Full Transcript for WILL MCGREGOR, FROM EASTENDERS TO PLAYING AN IBIZA BOAT PARTY, EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

00:05:24.160 Okay. 00:05:24.480 --> 00:05:32.480 So it was like all of that was coming out, obviously, difficulty with my parents' views on it, being Christian and stuff like that. 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:39.519 Like, I know what the Bible says, I've been brought up on what the Bible says, but in the same breath, I'm like, I can't take this away. 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:52.560 So music is what is what means the world to me because it was bringing me out of this dark hole that I was in, where I was going, I can't get out of here, and there's a there's no way out. 00:05:52.959 --> 00:06:14.560 And then basically what happened was through the university they put a a training programme on called HBTI, which was ran by the Commonwealth Games in 2014, where I volunteered as a camera assistant, and that is what catapulted me into the industry from that. 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:25.680 So and that took me from living in Scotland to then getting on a Virgin Atlantic train straight to London at 17. 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:26.560 Yeah. 00:06:27.199 --> 00:06:31.360 Going into a new city, not knowing anyone, presumably, not know not really knowing that many. 00:06:37.519 --> 00:06:43.839 I was like, right, carrying brew, square sausage, let's go. 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:48.160 So I mean, 17, straight to London, boom. 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:51.120 Big brother, turn on five, let's go. 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:55.759 There was a vision engineer that hooked me up from um the Commonwealth Games. 00:06:55.839 --> 00:07:01.839 I'd worked with him, and he was like, I I can get you one big brother as a as a camera trainee. 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:03.920 I'm like, yes, I'm off. 00:07:04.079 --> 00:07:07.600 I remember telling my mother I was going to London, she was like, What are you going doing there for? 00:07:09.839 --> 00:07:10.720 English. 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:11.199 Yeah. 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:12.319 Do you know what I mean? 00:07:12.560 --> 00:07:14.240 We went to Big Smoke Var. 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:17.199 And I was like, I need to do this. 00:07:17.439 --> 00:07:23.360 This is my I just knew like my insides were going, this is right, you know, you gotta go. 00:07:23.600 --> 00:07:28.399 And what and what was it like working on the Big Brother set? 00:07:29.279 --> 00:07:34.639 Big Brother set was was like just everything about it was so weird. 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:36.319 I had the chance to be myself. 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:44.480 I had the chance to be this another gay person coming out in London, like it was it gave me the ability to be me. 00:07:44.639 --> 00:07:45.120 Mm-hmm. 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:58.399 Um I got there, they were like, right, we're gonna take you into the they called it the rat runs, yeah, which is like if you can imagine, you know, the mirrors that are in a police interview room, yeah. 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:01.600 Where it's like they can't see you, but you can see them. 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:05.439 So all the mirrors dotted around the

house, I'm the cameraman. 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:11.199 I'm looking through the mirror, and Katie Hopkins is there putting her makeup on, and I'm like, oh my god, it's Katie Hopkins. 00:08:11.519 --> 00:08:12.399 Do you know what I mean? 00:08:12.639 --> 00:08:14.079 She's in front of me. 00:08:14.399 --> 00:08:15.519 What am I gonna do with this? 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:16.000 Do you know what I mean? 00:08:16.079 --> 00:08:26.000 It was like I was just mind-boggling at the time, and I remember my first ever live fiction, and they called it a geography shot. 00:08:26.800 --> 00:08:36.240 I don't know if it what it's called now, it might not be called that, but basically, you're zooming in on someone, and then you zoom out and you zoom back into another person at the other side of the table. 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:49.519 Yeah and Perez Hilton and Katie Hopkins had an argument that night, and they asked me to do a geography shot from Katie Hopkins to Perez Hilton at the other end of the table, because the way the kitchen table was laid, that was one of those big long ones. 00:08:49.840 --> 00:08:57.840 And I'd done it on my first live eviction night, and it went out on channel 5 live on TV, and and I I cried. 00:08:58.080 --> 00:08:58.320 Really? 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:01.600 I was like, this is great, this is amazing. 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:03.600 Like, wow, I'm in London. 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:04.480 Do you know what I mean? 00:09:04.559 --> 00:09:06.240 I'm working on TV, this is fab. 00:09:06.720 --> 00:09:14.080 And then from there, I just decided to well actually what this is the story. 00:09:14.240 --> 00:09:25.360 I went to the Elf Street bar, which is in Elf Street Studios, um, and I met someone in there who worked on East Enders across the road, and she was like, Come and come and work with us, your personality's great, come work with us. 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:28.399 And I was like, Oh my god, I don't know what's East Enders. 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:31.039 Got a job as a runner, bloody loved it. 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:31.600 Do you know what I mean? 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:36.080 I'm on Albert Square, grew up with a show, massive training ground. 00:09:36.159 --> 00:09:39.519 For anyone that wants to get into telly, East Enders' a great place. 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:49.600 You know, it trains you up and it it it will nurture you and get you to a place where you're like ready to go out and do other stuff, but it's a good training place there. 00:09:49.840 --> 00:09:55.039 And I remember my first day on East Enders was an episode where the bus crashed. 00:09:55.279 --> 00:09:55.919 Yeah. 00:09:58.879 --> 00:10:08.960 And my first AD was like, so our first assistant director is the right-hand man to the director, they're in charge of the floor, they shout action, they shout cut, they do the schedules, it's all of that. 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:14.320 Um she said to me, You're in charge of queuing this bus. 00:10:14.559 --> 00:10:16.399 It is quite a big responsibility that. 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:18.240 It is, it's a big responsibility. 00:10:18.559 --> 00:10:24.240 So this bus is crashing into the bridge outside Caffey's cafe, and I'm thinking, What can be so hard? 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:30.720 And she was teaching me how to queue, she was like, So you put your hand up, and then when I say queue the bus, you drop your hand. 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:31.279 Simple. 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:33.200 That is actually quite simple, yeah. 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:34.480 In fairness to her. 00:10:34.879 --> 00:10:42.879 So but if the queue goes wrong, you got extras running around, it's chaos, you know, you've got main cast members running around. 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:46.080 If the bus gets queued at the wrong time, I mean people could die. 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:46.799 Do you know what I mean? 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:48.639 That's the seriousness of it. 00:10:49.759 --> 00:10:52.320 And my earpiece broke. 00:10:55.679 --> 00:11:02.960 She called my earpiece broke, and she's like, Okay, stand by and action. 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:05.840 And I'm like, I've not hearing anything. 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:10.399 I'm actually not hearing anything, like, and I'm looking at my mate and she's like, everything alright? 00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:13.440 And I'm like, no, not gonna hear anything. 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:23.679 Um and then I'm like, I'm trying to remember from rehearsals when the bus got cured and the stump man's looking at me and all and I panic, so I go like this, boom. 00:11:23.919 --> 00:11:31.360 And she's like and the bus starts moving, and she's like, She comes, stop, she comes, stop and rather go, why have you killed the bus? 00:11:32.559 --> 00:11:35.840 Rather than just saying, uh cut there, do you know what I mean? 