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Mark Sharp · Not Another Football Podcast

• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of Not Another Football Podcast with myself,
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: Simon Dornley. What are you looking at me for? I'm just.
• 0:11
  Speaker 2: Jackie McMorris.
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  Speaker 1: And we're delighted our next guest is Mark Sharp from
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: Mark Sharp and the Bicycle Thieves. How are we doing, mate?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, very well, boys.
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: Thanks for coming.
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: Good to see you.
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  Speaker 2: You've been busy?
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  Speaker 3: Very busy.
• 0:24
  Speaker 4: It's actually been one of the busiest summers for us.
• 0:26
  Speaker 4: It's been out at the Tide Park by Lewis Capaldi.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Then we were in Boston and then we just... just
• 0:33
  Speaker 4: finished a gig doing Where You Can't Beat It at
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  Speaker 4: Queen's Park, so that was good.
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  Speaker 1: Was that the one you invited me to and I
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: couldn't make it?
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  Speaker 3: I invited you to look at him, you can't make it,
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  Speaker 3: you're a busy man.
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: I know. Boston, what was the Boston thing?
• 0:45
  Speaker 3: I've seen that.
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  Speaker 1: It was after the World Cup though, was it not?
• 0:48
  Speaker 3: It was for the World Cup final.
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  Speaker 1: Was it for the final?
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  Speaker 3: It was after part of the World Cup final.
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  Speaker 2: Magic.
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  Speaker 3: How did that come about?
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  Speaker 4: We were in Iona playing a festival and it was
• 0:58
  Speaker 4: like five o'clock in the morning we'd finished playing the
• 1:00
  Speaker 4: festival that Newton Faulkner was playing it it was quite
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  Speaker 4: good to see him he was class so we played
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  Speaker 4: the gig I guess it takes about six hours to
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  Speaker 4: get up to Iona for a start so it's a
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  Speaker 4: trek up there three different ferries played that festival and
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  Speaker 4: then we're kind of at the end of the night
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  Speaker 4: we're in the tent I think we drank quite a
• 1:17
  Speaker 4: Newton Faulkner's whiskey and we're in the tent it was
• 1:20
  Speaker 4: about five o'clock in the morning we're sleeping and there's
• 1:23
  Speaker 4: a phone call going on and I'm kind of like
• 1:25
  Speaker 4: half sleeping like is this for real what's happening here
• 1:28
  Speaker 4: And I could just hear, like, it's five o'clock in
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  Speaker 4: the morning here, stop phoning me.
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  Speaker 3: And that was kind of the end of it. I
• 1:32
  Speaker 3: was like, what was that all about?
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  Speaker 4: And it was my mate, the drummer, James Grant, his pal, Dobby,
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  Speaker 4: Andrew Dobby, was phoning him. He was over down the Cone,
• 1:42
  Speaker 4: the Cone final, taking the Cone for Glasgow, to Gloucester.
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  Speaker 3: He was that guy.
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  Speaker 4: And so he basically phoned saying, I've met this guy at,
• 1:53
  Speaker 4: I think it was a Red Sox game. he's got
• 1:57
  Speaker 4: to do a big after party, I says, I know
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  Speaker 4: the band for the job, do you want to come over,
• 2:01
  Speaker 4: he'll fly you over, got 17 hour notice. I know
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  Speaker 4: that's what I was saying, because I thought he was
• 2:06
  Speaker 4: on social media, it did see walk in at the
• 2:08
  Speaker 4: last minute, it was at the blue, totally, and I
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  Speaker 4: was like, we spoke about it in the morning, and
• 2:12
  Speaker 4: we were like, nah, we'll get home, and that'll be it,
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  Speaker 4: this will be forgotten about, but I kind of think
• 2:16
  Speaker 4: we got, we were like, Glencoe, started to sober up
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  Speaker 4: a wee bit, and we thought, let's look at flights,
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  Speaker 4: and just see if it's possible, and, we were like,
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  Speaker 4: doable but everything's got to go to plan there can't
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  Speaker 4: be any delays with flights or anything like that we'll
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  Speaker 4: make the.
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  Speaker 2: Game immigration and all I had.
• 2:37
  Speaker 4: To get the visas and stuff at the last minute
• 2:39
  Speaker 4: but everything that could have went wrong somehow went right
• 2:44
  Speaker 4: the after party was in Boston the after party was
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  Speaker 4: in Boston I think it was called the Anchor it
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  Speaker 4: was like the home pub for the Scotland fans for when.
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  Speaker 1: They first went over and I think they just.
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  Speaker 3: The guy was like, I'll fly yous out.
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  Speaker 4: And then I think he realised, once we sent the
• 2:59
  Speaker 4: price over, I think he realised all the way there.
• 3:02
  Speaker 3: Is that for always? I don't know, it's per person.
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  Speaker 3: Then he went, fuck it, bring yous over.
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  Speaker 4: So I flew us out and I think there was
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  Speaker 4: only meant to be about 250 people there. There's two
• 3:12
  Speaker 4: and a half thousand people there. So we got there
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  Speaker 4: and we were just seeing this big crowd and we
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  Speaker 4: were like, that's not for us.
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  Speaker 3: So where was it?
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  Speaker 1: Was it in one of the stadiums or not?
