans on the Nachtwinkel. 00:28:29.359 --> 00:28:33.680 Linguistically, I know enough Germans sort of know the similar routes. 00:28:33.759 --> 00:28:35.599 I'm not saying they're the same language. 00:28:35.759 --> 00:28:37.680 Uh, I found out the hard way. 00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:43.359 Um but in terms of like it's just I think it's just Dutch. 00:28:43.440 --> 00:28:45.200 I came to the conclusion that it's just Dutch. 00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:47.759 Well, Flemich, yeah, Flemich is a dialect of Dutch. 00:28:47.920 --> 00:28:49.440 I know, but it's that's it. 00:28:49.599 --> 00:28:59.680 Like the Belgians like to be funny about their language, they're like, oh well, maybe we speak a bit of French, or maybe a bit of German, or maybe a bit of Dutch, but not this Dutch we speak Flemish, which is like a dialect, it's just Dutch. 00:28:59.839 --> 00:29:06.160 They just speak Dutch, even near the French bit, they speak Dutch, which is a silly enough language as it is. 00:29:06.400 --> 00:29:14.960 Yeah, like how can you possibly you just you walk around the Netherlands and you just read any sign and you're like, and it's the same in Belgium because it's the same. 00:29:15.279 --> 00:29:18.480 You read any sign, you're like, how in the sweet Jesus fuck you expect to? 00:29:18.640 --> 00:29:20.720 Oh, let me grab some cans from the knackwinkle. 00:29:20.799 --> 00:29:26.319 How do you expect me to take you seriously when I have to grab my cans from the knackwinkle? 00:29:27.119 --> 00:29:32.559 Oh, but a fucking knack twinkle though, like it is the greatest selection of cans you ever see in your life. 00:29:32.720 --> 00:29:35.519 It's like, oh, I really fancy a monastic cripple. 00:29:35.759 --> 00:29:44.880 Oh, you say that, but like I realize that I've been more exposed about because I've with this is jumping forward, but uh when I was chatting to the German lads, right? 00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:54.480 I realized that I have a high opinion of Belgian beer, but I've been a lot more exposed to Belgian beer because German beer doesn't seem to make it out of Germany as much. 00:29:56.559 --> 00:29:57.920 Yeah, it doesn't really. 00:29:58.160 --> 00:30:01.200 It's not a lot of there's name name five German beers. 00:30:01.279 --> 00:30:03.599 Uh Paul Lana, I can't think of another one. 00:30:03.839 --> 00:30:16.160 Um, so we've got Paul Anna, we've got Erdinger, I mean Stiegel is Austrian, but you know, linguistic pretty fucking also, isn't it? 00:30:16.319 --> 00:30:25.279 We've got Augustina, we've got German Weiss beers, definitely, but in terms of just German like lagers, it's like Paul Lana. 00:30:25.680 --> 00:30:28.160 Urbanbro, Hofbro. 00:30:29.519 --> 00:30:39.839 It's hard, but compared to Belgians, like you've got your Leffers, you've got your sometimes you get your Lechufin, you can find a quack, you can find in the supermarket, you can get a lot of Belgian beers. 00:30:39.920 --> 00:30:44.480 You get your Duvel, you can get uh, you know, you can find uh Delirium. 00:30:44.640 --> 00:30:48.720 There's a lot more Belgian beer penetration than German beer penetration. 00:30:48.960 --> 00:30:51.440 I realize that's that's influenced my opinion. 00:30:51.599 --> 00:31:00.960 I I think I think highly a Belgian beer compared to German beer because I just haven't tried as many German beers, and I I'm now making it my vow, I need to try more German beers. 00:31:01.279 --> 00:31:14.240 So meet me and Jez were in Munich a couple winters back, and uh oh fucking Munich by the Munich in winter is great because they so overcompensate for all the fucking evil stuff they did. 00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:19.359 They're like, we are the land of roast pork and cake and beer and mold wine. 00:31:19.519 --> 00:31:21.039 You're like, oh, this is lovely. 00:31:21.200 --> 00:31:25.680 I'm still going to go to the Jewish Museum though, because I know what you fucking did. 00:31:25.920 --> 00:31:33.680 Um but uh the the beer scene is is is great there, although it's very standardized because of the Reinheitskabort and stuff. 00:31:33.839 --> 00:31:41.519 And the thing is, the kind of food that I end up eating in Bavaria is not the kind of fucking food that goes with heavy lagers. 00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:48.559 It's like, oh yeah, I'm gonna eat some fucking um like dumplings and cartoffel salad and pretzels and fucking cake. 00:31:48.640 --> 00:31:50.720 You're also gonna go great with that, a wheat beer. 00:31:51.519 --> 00:32:01.680 Uh that yeah, I've I I have an absolute weirboo for Bavarian food, which I'm not gonna export to the whole of Germany, although the whole of Germany does seem to like pretend to be Bavarian sometimes. 00:32:01.759 --> 00:32:06.000 I was in high we went to Heidelberg afterwards and I was like, what's the regional thing in this fucking place? 00:32:06.079 --> 00:32:09.839 And it's like, oh, our specialty here is Bavarian style Schweinbreiter. 00:32:10.160 --> 00:32:12.079 I've

eaten pork shoulder for seven days. 00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:15.839 Of course I'm gonna fucking order it again, but I was expecting more. 00:32:17.359 --> 00:32:18.880 But yeah, I mean that's the thing. 00:32:18.960 --> 00:32:22.799 I don't know, Belgian beer is excellent, but I need to try more German beer. 00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:25.359 I mean it's also eight percent. 00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:31.039 Let's be people like British people love Belgian beer because it's a fancy way of drinking special brew that makes you feel better. 00:32:31.200 --> 00:32:34.480 Yeah, it's called a schmorgeswein stand and it's very cultural. 00:32:34.799 --> 00:32:43.519 Oh no, I I no, I'm not drinking special brew, I'm drinking a bush scaldus, which is 12%, but actually uh actually it's cultured. 00:32:44.720 --> 00:32:51.920 I'm not drinking I'm not drinking fucking Polish 9% cans, I'm drinking a Pavel Quack. 00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:54.240 Yeah, no, exactly. 00:32:54.480 --> 00:33:03.119 So anyway, that was that was Belgium, and then we had to get up early and get an EBA, which took almost as long as walking because of the one-way system. 00:33:03.359 --> 00:33:06.640 But good up I'm a pedestrian uh supremacist. 00:33:07.119 --> 00:33:20.480 Um yeah, we got to train station, we got on the train, uh, as you do train station to second Belgium to Kortjeck, quarter Reich, Court Reich, Courterick. 00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:24.480 I still say Cort, I think you should pronounce it Court Reich. 00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:30.720 I heard some people say Court Reich, some people say Courtric. 00:33:31.279 --> 00:33:36.640 And then we uh got off at the station at Court Corto? 00:33:37.519 --> 00:33:38.319 Court quarter. 00:33:38.880 --> 00:33:39.680 I'll stop doing that now. 00:33:39.759 --> 00:33:46.880 So we got off at the train station and we were like looking for where to get the butt with all our shit because like Mark and Lorano had decided to bring like a house. 00:33:47.119 --> 00:33:51.200 Like instead of bringing a tent, they just decided nah fuck it, we're just gonna bring a house. 00:33:51.359 --> 00:33:56.720 It was like some enormous like octagonal palace, yeah. 00:33:57.359 --> 00:34:01.119 It was like its own big suitcase on wheels, and its own power station. 00:34:01.200 --> 00:34:01.920 They brought their own station. 00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:07.680 They had their own sort of power station thingy, and uh there was no lifts or anything, it was quite a small station. 00:34:07.839 --> 00:34:16.960 They had to take that up the stairs, walk out, and then we're looking for like the bus that's supposed to take us somewhere, try to get a taxi, realise it's kind of expensive, think all right, we'll we'll look for the bus. 00:34:17.280 --> 00:34:24.880 I go into the information station, and then they say, Oh, yeah, you want to go the other side, so I have to go back through the station, down the stairs, blah blah blah, up the stairs, go up the stairs. 00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:38.880

There's a bunch of other metalhead-looking people, like, okay, right around here at some point, and then some shit we're waiting there for a while, and I think like some shit gets said in Belgium that we don't understand, and the metalhead-looking people start walking that the other way, and they're going, Oh, we need to get the bus from the other side through there. 00:34:38.960 --> 00:34:51.840 So we're going back down the stairs, back up the stairs, back to the side that we had initially got out on, and then we're like, fuck it, let's just get the taxi, and uh, and we got the taxi, it's expensive 25 euros like 25 euro per taxi. 00:34:51.920 --> 00:34:53.920 So, in total for us, it was 50 euro. 00:34:54.320 --> 00:35:03.199 Um, and yeah, so we got there, we walked into the campsite, and they have this interesting system. 00:35:03.840 --> 00:35:06.480 So, usually at like a UK. 00:35:06.719 --> 00:35:20.400 Well, one thing I will say is at a UK festival, there's this thing called security where they like kind of like they well, a blood stock these days, they've got like dogs and they've got people they want to like check in, blah blah blah. 00:35:20.480 --> 00:35:25.599 And I was kind of ready for that, not for any reason, just in general, just ready to go through the process as one does, you know. 00:35:25.840 --> 00:35:28.239 Um, and I just walked straight through. 00:35:28.480 --> 00:35:30.559 I was like, oh where is it? 00:35:30.800 --> 00:35:31.280 Is it down? 00:35:31.360 --> 00:35:32.000 Is it further there? 00:35:32.079 --> 00:35:33.280 Is that what they're gonna no? 00:35:33.519 --> 00:35:36.000 Just no, okay. 00:35:36.639 --> 00:35:42.320 United Kingdom is a nation of drug addicts, and uh and get treated as such in Belgium. 00:35:42.400 --> 00:35:43.679 There's just this is none of that. 00:35:43.760 --> 00:35:48.000 You get so used to like the all this security presence, all this pat down, pat down. 00:35:48.079 --> 00:35:49.599 I get so normalized. 00:35:49.760 --> 00:35:52.000 Uh that yeah, just walk straight in. 00:35:52.079 --> 00:36:03.280 Uh, but they had an odd system, so usually it's just a fucking free-for-you get there, you try and uh uh lay out as much space as you can because your mates are coming and you're gonna try and squeeze a gazebo and all the shit. 00:36:03.440 --> 00:36:05.199 We had pre-rented a gazebo. 00:36:05.360 --> 00:36:07.199 Shout out Lorana for discovering that. 00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:09.199 That was great, great shout that. 00:36:09.519 --> 00:36:13.519 So we had already rented a gazebo, we didn't know where to pick it up from, though. 00:36:13.599 --> 00:36:38.239 So it turns out they've got this system where they've got like a rope, it's not a free-for-all, they've got a rope, and you they let you queue up and then they move the rope a bit, and then you use put your shit down, and then they move it further, and like more people come in and fill in the space because they're trying to make all the space

get used up, so like they sort of systematically fill up the campsite by make moving this rope along, which quite honestly was extremely stressful. 00:36:39.840 --> 00:36:43.119 You got the movie okay, get the popped it open, get the power's like, fuck it throw it out. 00:36:43.679 --> 00:36:46.320 We've got space in just trying to throw it out as quick as you can. 00:36:46.400 --> 00:36:52.800 Because by the time you're trying to mark, like someone else has put a tent right in the middle of like the campsite you're trying to make, and you're like, Can you move? 00:36:52.960 --> 00:37:03.119 They're like, No, no, and at the same time, there's a guy on a bike, and this bike is attached to an entire sound system that is playing Soul Flies jump the fuck up at you. 00:37:03.360 --> 00:37:04.800 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:37:05.440 --> 00:37:07.599 Like a sort of musical terrorist. 00:37:07.920 --> 00:37:12.079 Uh yeah, so we got our shit set up. 00:37:12.239 --> 00:37:27.440 We're like, there's no way, because Mark and Lorraine had their giant tent, our tent was not massive, yours was pretty small, but uh we set up, we were like, There's no way we're gonna fit a gazebo in, and then uh somehow we did uh the end, and it was pretty good. 00:37:27.519 --> 00:37:29.679 Um Germans made some space for us. 00:37:29.920 --> 00:37:30.559 Oh, did they? 00:37:30.719 --> 00:37:33.599 Yeah, so shout out the Germans because they also led me the mallet. 00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:40.159 So you're yeah, so we were camped next to we had our our our gazebo, our table and chairs. 00:37:40.320 --> 00:38:00.159 Shout out to the rental people at Alcatraz, and we were next to these German lads who had the same sort of gazebo and chairs that we did, and then the only other local people we interacted with is oh, it was Jason, shout out Jason, the lovely Belgian Jason, who's sort of the other way, and then of course we had the the French uh over there. 00:38:00.800 --> 00:38:04.639 Uh shout out to Jordan was his actual name. 00:38:04.800 --> 00:38:16.480 Uh and uh I don't know the names of any of the other people, but yeah, he was also apparently camping with uh a member of the poolet, uh, or as we would call them the UK pigs. 00:38:17.440 --> 00:38:22.079 Uh yeah, he was camped with a cop, um, which was kind of funny. 00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:23.360 He was camped with a cop. 00:38:23.599 --> 00:38:25.360 He was camped with a cop, yeah. 00:38:25.760 --> 00:38:36.000 But I mean the cop the same cop we oh well, I mean you clear we clearly has to handle the stuff quite a bit, so you know he knows quality stuff and he sees it. 00:38:36.239 --> 00:38:41.840 They had to do with it, they had to do they had to handle their illicit activities, which I of course had nothing to do with. 00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:49.440 Um, they had to handle their illicit activities when the cop was not there because they kept they kept sneaking about. 00:38:49.760 --> 00:38:52.400 Yeah, there were cops patrolling at the campsite as well. 00:38:52.639 --> 00:38:53.760 No, it wasn't a festival cop. 00:38:54.000 --> 00:39:04.159 I think it was just uh like a gendarme or something, like just a French cop who's off duty who just came to the festival as a mate with them, but they couldn't do anything in front of them that was illicit because they're a cop. 00:39:05.440 --> 00:39:07.119 That's that's kind of your fault to be honest. 00:39:07.199 --> 00:39:09.360 Like you don't don't invite fucking cops to a festival. 00:39:09.599 --> 00:39:10.239 Right? 00:39:11.039 --> 00:39:11.360 Right? 00:39:11.679 --> 00:39:12.320 It's quite simple. 00:39:12.559 --> 00:39:18.079 You know, like yeah, no, no, big ups the lads from Munster, big ups, Torben, Jonas, and the lads. 00:39:18.320 --> 00:39:24.719 Uh we me and Mark get drunk enough, and we're suddenly singing the entirety of the Heimler Alfmarch. 00:39:24.880 --> 00:39:27.599 Um classic East German tunage. 00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:33.679 Um I realize this is not the time to practice my German because my hearing if that language is atrocious. 00:39:33.760 --> 00:39:46.719 Uh but luckily Mark is the great diplomat between the various nations and managed to establish a rapport with the French, um, purely on the basis of accents, um, which was which was which was beautiful. 00:39:46.880 --> 00:39:50.719 I I come I conked out most nights pretty early because I just knackered. 00:39:50.960 --> 00:39:58.000 I was like, I've always been listening to it, and I'm like, oh man, there's a rapport going on here. 00:39:58.960 --> 00:40:01.920 To use the official term of of Enfrante. 00:40:04.480 --> 00:40:07.199 Yeah, so anyway, so festival. 00:40:07.280 --> 00:40:11.920 So we get there and it's like a ploughed field, hay field, not a hay field. 00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:14.480 Well, I'm saying that like I don't know agriculture. 00:40:14.639 --> 00:40:16.320 No, it was like an arable field, right? 00:40:16.400 --> 00:40:21.280 So they'd the the hay, the sort of uh trimmings were out there on the field. 00:40:21.360 --> 00:40:25.519 Uh so it's it was the easiest field I've ever had to hammer pegs into. 00:40:25.599 --> 00:40:26.800 I will say that. 00:40:27.199 --> 00:40:30.880 Um shout out the German lads for lending me their mallet. 00:40:31.039 --> 00:40:32.559 Uh and yeah, we got set up. 00:40:32.719 --> 00:40:35.760 Oh god, and that was the first shock of the festival. 00:40:35.920 --> 00:40:45.280 Setting up the tent, walking into the little shop they had in the campsite, saying that they had a beer called Primus, no affiliation. 00:40:46.159 --> 00:40:51.039 And they were selling six packs of like 330mm cans that said like 4 euro 50. 00:40:51.519 --> 00:40:52.000 Well, that's good. 00:40:52.079 --> 00:41:06.559 Well, so you go and you pay for it, and they ask you for like, I'm not doing the maths here, but like 20-something euro or 30-something euro, and it's like, oh, it's 4.50 per 330 milliliter. 00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:08.800 27

