839. - Bar Italia

24:52Jason Stewart:You didn't feel comfortable in the short shorts around Nona? Is that what it was? Like a disrespectful thing? I wasn't allowed. I wasn't allowed. No, he wasn't allowed. Oh, you weren't allowed. I was trying to fucking show what I got and pull. Have a little ball dripping down. No, Grandma loved Jasmine, me but he had to wear long trousers yes she's a lovely lovely woman she said no gay shit in my house baby put some pants on exactly you know where you are

25:21Jason Stewart:castro okay um carbonara or amitriciana which one is the best oh come on let's talk about something else let's talk about london or something okay yorkshire pudding or blood sausage what's best i'm just like feeling sorry for the interview though it's just getting very italian focused well it's it's london's a little more boring we kind of understand that you guys contain you guys contain multitudes there's so much a rich history london's just like white guys with guitars is all i know no that's not true what else is there put me on they have white guys with usb sticks too yeah exactly that's true of course of course so do you have you have you guys all met each other's families over the years on tour i actually met uh very briefly uh jasmine's dad and mom and i have to say the mom is stunning the daddy's got who's how do you say oozes charisma oozes charisma like it's got like a really deep deep charisma but the mom is like she looks like a movie star i thought she do you know what big bieber was it was like a an art deco department in the 70s that only employed pretty girls.

26:31Is that what you're talking about? My mom was a Bieber girl. It's a big claim. It's like a thing. But Sam's parents are two of the loveliest people I've ever met. Oh, my God. Yeah. You guys all come from normal homes. I would have... No. That's what you think. We are just saying the nice stuff. Well, no, of course. We can't just tell you everything. Everybody's got skeletons. This is all surprising for...

26:52Jason Stewart:But you're not Nepo babies, though. No. I'm not. I'm maybe... I am, maybe. You've got a toe in the jacuzzi of nepotism. You're like, I'm not. Well, maybe. If I lived in Italy, I definitely would. See, this is what I say all the time. If I would have chosen to be an accountant, like my dad, I'd be a Nepo baby too. It's all just situational. Yeah, if I wanted to work by the milk factory, I could have done it. Or like a salsa, if you were like a salsa dancer. Are you nasty with the hips, bro? Are you moving like that? No, my dad is there. actually jasmine kind of is but it's just like it's just uh going against against his nature yeah i'm like i can dance but because of my dad i refuse to it's just the indy sleeves that like got him sideways i had to stop moving the jeans the jeans got too tight indy sleeves got us all sideways in one way or another that's first that's for sure sam moves his hips a lot actually sam's got hips for miles okay i don't need to i don't want to get into your dad's personal life but is he a dancer professionally or is this just his hobby he right so do you know what salsa dancing is yeah right do you know it was salsa dance um okay i know i'm i know i'm white but so are you so relax let's let's my my pop ain't no um so the um the the big thing in the mid-2000s was like a divorcees going to salsa dance to meet other divorcees my dad was just like pulling women left right and center at these things was like oh what's the way i get all of the women is i become a self-destructor so i have to be there every week so he did that turned out he got really fucking good at it and started going to cuba and beating cubans amazing this turkish man was uh fucking cubans up at their own game that's the good guy so your dad had a full career and life but then he got divorced and saw that what he could do with his hips and where that would lead him and said fuck it i'm like here's a stretch but um i love you but i've chosen salsa is what he said to his family i love how you had to specify that he got divorced just in case like you didn't want to like make it sound like a proper hoe like just cheating on on jasmine's mom and he got divorced guys don't worry to be clear there was no crossover it was a clean divorce in the court of law and then he began plowing through hoes he was cheating on someone though i don't know who but somebody was getting it okay so kind of like when you're like i'm good at Bikram maybe if I would get more bitches if I started instructing and then I had a you know I got it but he it was never like a salsa cult situation you never have needed an interventione let's not go that far Jason I don't want to say that I don't want to say no it feels like anything can be a cult if you believe I kind of did that I became a Pilates teacher to pull not to pull not to pull the things you do to pull i didn't know you were a lesbian what were you pulling there were loads of guys in my class how how basic for you to think that only women go to pilates you're right i apologize i've got exactly look we we chris and i have been to pilates hundreds of times in our lives and i'm usually the one of the only guy in there and the other women there don't like my presence well maybe i was looking for that one special person in the class.