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  Speaker 3: No, the actual venue is an outdoor venue.
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  Speaker 1: Right, okay.
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  Speaker 4: And they'd built a stage and stuff like that for us,
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  Speaker 4: and they've got the game on the big screen.
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  Speaker 3: So I was absolutely bouncing. I was like, this has
• 3:33
  Speaker 3: got to be nuts. Still a bit surreal. You're like,
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  Speaker 3: how did that even happen? I'd never even been over
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  Speaker 3: to the States before.
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  Speaker 1: So was it your manager or your mate that put
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  Speaker 1: your name forward?
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  Speaker 4: Our drummer, James Grant's mate, Andrew Dovey, he's the cone
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  Speaker 4: guy so they're just pals and he just he's been
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  Speaker 4: I've got the I know the band here so he's
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  Speaker 4: just kind of like bigging it up bigging us up
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  Speaker 4: as well he's like I've got the best band in
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  Speaker 4: the UK coming over to do this it's funny isn't
• 4:02
  Speaker 4: it and then we as we were going on the
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  Speaker 4: stage we were giving the guy he's a good hype
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  Speaker 4: man Andrew Dowie we were giving the guy a whiskey
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  Speaker 4: and he's like this is the best whiskey in Scotland
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  Speaker 4: and I'm just nonsense but the crowd were absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Milking it spontaneous anything like that happened to you before
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  Speaker 1: the gigs?
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  Speaker 4: Nah we've had some of that stuff happen to us
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  Speaker 4: but that was I didn't expect that to happen that
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  Speaker 4: was just so last minute and as I say everything
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  Speaker 4: had to go to plan and it did so it
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  Speaker 4: was good.
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  Speaker 1: Brilliant so obviously you started out the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: band I think I've met a couple of you over
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  Speaker 1: the years are you pals from school? how did it
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  Speaker 1: come about?
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  Speaker 4: No so you're just in the same area we're bass
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  Speaker 4: player Connor he's pals with my wee cousin And I
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  Speaker 4: was just getting a band going, probably nine, ten years
• 4:50
  Speaker 4: ago now. I was just starting to look for folk
• 4:53
  Speaker 4: to play in the band. And my wee cousin was like,
• 4:57
  Speaker 4: Connor plays bass. And then members have changed over time,
• 5:01
  Speaker 4: but Connor, Cammy, the guitarist, and Darren, he plays keys.
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  Speaker 3: They all went to school together. And James's.
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  Speaker 4: He's a bit older, but I met him through just music.
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  Speaker 4: It was actually Wee Jack for the Snuts. He was
• 5:14
  Speaker 4: recording in Glasgow with this guy, James Grant. And then
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  Speaker 4: he went, you need to go and record with this guy.
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  Speaker 3: So I recorded with him. And now he's in the band.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm a talent from your area and over the years.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what's going on. What for him? I
• 5:29
  Speaker 3: think we always say it's like... Something in the water.
• 5:31
  Speaker 3: Something in the water.
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  Speaker 1: You feel as if you've maybe just influenced each other,
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: inspired each other, kind of?
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  Speaker 3: Definitely. There's also nothing else to do in Whitburn. Do
• 5:41
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: You play football, and then you get to the age
• 5:43
  Speaker 4: where you're like, I've been good enough to play professionally.
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  Speaker 3: So you pick up a guitar.
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  Speaker 4: It's raining all the time, so you need to do
• 5:49
  Speaker 4: something indoors, do you know what I mean? So, aye, that's...
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  Speaker 4: It's mad to think of the people that's came from there.
• 5:55
  Speaker 4: Susan Boyle's near there as well, do you know what
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  Speaker 4: I mean?
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  Speaker 3: Blackburn.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So aye, we've got everything to find Susan Boyle.
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  Speaker 2: How did they come up with the name then?
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  Speaker 4: I was actually just, I think I was in HMV
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  Speaker 4: and I seen there was a film called The Bicycle Thief.
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  Speaker 4: It's like an old Italian film from the 50s. So
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  Speaker 4: I was like, that's classic. Just nick that.
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  Speaker 3: That's how he came about.
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  Speaker 1: He said they were not stolen bikes.
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  Speaker 5: No, you said the other guys were stealing bikes when
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  Speaker 5: they were younger.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there's a good chance there were a couple of
• 6:27
  Speaker 3: dodgy boys in the band like you might have been.
• 6:28
  Speaker 3: But the guitarist actually got his bike stolen. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if you see it. It was one of the papers.
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  Speaker 4: The papers were milking up because it was a bicycle thief.
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  Speaker 4: He left it at Bathgate train station.
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  Speaker 3: And somebody nicked it. But it was a good bike
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  Speaker 3: publicity for us.
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  Speaker 1: So you're always the front man? Your intention's always to
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: be the front guy?
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  Speaker 4: Aye, so when I started that, I didn't play an instrument,
• 6:48
  Speaker 4: so I joined a band because they heard me singing
• 6:50
  Speaker 4: at a house party, and then I just kept singing
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  Speaker 4: after that, and then I started writing my own stuff,
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  Speaker 4: and picked up the guitar, and aye, just always been
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  Speaker 4: the kind of front man.
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  Speaker 1: Does that just come naturally to you, the writing?