euros for the whole thing. 00:41:09.039 --> 00:41:09.360 Mr. 00:41:09.519 --> 00:41:11.199 Maths over here, yeah. 00:41:11.360 --> 00:41:12.559 27 euro. 00:41:13.119 --> 00:41:14.480 27 euro. 00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:20.000 Um, uh, yeah, I I got I I paid that twice. 00:41:20.159 --> 00:41:26.000 The first time when I was like, oh, but like we needed cold beer because it was really hot and we'd just set up camp. 00:41:26.079 --> 00:41:28.400 Like it's medically necessary to get cold beer. 00:41:28.559 --> 00:41:38.719 And later on the festival, when I was like, oh, it's really hot and I really want cold beer, so I guess I'll pay another like 27 euros for fucking six six cans of not very good Belgian lago. 00:41:39.199 --> 00:41:41.599 It was it was yeah, it was at the best. 00:41:41.679 --> 00:41:48.239 I mean, we went to like a shop in uh Cotwright to get some beers beforehand, and some of them were pretty good. 00:41:48.559 --> 00:41:54.960 Some of them were I got some what the fuck did I drink? 00:41:55.039 --> 00:41:55.599 I don't even know. 00:41:56.000 --> 00:41:56.639 Cherry quack. 00:41:56.960 --> 00:41:57.440 No, I got two. 00:41:57.679 --> 00:41:59.760 That was one of the things I yeah, I got cherry quack. 00:41:59.840 --> 00:42:02.239 So pepper quack is one of the greatest beers in human history. 00:42:02.400 --> 00:42:02.719 I don't know. 00:42:03.119 --> 00:42:06.719 And by putting cherry in it, they have absolutely fucked it. 00:42:06.800 --> 00:42:07.360 It was like Dr. 00:42:07.519 --> 00:42:08.800 Pepper about the sugar. 00:42:08.960 --> 00:42:10.639 Um I should have got fucking spirits. 00:42:11.679 --> 00:42:14.639 But because we needed cool beer forgot. 00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:18.400 We needed cool beer though, because this was the first. 00:42:18.559 --> 00:42:21.119 I don't know if one's noticed this, but it's been pretty fucking up. 00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:27.760 And this was the first festival in the era of um everyone more or less agreeing that global warming is a thing. 00:42:27.840 --> 00:42:30.239 Uh despite the fact we've all been yelling about it for ages. 00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:38.719 Uh, but yes, yeah, or the first festival since the desertification of Europe, which is not as delicious as it sounds. 00:42:39.039 --> 00:42:41.199 It was so I mean the the dust. 00:42:41.679 --> 00:42:43.440 No Belgium waffles involved. 00:42:44.159 --> 00:42:47.360 The dust, the dust was fucking bad. 00:42:47.599 --> 00:42:50.320 Apparently, um shout to Tamson. 00:42:50.400 --> 00:42:58.800 She was telling me that in Brutal Assault Festival in Czechia, there was a fire truck that was damping down the dust, because they understand that dust is bad for you. 00:42:59.039 --> 00:43:06.960 Um whereas in fucking Alcatraz and loads of festivals to be honest all across Europe and the UK, because Brexit means Brexit. 00:43:07.119 --> 00:43:12.000 Um they just weren't doing anything about the dust, they weren't providing face coverings or anything.

00:43:12.239 --> 00:43:15.519 I brought a bandana in case of marsh pit dust. 00:43:15.679 --> 00:43:20.079 We would just use we I was like, no, lads, we all went to go fucking get bandanas. 00:43:20.320 --> 00:43:21.760 It was fucking boiling. 00:43:22.159 --> 00:43:26.480 Uh the water wasn't and the weird thing as well was the water situations in the camp. 00:43:27.280 --> 00:43:28.159 This is a major theme. 00:43:28.239 --> 00:43:29.199 Yeah, this was weird. 00:43:29.760 --> 00:43:30.719 The water situation. 00:43:30.960 --> 00:43:35.199 So this so in Alcatraz, um, it's cause it's named after a prison. 00:43:35.440 --> 00:43:40.239 In in Alcatraz prison, you probably had better access to hydration than Alcatraz. 00:43:40.639 --> 00:43:59.679 This is one of the things I did point out to some of the staff, which they did not appreciate is that like I'm pretty sure in prisons you have to provide drinking water, but at Alcatraz, they had in the campsite they had these taps, and everyone was using them clearly to fill up their water to drink, but it wasn't technically it didn't say drinking. 00:44:00.159 --> 00:44:03.280 Water, it also said didn't say don't drink this, which is normal at a festival. 00:44:03.440 --> 00:44:06.239 Usually you just drink the water, it doesn't say anything, it's just the water. 00:44:06.480 --> 00:44:11.920 But there's a sort of word was going around the German guys were telling me, like, Oh, apparently it's not drinking water, we're not supposed to drink it. 00:44:12.079 --> 00:44:13.440 So I was like, What the fuck? 00:44:13.599 --> 00:44:14.960 I already filled up bottles full of this. 00:44:15.039 --> 00:44:17.199 I'd always be drinking loads of this shit, right? 00:44:17.840 --> 00:44:25.280 And it didn't smell funny, it didn't taste funny, it just you know, it didn't taste amazing, but it's like tastes pretty much the same as the water in Croydon. 00:44:25.440 --> 00:44:31.760 Um, and I went up to these staff at their toilets, and I was like, Is the water here drinking water? 00:44:31.840 --> 00:44:36.480 And they're like, Oh, well, we're not uh legally allowed to say. 00:44:36.559 --> 00:44:38.639 I mean, it's it's not tested, it's untested. 00:44:38.719 --> 00:44:41.199 It's like okay, but am I gonna get sick if I drink it? 00:44:41.280 --> 00:44:44.719 And they went, No, no, you won't get sick if you drink it. 00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:46.480 So it's fine for me to drink the water. 00:44:46.559 --> 00:44:49.199 They said, Well, we can't really, we're not allowed to say. 00:44:49.360 --> 00:44:52.639 I was just like, just fucking tell me if I can drink it or not. 00:44:52.800 --> 00:44:59.119 So it was just like really unsettling, and I just decided that I was gonna drink it, and I was fine. 00:44:59.199 --> 00:45:00.079 We were all fine in the end. 00:45:00.159 --> 00:45:01.199 I think we were all fine. 00:45:01.679 --> 00:45:08.960 Um, I had I didn't don't think I had a solid poo at the festival, but I don't think that was related to the water as much as I'd like to blame that. 00:45:09.280 --> 00:45:10.960 That that was unrelated, I got it. 00:45:11.039 --> 00:45:12.480 That was definitely unrelated. 00:45:12.719 --> 00:45:19.360 The toilet situation uh outcast, I will say that, was they had the greatest fucking festival. 00:45:19.599 --> 00:45:22.480 Like you're not sitting there like most festival toilets, and you just like you're in the. 00:45:25.440 --> 00:45:30.480 Yeah, I mean, people might know this about UK festivals, but they're not emptied out very often. 00:45:30.639 --> 00:45:41.280 And occasionally, part of the ritual of taking a poon UK festival is you have to try and piss through the amount of shit so that when you sit down, you don't gain more shit. 00:45:41.840 --> 00:45:44.800 Yeah, like it's like squat over a dough. 00:45:44.960 --> 00:45:47.119 I mean, it's probably great for your fucking gut bio. 00:45:48.079 --> 00:45:48.559 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:45:49.039 --> 00:45:53.280 Fucking gut bio because the scraping of fucking quads dies as well. 00:45:53.679 --> 00:46:00.880 No, because you just sit down the fucking toilet in bloodstock on day fucking three, and you get a fecal matter transplant immediately. 00:46:00.960 --> 00:46:08.000 You know, you get all that fucking good bacteria, whatever fucking cunt's been there beforehand, and survive out alcohol at high level. 00:46:08.239 --> 00:46:18.719 Whereas for us, for as this this one, you were coming out of the toilet, which was quite cool, always had paper, had lighting, and someone would go in immediately and then clean it. 00:46:18.800 --> 00:46:22.079 And the first thing please don't look in there. 00:46:22.320 --> 00:46:26.880 Yeah, in the morning, it was like because that's when everyone goes in here for their morning constitution. 00:46:27.119 --> 00:46:31.360 They would clean after everyone went in, and you'd wait for an attendant to say, Yeah, go and go in this one. 00:46:31.440 --> 00:46:32.320 I've just cleaned it. 00:46:32.480 --> 00:46:33.679 It's fucking mental. 00:46:33.760 --> 00:46:37.360 There's a really powerful flush which was foot activated. 00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:46.400 Just can everybody just don't take the no drinking water thing away, but please take the clean toilets thing, other festivals, learn from Alcatraz. 00:46:46.719 --> 00:46:49.119 Um my god, and the showers are amazing. 00:46:49.199 --> 00:46:52.079 Like the showers were good cool, they were warm. 00:46:52.400 --> 00:46:55.760 Yeah, no, they did break down once when I tried to use them. 00:46:55.840 --> 00:47:02.400 I had to wait covered in conditioner and uh my uh skin-friendly shower emollient. 00:47:02.480 --> 00:47:10.880 Um, just completely head to toe, and then the water stopped working, and they were just saying stuff in Belgium, and I was like, Can anyone say in English? 00:47:11.199 --> 00:47:12.400 What's going on? 00:47:12.719 --> 00:47:14.559 And they were like, it's broken down.

00:47:14.719 --> 00:47:15.679 How long is it gonna take? 00:47:16.400 --> 00:47:21.199 So I just sat there for like 15 minutes, but then it did get going again in the end. 00:47:21.360 --> 00:47:36.800 But the whole the water situation was weird because not only was the water in a grey area as to whether it was drinking water in the campsite, but if you brought a bottle of water into the arena, they would make you empty it out. 00:47:37.039 --> 00:47:43.679 You couldn't bring water into the arena, and so you could and you couldn't get free water in the arena. 00:47:43.760 --> 00:47:56.559 You couldn't you could, if you went to the toilets, you could fill it up there, and you see you could drink arena toilet water, which again grey area as to whether it's drinkable or not, or you could go to the bar and then fill it up and it would cost one token. 00:47:56.639 --> 00:47:58.559 So I guess we should expect three euros fifty. 00:47:58.800 --> 00:48:06.159 Sorry, lie, one chain, which is yeah, about€360 for like 250 milliliters of water. 00:48:06.559 --> 00:48:08.480 They'd like well, they'd fill up your bottle. 00:48:08.639 --> 00:48:15.760 But then if you left, you weren't allowed to take the bowl out with you back to the campsite, they'll take your bottle off you and give you a uh a chain. 00:48:15.840 --> 00:48:17.280 Well, no, they give you a token. 00:48:17.360 --> 00:48:18.400 It's a complicated okay. 00:48:18.480 --> 00:48:19.760 So let's explain this system then. 00:48:19.840 --> 00:48:27.360 So we've already got money in chains us all, money makes us slaves, and so the money in the festival is chains. 00:48:27.840 --> 00:48:29.519 Yes, um, yeah. 00:48:29.679 --> 00:48:34.800 So we've already got an Avogate pound euro, uh, which to be fair, the pound was pretty strong, I've got to say. 00:48:34.880 --> 00:48:39.760 It's strong as it's I remember it being in in the last few trips I've been to Europe. 00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:48.480 Um, but then you have to get chains, and it's like, yeah, one chain is like 3 euros 60, I think. 00:48:49.119 --> 00:48:59.360 Um, yeah, and so you top up your chains onto your little wristband thingy, because they're just it's just the classic, like trying to obscure how much money you're actually spending on stuff. 00:48:59.760 --> 00:49:01.920 And then you go into the festival, right? 00:49:02.079 --> 00:49:07.679 And you were given a token, they didn't explain properly what the tokens were to me, so I didn't use them initially. 00:49:07.760 --> 00:49:10.159 But you get his hand, I thought it's breakfast tokens originally. 00:49:10.559 --> 00:49:11.199 Oh yeah, yeah. 00:49:12.000 --> 00:49:15.360 I'm like, oh yeah, I didn't pay you for the cotton little breakfast they do there. 00:49:15.599 --> 00:49:27.679 Yeah, no, and they so you give them a token initially and they give you the cup, otherwise, you have to pay a cup deposit, which I think was half a token, which is like£1.75,£1.75. 00:49:28.079 --> 00:49:30.639

Uh, and then a beer, right, is only one token. 00:49:30.719 --> 00:49:31.519 That's pretty good, isn't it? 00:49:31.599 --> 00:49:32.400 You think that's pretty good? 00:49:32.559 --> 00:49:35.440 3,60€for one beer, that's not bad, is it? 00:49:35.840 --> 00:49:41.679 25 centires, 250 millilitres, less than a pint, less than half. 00:49:42.559 --> 00:49:46.639 Less than half a pint. 00:49:47.280 --> 00:49:49.280 So you think, well, maybe I'll get a cocktail. 00:49:49.360 --> 00:49:51.119 What cocktails did they have, Adam? 00:49:51.440 --> 00:49:55.039 Oh my fucking so, in terms of golf wanker shit, right? 00:49:55.119 --> 00:50:04.880 Though we should like this, but there was only one place that did cocktails in the entire festival, and I'm not counting Irish coffees as a cocktail here. 00:50:05.039 --> 00:50:08.159 I don't know if you usually do, but you couldn't get any shots. 00:50:08.239 --> 00:50:14.559 You can only get one place that did cocktails, and they were about 25, maybe 30 centimetres maximum. 00:50:14.719 --> 00:50:22.079 They were about 14 euros, so about four fucking tokens, four fucking chains. 00:50:22.239 --> 00:50:33.679 Um of course I always round it up, and you could only get the only cocktails you can get with this one flavour of monster energy of your choice, and one spirit of your choice. 00:50:33.760 --> 00:50:35.199 Now that's not even technically a cocktail. 00:50:35.920 --> 00:50:39.519 That's not even a cocktail, that's bullshit, is what that is. 00:50:40.880 --> 00:50:43.920 You could not get you couldn't even get many fucking Belgian beers there. 00:50:44.000 --> 00:50:45.280 Like I for the beer. 00:50:48.559 --> 00:50:54.639 There's one bar that you could get um 57 litres of primus, and it's even kind of shit. 00:50:54.719 --> 00:50:58.320 Um couldn't get any ciders, you can get a nice cherry beer, a nice creek. 00:50:58.480 --> 00:50:59.519 I quite like that. 00:50:59.760 --> 00:51:10.719 Um and the other beers you can get, you can get you can get one triple in a nice plastic Belgian beer glass that had a fucking chip in it, so I probably couldn't have taken it out with me. 00:51:10.800 --> 00:51:14.159 Because you can only take the pint cup, you had to pay extra for it out with you. 00:51:14.400 --> 00:51:19.760 Like the drink situation was fucking atrocious. 00:51:20.559 --> 00:51:22.400 I need the drinks because it's this does be weird. 00:51:22.480 --> 00:51:24.800 You're hacking up literal mud every time. 00:51:25.280 --> 00:51:28.000 And they know it's bad, they know the heat is bad. 00:51:28.800 --> 00:51:31.519 Okay, yeah, we have to get to this right, because this is the crazy thing. 00:51:31.760 --> 00:51:34.559 Like I said, no free water in the festival. 00:51:34.639 --> 00:51:36.480 You can fill up the toilet water, but it's questionable. 00:51:37.199 --> 00:51:39.519 They have free water at the bars, but only on the hottest day. 00:51:39.840 --> 00:51:41.679 Only on the day till seven. 00:51:42.079

