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Wil Hodgson

English comedian

Oct 21, 2026

6:49
Geordie Law.
6:50
My grandfather was a Geordie.
6:54
My dad's side of the family are all...
6:57
I'm one of these people that's from a mining family that would go fucking mental if you asked me to go down a fucking pit myself, but is very proud of it.
7:11
Yeah, I've got, like, my great-uncles are all...
7:15
My grampy wasn't a miner.
7:18
My great-grandfather was a...

54 MINS LATER

61:47
It's properly like, and I think whoever, I think whoever directed it was really, I get the feeling he was really pleased with it.
2:02
[laughs]
2:02
And the answer is, of course not, but i- I can understand the con- So on the front of the album is, like I say, a drawing by Mickey Firbank, who was, did all the art for The Last Resort, um, shop, which sold punk and skinhead and mod kind of subculture merchandise.
2:21
And mainly it was a meeting point for skinheads of all persuasions.
2:26
But realistically, the right-wing skinheads kind of, like, menaced everyone into line, and if you weren't a right-wing skinhead at s- by, after a few years of it, if you weren't, you'd probably think, "I'm gonna become a fucking rockabilly or something like this, and get away from those horrible bastards in there." So this album has got...
2:47
So this is the thing.
2:48
He's holding up his left hand, which is important.
2:52
He's not-

59 MINS LATER

61:29
Yeah.
6:35
Mm.
6:35
And I love L7.
6:38
They're one of my favorite bands.
6:39
Donita Sparks is one of my favorite guitarists, and she's also one of ... was also, like full disclosure, a major, major fucking crush and a half of mine as a teenager.
6:52
I once...
6:52
The closest I came to meeting Donita Sparks was I saw L7 live at the Bristol Lantern rooms in 1994 when they were touring Hungry for Stink.
7:01
It was fucking fantastic.

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50:54
... is there, like, is there an aspect of this, like you kind of like you identify with them and you kind of want to be them?

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