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:45.200 Like my but obviously when you're new, you don't feel like you've got the ability to say, can we cut because I can't hear anything, and that's more important than killing someone. 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:48.720 I just went boom, the bus starts driving. 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:54.480 Luckily, no one died, and I kept my job for quite a few number of years, but it was just one of them, you know. 00:11:54.559 --> 00:12:06.080 It was like coming round the bus is coming round, and like half the actors are still there, that's just carnage, and she's like and I just at that moment I thought must do better. 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:11.039 Because like the end of your report card, must do better. 00:12:11.919 --> 00:12:27.120 But from there, I did get better and I did learn, and and EastEnders got me to a place that was great, and I went on to do really good shows like Silent Witness and Strictly and X Factor Goggle Box, you know. 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:30.159 I didn't know what were you doing on those? 00:12:30.799 --> 00:12:49.679 So on the entertainment side, um so on Strictly I was uh researcher, which was like a so we I was part of the VT team, so we used

to go around we used to go around I'm sorry, I just remembered something from Strictlet. 00:12:49.919 --> 00:13:01.759 I remember every time there was a uh Glaswegian woman on it called Susan Calman, she's a comedian, she was on the show dancing, and we used to get the sleeper train from Glasgow to London with her every time. 00:13:02.399 --> 00:13:23.120 Anyway, she was in she managed to get it to the final dance and she was quite a small woman and obviously it's the finale glutter cannons, you know the full works anyway sorry it's just so funny. 00:13:23.360 --> 00:13:40.000 She was standing in front of this glitter cannon and the glitter goes off and she's dancing away, and then we'd wrap it up and everything's done, and she's starting the back of an ambulance with an ice pack, and I'm like, it's everything on ice, isn't it? 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:58.799 I have just been shot in the face by you know, it's like oh man, oh it's so funny, like just the stuff that went on, just the stuff that went on, it's hilarious. 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:00.559 But it was a great show. 00:14:00.879 --> 00:14:03.759 Loved working on that is so ridiculous. 00:14:03.919 --> 00:14:07.039 I know, like she just got shot in the face by a glar card. 00:14:07.440 --> 00:14:16.559 Because if she was taller, she'd have been fine, but it's because she was so small, she's dressed as Wonder Woman and she's like you just picture that. 00:14:16.799 --> 00:14:18.240 Oh, it's just hilarious. 00:14:18.399 --> 00:14:25.840 Me, my me and my PD was just a cheat of less great woman though, she's class, like she's a lot of laughs comedian. 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:27.440 She's got a show coming up, actually. 00:14:27.519 --> 00:14:29.279 She put it out on our our socials. 00:14:29.440 --> 00:14:34.720 So if you're into Scottish comedy, Susan Calm went all the way, but yeah. 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:51.919 So I've done that, I was just sort of helping set up the VTs, and it's kind of similar to this kind of setup where and then you would film the rehearsals and you put together a VT so it'd be like this week I've gone go-karton to get into my figure of eight for the waltz, and you know what I mean, all that stuff that you see. 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:54.559 So I've done that, which is great. 00:14:54.879 --> 00:15:01.679 Um, and then Goggle Box was like my job was to come up with the preambles. 00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:09.759 So I'd sit down with like Mary and Giles, for example, and I'd say to them, Um, what have you done this week? 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:15.919 And he'd say, 'Oh, I've just bought this back scratcher, it's about ten feet long, and I'm like, 'That's a great preamble. 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:17.120 Let's put that in. 00:15:17.279 --> 00:15:23.039 So then we get in front of the camera and I'd say to my producer, he's bought a back scratcher, and he's right, Giles, let's get the back scratcher. 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:25.200 Look, Mary, I've got this big back scratcher. 00:15:25.679 --> 00:15:32.000 Oh, so they're like they're tall not tall, but like I guess they're cued on what's interesting. 00:15:32.240 --> 00:15:35.279 I mean how how are they like so they still got a headpiece? 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:35.840 Like how are they? 00:15:36.240 --> 00:15:43.759 No, so there's a oh my god, this is such a TV, like I might never work in telly again after this. 00:15:44.399 --> 00:15:51.919 But um there was uh like a voice of God underneath the telly, which the producer could speak to the families through. 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:52.320 Okay. 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:58.080 Um and they would sort of direct them and say to them things, right, let's go into the preamble now. 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:04.399 And come on, Mary, tell me about your week and but everyone needs produced in telly, you know what I mean? 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:10.799 Everyone needs a bit of produ otherwise it'd be just be down rabbit holes, wouldn't it? 00:16:11.200 --> 00:16:14.240 So Oh wow, that's actually well interesting. 00:16:14.559 --> 00:16:17.759 Oh god, I was watching Google Box yesterday now, it's all changed. 00:16:18.159 --> 00:16:19.200 Oh, it's all changed now. 00:16:19.279 --> 00:16:19.919 It's all changed for me. 00:16:20.159 --> 00:16:21.440 They probably probably don't even do that now. 00:16:21.519 --> 00:16:24.320 It's probably AI sat there going, right, come on. 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:28.639 Um so yeah, Google Box. 00:16:28.879 --> 00:16:30.480 Sounds like some very cool shows you worked on. 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:30.960 Great show. 00:16:31.039 --> 00:16:32.720 I mean Silent Witness, great show. 00:16:32.799 --> 00:16:34.480 I'd done it in Liverpool. 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:38.159 Um I mean, a funny story on that one. 00:16:38.639 --> 00:16:51.759 My so my episode was um basically the health secretary gets shot in a world organisation meeting and they all go to the Liverpool to do this, like what is that? 00:16:51.840 --> 00:16:58.720 I don't know what it is, like that meeting that they all have, you know, it's like the one there they all come together from all over the world and they do a thing. 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:00.240 I forgot the name of it. 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:04.640 But they come out and the health secretary gets shot in Liverpool. 00:17:05.119 --> 00:17:30.160 So we had to hire anti-terrorist police with guns for this for this shot because when it comes to guns, I don't know if you remember the Baldwin thing where someone got shot on set and it was a big Eric Baldwin accidentally shot an art director or something and basically you got fined and someone lost their life. 00:17:30.240 --> 00:17:35.279 So when it comes to guns on set, you gotta be very you need an armor, you know, it's all very tight knit. 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:38.000 So we had to have people that knew what they were doing. 00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:42.240 So we had to bring in real anti-terrorist police. 00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:42.799 Wow. 00:17:43.039