--> 00:51:50.719 No, it's from the when the temperature was when it was forecasted to go above 30 degrees, they would serve it from 2 until 7 pm. 00:51:51.039 --> 00:51:55.039 Yeah, that's weirder than just not giving it for that's weirder. 00:51:55.199 --> 00:51:56.960 That's weirder than just not having it at all. 00:51:57.119 --> 00:52:15.360 Either just give people water or don't give people water, but don't acknowledge that people need water, but only give it in a specific window and then go back to charging people half a token, which is about£1.75, for 250 milliliters of water in a cup. 00:52:15.599 --> 00:52:25.760 When you acknowledge in a window of five hours that maybe people need fucking water during a heat wave when Europe has become a desert. 00:52:26.000 --> 00:52:31.280 This is part of my thesis that we'll we'll be exploring that Belgium is not a real country, right? 00:52:31.360 --> 00:52:33.679 There's two core pieces of evidence. 00:52:33.840 --> 00:52:35.119 Number one, pick a language. 00:52:35.280 --> 00:52:37.119 If you want to be a country, pick a language. 00:52:37.199 --> 00:52:37.920 What do you speak? 00:52:38.000 --> 00:52:42.480 Oh, around here we speak French, around here we speak German, we speak Flemish, it's so late. 00:52:42.639 --> 00:52:43.440 Pick a language. 00:52:43.599 --> 00:52:46.719 Number two, provide clean drinking water. 00:52:46.880 --> 00:52:49.280 It's not a very difficult thing for a civilization to do. 00:52:49.360 --> 00:52:51.519 And you might be saying, Oh, it's just a festival, they want to make money. 00:52:51.679 --> 00:52:52.239 Well, guess what? 00:52:52.320 --> 00:52:53.599 Guess what else wants to make money? 00:52:53.760 --> 00:53:02.079 Festivals in the UK download wants to is way more corporate rip-off bullshit than Alcatraz, but they provide free drinking water. 00:53:02.159 --> 00:53:02.400 Why? 00:53:02.480 --> 00:53:03.920 Because they legally have to. 00:53:04.159 --> 00:53:04.880 Why is that? 00:53:05.039 --> 00:53:19.519 Because the United Kingdom, for all its faults, for all its foibles, we picked a language and we provide, you have to provide free drinking water because we are a real country, and Belgium does not meet these pretty low bars, in my opinion. 00:53:19.679 --> 00:53:23.360 Therefore, in conclusion, Belgium not a real country. 00:53:23.679 --> 00:53:27.679 I think it'd be kind of sick, actually, if I had to order drinks of bloodstock in Welsh. 00:53:27.760 --> 00:53:29.440 That'd be fucking sick, actually. 00:53:31.440 --> 00:53:32.639 I'm not a monolinguistic. 00:53:32.800 --> 00:53:36.079 I mean, I think there are two kinds, I think they only speak one language. 00:53:36.239 --> 00:53:45.760 Uh, one of them is uh America, which is Spanish, of course, and then the second one is Germany, because there's too many fucking dialects of German and they're really hard to learn. 00:53:46.000 --> 00:53:49.280 So, apart from that, um I'm all I'm all for it. 00:53:49.519 --> 00:53:53.199 But the the Mad Max situation at Alcatraz. 00:53:53.519 --> 00:54:00.719 Oh, yeah, that was a really interesting facet, and that that dovetail that that segues really nicely from uh this water conversation. 00:54:00.800 --> 00:54:04.480 So there's an ongoing water shortage, and Europe has become a desert. 00:54:04.559 --> 00:54:07.199 They won't everyone's parched and everyone's coughing up mud. 00:54:07.280 --> 00:54:08.960 And they think, do you know what we should have? 00:54:09.199 --> 00:54:14.559 A bunch of Mad Max themed stuff, like people breathing fire, and oh my god, are you standing there? 00:54:14.719 --> 00:54:21.840 It's like 30 whatever the fuck degrees, and then some country starts blowing all this fire, and you're like, Oh, this is not the day, mate. 00:54:21.920 --> 00:54:23.280 This is this is not the day. 00:54:23.679 --> 00:54:34.880 There's a giant mechanical bird that shoots fire, and the backdrop behind this bird is the war of the worlds, which means that this bird is technically from woking. 00:54:34.960 --> 00:55:05.039 Um and but as you go into the festival in the morning, I'll see how buttery went in the mornings, there's just this massive guy with devil horns in a fucking massive leather harness singing God of Thunder uh by Kiss and uh In League with Satan by Venom, as all of these women in leather cop uniforms um stand by like torturing racks and nooses and they hit you in the ass with clubs, and it's it's lovely actually. 00:55:05.199 --> 00:55:37.840 But um, it does take away from the fact that we had to smuggle in water and I'm having to have a bandana to get rid of the fucking dust, and every night I'm just hacking up because it has fully desertified, and I'm like, okay, I know it'd be feeling a bit like like fucking Mad Max, but if I'm having to smuggle water in water I know that is clean, in pouches that are designed for smuggling in cocktails, which do not exist at this festival, I kind of think it's a bit on the nose. 00:55:38.239 --> 00:55:39.840 No, true, true. 00:55:40.159 --> 00:55:42.559 Um I need to go for a piss. 00:55:42.639 --> 00:55:44.639 Do you reckon we can pause for a second? 00:55:45.440 --> 00:55:47.679 Yes, I'm gonna call it again. 00:55:49.760 --> 00:55:53.440 Yeah, so you've got the Mad Max people walking around. 00:55:53.519 --> 00:55:53.840 Yeah. 00:55:54.320 --> 00:55:55.679 And yeah. 00:55:56.079 --> 00:56:00.559 They had, I think during Metal Church, the they had the the the sexy cops. 00:56:00.639 --> 00:56:01.760 No, it was during Kitty. 00:56:02.000 --> 00:56:05.840 They had the sexy cops and they were spraying water on people at the front. 00:56:06.079 --> 00:56:07.679 Um I didn't see that. 00:56:07.760 --> 00:56:10.559 I mean, yeah, no, also big ups Kitty, they were fucking sick. 00:56:10.719 --> 00:56:12.960 They were good, but maybe we should get into that now. 00:56:13.119 --> 00:56:18.000 So we we pretty much before we do that, I want to say one more thing

about the the Mad Max contradictions. 00:56:18.320 --> 00:56:19.440 The Mad Max contradiction, okay. 00:56:19.760 --> 00:56:26.159 No water, dust everywhere, face coverings, kind of not even encouraged. 00:56:26.320 --> 00:56:30.159 Uh the food you could buy it was always gonna get dusty. 00:56:30.400 --> 00:56:32.239 Uh did get dusty. 00:56:32.400 --> 00:56:40.480 And however, they did want to acknowledge the fact that it was gonna be summer, big fucking climate change summer. 00:56:40.960 --> 00:56:42.880 There was free sun cream. 00:56:43.280 --> 00:56:47.679 Yeah, that was the other thing, it was free sun cream and free water, but only between two and seven. 00:56:47.840 --> 00:56:48.880 That's just yeah. 00:56:49.840 --> 00:56:52.639 Yeah, just perfect, perfect contradiction. 00:56:52.719 --> 00:56:58.800 It's like that it's it's Alcatraz Festival, it's structured like a prison but run by Kirst Armour. 00:57:00.719 --> 00:57:02.000 Yeah, literally. 00:57:02.239 --> 00:57:09.599 Um and yeah, no, that's a that's a PG tip that we've traversed there, which is uh if you go to a festival, they're not getting any cheaper. 00:57:09.760 --> 00:57:11.519 The drinks aren't getting any cheaper. 00:57:11.760 --> 00:57:14.159 So, how can you save yourself a bit of pee? 00:57:14.320 --> 00:57:22.320 Uh, shout out to Lorana, she brought them this time, but you can get these bags that come with little screw top ends and funnel, you get a funnel. 00:57:22.480 --> 00:57:36.800 And what you want to do is you want to bring some spirits, some vodka, some rum, whatever your drink of choice is, and you want to fill up the bag fucking water in this case, or water in this case with the spirit, uh, screw it shut, you know, use the funnel, and then you want to put it, you know. 00:57:36.880 --> 00:57:42.719 What I do is I put it just behind my ass crack there because they don't really look at your back when you go in. 00:57:43.280 --> 00:57:45.039 I mean, it's not good if they give you a proper pattern. 00:57:45.360 --> 00:57:46.559 You might have to hide it better. 00:57:46.800 --> 00:57:50.480 You can hide it in a um combat short pocket. 00:57:50.880 --> 00:57:56.079 If you're a lady and you've got a fanny pack, put it in behind the or even if you're bloke, put it in behind your fanny pack. 00:57:56.159 --> 00:57:57.920 Umny pack's agenda. 00:57:58.079 --> 00:57:59.760 I mean, that's that's not what the name means, you know. 00:58:00.159 --> 00:58:03.440 No, I know, but uh blokes tend to wear it a little bit differently. 00:58:03.679 --> 00:58:05.760 Um, yeah, but you can, you know, you can position it. 00:58:05.840 --> 00:58:09.840 But yeah, so you can smuggle the pouch in and then get a soft drink. 00:58:10.000 --> 00:58:12.239 Ideally, they didn't have any slushies at Alcatraz. 00:58:12.480 --> 00:58:14.159 The best is when they have slushies at the festival. 00:58:14.239 --> 00:58:16.880 You get a slushie, you you pour it in. 00:58:17.119 --> 00:58:19.679 We were

getting iced tea that was that was pretty good. 00:58:19.840 --> 00:58:33.119 Uh and I I didn't try I didn't try this and I didn't bring the bags or anything, but uh another thing you I thought you could do is if you get some syrup, like uh like a peach syrup, like a ribean, or like a concentrate, like a squash, something like that. 00:58:33.360 --> 00:58:39.920 Mix it with the spirit in the bag, then all you need to get inside the festival is just go to where the water point is, right? 00:58:40.000 --> 00:58:42.159 Get it, and you can just add water to it. 00:58:42.400 --> 00:58:44.880 No, it's nice, but that will save you even more money. 00:58:44.960 --> 00:58:47.280 You don't even need to purchase a soft drink in the arena. 00:58:47.440 --> 00:58:48.559 So there's a top tip. 00:58:48.639 --> 00:58:53.440 I mean, I'm sure a lot of you already know that, but just in case you didn't, it's uh one for next time. 00:58:54.239 --> 00:58:57.039 Um about the fucking bands, the actual things, yeah. 00:58:57.360 --> 00:58:58.639 I was just about to say that. 00:58:58.800 --> 00:59:00.800 Let's talk about the bands. 00:59:00.960 --> 00:59:04.320 So the Thursday, I've got it up here. 00:59:04.639 --> 00:59:06.800 Uh, who we we didn't really see. 00:59:06.880 --> 00:59:08.159 Oh, we saw Left to Die. 00:59:08.480 --> 00:59:19.119 Uh, and they played a few, they're like a sort of death tribute band, and they played some death tracks, and it was great, and then they played some of their own tracks, and I got a point, and then uh I came back and it wasn't playing death tracks again. 00:59:19.280 --> 00:59:21.760 And they played pull the plug, uh, it was good. 00:59:21.840 --> 00:59:30.320 They played sort of more old school death stuff, uh, stuff off screen bloody gore, stuff off of leprosy, stuff off of spiritual healing. 00:59:30.559 --> 00:59:31.920 So that was cool. 00:59:32.159 --> 00:59:34.239 Uh, I saw a little bit of soul fly. 00:59:34.320 --> 00:59:36.000 I did I miss Sacred Reich. 00:59:36.079 --> 00:59:38.079 Uh, saw a little bit of Soul Fly. 00:59:38.559 --> 00:59:41.519 Um, and uh seemed to ripe. 00:59:41.760 --> 00:59:48.400 It was it was really busy, and I was worried that it was gonna be super busy the whole festival. 00:59:48.480 --> 00:59:58.639 But what we learned later, Adam, I don't know if you knew this, is that they let the whole surrounding area in town come to the Thursday, and that's why it was so fucking round on uh because yeah, because it is it's it's a bigger festival than I expected. 00:59:58.719 --> 01:00:00.400 It's kind of almost like download size. 01:00:00.559 --> 01:00:03.199 Yeah, but it was kind of intimidatingly big. 01:00:03.440 --> 01:00:09.760 Well, it was I don't yeah, it's I it it felt more intimate because of the way they'd layered it, which I quite liked once I figured that out. 01:00:10.000 --> 01:00:12.559 But um, but it was so packed on the Thursday. 01:00:12.639 --> 01:00:20.079 I think partly because it's like everyone goes into the arena when they once they've set their stuff up, but I think also they let everyone in the surrounding area in, which is why it was ram. 01:00:20.239 --> 01:00:23.920 Soulfly seemed cool for the bit that I saw, but I didn't see much of it. 01:00:24.079 --> 01:00:26.400 I didn't really see much on the Thursday, to be honest. 01:00:26.480 --> 01:00:28.480 I think I mostly just saw Left Left to Die. 01:00:28.880 --> 01:00:30.880 Uh, you saw Mickey D, right? 01:00:31.039 --> 01:00:34.320 Yeah, so Thursday, uh there's loads of bands I wanted to see on the Thursday. 01:00:34.480 --> 01:00:43.199 Left to die, I kind of wanted to wait to see, but I was like, there's too many festivals to go to now where the main thing is the tribute bands, and I'm like, Yeah, it's kind of depressing. 01:00:43.440 --> 01:00:45.840 I'm like, come on, can we not add something else? 01:00:45.920 --> 01:00:50.800 So I saw a different tribute band that's kind of not a tribute band on Thursday. 01:00:51.039 --> 01:00:54.559 So on Thursday, I kind of missed the Vegana Fry High. 01:00:54.800 --> 01:00:56.800 I was like, ah, yeah, they would have been great. 01:00:56.960 --> 01:01:04.639 But he said I went to go see Mickey D, um, who is basically the last member of Motehead still alive, and he played all the Motehead songs. 01:01:04.719 --> 01:01:06.320 And I brought Mark Arana with me. 01:01:06.480 --> 01:01:09.199 Uh yeah, guys, please, Motehead. 01:01:09.280 --> 01:01:24.559 And they were like, Oh, actually, Motehead are fucking sick because Mickey D played all the Motehead songs, like when he is doing all the amazing like ride work on the drums, all the double bass, and a lot of the stuff from the albums they did with Fin Lizzy's guitarist Brian Robertson. 01:01:24.719 --> 01:01:27.039 And they were like, Oh, actually, uh Motehead. 01:01:28.960 --> 01:01:29.599 Yeah, yeah. 01:01:29.760 --> 01:01:31.440 Like, that's the first album you joined them from. 01:01:31.519 --> 01:01:36.719 I was like, I was like, no, seriously, guys, Motehead have fucking tunes beyond just like you know, overkill and Ace of Spades now. 01:01:36.880 --> 01:01:38.239 They're like, Okay, this is fucking sick. 01:01:38.400 --> 01:01:52.000 Saw Sacred Reich, who um, despite being American band, are not uh like the Sacred Reich that is currently in office, and then yeah, Soul Flight, two fucking Rams, um Thrones. 01:01:52.320 --> 01:01:53.519 Uh I didn't see them. 01:01:53.599 --> 01:01:58.719 I think I only know them from making a weird porno once, and then Aylstorm headlines. 01:01:58.880 --> 01:02:07.920 Uh, but of course, Aylstorm are for children, and so I felt quite upset and uh that just I could hear them from the campsite. 01:02:08.239 --> 01:02:09.039 Oh mate. 01:02:09.280 --> 01:02:16.239 I wish it could have been like we were trying to sort of drown it out because oh my god, like Matees. 01:02:16.480 --> 01:02:17.599 I was like, no, fuck off. 01:02:17.760 -->

01:02:19.440 It's one of the worst things ever. 01:02:19.599 --> 01:02:36.079 You ever have this where you're in like more polite company and someone goes, Oh, I actually I I actually really like Mel, I like I like that band, Aylstorm, they're fun, and you're sort of like yeah, yeah, like you can't even like one of the good racist bands. 01:02:36.320 --> 01:02:38.000 They're a band, yeah. 01:02:39.039 --> 01:02:44.079 Yeah, Ailstorm, they're like your horror, yeah, yeah. 01:02:44.320 --> 01:02:46.079 Oh no, yes, just awful. 01:02:46.159 --> 01:02:50.079 Yeah, um Scots weren't even pirates, they're all fucking colonial administrators. 01:02:50.400 --> 01:02:55.519 If you are listening to this and you think I like Alestorm, click off of this now. 01:02:55.760 --> 01:02:57.519 This is not for you, click off of it now. 01:02:57.599 --> 01:02:59.440 I don't, you're not welcome. 01:02:59.760 --> 01:03:01.280 Exclude yourself, please. 01:03:01.440 --> 01:03:02.239 Thank you. 01:03:02.559 --> 01:03:05.360 And then all right, so that was that was Thursday. 01:03:05.760 --> 01:03:08.719 That was the Thursday, not many, yeah, never too many bands on Thursday. 01:03:08.800 --> 01:03:10.719 Because we had gotten gone into town as well. 01:03:10.880 --> 01:03:22.000 We've gone into town, which was a fucking faff, because we got a shuttle bus from the campsite to the middle of fucking nowhere, some random fucking street. 01:03:22.079 --> 01:03:28.000 We're like, oh, is yeah, we would go for an Ethiopian meal because you want to eat the regional cuisine, yeah. 01:03:28.159 --> 01:03:33.360 But turns out Belgium is now so desertified that they have siestas. 01:03:33.840 --> 01:03:37.920 Yeah, a lot of a lot of the restaurants were closed the time we wanted to eat. 01:03:38.320 --> 01:03:40.239 They do that in France as well, it's selling next door. 01:03:40.400 --> 01:03:42.880 They do that in a lot of UK restaurants as well, to be honest. 01:03:43.440 --> 01:03:45.280 They should do because, like, yeah, it's actually good work conditions. 01:03:45.440 --> 01:03:45.920 Like, fuck it. 01:03:46.000 --> 01:03:47.599 Like, it's it's close, you know. 01:03:47.920 --> 01:04:03.199 Anyway, but the the shuttle bus didn't take us into the town, it took us as fucking no man's land for some reason, and then we had to walk down the street and then get another bus to take us uh into town, and we got like a what was it, like a kebab ramp. 01:04:03.360 --> 01:04:06.239 We went to like uh shruma place, yeah. 01:04:06.480 --> 01:04:08.079 Mediterranean kind of that was really good. 01:04:08.159 --> 01:04:10.480 I have to say it was really banging tunes as well. 01:04:10.559 --> 01:04:11.519 Like, I mean tunes. 01:04:14.559 --> 01:04:15.360 Oh, it's amazing. 01:04:15.440 --> 01:04:20.079 Like you go to the fridge, it's like, oh, I'm gonna give I'm gonna grab I'm gonna grab a lovely Belgian beer, and it's like, oh don't worry about it. 01:04:20.719 --> 01:04:24.480 Glasses are also

