WEBVTT 00:00:01.190 --> 00:00:03.750 Nick and Sue. This edition of the Chatterbox 00:00:03.750 --> 00:00:06.150 Redux podcast is brought to you in association 00:00:06.150 --> 00:00:09.210 with the Old Glory iconic music and sports superstore. 00:00:09.490 --> 00:00:16.649 More from them in a bit. Chatterbox. When the 00:00:16.649 --> 00:00:30.539 stars talk, they talk to Nick and Sue. Welcome 00:00:30.539 --> 00:00:33.060 back to the Chatterbox Redux podcast with Sue 00:00:33.060 --> 00:00:35.659 and Nick and today our special guest is Andy 00:00:35.659 --> 00:01:12.150 Kiriakou of Modern Romance. This is Nick and 00:01:12.150 --> 00:01:15.150 Sue with Chatterbox giving you all you need to 00:01:15.150 --> 00:01:40.409 know about music. And there we go, Modern Romance 00:01:40.409 --> 00:01:43.329 and Everybody Sells Her. That was a new version 00:01:43.329 --> 00:01:49.849 recorded in June 2019 and here we've got Andy 00:01:49.849 --> 00:01:52.590 Kiriakou, lead singer of Modern Romance. Good 00:01:52.590 --> 00:01:54.909 afternoon Andy, welcome to Radio North Sea International 00:01:54.909 --> 00:01:57.849 mate. Hello Andy, thank you, how you doing? Weird, 00:01:57.870 --> 00:02:00.049 good thank you. Hello Andy. Just a quick hello 00:02:00.049 --> 00:02:02.290 to Sue, I know Sue's there, hello Sue. Hello. 00:02:02.609 --> 00:02:05.109 And how you doing mate, you all good? Yeah I'm 00:02:05.109 --> 00:02:08.310 not too bad, I'm at home just Doing some work 00:02:08.310 --> 00:02:11.310 on the computer, getting ready for some work 00:02:11.310 --> 00:02:15.550 stuff. It was all work -related. I was actually 00:02:15.550 --> 00:02:17.229 going to go out on the motorbike and then I thought, 00:02:17.949 --> 00:02:20.050 I won't really get far, I'll have to come back 00:02:20.050 --> 00:02:21.650 because I knew you were going to be trolling 00:02:21.650 --> 00:02:22.969 for this interview and I thought I'm not going 00:02:22.969 --> 00:02:28.370 to get far so I'm just going to go out. I'm going 00:02:28.370 --> 00:02:30.789 to be really chewed off with you because obviously 00:02:30.789 --> 00:02:32.229 I can't go out, I should have gone out today 00:02:32.229 --> 00:02:36.090 but we'll see. Well, I've never been blamed for 00:02:36.090 --> 00:02:39.210 the words of before, but thanks Andy. Right, 00:02:39.210 --> 00:02:43.889 Andy. Modern Romance, right, take it from the 00:02:43.889 --> 00:02:47.389 beginning. When were they, was it late 70s they 00:02:47.389 --> 00:02:49.409 came about? They came out, was it Leighton Buzzards 00:02:49.409 --> 00:02:52.129 they came out of? That's right, yeah. Leighton 00:02:52.129 --> 00:02:55.009 Buzzards, punk band. Nothing to do with me, I 00:02:55.009 --> 00:02:56.909 must have been a punk band actually, because 00:02:56.909 --> 00:02:59.810 I thought they were pretty abysmal. I know they 00:02:59.810 --> 00:03:01.610 had one minor hit, I can't think what it was 00:03:01.610 --> 00:03:03.900 called now, but I do remember them. It was called 00:03:03.900 --> 00:03:06.360 Saturday Night Beneath the Plastic Palm Trees. 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:08.960 Thank you for that, yeah. That's probably why 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:12.599 I can't remember it. Okay, you came along, I 00:03:12.599 --> 00:03:14.800 think, after the... Was it the first Modern Romance 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:16.960 record after they changed the name? Was that 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:21.340 right? No, what happened is they had the first 00:03:21.340 --> 00:03:26.199 single which was called Modern Romance. They 00:03:26.199 --> 00:03:28.659 got this deal and they did have a name for the 00:03:28.659 --> 00:03:31.680 band. So they said, what should we call the band? 00:03:31.780 --> 00:03:33.819 Oh, we'll call the band Modern Romance. So the 00:03:33.819 --> 00:03:37.960 song was Modern Romance by Modern Romance. Nobody 00:03:37.960 --> 00:03:41.500 said that they were particularly creative at 00:03:41.500 --> 00:03:43.099 that point, but that's what they came out with. 00:03:43.340 --> 00:03:46.580 Fine. It turns out the name was great. But it 00:03:46.580 --> 00:03:49.139 came from that first song. And the first song, 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:53.000 I have to say, was pretty dire. I mean, you know, 00:03:53.139 --> 00:03:55.759 it's awful. Then they had another song, which 00:03:55.759 --> 00:03:58.849 I actually liked. They had a second song. This 00:03:58.849 --> 00:04:00.569 is all before me joining by the way, there's 00:04:00.569 --> 00:04:03.169 a second song called Tonight, which actually 00:04:03.169 --> 00:04:05.229 was one of my favorite songs to play. We used 00:04:05.229 --> 00:04:07.289 to play live, I used to love playing this song. 00:04:07.830 --> 00:04:11.229 There was just kind of a nice rhythm, a nice 00:04:11.229 --> 00:04:13.650 electronic pulse going through it. It was great, 00:04:13.650 --> 00:04:16.430 great song. But that didn't do anything either. 00:04:17.850 --> 00:04:21.449 And at that point is when I met them and was 00:04:21.449 --> 00:04:23.410 asked to join the band through a sequence of 00:04:23.410 --> 00:04:26.740 events. I actually had no idea that they'd had 00:04:26.740 --> 00:04:29.300 a record deal and that they had two flops. Right, 00:04:29.959 --> 00:04:31.879 yeah. But as far as I know, I was joining this 00:04:31.879 --> 00:04:36.019 band who were rehearsing underneath the railway 00:04:36.019 --> 00:04:38.379 arches in Leighton, Leightonstone, wherever it 00:04:38.379 --> 00:04:42.639 was. I was there, went there to rehearse for 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:44.579 a bit, because I heard them play live before 00:04:44.579 --> 00:04:46.079 I joined them, I thought I'd listen to them in 00:04:46.079 --> 00:04:48.180 case they turned out to be rubbish. As it turned 00:04:48.180 --> 00:04:50.300 out, I liked the sound, I thought I liked the 00:04:50.300 --> 00:04:54.069 rawness. went along to play with them. And it's 00:04:54.069 --> 00:04:55.930 only during one of the rehearsals that I heard 00:04:55.930 --> 00:04:59.230 somebody mentioning, you know, somebody and, 00:04:59.230 --> 00:05:02.990 you know, the PR man and this and that, record 00:05:02.990 --> 00:05:04.930 company, and I went, excuse me, what's this? 00:05:05.170 --> 00:05:06.850 And they said, oh yeah, yeah, we've got a deal. 00:05:07.589 --> 00:05:09.769 We've had two records out already, but they were 00:05:09.769 --> 00:05:11.829 flops, and we've been told that the next record, 00:05:12.410 --> 00:05:15.110 if it's a flop again, then we're out, you know, 00:05:15.209 --> 00:05:16.930 three strikes and we're out, sort of thing. And 00:05:16.930 --> 00:05:19.480 I said, okay, you know. And the third record 00:05:19.480 --> 00:05:25.180 was Everybody Salsa. And that's when it all began. 