Closing Music and Future Projects

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It was loaded up with photos. Now I've got it by my bed. There's pictures and videos of her and the kids. Hi daddy, they cheer me up when I'm lonely and depressed. Every day there's new ones that my family sends through. Cause the storage on the aura is unlimited. Oh yes. Visit A U R af rames. The code.uk to get your aura frame today . For a limited time, get 35 pounds off Aura's best-selling carver mat frames. Name the top frame by the independent by using promo code Buxton at checkout. That's A-U-R-A-Frames.co.uk, promo code Bux ton. And you can support the show by mentioning us at checkout. Thanks. Terms and conditions apply. I added one more podcast to the giant podcast bin . Now you have plugged that podcast out and started l istening. I took my microphone and found some human folk . Then I recorded all the noises while we spoke. My name is Adam Buxton I'm a man I want you to enjoy this dance the plan Hey how you doing podcats ? It's Adam Buxton here on a beautiful morning. Maybe it's even a bit summery . I mean I appreciate that by five o'clock it might be snowing . But But it's nice right now . I'm wearing shorts and I'm here with my best dog friend Rosie. How you doing, Rosie? Don't patronize me please. Sorry. Hey, thanks to everyone who came out to the Brighton and Margate shows, and indeed by the time you hear this, the Buxton show. That's where I'm heading tonight. After I record this, I'm gonna cycle to the station, get on the train and head up to Buxton and then we're in Manchester and Leicester on Monday and Tuesday night. And then that's it for our band commitments for a little while. We play another couple of shows towards the end of June in Lond on at the Hoxton Hall. But it's continued to be great fun. Thanks as well to everyone who came to the chat with Miranda Sawyer at the Charleston Festival in Sussex. Great to meet more of you after all those shows. But right now, let me tell you a bit about podcast number 272. This one features some rambling in front of a live audience with British comedian and friend of the podcast Bridget Christie, writer and performer of something like 14 solo live shows over the years, panel sho w Stalwart, Taskmaster Genius, creator of the brilliant radio series Mortal, which I really recommend, and the brilliant TV, comedy drama, The Change, in which Bridget plays a woman going through a midlife crisis. And Bridget was one of the people kind enough to join me back in 2024 when I was doing live podcasts, and she was my guest at Bristol's Beacon Theatre. But that was two years ago. Why is it taking you so long to put this episode out? Well Rosie, that's because it was a little complicated to edit. We also had some beautiful live music that night, which I wanted to include from musici an, composer and sound artist Alice Boyd. She played a couple of songs with her band and I wanted to you know get them all nicely mixed and sounding as nice as possible, as nice as they did on the night, but it was quite fiddly, lots of different tracks. I met Alice a while back when she was working on a project I did some voiceovers for, and she sent me some of her music which I loved. A lot of her work is inspired by ecology, landscapes, wildlife and our relationship with the environment. And she blends electronics with analogue instruments and field recordings and various lovely folky vocals. Very focals. Yeah. And I was so pleased that she was able to come along and be part of one of the live podcasts that we did in 2024. So now you're blaming Alice for putting this episode out two years after it was recorded. No, I'm not Alice blaming. I'm just saying it needed a little more time than a normal episode would because it all the tracks and mixing. I'm badly organized, okay Rosie, is that what you want to hear? Yes, thank you. The other factor with the recordings of the live podcast shows, as you probably will have heard me saying before, if you're a regular listener, was that there was a lot of visual stuff on those nights on a big scre en, and I had a theme for that tour of kind of crap AI-generated visuals that would pop up now and then. Oh, you and your AI slop. Yeah, okay, I probably wouldn't do it now. But back then in the old days, it was still funny to see the wonky images that young AI would generate. And I got it to generate some very odd images of my guests at pivotal moments in their career and their lives and I would show them throughout the show as kind of jumping off points for bits of chat. I never found any of that funny. No, of course not, no one did. Anyway, I showed a few of them to Bridget that night in Bristol so where necess ary I'll pop back in voiceover form during the conversation to explain what's on the screen. Wow this is really cutting edge podcasting putting out live episodes two years after you recorded them and then having to explain what the audience was