with a fridge glass in the same fridge next to it. 01:04:24.559 --> 01:04:25.840 You don't get that in the UK. 01:04:26.000 --> 01:04:27.199 Fair play to the Belgians. 01:04:27.360 --> 01:04:28.159 You know what? 01:04:28.400 --> 01:04:35.280 Maybe they are a real country, the jury's still out, but yeah, then we went to real countries are bad. 01:04:35.519 --> 01:04:51.199 We went to a car four um to get, and it was a small one, it was expensive, but that's where we I got like two or three slabs of Gipula Lager and a few bits, and that's good, didn't did not last the festival, but that was the most we could carry. 01:04:51.360 --> 01:04:58.960 We were lucky though, because we were walking down the street, and then this random dude, I thought, like, I you know, when people hand you flies, you're just like for a demo originally. 01:04:59.039 --> 01:05:07.760 It's like handing us a flyer, like I thought it'd be some gig that I definitely wasn't gonna go to after the festival or something, and uh let me look at it, it's like shuttle back to the festival. 01:05:08.000 --> 01:05:10.880 Oh, hang on a second, and we asked me, it's like, yeah, like half an hour. 01:05:11.280 --> 01:05:16.320 We might as well just wait here half an hour and then get the um get the the shuttle. 01:05:16.400 --> 01:05:18.800 So we I think it was like five euro each or something. 01:05:18.880 --> 01:05:19.840 So we got that back. 01:05:20.000 --> 01:05:21.440 So that was before we went to see the band. 01:05:21.599 --> 01:05:25.519 So that's a bit of a non sequitur, but um, that was our experience. 01:05:25.760 --> 01:05:28.960 We didn't go back into the town, that wasn't gonna happen again, you know what I mean. 01:05:29.039 --> 01:05:54.000 But that's why I didn't see many bands on Thursday, because that whole experience included getting the train from Antwerp to this festival, setting up under this confusing rope-based system, uh, realizing there may or may not be drinking water in the campsite, paying 27 euros for six this all takes out of you to get a six pack of beer, and then uh figuring out how the fucking chains worked on the wristband. 01:05:54.159 --> 01:05:56.239 You can't see that many bands after that. 01:05:56.320 --> 01:05:59.280 That all takes out of you, plus dirty plus degree heat. 01:05:59.440 --> 01:06:02.079 So you Yeah, there wasn't much going on on the Sunday. 01:06:02.320 --> 01:06:02.960 On the Sunday? 01:06:03.119 --> 01:06:03.920 On the Thursday. 01:06:04.000 --> 01:06:05.119 There was a lot going on the Sunday. 01:06:05.679 --> 01:06:14.559 So on the Friday, I'd been worried because I was thinking, I don't know whether I want to see Crowbar or Ruins of Beverast, because I've never seen Ruins of Beverast before. 01:06:14.639 --> 01:06:16.719 I've seen Crowbar a few times, but I do really like Crowbar. 01:06:16.960 --> 01:06:21.280 Anyway, the good news was I don't have to worry about that because both bands fucking pulled out. 01:06:22.559 --> 01:06:23.440 Both bands pulled out. 01:06:23.599 --> 01:06:26.800 I saw neither Ruins of Beverast nor Crowbar. 01:06:27.199 --> 01:06:31.599 Um but I did see, I'm trying to think what I missed 200 Stab wounds. 01:06:31.679 --> 01:06:32.639 I don't know when they were on. 01:06:32.719 --> 01:06:36.159 I meant to see I fucking miss Witch Club Satan, which I'm pissed off about. 01:06:36.559 --> 01:06:39.199 Well looking back at this, I realised just how many bands I was meant to see. 01:06:39.920 --> 01:06:41.199 We didn't see so many bands. 01:06:41.679 --> 01:06:43.679 Revocation, I don't know if they couldn't make it either, I think. 01:06:45.039 --> 01:06:48.239 Yeah, I only I I only like one revocation song to be honest. 01:06:48.320 --> 01:06:52.239 I missed Alien Ant Farm, like fucking Craig Vassatorizing was in a band one of those guys. 01:06:52.320 --> 01:06:53.119 Like I should have gone on to the city. 01:06:53.519 --> 01:06:54.400 I didn't know that. 01:06:54.639 --> 01:06:59.039 I okay, so I saw Crimson Glory, who I'm not even really a fan of. 01:06:59.280 --> 01:07:01.119 They were pretty classic. 01:07:01.280 --> 01:07:06.159 I said progma, it's just like yeah, dad metal, like you know, stuff that's on Brutal Legends. 01:07:06.239 --> 01:07:09.039 They did not play the one song I know of theirs from Brutal Legends. 01:07:09.360 --> 01:07:10.159 Uh I don't like that. 01:07:10.719 --> 01:07:11.840 I don't like Queen of the Masquerades. 01:07:12.000 --> 01:07:14.079 I think I joined their set more than I thought it would because they didn't play. 01:07:14.480 --> 01:07:15.440 We saw Combi Christ. 01:07:16.079 --> 01:07:18.719 I saw a little bit of Comic Christ, never been that really into them. 01:07:18.880 --> 01:07:20.480 You saw Dirk Schneider, right? 01:07:20.639 --> 01:07:29.039 Oh, yeah, oh me, yeah, me and Rand went to go see Dirk Schneider because people don't know Udo Dirk Schneider is the uh original singer from the band, Except. 01:07:29.360 --> 01:07:30.400 And he has his own cell though. 01:07:35.840 --> 01:07:39.599 Yeah, so yeah, so he only played Except songs the entire set. 01:07:39.679 --> 01:07:41.360 So me and Rand just like fucking yeah. 01:07:41.519 --> 01:07:45.440 Like he played Metal Heart, played Fast of the Sharp, Princesses of the Dawn, Ballswall. 01:07:45.679 --> 01:07:48.800 It was old git excellence this festival. 01:07:49.199 --> 01:07:53.280 Uh, and then after that, we didn't we didn't see Armored Saint. 01:07:53.840 --> 01:07:56.400 Um, we did go see Health. 01:07:56.639 --> 01:07:58.559 Yeah, I fucking love Health. 01:07:58.719 --> 01:08:04.159 Um, they played their songs from um I played the song um was it Major Crimes from the Cyber. 01:08:04.559 --> 01:08:13.519 I hadn't listened to them before, I just heard they were cool, and Scarlet wanted to see them, so I went to Goth Industrial stuff, the horny goth industrial stuff. 01:08:15.119 --> 01:08:15.440 It is good. 01:08:15.519 --> 01:08:17.119 I like

horny goth industrial. 01:08:17.520 --> 01:08:22.159 But I was enjoying it, but suddenly, and this was in like this is so there's four stages. 01:08:22.319 --> 01:08:26.000 There was one open stage, and mercifully, the only the main stage was an open stage. 01:08:26.079 --> 01:08:28.800 Then there was two big tents and then one small tent. 01:08:29.039 --> 01:08:37.680 And these guys were on in the second stage, which was one of the big tents, and um I was watching them, and suddenly I was like, Oh, I need shit. 01:08:37.920 --> 01:08:40.560 I was like, wait, no, I really need shit. 01:08:40.800 --> 01:08:43.039 This happened to me a lot during the festival for some reason. 01:08:43.119 --> 01:08:45.439 Again, I don't think it was the water, but I like to blame it. 01:08:45.520 --> 01:08:47.439 It's probably just poor diet and lots of alcohol. 01:08:47.520 --> 01:08:48.319 But I was like, fuck. 01:08:48.640 --> 01:08:51.359 And I didn't quite know the layout of the festival yet. 01:08:51.520 --> 01:08:59.199 So I was gonna go back to the there was a sort of covered bit with lots of tables in the middle where people would eat their food, and there was kind of toilets near there. 01:08:59.279 --> 01:09:01.439 I thought I'm gonna go there because I know where it is, I'm gonna go there right now. 01:09:01.520 --> 01:09:05.199 So I go out in the tent, but I don't realise I'm in like the layer away from that. 01:09:05.279 --> 01:09:09.279 So I'm walking back thinking I'm getting and then I get all the way to like a different tent. 01:09:09.359 --> 01:09:12.319 I get to where the small tent is, and I think, how the fuck did I get here? 01:09:12.399 --> 01:09:13.359 How did I walk past it? 01:09:13.520 --> 01:09:17.520 Not realizing that that was like another layer back, and I'm panicking now, and I'm panicking now. 01:09:17.600 --> 01:09:25.119 So I just fucking bolt all the way back to the campsite because I know where the shitter is there, and just fucking hold on to deal like I just about made it. 01:09:25.199 --> 01:09:26.640 I just and I had to message Scarlett. 01:09:26.800 --> 01:09:31.279 I'm so so I went all the way back to the campsite because I didn't know where the shitters were and she was panicking. 01:09:31.439 --> 01:09:38.880 There were literally shitters right behind me right next to the stage, I just didn't know they existed, and I just panicked. 01:09:39.119 --> 01:09:40.479 Oh, that happened like three times. 01:09:40.640 --> 01:09:44.239 But those ones get more usage though, so you might be a bit more skeptical, you know. 01:09:44.399 --> 01:09:49.920 I mean, no, I mean still, I mean, compared to the loads of like festival uh download toilets or something. 01:09:50.000 --> 01:09:52.800 That was like palatial sweet, even next to the stage. 01:09:53.039 --> 01:09:54.479 We didn't see so many bands. 01:09:54.560 --> 01:09:58.479 Jeez, I think the only band we saw after that was when we went to go see fucking body count. 01:09:58.720 --> 01:10:00.800 Oh, we went to see body count, body count were cool. 01:10:00.880 --> 01:10:01.680 I'm trying to think of my story. 01:10:01.760 --> 01:10:05.359 Yeah, body count were wicked, uh, they were really good. 01:10:06.159 --> 01:10:08.800 Get shot, a great tribute to Charlie Kirk. 01:10:09.920 --> 01:10:12.880 I didn't see Savitars, I'm not really into them. 01:10:13.039 --> 01:10:21.680 Uh, but I did see it was kind of boring because they barely played half the fucking songs they usually play, and then uh in the middle was just kind of nothing. 01:10:21.840 --> 01:10:30.079 And eventually John Oliver was they just played a fucking YouTube video of John Oliver singing, and then eventually like, okay, now they're playing King and Edge of Four. 01:10:31.680 --> 01:10:34.720 No, not that bloke, the um the singer, John Oliver. 01:10:35.039 --> 01:10:37.359 Okay, I didn't know what a fucking singer is sabotaged. 01:10:37.439 --> 01:10:39.680 I thought you were talking about John Oliver, the liberal dude. 01:10:39.920 --> 01:10:40.640 And then who else? 01:10:40.800 --> 01:10:41.520 Uh yeah, Eagle. 01:10:41.600 --> 01:10:43.520 I I was at that point, I was just knackered. 01:10:43.600 --> 01:10:45.119 Uh I didn't see Eagle. 01:10:45.279 --> 01:10:46.560 I won't see Igor though, but it was. 01:10:46.800 --> 01:10:51.359 I really enjoyed Egor, and earlier that day I had to buy a bandana because of the dust. 01:10:51.760 --> 01:10:54.000 And I had it sort of tied around my fanny pack. 01:10:54.079 --> 01:11:18.079 But um uh during Igor, I was not involved with any kind of illicit substances, it was just the lager uh that made me suddenly I'm thinking Igor are great, I'm loving life, got me arms in the air, yeah, Igor, and it got all lights, and then suddenly I'm like looking down and trying to make sure that when I throw up it doesn't hit anyone's ankles. 01:11:19.279 --> 01:11:24.880 Yeah, and uh I managed to think not get any vomit on anyone's ankles, no one even noticed or turned around. 01:11:24.960 --> 01:11:31.520 Uh, but then I I sort of touched my bandana and I was like, So that got that got not great for Cloud James. 01:11:31.760 --> 01:11:32.800 That got tossed on the ground. 01:11:32.880 --> 01:11:39.840 That was uh you should have saved your vomit for those who deserved it, like Slaughter to Prevail, who none who none of us fucking saw. 01:11:40.079 --> 01:11:49.119 Yeah, none of course that I didn't see any of the headliners because they're all shit, but yeah, I really, really don't understand why Slaughter to Prevail are popular. 01:11:49.359 --> 01:11:52.479 I think they're just kind of pretty basic death core. 01:11:52.720 --> 01:11:57.600 It's really a guy has a blacked-out Nazi tattoo, and he's like, Oh, I'm a very sensitive man. 01:11:57.680 --> 01:11:59.680 Actually, I see the point of other people's stuff as well. 01:11:59.760 --> 01:12:04.239 And I was like, I would really haven't to narrativise this guy discovering

empathy in real time. 01:12:04.399 --> 01:12:07.920 Like, I'm sorry, no, but no, but we should be charitable because people can change. 01:12:08.079 --> 01:12:10.399 I'm like, Yeah, they can, but like this is pretty minimal. 01:12:10.560 --> 01:12:12.159 So like is the bar this low? 01:12:12.239 --> 01:12:14.399 That's uh yeah, I don't know. 01:12:18.399 --> 01:12:22.399 Like, I just don't understand it, it's just like really boring. 01:12:22.560 --> 01:12:25.920 Like, I don't I don't know, it doesn't I don't musically really get death call. 01:12:26.079 --> 01:12:30.560 Like some of the older stuff is quite good, but yeah, it's just not really for me. 01:12:30.720 --> 01:12:41.359 And that was the Friday, and then the funniest thing was, you know, we're in our campsite, you know, getting a little getting a little nuts, you know, having a good time Friday night, yeah. 01:12:41.680 --> 01:12:45.199 And uh, you know, we're we're engaged in what we're engaged in, the Brits. 01:12:45.279 --> 01:12:57.600 Uh on our table, we look across to the German table because they're right adjacent to us, and we just see these five German blokes just drinking beer and eating sausages covered in mustard. 01:12:58.880 --> 01:13:00.479 I was spiritually with them. 01:13:00.560 --> 01:13:03.439 Like, I got the fair enough, man. 01:13:03.600 --> 01:13:04.079 I get it. 01:13:04.479 --> 01:13:12.880 I remember I remember on the last night, I was like, I've seen like the fricandel, like you know, like the the the big the fucking massive Belgian sausages that you get. 01:13:12.960 --> 01:13:18.000 It's called Andalus sauce of it, it's like slight not not spicy, but like as spicy as Belgium could take. 01:13:18.159 --> 01:13:24.399 And I'm like, and it was a sausage that's about it's about yeah, it's about this long. 01:13:24.640 --> 01:13:28.319 It's about it's about maybe two foot long, I'm not entirely sure. 01:13:28.399 --> 01:13:32.319 And they just they'll sell you that for two and a half chains. 01:13:32.640 --> 01:13:33.920 And I'm like, you know what? 01:13:34.560 --> 01:13:41.199 I'm just gonna get a beer, a Belgian, lovely Belgian beer, and I'm gonna eat this entire fucking sausage and I'm gonna fall asleep. 01:13:41.439 --> 01:13:42.479 And you know what? 01:13:42.640 --> 01:13:48.800 I I I get I get the Germanic pace of life because if they get faster, they get fucking evil about it. 01:13:50.720 --> 01:13:52.000 Give them sausage, not meth. 01:13:52.560 --> 01:13:58.720 I mean at some point between at some point between me and the the lads from Munster, there was a snuff exchange. 01:13:58.960 --> 01:14:11.039 Yeah, they want any snuff, and they got me to they they they pulled out this Gletcher prize, which is this thick Bavarian schmaltzer, it's like dense, coarse, and I'm like, nah, nah nah. 01:14:11.279 --> 01:14:16.880 Same same people to make it, but like I got my fin fucking minty stuff, and they all wanted like where did he get that stuff? 01:14:16.960

