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Adam Buxton

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“but left my own devices I just piss about and waste hours and hours and also I'm lucky enough to be able to spend lots of time with my family and play video games with my daughter and things like that I feel like that's work that's important that's the stuff I'm not going to regret I don't think you know sometimes you watch a ward shows and things like that and you think what am I doing with my life I just think, you know, things will come along, there's always something to take the mech out of.”
2023-08-27 · Intelligence Squared · Adam Buxton: How I Found My Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, of course everybody feels that, right? To some degree, and some people are just better at covering it up. Or they have success and they hook up with the right people that get them beyond that hump, and they find a routine and a way of working. I was talking to you before we went on air about how important it is to find a producer and stuff if you're on TV or radio or podcasting. It will totally transform the thing. If you find someone who is willing to take that role is not going to get bent out of shape by not being the face of whatever you're working on, but will support you and help you do things as well as you possibly can. That will transform everything for you, you know. So I've kind of got myself into a position where I'm lucky to have my friend Seamus, who helps me with the podcast. That's fine.”
2023-08-27 · Intelligence Squared · Adam Buxton: How I Found My Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Joe gave me a small part in his film in the kid who would be king I do feel as if he could take me a little bit more seriously as an acting talent. I'm very powerful I have a huge range, but so far he hasn't availed himself of that resource there's still time. But no, our lives are so different. I have three children I live out in the country. Joe is not married. He doesn't have children. He's married to his job.”
2023-08-27 · Intelligence Squared · Adam Buxton: How I Found My Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh god, I don't know. I mean, we've got such different lives now. Mainly we see each other when it's time to do our Christmas podcast because we were on the radio for a long time, myself and Joe, first of all on XFM and then on six music. And it became a tradition that we would do a festive podcast. And then when we stopped doing the radio together and I started doing my own solo podcast, I thought it would be nice to carry on doing that. In some ways it was nice for me to have a clean break from Joe and to do shows that didn't always have to be funny. Sometimes I talk to people who, you know, it's usually quite sometimes it's quite a serious conversation I have with people on the podcast, not the kind of thing that I would do with Joan necessarily when Joe and I get together, we definitely revert to being silly boys and talking about movies and just make each other laugh. And so that's very, very nice to maintain.”
2023-08-27 · Intelligence Squared · Adam Buxton: How I Found My Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, he goes to Hollywood, and he always but he's been to Hollywood. I've been to Hollywood. He's mainly in Brixton. Let's be real. He's in South London. That's where he lives. That's where he belongs.”
2023-08-27 · Intelligence Squared · Adam Buxton: How I Found My Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, it's tricky because as I was saying that, I was sort of thinking, well, it's all very well for me. You know, I've been on TV. I'm not very well known, but I do have a profile. And so I can build on that to some degree. And I'm lucky not to have to go out and hustle in that way. But I really would say, like, if it's any good at all, people are going to find it. People are ravenous for good stuff. And word of mouth still works, and social media as well, but I don't think it's your job to hustle for your stuff. I think it's your job to make it as good as you possibly can, and figure out what's good about what you do, and hone it and tighten it and keep doing it, and then it'll be good, and it'll be a lot better than all those twats who've spent all their time social networking. And, you know, don't really bother with all the stuff that would improve the content. You know what I mean?”
2023-08-27 · Intelligence Squared · Adam Buxton: How I Found My Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, definitely good on them. Yeah. I just think that it's turned out that now that anyone can have access to more or less any medium they choose, the thing that really stops them getting discovered is just the volume of stuff that's out there. So that's the new challenge. And unfortunately, that challenge is being met by a kind of tedious self-promotion on social media. You know what I mean? People feel like, oh, I'm not going to make it unless I'm badgering people the whole time when you retweet this, will you retweet that? And I just find that really awful.”
2023-08-27 · Intelligence Squared · Adam Buxton: How I Found My Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm glad. Sometimes I rush it and you can hear it on headphones. You know what I mean? When the edits get a bit harsh. But I'm glad I do spend a while trying to make it trying to keep it naturalistic. But if someone goes, I mean, as you now know, I'm someone who goes off on tangents quite a bit. And I find it hard to rein myself in, and sometimes it really disrupts the flow of a thing. And sometimes other people do that too. And so sometimes it's nice just to tighten things up or lose a tangent that really doesn't add anything to the whole conversation. So I'll record for a couple of hours generally and then tighten it up to about an hour. And then it's just a nice experience, I think, for a listener.”
