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Castaway
1 appearance
Stand-up comic and actor best known for an unpredictable, self-destructive stage persona that blurred the line between act and reality.
On the island
Eight records
HurtFavourite
I chose this because I I think it's all about legacy. And again having a son now. ... I don't want to leave my son with just a pile of reviews. From Edinburgh, I want to be his dad who can guide him the same way that my father guided me.
Both mapper elements held themselves. through a very difficult time and throughout the eighties being unemployed and I think every day must just have been that heartbreaking thought of where's where's the next bit of money coming from. They they just got on, but they got on with an amazing amount of dignity
It was at a point where I was somebody who was the most unsuccessful teenager with women. This this was a lug song that also contained all my frustrations at having been everybody every girl's best friend, but not the bloat they actually wanted to kiss.
Nick Banks, Jarvis Cocker, Candida Doyle, Steve Mackey, Russell Senior
When when I was at college There was a lot of resentments building up that I was only really aware of when I started doing Johnny Vericks and and performing. One of them was inverted snobbinate, and it was a resentment of these people who who just had everything. If you called your daddy could stop it all, and my daddy couldn't.
Waiting for My Real Life to Begin
This has become a song in the in the past few years that In Darker Moments, this is a song that you've got to believe that you're going to come through. If it's not enough for the circuit yourself, then for other people. It's gimme that little bit of a push.
This is really a tribute to pubs and that pub culture.
I love love songs. I live for love and it and it it's Such an influential Presence in me life. From somebody who told themselves, you know what I mean, that this probably wouldn't be for me, and that relationships would would would that that just wouldn't happen.
I sit down and I I I'm trying to do a lot more writing now and I both almost love and loathe him because if I could just write one of these lines at any point in my life, you know, create anything as beautiful as as as a song like this, um I could professionally walk away a very happy man.
In conversation
Presenter asks
6:41How aware were you throughout your childhood that a lack of money was a big shadow?
I was very worried. There was a definite incident one day when I was nagging my dad over an ice cream. and nagging and nagging. He took me outside to the end of the street. And just said to me, I got laid off today. ... I just felt awful. I felt like this spoiled brat then who'd been nagging and nagging and nagging and I should have understood and I didn't.
Presenter asks
9:16How does it come about that you go to a seminary?
It came about from My saying that I wanted to be a priest. From a young age. But I think saying it because I enjoyed the reaction that it got. ... But I'd s I know for s certain my mum Really didn't want me to go.
Presenter asks
22:36At its worst, how badly did the drinking affect your life?
I think there was a period in my life after college when I I became so resentful even towards friends for There was nothing happening in my life, but I wasn't making anything happen. ... drinking in a room on your own. And blaming the world for you not being where you thought you should be.
The keepsakes
The book
The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
Robert Tressell
I learn something from it every time I read it.
Presenter asks
26:47Did you feel quite self-conscious to be in groups of serious proper actors?
I always have and it's something I've never really got to grips with. ... I always felt like I would I was never fully doing justice to something that somebody else had written.
Presenter asks
30:43How does forty feel?
A lot better than I actually expected. I've actually made it. That was one point in my life I actually thought, will I will I reach forty? I hope it's th the start of a far less dramatic chapter.
“I found a a popularity. Through self-destruction. Suddenly the more you damage yourself, the more people are drawn to you. And that can be quite a dope.”
“I'd actually reached a point in my life when I thought I was I was just gonna be single and at that. Just wasn't meant for me. That I wasn't a relationships sort of person that I perhaps was. better off on my own.”
“I think from being somebody who Was a loner and and probably got off on the notion of being a loner. I now have a lady in my life that that just. That smile makes the day.”