--> 01:14:18.560 I'm like, I got it from fucking you, lads. 01:14:18.720 --> 01:14:20.479 Like, I got I get it. 01:14:20.560 --> 01:14:25.359 I I I pick it up when I go to your fucking country, like lads, get on get on the snort. 01:14:25.439 --> 01:14:27.439 There was a lovely cultural exchange there. 01:14:28.159 --> 01:14:32.640 Yeah, no, and uh there was another cultural exchange as well. 01:14:32.800 --> 01:14:35.600 Oh, yeah, because while you were tucked tucked up in bed, Adam. 01:14:35.840 --> 01:14:37.359 Although I could hear it, I could hear it. 01:14:37.920 --> 01:14:49.199 New terms were being defined, and this will become a new a term that was coined later on, but we're sitting there, you know, we're we're getting all with these German guys, there's a there's a cultural exchange going, there's a musical exchange going, right? 01:14:49.279 --> 01:15:07.600 We're QN tunes, we've got the same music system going, you know, it's not a sound clash, we've got the same, we're all adding Q Q tunes, Q's to the tunes, tunes to the Q, and uh then this Frenchman comes over, and he's like this he must have been I don't know how old was he in his like late 40s, maybe even early 50s. 01:15:07.920 --> 01:15:10.640 He was giving strong unk vibes, right? 01:15:10.720 --> 01:15:18.399 This this little bald French guy, and he comes over and he just starts speaking to us very quickly in French. 01:15:18.479 --> 01:15:20.159 Now, I I can understand a bit of French. 01:15:20.239 --> 01:15:32.319 I said I've been on I went on tour in France, I picked up a few phrases, I I tuned my ear to the French way of speaking, but this guy was just and you no one understood what he was saying, but he didn't let that stop him. 01:15:32.399 --> 01:15:33.520 And I respect him for that. 01:15:33.600 --> 01:15:40.159 Like he didn't slow down, he didn't give up, he would just keep talking to people as if they could understand a single fucking word. 01:15:40.239 --> 01:15:45.199 The Germans didn't understand the fucking word he was saying, none of us understood the fucking word he was saying. 01:15:45.600 --> 01:15:46.960 Did that stop him? 01:15:47.359 --> 01:15:49.039 Did it fuck? 01:15:49.439 --> 01:15:54.239 And he kept asking to put he's trying to put on some songs, and he's like, uh, he kept going to me. 01:15:54.319 --> 01:16:06.479 He goes, Yeah, you you know uh we uh weaselbus there, uh we weasel mistake, and I was like, What weasel we're weaselbister, you know we're there, weaselbuster, and I was like, What booster? 01:16:06.560 --> 01:16:25.279 What like yeah, you know weaselbus there, and then he'll go around someone else, he'd go weasel but there, you put on weaselbus there, and uh eventually, like he starts typing it on my phone, and it was Weasel Buster, and so I'm like, Okay, I'll put on some Weasel Buster. 01:16:25.439 --> 01:16:34.079 There was like one song on Spotify, and in post-production, and what you're gonna do is edit right from this moment. 01:16:34.159 --> 01:16:38.319 Now you're about to hear Weasel Buster now. 01:16:54.960 --> 01:17:03.279 So that's playing everyone's looking around, and like that was the first instance, and then later on, you know, we keep playing tunes, right? 01:17:03.359 --> 01:17:10.720 And he keeps going, Yeah, you know, it's uh stupa flip, you play a bless stupa flip, yeah, and he kept going around me, you could play stupid. 01:17:11.039 --> 01:17:22.079 And he would and he also had an I got punked by this guy because he goes, Oh, he's it he was giving me this drink and it looked like whiskey and it was dark, and I kept just drinking it and I couldn't really notice what it tastes like, so I was already wanking by that point. 01:17:22.239 --> 01:17:28.239 I keep drinking it until there's some light, and someone goes, Oh, there's sausages there, and I realized there's all these sausages in the butt. 01:17:28.319 --> 01:17:32.079 He's got like he's giving me some fucking sausage whiskey that I've been drinking. 01:17:32.159 --> 01:17:35.039 I was like, Ah, that's fucking you didn't even notice. 01:17:36.399 --> 01:17:44.399 But like it was like Snoop Flip to Mark, and it was like, Yeah, yeah, there's a big Q, so you like add it to the this guy doesn't understand a single fucking word, yeah. 01:17:44.479 --> 01:17:46.479 So add it to the Q and he just goes, Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:17:46.720 --> 01:17:51.039 And then just plays the song and skips the entire queue, and then this French hip hop starts playing. 01:17:51.199 --> 01:17:53.199 It's oh snoopa flip. 01:17:55.199 --> 01:18:12.000 So this led us later on to coining a term, which is when somebody because he kept trying to talk to us and we didn't understand what he was saying, we didn't really care, but he just kept kept at it, kept just chewing our ear off in French, and that is now called weasel bustering someone. 01:18:12.079 --> 01:18:18.479 So if you just start talking to somebody unsolicited, start chewing their ear off, they don't really want to hear it, but you're just gonna keep going. 01:18:18.560 --> 01:18:20.399 You're weaselbustering somebody. 01:18:20.560 --> 01:18:23.279 Um, and that's now an official an official phrase. 01:18:23.439 --> 01:18:25.359 Yeah, and I want to give an example. 01:18:25.920 --> 01:18:28.079 I was weasel busted on Saturday, right? 01:18:28.239 --> 01:18:31.039 I will can I hear your let's uh you hear a contemporary example. 01:18:31.199 --> 01:18:33.279 So on Saturday, you were weasel busted. 01:18:33.439 --> 01:18:34.000 What happened? 01:18:34.239 --> 01:18:40.079 On Saturday, me and my mate Tom, big ups, lines led by donkeys, listen to Bloodwork, we've got all those podcasts. 01:18:40.239 --> 01:18:42.640 Um, we went to Blokes Fest. 01:18:42.880 --> 01:18:44.720 Oh, I'm so glad I didn't know about that. 01:18:44.880 --> 01:18:48.319 Because I went to the first half of Spot Jam, but I didn't know uh Blokes. 01:18:48.960 --> 01:18:49.600 Where was Blokefest?

01:18:49.760 --> 01:18:50.319 Was it in Brixton? 01:18:50.720 --> 01:18:52.239 Well, Stockbell's Stockwell Skateboard. 01:18:52.479 --> 01:18:53.520 Yeah, I could have gone to that. 01:18:53.600 --> 01:18:56.960 I didn't know it was kind of uh Jackson personator again. 01:18:57.199 --> 01:19:01.600 No, they slip knot AI generated slipknot, um, who didn't show up. 01:19:01.840 --> 01:19:09.359 But I was at Blokes Fest, there was a bit of class war going on, um, involving some bottle rockets and some cans of Stella. 01:19:09.840 --> 01:19:12.159 But uh me and Tom showed up. 01:19:12.239 --> 01:19:17.840 We were just saying I had a Sasha, big up Sasha from Big Up's granddad, and also Big Up's Carthage must be destroyed. 01:19:18.399 --> 01:19:19.119 Addict as well. 01:19:19.199 --> 01:19:21.840 No, yeah, addict yeah, big up's addict as well. 01:19:22.560 --> 01:19:31.119 And uh this this bloke who's holding uh a pretty firmly devoured bottle of desperata. 01:19:31.600 --> 01:19:32.800 He comes over to me. 01:19:32.880 --> 01:19:37.439 He's wearing a shirt that's got the Heineken logo on it, but it just sells bet it just says Belfast. 01:19:38.399 --> 01:19:44.000 And he keeps he keeps talking to me about motorhead and about how did he have a Northern Irish accent? 01:19:44.159 --> 01:19:45.439 Is he Northern Ireland? 01:19:46.159 --> 01:19:48.479 Not really, not really, no. 01:19:48.640 --> 01:19:49.760 I couldn't quite tell. 01:19:49.920 --> 01:19:55.119 Like, um he was he was just so steaming it was kind of every accent at once. 01:19:55.279 --> 01:20:00.399 Um and and the bloke was just like cuts being some saying, oh yeah, motorhead were great. 01:20:00.479 --> 01:20:01.920 I said, I'll start okay, yeah, yeah. 01:20:02.000 --> 01:20:04.159 I said, Yeah, I saw him at Brixton Academy a while ago. 01:20:04.239 --> 01:20:06.479 I said, Yeah, the problem is, yeah, they're all fucking dead now, isn't he? 01:20:06.560 --> 01:20:08.479 I saw Mickey D the other week, you know, they're all they're all dead. 01:20:08.560 --> 01:20:09.680 It makes you feel quite old now. 01:20:09.840 --> 01:20:10.399 He's like, What? 01:20:10.560 --> 01:20:10.880 He's dead. 01:20:10.960 --> 01:20:12.159 It's like what is Fast Daddy dead? 01:20:12.239 --> 01:20:13.359 It's like, yeah, Fast Daddy's dead. 01:20:13.439 --> 01:20:16.560 He's like, but it's Lemmy's Lemmy's dead, didn't he? 01:20:16.640 --> 01:20:17.359 He's like, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:20:17.520 --> 01:20:18.479 I remember seeing his funeral. 01:20:18.640 --> 01:20:22.000 I remember seeing him, like uh Dave Row hogging the fucking limelight. 01:20:22.079 --> 01:20:24.000 And he's like, Oh, are you at his funeral then? 01:20:24.079 --> 01:20:26.159 I was like, No, no, no, mate, it's a live stream. 01:20:26.319 --> 01:20:33.439 And he's like, You know, I was the drunkest man at Shane McGowan's funeral. 01:20:33.760 --> 01:20:36.800 Now he's not saying that coherency that I've said it. 01:20:37.279 --> 01:20:40.479 Like he's like he he's barely standing up. 01:20:41.119 --> 01:20:42.479 Who's Shane McGowan? 01:20:42.800 --> 01:20:44.880 The singer of the pogs, right? 01:20:45.119 --> 01:20:45.520 Yes, yes. 01:20:45.920 --> 01:20:56.399 Now, to say you're the drunkest man at his funeral when Shane McGowan, even when dead, is probably still drunker than you, is like the the fairy tale of a New York guy. 01:20:56.640 --> 01:21:00.000 I also realize I just did an accidental pun when I say that rings a bell. 01:21:00.239 --> 01:21:01.520 Yeah, fuck's sake. 01:21:01.840 --> 01:21:07.439 Like it it was it it was generally the guy who's gonna be like, Oh yeah, mate, oh that's fucking sick. 01:21:07.520 --> 01:21:10.960 He's like, oh mate, you you you play in a band, it's like oh mate, that's too heavy. 01:21:11.039 --> 01:21:13.279 Like you use like tens or twelve, I'm saying, like, yeah, yeah. 01:21:13.359 --> 01:21:15.600 And he just keeps listing the members of boathead after me. 01:21:15.680 --> 01:21:16.880 And I'm like, Yeah, they're dead. 01:21:17.039 --> 01:21:17.840 Yeah, yeah, they're dead. 01:21:18.000 --> 01:21:20.159 Nah, mate, yeah, I'm really sorry, they're dead, he's dead. 01:21:20.239 --> 01:21:20.640 Yeah, he's dead. 01:21:23.840 --> 01:21:28.079 Yeah, yeah, it was it was like now. 01:21:28.319 --> 01:21:30.560 And it was just like healthy animal tailor. 01:21:30.960 --> 01:21:32.399 Yeah, he's dead now. 01:21:32.560 --> 01:21:38.000 He's like, he's he's like, he's like, Phil Taylor's dead, and I'm like, Yeah, yeah, but it's but what but they're not all dead, does it? 01:21:38.079 --> 01:21:39.359 No, Phil Campbell's dead as well. 01:21:39.439 --> 01:21:42.000 And he's like, but Phil Taylor's dead, he's dead. 01:21:43.760 --> 01:21:50.159 It was just that for a solid like five minutes, and then eventually I'm like, sorry mate, I'm gonna go in. 01:21:50.239 --> 01:21:52.239 I think they're all dead, apart from Mickey D. 01:21:52.720 --> 01:22:04.800 Um, we just went in, went in and watched a bit of uh uh I think it was Munter who had a band playing at the time, and that was my case thinking like this is a proper weasel bustering. 01:22:05.119 --> 01:22:06.640 Yeah, fully weaseling. 01:22:06.800 --> 01:22:09.680 We'll get to the the train weasel bustering. 01:22:09.920 --> 01:22:10.560 Train bustering. 01:22:10.880 --> 01:22:13.039 Let's go to Saturday, so Saturday. 01:22:13.920 --> 01:22:14.960 Yeah, Saturday, yeah, yeah. 01:22:15.279 --> 01:22:31.119 Anyway, the something hit on Friday night, and that was uh I was having a lovely sleep, but my beautiful sleep was disturbed by my partner with whom I was sharing a bed saying, Oh my god, uh, did you spill some water? 01:22:31.600 --> 01:22:33.840 And then me being like, Oh, you think so? 01:22:34.000 --> 01:22:36.399 And then she'd be like, Why is it so wet everywhere? 01:22:36.640 --> 01:22:41.359 And me being like, Oh no, uh, this hasn't happened since 2019. 01:22:41.680 -->

01:22:44.560 Um, and maybe I had a little accident. 01:22:44.800 --> 01:22:46.479 Maybe I had a little accident in the night. 01:22:46.560 --> 01:22:50.880 Maybe it was quite a substantial volume, I believe, relatively dilute. 01:22:51.039 --> 01:22:57.760 Because when you really got to smell it to determine if is that pash, uh, then it's gotta be dilute, you know what I mean? 01:22:57.840 --> 01:23:00.159 Like if it's proper concentration, oh that is pissed. 01:23:00.479 --> 01:23:02.159 Woke up about six in the morning. 01:23:02.319 --> 01:23:03.039 About six in the morning. 01:23:03.279 --> 01:23:05.439 I just I just hear about three. 01:23:05.680 --> 01:23:10.239 I just hear a kind of scream and being like, What is that? 01:23:10.720 --> 01:23:13.520 Like, like, what's why have you spilt something? 01:23:14.000 --> 01:23:15.680 Nice heavy sleep as well, man. 01:23:15.760 --> 01:23:17.199 I was like, I had no idea what was gonna be. 01:23:18.960 --> 01:23:20.560 The worst thing is every sphincter. 01:23:20.960 --> 01:23:25.039 The worst part was I think we were spooning at the time. 01:23:26.000 --> 01:23:30.800 And I just yeah, spooding becomes siphoning at that point, doesn't it? 01:23:30.960 --> 01:23:34.800 Like so I I was quick on my feet. 01:23:34.880 --> 01:23:38.880 I had a separate bag with all my dirty clothes in it, and I just thought we're already dirty. 01:23:39.039 --> 01:23:41.520 Empty it out and just use it to mop up all the liquid. 01:23:41.760 --> 01:23:47.840 We had a bed sheet on the air mattress, another PG tip if you're going to music festival, especially if you have somewhat sensitive skin. 01:23:48.000 --> 01:23:57.840 Bring a proper bed sheet for your air mattress, game changing, feels so much nicer, and it also means if you piss the bed, it soaks some of it up so you can take it off. 01:23:58.079 --> 01:24:07.760 And uh, so yeah, the next day I took all the dirty piss-soaked clothes and sheet and and and uh and and sleeping bag, and I put it all into carrier bags. 01:24:07.840 --> 01:24:29.279 Another PG tip make sure when you go to a festival, bring lots of carrier bags, they're extremely useful to have lots of carrier bags, segregate dirty things, segregate muddy things, put different things for different reasons, different bags, or if you piss the bed of the night and you have to mop it all up with your dirty clothes, you put them in carrier bags, take them to the water point, fill those bags up. 01:24:29.439 --> 01:24:33.520 I might even bring laundry detergent just in case to the next one, just a bit of it. 01:24:33.680 --> 01:24:39.039 Uh, I just use water, I soaked them all in water in the bags, although the the water had the slowest trickle on the planet earth. 01:24:39.119 --> 01:24:51.039 So I was standing there to get with two thingies with my carrier bag full of piss steak clothes in the middle, slowly just like this for hours, just waiting for it to slowly fill the bag up. 01:24:51.359 --> 01:25:00.640 Had to make multiple trips and refill, and then I'm like sitting there like a washer woman, what rinsing all my clothes in these in these bags full of water, got all the dust off them as well, though. 01:25:00.720 --> 01:25:01.760 And that's the thing, right? 01:25:01.920 --> 01:25:06.960 Like, then I was like, I hung them all up around the gazebo, and I was like, I've actually just got loads of clean clothes now. 01:25:07.039 --> 01:25:08.399 I basically refreshed my whole water page. 01:25:09.840 --> 01:25:10.880 It's got ammonia in it. 01:25:10.960 --> 01:25:12.880 I mean, yeah, it's literally what washer women. 01:25:13.359 --> 01:25:17.279 If it was a rancid piss, if it was a rancid piss, that would be different. 01:25:17.359 --> 01:25:20.159 But this was like one of those it's basically water pisses. 01:25:21.279 --> 01:25:24.079 High volume very low concentration. 01:25:24.319 --> 01:25:27.199 It probably operated as a kind of detergent in its own right. 01:25:27.279 --> 01:25:27.680 I don't know. 01:25:27.840 --> 01:25:32.800 Anyway, so that incident over, and I'd eaten some food and all the rest. 01:25:32.880 --> 01:25:34.239 I'd had my shower. 01:25:34.560 --> 01:25:36.159 Who was the first band that I saw? 01:25:36.239 --> 01:25:36.880 Who's the first band? 01:25:37.039 --> 01:25:38.239 Who I think you might have seen a band. 01:25:38.720 --> 01:25:43.680 I saw I I I got I got there pretty early most days, so I was like, I don't think you don't fucking do. 01:25:43.840 --> 01:25:45.279 Vacuous couldn't make it. 01:25:45.439 --> 01:25:47.039 Hope those guys are okay. 01:25:47.199 --> 01:25:50.880 Um I went to go see, I mean, I went to go look for some merch by a bit of merch. 01:25:50.960 --> 01:25:53.920 I bought a lovely tie-dye black Sabbath t-shirt. 01:25:54.239 --> 01:26:03.279 Uh then I went to go see Miracle of Sounds, who I mostly knew as a kid from being a band that was just one bloke doing songs about various video games. 01:26:03.520 --> 01:26:06.960 He didn't play any of those, he just played a bunch of folk stuff. 01:26:07.279 --> 01:26:08.159 It was pretty fun. 01:26:08.319 --> 01:26:09.600 Big up Scaven. 01:26:09.840 --> 01:26:15.039 Um and then uh I walked I walked past Brutal Sphincter. 01:26:15.840 --> 01:26:17.279 Yeah, I missed Brutal Sphincter. 01:26:17.600 --> 01:26:20.960 I mean, they're alright, they're better in a more enclosed environment, to be honest. 01:26:21.119 --> 01:26:29.359 Yeah, I didn't really see anything until um I went and met up with Scarlett, and we went to go see Mushroom Head. 01:26:29.520 --> 01:26:36.720 Now, Mushroom Head, I feel so sorry for those guys because they got moved to a different fucking stage, and me and Scarlet, just like where the fuck are they? 01:26:36.960 --> 01:26:38.800 Managed to bump into them playing. 01:26:39.039 --> 01:26:48.720 Um, and then I just saw a band with a bunch of extra percussionists, um, a bunch of really wet snare drums, a bunch of masks, and a bunch of