--> 00:17:43.680 For this. 00:17:44.480 --> 00:17:46.400 Or I believe that they were real. 00:17:47.039 --> 00:17:49.519 Don't quote me on this, guys, but I think they were real. 00:17:49.839 --> 00:17:57.200 Anyway, the story goes, I was at a minibus full of anti-terrorist police, and the minibus broke down on the way to set with these guys. 00:17:57.279 --> 00:18:00.079 So the main cast arrived before the extras, which should never happen. 00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:02.799 You should always have your extras ready to go. 00:18:02.960 --> 00:18:07.519 They're not called extras now, they're called supporting artists, but you'd always have them ready to go. 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:12.319 So, anyway, the minibus breaks down, and I'm like, what do I do? 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:18.000 I either wait a half hour for another minibus to come from the other side of Liverpool, or I get them to set. 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:25.279 So I I was looking at my maps, I got the first AD screaming in my ear saying, Where are these anti-terrorist police? 00:18:25.359 --> 00:18:27.440 We've got the main actors here, what's going on? 00:18:27.519 --> 00:18:29.200 This is you know, this should never happen. 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:31.920 And I'm thinking, ooh, kill me now. 00:18:33.839 --> 00:18:42.319 So I just said, Right, boys, come on, we're walking down Liverpool High Street and Mars these anti-terrorist police through Liverpool High Street. 00:18:42.400 --> 00:18:43.839 I thought, oh my god. 00:18:44.319 --> 00:18:47.519 And the line producer's like, You do realise you're gonna cost us a fine. 00:18:47.599 --> 00:18:52.160 I'm like, I'm so sorry, but I had the first TD screaming at me and didn't know what to do. 00:18:53.440 --> 00:18:54.960 TV sounds wild. 00:18:55.119 --> 00:18:56.240 It is wild. 00:18:56.480 --> 00:18:58.480 But then um COVID hit. 00:18:58.799 --> 00:18:59.200 Yeah. 00:18:59.440 --> 00:19:02.079 So that took you COVID took me home. 00:19:02.240 --> 00:19:02.640 Yeah. 00:19:02.960 --> 00:19:03.839 Country Roads. 00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:05.359 No, sorry, I don't know why I did that. 00:19:05.599 --> 00:19:12.720 Um it took me home, um, and I remember working on television sets. 00:19:12.799 --> 00:19:17.039 My best friend who done a lot of shows with me, her name's Elaine Page. 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:22.720 Funnily enough, it's not the Elaine Page, but her name is Elaine Page and she's crackles, she's class. 00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:29.599 She was like, mate, you're constantly playing music in between takes, like just buy a set of DJ decks. 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:32.000 So when I went home, that's what I'd done. 00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:42.079 I bought a set of DJ decks, couldn't for the life of me work it out, and then I thought, I'm not giving up, I'm gonna go London Town Academy and I'm gonna do this. 00:19:42.400 --> 00:19:57.759 And this woman there, Simon Fatongi, she taught me the basics of like how to DJ and you know the use of everything, the ins and

outs, all of that, the way the way about the controller, the effects, everything. 00:19:58.880 --> 00:20:03.279 And that was great, and then I went back to East Enders and I forgot about it for about two years. 00:20:03.839 --> 00:20:04.160 Okay. 00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:08.960 Um and then what happened then? 00:20:09.039 --> 00:20:12.799 I got a job with BBC Casualty in South Wales. 00:20:13.920 --> 00:20:16.559 But not South Wales, it would have been Wales, Cardiff. 00:20:17.039 --> 00:20:28.480 Um and then I sort of settled there for a bit, took my decks with me, and I'd done a lot of garden parties and stuff, and people were like, mate, you're really good, like you should pursue this. 00:20:29.279 --> 00:20:36.319 And I was sort of getting bored of the TV industry, not in a way that the TV industry is ever boring because it's not, and it's a great job. 00:20:36.640 --> 00:20:52.480 I just in the space of ten years, I had lived in Leeds, Birmingham, Coventry, London, Manchester, Glasgow, and I was literally living up my car in spareroom.com and jumping around and chasing the job. 00:20:52.640 --> 00:21:09.279 And after ten years, you're thinking all my family are in Glasgow, you know, a lot of people in the industry they're leaning on support of their families, or and when you're on your own and you're paying rent and stuff like that, your fuel and everything else. 00:21:09.680 --> 00:21:14.319 I got to the age of 30 and I was like, I gotta do something here. 00:21:14.559 --> 00:21:25.039 Like I I you know, I got no savings, I'm cutting about, I'm giving my life to this industry, which is amazing, and I love every second of it, but I also have nothing to show for her. 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:30.000 So I thought, reset, let's go home. 00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:39.599 So Wales was sort of the stopgap for that, and I and I come back back to my mother's death, which is where I am now at the ripe old age of 30. 00:21:40.160 --> 00:21:44.240 But I just thought I gotta do something, I gotta start saving for a house and stuff like that. 00:21:44.319 --> 00:21:59.599 So that sort of led me to coming out of the industry, but on the upper hand, it's giving me time to focus on my music and my DJN, um, which is sort of what led me on to not even. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:05.920 Parrot, entering competitions, you know, uh doing a course in Glasgow. 00:22:06.079 --> 00:22:18.400 I've done a course in Glasgow called We Are Made, which is they do uh crash course to Ibiza, which is essentially you get invited over to do a Ibitha boat party. 00:22:18.799 --> 00:22:20.000 You don't get better than that. 00:22:20.400 --> 00:22:21.440 You don't get better than that. 00:22:21.680 --> 00:22:22.640 Yeah, that's cool. 00:22:22.799 --> 00:22:23.359 That is cool. 00:22:23.599 --> 00:22:28.799 So I'd done that and I went over to Ibitha and I'd done my boat party. 00:22:29.440 --> 00:22:31.359 What um what was the boat party? 00:22:32.240 --> 00:22:34.559 Puck it up boat party it

was called. 00:22:35.519 --> 00:22:50.160 Um This is the thing like I sort of missed out with Ibiza, but I'd I'd sort of done when I was in cas when I was working in BBC Casualty over them two years, I spent a lot of time in Ibiza on my time off. 00:22:50.480 --> 00:23:01.599 And I'm talking 28 days, not full 28 days back to back, but in between I'd done 20, like 20, it was it all calculated to about 28 days. 00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:13.759 I remember getting to Ib this was before I done the We Are Made course, I got to Ib Fa and I thought I bloody love this place, you know. 00:23:13.920 --> 00:23:33.839 I stayed in Ibiza Rock since I told you and just being in amongst that people with the same mindset of you who love the music, you know, they're there for the vibes and the energy, but I'm very much about energy. 00:23:34.319 --> 00:23:41.119 Like I feel lots of people have mixed opinions on it for but for me, I feel like I walk into a room I can feel the energy. 00:23:41.200 --> 00:23:41.519 Yeah. 00:23:41.680 --> 00:23:48.160 I know if it's gonna be if this is gonna be for me or if it's not, you know, I c you can sense it. 00:23:48.480 --> 00:23:50.559 That sort of sick sense mentality. 00:23:50.720 --> 00:23:53.920 I'm a great believer in that and I feel like anyone can tap into that. 00:23:55.039 --> 00:23:59.680 So when I got to Waibita, I was like, this is a place for me, you know. 00:24:00.000 --> 00:24:00.559 It was great. 00:24:00.799 --> 00:24:01.839 And and and I did. 00:24:01.920 --> 00:24:15.279 I spent 28 days out there just as a a clubber, and and I learned I learned the scene, I learned what was good and what what I wanted out of it and where to go and the parties I wanted to be involved in and stuff like that. 00:24:15.359 --> 00:24:17.119 So it was great, it was good. 00:24:17.839 --> 00:24:26.960 So that was so that led you to your Ibiza kind of journey in music, wasn't that boat party? 00:24:27.039 --> 00:24:28.079 That's what took you there, right? 00:24:28.400 --> 00:24:30.880 So what happened was um I went to high Ibiza. 00:24:31.119 --> 00:24:32.319 Yeah, great club. 00:24:33.279 --> 00:24:36.319 Met these girls outside who were Scottish, yeah. 00:24:36.960 --> 00:24:46.079 Um my ex at the time commented on this girl's cowboy bits, selling your cowboy bits, and they were Scottish. 00:24:46.160 --> 00:24:51.440 And from meeting these Scottish girls was this is how my D universe works. 00:24:51.680 --> 00:25:02.720 From meeting these Scottish girls who lived in Fife, they told me about this course called We Are Made and these DJs that have been getting opportunities at like Ocean Beach, pack up, boat party. 00:25:02.880 --> 00:25:05.440 So I applied, and that's and that's how I ended up there. 00:25:05.519 --> 00:25:15.440 It was nothing to do with relevance to me being from Scotland, it was to do with meet my ex commenting on these girls' cowboy boots, which then led me to doing a course in We Are Made. 00:25:15.839 --> 00:25:17.519 That is crazy, yeah. 00:25:17.839 --> 00:25:20.640 Like it's just crazy how it all ties in. 00:25:20.880 --> 00:25:26.160 So it's stuff like that that makes you think you know, what's for you won't go by you. 00:25:26.319 --> 00:25:27.839 Yeah, yeah, I like that. 00:25:28.160 --> 00:25:32.000 At least try to remember that sometimes when I just thought in my head, like, oh god. 00:25:34.000 --> 00:25:39.839 Um so you mentioned as well that led you to applying for the naughty parrot launch party. 