30:13Jason Stewart:Yeah. I need a guy who's got enough balls to show up alone to a Pilates class. Exactly. Dripping charisma. That's real confidence. So when you taught Pilates, what kind of music did you play? Because historically, the music is awful. I didn't play music because I did the traditional Pilates. So you're saying it was... Is that like a bowl? Or is it just silent? Silent. Silent. But this is with the reformer or no reformer? No Reformer. Oh, so this is Matt Pilates, no music. Was it in a jungle or was it like in a cityscape? Yeah, was this in London, the borough? It was inside the Colosseum actually, just two circles, and then back to Rome.

30:55Jason Stewart:When Chris said Reformer, you kind of had a little bit of a stink on your face. Do you look down on Reformer Pilates? No. Be honest, Nina, come on. No, you're lying. It's okay if you do. Why do you look down on that? No, I'm just, I think it's great. I think reformer classes are a little bit hyped at the moment. So you're saying that a Mac class with you would have my core burning more than any reformer class I could find in Manhattan? If that's... No. If one class with her in the upper side butt would finally get a little come-go-to-definition. This is me at your class just having to do this because I'm cramping so much.

31:40yeah standing up standing up no no yeah the only guy as well like weird that's an interesting how often did you teach hungover never she respects the craft that you respect it too much I got that I just I always wonder it's like when you find out that you're when you get older and you realize that you're like high school teachers were like 23 and hungover all the time and you just at the time they seem so old and mature I'm a drunk I'm a drunk in class

32:07Jason Stewart:oh really we're gonna put on a movie because i want to watch it this one's good exactly that it's one of my favorites okay um well we should talk about the new record a little bit we're we're both loving it we both have been fans for a while actually i dj'd chris's wedding a year ago year and a half ago something like that and what what song was it was it punked that was on there? It was punk. Well, so we have a cursed, I have a cursed Bar Italia stories. I made this giant playlist of songs to be played. Like we do shows. So, you know, when doors open at seven, before we go on stage at eight, I made this playlist.

32:49And the instructions are always put this on shuffle. And I would say eight, eight times out of 10, they don't do that. And the first song is Bar Italia punked. So I've heard it. I've heard it more times than you have probably at this point. So your last song got played at your wedding. Yeah. That's so sick. It was a reception. I mean, it wasn't like I walked down the aisle to Bar Italia. That's kind of what I was imagining. We're like, can I come inside? No, I, yeah, well, Jason DJed and obviously knows my taste. He opened with Oasis, which really got the, set the tone. And then we kind of went from there.

33:30You actually didn't tell us what you thought of that.

33:32Jason Stewart:Oh, of Oasis. Yeah, we went to Wembley on Sunday. Yeah. And we were talking about on the last episode how grateful we are that we got to see them play in Europe because in America, Cage the Elephant is opening for them instead of Richard Ashcroft. Richard Ashcroft. Fucking amazing as well. Richard Ashcroft was fucking... I mean, we've both been listening to Ashcroft since the fucking, I don't know, mid-90s probably because we're a little older. but yeah i mean it was remarkable show everything about it was amazing just jumping up and down the entire time running all over the place it was just amazing i know a lot of americans who went to the uk ones which explains why no one could get a ticket they're playing in america right fucking now and you could be there i could have i could have gone last night and i was like i just don't want to sully my memory i don't need to go i don't need to go again well you had tickets and you didn't go?

34:24No, no. I just mean that like, there's plenty of tickets available in New York and LA. Like plenty of tickets available.

34:30Jason Stewart:If you're an influencer kind of person, you can just go. You know, it's not that hard in America. But in London, you know, we had to get a plug and pay, you know, the whole thing. Yeah, the problem is here that, you know, in London, well, here people are waiting in line politely to do, you know, Coke in the bathroom four deep, where in London, you know, they're just doing it right out in the open. off the back of the bald guy's head in front of you yeah my my friend my friend ollie uh who is british and was still scandalized by this saw a woman pissing in a cup that's common and then someone else drunk i think it was lager the whole thing did the woman chuck it though because that's what you're supposed to do you gotta throw it oh i didn't realize okay so you're saying this is this is this like a football thing that i'm not familiar with it's a football thing It's a festival thing Just explain, can a man do it or does it have to be a woman?