like rappers. 01:26:48.960 --> 01:26:55.199 And I'm thinking, these guys were around before Slipknot, they were doing exactly the same thing, and they did not get near as big. 01:26:55.279 --> 01:26:58.399 How were these guys just not full of rage all the time? 01:26:58.560 --> 01:27:02.000 They were proper fun new metal bouncy bollocks. 01:27:02.159 --> 01:27:09.359 Um, and then after that, we could see different new metal-ish sort of stuff with Kitty, and I think that was when you you you guys joined the future. 01:27:09.840 --> 01:27:10.399 Yeah, yeah. 01:27:10.479 --> 01:27:18.079 So I wanted to see bands earlier, but I was busy with my washerwoman duties, uh, and I had to have my shower and all that. 01:27:18.239 --> 01:27:23.279 It is a flex when you shout, because when I was younger, I was like, oh fucking shout out a festival. 01:27:23.439 --> 01:27:26.239 But it's a flex being fresh as a daisy every day, I have to say. 01:27:26.479 --> 01:27:27.119 Oh, it's double. 01:27:27.840 --> 01:27:29.520 Double condition my hair every day. 01:27:29.680 --> 01:27:30.560 Double conditioned. 01:27:31.039 --> 01:27:36.560 Wake up, wake up, shit, shower, iced coffee, burger, ready for the day. 01:27:36.720 --> 01:27:39.119 I figured out the ultimate system, right? 01:27:39.279 --> 01:27:45.359 So, what I would do, and I figured that's my last day, I'd get my shower bag ready and I'd wear my Crocs, right? 01:27:45.439 --> 01:27:57.600 And I'd I'd go there and I'd have my portable speaker, I'd have my sun cream, put a little bit on my face just to protect me on the way there, toothbrush, toothpaste, empty bottle, electrolyte tablet in the bottle. 01:27:57.680 --> 01:27:59.279 I'll break it, put it in the bottle. 01:27:59.520 --> 01:28:10.239 Um Um and I'd have my my conditioner, my shampoo, my uh my skin-friendly uh antimicrobial shower emoling because I can't use shower gel because I'm not a real person with functioning skin. 01:28:10.479 --> 01:28:20.880 And I'd first go and of course take a dump, and then I would go and I'd I'd brush my teeth, and then I'd fill up my electrolyte water, and then I'm in the queue. 01:28:20.960 --> 01:28:25.600 Oh, the other thing I'd do, most important thing, roll a heavy Afghan hash joint. 01:28:25.760 --> 01:28:26.399 Oh yeah. 01:28:26.720 --> 01:28:33.119 So I'd be in the queue drinking my electrolyte water, reggae playing on the speaker, right? 01:28:33.279 --> 01:28:39.760 Bopping, aswads live and direct, 983 Nottinghill Carnival, puffing on my Afghan hash joint. 01:28:39.920 --> 01:28:44.479 I don't care if the queue's half an hour long, I'm fucking vibing out here, and that was each day. 01:28:44.560 --> 01:28:47.439 I was just fucking vibing in the queue, having a great time. 01:28:47.600 --> 01:28:51.439 Um, one day it was jazz, one day it was it was two days it was reggae. 01:28:51.840 --> 01:28:59.119 Um, yeah, no, the shower experience, you gotta you gotta make fun out of the queue, you gotta make fun out of

the whole experience, part of the routine. 01:28:59.359 --> 01:29:01.119 I don't remember how we got on the subject. 01:29:01.199 --> 01:29:02.159 Let's go back to Kitty. 01:29:02.239 --> 01:29:03.359 So showers, yeah. 01:29:03.520 --> 01:29:04.159 Kitty, yeah. 01:29:04.239 --> 01:29:09.039 You couldn't, you couldn't, you couldn't go 20 pounds beforehand, and there wasn't that many to be honest. 01:29:09.119 --> 01:29:10.640 Um, because you went to go see Kitty. 01:29:10.800 --> 01:29:11.279 Oh, yeah. 01:29:11.359 --> 01:29:12.720 I didn't see a malacian, yeah. 01:29:12.800 --> 01:29:14.000 Yeah, so we went to see Kitty. 01:29:14.239 --> 01:29:16.640 Kitty was good, I'd never even heard of them, but they're really good. 01:29:16.720 --> 01:29:24.720 Uh Scarlet liked them going up, so we were watching them uh sort of like just kind of metal or describe it, it's just sort of general metal, but it's just well done. 01:29:24.880 --> 01:29:34.319 Um, and then we saw Metal Church and Metal Church, yes, Metal Church, Metal Church, and all that. 01:29:35.680 --> 01:29:41.760 I have to say, like the first weird thing was that David Ellison, yeah, playing base. 01:29:42.000 --> 01:29:44.319 So they got the scraps, they're they're getting the scraps. 01:29:44.640 --> 01:29:51.840 Uh, if you don't know he was the base player for Megadeth, then got caught out sending like isn't he still the bass player for Megadeth? 01:29:52.000 --> 01:29:52.560 Oh, I don't think so. 01:29:52.720 --> 01:29:53.600 I think he replaced it. 01:29:53.840 --> 01:30:02.880 Because I mean, yeah, because I know he became like some sort of weird Christian pastor and then got caught doing not quite what Christian pastors in the US do, but it's not quite great. 01:30:03.760 --> 01:30:07.680 But it was weird, it was sending sexually explicit things like 18-year-old girls. 01:30:07.760 --> 01:30:09.760 Uh, anyway, so he it was weird to him. 01:30:09.840 --> 01:30:13.920 Uh, but you see this like you know, metal chair, it's a kind of like high-pitched vocals. 01:30:14.079 --> 01:30:21.279 You see the vocalist, and he he's giving me big like post-maiden uh uh uh what's the guy's name? 01:30:21.359 --> 01:30:23.199 The first Paul Diano. 01:30:23.359 --> 01:30:23.520 Thank you. 01:30:23.600 --> 01:30:26.800 He's not even the first vocal, it's technically the third after Paul Day and Dennis Walcock. 01:30:26.960 --> 01:30:31.520 Paul Diano, uh, yeah, fun, fun nine maiden fact for you there. 01:30:31.680 --> 01:30:36.159 Um you know, it was he was giving post maiden Paul Diano vibes. 01:30:36.319 --> 01:30:51.359 So I was like, Oh, I was ready for these vocals to be rough, like horrible, and then he just starts hitting the notes, and he's just like, you know, when they do gods of rattle, it's just every note, he just smashed it, he was just hitting every note, and it was sick, and it sounded amazing, and it was really fucking good. 01:30:51.520 --> 01:30:57.199 The only problem is this little unfortunate, inconvenient thing called global fucking warming. 01:30:57.359 --> 01:31:09.279 Because in between thinking this band is fucking sick, I was touching the back of my head because the summer's behind me and thinking I could cook a full English on this right now, I could cook a full English right now on the back of my head. 01:31:09.439 --> 01:31:13.600 And I'm pretty sure as soon as Metal Church ended, we were like, that was sick, we have to leave immediately. 01:31:13.840 --> 01:31:18.640 We have to leave immediately, we have to get shade now, or we are going to end up in like the medical tent. 01:31:18.800 --> 01:31:22.560 And it really gets heat stroke and asbestosis at the same time, yeah. 01:31:22.640 --> 01:31:33.840 Yeah, like silicosis and heat stroke, and it was it kind of was that like you this is the whole thing about in the now the the find out era of uh global warming, the beginning of the find out era. 01:31:34.159 --> 01:31:39.199 Um, you have to pick your bands based on like how much sun can I endure before I die. 01:31:39.439 --> 01:31:47.039 Like, if I if I stay and watch Biahazzard, I'm probably not gonna be able to see like any bands later on. 01:31:47.119 --> 01:31:54.319 I'm not gonna be able to see like fucking Primus if I stand in the sun and boil myself to to Biahazard. 01:31:54.399 --> 01:31:55.680 So we kind of missed Biahazard. 01:31:55.760 --> 01:32:05.439 We were literally listening to Biohazard in the campsite whilst you could hear Biahazard from the main stage because the main stage didn't have any fucking shade, and our campsite did. 01:32:05.680 --> 01:32:08.960 Uh, and I think that we went and saw a bit of hate breed. 01:32:09.119 --> 01:32:11.359 Uh, you I think you write in there for hate breed. 01:32:11.520 --> 01:32:14.000 Uh oh yeah, partial to hate breeding, you know. 01:32:14.239 --> 01:32:25.039 I I fucking love hate breed believe in me more than the entire British state does, and so I I just I they believe in me more than the job centre more than the university system. 01:32:25.359 --> 01:32:36.319 Um be careful, be careful talking because like the department of like the the the DWP will replace all current schemes as punitive as they are just with hate breed. 01:32:36.720 --> 01:32:38.079 That sounds better to be honest. 01:32:38.159 --> 01:32:40.720 They're making me take a fucking course on AI next week. 01:32:40.880 --> 01:32:42.479 I write books on that shit. 01:32:42.640 --> 01:32:44.720 Um, and why it's bad. 01:32:44.880 --> 01:32:48.479 Um and yeah, saw Hate Breed, felt very positive. 01:32:48.720 --> 01:32:50.640 Hate Breed, but like, oh, it's so great. 01:32:50.720 --> 01:33:05.760 You should go see all these bands, and they were like, You should go see Terror and Mist for Waste and Biohazard, and they're like, Well, Terror and Biohazard clash, and they've already played, and Mist put waste of playing right now, so I'm really sorry, Jamie. 01:33:05.840 --> 01:33:06.960 It doesn't

quite work. 01:33:07.119 --> 01:33:12.960 Uh, battle bands I wanted to see but didn't see, didn't see Kara Kangren, didn't see Arnold Wardmere. 01:33:13.119 --> 01:33:17.199 Um after that, testament of playing more than meets the eye. 01:33:17.359 --> 01:33:20.239 No, actually, it's just testament, they're fine. 01:33:20.479 --> 01:33:26.159 Um uh then instead we just got ready for the the real main event. 01:33:26.399 --> 01:33:27.920 I I saw me as Primus. 01:33:28.479 --> 01:33:30.800 Oh pretty good. 01:33:31.520 --> 01:33:40.880 Um they yeah, well, I was sort of near the back, so they it was a sort of mild uh inconvenience rather than full fucking up with me, but yeah, the main event was Primus. 01:33:41.279 --> 01:33:43.359 Um that was the most important thing. 01:33:43.439 --> 01:33:45.039 That was the one band I needed to see. 01:33:45.119 --> 01:33:46.159 Uh they were headlining. 01:33:46.399 --> 01:33:51.920 No, they were headlining the third stage, and I was quite offended on their behalf to be honest. 01:33:52.239 --> 01:33:55.199 Third stage, you got way too small for them. 01:33:55.439 --> 01:34:07.119 It was uh so we were right up sort of close and personal, uh, in the pit, which was so fucking dusty at points it was hard to see the band because there was so much fucking dust everywhere. 01:34:07.359 --> 01:34:23.439 Um I'm pretty sure that gave like Scarlett like silicosis or something because she was really literally had to she's been having had been having uh health problems with her breathing like last week, and I'm pretty sure that was just still the fallout from the dust, mostly from Primus. 01:34:23.760 --> 01:34:26.159 Uh, but it was sick, it was all killer no filler. 01:34:26.399 --> 01:34:28.239 They played one new song, the old grizz. 01:34:28.399 --> 01:34:30.319 Other than that, it was all first three album shit. 01:34:30.479 --> 01:34:31.520 All first three album shit. 01:34:31.600 --> 01:34:37.920 They opened with like those damn blue collar tweakers, play American Life, they played Frizzle Fry, they played, they played Mr. 01:34:38.000 --> 01:34:39.199 Crinkle, and it was really hard. 01:34:39.359 --> 01:34:39.600 They played. 01:34:42.000 --> 01:34:45.359 Yeah, those damn blue collar fucking tweakers was the opener. 01:34:45.680 --> 01:34:46.159 Yeah, yeah. 01:34:46.239 --> 01:34:49.199 They played uh they played John John the Fisherman. 01:34:49.359 --> 01:34:51.840 Uh, I think they played Welcome to This World as well. 01:34:51.920 --> 01:34:53.760 And just live in life. 01:34:54.239 --> 01:35:00.159 They played American Live, they they go so hard live, they play it's so much heavier live than it is on record. 01:35:00.319 --> 01:35:02.319 Uh always wonder wonderful to see Primes. 01:35:02.479 --> 01:35:04.560 I'm annoyed that I didn't get a ticket to the London show. 01:35:04.640 --> 01:35:05.520 I wish I'd gone. 01:35:05.680 --> 01:35:12.960 There was a last-minute ticket going, but I wasn't like in the I'm not always good with that kind of level of spontaneity in my advancing age. 01:35:13.119 --> 01:35:24.159 Um at least with a festival set, as you described to me, they're sort of kept contained enough that they only will extend the regular songs by about two minutes, three minutes, four minutes. 01:35:24.479 --> 01:35:36.560 Yeah, you usually it's like a 15-minute jam and playing an entire song within a song rather than a festival set, they just like jam it out, like do their little grateful dead thing for like a few minutes on each song, you know, it's a slightly more estranged. 01:35:36.960 --> 01:35:38.319 Fucking pits were insane. 01:35:38.399 --> 01:35:38.880 Like, isn't it? 01:35:38.960 --> 01:35:40.159 There was this one cunt. 01:35:40.479 --> 01:35:41.760 No, there was this one cunt. 01:35:42.319 --> 01:35:43.439 I know that one cunt, Jason. 01:35:43.600 --> 01:35:44.399 This one cunt poking. 01:35:44.560 --> 01:35:49.600 Because he came out of the thing, and I thought that it was just me, but everyone was like, This guy kept like poking me in the back. 01:35:50.399 --> 01:35:51.920 Yeah, it was the same fucking cunt. 01:35:52.079 --> 01:35:57.840 Anyway, if you're listening to this, which you're definitely not, but if you are, I hope you die, you fucking cunt. 01:35:58.000 --> 01:35:59.199 He looks pretty close to it to be honest. 01:35:59.359 --> 01:36:00.960 He looks like 60 or some shit. 01:36:01.600 --> 01:36:03.520 Anyway, dickhead, that guy. 01:36:03.760 --> 01:36:07.680 Shout in for that guy, whisper in that guy. 01:36:07.840 --> 01:36:08.880 Yeah, dickhead. 01:36:09.119 --> 01:36:13.039 And then after Primus, uh, I think me, Mark Arana, went to go. 01:36:13.359 --> 01:36:18.800 We basically laid it from Primus to catch the last song of Arch Enemy, which is the thankfully the only one I know. 01:36:19.039 --> 01:36:23.760 Because it's just because it's because you know, it's it's the guitarist, um, it's Michael Armott from Carcass. 01:36:24.000 --> 01:36:25.520 So it's got some pretty decent riffs. 01:36:25.600 --> 01:36:28.159 They played Nemesis, and I was like, fine, that's it. 01:36:28.239 --> 01:36:30.880 Now we're gonna kinda outrun the Dusk Cloud and go back. 01:36:31.199 --> 01:36:35.840 Yeah, I mean, I didn't see Arch Enemy because uh I have taste. 01:36:36.159 --> 01:36:41.760 Um but uh yeah, I mean, I think I don't remember what I got up to. 01:36:41.840 --> 01:36:50.800 I think Saturday night was a relatively tame night because we wanted to be fit for the Sunday because that had most of the bands playing. 01:36:51.199 --> 01:36:53.760 So let's talk about all the bands I missed on Sunday. 01:36:53.840 --> 01:36:57.680 So I didn't see Voivod, I didn't see internal bleeding. 01:36:57.840 --> 01:37:01.359 I think the first band I saw was Sanguisugabog, which was extremely funny. 01:37:01.600 --> 01:37:02.479 Oh, they were great. 01:37:02.560 --> 01:37:07.840 That you could tell that you were gonna get proper good ignorant slam