looking at because you refused to join the modern age and film your podcasts like literally everyone else these days. I haven't watched it back yet, but I was on an episode of Romesh Ranganathan's podcast, which is filmed, and I think that's out now. And I seem to recall spending quite a long time complaining about being filmed on that as well. It's not very good, is it? Get invited on someone's podcast and then just moan about being filmed. That's only what I'd expect from you. I'll be back at the end with a bit more waffle, possibly from another location entirely. But right now with Bridget Christie and music from Alice Boyd in front of a live Bristol audience in May 2024, here we go. Ramble chat, let's have a ramble chat, we'll focus first on this, then concentrate on that Come on, let's chew the rat and have a ramble chat, post on your car It's Bridget Christie I've got a present for you. Oh? Do you remember we talked about We talked about scents? And so you can you can you know that's for you unless you don't want it. Oh it's called lust . By lush. Let me have a smell. Did you smell that I put on some perfume for you? Did you? Have a little smell. I don't want to. Oh that does smell nice. Is that what you were wearing when I last saw you? Yes, I wear it every day. Everyone who smells me says what's that Do they recoil when they say it? No, they like it . Well y you um I don't think you were excited enough or grateful enough. I love it, Bridget . Lust. You have given me the gift of lust. And I'm feeling it for you now . Oh have I gone too far it's twenty twenty four album Is it well no it's not anymore it's twenty twenty six now and I'm in a hotel room in Manchester and tonight the Adam Buxton band are playing a show here at Stoller Hall. Anyway, I wanted to come back and tell you what we were looking at on the screen that night during this next bit of chat. It was an AI generated image of Bridget jogging through Gloucester But she still looked very happy. Oh yes, I love that one. That's you out jogging which you love to do. I jog every day. I think we talked about that before, didn't we? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's how that's kind of how I imagined you running, just with the sun behind you I do laugh as well. I laugh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a high. Yeah. It doesn't matter what the weather is either. I don't know what's happened to me. No, in a really positive way. I feel like I've had some kind of enlightenment experience. Is that the other side of the menopa use? It could be. I don't know. But I feel like someone said something to me the other day, and this sounds like boasting, but it I promise you it isn't, but it's the most recent example that I can think of . So this does sound awful. So I was up for a BAFTA and I didn't get it and I kind of knew deep down that I wouldn't and that was it didn't matter to me at all. And someone said, Uh you I hope you're not too upset and the idea that I would be felt so alien to me. It felt so unlike me to be To be worried about something or worried about something that yeah. And that was for the change your sitcom, yes? Yes it was, yes. Beautiful. Oh thank you. And you've had a second series commissioned. Congratulations. Thank God, thank you. Thank you so much, Brazil. But also it was my my first T V commission was at fifty. I just I really feel like 'cause I had a few journalists when I was doing press for it, they were saying does it make you angry that you kind of ten, eleven years ago you won that Per rier and yet you nothing happened for you in ten years. But nowadays someone would have probably been given a commission by now, especially if they were a guy. I just think that things happen to you when they're supposed to happen to you. Yeah. Does that sound really like a c cop out? No, I love it. I I I think I think it does. And I think that we get so het up, I think that in life like people and jobs and situations like present themselves to you at the exact right time. So I don't think you should be regretful or this doesn't happen or that doesn't happen and you know, I think when you're our age it's like I'm just grateful to be here, man, do you know what I mean? People die very young, people get sick. I'm just so grateful every day. And that happened in lockdown actually. You died and got sick. Yeah, I just became really aware of nature and being alive and being well and being grateful and having a positive outlook on things, not in a an unrealistic way, because we've all had terrible things happen to us. We've all got pain and grief and trauma and it's not plane sailing for anybody. This is what I I love coming on shows like this as well because I think sometimes people can think that people in the public high or might be seen to be doing well, that our lives were easy and things like just I mean mine said it did really answer. But it isn't the reality though. We all have stuff that we're dealing