2023-08-27 · Intelligence Squared · Adam Buxton: How I Found My Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, massively, I would say. I feel as if that's the only thing that I have over a lot of other podcasters is that I'm prepared to spend longer than most people would actually editing the conversations I have with people because I'm not someone who's naturally very good at just talking off the cuff. I do need editing. And also I think the guests often benefit from it as well, you know. I don't want to edit too much because then you take away some of the charm of the medium.”
2023-08-27 · Intelligence Squared · Adam Buxton: How I Found My Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because Well, thanks. I'm glad you think that. I'm sure there are some people who might not agree. But I think it's cathartic because I think most people now have had the experience of being stung or hurt or getting into an unpleasant confrontation online, and it's a peculiar feeling that doesn't really exist in the real world. It makes a kind of knot in your stomach of anxiety and a feeling of injustice that will never really be resolved. Part of what I do at the bug show. In it for the one comment and then they go off. But anyway, there's still some amusingly wrong headed and badly spelt comments which always make me chuckle.”
2023-08-27 · Intelligence Squared · Adam Buxton: How I Found My Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A selection of real comments from the online massive. With Apple Pie is good Who has this to say perfect video? With time, tangoing with the fourth dimension Time being used as a metaphor? And if so, then what does it represent? Is it a drug reference I bet the goose represents something here, doesn't it? Anyway, good And dear yellow one, I feel the need to tell you that your pancispises?”
2023-08-27 · Intelligence Squared · Adam Buxton: How I Found My Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I remember thinking it would be great to do almost like kitchen sink drama, serious kind of confrontations, domestic arguments, things like that, but do it with Star Wars figures. So you have stormtroopers at home having an argument about why haven't you made the bed and things like that, you know? And at that point, I wasn't aware of anyone else having done it. A few years later, there was a thing called troopers, which was one of the very first things that became kind of viral on the internet, I remember, where someone had got hold of a load of stormtrooper costumes and filmed, done quite a nice job of doing something that looked as if it might be a Star Wars outtake, but they were just riffing on the private life.”
2023-08-27 · Intelligence Squared · Adam Buxton: How I Found My Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The stuff that stood out from the bits and pieces we did for TakeOver TV were these little parodies that we did with toys. This was years before a show like Robot Chicken existed, for example.”
2023-08-27 · Intelligence Squared · Adam Buxton: How I Found My Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Production company got in touch with us, said we really like these videos you've sent in. Do you want to come and A, help us make the show and B, host a few episodes. So yes, please, to both of those. Then the project for the production company became to try and find people who would just make some stuff, like for Christ's sake, will you just make some things. They'd find people they liked who'd made one good tape. And they'd say, make more, make loads more. Otherwise, we're not going to have enough to fill this show. And me and Joe ended up being a couple of the people that they turned to just sort of make content, although they didn't use that word in those days.”
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“And in those days, you know, in the UK, we didn't have the public access culture that existed in America where a lot of people on the margins expressed themselves. But we didn't have that in the UK. When this kind of footage started to turn up on British TV, it was always quite worthy and it was people sort of saying, I'm sick of the fact that my council won't take away the bins on time. You know, I pay my taxes. It was all this kind of stuff. That was what TV companies thought ordinary people were like. That's all they wanted to do. Give them a camcorder. They're going to go on about why aren't the bins being collected.”
2023-08-27 · Intelligence Squared · Adam Buxton: How I Found My Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I went to art school when Joe went off to film school after we left Westminster, and we carried on making videos and I basically ended up sending in a lot of the videos that we'd made, including some of the stuff that I made at art school. I carried on making videos at art school and was rebuked by some of my teachers for being non serious because, you know, art's not funny. Art's not supposed to be funny. What are you doing making these silly videos? Are you using this as a stepping stone to get on TV? said one tutor. No, I'm not, I promise. This is serious stuff. Anyway, so I sent some of these videos in to a TV show after seeing an ad in the back of a music paper, the NME, asking for a sort of irreverent, funny, silly, weird videos for a new public access type show called Box Pops it was then. Anyway, this show turned into something called Takeover TV, which was riding the wave of a kind of nascent camcorder culture.”
2023-08-27 · Intelligence Squared · Adam Buxton: How I Found My Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That you actually really love. I don't think we were ever interested in sort of doing massive takedowns. Also, those weren't very political times. I mean, they were. Obviously, there was politics going on. But there was goodies and baddies in those days, right? And we felt as young people, we're with the goodies. We don't like the racists. We don't like those guys over on the right. And everything was very simple. Oh, those people on the right, they're morons. So we don't need to worry about politics because it's all fine. And it's a very clear division and the good guys are going to win out.”
