Mike Nearly Died
Before recording, Mike nearly died on tour
Sep 3, 2026 · 40 min · 20 segments
Eggs, GTB & Mike Balls try to remember: - Mister Fahrenheit - Everybody Is a DJ - Disguise - By Any Means Necessary - Welcome to Germany - Apathy - 3D - Nothing Ever Happens - Space Police - Rollin'…
I think in the context of this podcast today, we've gone through the stuff we've done that was officially released with The Greatest Hits, which is the big album everyone knows.
We've gone through all the albums, but particularly 2009 is a very important year for us.
big
As the band goes, do you want to give a quick potted history from 2004 to 2009, just as a quick catch-up first, Mike?
Just mainly touring, wasn't it? A couple of albums released and just mainly touring and shenanigans.
I've never been to the UK before and you're trying to tell me what Goldie Looking Chain is and what happened to them up until 2009 in three sentences.
Right, eight men got bored of the town they lived in a little bit congregated in a pub and the bedroom slash studio and recorded some silly songs when we were under the influence.
Obviously I'm from Nepal, what happened after you recorded the songs? We decided to do some gigs.
this.
Draw.
Yeah.
Studio.
Yeah.
Made tunes.
I think in the context of this podcast today, we've gone through the stuff we've done that was officially released with The Greatest Hits, which is the big album everyone knows.
We've gone through all the albums, but particularly 2009 is a very important year for us.
big
As the band goes, do you want to give a quick potted history from 2004 to 2009, just as a quick catch-up first, Mike?
Just mainly touring, wasn't it? A couple of albums released and just mainly touring and shenanigans.
I've never been to the UK before and you're trying to tell me what Goldie Looking Chain is and what happened to them up until 2009 in three sentences.
Right, eight men got bored of the town they lived in a little bit congregated in a pub and the bedroom slash studio and recorded some silly songs when we were under the influence.
Obviously I'm from Nepal, what happened after you recorded the songs? We decided to do some gigs.
this.
Draw.
Yeah.
Studio.
Yeah.
Made tunes.
Every episode on Radar is fully transcribed, speaker-labeled, and rich with metadata. Here is a taste of this one. Try Radar for free to see the rest.
3 of 7
Mike Nearly Died
Before recording, Mike nearly died on tour
The Secret Sex Dungeon
The band discovered a surprising business downstairs
Access To More Drugs
The band describes how touring spiraled out
+4 more clips · 3 min 6 sec of audio in all
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
All 7 clips — the highlight moments, each cut as its own audio, with a title and a speaker
All 20 segments — the transcript broken into labeled sections, every ad read marked
All 22 topics — jump to every other episode discussing the same subject
Every related episode — other shows Radar links to this one
No account is needed to search Radar.