with and have dealt with and doing but it's just uh making the best of everything I think is and I think you can kind of tr w we're not in America. You do it. Yeah, go on, clap away. Have ya Have your inspirational clap fun . There's that saying as well, it works but it works both ways. There's a saying I can't remember exactly what what it what it is because mana pause but there's like you y you think something enough and it will i you will start to believe it. And it's like we spend so many years disliking something about us, what we look like, something to do with our personality, regretting things. And you do start to believe that after a while. What if you just flipped it? You know, not in an arrogant way, like I'm amazing sort of th ing. But what if you thought, you know something I try really hard to do the right thing and I'm trying really hard to be like within my parameters as best as I can be and I try and think about things that I do. If you do that y you will feel better about yourself. You will find success . If you change the story about your life you too will find success. I haven't got a button for that one. I I've got a hand zimmer button for when something really exciting and uh inspirational and emotional happens. You know hand zimmer? He does the music for like Dune and things like that. That's what I play when anything big happens in my life . It's epic. Epic is the thing, exactly. Make your life epic. And I love your inspirational words, and I think that's the ideal image that we've got there on the screen for think epic and sound epic. I love it. That's the formula for success . Bridget, you yourself are a successful woman. And yet Unacceptable and cowardly way of dumping me I have ever heard . I am, yes. I'm just going to have a blast of lust. Have a ball right in my face. Oh , that's nice actually. Oh, that is good. Now I've got I've just my whole face is full of the smell of you . Do you know that's good lyrics? Ed Sheeran could do a song with that . I am single, yes. Yes. You were married to Ken Dodd. And I think I look am I not a bit like Ken Dodd, do you think? I think I am. You could be a Diddy woman. If you I think I I could be uh like a female version of Ken Dodd. Like looks wise. When I was little I really felt an affinity with him. Mm-hmm. What did you relate to about Dod ? I loved him, I loved his hair, I loved his teeth, I loved his eyes, I loved his tickling stick energy and spirit. Tickling stare. I didn't like the tickling stare. Why? What's your problem with the tickling stick? I was suspicious of it. How did you feel about the Diddy men then if you didn't like the tickling stick? They were away from me. Because he reminded me of Alistair Sim, who I had adored when I was little. I loved Alistair. Ken Dodd is like a mad drawing of Alastair Sim and Alic Guinness. T if Alec Guinness and Alistair Sim were walking along the South Bank and one of those cartoon ists said, Yeah, I'm I'll write I'll draw both of you combined. Yeah. You'd probably look like Ken Dog. And I'll just give one of you a tickling stick. I was in Liverpool the other day and there is a statue of Dodd with his tickling stick bringing joy to a woman. There's just a sort of I mean that 's not like that. It's a sort of statue of Dodd, and then opposite him is a middle aged lady with a headscarf, I think I'm remembering this right, and she's just laughing. And it's just Oh, I thought you meant a real woman. No,, no no. It's a statue. Was using the statue. I think I I don't think the statue no. Did you? You thought that, didn't you? You thought a woman was pleasuring in herself on Dodd's statue. Yes. No . In Liverpool Lime Street Station. Well I don't know. It's Liverpool, isn't it? But no, it's it was an indication 'cause I don't think the statue lady opposite the statue of Dodd is herself famous. It's just supposed to illustrate the effect that Dodd would have on people. Not on a m not on a man. Why was it a I don't know. I think that needs to be unpicked that that I what did she look like? Uh yeah, middle aged uh headscarf, glasses she looked uh From the fifties. Maybe, yeah, yeah, yeah. So why when was this statue made? It looks recent. Hello, it's me again from the future, as it was then. It turns out the statue I was looking at in Liverpool Lime Street Station is called Chance Meeting. It was created in two thousand nine by Tom Murphy, the woman depicted in the statue as the councillor and later MP battling Bessie Braddock. She died in nineteen seventy and was an ardent socialist and fiery campaigner, particularly in the fields of maternity, child welfare, and youth crime. Tom Murphy's life sized bronze statue shows her holding a handbag in one hand and in the other an egg, as she was the politician responsible for getting the lion quality mark of food safety and traceability put on British eggs Ah so much great info. Thanks, Buckles, you're welcome. Right now, we'll head back to the past