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  Speaker 4: It does actually, I struggle maybe with instruments, I've not
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  Speaker 4: really got the discipline to kind of learn properly, but
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  Speaker 4: I can write songs on piano or guitar. It's mad.
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  Speaker 3: Aye, it's nuts. But I think melodies come quite naturally.
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  Speaker 4: The words are hard to define, but I probably spend
• 7:23
  Speaker 4: the most time on the words, because I want to
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  Speaker 4: perfect that.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's something I'm really, that's my thing, I'd say.
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  Speaker 2: And whether you kind of base yourself when you were younger,
• 7:32
  Speaker 2: what inspired you, the music, singing?
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  Speaker 4: Aye, I've My mum and dad just loved music, so
• 7:38
  Speaker 4: there was always music about the house. There would have
• 7:41
  Speaker 4: been Rod Stewart and the Faces, The Beatles, David Bowie,
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  Speaker 4: just a bit of everything really. So we just grew
• 7:49
  Speaker 4: up through music and you naturally fall in love with it,
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  Speaker 4: do you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You were saying Rod, because we were talking before you
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: came in, you were saying Kelly Jones, weren't you? But
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  Speaker 1: there was a bit of Rod there, that kind of
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: gravelly voice.
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  Speaker 3: Aye. It's probably from that, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: You subconsciously maybe just started doing that, do you know
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  Speaker 4: what I mean? You eventually find your voice, you try
• 8:10
  Speaker 4: to imitate loads of people, and then you find your
• 8:12
  Speaker 4: own sort of voice through it. I've heard that before
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  Speaker 4: with Kelly Jones and Robert Stewart.
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: Is it a tough career?
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  Speaker 4: It is tough, I keep going, because you get so
• 8:24
  Speaker 4: many setbacks, so many promises, it just never happens.
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  Speaker 3: And it is tough. But you just see if you're
• 8:30
  Speaker 3: doing it for the right reasons. You'll enjoy it.
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: Enjoy it, aye. The first time I came across you
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: was in lockdown. I don't know if you remember. You
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: were doing a gig. It was for a little lad
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: that had died, I think.
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  Speaker 3: It was Sam. Aye.
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: Aye. And it was through the wee boy Adam Frame
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: that we had in the bar singing. And I came across.
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: It was almost like an online gig, wasn't it?
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  Speaker 3: Aye.
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  Speaker 1: You were playing a video in black and white. I
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: remember it rightly. It was a kind of black and
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: white video you were when yous were singing?
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  Speaker 3: Might have been, aye.
• 9:01
  Speaker 4: I just remember us doing it in my mate's garden,
• 9:04
  Speaker 4: and he was washing the stuff and that.
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: I remember that as well. I remember the washing, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure it was in black and white.
• 9:09
  Speaker 3: The barbeque was doing his knickers, didn't we? Wow.
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: So those type of things at that time for you, obviously,
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: with being an artist and wanting to go out and perform,
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: you're stuck away. They must have been difficult for you.
• 9:22
  Speaker 3: Aye, definitely. That was weird, because it was like the
• 9:25
  Speaker 3: music industry was the last thing to come back. It
• 9:27
  Speaker 3: was real weird. We played the last ever gig in
• 9:29
  Speaker 3: the UK.
• 9:30
  Speaker 4: It was with Lewis Capaldi at P & J in Aberdeen.
• 9:35
  Speaker 3: And the Celtic Rangers game got cancelled that day.
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: Right, I remember that, right just before that.
• 9:42
  Speaker 3: And we were travelling up. We just played down south.
• 9:44
  Speaker 4: Everything was flying for us at that time. We'd sold
• 9:48
  Speaker 4: out St Luke's. We'd sold out a tour down south.
• 9:51
  Speaker 4: And we were going to be supporting the biggest artist
• 9:54
  Speaker 4: in Scotland for generations.
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  Speaker 2: Dovered.
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  Speaker 3: I can't go with that. we played that gig.
• 10:01
  Speaker 4: I remember the van broke down on the way there.
• 10:03
  Speaker 4: We were seeing the games getting cancelled, all these gigs
• 10:05
  Speaker 4: getting cancelled. We were getting messages from some angry fans saying,
• 10:09
  Speaker 4: you'd better not play this gig and all this.
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  Speaker 3: That's not the day we is. We'll play it if
• 10:12
  Speaker 3: Lewis is putting on, do you know what I mean?
• 10:15
  Speaker 3: And as I say, the van broke down, but.
• 10:18
  Speaker 4: I had a gig going ahead, it was brilliant, and
• 10:19
  Speaker 4: there was a free bar after it, and then I'd
• 10:21
  Speaker 4: never seen anybody.
• 10:22
  Speaker 3: For about four years.
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: So you feel you had to start all over again then?
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  Speaker 3: Aye, definitely.
• 10:28
  Speaker 4: And then, see, any time you take a wee break,
• 10:30
  Speaker 4: you feel like you haven't started on again. It's mad industry.
• 10:33
  Speaker 4: You'll bring out a song, you spend years writing, spend
• 10:37
  Speaker 4: a fortune recording, and.
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  Speaker 3: Go, brilliant, can't wait for the next one.
• 10:41
  Speaker 4: You're like, just enjoy that one for a few months,
• 10:44
  Speaker 4: and then we can kick on, but it's different because.