00:05:25.540 --> 00:05:28.579 Brilliant. But you started off life not as lead 00:05:28.579 --> 00:05:33.399 singer, did you? That's right. I started off 00:05:33.399 --> 00:05:38.819 as a drummer. And it's a gradual progression. 00:05:39.279 --> 00:05:42.959 I mean, I was a drummer. And what we did, obviously, 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:45.319 on tour, people would sing and get guitars out 00:05:45.319 --> 00:05:48.620 on the bars and start doing stuff. want to be 00:05:48.620 --> 00:05:51.000 singing and I'd be singing and then one of them 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:54.319 turned around and said actually you can sing 00:05:54.319 --> 00:05:58.079 and I went well I suppose so no no you can right 00:05:58.079 --> 00:06:00.160 you're doing backing vocals from now on so I 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:03.680 had to go and invest in a Madonna style headset 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:07.019 mic because I'm growing and I don't want to do 00:06:07.019 --> 00:06:09.060 that it's much easier with a headset mic because 00:06:09.060 --> 00:06:10.639 you can move your head around and still be singing 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:13.800 as opposed to staying fixed to sing into a static 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:18.959 mic so I did backing vocals and did that for 00:06:18.959 --> 00:06:21.399 Yonks and did a few things on the album as well. 00:06:23.019 --> 00:06:26.199 And then I became lead singer after the band 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:29.060 broke up and went a separate ways. Ty reformed, 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:30.939 I got back with David James and said, I want 00:06:30.939 --> 00:06:35.620 to reform the band. And he said, I don't really 00:06:35.620 --> 00:06:38.060 want to do it again because I'm into management 00:06:38.060 --> 00:06:41.439 now and so I just can't see myself going out 00:06:41.439 --> 00:06:45.199 on stage anymore, I'm not interested. So he said 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:47.439 to me, look, you're not as qualified as anyone 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:50.819 else to take the name forward. If someone else 00:06:50.819 --> 00:06:52.300 wants to do it and you want to do it, you can 00:06:52.300 --> 00:06:53.620 have the name. You can do what you want with 00:06:53.620 --> 00:07:00.560 it. And then from 1999, I became Modern Romance. 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:04.800 And I must say, reluctantly, the singer of Modern 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:07.699 Romance, because I tried to explain to people, 00:07:07.980 --> 00:07:11.459 it's very different. Singing from behind the 00:07:11.459 --> 00:07:14.660 drum kit, Mean I've worked in other bands in 00:07:14.660 --> 00:07:16.600 between in the industry between one way match 00:07:16.600 --> 00:07:19.100 one and two I worked in other bands and I would 00:07:19.100 --> 00:07:21.319 be behind the drunken obvious I've seen I said 00:07:21.319 --> 00:07:23.459 I want to do a cover version of this. Okay. Yeah, 00:07:23.459 --> 00:07:30.779 I'll do that Yeah, yeah sure being faced with 00:07:30.779 --> 00:07:34.600 the prospect of Going out front and singing without 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:36.879 the drunken for survival. We have not survived 00:07:36.879 --> 00:07:41.990 the protection. I felt Absolutely. I could have 00:07:41.990 --> 00:07:44.029 been, I might have been naked. It was the same 00:07:44.029 --> 00:07:48.149 thing. I see. Yeah, yeah. So it was terrifying 00:07:48.149 --> 00:07:50.769 to be honest, the transition, but eventually 00:07:50.769 --> 00:07:54.149 I got to the stage where I wasn't being, you 00:07:54.149 --> 00:07:56.670 know, shaking like a bag of nerves before I had, 00:07:56.769 --> 00:07:59.329 which is what's happening. And then I got to 00:07:59.329 --> 00:08:03.709 the stage where I sort of go out and do it now. 00:08:03.709 --> 00:08:06.209 I don't think about it, but it took a good year 00:08:06.209 --> 00:08:09.410 and a half before I could get over that. absolutely 00:08:09.410 --> 00:08:14.689 frantic with fear before going on. I can't think 00:08:14.689 --> 00:08:16.649 of that many drummers that have been lead singers. 00:08:16.870 --> 00:08:18.189 The only one I can think of, and that was only 00:08:18.189 --> 00:08:20.149 on some of their singles, was probably Mickey 00:08:20.149 --> 00:08:22.449 De Lenz, and of course that's all staged on a 00:08:22.449 --> 00:08:26.079 TV show anyway. yeah so you think of the six 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:28.980 singles he might have had a hit sang on hit wise 00:08:28.980 --> 00:08:31.160 yeah it's all stage you know and he just zooms 00:08:31.160 --> 00:08:33.500 in for when I stand on some of her face or whatever 00:08:33.500 --> 00:08:36.600 but yeah you can't do a whole gig like it I wouldn't 00:08:36.600 --> 00:08:40.059 have thought no no no no to be honest I did try 00:08:40.059 --> 00:08:45.840 a couple of gigs I did try playing drums and 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:48.330 I got the guitarist I said to the guitarist that 00:08:48.330 --> 00:08:50.029 you do a couple of songs I'll let you have a 00:08:50.029 --> 00:08:52.610 little set of your own I'll go back and play 00:08:52.610 --> 00:08:55.169 drums and what happened is it left this big hole 00:08:55.169 --> 00:08:57.629 in the middle of the stage where there's no not 00:08:57.629 --> 00:09:00.049 not I want to be the focal point but there was 00:09:00.049 --> 00:09:02.710 nothing to focus on the guitarist was on the 00:09:02.710 --> 00:09:04.309 right where he has been as they're looking on 00:09:04.309 --> 00:09:06.590 stage bass players on the left and in the middle 00:09:06.590 --> 00:09:08.190 where there was a singer, there's no one now 00:09:08.190 --> 00:09:10.409 because I've got to play drums and the drummer's 00:09:10.409 --> 00:09:13.029 gone backstage and having a beer while he's waiting 00:09:13.029 --> 00:09:16.370 for me. That's just a couple of songs and it 00:09:16.370 --> 00:09:18.820 just doesn't work. Sure. I'm looking at, I've 00:09:18.820 --> 00:09:21.679 actually got the Wikipedia page up, which I think 00:09:21.679 --> 00:09:23.419 you said, when I've had you on shows before, 00:09:23.419 --> 00:09:25.779 I think you said it's actually fairly accurate, 00:09:25.779 --> 00:09:28.019 I believe. I'm looking at some of the positions 00:09:28.019 --> 00:09:31.679 that your singles and albums got to around the 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:34.240 place. We're looking at Adventures in Clubland, 00:09:34.600 --> 00:09:37.220 Certified Gold in Venezuela, number one there. 00:09:38.220 --> 00:09:40.940 Rolling down to the singles. Everybody sells 00:09:40.940 --> 00:09:45.980 at number 12. I, I, I, I, Moosey number 10. Can 00:09:45.980 --> 00:10:05.279 you move number... I must admit it was very weird 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:07.240 because we didn't even know. When we were in 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:10.899 Thailand... We had these far -reached tours. 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:14.899 We were going to Thailand, Hong Kong, Japan. 00:10:15.419 --> 00:10:19.279 We were all over the place. And we arrived in 00:10:19.279 --> 00:10:23.519 Thailand and we all disembarked and went to the 00:10:23.519 --> 00:10:25.679 airport. And it was screaming. There were loads 00:10:25.679 --> 00:10:30.179 of people. What the hell? What were these people? 00:10:30.340 --> 00:10:32.419 Is there a festival? Is there some kind of thing 00:10:32.419 --> 00:10:34.960 going on? And the guy from the record from WEA 00:10:34.960 --> 00:10:38.379 in Thailand said, no, they're here for you. Wow. 00:10:39.639 --> 00:10:42.279 We thought we were going on a tour to promote 00:10:42.279 --> 00:10:44.279 the band and let them know we actually exist 00:10:44.279 --> 00:10:46.139 and we're alive sort of thing. And they said 00:10:46.139 --> 00:10:47.899 no they're here for you. We said what do you 00:10:47.899 --> 00:10:49.600 mean they're here for us? They said don't you 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:51.539 know? You said you're number one at the moment. 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:58.240 So you were getting off the plane and it was 00:10:58.240 --> 00:11:00.740 like the second coming. Yeah brilliant I like 00:11:00.740 --> 00:11:05.480 that. They're putting garlands around you, and 00:11:05.480 --> 00:11:07.179 they know you're queer. I mean, don't forget, 00:11:07.320 --> 00:11:09.940 we're going to a country where we think no one 00:11:09.940 --> 00:11:11.360 knows who we are. We're going to have to prove 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:14.059 it, you know, and prove what we can do. And we're 00:11:14.059 --> 00:11:15.519 going to play a few gigs, and people are going 00:11:15.519 --> 00:11:17.919 to start getting a few child positions or whatever. 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:20.980 We're right for number one. People can put garlands 00:11:20.980 --> 00:11:23.779 around us, and they know our names. And they're 00:11:23.779 --> 00:11:25.820 going, oh, Robbie, oh, Andy, you know, they thought 00:11:25.820 --> 00:11:27.519 you'd be president, and they're giving us presents, 00:11:27.720 --> 00:11:30.960 and we're going... What the hell? This is the 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:32.700 kind of world that we don't know about. What's 00:11:32.700 --> 00:11:35.580 going on? Fantastic. Fantastic. I knew the chaps 00:11:35.580 --> 00:11:37.000 could be like that sometimes, but I didn't know 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:38.480 the title. That's brilliant, mate. I love that. 00:11:38.860 --> 00:11:40.440 And I've honestly never heard that story from 00:11:40.440 --> 00:11:57.960 you before. That's brilliant. I like that. business 00:11:57.960 --> 00:12:01.759 founded back in 1969. 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I went as a percussionist and backing vocalist 00:13:35.230 --> 00:13:40.769 with an entry from Citrus. Because I'm Cypriot, 00:13:40.830 --> 00:13:43.009 and they said, we'd like to find some Cypriot 00:13:43.009 --> 00:13:45.009 musicians, and they said, someone suggested, 00:13:45.809 --> 00:13:48.730 I'd just let them on Romance in the 80s then. 00:13:50.049 --> 00:13:51.070 And they said, what about the guy who's just 00:13:51.070 --> 00:13:52.889 let them on Romance? He's Greek, it's a game, 00:13:53.110 --> 00:13:57.820 you know. So I went, and I must admit, For me 00:13:57.820 --> 00:14:00.220 it was like a glorified, a session is you go 00:14:00.220 --> 00:14:02.220 in and you play your stuff and you leave. This 00:14:02.220 --> 00:14:05.500 was a glorified session because out of this session 00:14:05.500 --> 00:14:09.379 I got a week in Cyprus, everything paid for, 00:14:09.960 --> 00:14:13.200 and then a week in Norway, which is where it 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:15.860 was. Sure, okay. Some of these Viking ships, 00:14:16.059 --> 00:14:17.799 they took us down a few oars and we stopped off 00:14:17.799 --> 00:14:19.940 at Bakeries and had all these cinema things and 00:14:19.940 --> 00:14:22.600 it was like fantastic. And I thought, God, I 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:24.259 could do one of these every few weeks, it'd be 00:14:24.259 --> 00:14:30.279 great. What about the the fateful question? Because 00:14:30.279 --> 00:14:33.340 the UK does have a pretty awful record in it 00:14:33.340 --> 00:14:36.500 the last 20 odd years would you ever is it something 00:14:36.500 --> 00:14:47.080 modern romance could do perhaps for the UK I 00:14:47.080 --> 00:14:49.759 don't know, see, because many people say, oh, 00:14:49.860 --> 00:14:51.500 yeah, you know, doing the rural region is a kiss 00:14:51.500 --> 00:14:54.360 of death, if you don't... But I don't think it 00:14:54.360 --> 00:14:56.480 is. I don't think it is. I think you open... 00:14:56.480 --> 00:15:00.480 You know, if you... See, there are politics involved. 