when they said Mercy Boku France. 01:37:08.000 --> 01:37:13.439 Yeah, when they said we were at Bloodstock Festival yesterday in England. 01:37:13.600 --> 01:37:26.079 Now let's see if the fucking French can outcrowd UK, and then someone had clearly whispered in his ear halfway through because he was like, What the what's the fuck up, Belgium? 01:37:27.760 --> 01:37:31.600 What the fuck, what the fuck, what the fuck is up, Belgium? 01:37:33.039 --> 01:37:37.520 Massive fucking uh wall of inspired later bands. 01:37:37.760 --> 01:37:38.960 Who'd else we see? 01:37:39.039 --> 01:37:42.000 I mean animals as leaders as leaders, they were pretty good. 01:37:42.479 --> 01:37:51.680 They were good, but the sound was fucking atrocious because like I mean you were doing the full-on archery dance, so the funk was going, but you was you was reading more funk into them that they could project out to us. 01:37:51.760 --> 01:37:55.439 Not because they couldn't provide the track, it's because the fucking tunes weren't there. 01:37:56.560 --> 01:38:00.000 It's because the sound the sound has to be perfect for a band like that. 01:38:00.159 --> 01:38:03.520 There's not really any tolerance for muddiness because it's too technical. 01:38:03.760 --> 01:38:09.039 So you kind of had to know the tunes because it did sound a bit muddy, but uh I still enjoy it. 01:38:09.199 --> 01:38:10.479 Um who else? 01:38:10.560 --> 01:38:13.760 Uh Miss Terming and Nurgle, nonce bands, don't care. 01:38:13.840 --> 01:38:15.279 Uh not interested, yeah. 01:38:15.359 --> 01:38:15.760 Who else? 01:38:15.920 --> 01:38:16.640 Anon Afrak. 01:38:18.800 --> 01:38:22.399 The bands who are responsible for me being who I am. 01:38:23.600 --> 01:38:27.760 Because without Adam Afrak, I wouldn't have been like, who the fuck's this Nietzsche prick? 01:38:28.239 --> 01:38:30.319 Oh, Max Stirner, who's that? 01:38:30.560 --> 01:38:43.520 Like, like Anon Afrak, I mean, that was when I fully got into the the pit mindset after a little bit of um of uh encouragement, let's say, and then uh was given a bit of encouragement, going, oh fuck it, go on. 01:38:43.680 --> 01:38:56.800 And then I immediately run into the pit and uh uh try and two-step immediately flip into people falling over my arse into a pit of dust. 01:38:56.880 --> 01:39:04.159 Luckily the dust cushions me, and I'm just fucking going mad during uh uh well God everything. 01:39:04.239 --> 01:39:09.439 I mean, mostly at that point, um between shit and piss we are born. 01:39:09.520 --> 01:39:12.800 Uh I try and sing along with Modern Fryer than Blood. 01:39:12.960 --> 01:39:18.640 My operatic voice is so loud that someone turns around and he's like, fucking shut up, and I'm like, fair enough, sir. 01:39:18.800 --> 01:39:27.439 Um run in instead to get the shit beaten out of me, start singing on the opera there, because then I can at least throw myself people and it's at least fine if they tell me to shut up. 01:39:27.600 --> 01:39:34.560 They

play most of my favourites, and then they're like, Sangra Sugarborg had a um a wall of death. 01:39:34.640 --> 01:39:42.079 We won a wall of death, and you can see Mark hear the name Submissions for the Week, and then just go. 01:39:42.479 --> 01:39:44.239 Oh, I get new submissions for the week, yeah. 01:39:44.319 --> 01:39:50.560 Yeah, and I remember I remember seeing them play that at Damnation once, you know, it was a Manchester Damn Nation, one more modern one. 01:39:51.039 --> 01:40:05.520 And uh me and Mark were just sort of at the back, and then we heard them start playing Submissions for the Week, and we just fucking re we were cunts, we just snowplowed our ways through the crowd right into the front, and they paused for a long time before the down on your name. 01:40:08.720 --> 01:40:20.079 They paused it for ages, and we believed to sort of this day, they paused it just so that we could get into position first, and just as down on your but I was I didn't do it at Alcatraz because I was too tired and it was Sunday. 01:40:20.319 --> 01:40:24.319 Uh it's uh yeah, I I Adrak, I hadn't seen them. 01:40:24.399 --> 01:40:33.840 I I actually hadn't seen them since 2019 when uh I played with them as a solo musician and no one else was involved. 01:40:34.000 --> 01:40:43.359 Um the garage in 2019, and I had I I got to speak with Dave, the singer, and be like, Oh yeah, philosophy, eh? 01:40:43.520 --> 01:40:51.439 I've actually read his thesis, it's very analytic, it's not quite for me, but um yeah, that was me being like, Oh, my childhood as he is great. 01:40:51.520 --> 01:40:54.640 Uh Rose Tattoo couldn't play, I didn't know who they were. 01:40:54.800 --> 01:40:56.800 Nevermore played, didn't really care. 01:40:56.960 --> 01:41:04.800 Um Yeah, so we then then I think we were at the campsite before Saxon. 01:41:04.960 --> 01:41:11.119 Scarlet had a bit of a funny turn, uh maybe had a bit of a hyperventilation issue. 01:41:11.680 --> 01:41:13.840 Yeah, yeah, heat and heat in the dust. 01:41:13.920 --> 01:41:14.880 Uh, I think called it. 01:41:14.960 --> 01:41:16.479 They got fucking Jason for that. 01:41:16.560 --> 01:41:17.600 Like, yeah, yeah. 01:41:17.680 --> 01:41:22.319 So so it star it started with like, oh, maybe we should try and go to the medical step. 01:41:22.479 --> 01:41:27.119 It's fucking boiling, and it's trying to stand up and walk anywhere would have made everything worse. 01:41:27.359 --> 01:41:39.039 So we're trying to like navigate how we can get some medical people over here, and yeah, shout out Jason, local Belgian bloke, who being a hero is a fitting image of dead from fucking mayhem as well. 01:41:39.119 --> 01:41:46.479 Like probably quite intentional, but and he he sort sorted that out and they they brought some medical staff through, and uh it turned out she was alright. 01:41:46.560 --> 01:41:59.840 And if you got because she was having blurred vision and uh ringing in the ears and all sorts of shit that turned out to

be fine, just symptoms of like you know, the the heat and the hyperventilation because the deck was carbon dioxide until you know that's that's what it is. 01:41:59.920 --> 01:42:01.920 It's you know am I fucking having a heart attack? 01:42:02.079 --> 01:42:02.880 Am I fucking dying? 01:42:02.960 --> 01:42:04.720 So got the virals checked out, everything was cool. 01:42:04.800 --> 01:42:06.560 She needs some sugar, needs to chill out for a bit. 01:42:06.640 --> 01:42:09.439 But didn't mean that we missed Saxon and Day aside. 01:42:09.760 --> 01:42:24.159 Uh, but so you fill in how uh well I want to say something about the fucking emergency services part because Mark was fucking on it, he was fucking running past uh me and Rand and Jason went to the information point to be like, can we fucking get anything? 01:42:24.319 --> 01:42:26.239 Um Mark went to the medical tent. 01:42:26.319 --> 01:42:28.239 Apparently, it was just fucking blood everywhere. 01:42:28.479 --> 01:42:31.279 So it was like the city, it was like fucking cloverfield in there, man. 01:42:31.439 --> 01:42:46.319 Like um, but then uh me and Rand Jason were talking to the guys at the thing at the information thing at the campsite, and they were like, Yeah, it says 24 hours on the emergency number, but it only works at night. 01:42:47.760 --> 01:42:59.199 And we were just sort of like, Are you fucking what because we didn't want to have to go back to the camp for everyone's sort of panicking and stuff and be like, okay, so the number only works at night. 01:42:59.600 --> 01:43:01.199 Is this a real country? 01:43:01.680 --> 01:43:03.760 It's not a real fucking festival at that point. 01:43:03.840 --> 01:43:05.039 And then okay, but that's it. 01:43:05.119 --> 01:43:06.239 They arrived, it was all good. 01:43:06.319 --> 01:43:07.760 You miss so Saxon. 01:43:08.000 --> 01:43:11.920 I miss Saxon Saxon were fun, Saxon were fun. 01:43:12.079 --> 01:43:15.840 Um, but it was quite funny because like they're just so old. 01:43:16.000 --> 01:43:17.279 And they all sound fantastic. 01:43:17.520 --> 01:43:19.920 They've got um what's his fucking name? 01:43:20.079 --> 01:43:22.000 The guy from uh Diamond Heads. 01:43:23.840 --> 01:43:27.359 Hey, so here's what here's what here's what Saxon were like. 01:43:27.439 --> 01:43:35.439 They were like, well, boys like we're doing these songs now about when there were there were no phones, there were no there were no Facebook. 01:43:35.760 --> 01:43:40.640 And I'm I'm over exaggerating the Yorkshire accent here, but he is pretty fucking northern Biff Iford. 01:43:41.520 --> 01:43:43.119 Scarlet joined the beach crowd. 01:43:43.439 --> 01:43:45.119 Welcome to PubGoth transmission. 01:43:46.159 --> 01:43:48.479 We are longest episode ever. 01:43:48.560 --> 01:43:51.520 Like oh, no worries, we're just wrapping up the Sunday now. 01:43:51.680 --> 01:43:56.800 And then Alcatraz, we just set set talking about your your funny turn. 01:43:56.960 --> 01:44:00.079 Oh no, is everyone gonna know about it? 01:44:00.319 --> 01:44:02.239 Well, then we just we just said we can take it. 01:44:02.399 --> 01:44:10.960 No, it's we we're mostly saying it so I can moan about how the fact the emergency number only worked at night and they told us about like the the infrastructure bollocks. 01:44:12.319 --> 01:44:14.239 It was really shit like how long it took. 01:44:14.560 --> 01:44:23.359 Like luckily, it was just like something that wasn't dangerous, but if it was Mark was running through the fucking fire and the flames to get to a bloodied fucking clinic. 01:44:29.920 --> 01:44:33.840 He didn't even run that fucking far away, it was just the dust, you know, the dust behind in the trail. 01:44:34.000 --> 01:44:35.680 Yeah, I surprised in like the heat. 01:44:35.760 --> 01:44:37.119 Oh my god, speaker. 01:44:39.199 --> 01:44:39.520 It's okay. 01:44:39.600 --> 01:44:42.720 I don't I don't actually want to be on the podcast, so I'm just I'll I'll probably go away. 01:44:43.439 --> 01:44:44.079 No worries. 01:44:44.960 --> 01:44:46.399 But no worries. 01:44:50.800 --> 01:44:52.479 I'll get you to sign a release form. 01:44:53.439 --> 01:44:57.279 But but Saxon, uh play of the bank base 747, Denim Eleven. 01:44:57.439 --> 01:45:02.079 For Denim Eleather, actually, they got those people to throw their fucking battle jackets up on the stage. 01:45:02.239 --> 01:45:11.119 And I always look at the battle jackets to be like, please, I really want to see if like Biff Byford just puts on a battle jacket with a bunch of fucking burrs and patches on it. 01:45:11.359 --> 01:45:13.039 Like, because that's a fucking risk. 01:45:13.199 --> 01:45:14.159 But that was fun. 01:45:14.399 --> 01:45:17.520 Then it was day aside for more old get excellence. 01:45:17.760 --> 01:45:19.199 Like Mark was like, What's that? 01:45:19.279 --> 01:45:23.279 Some people go da da da da da da da da. 01:45:23.680 --> 01:45:31.359 It's like what you mean when it goes I was like, yeah, Pomage for Satan, yeah. 01:45:31.520 --> 01:45:32.399 They played that. 01:45:32.479 --> 01:45:36.000 Um, they played Dead by Door and we were hanging out there with with Paul from BTK. 01:45:36.239 --> 01:45:38.079 Did they play Holy Deception? 01:45:38.640 --> 01:45:41.359 I don't think so, but to be honest, I wouldn't know. 01:45:41.520 --> 01:45:50.000 It's the one that goes jigga jigga jigga jigga jiggle jigga jigga jigga jigga jiggle jigging. 01:46:02.960 --> 01:46:04.800 It's that one, the one that goes like that. 01:46:06.880 --> 01:46:07.119 No. 01:46:07.359 --> 01:46:08.079 Did they play it? 01:46:08.159 --> 01:46:09.119 No, oh it's a shame. 01:46:09.199 --> 01:46:09.920 I didn't mention it. 01:46:10.000 --> 01:46:15.359 Um but luckily every game's all back together for Satiricon. 01:46:15.680 --> 01:46:17.760 So we got all back together for Satiricon. 01:46:17.840 --> 01:46:19.359 Yeah, I was a nice one. 01:46:19.520 --> 01:46:21.199 And uh that was

excellent. 01:46:21.279 --> 01:46:22.399 I really enjoyed Satiricon. 01:46:23.119 --> 01:46:26.079 Busted out all the rages, played all the disco tunes. 01:46:26.479 --> 01:46:38.640 They played uh they played King, Black Grown Tombstone, Black Grount Tombstone, now that I'm on Mother Burns Mother North Medieval Time. 01:46:38.800 --> 01:46:46.159 They played Mother North, Mother North, Mother North, lovely bit of Mother North. 01:46:46.560 --> 01:46:48.640 Cracking bird, she is Mother North. 01:46:49.439 --> 01:46:51.199 Black Grant Tombstone. 01:46:52.479 --> 01:46:56.720 Satiric on um and then who else played? 01:46:56.880 --> 01:46:59.279 I think then, yeah, and then uh we always went back. 01:46:59.359 --> 01:47:00.800 I mean, because there was it was Kylessa. 01:47:00.960 --> 01:47:05.840 No, no, I went back, and then it was between the choice between Kylessa and Gutalax. 01:47:06.159 --> 01:47:08.960 Well, I miss Lama God as well, because I was Lambagod. 01:47:09.520 --> 01:47:20.239 Me and Mark like eventually dove our way through the crowd to find a manner for Lambergard, and then I heard them play the night some shit off palaces, and I was like, Ruin. 01:47:20.319 --> 01:47:21.279 I think they played Ruin. 01:47:21.439 --> 01:47:27.119 Yeah, they played Walk Mean Hell, and then we had a bit of um Redneck, and they were fun. 01:47:27.439 --> 01:47:33.359 I don't really realize I don't really care about any Lambergard apart from as a stuff off the pal as a pack. 01:47:34.159 --> 01:47:38.720 At that point, I was knackered, and I'm like, I kind of want to see Power Wolf as the only headliner. 01:47:38.800 --> 01:47:40.159 I kind of give a shit about. 01:47:40.880 --> 01:47:44.079 You're dead to me, and we're I'm not doing this podcast anymore. 01:47:44.239 --> 01:47:46.239 We drink your blood and the midnight. 01:47:46.640 --> 01:47:49.359 So I had a different experience, I had the opposite experience. 01:47:49.520 --> 01:47:54.399 Scarlet and I were waiting for Gooselax to play because they were doing a late set on the second 10 stage. 01:47:54.560 --> 01:48:02.079 Unfortunately, it was within earshot of the main stage, and I was brutally subjected to a bit of powerwolf thoroughly against my will. 01:48:02.960 --> 01:48:05.600 Where's the even the gap between powerwolf and ailstorm? 01:48:05.680 --> 01:48:08.239 I mean, take away the pirate theme, it's the same fucking shit. 01:48:08.479 --> 01:48:09.279 Racism. 01:48:09.520 --> 01:48:10.880 And racism, that's true. 01:48:10.960 --> 01:48:11.439 Fair enough. 01:48:11.760 --> 01:48:13.840 I don't know, power wolf sound like they'd be racist. 01:48:14.399 --> 01:48:16.079 Non-pirate ailstorm. 01:48:16.800 --> 01:48:21.920 Yeah, and the you know, but I there's that's not the only reasons I hate Alestorm, you know what I mean. 01:48:23.039 --> 01:48:27.920 You you also hate One Piece, you know, it's but uh anyway, Power Wolf. 01:48:28.640 --> 01:48:31.439 Power Wolf, yeah, and then yeah, good, they're fun. 01:48:31.520 --> 01:48:34.159 They did the whole crowd surfing the Portal thing, that's always fun. 01:48:34.399 --> 01:48:36.159 Um, and that was the Sunday. 01:48:36.560 --> 01:49:05.199 That was Sunday, and that was it, and then on Monday we just got the oh yeah, you got quite heavily weasel busted uh on the train because we we got first of all the shuttle to no man's land, and then we waited for the bus to take us to Cortajeck, Quarterijke, Quarterjike, Quarter Jick, and then we got the train from there to Lille, and it's quite a packed train. 01:49:05.279 --> 01:49:09.439 We've got our suitcases, so we're sort of in the bit in between the bits, you know what I mean? 01:49:09.600 --> 01:49:26.880 The nether zone by the doors, and we're sort of sat and nestled in, we're good, and then there's this noise, and it's some music playing from a speaker, and this Congolese bloke, he didn't know he was Congolese at the time, he steps steps on and he's playing his music, immediately takes his sandals off. 01:49:26.960 --> 01:49:36.399 He's just standing there with his bare feet, and he just starts talking to people, starts talking, he's drinking his apple juice, and he's just talking to everyone in Belgium. 01:49:36.479 --> 01:49:37.920 He starts talking to us, and we're like, I don't understand. 01:49:38.399 --> 01:49:39.279 Oh, you speak English? 01:49:39.359 --> 01:49:43.279 Yeah, he's oh, you speak English, where have you been to? 01:49:43.439 --> 01:49:48.479 And we went to a festival, festival, festival, how was the festival? 01:49:48.880 --> 01:49:50.960 And just just kept going. 01:49:51.039 --> 01:49:54.399 And he was like, I was I felt bad for Adam because he's the most in the fire alone. 01:49:54.560 --> 01:49:58.000 I was sort of sat down and he was going and he's probably like poking at us. 01:49:58.399 --> 01:49:59.840 Oh, you're like this man, Nivai. 01:50:00.079 --> 01:50:01.680 Nirvana! Oh, you like this band Navarro? 01:50:02.319 --> 01:50:04.159 He didn't ask me if I like this band Nirvana. 01:50:04.399 --> 01:50:07.600 So the first thing was he's like, he asked tried asking me it's a Google Translate venture. 01:50:07.760 --> 01:50:12.880 He's like, when the festival ends, do you all pack up the tables and chairs together? 01:50:13.119 --> 01:50:14.399 As if like we're roadies. 01:50:14.560 --> 01:50:16.079 And I'm like, I was like, no, no, no, mate. 01:50:16.159 --> 01:50:16.880 It's like no no. 01:50:17.279 --> 01:50:19.359 And he's like, what is like metal and stuff? 01:50:19.760 --> 01:50:25.520 And he googles metal on YouTube, like you know, YouTube's metal, and he finds slip and he's like, he's like, is this metal? 01:50:25.600 --> 01:50:28.000 And I'm like, yeah, he goes, and he starts laughing immediately. 01:50:28.239 --> 01:50:29.520 Oh, he laughs at everything. 01:50:29.840 --> 01:50:33.119 And then he says he quits to Nirvana, smells like Teen Spirits. 01:50:33.359 --> 01:50:35.760 Like, do you know