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: Again you've all got other jobs I'm assuming so you're
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: juggling that as well.
• 10:51
  Speaker 4: Most of the band I do this full time and
• 10:54
  Speaker 4: the drummer he's he's the same he's like a composer
• 10:58
  Speaker 4: so he records artists and stuff like that and that's
• 11:01
  Speaker 4: his full time job makes wee jingles and that makes a.
• 11:04
  Speaker 3: Bomb so who do you do that stuff for?
• 11:07
  Speaker 4: He does it for everybody I think he's got a
• 11:08
  Speaker 4: song on BBC I do it for different things stuff
• 11:10
  Speaker 4: like that we've done some stuff together for like there's
• 11:13
  Speaker 4: a company in Switzerland and we've done like sort of
• 11:16
  Speaker 4: like a full act they paid us to write an
• 11:18
  Speaker 4: album so we did an album for them and it
• 11:20
  Speaker 4: just goes out to like tv shows adverts and stuff
• 11:23
  Speaker 4: like that right whatever it's like a big list of
• 11:26
  Speaker 4: songs and people pick out a song and just your
• 11:29
  Speaker 4: luck really.
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: And you've mentioned obviously lewis there a couple of times
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: hyde park must have been massive but you went and
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: toured did you go and tour in europe with lewis
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: yeah is that just again from that area and known
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: each other and your mates yeah pretty much i mean
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: Even before anything kind of kicked off with him, we'd
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: be at each other's gigs. I remember years ago, we
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: played a gig in Armadale.
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  Speaker 3: I can't remember the name of the pub.
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: Is that where we went? With Gary Greig? Was that Armadale?
• 11:58
  Speaker 2: Foltis.
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  Speaker 3: Foltis. We sang one song that night. Ah, it had
• 12:02
  Speaker 3: been in Foltis. In the Grange, I think it was.
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: Aye, that was in the Grange.
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  Speaker 4: I remember being choked with the cold and hearing you
• 12:07
  Speaker 4: as well.
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  Speaker 2: It was raging.
• 12:08
  Speaker 3: So I couldn't get out.
• 12:09
  Speaker 4: But I remember us playing a gig and it was
• 12:13
  Speaker 4: obviously me and Lewis. and both our dads and the
• 12:16
  Speaker 4: barman that was what was there and then to see
• 12:18
  Speaker 4: him do that and then do his thing all the
• 12:20
  Speaker 4: way he's doing it isn't credible but we've just always
• 12:24
  Speaker 4: supported each other when we've been in bands and done
• 12:26
  Speaker 4: solo stuff and then it's just kicked off and he's
• 12:28
  Speaker 4: like come and join us and he's doing stuff.
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: So where in the European tour?
• 12:33
  Speaker 4: I did a full month so it was I think
• 12:36
  Speaker 4: we started in Poland finished and they actually got caught
• 12:39
  Speaker 4: short because they were He lost his voice and stuff
• 12:42
  Speaker 4: like that and he was struggling at that time. But
• 12:46
  Speaker 4: we played dive with Sweden, Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, kind of everywhere.
• 12:55
  Speaker 4: That was brilliant and it finished in Spain. I think
• 12:57
  Speaker 4: the last gig was... Anyway, I actually went back out
• 12:59
  Speaker 4: and did Milan.
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: He was just constantly travelling then?
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  Speaker 3: Aye, brilliant.
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: What a life.
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  Speaker 3: Because he put us up in his tour bus.
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: He had his own tour bus, but we were in
• 13:09
  Speaker 4: another tour bus as well.
• 13:11
  Speaker 3: It's trucks and.
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  Speaker 4: Just a mad experience. So it was great for him
• 13:15
  Speaker 4: to take us out. We look at that gig we
• 13:17
  Speaker 4: did in front of our dads and then to take
• 13:20
  Speaker 4: it on.
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  Speaker 3: It was incredible.
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: Being to where you've got to.
• 13:22
  Speaker 3: Aye.
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: That must be the Hyde Park one then. That must
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: be amazing. Was it yourselves... Lewis, who else was playing
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: in that?
• 13:29
  Speaker 3: Luke Levoque played as well. He played there?
• 13:31
  Speaker 4: Aye, he's from the same area, he's Bathgate as well. Aye,
• 13:35
  Speaker 4: it was quite... It's good.
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: To see from that kind of thing, isn't it? Bringing
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: boys that he's obviously grew up with, performing in areas,
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: you're talking about the two dazs, and then no forgetting
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: about his great playing.
• 13:47
  Speaker 4: Because he's a popular man, and everybody wants to support him.
• 13:51
  Speaker 4: He's got loads of friends that are in the music industry,
• 13:53
  Speaker 4: and he could give it to them, but he's... He
• 13:56
  Speaker 4: always says, actually, I like your music.
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: That's the thing. It's not just because you're my pal.
• 14:00
  Speaker 3: I like your music.
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: Which must be a buzz. Aye.
• 14:04
  Speaker 4: He said that before and I'm like, whatever. But his
• 14:07
  Speaker 4: pal's like, no, he plays your music all the time
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: and stuff. So it's like, that's amazing to hear.
• 14:11
  Speaker 3: Do you know what I mean?