where very shortly I will be slightly disparaging about Ken Dodd's teeth in a way that I genuinely regret, and I would like to apologise to the members of the prominent tooth community. Also a heads up for the men with weird hair community . Things are about to get rough. And I was impressed because I had it in my mind I don't know much about him and I thought surely he's cancelled. But he's never done anything wrong except brought joy. Yeah. But that's the thing, it with the poisoned modern mind that I have. I just assume anyone with those teeth and a tickling stick has done some terrible, terrible things. But he hasn't. The teeth. It's not the teeth. I think there is a correlation between men with weird hair and bad things. Fred West, Jimmy Savon, um well I'm sure there's more than two Men with weird hair. Gary Glitter. Boris Johnson. We can't have him. Yeah, definitely Boris Johnson. Um the the Trump. Is there' somesone with a mullet. They're back in now, aren't they mullets? I'm gonna get one. Pat Sharp. Oh yeah. The Darth Vader of the Master Vader. There's nothing wrong with Sharp. But is part of your appreciation of life perhaps to do with your status as a single woman? Are you getting to appreciate things out of a relationship? And what are the things about a relationship that you don't miss? Wow Sorry I think it's this . It's not so much about being in a relationship or not being in a relationship. I think that it is reaching a point in your life. I think it may be possibly an age thing where because lots of people do need to be in a relationship to function for validation, all sorts of different reasons, because they're lonely, blah blah blah. I never was like that. I don't think it's because I grew up in a big family, but I never felt lonely. I'm not like a lonely person. I've spent a lot of time by myself. I think it's to do with age possibly and just becoming really comfortable with yourself. And that could have happened in in the within a relationship. But I think sometimes when you are in a like you get married and you have kids, uh you I think if you don't keep an eye on it, I was lucky because I have a job that I love, so a lot of my identity is tied up in that. But when that doesn't happen, I think you can lose yourself a little to the point where you can be unrecognizable. As I say, that didn't happen to me, but it does happen a lot to men and women. Um and I think it's just yeah, it's not that I'm focused on myself now. I I feel 'cause I don't feel like I am. I think it's just I'm unencumbered. Yeah. But that's nothing to do with my previous relationships. That's more to do with I am unencumbered. I'm completely alone and I may die alone and I'd be very happy with that. I'm sure you'll be cumbered one more time. You're sure I'll be what? Cumbered. And uh uh is it cumbered? I don't know. Or is it encumbered? Oh yes, you sound really stran ge. Is that is there another one ? There is . Back in the room. Hooray. Was it 'cause you dropped it? Yep. Did you drop Did you drop it on purpose? Like do you mic drop to do a funny mic drop joke and I broke their microphone and that'll come out of microphone? That'll be coming off your but don't you think that's right though? I think when you're in something you uh you have to think so you know you have to there's a lot of thinking like um oh yeah what were you gonna say? I was gonna say now that your kids you have two kids, yes? Yeah. And now perhaps your life is less governed by the drudgery of the domestic routine , would that be fair? Very much so. Yes. They do their bit . One will be flying the nest quite soon, I would imagine. How's that gonna feel? Seventeen. I'm in two minds about it. It's many, many years of that's what you know. And you know when you have kids you think, what was my life like before? My mum always used to say, and like I say, she had nine children, my mum always to say you don't own your children, you just you just borrow them for a bit and then they're gone. Mm-hmm And it's like God yeah you're so right and it's so fast, isn't it? It goes so quick You don't think it will ever come to an end like it doesn't come to an end, but the like that part of it being doing everything Did you feel that way all the time or did you sometimes I I miss them as babies 'cause I love babies so much. I I would have had like ten babies if I'd started early enough. I think I had my first at thirty six and my second at forty. But I would have had l I mean babies are so funny and cute and great and like hard work, but I don't know. I miss them as babies. I miss like holding them and you know, chucking them around you know, uh them falling asleep on you and all that kind of thing. It's I think teens is a difficult age, like it's not huggy uh like, you know, I I I'm quite a tactile person and so I'm quite huggy and and that's not that's No, they don't like it the teens. No. They're anti all that. Hello my friend, it's good to see you again. I got