35:22I think the men might have started it It's much easier to piss in a cup for a man I think

35:26Jason Stewart:And you never stop rubbing it in our faces I would finish my lager Pull my hog out Relieve myself into a pint glass And then throw that glass What are you going to do, hold your piss? Throw it No, I'm just saying I would maybe just sit it down and walk away If you can't move, though, you can't just stamp it down. I've never been to a festival that's that packed, bro. And I know your sets ain't like that, so calm down now. Some of their smaller venues get pretty packed out, Chris. Come on. It also depends on how porous the floor is. It's sold out. Is it an outdoor? Is there dirt? Or is it a plastic floor where you're just going to be in your own puddle all day?

36:09So you're saying that you've probably in your life been rained down on with urine. Oh, no, I know I have. No, I refuse to believe that. It's happened to me at a festival, yeah. Apparently, it's like really good for your skin. Honestly, like I was going to move into a flat a while ago with someone who had like a huge gallon of piss in the room because they used to put it on their faces. On one face, they only have one face. but actually they develop multiple faces thanks to the pastry was this was this this was for like skincare reasons yeah yeah yeah like it was like fuck your korean skincare routine you just put piss on your face and that kind of sorts it all out can i ask can i ask i don't mean to look quite good so i was gonna say i don't want to assume gender but was she bad or how does she look experience a membership that backs what you or building with American Express Business Platinum.

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37:55Hear that? That's now Crispy and McCrispy Strips meeting creamy Caesar sauce. Sounds extra crispy. Caesar sauce at McDonald's for a limited time. Ba-da-ba-ba-ba. they they were they look quite good yeah extremely young so you can't really tell it's like time will tell there was that famous vice story in the early 2000s about the sperm oh yeah this is pre-salmon sperm facial trend we all do that like sam jasmine and i like we

38:29Jason Stewart:all do that actually i love coming on my face thank you for making sure we got clean audio of that jasmine i can't do that so i had to borrow it from them you gotta borrow it but you're in the sprinter for hours at a time you guys got nothing but time to kill yeah i think it's actually better if it's not yours so in some way it doesn't have to change it let's slow down now slow down yeah i mean i think i think your piss is only as good as the person that it's coming out of you know it's like i want to make sure it's from a sustainable source and sperm are very different i'm gonna i'm gonna say right right now that my i'm pissing too clean for it to work like it's just it's straight up water i don't 97 water yeah it wouldn't do anything i have no i So you think it's to do with having to be really toxic?

39:12A hungover piss, like pure yellow. That's the best. So good.

39:18Jason Stewart:Well, it looks like a Newcastle. Yeah, Newcastle Brownell. Well, that's for sure where you get enough festivals. So we'll just make sure to go to enough of that. Like he's drinking it right now, Jasmine. It does look. He fucking can't stop. What is the... So you guys play a lot of festivals though, right? Yeah. I assume. Yeah. Do you like them or are you kind of over it? You can be honest. It's like anything. Some are good, some are shit. Exactly. Some are really good. When they're good, they're really good. When they're shit, they're really fucking shit. Yeah, yeah, that's true. How often do you get to hang out versus like, we got to go?

39:53After. After we play. It really depends from people, right? They play. But also, yeah, we base it on who's playing. We've had some really fucking good, like seeing Iggy Pop in Mexico. Yeah, and Paul McCartney and like. You know what I mean? We've had some tops. Yeah. This is always my favorite because back in the hardcore days, you would see hardcore bands and they would get to say they played with Morrissey because they played at the same festival. So technically, you're like, oh, yeah, we played with McCartney. Yeah, exactly.

40:19Jason Stewart:And you're not lying. It was the Beatles, then Baratalia. I forgot who else played, but that's pretty much it. Doja Cat. Doja Cat. As well as Doja Cat. Doja Cat. Doja Cat. Somehow headlining above the Beatles, Doja Cat does sell more tickets than the Beatles now, unfortunately. imagine we're kicking we're kicking off that button to play first as well yeah exactly well it's cool that you got to see yiggy pop live because it's so good oh my god which is incredible i hope he has i hope he has some time left yeah yeah he's looking a little crazy he's looking he's gonna last a long time no don't don't do that don't do that he stuck up he stuck up for us like yeah in a big way in what sense yeah we had this um really shitty like really early on we played this gig in oxford and it was there was like the times reviewing it and the person was giving like they're not going to go anywhere because we didn't come out for an encore and he was on his show and i have this person's never played a show with the backstage is a bathroom like he like stuck up for us he got it yeah it was amazing you do a good iggy pop impression by the way jasmine well done i actually do a very good karaoke impression jasmine is particularly good jasmine and sam are both particularly good at karaoke actually i suck I am so bad.