00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:46.240 So what to just talk us through like that, like what made you apply, what yeah, what how did that all come about? 00:25:46.480 --> 00:26:06.799 Well I so off the back of the boat come back from the boat party, so I've done that, I come back, and I was thinking I just had a fire in my belly to do more, because real realistically, before last year I hadn't done many gigs in clubs or parties. 00:26:06.880 --> 00:26:10.960 I'd always been a garden party DJ or a house party DJ. 00:26:11.039 --> 00:26:11.519 Yeah. 00:26:11.839 --> 00:26:16.240 And I sort of had a fire in my belly, and I was like, I want to do more of this. 00:26:16.640 --> 00:26:24.720 And then on my Instagram, Naughty Parrot just appears on my story, or like when I was flicking through or something, you know, are you a DJ? 00:26:24.799 --> 00:26:26.400 Do you want to apply for Naughty Parrot? 00:26:26.960 --> 00:26:32.480 And I and I looked into it and I thought, this looks like something that I could uh you know I could do. 00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:40.720 I I I feel like I've got enough experience under my belt now having had done through We Are Made, Ministry of Sound Lending. 00:26:40.880 --> 00:26:41.599 That's cool. 00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:49.920 Uh the party, the boat party in Ibiza, and now, you know, if I can get Naughty Parrot under my belt, it's another great thing. 00:26:50.079 --> 00:27:06.400 So I put I applied and I thought the mix is gonna have to be for me when I'm recording a mix, I like to do it within music that's given me a good feel on the dance floors. 00:27:06.720 --> 00:27:13.519 So everything that I'd played in Ibita at that time was what brought the mix, my original mix for Naughty Parrot. 00:27:13.680 --> 00:27:18.480 I thought these are filling up the dance floors and the they were going off at puck up boat vary. 00:27:18.559 --> 00:27:22.960 I'm gonna put a mix together and leave it to the universe. 00:27:23.119 --> 00:27:24.480 If if I get it, I get it. 00:27:24.640 --> 00:27:25.759 If I don't, I don't. 00:27:26.000 --> 00:27:30.000 You know, it's that is very much and that's very much how I've always lived my life. 00:27:30.720 --> 00:27:35.440 What's for you won't go by you, you know, and and that's how I I feel with anything really. 00:27:35.519 --> 00:27:43.200 So I applied for it and I thought, okay, I'll leave it to the naughty parrot gods and hope I get the naughty parrot gods. 00:27:44.640 --> 00:27:50.400 And long

and behold, long and behold, I'm sat on a chair getting interviewed like crazy. 00:27:50.720 --> 00:27:53.039 Your mix was wicked though, I loved it. 00:27:53.119 --> 00:27:55.839 It was really, really good, awesome energy. 00:27:56.319 --> 00:28:01.920 Like I quite like like vocals, and there was lots of vocals, lots of movement. 00:28:02.240 --> 00:28:05.680 I was like, oh yeah, this is a like this was it was really vibey. 00:28:05.759 --> 00:28:07.839 Yeah, um, so it wasn't like a difficult choice. 00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:08.400 Oh, good. 00:28:08.640 --> 00:28:11.039 There were like over 50 applicants for that. 00:28:11.119 --> 00:28:13.440 Yeah so it you got you got through. 00:28:13.680 --> 00:28:17.680 Yeah, it was a good um yeah, like you've you clearly did a really good job. 00:28:17.839 --> 00:28:20.480 I remember listening and I listened to all of the mixes as well. 00:28:20.960 --> 00:28:22.160 Takes a bloody long time. 00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:24.559 Yeah, like what about 50 mixes? 00:28:24.640 --> 00:28:25.599 That's like 50 hours. 00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:26.480 Yeah, it's like good. 00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:27.920 What's the pay slap? 00:28:29.839 --> 00:28:30.559 It's a lot of fun. 00:28:32.559 --> 00:28:34.160 You get good tunes for the gym, it's quite good. 00:28:34.400 --> 00:28:35.599 Definitely, definitely. 00:28:35.839 --> 00:28:41.839 So, what was it like for you like going to the launch party, arriving like at the castle? 00:28:42.400 --> 00:28:45.119 Naughty Parrot, class, so good. 00:28:45.680 --> 00:28:56.640 I arrived, and I remember I'd been looking at the Naughty Parrot socials, and I'd I was seeing who the winners were for the for the competition. 00:28:57.440 --> 00:28:59.839 And Bryn was there. 00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:00.559 Yeah. 00:29:00.880 --> 00:29:02.559 And I was like, Oh hey Bryn, how's it going? 00:29:02.640 --> 00:29:07.759 I'm well, and he was like, I'm one of the other competition, and he was like, hey man, how's it going? 00:29:07.920 --> 00:29:13.680 And straight straight off the back, it was like I just knew from that moment that it was going to be a good night. 00:29:13.759 --> 00:29:15.119 His energy was great. 00:29:15.279 --> 00:29:39.359 I go upstairs to the castle, you know, you got um our dancers there putting their glutter on Emily's there, and it was just so welcoming and warm and fuzzy feeling from the moment I got there, and I was like, 'Cause you know, when you're walking into some a gig, it can be quite daunting because you don't know what you're gonna get, um, and you don't know what response you're gonna get either. 00:29:39.519 --> 00:29:45.359 Because I think with me, because I'm quite a big personality and quite out there, I think. 00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:52.960 Sometimes even when I'm gigging in Edinburgh and all people are like, this guy's got undiagnosed ADHD. 00:29:53.119 --> 00:29:53.839 Do you know what I mean? 00:29:53.920 --> 00:29:56.079 Like it's I couldn't be like so. 00:29:56.160 --> 00:29:59.279 The response was great from Naughty Parrot. 00:29:59.519 --> 00:30:01.680 Got their castle venue, wicked. 00:30:01.839 --> 00:30:11.119 I gave the photographer a lift to the part, and we even had it off, and I was like, hey, if we get can you get some good shots of me, you know, like all that was going on, it was great. 00:30:12.000 --> 00:30:15.279 Seen a ball pit there, brilliant. 00:30:15.519 --> 00:30:22.240 And then I calmed down, I seen I seen Brynz, he started the night off very well, must say. 00:30:22.400 --> 00:30:22.799 Yeah, he did. 00:30:23.119 --> 00:30:24.079 Cracking set. 00:30:24.640 --> 00:30:33.440 Um and just for me, what it was was no phones, nobody's got their phones out on the dance floor. 00:30:33.599 --> 00:30:41.599 You know, someone stood there in a feather fur coat, spinning around, we got Cuban dancers, we got bongos, we got saxophores. 00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:45.519 It was just unreal vibes, man. 00:30:45.759 --> 00:30:51.200 Like everything that you could imagine that you would want at a naughty pirate party was there. 00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:55.279 Yeah, that was it was so fun, and I'm glad that you felt that as well. 00:30:55.359 --> 00:30:58.799 Like it's nice hearing like how people experienced it. 00:30:58.960 --> 00:31:00.079 That's exactly what I wanted. 00:31:00.240 --> 00:31:02.640 Like, everything you just described was like perfect. 00:31:02.720 --> 00:31:03.440 I'm glad that landed. 00:31:03.680 --> 00:31:12.240 I thought it was good, and then right down to the beach balls being thrown in, and you know, it was it was like organized chaos in the best way. 00:31:12.480 --> 00:31:13.200 Do you know what I mean? 00:31:13.359 --> 00:31:20.880 Yeah, it was great, and then during my set as well, what I enjoyed was the support from people as well. 00:31:21.119 --> 00:31:52.799 That you know, it's just all I can describe to it as warm energy, um, and then like I remember it was coming towards the end of the night, I was speaking to Emily on the dance floor, and I said to Emily on the dance floor, we were having a conversation, and she was saying about her life in Ibithar and you know how she's going to Thailand and Bali, and I and I said to her, I'm really jealous of your life, like this you've got a great life. 00:31:53.039 --> 00:31:56.160 And she sort of in a nice way gave me into trouble in a bit. 00:31:56.319 --> 00:32:23.440 She said, You should never be jealous of anyone's life because you can have the life you want as long as you imagine it, something along them lines, and I will always take that away with me from the Naughty Parrot Party because I feel like something so profound to just come out from a party where I've won a competition from is an amazing feeling, and from there that was the caterpill to doing a producer's course in Glasgow because I took them words away with me and I thought, do you know what? 00:32:24.079 --> 00:32:25.839 Will McGregor, you can do this.