2023-08-27 · Intelligence Squared · Adam Buxton: How I Found My Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and it would just be, David, how are you doing? And Louis Through would be sat there and Joe would be sat there and we'd all be talking like this and we'd all be saying this is how David Bowie puts on his we had this noise that we would make that became just like David Bowie noise which was going and one zone based on the fact that you know his when he said Sometimes Bowie would sound a little bit like a Z like there would be a slight sound like that I'm exaggerating obviously this is not an accurate Bowie impression but so we just sit around and the impressions would just devolve into and this is David Bowie putting on his shoes and was and was this is David Bowie opening a door this is David Bowie writing a letter to his mum and was and it always just be like that like not proper jokes but just making those sounds so yeah just that idea of being irreverent with things”
2023-08-27 · Intelligence Squared · Adam Buxton: How I Found My Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Maybe, I mean we always felt as if it was fun to take the mick out of things we loved because, you know, I mentioned David Bowie before, but as a David Bowie fan, you really need a sense of humor about your favorite guy because he goes on all sorts of strange missions throughout his career. Some of them are absolutely terrific and hundred percent work. Others really don't. And we grew up when he was in a bit of a slump in the eighties. And he was all over the place, you know. We all loved his music, but we all would take”
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“Yeah, and we did a parody of that called The Turd. And we would just be acting like these goofy presenters on there and do fake interviews with made-up celebrities.”
2023-08-27 · Intelligence Squared · Adam Buxton: How I Found My Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think the thing about videos in that way was purely the fact that it was homemade. The fact that you could do it yourself and suddenly, oh my God, there I am on TV and yes, it's not broadcast TV and only my friends are going to see this, but still there was something just aesthetically about actually seeing your stupid face on a TV screen that was really exciting. And then me and Joe would make mainly parodies of TV shows. There was a show called The Word on at the time”
2023-08-27 · Intelligence Squared · Adam Buxton: How I Found My Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, are these people utter toss pots? Or is there something knowing and funny going on here? Is there a joke that is being played on us is part of the experience of this art trying to define like what's going on? What are we supposed to take seriously and what is a joke? And so those were my favorite artists who there was something funny and silly and provocative going on, light war hole. That whole sort of silly inscrutable persona that he, you know, created and then grew into and then just became him.”
2023-08-27 · Intelligence Squared · Adam Buxton: How I Found My Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Who definitely had a sense of humor, and I liked the whole business of trying to pass what they were actually up to. Like, are these people, how are you with swearing on this? Rather not.”
2023-08-27 · Intelligence Squared · Adam Buxton: How I Found My Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I definitely liked the idea that this stuff could be something more than totally ephemeral, because that's the thing about comedy, of course, right? Is that it won't be taken seriously because it's not supposed to be taken seriously. It's silly and throwaway and also as human beings, we don't really remember or we don't really retain moments of lightness and happiness in the same way that we do moments of misery. And those are the things that really make an impact on people that they take away with them and they carry with them and that people take seriously. If you're going to make a film that's going to win an Oscar, you're not going to make a comedy film. So I always thought that there was a way of having comedy that was, that did aspire to being something a bit more, you know, that had a bit of pretension to it. And so I liked artists who, like Jeff Coons”
2023-08-27 · Intelligence Squared · Adam Buxton: How I Found My Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, exactly. Posh teenage boys. Let's do that. That's the best play that we should be doing. And my dad, I remember, read the play. And said, don't do that. You shouldn't do that. That's a bad idea. That's going to be bad for everyone. It's going to embarrass you. People won't like it. You're not going to nail the accents. You know, we had to do sort of New York accents for these guys with PTSD. But we just thought, yeah, they were swearing in it, I remember, and it was funny. And it was not a kid's play. So we just thought that it would be cool to do it and sort of grown up. And it was Joe's idea.”
2023-08-27 · Intelligence Squared · Adam Buxton: How I Found My Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We did a version of Sweeney Todd, I remember that Joe filmed and I was the deal was I was in them, and Joe would film them because I was trying to get my face on TV or film somehow. And I was happy to pull faces and show off. And Joe would be behind the camera. We did plays. We did a production of Bugsy Malone. We did a production of this thing called Private Wars, which was about Vietnam vets in a convalescent home. And they've all got PTSD. It's quite a set of serious things.”