00:15:00.840 --> 00:15:03.940 We all... Yes, yeah, yeah. Greece gives points 00:15:03.940 --> 00:15:06.779 to Estonia and all the people around it and all 00:15:06.779 --> 00:15:08.899 the people it wants to be friends with or anyone 00:15:08.899 --> 00:15:10.879 that has argued with it, it will give points 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:15.559 to try and... It's nothing to do with who's on 00:15:15.559 --> 00:15:17.259 stage and what they're doing, which is a shame. 00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:20.500 But I do think that if you go up there and give 00:15:20.500 --> 00:15:26.259 a good account of yourself, you can, in our case, 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:28.860 reignite what we had in the past and even open 00:15:28.860 --> 00:15:32.879 new doors and get new people turned onto your 00:15:32.879 --> 00:15:35.740 music and go, this is great fun, I like it, you 00:15:35.740 --> 00:15:39.220 know. Then on the other hand, what if you go 00:15:39.220 --> 00:15:41.279 and because of the voting system and because 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:43.820 of the way that people don't vote for England, 00:15:45.220 --> 00:15:47.100 they decide not to vote even though they all 00:15:47.100 --> 00:15:49.259 like the song. I've seen songs, I'm sure we all 00:15:49.259 --> 00:15:51.299 have, we've seen songs that are really great, 00:15:51.379 --> 00:15:54.039 that's a fantastic song and it gets virtually 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:56.860 zero points because it's not England. I mean, 00:15:57.679 --> 00:16:00.740 we have won it five times and we've come second 00:16:00.740 --> 00:16:07.080 a quite incredible 13 times. That was in 2012 00:16:07.080 --> 00:16:11.740 B .C. Yes, maybe it was. But then again, my reckoning 00:16:11.740 --> 00:16:14.639 on that is perhaps it's because Ireland did very 00:16:14.639 --> 00:16:17.340 well as well. Maybe it's because those two countries 00:16:17.340 --> 00:16:20.360 could sing in English and everyone else had to 00:16:20.360 --> 00:16:23.360 sing for many years in their native tongue. A 00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:25.460 lot of people understand English from pop songs 00:16:25.460 --> 00:16:27.200 or second language. And I think it was that. 00:16:27.720 --> 00:16:30.299 And the year after we last won it, which was 00:16:30.299 --> 00:16:33.889 Katrina waves in 1997. anyone could sing in whatever 00:16:33.889 --> 00:16:36.590 language, and everyone but France generally sings 00:16:36.590 --> 00:16:39.789 in English, if you've noticed. That might be 00:16:39.789 --> 00:16:42.610 part of it. I think that is part of it, but I 00:16:42.610 --> 00:16:45.529 still think it's also part of this... I mean, 00:16:45.529 --> 00:16:48.970 it's become a global, you know, European joke. 00:16:49.970 --> 00:16:52.750 England, zero points. You know, they laugh about 00:16:52.750 --> 00:16:56.870 it. And I don't see why, because without wishing 00:16:56.870 --> 00:16:59.149 to show my allegiance to England, because I was 00:16:59.149 --> 00:17:04.279 England born and raised... Roots England has 00:17:04.279 --> 00:17:07.019 had some fantastic songs in the past as you just 00:17:07.019 --> 00:17:09.200 mentioned But also England has produced some 00:17:09.200 --> 00:17:12.099 of the greatest pop bands in the world. Yeah, 00:17:12.099 --> 00:17:19.039 yeah There's something darker there's something 00:17:19.039 --> 00:17:21.799 more involved here people are just decided not 00:17:21.799 --> 00:17:32.650 to give points because that I love Buxley's and 00:17:32.650 --> 00:17:35.250 I'll tell you what, if Buxley's went on there 00:17:35.250 --> 00:17:39.329 now, they'd probably get zero points because 00:17:39.329 --> 00:17:41.410 everything becomes so political. And they should 00:17:41.410 --> 00:17:44.670 probably get no points as well. What the hell? 00:17:46.069 --> 00:17:48.950 It's a shame, but having said all that, before 00:17:48.950 --> 00:17:52.410 we can progress, have you seen, I don't normally 00:17:52.410 --> 00:17:54.250 plug movies but you just said the magic word, 00:17:54.529 --> 00:17:57.779 have you seen a film called Eurovision? No, I 00:17:57.779 --> 00:18:00.319 haven't, but I was aware it was out. We must 00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:03.079 put it on the... Yes, I'm aware of the movie, 00:18:03.079 --> 00:18:05.839 but haven't seen it. You have to watch it. It's 00:18:05.839 --> 00:18:07.740 really... I mean, everyone was telling you for 00:18:07.740 --> 00:18:10.019 years the Abba movies were good. I'll never forget 00:18:10.019 --> 00:18:12.700 it. I watched Mother Mia with Piers Croslund, 00:18:12.799 --> 00:18:15.099 seeing it. That must be awful, you know. And 00:18:15.099 --> 00:18:16.480 I watched them recently and I thought, you know 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:20.160 what, they're really fun. Yes. This is really 00:18:20.160 --> 00:18:22.579 good fun with a couple of really good songs in 00:18:22.579 --> 00:18:26.380 it as well. Okay. And it's just a good fun, feel 00:18:26.380 --> 00:18:29.539 good feel. So yeah, Eurovision. Everyone listen. 