41:32Yes, I do.

41:33Jason Stewart:You probably have one song that you're good at, though. No. Zero? Zero. No. Okay. What is your song? Maybe you just haven't found your song. What do they do that's so good? Or is it obscure? Or can they hit me with the Goo Goo Dolls? Jasmine's really good at doing Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jeff Buckley. I can rap. I can do late rap. Okay, hold on. Hold on. Like Can't Stop Addicted to the Shindig? Oh, that's my jam. That's your sweet spot right there. Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jeff Buckley is quite wise. Well, that's the kind of artist you're confronted with right now. Your range. But I mean, the guitar of Frusciante as well as the guitar of Buckley, those swimming together, it's not, you know.

42:18Yeah, I do air guitar, actually. I do air guitar. I don't want to ruin your fun here, but he's not having to play that, though. That's the thing. He just has to sing. Maybe you don't know how karaoke works. Even though you know salsa dancing, you might have missed that on karaoke. Jason can, his hips. I've never seen Jason do karaoke. I don't think we've ever done karaoke before.

42:40Jason Stewart:I would do Solitary Man. I think it's, is that Leonard Cohen? And then November Rain. Those are my two. But November Rain, it's like half the crowd is like, hell yeah, I love it. And the other half are like, did you have to pick an eight to nine minute song with like four bridges? Can you do it a cappella? Like right now? Do we have time? Nine minutes. Let me get a click track pulled up on Ableton here. I want to hear the whole Slash solo in the rain. He hasn't had enough Newcastle to perform that. But I remember being a kid watching that video where he had the little mirrored coffin with his wife's face on there.

43:22Jason Stewart:Solo in the rain. That's when a boy became a man. I said, I'm going to choose rock and roll. I remember actually me and Nina sitting and watching the whole of that video on my laptop. It's like, this is sick. Look at this. This is sick. It is sick. It's just plain old sick. You guys are wrong. That's one of the worst things that we've ever seen. Easily one of the worst bands we've ever encountered as a human people. But I do like the way Slash looks. I think he is an iconic figure in music. and I will never take it away from it. Look, we don't want to hear it, Chris. Don't patronize us. We know you're a GNR hater.

44:01Jason Stewart:Yeah, exactly. There's a really good video where he shows all of his guitars to Gibson. He's like, this one's called Choline.

44:09It's like egregious misogyny. It was his guitar. Oh, all the guitars are just named after women?

44:15Jason Stewart:This one's called Dumb Bitch. It's not even that far off.

44:24This one's called Dumb Bitch. Hey, tune up, dumb bitch, for me.

44:27Jason Stewart:We drop D. Speaking of priceless guitars, I would say that the new album sounds more expensive than your previous releases. Got your little money up. Was it more expensive? Yeah. Okay. But it's not art. Of course, of course, of course. I still think it's guitars. I mean, I'm happy there's a natural progression in production quality where, you know, i was listening to it i was like this is a real you know there's no no corners being cut no like it could be better it was just like this sounds as good as it could sound yeah i i think i think the the best thing about that album for me is the fact that a lot of the songs if not all the songs feel like quite resolved yeah because it felt like we did it through a longer period of time than previous work and i'm really happy with the fact that like it i'm not saying that the every song has to be your favorite but it feels like you've kind of got out a lot of the pulp i think resolved is the perfect word for it like i was listening to the new blood orange record yesterday and i was like this is a good collection some of them could be demos still and some of them are ideas that maybe are not yeah resolved yeah i quite like it doesn't mean they're bad yeah there was a lot of work also like bits being rewritten and like between sam and jasmine on guitar and like there was like a care span to try and like actually just get there rather than just leave things in potential which i think it's really it's it was really exciting like you could like you can tell like it's like you if you listen when i listen to stuff we've done in previous years like i feel like i'm like oh she's done that note there do you know what i mean yeah i still have that about these things and i would yeah for sure like resolve some of them because that would be that's a good problem to have you you have a you're a perfectionist you have your eye on the prize yeah i think this is the first time we've actually managed to actually like do things we feel like they're not they're not perfect we had the time we had the time to do it like does me like we didn't before and like i think the urgency well the urgency is still there and now you can feel it within the record like it's not polished in the way that other things can be polished obviously still ours but I think it was nice to have a stint of recording then a lot of moms kind of touring and doing all the festivals which are like as you said like really challenging and like you learn how to be quite it like you learn how to play together in a totally different way than in like a headlining show for example like it has to really work between you on stage uh to make it work for an audience that you kind of have to win over at times and then going back with that knowledge and just like refining and shedding things away like we basically had an editing process yeah who chris who are we talking to where they're where they said that they they don't they they'll write a song and then tour it and play it jarvis jarvis cocker yeah jarvis cocker was talking about that he'll they'll write a song and then tour it for a year the crowd will tell you change that part this is the good part that's the root of the song you know i don't like i don't think you should personally nothing against jarvis i don't think you should be like you shouldn't that's like fucking writing a song on ai well fuck fuck the audio fuck the audience yeah i always say i don't give a fuck what these losers think as long as they give me their money but i no it's not that you should you should have some integrity in your own like belief in what you think yeah i I think more what he was trying to express was that it would sort of reassure his impulses that were already there.