00:32:25.920 --> 00:32:26.720 Do you know what I mean? 00:32:26.880 --> 00:32:30.319 And that was great from her man, that was like so nice to say. 00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:31.519 What a response. 00:32:31.920 --> 00:32:36.079 That's so nice that that's like push you forward as it has. 00:32:36.160 --> 00:32:37.599 That's that is absolutely amazing. 00:32:37.759 --> 00:32:38.079 Yeah. 00:32:38.559 --> 00:32:40.319 No, I big up Emily, do you know what I mean? 00:32:40.400 --> 00:32:58.079 She's like she's great, and even down to the yoga in the morning and everything that I wasn't there for the yoga in the morning, but it looked great, and I've what I feel is so good about Naughty Parrot is that you know you've got good music, great vibes, and then in the morning you're doing yoga in a tent. 00:32:58.480 --> 00:33:00.559 What festival is doing that at the moment? 00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:01.920 I don't know many. 00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:02.400 Yeah. 00:33:02.640 --> 00:33:03.359 You know what I mean? 00:33:03.519 --> 00:33:08.319 That wellness, that looking after one another, that warmth. 00:33:09.200 --> 00:33:10.240 It's it's great. 00:33:10.319 --> 00:33:11.279 What more do you want? 00:33:11.519 --> 00:33:13.440 Yeah, I'm so pleased you felt all of that. 00:33:13.519 --> 00:33:26.799 And like that balance thing is really an interesting thing, like, which is what drives me with Naughty Parrot, because like it is a it is a really crazy industry, like DJing music, all of it. 00:33:26.960 --> 00:33:39.279 You're working late, the hours are kind of weird, really high energy, there's like booze flying round, it's just like this really crazy space, yeah. 00:33:39.440 --> 00:34:01.920 And everyone's partying a lot, and what I what drives me with it is like trying to find like balance because I I don't want to be on the full beans end of like that craziness, but I also don't want to like stop having fun, like I I want to find that midpoint, um, which uh I want to understand from you about balance as well, as you're like going into this more and more. 00:34:02.319 --> 00:34:10.639 Um you're like you're working, DJing, travelling, creating production course, uh and also trying to be a functioning human. 00:34:10.719 --> 00:34:14.079 Like, how are you finding how do you go about balance for yourself? 00:34:15.360 --> 00:34:20.960 Um And it's also fine if you're like I don't, because I haven't got the answer by the way. 00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:27.440 I think for me, I think ambition and adrenaline is what keeps me going. 00:34:27.519 --> 00:34:33.440 If I didn't have those two things, if they weren't hand in hand, then it would just wouldn't work. 00:34:33.599 --> 00:34:33.920 Yeah. 00:34:34.159 --> 00:34:44.239 I think for me, being ambitious, you know, grabbing the bull by the horns, as you may, taking every opportunity that comes your way. 00:34:44.480 --> 00:34:59.519 Like at the moment, for example, having just started properly gigging about a year, I would

say I'm saying yes to a lot of gigs that maybe I wouldn't say yes to down the line just for the experience. 00:34:59.840 --> 00:35:08.559 And for anybody starting out and trying to make a name for themselves, I would say that every gig that you do will be an experience and a learning curve. 00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:16.320 At the moment, it's about learning your audience, learning about yourself as a DJ and the kind of DJ that you want to be. 00:35:16.480 --> 00:35:23.440 On top of that, producing music, learning what kind of music you want to produce and what angle do you want to go. 00:35:23.599 --> 00:35:28.320 All of that is room for exploration, and you don't need to have all the answers right now. 00:35:28.719 --> 00:35:33.039 I would just say just do as many gigs as you can. 00:35:33.199 --> 00:35:35.519 I mean, recently I'd done an 80s gig, right? 00:35:35.679 --> 00:35:38.559 Which is like not my scene at all. 00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:41.119 You have the tunes for it? 00:35:41.280 --> 00:35:52.239 I had the tunes for it, um, but I remember just get the thing about an 80s night is it's gonna attract a crowd that's a bit older. 00:35:52.400 --> 00:35:52.719 Yeah. 00:35:53.039 --> 00:35:55.519 And that crowd is a request crowd. 00:35:56.239 --> 00:36:03.280 They want they want their requests in, and if you haven't got those requests, it's dagger time on the dance floor. 00:36:03.440 --> 00:36:12.239 And I and this Irish woman haggled me for an hour in my ear, because she'd probably had about four bottles of wine, didn't know what she was talking about. 00:36:12.719 --> 00:36:17.440 But she said to me, she said to me that sh sh this is what she said to me. 00:36:17.599 --> 00:36:21.760 I started playing Big Bottom Girls by Queen. 00:36:21.920 --> 00:36:22.480 Yeah. 00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:31.519 And she was saying to me, she was in my ear for an hour saying that's not an 80 stint, it's a 79, 19 stint. 00:36:31.840 --> 00:36:32.559 Oh my god. 00:36:34.320 --> 00:36:37.679 And I was like, um, and this went on for an hour. 00:36:38.159 --> 00:36:42.880 And I'm looking at security, like, are we gonna do anything about this woman that's haggling me? 00:36:43.039 --> 00:36:45.360 And she was like, I gave up, butcha, I gave up, butcha. 00:36:45.519 --> 00:36:47.119 She was please give up with me. 00:36:47.519 --> 00:36:57.199 Please, please do, but yeah, there's lessons to be learned, and obviously, like I'm saying, you learn what kind of gigs you want to do. 00:36:57.679 --> 00:37:06.719 And for me, just starting out in the first year of my of my DJing career, I would say, yeah, just do do as many gigs as you can, but learn from them. 00:37:06.800 --> 00:37:09.440 If you if that's not your genre, then don't do it again. 00:37:09.840 --> 00:37:11.039 Do you know what I mean? 00:37:12.400 --> 00:37:13.840 Um, and was that up in Scotland? 00:37:14.079 --> 00:37:14.960 That was up in Scotland. 00:37:16.239 --> 00:37:20.079 I won I know we did touch on Scotland, but I want to go back to a couple of Scottish bits. 00:37:20.559 --> 00:37:21.039 Oh yeah. 00:37:21.360 --> 00:37:24.000 There's like two things I really want to talk about. 00:37:24.239 --> 00:37:27.280 You sent me this completely ridiculous picture. 00:37:27.760 --> 00:37:33.039 Um can you just talk to us a bit about Haggis hunting? 00:37:34.960 --> 00:37:46.639 So Haggis hunting is a tradition that in Scotland that they do, which is from November up until um Burns night, which goes, I think, runs till January. 00:37:47.119 --> 00:38:04.400 But they do this thing where in Scotland we like to pretend that Scotland's a Scotland, that haggis is a creature that runs around the highlands and you can go haggis hunting for it, and people sell tickets f for like eight pounds a go. 00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:10.960 And these people buy these tickets and they go up in the highlands with binoculars looking for a wild haggis. 00:38:12.400 --> 00:38:13.679 That is mad. 00:38:14.159 --> 00:38:17.840 I know at any point does anyone go, by the way, this is not a thing. 00:38:18.159 --> 00:38:18.880 At the end, yeah. 00:38:19.119 --> 00:38:20.880 At the end, yeah, but you don't get a refund. 00:38:20.960 --> 00:38:22.159 You don't get a refund. 00:38:24.400 --> 00:38:43.440 So yeah, so they just go up into the highlands, they go looking for wild haggis, and they're like, the best time to find a haggis is in the morning, so these poor people are getting up at six in the morning to go haggis hunting, and they get to the end and we're like, nah, mate, it's just herbs and living in kidneys and cooked in a sheep's stomach college. 00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:49.760 God, I'm surprised people have been like, Can I have my money back? 00:38:49.840 --> 00:38:50.400 That's ridiculous. 00:38:50.639 --> 00:38:54.400 I mean it probably happens all the time, but I think people probably just find it so funny. 00:38:54.559 --> 00:39:01.039 Like I think as Scots we do we have we are quite humorous, you know, we do enjoy laughing at life. 00:39:01.119 --> 00:39:03.360 I mean you gotta because it rains 247. 00:39:03.920 --> 00:39:07.840 So you gotta just find the funny side that I think they probably get away with it. 00:39:08.079 --> 00:39:10.000 Yeah, that is ridiculous though. 00:39:10.079 --> 00:39:13.920 And the picture, oh my god, like what is that creature? 00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:16.079 They got loads of them. 00:39:16.239 --> 00:39:19.840 I think they've they've got fake stuff one in Loch Loman somewhere. 00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:27.920 Um and I have definitely seen them selling tickets in Loch Lohmann for a haggis hunt recently on Facebook. 00:39:28.800 --> 00:39:31.440 So I may actually go to one to see what it's like. 00:39:31.679 --> 00:39:39.360 I've never been, but I think it'd be good to tell us a bit about Bits and Pieces. 00:39:39.760 --> 00:39:42.400 So Bits and Pieces is a track. 00:39:42.960 --> 00:39:48.719 I've I mean you'll hear at our wedding, birthday, you