this guy, this guy Nirvana? 01:50:36.079 --> 01:50:37.920 And I'm like, Do you know this man Nirvana? 01:50:38.159 --> 01:50:38.960 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:50:39.119 --> 01:50:41.760 And then I'm like, so yeah, do you play the instruments? 01:50:41.840 --> 01:50:43.039 And I'm like, I'm just lying at this point. 01:50:43.119 --> 01:50:44.880 I was like, No, no, do you smoke? 01:50:45.039 --> 01:50:47.520 And I'm like, no, no, no, I don't smoke smoke. 01:50:47.760 --> 01:50:49.039 So I'm trying to end the conversation. 01:50:49.520 --> 01:50:50.159 Have you been to Dublin? 01:50:50.560 --> 01:50:52.399 Yeah, yeah, I've been to Dublin's like, yeah, yeah. 01:50:52.800 --> 01:50:54.640 They drink Guinness, says what do you drink in London? 01:50:54.800 --> 01:50:56.560 I'm like, mostly Guinness, to be honest. 01:50:56.640 --> 01:50:59.119 He's like, and then that that that causes another cascade of laughter. 01:50:59.279 --> 01:51:08.560 And as he's saying this, he's just kicking with his bare feet, uh, just anyone around him, being like, Oh my god, this guy knows this guy's not this guy's knows this guy Nirvana. 01:51:08.800 --> 01:51:14.720 And I'm like, Oh, and then he then and then he keeps asking me, he's like, Where do you think I'm from? 01:51:14.800 --> 01:51:15.439 I'm like, I don't know. 01:51:15.520 --> 01:51:18.079 I'm like, Oh, France, I don't know, yeah, it's pretty close to it. 01:51:18.159 --> 01:51:20.880 And he's like, No, and he turns to Archer and he's like, Where you think I'm from? 01:51:20.960 --> 01:51:23.680 And I was like, just like can't go because the Belgians call us conqueror. 01:51:23.760 --> 01:51:25.520 I was like, Yeah, it's a good guess, isn't it? 01:51:25.600 --> 01:51:47.119 And he's like, Yes, and then you guys go back and you are an international man, you're an international man, and he kept trying to talk to me, but he kept like kicking Scarlett, who was sitting in between us, and like like leaning right over her with his like I kept trying to escape trying to escape, and he kept cornering her like by accident, trying to talk to me about Congo. 01:51:49.520 --> 01:52:04.800 Yeah, his bare feet were kicking Scarlett and everything, and then and then the train just sort of stopped and just sort of didn't move, and we just sort of sit in there with our bags, and then these people came on the train and they were trying to like get to places, and we were like, What's going on? 01:52:04.880 --> 01:52:12.079 They're like, Oh, the train's broken down, and we don't know how to fix it, and we don't know if it's gonna be fixed. 01:52:12.479 --> 01:52:17.119 We were like thinking, first of all, why is everyone just still sat on the train then? 01:52:17.279 --> 01:52:20.880 Are Belgian people just fucking thick or something? 01:52:21.439 --> 01:52:26.000 We I th well, we were in France at that point, but I don't know who was Belgian, who is French. 01:52:26.239 --> 01:52:28.800 Um, Brexit means Brexit, that's the most important. 01:52:29.600 --> 01:52:45.840 Um, no, so we got off the train and just got an Uber, but I'm pretty sure even though we you got your guys' Uber turn up after a couple of minutes, we had to wait like 10-15 minutes, but I think even quite late on before the Uber came, we looked and the train was still there, and presumably everyone still just sat on a broken train. 01:52:46.000 --> 01:52:48.239 Yeah, well everyone's like we don't know how to fix it. 01:52:48.399 --> 01:52:52.479 Yeah, the reason bustering man had departed long since. 01:52:52.880 --> 01:52:55.279 Yeah, he got off at the next stop mercifully. 01:52:55.439 --> 01:52:58.560 Um but yeah, they were like, we don't know what's wrong with we don't know how to fix it. 01:52:58.640 --> 01:53:03.680 I'm like, well, if you don't know even know how to fix it, like I'm not gonna wait to find out. 01:53:03.760 --> 01:53:10.399 So we got Uber to Lille, and then we sort of I mean, I think we went different ways to get different food. 01:53:11.439 --> 01:53:15.680 Yeah, we went to the because I mean France is bad for vegan food because they love eating cruelty. 01:53:15.840 --> 01:53:16.399 They just love it. 01:53:17.199 --> 01:53:26.079 I got there with uh big ups Adam, big ups David, went to the airport Hilton, um bumped into an American couple, and he was like, Oh, you guys have bell jackets? 01:53:26.239 --> 01:53:27.520 We're a vodka new every year. 01:53:27.680 --> 01:53:28.960 And I was like, Hell yeah, brother. 01:53:29.119 --> 01:53:32.720 And then I was like, please, uh I uh but go to the bar. 01:53:32.800 --> 01:53:36.399 I was like, I need uh I need I need a beer, and he's like, What do you want? 01:53:36.560 --> 01:53:38.079 I said, uh, do you know what? 01:53:38.319 --> 01:53:40.399 Fuck it, Cronenberg. 01:53:41.119 --> 01:53:41.520 It was good. 01:53:41.600 --> 01:53:47.840 It was all a 10 euro pint, a 10 euro pint, but it was nice. 01:53:47.920 --> 01:53:50.960 I got one too, and I walked in and I was like, Oh, is it the Hilton? 01:53:51.039 --> 01:53:52.000 Like like Paris Hilton. 01:53:52.239 --> 01:53:54.800 He's like, No, Lil, mate, fucking hell. 01:53:55.119 --> 01:54:02.560 But and then as as we went back into the train station, we saw Ann Al Mafrack queuing up, and we was like, could we weasel? 01:54:03.840 --> 01:54:08.239 I was weaselbustering them a little bit earlier when I saw them in the station. 01:54:08.399 --> 01:54:12.720 Um, because fun fact, I did once uh this is just a funny thing. 01:54:13.279 --> 01:54:14.960 The last damnation, I think. 01:54:15.199 --> 01:54:18.560 Sam Loins he plays guitar in Nathrat Live. 01:54:18.800 --> 01:54:21.520 Shout out Sam if you're listening, big up. 01:54:21.760 --> 01:54:33.359 Uh, he bought had to borrow my little silicone things that I put on the ends of my glasses that have little hooks on them so that the glasses stay on your head and don't fall off. 01:54:33.520 --> 01:54:38.960 Uh I always went down the road of

just not wearing my glasses on stage and learning how to play without being able to see anything. 01:54:39.199 --> 01:54:46.640 But uh Sam's gone down the uh glasses, silicone hook, uh secure glasses route. 01:54:46.880 --> 01:54:48.159 Fun fact there. 01:54:48.399 --> 01:54:52.239 Um crazy rock star stories. 01:54:52.399 --> 01:54:57.680 Um, but yeah, and then we we we end up getting a burger in Lille Station, which is actually not bad. 01:54:57.840 --> 01:55:00.239 Um, and then we got the train. 01:55:00.640 --> 01:55:10.319 Yeah, and then and that was a treat because I've never gone to European festival and being able to get a what, one and a half hour train back, and then just get the train straight it goes to St. 01:55:10.399 --> 01:55:11.920 Pancras, and then I just get the train from St. 01:55:12.000 --> 01:55:17.359 Pancras to South Croydon, and I'm home in like three hours total from Lille. 01:55:17.600 --> 01:55:19.279 That's pretty fucking nuts, if you ask me. 01:55:19.439 --> 01:55:22.479 It costs you three times as much, but it is easier getting back. 01:55:22.640 --> 01:55:23.119 I don't know. 01:55:23.279 --> 01:55:26.960 Once you add all the fees onto the flights, they they're not that cheap really anymore. 01:55:27.119 --> 01:55:28.800 We won't fucking accept the changes here. 01:55:28.880 --> 01:55:30.319 We don't fucking accept the changes. 01:55:30.479 --> 01:55:31.760 Oh, yeah, fucking hell. 01:55:33.359 --> 01:55:40.880 But that was Alcatraz, that was our stay in an open-air festival, which was also kind of like a prison, but also worse in terms of hydration. 01:55:41.119 --> 01:55:42.880 Worse in some ways, better in other ways. 01:55:42.960 --> 01:55:47.199 I mean, we didn't have Johnny Cash, we had Power Wolf. 01:55:47.520 --> 01:55:56.880 Um, and we didn't have drinking water, we had 250 millilitre small little cups of beer for 360. 01:55:57.359 --> 01:55:58.960 We got balls to the wall. 01:55:59.199 --> 01:56:02.159 Balls to the wall, best band with Primus. 01:56:02.960 --> 01:56:05.600 Uh one of the best bands. 01:56:06.239 --> 01:56:08.800 You're one of the best bands, yeah, just one of the best bands in general, to be honest. 01:56:08.880 --> 01:56:09.199 Yeah. 01:56:09.439 --> 01:56:16.159 In conclusion, I'm the good thing I get is I would say about the festival as well, like lax security the whole time, very lax security. 01:56:16.319 --> 01:56:24.079 Like even smuggling in pouches, you could smuggle in whole drinks, they just weren't really looking, they weren't really checking pockets, they were checking big bags, they weren't checking fanny packs. 01:56:24.239 --> 01:56:26.560 I appreciated that about the festival. 01:56:26.800 --> 01:56:29.600 Um, but yeah, it was quite relatively well run. 01:56:29.840 --> 01:56:31.039 Toilet facilities were great. 01:56:31.119 --> 01:56:34.640 It but I don't know if I'll go back because I think there's cheaper, better festivals. 01:56:34.800 --> 01:56:40.000 I'd go to Brutley

Salt before I went back to Alcatraz, I'd go to Talmanator before I went to Alcatraz again. 01:56:40.239 --> 01:56:45.439 Yeah, I mean that's what I'm bringing out to Next is because I I wouldn't probably wouldn't go back to Alcatraz to be honest. 01:56:45.760 --> 01:56:51.840 Good general lineup with with the way that the entire planet's going. 01:56:52.399 --> 01:56:54.720 Camping is fun, you get to meet your neighbours and stuff. 01:56:54.800 --> 01:56:58.159 There's like something good amenities there, but forested festivals though. 01:56:58.239 --> 01:56:59.439 You want your festivals to be forested. 01:57:00.800 --> 01:57:04.079 You don't be don't camp in far line, camp in the forest, you're gonna camp. 01:57:04.319 --> 01:57:12.159 Yeah, like that's why I think smaller festivals are the way because you're more likely to get those kind of forested sites at like a 5k cap once you get up to like yeah, above your. 01:57:12.560 --> 01:57:14.239 And we didn't see any headliners, to be honest. 01:57:14.479 --> 01:57:18.319 All headliners was like lower stage, so that's been the thing for years though. 01:57:18.399 --> 01:57:20.640 I barely see headliners anymore because they're all shit. 01:57:20.800 --> 01:57:29.680 I remember like when I went to South Government's on ministry, apart from what we saw Ministry at Tominator, that was a different story, but Bloodstock 2017. 01:57:30.000 --> 01:57:33.760 I think I didn't see any of the headliners because it was like Ghost and a bunch of other shite. 01:57:36.399 --> 01:57:38.000 Anyway, that was Alcatraz. 01:57:38.720 --> 01:57:41.680 Uh tune into the next Escape from Alcatraz, yeah. 01:57:41.840 --> 01:57:43.199 It's Escape from Alcatraz. 01:57:43.920 --> 01:57:54.640 Uh tune in to the next episode of PubGoth Transmission where we will be discussing T BA, and this will be released TBA. 01:57:54.800 --> 01:57:55.760 Well, actually, that's a lie. 01:57:55.840 --> 01:57:57.439 We're not going to announce it, it's just going to come out. 01:57:57.920 --> 01:57:59.119 It's going to be this week. 01:57:59.439 --> 01:58:00.800 Well, this one will come out this week. 01:58:00.880 --> 01:58:04.720 The next one will come out when we goddamn good and ready to fucking put another one out. 01:58:05.039 --> 01:58:07.760 Man's underemployed and overemployed at the same time. 01:58:07.840 --> 01:58:10.880 I'm overemployed, underpaid, underpaid, overemployed. 01:58:10.960 --> 01:58:12.479 Probably overpaid in some respects. 01:58:12.720 --> 01:58:13.760 But there we go. 01:58:14.479 --> 01:58:16.000 We've got any plugs. 01:58:17.840 --> 01:58:23.039 I don't think we're playing uh Colchester Deathfest anymore, Essex Death Fest in Colchester anymore. 01:58:23.199 --> 01:58:25.279 I think Omar has a wedding or something. 01:58:25.600 --> 01:58:27.760 Um, so we were gonna play that. 01:58:27.840 --> 01:58:31.039 But we're playing Decolonised Fest, D'Agora playing Decolonised Fest. 01:58:31.199 --> 01:58:33.039 Yeah, I was wondering when you guys are gonna get booked first. 01:58:33.279 --> 01:58:33.680 October. 01:58:34.079 --> 01:58:35.520 Yeah, we got booked a while ago. 01:58:35.600 --> 01:58:38.399 We just couldn't talk about it um until they announced it. 01:58:38.479 --> 01:58:39.279 But yeah, we're playing that. 01:58:39.359 --> 01:58:42.479 It's at Signature Brew, it's in October, forget exactly when. 01:58:42.880 --> 01:58:52.560 Um, it's it's mainly a sort of people of colour run by four things, so I'll be sort of sheepishly standing towards the back of the stage for this one, I think. 01:58:52.720 --> 01:58:55.439 Um, but uh yeah, that one should be good. 01:58:55.600 --> 01:58:57.760 Uh I yeah, I don't think we're playing Essex Death Fest. 01:58:57.840 --> 01:59:03.840 I don't know if that's announced yet, so I don't even know if I should be saying that yet, but I don't if you're not playing it, it's just fine. 01:59:03.920 --> 01:59:09.600 You can um you're not playing a lot of festivals, to be honest. 01:59:09.840 --> 01:59:19.920 And another thing I'll say is uh next year, PubGoth Transmission will be we'll be restarting uh the tutorials, but it's gonna be one running tutorial. 01:59:20.000 --> 01:59:26.880 I'm gonna want to do uh how to grow and prepare your own tobacco because this year I grew my own tobacco and I was learning the ropes. 01:59:26.960 --> 01:59:27.520 How do you do it? 01:59:27.600 --> 01:59:29.039 How do you germinate your seeds? 01:59:29.119 --> 01:59:32.079 How do you grow how do you harvest when do you harvest the leaves? 01:59:32.239 --> 01:59:33.359 What do you do when you harvest them? 01:59:33.439 --> 01:59:34.079 How long do you draw them? 01:59:34.159 --> 01:59:34.640 How long do you go? 01:59:34.800 --> 01:59:35.760 I've figured it out now. 01:59:35.920 --> 01:59:45.920 I know how to make tobacco, I know how to make it pretty good, and I'll be sharing that knowledge with you uh in the next next agricultural season. 01:59:46.000 --> 01:59:59.119 So next year I'll be follow along, pubgolf transmission, grow your own tobacco, and uh never have to pay 30 quid for a 30 grand pouch again or whatever silly price they charge for cigarettes these days. 01:59:59.359 --> 02:00:00.079 Fuck yes. 02:00:00.319 --> 02:00:01.199 Okay, plugs. 02:00:01.520 --> 02:00:04.640 Uh well, you also see already listening to fucking pubgolf transmission. 02:00:04.720 --> 02:00:06.560 Listen to fucking acid horizon. 02:00:06.720 --> 02:00:08.560 Uh listen, well, check out. 02:00:08.640 --> 02:00:14.399 I've got a new article on September the second coming up Prometheus on simulacral fascism. 02:00:14.560 --> 02:00:15.279 Is it fashion? 02:00:15.359 --> 02:00:16.319 Is it not fashion? 02:00:16.479 --> 02:00:19.199 It both is and isn't, and that's why it's dangerous. 02:00:19.439 --> 02:00:27.199 Um mid-September, I've got a new article coming out of the Gotham guillotine with John Greenaway on Gothic Marxism. 02:00:27.920 --> 02:00:32.479 And uh someone should give you a lot of money and buy my next book off me. 02:00:32.640 --> 02:00:35.840 Uh, looking at you guys from Eb and Prometheus. 02:00:36.000 --> 02:00:38.399 But yeah, that's about it from me. 02:00:38.479 --> 02:00:42.079 In that case, we sign off to a two hour episode. 02:00:42.479 --> 02:00:44.319 Take it easy and take it breezy. 02:00:44.479 --> 02:00:46.319 This was PubGoth Transmission.