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: Of course it is. Your album, obviously, that came through
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: to see, was that, I can't believe it. That's Bathgate.
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: 2023? Aye.
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: Already?
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: Mental time flies.
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: He's played with Dictator.
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: Dictator played.
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: He played first.
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: Was that the release date of your album?
• 14:28
  Speaker 4: That was the album launch. I think that was the
• 14:31
  Speaker 4: day we got number one that day in Scotland.
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: Brilliant.
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: So that was just a big party. We went all out.
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: Remember the big inflatable moon?
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: Aye.
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: Aye.
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: And went and made it with the lights and just, like,
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: no profit off this, let's just This is a party.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: It's actually Times Flat. When I was reading up on
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: it a wee bit there, I couldn't believe it was
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: three years. So you're talking there about the pressure of
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: having to get something else out there with your fans
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: and stuff. Is there another album in the... I know
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: you've released a couple of singles.
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're working on one right now.
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: So that's the next step for us, just trying to
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: get this album the best it can be. Personally, I
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: think it's better than the first album. I think the
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: first album was more like collection of other songs that
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: we've done over the years and we've put it together
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: like a.
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: Greatest hits type thing.
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: But this one it's like we're writing songs specifically for
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: this album and I feel like we're getting better with
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: the songwriting and stuff as well so I feel like
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: we're in a good place with the songs at the moment.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: Hi guys, as you probably well know by now, we
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: have signed up for the London Marathon next April and
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: we have some fantastic people supporting us, groups supporting us,
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: we're doing it for a fantastic cause, or two causes,
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: who are we doing it for?
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: We're doing it for Headway UK and the Concilium Sports Foundation.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: Yep, so we're going to have some updated videos of
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: our progress and our training and everything else that it
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: takes to get us over the line. He's emphasised that
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: time doesn't matter.
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: Doesn't matter.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: As long as we complete it. There'll be a link
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: in the bio for any charity donations. We're going to
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: be raising as much money as we can over the
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: next period of time. Our training starts very soon. And, yeah,
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: look forward to some updates on here. Hopefully no injuries.
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: But it's going to take a bit of time in
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: the studio and then hopefully get out next year.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: Next year. And then take it on tour, obviously.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: Mm-hm. class that's the plan anyway super so.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: They're talking about obviously the overriding thing the football side
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: of it it's not a hidden secret that you're a
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: big Celtic fan growing up did you play yourself were
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: you quite keen football you said maybe you got to
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: a stage where you didn't reckon.
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: You were good enough no I think anywhere from everybody
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: just plays football you're in the streets all the time
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: constantly so I played football I was at Falkirk for
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: I played for Falkirk for about four years at the
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: youth and then I think under 16, 17's.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: Position me striker right.
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: And I sometimes played a full line as well your
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: boyfriend Las Vegas played at Falkirk didn't he no I
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: didn't I heard he was a better player Scott Arfield
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: was there when I was he was a few years
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: older but he was there when I was there right
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: can't remember the manager was Eddie May Yogi and Eddie
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: May were the managers.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: That's when I was there.
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: Aye.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: I was there then. Aye. I'm not going to ask it,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: but I will ask it. So what age were you then?
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: So I'd have been.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Because you'd have been a player there.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Aye.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: What year would.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: Well, we were still wearing the strips, like the player
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: strips that were getting the handmaidens for the 90s.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: We were young lads.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: We got to the final with Yogi, played Rangers in
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: the final.
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: And then Yogi left to go to Hibs and then
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: Eddie May stepped up with Elvis and I left I
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: left in January just after January when Elvis took over.
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: I remember because I remember because that was the youth
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: party that was the year when I crossed I think
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: Falkirk went up that year but because the stadium wasn't
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: ready they didn't but the youth team went up so
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: we were getting hammered I just kind of lost a
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: bit of interest.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: So you'd be based at Stirling Uni, the games?
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: They had a really good set-up. A lot of good
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: young players came through.
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: Arfield, Scobie, quite a few other young boys. But when
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: we went down at the end of that year with Elvis,
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: they got rid of the academy shortly after that.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: They've brought it back again now, but.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: It was a good set up, he was trained at
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: Little Kearse when I first went there and then I
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: ended up in Stirling. But they were always wanting to
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: play football, it was like drilling, proper passing, pass.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: The ball, move and that, it was proper drilling.
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: Eddie May was good, he would have been in charge
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: of the academy Eddie when he came up, I liked Eddie.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: I was there for about four years.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: I was there for about four years, aye. I think
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: under 12.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Or something How did that finish for you then?
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: I think we went up to Aberdeen and got beat
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: 10-0 and we got beat off Rangers 9-0 and all
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: my pals were playing with Rangers at the time so
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: we had a team in Livingston Murison and a lot
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: of us went to Rangers and then they were signing
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: players and stuff like that like Sandy Clark's lad Nicky
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: he was coaching us and he turned that team to
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: Rangers I think there was a few teams wanting to
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: sign the whole team because we were unbeaten, we were
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: winning like 10, 30 and all. I forget who it was.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: So like Danny Olsen was in that team. Rhys McCabe
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: obviously Nicky Clark there's triplets from South Africa they were
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: quality Darren Cole as well and a lot of them
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: went on and played Champions League football for Rangers and stuff.