00:18:29.940 --> 00:18:31.279 Go and watch it. You'll have some fun with your 00:18:31.279 --> 00:18:34.380 family. That's all that's on our list then, Sue. 00:18:34.500 --> 00:18:35.640 Yeah, well, what we're gonna do, Andy, we're 00:18:35.640 --> 00:18:38.319 gonna play High Life and then we're gonna come 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:39.680 back for a bit more of a chat and play one of 00:18:39.680 --> 00:18:43.779 the new songs after that. So, yes, Modern Romance 00:18:43.779 --> 00:18:52.619 and High Life coming up right now. There we go, 00:18:52.740 --> 00:18:56.480 that is Modern Romance and Hi Life, and welcome 00:18:56.480 --> 00:18:59.539 back. Andy Curiaki of Modern Romance, hello again 00:18:59.539 --> 00:19:02.000 mate. Thank you, thank you, good to be here. 00:19:02.539 --> 00:19:07.140 Thank you, brilliant. Right, we're looking at, 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:10.039 we've basically talked about the group, how it 00:19:10.039 --> 00:19:12.019 all started and how you got it back together. 00:19:13.740 --> 00:19:16.220 Now, oh Sue, you did want to ask a song, was 00:19:16.220 --> 00:19:18.920 it about I, I, I, Moosey, what was it you wanted 00:19:18.920 --> 00:19:22.150 to ask about it? How did I I I Moosey come about? 00:19:22.430 --> 00:19:26.289 How did it get its name? Right. I've only asked 00:19:26.289 --> 00:19:30.490 this in the past a few times, 873 I think it 00:19:30.490 --> 00:19:33.450 is. You've only told me twice. Sorry. And that's 00:19:33.450 --> 00:19:35.390 just who I'll do it again. Thank you. You should 00:19:35.390 --> 00:19:37.109 tell people why they ask the question when they 00:19:37.109 --> 00:19:39.490 ask the question. Just for the love of you Sue. 00:19:39.869 --> 00:19:44.190 Basically, the guy who was singer of the band 00:19:44.190 --> 00:19:48.930 at the time had a cousin called Michael Moss. 00:19:50.579 --> 00:19:53.980 Right. And obviously, you shortened names and 00:19:53.980 --> 00:19:55.839 it became Mossy, then it became Moosey, he was 00:19:55.839 --> 00:19:58.380 Moosey. I was coming to the gig tonight, well 00:19:58.380 --> 00:20:00.500 John's coming, blah blah, Moose is coming, right. 00:20:00.579 --> 00:20:04.700 So it became Moosey. And then one day, shortly 00:20:04.700 --> 00:20:07.220 after everybody's house was in here, this guy 00:20:07.220 --> 00:20:09.579 said to him, I bet you I can write a song with 00:20:09.579 --> 00:20:11.900 your name in it, and it'll make a hit out of 00:20:11.900 --> 00:20:14.519 it, and it won't rubbish, you told me. He goes, 00:20:14.519 --> 00:20:17.420 yeah, I'll get Dex. So anyway, he wrote the song 00:20:17.420 --> 00:20:19.859 and the chorus was I I I I Moussy and everyone 00:20:19.859 --> 00:20:22.440 thought what does this mean? It's nothing. It's 00:20:22.440 --> 00:20:26.480 the name of a guy who drives he drove a black 00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:29.240 cab in London. It's a taxi driver's name Moussy. 00:20:29.480 --> 00:20:31.759 That was it. But people thought it was some kind 00:20:31.759 --> 00:20:33.880 of really kind of exotic thing. Who's Moussy? 00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:36.740 You know someone in the Caribbean is it? No no 00:20:36.740 --> 00:20:39.079 he's in the East End of London driving a cab. 00:20:40.440 --> 00:20:43.099 Brilliant well thank you for that Andy. Right 00:20:43.099 --> 00:20:45.720 now you've been back together Modern Romance 00:20:45.720 --> 00:20:48.119 has been back together for quite a while now. 00:20:48.859 --> 00:20:52.539 I understand 2020 was going to be the year you 00:20:52.539 --> 00:20:54.640 were actually going to be touring everywhere, 00:20:54.640 --> 00:20:56.640 wasn't it? Some massive tour you had on, I believe? 00:20:56.880 --> 00:20:59.420 Yeah, and we had an album ready to release and 00:20:59.420 --> 00:21:02.980 two things happened. We had an album to release 00:21:02.980 --> 00:21:07.319 in 2019 and then touring in 2020 and doing stuff. 00:21:07.839 --> 00:21:13.480 In 2019 I went to Cyprus for a short holiday. 00:21:38.849 --> 00:21:47.190 How are you still here mate? few times and i 00:21:47.190 --> 00:21:49.930 think mate i'm just apparently i was three inches 00:21:49.930 --> 00:21:52.150 away from being dead and i was three inches in 00:21:52.150 --> 00:21:55.269 kilby but as it turned out he injured me but 00:21:55.269 --> 00:21:59.289 it didn't kill me so anyway so then i spent the 00:21:59.289 --> 00:22:02.529 majority of august in the last month of september 00:22:02.529 --> 00:22:05.150 unable to go out into the sun i can't tell you 00:22:05.150 --> 00:22:07.970 how frustrated to be in a country where the temperature 00:22:07.970 --> 00:22:13.880 is in the 30s and you'll be inside sweating your 00:22:13.880 --> 00:22:19.259 face off and you just can't go out because my 00:22:19.259 --> 00:22:21.920 leg was all wrecked up and bandaged and you know 00:22:21.920 --> 00:22:25.940 the injury was just so bad I couldn't walk so 00:22:25.940 --> 00:22:28.599 anyway so when I came back obviously I couldn't 00:22:28.599 --> 00:22:31.619 do any of the promotion for the album I thought, 00:22:31.640 --> 00:22:33.680 oh never mind, we'll get over this and we'll 00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:35.180 sort it out. And then I thought, okay, we'll 00:22:35.180 --> 00:22:36.960 still do the gigs in January, you know, from 00:22:36.960 --> 00:22:39.140 January on, January, February, we'll start gigging, 00:22:39.519 --> 00:22:41.599 still do that, and then look at the album. And 00:22:41.599 --> 00:22:45.359 of course, in February, before we had the first 00:22:45.359 --> 00:22:48.180 gig, Mr. Coronavirus knocked on everyone's door. 00:22:49.180 --> 00:22:51.420 And that was the end of that. So we didn't do 00:22:51.420 --> 00:22:57.079 any gigs in 2020, at all. And it's just so frustrating, 00:22:57.299 --> 00:23:00.700 not just for me. and it's frustrating on an artistic 00:23:00.700 --> 00:23:05.079 level, it's also frustrating on a financial level 00:23:05.079 --> 00:23:06.579 because obviously there's no money coming in. 00:23:07.180 --> 00:23:09.759 But what's great is I know so many artists and 00:23:09.759 --> 00:23:12.579 so many people that are in the same boat and 00:23:12.579 --> 00:23:17.599 unfortunately by virtue of what we do for a job... 00:23:17.279 --> 00:23:19.519 We fall in between the cracks apparently and 00:23:19.519 --> 00:23:21.400 we don't qualify for self -employment at this, 00:23:21.539 --> 00:23:23.099 we don't qualify for furlough, we don't qualify 00:23:23.099 --> 00:23:25.500 for this, we don't even qualify for a free banana 00:23:25.500 --> 00:23:27.279 from a local grocery, you know what I mean? Nothing. 