know, football stadiums. 00:39:49.039 --> 00:40:01.679 Calvin Harris played at a transmit 2016, and Lewis Capaldi opened with it at Transmit in 2019, and it's essentially a dance track which we just go apeshit for. 00:40:02.639 --> 00:40:03.280 We love it. 00:40:03.760 --> 00:40:04.800 And it's just become a thing. 00:40:04.960 --> 00:40:08.000 It's become a thing, and it's you know, bits and pieces. 00:40:11.920 --> 00:40:13.119 It's like it's just one of them. 00:40:13.199 --> 00:40:15.119 You just gotta chant along to it. 00:40:15.199 --> 00:40:21.440 It's just become a thing in Scotland, and everybody, as soon as you play that out, you've got Scotland on board. 00:40:21.519 --> 00:40:22.159 Do you know what I mean? 00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:23.280 Like, we just love her. 00:40:23.519 --> 00:40:26.079 I'm gonna keep that in mind whenever I have a gig in Scotland. 00:40:26.239 --> 00:40:26.480 Do I? 00:40:26.559 --> 00:40:29.199 If you play that out, you've got to be you can't go wrong. 00:40:31.119 --> 00:40:50.239 So just chatting about your mix that you put together is quite different to what you did, what the mix you put together for your competition entry, and you said it is a bit more reflective of like the Scottish scene and the demands of it, the demands of like higher pace, faster tempo, 150 BPM. 00:40:50.400 --> 00:40:54.320 You mentioned, which I don't think is in this mix, it's not in this no, that's that's a bit much. 00:40:54.719 --> 00:40:57.280 150 may be a step too fast, yeah. 00:40:57.760 --> 00:41:01.199 But um it's definitely a harder mix this week. 00:41:01.440 --> 00:41:09.440 So I I only moved back to Scotland about four weeks ago, started getting gigs in Edinburgh, and I remain this is a distinctive moment. 00:41:09.519 --> 00:41:11.199 I thought I've gotta switch this up. 00:41:11.360 --> 00:41:17.440 I was playing IBTA Classics in a restaurant slash bar. 00:41:18.159 --> 00:41:27.360 Um so I was playing like you know the standard iBefa classics, Finder by Carol Cox, you know, all that sort of thing. 00:41:28.000 --> 00:41:37.199 And the the bar manager comes up and he says to me, Hey man, like I think he's from America, hey man, these are these tracks are great, but have you got anything horror? 00:41:37.679 --> 00:41:39.519 And I was like, What do you mean by harder? 00:41:39.679 --> 00:41:42.559 It's like seven o'clock at night, and people are eating their burgers. 00:41:42.639 --> 00:41:44.639 Like, what do you mean by harder than finder? 00:41:44.880 --> 00:41:50.159 Like, I'm already up at 130, and he was like, Raise the roof. 00:41:50.239 --> 00:41:51.599 That's what he said to me. 00:41:51.920 --> 00:42:12.000 Raise the roof, and I was like, I'm already at 130 at 7 o'clock in the night, like and I had a little small section of like faster beats in my playlist, which consisted of Hannah Lang, you know, uh Ewan McVicar, stuff like that, which by the way, I'll talk about my name later actually. 00:42:12.239 --> 00:42:23.280 But anyway, going back to the subject I'm on about, um this small section that I had was probably about maybe an hour long, and I had to go until three in the morning. 00:42:23.440 --> 00:42:23.840 Wow. 00:42:24.079 --> 00:42:45.280 And that hour-long section I got through within about 40 minutes by the time I'd mixed it in, and people were going mad for it, and then it was back down to because I'd already played it, I had to go back down to my original playlist, which is like the IBETA classics, all the sort of, you know, them nice because I was thinking, you know, restaurant bar. 00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:51.199 I'll play a bit of iBeefa classics, get it up to 130, we'll keep it there for a couple of hours, bring it back down. 00:42:51.599 --> 00:43:03.440 But nah, the the these Edinburgh the Edinburgh guys, they wanted 140, 145, you get 'em a job job see, you know, all that boob boob boo stuff, dance tracks. 00:43:03.599 --> 00:43:06.719 I'm like, I was it was probably the most stressful night of my life. 00:43:06.960 --> 00:43:07.840 So what what did you do? 00:43:07.920 --> 00:43:11.840 Did you just have to keep playing that those 40 minutes of tracks? 00:43:12.159 --> 00:43:16.239 In the end, I just thought I'm not gonna repeat songs. 00:43:16.320 --> 00:43:22.239 I can't that's more embarrassing than than anything, so they're gonna have to learn it. 00:43:32.000 --> 00:43:36.719 And then luckily it started to die down a bit, so I got away with bringing it back down. 00:43:36.880 --> 00:43:52.000 So but yeah, so yeah, so in Scotland it is definitely more that sort of up tempo live dance, which I had to learn because when I was down south and I was DJing here, it was a it was a slower tempo, you know. 00:43:52.079 --> 00:43:54.320 The house was and I love that sort of house, you know. 00:43:54.400 --> 00:43:55.920 I do love that kind of DJing. 00:43:56.159 --> 00:43:59.760 My original mix, the Ibita sort of sound. 00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:29.760 Um was where what I always wanted to do, but when you know when you're gigging in Glasgow and you got someone saying, Alright mate, this is a lot of shite, got in faster, and I'm like, I've got you know you have to go with what people want, sort of so we've got a faster mix, um, and then part of that I mean big part of what I do with naughty parrot is spotlight up-and-coming artists, not only through like bringing them on to events, the podcast, etc. 00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:34.800 But I also love hearing what you guys are spotlighting in your own mixes. 00:44:34.880 --> 00:44:36.320 So, who have you spotlighted? 00:44:36.559 --> 00:44:39.119 So I'm gonna spotlight Charlotte Moss. 00:44:39.599 --> 00:44:58.159 She produced a track in the summer called Shake the Funk, and I first heard it on TikTok, and I was like, That's a BOP, like that's so good, and I could feel myself going, and then and then from there, I was actually messaging her on socials saying, Hey Charlotte, this is a bop.