to say you're looking gre at I love what you've done with your nipples and your knees and your shiny bull paint beep beep beep beep be beepep beep beep beep beep beep beep. Right now I would like to reintroduce our musical friends tonight. Please, folks, make Alice Boyd feel very welcome when she comes back with Daisy and Jacob So Alice, you were gonna play us some recordings, is that right? Because you do a lot of sound recording as part of your job, yes? Yeah, I do a lot of field recording, so I get weird microphones and the recordings I'm going to share today are from underneath the surface of a pond. So I used a hydrophone, which is an underwater microphone, to get these different sounds and the first time I heard it it completely blew my mind 'cause they're very And it's not the sound of the mic breaking. I know about mics breaking and Oh no no no, I haven't done that one yet. But maybe maybe next time I go recording. Jacob, would you like to play some guitar ? So the first sound I'm gonna play is the sound of insects stridulating. So these are waterpokemen. That's the sound of the little skiddie guys. That's yeah, that's the water boatman. And next up , this is the sound of aquatic plants photosynthes izing . Which I think sounds like a weird synthesizer almost why do they make that sound when they're photosynthesizing? So it's the tiny bubbles of air leaving the stomata which is the holes in the leaves of the plants. So they're they're going very quickly and releasing these sounds. Yeah. And then the next sound is a tadpole munching on the microphone . And I couldn't believe it because when I looked down at the hydrophone I could just see it nibbling away. And the final sound I'm going to share with you are some toads in a pond in Kent , and it's during mating season. Sounds like my stomach is got an idea . Anyway, those are my sounds. Very nice, thank you, Alice . That was like Like and I mean this in the absolute best possible way. That was like a kind of kids show from the early seventies with Jacob playing some beautiful pastoral guitar as well. I loved it. Are you gonna sing us a song though, Alice, to take us into the interval? Yes, this is life and cities Li fe in city snow Sleep no more , stare out my wind ow till the break of dawn see ing for to a fuss breat he no more far into dar k ness , I s end And wait Sundays come slow yearning for some one someda y I know I'll know Life be on the bree ze , Jo e Bia Sweat on my for e head , I pra y for you , spe ak in whispers now dro wn Tra ce round the sig ns , the sig ns cry the morning sl ow stretch ing before me Some day I know I know Life without the stars can be good . My peace of sky won't pret end for you . Clouds draw softly slowly through Back to the most of my small room Alice Boyd, that's called life in cities . Thank you, Jacob. Thank you, Daisy . I love that. Thank you so much . Before we bring Bridget back, I'm going to reintroduce you to Frank, my son . Here we go This is a new arrangement of halfway through the podcast . Well halfway through the podcast, I think it's going really great The conversation's flowing like in wood between a geezer and his mate. Alright, mate. Hello geezer, I'm pleased to see you. Ooh, with so much chemistry, it's like a science lab of talking There's front checked and there's deep check It's like Chris Evans is beating Stephen Hawking Put it to bed . Yay, lovely work, Frankie. Thank you so much . And let's get Bridget back . Now look, before we go any further, we've got some audience questions coming our way in this section. Amy Beardmore says I'm a university lecturer and we are currently tying ourselves up in knots about AI, completely devaluing academia. What are your thoughts on the AI beast? Can she be tamed? She's gendered the beast . Or should we all just give up and go home? Have you spent any time anger being anxious about AI, Bridget? I haven't because I think that and this may th this is kind of part of my enlightenment was that I realiz ed that it's much easier to be happy if you don't think about anything. I'd like I've like I've zoned out man like I don't know anything about I'm like, yeah, it's probably be alright . I used to be so angry about stuff. Like even just ten years ago I'd be like, oh my god, this is so bad for this and that and this and that and I totally reject it and I'm gonna do a show about it and I'm gonna campaign and I'm no this is wrong and wrong and I'm like probably probably be all right . Anyway, what are we having for supper? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I guess you go through phases, don't you, of of of moving in and But non stop engagement is unsustainable. It's unsustainable. Especially these days. You know what I mean? You you have to have a bit of a break. Take take like three months off It's rolling news. Uh apparently um lockdown. Well so apparently um our brains are not uh evolving at the same time as technology. And they're not. So we're actually we can't process the amount of stuff that we're being given to process. So we don't process it properly. Like we don't read we don't read in the same way. We like skim like everything like even our our hands aren't our hands changing our thumbs are changing. The thing I always remember is when it comes to technology, when the Blackberry was a big thing. Yeah. People do you remember people used to get their fingers surgically whittled so that they would be better at using the small keys on the BlackBerry? No. This is true. This is true. Is it really? Yep. No. Yeah. Because people absolutely loved the BlackBerry. Back in those days. It's hard to remember, but this was pre the global dominance of uh Apple. But Blackberry was the piece of technology for everyone to have before the iPh one became the thing. And they had all those tiny little keys. So if you were so small. It was so small. So people got the people got their thumbs whittled. Because you know the thumb is ungainly and imprecise. And then they as soon as they'd healed over from being whittled, Steve Jobs comes out and waves the iPhone at everyone and they're like, ah sh it ! Whittled my thumbs. But that's still useful though, whittled thumbs. Alright, here's a big question for you from Rob Breyer . B R Y H E R would you say Briar ? B R Y H E R. Bryha. Breher . Briar. You wouldn't say the H probably. Rob? Is it Briar? Briar. Yes, Briar. He sounded just then the same way that Paul Weller sounded when I asked him if anyone had ever said to him does anyone ever say poor well o well o well ooh tell me more tell me more was it face to face face to face on radio 2 live with Lisa Tarbuck over in the other corner of the studio going Press both the zimmer buttons . Is that what Lisa Torbutt did that she went like she she didn't press the hand zimmer button. But she may as well have done because she was just like, ah God. Anyway, listen, Rob's question, Rob Bryant's question. This is a big question too. What will be the first line of your obitu ary? But then but then he puts wrong answers only . Rob ert. Well, either one of us. I'm interested in yours . I guess mine will I mean depending on when I exit the party you know if it was some time in the next few years That's so nice of you . This is from Steve from Bristol, Telford and Norwich. Steve says, I've just had a baby. I bet it wasn't you though . So can I get your best nugget of parenting advice? Good one. My God I love questions like this. You do yours first. Oh geez . Best nugget. I mean you're asking the wrong guy . Why? Where's Frankie? Why is your I don't know because it's a work in progress. You never know That's the best answer though. It's never done, is it? That's the thing that I like about the film parentho od with Steve Martin is that it makes it clear that the race is never over. There's never a winning line. There's never a point at which you go smashed it. It just changes. It changes constantly and you adjust to it. Can I ask Frankie some questions? When you think about your childhood does he have to pay for this? Do you need therapy or are you happy? I'm happy. Do you have little pockets of great memories? Yeah . Yeah. It's pretty good overall. Yeah you you did you've done well. I mean, thanks, Frank. He's privileged as fuck. I mean I would hope that there would be some happy moments consider ing the investment that we've made . When you have a first baby especially you're really worried about kind of dropping them or like breaking them or something like that. And I remember with my first uh the health visitor or the midwife saying 'cause I was really scared I was gonna like knock its um they put a clip on the cord, you know, when they that I was like, oh, what if I knock it and it's guts come out? And they were like, that's not gonna happen. You could swing a baby round by the umbilical cord and it would be okay. And um and it was. Um but but the thing is is that babies are so like robust and solid. Like that one was flinging itself around. And I remember when my son was born and I went round to my friend's house and they had kids that were a little bit older, and the kids were like jumping off like wardrobes and I was shitting myself, but they were all fine, and my friends were just like watching them like that, and I was like, Don't you care? But obviously, they'd had they they knew that would be fine. Actually having said that, I was always in hospital with my kids because they were always hurting themselves. But don't worry about it. Like uh the babies are much more robust than we think they are. My sister, so you know I'm the youngest of nine. Yes. My sister saw me from a kitchen window, I don't know how I did this, as a baby, fall out of my pram onto my face, onto the concrete in the garden and my nose, 'cause you know it's just cart it there's no bone at that went into my face and then just popped out aga in. She was like your nose just like disappears and