Stoke Newington

the noise of it is annoying the sound i'll try and replicate it now and then drying is annoying the fact that you the wetness clings to you like if you were to shower with something like mercury which famously doesn't hold the glass you know what i mean then maybe it doesn't impart moisture so a mercury shower you think would

be yeah The next Instagram reel of a house I can't afford in Stoke Newington will be someone in a sharp suit saying, Mercury shower from Wilmot and Wilmot.

That's what

Omaze are now offering, isn't it? The next Omaze house has a Mercury Jacuzzi.

But the other thing as well, what you said earlier... about never having an open spot, just turning up.

I can remember when I first come down to London, I lived with my brother in Stoke Newington and we used to get time out.

And in those days you would just be a little tiny ad for a comedy club.

Comedians ring here and you'd ring up and then presumably you'd just turn up.

They were the, that was the pinnacle of like where you could be, have your work if you were a blacksmith or a mason or whatever, a stone carver or many things, a painter.

In terms of the projects you've worked on, Bistro Freddy, and I went past the Stoke Newington venue, the Raleigh Church, and there's an amazing Bain group of people outside, and I poked my head in.

I didn't know it was your project at the time, but it's an amazing feeling.

I wondered, do you feel that...

So I used to live in

Newington, in Newington Green actually, and my brother lived in Stokey for a long time.

What, when you were a troubadour? But I had some great kebabs there, Stoke Newington High Street with my brother, some amazing ones.

I used to have a column in a newspaper and I wrote one of them up and I went in there with my brother and they had it on the wall, my little article.

I was getting frustrated about not having dialogue so the song would stop and we'd have bits of dialogue and they were slowly becoming short films and then slowly throughout the band I realised that I was maybe more interested in making the videos than the music and then when the band split up I was sort of halfway to being a short film director I think.

Did you ever play at the Stoke Newington, not Stoke Newington, shit, what was I just thinking? I'm sure I saw you play in Notting Hill.

Oh yeah, the Notting Hill Arts Club.

Yeah.

Question number 16.

The area of Stoke Newington is in which London borough? Hackney.

Question number 17.

Who wrote the children's book series Swallows and Amazons? Arthur Ransom.

And yeah, it is.

And, you know, I think my mum took me a good few times down to Dalston and Hackney and Clapton, Stoke Newington to do the radio.

like probably from from 15 to sort of 16 and then i was getting a train every week um on my own with with you know a big record bag because it weren't like today where you've just got a usb or a cd wallet like it was and they didn't have wheels back then as well so they was always heavier so i think a lot of the old djs have got sciatica from uh the big metal flight cases without the wheels um but yeah i kind of was doing the radio and For about five years, I was going around the country off of the back of radio as well.

So I have to say a big respect to Eastman.