00:23:28.420 --> 00:23:31.500 So, we've got that frustration to put up with. 00:23:31.799 --> 00:23:34.819 Plus the fact that, mate, I miss going out on 00:23:34.819 --> 00:23:36.859 stage and interacting with people and just doing 00:23:36.859 --> 00:23:38.819 what we do and it's got, oh my god, how long 00:23:38.819 --> 00:23:40.500 is this going to go on for? But it's going to 00:23:40.500 --> 00:23:42.259 go on until the end of the year apparently. I 00:23:42.259 --> 00:23:44.700 mean, little gigs are happening now, little gigs, 00:23:44.940 --> 00:23:49.880 no. which actually battles me because I've got 00:23:49.880 --> 00:23:51.700 a friend who did a gig a couple of weeks ago 00:23:51.700 --> 00:23:53.640 in a pub and he said there were about 70 people 00:23:53.640 --> 00:23:55.559 there and he said they were all on top of each 00:23:55.559 --> 00:23:58.599 other and yet he goes home and he can't have 00:23:58.599 --> 00:24:00.440 more than six people at his house now but he 00:24:00.440 --> 00:24:04.000 could probably still do a gig the weekend and 00:24:04.000 --> 00:24:06.599 our gigs are not happening because obviously 00:24:06.599 --> 00:24:10.740 our gigs are not being facetious or conceited 00:24:10.740 --> 00:24:14.740 about it. Must be you know, we've got you know, 00:24:14.740 --> 00:24:16.799 if you do one of the holiday camps talking two 00:24:16.799 --> 00:24:19.420 and a half three thousand people Yeah, and if 00:24:19.420 --> 00:24:21.319 you do the best of all you're talking 20 ,000. 00:24:21.319 --> 00:24:23.859 They're not gonna last 20 ,000 people together 00:24:23.859 --> 00:24:35.200 The one thing I do say to people is And I was 00:24:35.200 --> 00:24:36.740 looking all the way through this. I said, no 00:24:36.740 --> 00:24:39.039 matter how bad it gets financially for anybody, 00:24:39.420 --> 00:24:41.819 if you become bankrupt, if you lose this, lose 00:24:41.819 --> 00:24:44.960 that, you can always come back from there. The 00:24:44.960 --> 00:24:46.839 one thing you can't come back from is if you 00:24:46.839 --> 00:24:49.339 get it and die. So let's just all stay home, 00:24:49.559 --> 00:24:52.880 let's all get well, stay well, and worry about 00:24:52.880 --> 00:24:55.250 the rest later. Great advice, mate. Yeah, thank 00:24:55.250 --> 00:24:58.470 you. Nick and Sue. If you're looking for the 00:24:58.470 --> 00:25:00.829 perfect gifts, either for yourself or for a fellow 00:25:00.829 --> 00:25:03.890 fan, you need to check out the Old Glory iconic 00:25:03.890 --> 00:25:06.579 music and sports store. They've been the gold 00:25:06.579 --> 00:25:10.119 standard for fan merch since 1969. They carry 00:25:10.119 --> 00:25:13.640 over 300 ,000 items ranging from Grateful Dead 00:25:13.640 --> 00:25:16.079 hoodies to official sports team hats and other 00:25:16.079 --> 00:25:18.980 merch. And look, I know what it's like to buy 00:25:18.980 --> 00:25:22.140 a band shirt only for it to shrink or fade instantly. 00:25:22.660 --> 00:25:25.039 Old Glory is different. 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Look 00:25:59.180 --> 00:26:02.099 good, do some good to the planet and show your 00:26:02.099 --> 00:26:17.980 true colours. so we're looking we can look forward 00:26:17.980 --> 00:26:22.500 to a brand new modern romance album in 2021 i 00:26:22.500 --> 00:26:26.400 assume well funny enough right now this minute 00:26:26.400 --> 00:26:29.440 when you phoned me because i was actually doing 00:26:29.440 --> 00:26:33.319 the order of the tracks on the album oh okay 00:26:33.319 --> 00:26:37.039 you're the first to hear this we only decided 00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:39.730 on friday because you know what let's put it 00:26:39.730 --> 00:26:41.609 out for christmas let's compete with all the 00:26:41.609 --> 00:26:44.069 big artists what the hell if it's a good album 00:26:44.069 --> 00:26:46.410 and people hear it it will stand up for itself 00:26:46.410 --> 00:26:48.269 and they go oh he's good they'll go and buy it 00:26:48.269 --> 00:26:50.750 i don't need to worry about competing with cliffridge 00:26:50.750 --> 00:26:53.490 putting out his christmas album of the year or 00:26:53.490 --> 00:26:56.329 you know the charandran or wet wet wet or anywhere 00:26:56.329 --> 00:26:58.470 else they will do what they're going to do and 00:26:58.470 --> 00:26:59.710 then we just said you know let's just put it 00:26:59.710 --> 00:27:01.970 out and see what happens have it out because 00:27:01.970 --> 00:27:04.890 um i was talking to you know one of the guys 00:27:04.890 --> 00:27:07.329 is putting it out for me and he said look after 00:27:07.329 --> 00:27:11.089 the year we've had we being the world in general, 00:27:11.470 --> 00:27:14.230 you know, in the UK, he said, people need a bit 00:27:14.230 --> 00:27:16.890 of fun. He said, you know, all these tunes that 00:27:16.890 --> 00:27:19.349 you've re -recorded, everybody sells some moosey 00:27:19.349 --> 00:27:21.470 besties of their lives. He said, people want 00:27:21.470 --> 00:27:23.970 some fun. He said, put it out for Christmas and 00:27:23.970 --> 00:27:26.869 let people hear it and have some fun and dance 00:27:26.869 --> 00:27:29.480 around with it. because people need to be lifted 00:27:29.480 --> 00:27:32.019 after this awful year and that's what made me 00:27:32.019 --> 00:27:34.140 decide you know what maybe it's got a point so 00:27:34.140 --> 00:27:35.759 we've decided to go for it and put it out at 00:27:35.759 --> 00:27:37.579 Christmas that's actually a good move actually 00:27:37.579 --> 00:27:40.220 and also you have been working very hard you 00:27:40.220 --> 00:27:43.500 know burrowing away making contact with people 00:27:43.500 --> 00:27:47.599 like myself originally you contacted me not the 00:27:47.599 --> 00:27:49.599 other way around and it's found your little team 00:27:49.599 --> 00:27:52.240 the guy that contacted everyone and offered you 00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:55.220 for quite some time ago offered you for an interview 00:27:55.220 --> 00:27:57.000 and of course you've now done two of my stations 