The podcaster and Goldie Lookin’ Chain rapper displays on his musical obsessions…

What was the primary music you bear in mind loving?

Once I was a child I wasn’t into pop music in any respect, I believed it was all frilly cuffs and make-up and I simply thought, that is for ladies, I simply need to set fireplace to stuff within the again backyard. However then Stan Ridgeway did a music known as Camouflage and that fully blew my thoughts as a result of it was so completely different.

I preferred songs that had been bizarre, that weren’t love songs or individuals dressing up as pirates. Additionally Intercourse Machine by James Brown as a result of I bear in mind sitting at the back of my dad’s automobile and pondering it sounded actually good despite the fact that I didn’t know what a intercourse machine was.

Oh, and Wired For Sound by Cliff Richard. That video is sensible – it’s simply Cliff on curler skates in a buying centre.

So what acquired you correctly into music?

It was 1988 and I acquired given a double cassette known as The Hits Of 1988 and all of a sudden you had individuals like Salt N Pepa and Bomb The Bass in there and I simply thought, that is actually completely different. 

Did you’ve any pop star posters in your wall as a child?

Not likely, you couldn’t actually get Public Enemy posters in Athena, it was simply footage of a person together with his high off holding two tyres or some lady scratching her arse on a tennis court docket. However my sister had posters of Elvis and Bros and issues like that.

I like a number of that 80s music now, however on the time I simply didn’t get it. I used to be listening to Bronski Beat’s Smalltown Boy the opposite day – the 12” model of that’s implausible. 

Do you’ve an all-time favorite album?

Verify Your Head by Beastie Boys is basically good, it crosses a number of genres. Paul’s Boutique is a superb album too, however no one purchased that one. Not one of the children in my college who had been stealing Volkswagon indicators off the fronts of automobiles, none of them knew of it. However Verify Your Head is a very good introduction to completely different genres of music.

Have you ever met any of your musical heroes?

We did a present with De La Soul just a few years in the past. They had been headlining, cos they’re a bit bit higher than our band, they usually had been simply milling about backstage and we simply frolicked and had a chat. They usually had been straight-up good individuals which was good. We loved some cigarettes, shall we embrace, collectively.

That was beautiful however I don’t perceive why individuals get enamoured by assembly movie stars and pop stars. I stood beside Paul McCartney as soon as and I simply thought, “What am I gonna say to him?”

We had been at some do, and I used to be by a buffet desk trying on the sausage rolls after which Paul McCartney came visiting and he was like, “Alright?” and we regarded on the sausage rolls collectively and I believed that’s all he wants. He will get sufficient individuals asking him, “Are you that bloke from The Beatles?”

Are there any bands you’re a completeist about?

De La Soul. The Magic Quantity was the primary single I ever purchased and I simply purchased into De La Soul immediately. However I’m excellent normally at choosing a music or an album and loving that after which shifting away from a band, not as a result of I dislike them, however simply because there’s all the time one thing new across the nook.

So I’m not a lot of a purist within the sense of I’ve acquired to get all the things they’ve ever recorded. De La Soul are one of many few bands the place I’ve listened to all of their again catalogue. 

Do you go to gigs a lot?

I’m previous now, so standing up hurts. I’ve acquired tickets to see Aphex Twin this yr. I’m actually enthusiastic about seeing him, cos the final time I noticed him was on a ship in about 1997. I think about that is going to be barely extra upscale and extra elaborate, so I’m actually intrigued as to what he’s going to do.