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: Darren Cole made them in loan at Partick and all.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: I remember playing a few we played a few games
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: up at Morayfield I remember I can't remember who we
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: were playing but I remember John Fleck coming on and
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: like Just ripped it up.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: He was decent, John.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: He was unbelievable. And then that's when I came off.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: He came on. Then the ball for the right wing.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: Banged into the top bag. Two minutes later, they're the
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: same with the other foot.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: And I went, I'll probably leave. And that's how I
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: ended up at Falkirk. But that was, I just loved
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: the way it fit. Well, then and again, you just
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: feel like you love that wee bit.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: I kept playing. I was playing junior football until I
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: was about 24. Right. But I was gigging every weekend.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. So the music had kicked in
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: by then.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: So you were training twice a week.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Were you already doing that? So the Fall Cup, were
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: you already... Was the music interest there?
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: No, no.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: I never even.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: thought about anything like that then it wasn't probably until
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: after Paul Cook was maybe 16 or something that I
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: started getting into music.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: You think he was into music I know he was a.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: Celtic fan aye that's right I know he was a
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: Celtic fan.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, brilliant. He made the right decision though.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: So the Bicycle Thieves, was that your first band or
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: were you in something before that?
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: No, I was in loads of bands before it.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Aye, so I was singing at a house party, just
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: like Oasis songs and Arctic Monkeys songs. I didn't know
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: there was a band there, but they didn't have a
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: singer and they asked me to join. I'd never thought
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: of anything like that kind of stuff at the time.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: So I said aye and I've been doing it ever.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Since to be fair.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Can you remember your first gig with them?
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: Aye we we played somewhere in Broxbourne don't ask me
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: the name we played in Broxbourne and it was like
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: because we were still young at school everybody from school
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: came to us sold out and I remember going in
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: and this guy who put the gig on never seen
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: him since but he was he was like I'll give
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: you this now 50 quid 100 quid and I'll give
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: you the rest after once more folk come in and
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: I remember we hadn't even started the set yet I
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: remember I think we went out to get a drink
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: or something like that, came back in, and he's getting
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: carried down the stairs, spewed down his cell, he's absolutely rast.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: And I've not seen him since, or we've never got
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: that money.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: But aye, he deleted his number, and everything, so aye,
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: that was the first impression I had on that industry,
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: and I've loved it.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: What about when you're away, I mean, with the band,
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: if you're touring, do you never get any fights or that,
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: or disagreements, or?
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: Nah, but to be fair, we're actually alright, we're, where
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: you sometimes have a bit of discussion when you're in
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: the studio on songs, but none of us are.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: Kind of there.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: No, I know you touch wood, but the corner on Cammy,
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: they're like best pals from school, so they'll maybe have
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: a fight, but they'll have a go at each other.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: It's just pals, isn't it?
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: The touring bit must be a bit higher. Just the
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: boys away type of stuff.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: Unbelievable. That's probably my best experiences I've had to Capaldi tour.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Because you play the gig. It's so easy because you're
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: the support band.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: You know what I mean? So you're playing half an hour.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: Nobody's there for you, but everybody's in. So you get
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: an audience crowd as well playing the gig. And then
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: you go off stage, just enjoy yourself. Get on the
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: bus and you're waking up a new city every day.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: I remember we woke up one morning, I opened the
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: blinds and we were at the Amsterdam Arena, or was
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: it Cruyff?
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Was it Cruyff Arena?
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: I'm like, did the tour, did soundcheck, catering was amazing.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Then you play the gig, and then I just see
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: it again.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Class.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: I was obviously, because I was, I wasn't drinking as
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: much because you've got to look after the throat when
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: you're playing.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Were there any other football stadiums you played in there,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: in that tour?
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: No we didn't play it was all arenas we didn't
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: play any football stadiums we just parked outside that alright
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: so you never played in there nah I can't remember
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: the place but we played at a different arena but
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: aye it was all Mercedes Benz arena and stuff like
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: that and.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: You know you just you just take it in.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: Your stride at the time as we say that's three
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: years ago you're looking back now and you're like did
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: that did that happen did that happen so lucky to get.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: The Hyde Park one must be the same as well
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: though many folk would have been at that.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: I'm not sure but like we were only on the
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: main stage we were only on one of the smaller
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: stages but that's the biggest stage see like the stage
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: Lewis played on that's like the biggest stage I've ever
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: seen it.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: Was absolutely massive.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: The stage we were on was quite good because it
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: was like right next to the entrance so people were
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: coming in and then listening it was quite great but
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: I'd seen the Libertines there years ago and I thought
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: it'd be amazing to play here I think the Pogues
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: played as well.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Pinch yourself stuff in it as you've seen bands that
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: you look up to and you're playing there after them.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: So was the dream then to use Headline in it?
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: That would be aye the dream's always been to headline
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: the Barrowlands that's always been our kind of you played
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: the Barrowlands? played the Barrowlands but to headline it and
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: to do it with the band because we've only done
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: it acoustic we've done it twice we've done it with
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: Snuts and Will Lewis but it was just acoustic.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: But to headline that would be your that's a dream aye.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: That's I just want to get a get the focus
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: on that and zone in and let's make that the
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: goal do you know what I mean I think most
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: Scottish bands that's the dream headline the Barrowlands is.