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“Just at the cusp of people starting to take those things seriously, you know, when the whole idea of postmodernism and flattening out all culture and there being no such thing as high or low culture was just beginning to take hold, you know, but hadn't done just at that point. So we just go to the movies all the time and see a mixture of art house stuff, but more accessible, you know, Betty Blue, things like that. I remember going to see that with Louis and Joe. Did you”
2023-08-27 · Intelligence Squared · Adam Buxton: How I Found My Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So Westminster School for arrogant young men is a expensive educational establishment. bankrupted himself sending me to, because he thought it would turn me into a fine young man who would definitely go to Oxbridge, and he was a bit gutted when it turned out that I just ended up meeting Joe and Louis and ended up sort of making a lot of lavatorial jokes on channel four waggling toys. But that was years later. Initially me and Joe, yeah, we bonded literally the first words we said to each other were the not the nine o'clock news sketch words. And then it became clear that we were just into a lot of the same pop culture stuff. He always wanted to be a filmmaker. He now is. He made a film called Attack the Block. He's got a film called The Kid Who Would Be King, which is coming out now. He was obsessed with films and knew just a lot more. He had that kind of deep level Tarantino Edgar Wright style nerdy obsessional knowledge and enthusiasm for films of all kinds, but mainly sort of cult, mainstream, that kind of thing.”
2023-08-27 · Intelligence Squared · Adam Buxton: How I Found My Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“where Rowan Atkinson started and Pamela Stevenson and Mel Smith Griffre Stones, these amazing performers who all went on to bigger and better things, and it was kind of the adults show, you know. So it felt very naughty to be watching it as a youngster because it was quite swearing and most of it went over your head. But it had this sketch about these spies meeting or something and it was Mel Smith meeting Ron Atkinson and he was sort of saying ah hello Vladimir the ducks are going south for winter this year and you know they're sort of speaking in code in order to establish that they would that they were who they said they were and so me and Joe got into this whole thing of always speaking in code the whole time in this way and we thought we'd got it off the sketch but then I watched the sketch again the other day and that's just the first two lines the rest of the sketch is about something totally different”
2023-08-27 · Intelligence Squared · Adam Buxton: How I Found My Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's right. Yeah, George Siegel. So that was transformative. And then when I met Joe, my comedy partner at school when we were very little, 13, 14, he wanted to be a filmmaker, so he'd come and hang out at my house and we'd just do sketches. Yeah, we'd edit in camera, so i.e. you press stop and that's your edit, and then you press start again in the next scene. And that was it. So there was no other editing beyond that. But we got quite good at it. And we'd more or less just recreate Monty Python sketches. Like, I always remember me and Joe bonding over this not the nine o'clock news sketch.”
2023-08-27 · Intelligence Squared · Adam Buxton: How I Found My Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then you'd go home and you'd play these big old VHS tapes of your holiday. And it was just magnificent and so exciting. And then I also figured out that I could take programs off the TV. And this was before VCRs were common, I think, in most households. And so at Christmas time when the big movies would come on, oh mate, I was going to take Star Wars and Raiders the Lost Ark. And it was just so exciting. I taped this film called Alligator. I don't think people like Edgar Wright know what alligator is, but most normal people don't. But I watched the absolute living hell out of alligator until I knew every single line and a film called Roller Coaster with Timothy Bottom. Oh yeah.”
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“And a camera connected with a big cable to this thing. And you'd wander around. I remember going on a skiing holiday that my dad was writing about and skiing down the side of a mountain with this giant VCR strapped me, praying that I wasn't going to fall over and break this thing because it didn't belong to us.”
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“Not so much technology. I mean, there was no whiff of computers when I was growing up, not until I was about, you know, in my twenties did I get familiar with computers thanks to my younger brother, who is now an IT guy. And he was into that. He taught himself how to use it. And that changed my life in my 20s and the strap on it. That's right.”
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“Yeah, by Allan Sherman Almida, Alofada, here I am in Camp Granada. And it goes on about how terrible Camp Grenada is. I didn't know any, like, what's a summer camp? You know, I've never been to a summer camp. That's an American thing. And it goes on about how appalling it is. There's alligators, people getting anthrax. I don't know what. But then the end of it, the sun comes out. He makes friends with a couple of children and he goes, mother, fader, kindly disregard this letter. Anyway, and I just thought, that's great because that's a whole, that's like a whole proper little story.”
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“Yeah, that's right. And eventually, and you know he started off doing this. He only got some degree of success when he did this novelty song, Space Oddity, to coincide with the moon landings, a song that was so cheesy and throwaway that his regular producer Tony Visconti didn't want to have anything to do with it because he said it was beneath him. But all those I felt the same way about all those sort of things. I liked novelty songs. I liked silly throwaway things and ephemera and comedy especially. I really liked a novelty song called Hello Mudder, Hello Farder.”