00:44:58.400 --> 00:45:02.480 Just like you know, I'd love to know when you're releasing it because I'm dying to put it in my mixes. 00:45:02.559 --> 00:45:06.960 I can you just send me a copy so I can put it in my mixes now, but it was never gonna happen. 00:45:07.519 --> 00:45:12.320 But um, in the end, she got she did get back to me and she said this will be released on this day. 00:45:12.400 --> 00:45:13.519 I'm so glad that you love it. 00:45:13.599 --> 00:45:32.159 And her response and her like just her way about the messages and reaching out, I felt was like you don't get that very often, you know, someone replying, or and then next thing I know the tracks out in Destino and Ibiza are being played by Marco Carolla, and it's been signed by Frankie Rizzardo. 00:45:32.320 --> 00:45:35.920 So big up, Charlotte Moss, like class, fair play. 00:45:36.239 --> 00:45:36.880 Nice. 00:45:37.280 --> 00:45:37.920 That is great. 00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:45.840 I love it when like DJs and music artists are warm in the like DMs, like it is it's so refreshing, definitely. 00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:49.679 Uh most of the time when you actually apply, yeah, or when you actually get through to them as well. 00:45:49.840 --> 00:45:53.440 Like, thank god you're you're actually there, not like someone else doing it all. 00:45:53.760 --> 00:45:54.639 Exactly. 00:45:55.039 --> 00:45:55.440 Cool. 00:45:55.519 --> 00:46:01.679 So I mean I've got so many things that we could talk about, but I'm gonna have to start bringing this to a close. 00:46:02.000 --> 00:46:04.800 Um, but some other bits I do want to make sure we cover off. 00:46:04.960 --> 00:46:10.480 Your name, you said it's obviously your real name isn't actually Will McGregor, it's not so cute, yeah. 00:46:10.880 --> 00:46:13.039 So my full name is William Haining. 00:46:13.440 --> 00:46:17.440 Well, William McGregor Haining, including my middle name. 00:46:17.920 --> 00:46:22.480 So, but everyone calls me a Liam or has called me Liam Haining. 00:46:22.639 --> 00:46:26.800 My mother's called me Liam, my dad calls me Liam, but they put William down in his birth certificate. 00:46:26.960 --> 00:46:28.159 Don't ask me why. 00:46:28.400 --> 00:46:34.880 I think basically my great grandfather was called William and his middle name is McGregor, so it's after that. 00:46:35.199 --> 00:46:40.559 But as I grew older, my mother just decided you look more like a Liam, so we're gonna go with that. 00:46:40.719 --> 00:46:41.519 Are you with me? 00:46:41.679 --> 00:46:42.239 Yeah. 00:46:42.480 --> 00:46:48.800 So just to add more confusion, and when I was thinking about doing my DJ name, I was thinking, what can I call it? 00:46:48.960 --> 00:46:51.679 Liam Hayen to me, I'm like, I I just don't like it. 00:46:51.840 --> 00:46:53.440 I don't like her as a DJ name. 00:46:53.519 --> 00:47:04.000 And I was thinking about Scottish DJs like Hannah Lange, Calvin Harris, Ewan McVicar, it's all very punchy and Scottish. 00:47:04.639 -->

00:47:16.159 So I thought, if I can just take the Will and put the McGregor together, that gives me a Scottish punchy name, which sort of is up there with some of the main Scottish DJs. 00:47:16.320 --> 00:47:23.039 And if I and if sorry, and when I make it bigger, Will McGregor would fit in well. 00:47:23.119 --> 00:47:24.639 So I I put Will McGregor in there. 00:47:24.800 --> 00:47:25.039 Nice. 00:47:25.119 --> 00:47:26.000 And that's where it comes from. 00:47:26.320 --> 00:47:28.960 I like that actually, it's a good it is a good name. 00:47:29.199 --> 00:47:29.440 Yeah. 00:47:29.679 --> 00:47:34.320 I did a whole change with my name as well, because it was original with a J. 00:47:34.559 --> 00:47:34.880 Yeah. 00:47:35.039 --> 00:47:38.159 But the fact that I have to explain it with a J every time. 00:47:38.400 --> 00:47:38.559 Yeah. 00:47:38.719 --> 00:47:42.800 And when you're out like meeting people in Green News and stuff, they're like, alright, how do I find you on socials? 00:47:42.960 --> 00:47:48.239 So it's original but with a J, and it's like, oh, this is long trying to explain all of this. 00:47:48.559 --> 00:47:53.599 So I recently just decided I'm changing it to Ridge, literally just my name. 00:47:53.840 --> 00:47:54.400 I love that. 00:47:54.719 --> 00:47:57.519 Because like I don't need to jazz up my name too much. 00:47:57.760 --> 00:47:59.599 There's not many ridges out there. 00:47:59.920 --> 00:48:01.199 So I thought just go with that. 00:48:01.280 --> 00:48:03.039 Three letters Bosh, done. 00:48:03.280 --> 00:48:03.760 Exactly. 00:48:03.920 --> 00:48:06.880 And you know, so I think short and sweet is good. 00:48:07.039 --> 00:48:07.360 Yeah. 00:48:07.519 --> 00:48:08.159 You know? 00:48:08.559 --> 00:48:09.599 Yeah, so that's done. 00:48:09.679 --> 00:48:11.039 I'm I'm well happy with that now. 00:48:11.199 --> 00:48:14.159 But yeah, I think like getting the right name can be a whole thing, right? 00:48:14.400 --> 00:48:15.840 But I think you've nailed yours and it's good. 00:48:16.079 --> 00:48:17.039 Oh, thank you. 00:48:18.000 --> 00:48:21.760 So, um I'm gonna do some quick fire things on you now. 00:48:21.840 --> 00:48:22.400 You're ready. 00:48:22.880 --> 00:48:24.400 Don't think too much about this. 00:48:24.639 --> 00:48:24.880 Okay. 00:48:25.360 --> 00:48:26.880 Sunrise or closing set? 00:48:27.119 --> 00:48:27.920 Sunrise. 00:48:28.239 --> 00:48:28.880 Why? 00:48:29.519 --> 00:48:31.519 Because who doesn't love a sunrise? 00:48:31.840 --> 00:48:35.039 I I like both to be fair, but I'm tired in the mornings. 00:48:35.679 --> 00:48:37.119 Me too, to be fair. 00:48:37.360 --> 00:48:46.960 But I feel like with a sunrise, you're only gonna get people who are like in-depth in music as you are, and they're gonna get your set there, aren't they? 00:48:47.440 --> 00:48:57.039 Sun sunset is like everyone's sort of the drinks have been going all day, there's sort of a bit more like wavy, you know. 00:48:57.119 --> 00:49:02.719 I feel like you might be a bit more vibey in the sunrise, or maybe they've lasted all night until sunrise, and you've probably got the same thing. 00:49:02.880 --> 00:49:03.760 I don't know. 00:49:05.119 --> 00:49:06.639 USB or vinyl? 00:49:06.960 --> 00:49:12.400 USB, I can't play vinyl, but like yeah But the sound of vinyl, yeah. 00:49:12.559 --> 00:49:18.320 Like I recently went to a festival called Houghton Festival in Kings Lynn, and a lot of it's vinyl. 00:49:18.559 --> 00:49:22.000 And when I tell you when I fell in love with vinyl, DJs was there. 00:49:22.159 --> 00:49:22.480 Yeah. 00:49:22.639 --> 00:49:23.039 Wow. 00:49:23.280 --> 00:49:24.000 Really good, right? 00:49:24.320 --> 00:49:24.800 Really good. 00:49:24.960 --> 00:49:25.599 Yeah. 00:49:26.079 --> 00:49:28.400 Um Guilty Pleasure Track. 00:49:29.519 --> 00:49:32.719 When Love Takes Over by David Gettham. 00:49:32.880 --> 00:49:35.199 Oh, that is I you know what? 00:49:35.519 --> 00:49:37.519 Yeah, I actually respect that. 00:49:38.159 --> 00:49:38.800 All of it. 00:49:39.119 --> 00:49:40.320 Play all the time. 00:49:43.199 --> 00:49:44.159 All the time. 00:49:44.559 --> 00:49:45.199 All the time, yeah. 00:49:45.519 --> 00:49:46.400 Put me in a great mess. 00:49:46.480 --> 00:49:46.559 Yeah. 00:49:46.719 --> 00:49:47.119 You know what I mean? 00:49:47.360 --> 00:49:55.440 Talk about when love takes over, put um take the air cone off and put on 30 degree heat, put your windows down, you're in summer. 00:49:56.079 --> 00:49:56.880 Great. 00:49:58.719 --> 00:50:00.880 Uh dream venue or event? 00:50:01.119 --> 00:50:02.000 Pikes. 00:50:02.239 --> 00:50:02.880 Yeah. 00:50:03.199 --> 00:50:03.760 I love it. 00:50:04.000 --> 00:50:05.840 Attend attend every year. 00:50:06.079 --> 00:50:08.719 Um just the whole pikes. 00:50:08.800 --> 00:50:14.000 I love what I love about it is, you know, you got Freddie Mercury Spirits Alive there for me. 00:50:14.159 --> 00:50:17.280 Um Jos Michaels, you know, Club Tropica. 00:50:17.599 --> 00:50:20.400 Is Club Tropicas Canon music video was filmed there? 00:50:21.119 --> 00:50:22.639 It's authentic. 00:50:23.119 --> 00:50:26.639 Everyone's phones are covered with a sticker. 00:50:27.440 --> 00:50:34.639 They got a bit more of a it's like, like every club in IBFA, you know, they got a dr they got a dress code and everything else. 00:50:34.800 --> 00:50:43.840 But the 27 Plus for me just is a game changer because it protects that authenticity, and that for me would be a dream to play there. 00:50:44.000 --> 00:50:50.400 Having attended it and fell in love with the place, my next goal would now to be to DJ there. 00:50:50.639 --> 00:50:56.000 Yeah, I would love to play at Pikes, also is definitely I'd say, dream venue for me. 00:50:56.079 --> 00:50:58.639 Yeah, like it's so great. 00:50:58.960 --> 00:51:00.960 Class, great sound system. 00:51:01.119 --> 00:51:03.679 That little Freddy's room is awesome. 00:51:04.000 --> 00:51:04.559 Yeah.