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: It hard this bit getting out there like the promotions
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: aye definitely I think it's quite hard to even book
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: the Barrowlands as well it's always booked.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: It but we'll certainly try anyway that's the.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Goal it's iconic isn't it just for every band it's
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: just that iconic platform to go and play the barras
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: what stuff were you into when you were younger then
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: what bands.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: Eh Oasis Stone Roses em Arctic Monkeys I feel like
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: that like the Arctic Monkeys was a that's I was
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: too young to get the Oasis yeah but em my
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: Arctic Monkeys I know I just I just missed the
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: Oasis too young for Oasis no but you know that'll
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: be your that'll be your band because you were there
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: when they first came on the scene So the Arctic Monkeys,
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: that was the first.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: You've gone all damn roses as well, to be fair.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: So Arctic Monkeys was your.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Bit when you were heavily influenced by them?
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Aye.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: So I would say that, but I just listened to Oasis.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: But a bit of everything. I love soul music as well.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: Otis Redding's my favourite singer the whole time.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: I like Otis, aye.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: He's got an incredible voice.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: I named my wee dog after him.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: Did you? Oh, probably.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: Aye, so I love old music, to be fair, but aye,
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: that's my kind of, that's my scene.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Did you get on the Oasis thing last year? I
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: was there.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Lucky enough. I was there, aye. I got Murrayfield. Aye, amazing.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: And I'm on the ballot for this next year.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Ain't we all, aye?
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: Aye. I know. You're surely getting some freebies.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: No. Nah. I hope so.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: I had Andy McLaren text me last night, have you
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: sought me out for four tickets for away?
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: You'll be getting an idea.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: It's bad enough with Celtic games, isn't it?
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: I was saying when I did the Celtic TV, I
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: was just going to hide in there in one of
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: the offices and just wait for the gig.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: No, you'll be fine. Everybody knows that you're a big
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: Oasis fan as well, so you'll be getting an idea.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Well, hopefully. Hopefully that's the plan, isn't it? We'll wait
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: and see.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: I missed it last year. I was meant to go
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: to the one in Dublin with you.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: At Croke Park. It was amazing.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: Amazing.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Slean Castle next year.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Slean Castle, which I've already played before.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Aye.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Some good venues actually next year. But it's just if
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: you get the tickets, isn't it?
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: It's this mad registering codes.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: Hopefully it'll be a bit easier, not easier, but a
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: bit more organised than being a ballet, do you know
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: what I mean?
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: So would you say they were better last, when you
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: watched them then, or when you watched them at Loch Lomond?
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: That's an iconic gig.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Loch Lomond was, as he says, iconic and from what
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: I remember amazing, but what I took from the last
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: year was it was just polished and it was like
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: a big kind of loving, everybody was there for you
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: know 20 years before and now I'm reading that Liam
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: was in the drinking and stuff, they were focused and
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I think that came across in it but the whole
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: thing was amazing.
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: It was quite hard to describe the feeling in there
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: unless you were in the gig.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Nostalgic.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: Aye, it was like the weight, all that weight.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Emotion, haven't it? and there was no trouble either I
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: mean I remember one of my last Oasis gigs was
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: at Exhibition Centre last time round and you could tell
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: there was a fallout there with them and the crowd
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: it wasn't great I think you might have been there
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: that night it didn't help that we were no I
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: recognise this Celtic we get a bit of stick and
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: it just stuck in my head whereas Murrayfield was just
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Croke Park, there was nothing. Everybody was just there for
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: one reason, because they were back. So hopefully that'll be
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: the same next year.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: 2009 was when I first seen Oasis at Hyde Park,
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: and the generator blew about four times, and they were like,
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: we're giving everybody their money back for their tickets, but
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: we've still got to play the gig.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Right. think Liam said oh he's the money back and
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: I was.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: Like no but I think folk did get the back
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: but they played the gig so we were in the
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: wallet and that was amazing KC being supported and that's
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: when they sort of a fire just came out so
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: they were like they were like the biggest.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: Hottest band at the time.
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: I think the enemy were meant to play but food
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: poisoning or something like that and Reverend and the Makers
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: played so that was that was a good that was
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: a good gig but I'd still say even though that
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: was in Manchester I'd still say that What.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Day were you at Murrayfield? The weekend?
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: The Saturday I had a ticket for the Tuesday as
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: well but I gave it away so you've got the
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: experience He's asking me.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: I'm the amateur you're the guy and what did you
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: think was the difference between then and last year?
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: Just sure about ourselves, eh? I think it was like,
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: they know who they are now.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Aye.
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: And it's like, probably there was arguments going on behind
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: the scenes back then as well.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: But now it's like, we're not what we're here to do.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: We're together now, sir.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: And we cannae.
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: We cannae mess this up look at the amount of
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: folk there and it means everything it means everything to
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: folk it's.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Funny because all the footage and I think Noel Gallagher
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: admitted it himself but see the first two or three
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: gigs I think he was I don't think he could
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: understand did you see the documentary I've not seen it
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: yet I've not seen it he.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: Talks about he talks about it in that he was like.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: But he could visibly see it I don't think he
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: could believe the reaction he was getting off the people
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: that came to see them so many years later.