48:09Like maybe that part felt kind of weak and the crowd responded appropriately. So I knew that I should go. That makes a lot of sense to me. Yeah, exactly. I think we've had that ourselves as well. Like we haven't really played any of the songs that we had written in January, February or during the festival season. But we I think it's more about what Jasmine was saying in terms of like, like learning how to switch on and learning how to play together, which meant that the second time that we were in the studio, Sam and Jasmine and me, I found a sort of synchronicity in performing, which meant that that got translated into the writing.

48:57Because also recording and writing for us is often kind of simultaneous. We don't really have a writing period and then a recording period. Yeah, we do it at the same time. Yeah, we tend to do it quite at the same time and we like to start building songs quite quickly and then kind of maybe deconstruct it from there rather than just... And working with engineers this time made a huge difference. Oh, my God, yeah. Engineers do seem like... As long as you get one that you can trust. Important part of the recording process. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. For sure. Instead of us just running around.

49:29Jason Stewart:Do you guys record all of your parts at the same time or do you do them separately in separate rooms? We build things on the computer. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. there's a couple of instances where we have room recordings we might write at the same time right there's a few bits in twits jasmine that's true that's true but and actually also in the new record in the i don't know what's it called uh plastered like there's like one of the new songs that has like a live recording and layer underneath or it was written kind of live and then there's also a couple of times we tried to do it but then you never made yeah yeah and can you explain to me what you mean by build it on the computer you mean you all record your parts and then you put put them together you're saying there's a different method that i i don't understand produced yeah you're you're treating the recording as if you are a producer okay instead of like three people in a room jamming out he's looking at it on like a linear scale of like here's the this and this and then we need to hear and a hi-hat there kind of thing what software do you use when you're doing it i just want to use pro tools but previously used logic and ableton yeah this time produce why do you switch do you think it sounds better engineers were using produce yeah they all just use it yeah i quite like the interface it's famously disgusting nina well well well known that it's disgusting it's like it's honestly my most favorite interface so that's so funny like you you just you're just saying aesthetically it's pleasing to you yeah because that's as far as my engineering capacity girls i'm like you're judging you call us the rainbow it's it's a rich tradition i see what you're saying i see what you're saying it feels professional it feels like a tool that real people use versus ableton looks like a toy in comparison and logic it's more exciting but less serious logic logic's the ugliest for me yeah oh my god it's just garage band with a few extra hundred dollars on top of it yeah exactly jasmine do you use ableton to build like remixes and little like jamie xxy dancey kind of things on the side i studied that but i don't really do that what do you mean you studied it you went to jamie xx college or you're saying you just i suckled from the teat of charlie xx oh you're saying that you you taught yourself but you don't do it look we we made a lot of the early music on ableton i did go to university did you and you finished fuck no okay i was about to say you seem cooler than that thank you i finished university what are you trying to say it's different the pressures for women are so different you know i just the patriarchy it just fucks everything up i tell you what what is it what did you go to school for both of you now that now that i'm pilates no shut up that's not that's not a fucking ba yeah i had a ba in pilates i mean i bet i know a chick who has a ba in pilates i bet i bet i know somebody somewhere that would say yeah phd actually what is your You finished, though, so you have a degree in what?

52:32History of art. Okay, all right. That's one of the better things to go to college for. Is it? It's like literally, why am I asking? Well, even though it's useless, at least it's cool. Yeah, it's one of the hottest degrees. Yeah, for sure. Okay, I'm glad. I'm glad. Thank you, guys. Feel better.