2023-08-27 · Intelligence Squared · Adam Buxton: How I Found My Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I definitely wanted to be on TV. I thought that would be the most exciting thing ever. But I had no clue how that would happen. It was just a completely nebulous fantasy. And then I only started to take the idea seriously. I wanted to be on TV just for the sake of being on TV. Do you know what I mean? Like, I'm a big Bowie fan. And I was always pleased, David Bowie, yeah. I was always comforted by the fact that even someone like him, who I would say most people could agree is a fairly substantial artist, right? With some degree of integrity. But he started out, just announcing that he was interested in just being famous. He wanted to be thought of as a trendy person. And that was it. It wasn't like I want to make this or I want to create that. It was like, I'll do whatever it takes to be a celebrity.”
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“But when myself and Joe Cornish, my comedy wife, were on the radio on BBC Six Music, we had a made-up dog. And I played Boggins, and it was really very much in that sort of Mike Reed cheesy radio. Send me hospital radios tradition, even though that's not what we are setting out to do.”
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“Confusing him with me, although my dog is real on the podcast, I have a dog that I speak to on my podcast called Rosie, who's real.”
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“That's right, exactly, totally ephemeral. All this work was going into it, and so you'd never hear it again. And actually, that was the good thing about some of the radio shows like Kenny Everett's and Mike Reed used to do a show for children that was more or less totally unlistenable, I think. But I did enjoy it. And he had a dog that barked, a made-up dog.”
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“No because I mean sort of he did silly comedy skits Captain Kremen and he had these recurring characters on his radio show and then when the TV show came on in various incarnations I thought that was amazing but it didn't occur to me that it was something I could ever do because this was back in the day when all media seemed very otherworldly and totally inaccessible and the power of the media was sort of centralized and it was in its interests to maintain that idea so the outsiders didn't really get a look in.”
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“There you go. But he took from them, I think, that whole notion of layering up the vocals so much and complex harmonies. And so you'd have these amazingly complex little mini operas as just jingles on his radio show.”
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“Yet definitely he liked to sort of pull apart the form, and as you say, he was technically very adept, so he would make these amazingly elaborate jingles, and he admired Queen, and he was the guy that broke Bohemian Rhapsody as a single.”
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“British Irish broadcaster, apologies I don't want to fight. He would like he had loads of funny sort of in jokes and callbacks, almost all of which went over my head. But he played the odd novelty song, and he did a novelty song, the floral dance. And I thought that was very funny. And I just immediately chimed with any kind of silly novelty song. And then we used to listen to Kenny Everett, sometimes me and my mum when we were driving around.”
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“She would be listening to Cheesy DJs on the radio, most of whom I thought were pretty funny Terry Wogan, who's no longer with us, but he was a legendary British broadcaster.”
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“Is a travel journalist, so he was traveling around the world, writing about that. And meanwhile, my ma mainly looked after us at home. And she, I think, was the person that got me into most of the comedy that I liked at an early age. I don't really talk about my mum that much. It's always the dads that get the books written about them, isn't it? Because they're the ones that properly screw you up. Meanwhile, your mum's just being nice. Not all mums, obviously, but she was pretty nice and she definitely was the laugher. My dad didn't think anything was funny. He thought we were all going to Helena Hancart. His favorite phrase was life is a veil of tears It's a veil of tears If anything sort of kicked off or if I said anything was unfair it would be like life is unfair It's a veil of tears All right”
2023-08-27 · Intelligence Squared · Adam Buxton: How I Found My Voice · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, I thought we were going to go back to the 60s. What sort of child was I? I think I was nice. I've got children now myself, and I struggle to remember if their behavior is anything like mine. And I think my parents wouldn't have put up with that kind of thing, would they? Maybe I was miserable too, but I don't think I was. I think I was fairly upbeat and early memories of being entertained and happy include listening to the radio. My mum always had the radio on. My dad was away quite a lot.”
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“My dad didn't think anything was funny. If anything should have kicked off or if I said anything was unfair it would be like life is unfair it's a veil of tears We had this noise that we would make that became just like the David Bowie noise. Which was going, and this is David Bowie putting on his shoes and woz this is David Bowie opening a door This is David Bowie writing a letter to his mum and wiz and wiz and whizz Carried on making videos at art school and was rebuked by some of my teachers for being non-serious because, you know, art's not funny. Art's not supposed to be funny. What are you doing making these silly videos?”
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