then came back out. Isn't that so weird ? Isn't it though? Yeah. Having said all this, you do have to be careful with babies . On the whole it you you really should be very gentle with Yeah, be careful, like. Don't swing it around or anything like that. Bridget, one more question for you. Uh this is from Dee from Newport. Bridget, I loved you on ghosts as Annie and was very sad when you got sucked off. We all s what is that? Is that the question? Well she she says we also loved you on Taskmaster. What's been your favorite project that you have been a guest on? Oh a guest on. Yeah. Adam Buxton's podcast. Sure. But you're allowed to be yourself on Taskmaster, uh as you are here as well. Obviously everything is prefaced with that. And once you know that you can just kind of relax. So I think I think Taskmaster is such an interesting show to do because they kind of say to you you've been booked because because you're you, so we don't want you to be kind of something else. Yeah, you don't have to be show busy. No, and that's kind of really freeing. And then the way that you film it is you do all your tasks with Alex first and then so it's like quite an intensive often with filming or something, you just have a little bit of time don't you or you d if you're on a like a panel show or something like that or a guest in someone else's it's it's not like uh really intensive quality time but you do get that on Taskmaster and then there's a massive gap where they edit it all together and then you're in the studio and you watch it back. Oh I see. Yeah, so that that so I think I did my tasks in like May and then we were in the studio in the autumn or something like that. So loads of time elaps es between those two things and you can't remember what you've done or anything about it. And so you're like, eh? What was that? Um how long do the tasks take to film? Um well it depends on the task. Um Some things took me ages, no. Like I was there for days. No. Um yeah, it just depends on the task, but the whole crew and the whole have you not you've done it. No N FI That's so strange. Isn't it strange We should text them now. Shall we have a little bit more music now? I would love to get Alice and Jacob and Daisy back on stage for one more bit of beautiful music on this Friday night here in Bristol . And what are you going to leave us with tonight? So this song is called The Favourite and I co wrote and produced and co released it with Jacob here. Uh Jacob, do you have anything you want to say about the song? Um I just wanted to say , Bridget, you don't need to feel ashamed of your web toes. Your web toes. Because Jacob's got some webbing going on as well. I we've discuss we've both got exactly the same web toes . You should be much more interested in that sky. I reckon one person has web toes and they're just not. In here, I think there's more than one, don't you? I mean what the chances? There, look loads of loads of serious at least two. Is it the second and third toes on the right foot. That's right. Oh my god. I told you. You're all related. It's always the same toes on the same foot. Yep. Um Are either of you from Gloucester ? No. Okay . Right. This song has nothing to do with Globe. This one So this one's going out to the webbed community. Yeah. This is the favorite . Up on the hillside, dressed in red , waste in the sun light is only Wrong and what you can't write with me Left in the summer barely past June . How could this happen to someone like you sum mon all your seasons and Oh , how is Hollow s venture sea T ill of tomorrow land you can har dly see On the surface hardly knew you lips like a heart, but a hustle on true , may the biggest fool out of me . I wanna say I wanna say I wanna say sorry for ever Love in such a lum inous way Oh , how it's hold , your gliss vent ure Ta il of tomorrow land s you can har dly see No need to say what could Was tru e, you're not my fa ith . This love is through So I let it ble ed and breathe up to Two cloth es Thank you, Alice Boy . Thank you, Alice. Thank you, Jacob. Thank you, Daisy . This episode is brought to you by free streaming service you, where you can now watch all episodes of The Way Out . Hello Ethan . Fancy finding you in this escape room. Oh hi, Ashley. I didn't know you were an escape room aficionado. It's my first time. I wanted to have a go after watching The Way Out on the free streaming service. You Ah yes, the fast-paced comedy competition, where escape is the only objective, hosted by Mel Gedroutch with team captains Ed Gamble and Nish Kumar, leading fellow comedians Lou Sanders, Chloe Pett, David O'Docerty, and Amy Annette through fantastical worlds. That's the one. They're all dropped into surreal high-pressure worlds, packed with puzzles, misdire ction, and a ticking clock. I do love a ticking clock. Oh dear, what's that smell? Oh, sorry, Ethan. I'm still recovering from a bout of food poisoning, and my guts are in a terrible state. But I'm so looking