52:48Jason Stewart:Especially when you go around Rome, you're like, I know, you can give a tour, basically. It was like post-structuralist, like London. so it was not about his it was about being against his what about you?

53:05sound dots and design okay so I mean that's reasonable your movement Jasmine is making me want to squeeze my tits I'm like maybe I should start doing that

53:16Jason Stewart:it's like a lymphatic drainage thing it actually is I was doing that for that reason you're like just releasing are you feeling sore from your workout this morning? yeah i actually am a little bit sore how many push-ups can you do uh i can do currently at least 100 normal ones okay i can do 10 in a row claps nice 10 clappers that's impressive i gotta say i'm impressed because you look like a little twig through the zoom but maybe you've got something underneath that fish eye is a fish island i can do i can i can do two at my i feel like you could get to 100 because what's your workout routine on the road nothing um eating okay that's not true that's not true you do hit the gym i try i i try i put loads of weight on the last tour in america what were those american portions you can't blame america what has got fat in it for fuck's sake don't hey you can get the fuck out of here with that you can get you can leave right now i'll call dei when we were writing uh the twits when we were writing the twits jasmine was on some army workout routine.

54:20Oh. Like every day. Oh, so now you like the army, but you don't like America. That's interesting. I don't like your fucking army. I like good armies.

54:29Jason Stewart:The British Royal Army. The good ones. Good armies. I like the good armies. You're out of your mind. Okay. So you're doing like a CrossFit caveman military style thing going on. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. No, we all play football until. Okay. Oh, yeah. We play football all the time. Every day. Who's nasty with it? Sam and Jasmine are really good. Sam plays a lot these days. Do you guys play in leagues when you're home and stuff? Sam plays like four games a day. Wow. Sam gets psycho with it. We were a bit obsessive. I don't understand, though. That's a hard thing to do, I guess, on the road. It doesn't seem like the most practical exercise.

55:05Well, no, because there's car parks. We play like keepyuppies. Okay, I got you. Oh, God. This is getting so unglamorous. You don't need to know. Sorry. Well, I'm actually kind of like, I'm advertising our needs, Nina. If someone takes a football match. No, I'm joking. I'm just saying, like, don't think of us in splitter vans in car parks. Sure. You're right. I'll think of you. Much better. Much better landscape. Yeah, and all the private planes that you take. Yeah, exactly. Those private gigs in Saudi Arabia. Exactly. Yeah, I'm on a PJ every day. Yeah, we play football on planes. Oh, I see. Your plane is so big that you can play keepy-uppies on the plane.

55:44I see. Exactly. I'm sorry. I misunderstood. I apologize. It's okay. It's okay.

55:50Jason Stewart:Okay. So are you guys going to come to America? When are you guys going to come for? What are you talking about? We are in New York. They're in New York right now. We came to America. We still got to fucking do this on Zoom. Yeah, we don't do this in person because it's too much work. Are you here just on a press tour or are you doing shows as well? Yeah. We're just doing press. Okay. Just doing press. What bullshit are you doing? Because this is kind of the end in the beginning. It's the end of the road. yeah i mean rollingstone.com i mean you gotta get that's a paywall you know what i mean rolling stone can't spell though we actually have an exhibition on friday of drawings uh this gallery called trieste gallery oh uh in brooklyn who drew the draw who did the drawings we all do we did the whole band yeah we all separate we all separately draw oh so collage so they're not okay so everybody did their own but they're okay okay i'm looking at more drawings by bar italia exactly rsvp required i mean that's not true i mean yeah do it do it do it someone someone texted me earlier be like i got the ticket to your show and i was like you don't need a ticket like we're not performing just to be clear it's just uh this is in ridgewood i think oh i'm sorry i can't make it there 476 people have rsvp'd to look at a collection of your drawings yeah that's impressive how about that that's a really good feeling are they for sale yeah all proceeds go to charity what charity are they going to no we can't talk about it no comment okay harry styles no comment hairstylist okay we're getting we're getting to get rid of harry's little mullet we're raising money in ridgewood that's that's brave like a go find me on like ryan air flights for harry style Okay, so do you guys know anything about Ridgewood?