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: He came into it in that documentary he's like I
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: didn't expect it to be Like this, this big. He
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: totally underestimated it, which is nuts for somebody who's played
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: some massive gigs.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: So accomplished, I know. It speaks volumes for the fans,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: I think, as well. Right, we'll finish off. We touched
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: on Celtic a wee bit. What's your favourite memories of
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Celtic going up?
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: I had a season ticket for years. I've not got
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: a season ticket now, but I used to go to
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: the games with my auntie.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Has that been Martin O'Neill era?
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: Martin O'Neill era I think my first game was I
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: went with my dad and my grandpa and my brother
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: and I think we beat Dunfermline 5-1 or.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: 5-0 I think you were playing in that game.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: 96 or something like that 5-0 Dunfermline at home I
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: think that was the start of Joe Venglas first year
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: no was it before that?
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: Could have been I was barely remember it but I
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: just remember we bet Dunfermline 5-0 Burley had the peroxide
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: blonde hair after the World Cup aye after the World
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: Cup 99 98 98 sorry aye 98 98 aye so
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: because I was trying to find the actual game game
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: but we bet Dunfermline like 5-0 I was planning.
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: That first game of the season I had got my
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: I think I had I might be on this reformer
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: operation had two ops out of here.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: Right The stand had just been built, I think, as well.
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: He'd won the league with him.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: I'll be joking, man.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Then we went to the World Cup.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: I'm sure it was 5-0. Was Burley still with the
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: blonde hair for the World Cup?
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: I think so, probably. The umbral was in the middle.
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: I think it was that season. Larson had his dreadlocks.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: I just remember that.
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: I always remember the cup fight, Larson's last game as well.
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: You lifted the trophy didn't you? Yeah And it was
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: in the kind of dark green Silver Carlin top.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: I always remember that game It was Dunfermline.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: Dunfermline I guess Dunfermline scored in the first.
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: I finished 3-1 Aye 3-1 It was Henrik's last game
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: Henrik got 2 and Petrov He told him to lift
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: the trophy Because he was leaving And done it together
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: He'd only do it if we were doing it together
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: That was his last game Aye because.
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: I remember that game in found out once I got
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: to the stadium that I was going to be one
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: of me and my brother was going to be in
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: the Dunfermline that was a roast not a day so
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: I was like I take my top off tried my
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: top off but I had Celtic trackies on and that
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: was they were pointing at all the Celtic fans and
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: getting them thrown out but I was alright my auntie
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: she was singing the songs and that but I always
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: remember that game that was an amazing day I always
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: remember all the goals.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: Went in the same corner at the same end that's
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: right Petro's got.
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: One as well Petro's 2004 when he left that.
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: Was his very last game that was his last game
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: as well at Dundee United Dundee United that was a
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: tense tense game as he got on his score and
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: he got two in the.
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: End he got two in the end he couldn't he
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: was having one I think they.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: Were trying to lock the score at one point weren't
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: they but aye brilliant I don't care where he had
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: done it.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: European nights, did you get to any of the European nights, Hunter? Aye, aye.
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: It was at the Man United game, and that came
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: out a free kick. Trank of the game was at
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: that one.
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: But no, I've not beaten it in a way, European game, no.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: I want to go to, well I try and get
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: away this year to Benfica or something like that. But no,
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: the AC Milan game as well, Dida got slapped or whatever.
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: All the Barcelona teams and stuff like that.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: Brilliant night. But aye, good memories.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: The current team, what do you make of the current team?
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Last year was some finish.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: Last year was, I hope that never happens again.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Too much for the nerves.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: I don't think it would, but it was a great
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: start to the season. That was.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: That was hell. I didn't expect that.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: You see me bits there.
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: In the first game against Lask, you're thinking, God, the
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: new signings look really good.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: It's been tough.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: It was a tough one.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: The one at the weekend. The two games, the two
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: biggest games of the season have been disappointing so far.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: The next two games are huge. That's the great thing
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: in football. You've got games that quickly can turn that
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: around again.
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: So I'll be going tomorrow night to the European Games
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: so hopefully we'll see a performance and then you can
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: get a wee bit of confidence because I'm not looking
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: forward to Sunday I know you don't like football players
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: you don't look ahead to the games.
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: Just getting the rest as well because they've struggled physically
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: and even in between the last games there was no
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: game and there's still a lot of them pulling up
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: with cramp and all that I find it really.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: Goalkeeper getting cramp that's a new one I've seen that before.
• 36:20
  Speaker 7: You're hoping it's going to be a that's true like
• 36:24
  Speaker 7: a because of the backlash from the last game in
• 36:29
  Speaker 7: fairness it does make a difference not having any fans
• 36:32
  Speaker 7: in there your own fans.
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: It's quite difficult for that It affects the referee's decisions
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: as well in the park, I feel.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: The energy.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Aye, 100%.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: Because I'm sure they'll get a few decisions against us,
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: but there's no complaints from me in that game. I
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: thought we were second best all over the park.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: It's the first time I've watched that game for a
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: while that Celtic didn't have anything in the game.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: Nothing at all.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: They didn't have control at any time in the game.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: As I say, the next game's coming, I'm thinking five,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: so you've got plenty of time to turn that around
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: and park ahead on Sunday. Mate, you've been a great guest.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: I look forward to the next album and we'll come
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: and see you at some point.
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: See you next time.