forward to spending the next two hours puzzling with you, and it looks like it's just the two of us. Great. The doors are locking. Your time starts now . The way out. Stream free on you. Wait. Continue. Hey , welcome back, podcasts. That was Alice Boyd and her band there. Playing us out back in May 2024. Thank you so much to Bridget Christie for being my guest that night. As you can hear, I have left my hotel room I'm on my way to the Stoller Hall Manchester where tonight the Adam Buxton Band will play another show tracks from Buckle Up , couple of covers, some great bands , and then signing and creepy hugs afterwards. And then we're in Leicester tomorrow night. And then that's it for a while, but we have a couple of shows in London towards the end of June 23rd and 24th at the Hoxton Hall. There's a link in the description. This also links to a few more bits and pieces by Alice Boyd , a beautiful song that she did for the RSPB, about the return of the white-tailed eagle, and there's a video of her playing live in Warsaw supporting Jan Tearson. She's working on her debut album at the moment, inspired by the BBC Radio 4 documentary that she made called Shifting Soundscapes. See if I can put a link to that in there as well . Now, I'm sitting just outside the Malmaison Hotel in the centre of Manchester, just down the road from Piccadilly Station, opposite the Sainsbury's loc al, and if you've read my book I Love You Bai , then you will know that this was the scene of not one but two shameful drug related moments from my filthy past . I won't tell you the whole anecdote. Suffice to say that it ended with me passing out and coming round to find myself in the lap of Sean Locke. He was looking down in a very kindly way it must be said. And then he spent the next hour or so making sure I was okay. Anyway, that's what happened at the end. You'll have to read the book to find out the build-up. I've cleaned up my act since then . Now also in the description today there are links to various other bits and pieces. There's the live event with Mawan Rizwan. That doesn't happen until the 5th of August 2026 . But get in there early. It's at the roundhouse. I'll be doing a live podcast with Mawan, brilliant comedian, performer, after award winning sitcom creator . Also , don't forget the bug bowie special that I am going to be doing at the Lightroom in King's Cross . The June date for that has sold out, but there's still tickets left for 2nd, 3rd th andird and fourth of July this year, 2026 . And I realized that I never told you how I got on at the opening night of the new Bowie film that's been made specially for the Lightroom, You Are Not Alone. It's a critical and commercial smash. They're having to extend their evenings to accommodate all the people that want to go and see that. If you haven't been to the light room before . I'll explain to you what it is. It uses state-of-the-art projection mapping to transform a huge cube-shaped auditorium space into something a little like the holodeck on Star Trek Next Generation, if you're a trekker. So sometimes being in that space feels like you're in an immersive 3 60 degree cinema space, surround sp ace then suddenly it'll transform into something that's more like the interior of a gallery or like a kind of moving museum or it can put you in the center of a moonscape or a Jurassic Forest, I mean anywhere obviously , depending on what's being projected, but it's so brilliantly and cleverly done, all with amazing bone-shaking sound. And in the case of You Are Not Alone, you've got voiceover from Zavid from hundreds of hours of interviews talking about his approach to music and creativity throughout his care er. In between moments of interviews, music videos, live performances, some of which have been re-edited, in the case of the Ziggy Stardust Farewell Show in Hammersmith. You know, Penneakber's Spiders from Mars movie. There's bits of previously unseen concert footage from Earl's Court in 1978, the 1976 Isolar Tour, and it's really very overwhelming when you see them on these huge screens with footage of the band and the crowd at those concerts surrounding you on all sides . It's amazing. Sensory overload. In a great way . And the film itself is just over an hour long, but it plays on a loop like all the Lightroom shows. So you book a time slot and then you go in there and treat it kind of like a gallery. They've got places you can sit, you can sort of lounge around on the floor or stand or do what you like, really, in that space until There's not really a beginning and an end, in other words, to the film . That's not how my Bug Bowie show will work, incidentally. I won't be standing there all day repeating myself on a loop. That's what I do in real life. I'll be performing the show, which is more like two hours, I think, with an interval, just once on each of the days that I'm doing it . And uh it's going to be if you've seen the Bug Bowie special before, this will be a a