00:27:57.000 --> 00:28:00.579 now and that you know it's been very good this 00:28:00.579 --> 00:28:02.319 shutdown probably to the extent that you have 00:28:02.319 --> 00:28:05.180 spoken to lots of radio people and it's so easy 00:28:05.180 --> 00:28:07.200 to come back to me now say oh Nick can we have 00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:08.880 a little chat about the Christmas thing next 00:28:08.880 --> 00:28:11.420 whenever when you've got a gap and you go and 00:28:11.420 --> 00:28:13.440 not just me but a lot of people I think you know 00:28:13.359 --> 00:28:15.400 you've done really brilliantly there where some 00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:17.480 people have just sort of hidden away written 00:28:17.480 --> 00:28:20.420 their song about the lockdown which i've heard 00:28:20.420 --> 00:28:22.920 must have heard 10 million songs about the lockdown 00:28:22.920 --> 00:28:24.859 by now and you're bringing out this jolly thing 00:28:24.859 --> 00:28:26.940 and i think that will get you more more radio 00:28:26.940 --> 00:28:30.039 spots as well adi i really do yeah well i'll 00:28:30.039 --> 00:28:37.509 do a happy modern romance one it might work Right 00:28:37.509 --> 00:28:40.069 in a lockdown, so I don't think you've, you know, 00:28:40.170 --> 00:28:41.569 some of the people have done it and I think, 00:28:41.809 --> 00:28:43.190 what the hell, you know, it's a subject that 00:28:43.190 --> 00:28:45.529 we've all, we're all bored of the words lockdown 00:28:45.529 --> 00:28:49.029 and virus and pandemic and so on. Let it end 00:28:49.029 --> 00:28:51.089 soon. I mean, it will end when it ends, but we, 00:28:51.210 --> 00:28:53.029 I don't really want to be connoting it and saying, 00:28:53.329 --> 00:28:55.309 you know, let's talk about virus and pandemics 00:28:55.309 --> 00:28:56.750 and lockdown. I think you've all had enough. 00:28:57.109 --> 00:29:01.140 But I have to say, funnily enough, Last week 00:29:01.140 --> 00:29:06.000 I was talking to a friend of mine, a lot of techs, 00:29:06.119 --> 00:29:08.400 this is for all football fans by the way, I was 00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:10.079 talking to my techs because I'm an Arsenal fan, 00:29:10.220 --> 00:29:12.480 he's a Spurs fan, arch -rivers as you know, right? 00:29:13.460 --> 00:29:15.460 And I was taking the mickey because obviously 00:29:15.460 --> 00:29:17.960 we just won our first game of the season last 00:29:17.960 --> 00:29:20.539 weekend, we've recently won the charity shield, 00:29:20.779 --> 00:29:22.759 we've won the FA Cup, and I said to him, nothing 00:29:22.759 --> 00:29:26.220 in your trophy cabinet am I? And he was writing 00:29:26.220 --> 00:29:28.220 back to you recently and then he said, do you 00:29:28.220 --> 00:29:30.819 know what? Because you know Arsenal were originally 00:29:30.819 --> 00:29:33.680 a South London club? Yes, Woolwich Arsenal, yeah, 00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:36.160 yeah, yeah. And then we moved to North London 00:29:36.160 --> 00:29:38.980 in 1913, right? And they said, no, you're just 00:29:38.980 --> 00:29:43.079 a bunch of pikeys anyway. Oh, OK. It's actually, 00:29:43.220 --> 00:29:44.819 you're just a bunch of pikeys. Basically moved 00:29:44.819 --> 00:29:46.920 like a bunch of gypsies from South London to 00:29:46.920 --> 00:29:50.839 North London and took their place, sort of thing. 00:29:51.160 --> 00:29:54.960 So I wrote back a comment, and then I said, do 00:29:54.960 --> 00:29:56.740 you know what? That's actually a good title for 00:29:56.740 --> 00:30:00.980 a song. So I had... I wrote, rewrote, there and 00:30:00.980 --> 00:30:03.640 then, I rewrote the lyrics of I, I, I, I, Moosing, 00:30:03.839 --> 00:30:06.619 can't really be enough. I used the whole lyrics, 00:30:06.819 --> 00:30:09.240 everything, the chorus, the actual verses, everything, 00:30:09.759 --> 00:30:13.099 all to do with football, and primarily spurs. 00:30:14.059 --> 00:30:20.200 Okay. What's it called now? Well, the thing is, 00:30:20.259 --> 00:30:23.279 I'm going to tell you after we finish this. Oh, 00:30:23.279 --> 00:30:29.480 okay. But, anyway, I... Rewrote the lyrics and 00:30:29.480 --> 00:30:31.319 then what I did is I came to the laptop put the 00:30:31.319 --> 00:30:33.720 backing track on and sang it into my phone so 00:30:33.720 --> 00:30:35.920 the phone's got me singing with the backing track 00:30:35.920 --> 00:30:39.359 and I sent it to my friend and I said, yeah, 00:30:39.480 --> 00:30:41.940 this is what I'm thinking you got. Even though 00:30:41.940 --> 00:30:47.279 he's an Ardent Spurs fan, he was in hysterics. 00:30:47.720 --> 00:30:49.500 And he said, great, how did you write it that 00:30:49.500 --> 00:30:51.619 quickly? And I said, well, that's what's wrong. 00:30:51.720 --> 00:30:53.880 I write songs, that's what you do. You take it 00:30:53.880 --> 00:30:55.980 pretty good, how did you? build his extension 00:30:55.980 --> 00:30:57.880 so quickly it'll take me four weeks he's done 00:30:57.880 --> 00:31:00.000 it in two days that's his job that's what he 00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:03.299 does um and i've actually just in the process 00:31:03.299 --> 00:31:06.240 now of writing an email it's on my screen now 00:31:06.240 --> 00:31:08.019 i'm writing an email to accompany it because 00:31:08.019 --> 00:31:10.299 when i send it to people i want them to realize 00:31:10.299 --> 00:31:13.200 i've done this banter as a joke i don't want 00:31:13.200 --> 00:31:15.500 anyone else to sit there going oh yes but you 00:31:15.500 --> 00:31:17.619 know he's used this word there and this here 00:31:17.619 --> 00:31:21.059 however i know the joke it's fun it's people 00:31:21.059 --> 00:31:23.619 having a laugh you know i suppose fans can laugh 00:31:23.619 --> 00:31:26.500 about it and Arsenal fans obviously, and other 00:31:26.500 --> 00:31:28.400 football fans. I just don't want someone jumping 00:31:28.400 --> 00:31:31.099 at some doobler going, oh he's used this word 00:31:31.099 --> 00:31:35.960 there, you know, it's in bad taste. Don't get 00:31:35.960 --> 00:31:39.180 James who's in the chat room. He's the RNI whiz 00:31:39.180 --> 00:31:41.259 kid with computers and studios We don't upset 00:31:41.259 --> 00:31:43.180 him too much because we had as you know, you 00:31:43.180 --> 00:31:45.019 were going to come on a few Was it three weeks 00:31:45.019 --> 00:31:47.539 ago? So we had a studio meltdown. He's the one 00:31:47.539 --> 00:31:49.920 that saved us because there was a meltdown as 00:31:49.920 --> 00:31:52.359 well Yeah, we look forward to that one though 00:31:52.359 --> 00:31:55.680 Andy definitely also I'm hoping you're gonna 00:31:55.680 --> 00:31:58.119 turn but you can give us that new sort of like 00:31:58.119 --> 00:32:00.119 Christmas time when you tell us about what you're 00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:01.700 bringing out there and hope you're you know, 00:32:01.859 --> 00:32:05.700 nice nicer a nice new tour for 2021 maybe yeah 00:32:05.700 --> 00:32:09.420 where abouts are you guys based anyway? in Hastings 00:32:09.420 --> 00:32:13.720 East Sussex 30 odd miles from Brighton right 00:32:13.720 --> 00:32:19.720 okay um Kent yeah we have nine miles to the Kent 00:32:19.720 --> 00:32:23.660 border yeah well okay I've got a gig in Kent 00:32:23.660 --> 00:32:29.660 next year keep us posted let's rock Kent yes 00:32:30.509 --> 00:32:32.250 I can't remember the actual date, but if you 00:32:32.250 --> 00:32:33.750 look it up, Nets Rock Kent, you'll see loads 00:32:33.750 --> 00:32:36.809 of 80s people, Nick Kershaw, I think, and Tony 00:32:36.809 --> 00:32:38.849 Hackley and a whole bunch of other people from 00:32:38.849 --> 00:32:40.849 the 80s, and I will be there doing that one. 00:32:41.150 --> 00:32:42.490 Sounds good. Sounds good, mate. Sounds good. 00:32:42.869 --> 00:32:44.769 Before we... Sue, you want to say something, 00:32:44.789 --> 00:32:46.950 sorry? We've got to look it up and go. Yes, we 00:32:46.950 --> 00:32:49.869 will. I was just saying that. Right. Before you 00:32:49.869 --> 00:32:53.130 go, Andy, could you tell us about any websites 00:32:53.130 --> 00:32:56.730 or Facebook pages and groups that Modern Romance 00:32:56.730 --> 00:33:00.109 or you have, please? And then we've got our website, 00:33:00.230 --> 00:33:05.890 which is www .modern -romance .com. Then we've 00:33:05.890 --> 00:33:08.230 got my Facebook page, which people, I invite 00:33:08.230 --> 00:33:10.250 people all the time, just come and say hello, 00:33:11.029 --> 00:33:13.970 and at the end of the day, people are sitting 00:33:13.970 --> 00:33:15.970 and going, it's my Facebook page. Yes, it's there 00:33:15.970 --> 00:33:18.230 for me to interact with people from the public 00:33:18.230 --> 00:33:19.990 who like our stuff, who want to come and say 00:33:19.990 --> 00:33:22.289 hi. So if you do want to come in, don't feel, 00:33:22.529 --> 00:33:24.589 oh, you know, you're imposing. No, come and say 00:33:24.589 --> 00:33:26.950 hi. Introduce yourself, say hi, I'm saying so. 00:33:27.879 --> 00:33:29.799 And yeah, I mean I might not be able to chat 00:33:29.799 --> 00:33:34.920 to you every day, but I will always say hi to 00:33:34.920 --> 00:33:37.779 people and if they're coming to a gig and they 00:33:37.779 --> 00:33:39.940 let me know I'm coming to your gig at such and 00:33:39.940 --> 00:33:43.460 such place I'll try and find a way to get out 00:33:43.460 --> 00:33:45.339 from backstage and come and actually say hi to 00:33:45.339 --> 00:33:46.980 them and meet them in person. Oh lovely mate, 00:33:47.259 --> 00:33:48.740 that's brilliant. That's absolutely fantastic. 00:33:49.140 --> 00:33:51.259 Yeah, excellent. Nice, because if you've got 00:33:51.259 --> 00:33:53.759 people that chat to you and comment on your stuff, 00:33:53.799 --> 00:33:56.160 it's actually nice to meet them, put a face to 00:33:56.160 --> 00:33:58.400 their name, and then you know them after that. 00:33:58.500 --> 00:34:00.819 It's not just a person online. You actually know 00:34:00.819 --> 00:34:03.460 them. I mean, I've had some great things happen 00:34:03.460 --> 00:34:07.559 in the past. I've met some girls that came to 00:34:07.559 --> 00:34:10.920 a gig, and I can't remember what happened, but 00:34:10.920 --> 00:34:13.880 I think they tried to get tickets for a gig and 00:34:13.880 --> 00:34:16.360 were let down or whatever. And I said, I'll tell 00:34:16.360 --> 00:34:17.719 you what, I'll put you on the guest list for 00:34:17.719 --> 00:34:21.329 our gig in this place. And they were so grateful 00:34:21.329 --> 00:34:27.769 and it was in sort of Devon somewhere. They bought 00:34:27.769 --> 00:34:32.070 me a bag of Cornish pasties that were made from 00:34:32.070 --> 00:34:35.130 the best Cornish pasties shop in Cornwall. They 00:34:35.130 --> 00:34:37.010 said, yeah, they're all fresh and they're all 00:34:37.010 --> 00:34:47.429 warm. Andy, thank you very much for spending 00:34:47.429 --> 00:34:50.369 so much of your Sunday afternoon with us and 00:34:50.369 --> 00:34:52.989 do keep in touch and, you know, do just send 00:34:52.989 --> 00:34:55.389 me the press releases like you do and hopefully 00:34:55.389 --> 00:34:57.889 we'll have a chat. Well, still Wonderstations 00:34:57.889 --> 00:34:59.650 you haven't been on yet, but I'd like to have 00:34:59.650 --> 00:35:01.750 a chat, you know, when things are coming out 00:35:01.750 --> 00:35:03.170 at Christmas, if you don't mind, mate, that'd 00:35:03.170 --> 00:35:11.630 be brilliant. Well, how are you black coffee 00:35:11.630 --> 00:35:14.449 cuz I'm more of a black coffee man, but that's 00:35:14.449 --> 00:35:18.329 okay As long as it's strong, that's fine mate, 00:35:18.329 --> 00:35:24.090 yeah Brilliant Andy so from Sue myself, thank 00:35:24.090 --> 00:35:26.969 you very much and do take care of yourself for 00:35:26.969 --> 00:35:29.710 every success, you know in the very near future 00:35:29.710 --> 00:35:32.489 Now we're gonna play out with one of your newer 00:35:32.489 --> 00:35:38.010 songs and in Here we are Modern Romance and Michica 00:35:38.010 --> 00:35:40.590 Latina. Hope I've done that right. And Andy thank 00:35:40.590 --> 00:35:42.690 you very much and speak to you soon mate. Thank 00:35:42.690 --> 00:36:19.619 you. Thank you very much. Bye bye. 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