00:51:04.800 --> 00:51:06.639 Oh, it's just a good vibe, isn't it? 00:51:06.880 --> 00:51:07.199 Brilliant. 00:51:07.440 --> 00:51:08.559 And the people are just great. 00:51:08.639 --> 00:51:08.960 Yeah. 00:51:09.119 --> 00:51:10.880 2017, like you said, I love that. 00:51:11.199 --> 00:51:11.840 So good. 00:51:12.079 --> 00:51:12.719 Yeah. 00:51:13.039 --> 00:51:16.320 Um postset McDonald's order. 00:51:17.039 --> 00:51:19.280 Do you do you have a post-set McDonald's order? 00:51:19.440 --> 00:51:23.440 Postset McDonald's order would be a McChicken Sandwich meal. 00:51:23.599 --> 00:51:27.199 Although I recently have moved on to the Japan chicken nuggets. 00:51:27.599 --> 00:51:28.480 Really nice. 00:51:28.960 --> 00:51:31.920 Garlic and black pepper chicken nuggets. 00:51:32.239 --> 00:51:32.480 Yeah. 00:51:32.719 --> 00:51:33.760 Highly recommend. 00:51:34.239 --> 00:51:36.639 Swerve the pineapple burger. 00:51:36.960 --> 00:51:37.440 Ng. 00:51:37.760 --> 00:51:38.320 No good. 00:51:41.039 --> 00:51:45.599 And if your sound was a flavour, what would it be? 00:51:46.880 --> 00:51:47.840 Periperi. 00:51:48.400 --> 00:51:49.199 Perry peri peri. 00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:51.679 Spicy but not too spicy. 00:51:51.840 --> 00:51:52.079 Yeah. 00:51:52.960 --> 00:51:53.199 Yeah. 00:51:53.440 --> 00:51:56.559 Like, you know, it's like mango it's like Nando's medium. 00:51:56.719 --> 00:51:57.039 Yeah. 00:51:59.360 --> 00:52:02.639 Right, if I don't know if you're prepared for this or not, so don't worry if you're not. 00:52:02.800 --> 00:52:03.840 Two truths and a lie. 00:52:04.079 --> 00:52:06.880 Give me two truths and a lie about you. 00:52:07.199 --> 00:52:07.519 Okay. 00:52:07.679 --> 00:52:08.880 I want to try and get some. 00:52:09.199 --> 00:52:16.800 Um, so I went on a seven-week tour around Asia with my granddad when I was fourteen. 00:52:17.920 --> 00:52:29.519 Um I once had to eat a caterpillar in South Africa when I went to visit a tribe, or it would have been offensive. 00:52:32.320 --> 00:52:48.719 And the third one would be um my sister got married at twenty-one years old. 00:52:51.440 --> 00:52:52.960 So which was a lie? 00:52:53.679 --> 00:52:56.079 I mean bloody hell. 00:52:56.559 --> 00:53:01.039 Uh was the eating a caterpillar a lie? 00:53:01.119 --> 00:53:02.239 Uh was that one the lie? 00:53:02.320 --> 00:53:03.199 Because that's quite rank. 00:53:03.440 --> 00:53:04.800 No, that's so true. 00:53:05.119 --> 00:53:06.239 Which one's the lie? 00:53:06.559 --> 00:53:08.159 My sister got married at 21. 00:53:08.400 --> 00:53:08.800 Wow. 00:53:08.960 --> 00:53:10.719 So you ate a caterpillar? 00:53:10.960 --> 00:53:19.920 Yeah, so m my parents being Christian took us on a mission strip to South Africa when we were kids when I was about, yeah, like 13, 14. 00:53:20.159 --> 00:53:26.159 Um, we built a nursery for kids in a slum, and the government kept it running then, and they would have education. 00:53:26.320 --> 00:53:33.280 And but we

went to visit a tribe when we were there, and as part of like the greeting, you had to eat a caterpillar, but it was fried. 00:53:33.440 --> 00:53:40.320 It wasn't like a live not like a biscucker trial, like it'd been cooked and stuff, but yeah. 00:53:40.559 --> 00:53:41.199 That is quite right. 00:53:41.440 --> 00:53:46.480 It was like you had to eat it as otherwise it was been offensive, and God knows what would have happened. 00:53:46.800 --> 00:53:48.239 Oh well, fair. 00:53:48.320 --> 00:53:49.199 I don't think that's for me. 00:53:49.679 --> 00:53:52.639 I won't be going to that that particular tribe. 00:53:52.960 --> 00:53:56.400 Listen, when in Rome, you know, I I don't even remember what it tastes like. 00:53:56.480 --> 00:53:57.280 I was so young. 00:53:57.519 --> 00:53:59.679 I think I I think I'm more swallowed than chewed. 00:53:59.760 --> 00:53:59.920 Yeah. 00:54:00.079 --> 00:54:01.039 You know, it was one of them. 00:54:02.639 --> 00:54:10.239 Um, well, I like I said, I've got about a million things I could talk to you about, but we're gonna have to wrap things up, unfortunately. 00:54:10.400 --> 00:54:10.719 Yeah. 00:54:10.960 --> 00:54:16.320 Um, but before we do that, um I'd love for you to write an Echo Note. 00:54:16.400 --> 00:54:19.039 So that an Echo Note, I'll share like what that is. 00:54:19.199 --> 00:54:21.599 It's it's something that's really personal for me. 00:54:21.679 --> 00:54:34.159 So when I see my grandma, um, she gives me like these little handwritten notes, and they're just like a little sentence or reminder that just sort of lands exactly as you need it to, like it just does. 00:54:34.400 --> 00:54:39.119 Yeah, um, and I thought I want to like share that with people, but also create a chain of it. 00:54:39.599 --> 00:54:47.760 Um, so I wanted to bring that feeling into the brand, these like small little messages that we put into like orders if someone buys like a t-shirt or a fan or whatever. 00:54:48.320 --> 00:54:54.320 Um, and the idea is it creates like an echo chain of like nice messages that people get from each other. 00:54:54.559 --> 00:55:03.119 So I'd love for you to write one next to you, chuck it into the jar, and if you feel like sharing it, let us know what it is. 00:55:03.840 --> 00:55:07.760 And if you don't want to, that's fine, we'll just stick it into circulation. 00:55:08.079 --> 00:55:08.880 I'll do that. 00:55:09.440 --> 00:55:11.840 And stick your name at the bottom of it as well, please. 00:55:12.320 --> 00:55:14.159 I put Lima well, I'll joke in. 00:55:17.360 --> 00:55:20.159 I'm moving this mic away a minute, right, so I can write this. 00:55:24.880 --> 00:55:33.760 Well, McGregor Okay. 00:55:34.400 --> 00:55:35.760 Nice, what is it? 00:55:36.719 --> 00:55:39.119 Life is like a bull, grab it by the horns. 00:55:39.679 --> 00:55:40.559 Love that. 00:55:40.960 --> 00:55:41.840 Love that. 00:55:42.159 --> 00:55:46.400 We'll get that into circulation with the rest of the Echo Notes. 00:55:46.480 --> 00:55:47.679 That's a great one. 00:55:48.159 --> 00:55:51.440 Um Will, I'm gonna have to wrap it there. 00:55:51.599 --> 00:55:53.519 Will, Liam, whatever the hell we're calling you. 00:55:53.840 --> 00:55:55.440 Call me what you want, call me Tali. 00:55:55.679 --> 00:55:56.400 You're fine. 00:55:57.119 --> 00:56:06.800 Um, but thanks so much for making the journey down, bringing the iron brew extra, just bringing your vibe, your humour, everything. 00:56:06.880 --> 00:56:08.559 I've loved chatting to you. 00:56:08.719 --> 00:56:11.360 Um, and the mix is is it's a punchy one. 00:56:11.599 --> 00:56:12.320 It is one, yeah. 00:56:12.559 --> 00:56:14.320 Go with a dance floor for sure. 00:56:14.719 --> 00:56:16.239 Thanks so much for coming down. 00:56:16.320 --> 00:56:19.599 Um, talking to us about all the Scottish madness, everything. 00:56:19.840 --> 00:56:24.000 Um I'm sure we'll see you on a naughty parrot stage soon. 00:56:24.239 --> 00:56:24.719 Definitely. 00:56:25.039 --> 00:56:25.679 Big up, man. 00:56:26.400 --> 00:56:26.719 Thank you. 00:56:26.960 --> 00:56:27.440 Great. 00:56:28.719 --> 00:56:29.679 Oh man. 00:56:32.960 --> 00:56:35.440 Oh, that was so funny. 00:56:41.119 --> 00:56:42.880 Naughty Parrot Radio. 00:56:44.159 --> 00:56:45.039 Be bold. 00:56:46.800 --> 00:56:48.000 Like what you've been hearing. 00:56:48.320 --> 00:56:50.559 Hit our socials for more naughtiness. 00:56:50.960 --> 00:56:52.400 Can't wait to see you there.