57:38It's just like It's not as cool as where we're at right now No, no, no It is Isn't that Queens? It's kind of like Queens Isn't Queens? Yeah, I think Queens is cool It's very cool

57:49Jason Stewart:Maybe I'm not going to go No, Queens is cool I'll probably just pass on this one It's like, mate, I'll just stay in Williamsburg I'm all set It's fine It's fine, Jason Ridgewood is for young people and that's where all the raves happen. That's exciting. I think I've been there once, but it takes quite a long time to get there. But it's the epicenter. The type of person that's going to attend a collection of your drawings, this is the epicenter of where they're going to live. I don't mean that in a derogatory work. I honestly don't appreciate this facetious tone every time you have to say our drawings.

58:26I'm not sure you understand. Sam's a fucking trained, like yeah literally trained like i'm not sure you understand i'm sorry i'm sorry like i my drawings are shoes i've done just draw it really bad drawings of brian jones so actually loki's

58:45Jason Stewart:spoiling i'm not questioning the quality of the artwork whatsoever you are you are in your tone okay i felt it i don't want to i don't want to pick side jason yeah chris felt it chris felt it he's not sticking out for you so that means it's true it's something that i have to work on I would like to see one of your drawings Do you have a drawing? Shut up Don't get into it Jason's a former graffiti artist I did not draw this But my wife had a security guard Draw an impression of me Oh my god Why don't you give us a drawing to show to our exhibition We don't need to sell it Yeah Jason can you overnight one of your graffiti Black book sketches Yeah I got you I'll do a graffiti of some shoes I think you should do Bar Italia and Bubble That's great That would be like We could literally show it in the gallery With your name We would never You wouldn't want credit for his art Of course I just want to be clear I think that's really awesome of you guys And what is that charity again

59:55No comment So you guys are basically in New York to turn up and do a little bit of shit like this is what it sounds like to me. I'm here to make trouble. Are you partying? Don't look at me. I'm not. I'm fresh like a rose. Nina's fresh. Who slept more last night? I slept eight hours. That's nice. That's strong for a musician. I'm surprised.

1:00:21Jason Stewart:yeah and then what and you were somewhere in dime square until 5 a.m last night jasmine is that what happened it was a monday i was i was walking around the street having a fake argument with my girlfriend just just to live it just to live just to feel something we've all been there brother to feel like you're on hbo's girls exactly it's because it's like a new very beautiful relationship so you have to prove yourself like that makes it more of a relationship if you have an argument How new is the relationship? A month. Oh, wow. I've got her name titled on me already. She's sick. I only met her yesterday, but she's very stylish.

1:01:02I think she knows you guys, actually. Oh, this is an interesting wrinkle. Please, we'll bleep her name. Can we see this tattoo? Yeah, but only if you don't say it. They definitely say it. Jason is such a thing. No, no, no. No, no, no. We won't. We won't. We bleep stuff all the time. Have respect for her. What's your star sign, Jason? Virgo. Virgo gang. Oh. Are you Virgo as well, Chris? Yeah, hell yeah. Oh, shut up. What does it say? I can't hold on. Oh, I knew it. I knew it. What does it say, Jason? Oh, no. Oh, no. It's Chris. Actually, Jasmine's girlfriend is Chris. Guys, I'm sorry. I'm going to ask you.

1:01:42It's Chris. Jasmine and Chris are going out. Chris, I know you're married, so this is a bit weird. She's fine. Yeah, but she's fine when it's with guys. It's all good. Hold on. Am I on your list? I'm going to text your significant other now and tell her to leave you alone. You're a nice guy. You don't deserve this. You don't deserve all this. He has a guitar called Dumb Bitch, and that's you, Chris.

1:02:10Jason Stewart:This generation slash, many are saying. Okay, let's go back, circle back to your thoughts on the Virgo sign. Is this a yay or a nay? I felt some negativity there. No, no. I love Virgo. Sam is Virgo, but it's Virgo Leo, slyly. He's on the cusp. I'm full Virgo. Full Virgo. Yeah. Yeah, Virgo's great. Virgo's great. The attention to detail, perfectionists. Okay. Say no more. You could say bad stuff about Virgos too. You don't have to just reach. Do you have bad experiences with our ilk? No. Honestly, if it wasn't for Sam and Jasmine, me half of my life wouldn't exist so i i owe it to burgers how did you wait did you guys meet did i read that you guys were like neighbors yeah we had mutual friends i mean that's a very romantic idea it's like raponzo the way we act the way me and you actually met is incredibly romantic though yeah that's true that is true uh it was like we were going out for a party and like we had a really awkward conversation we had like get to know you conversation while nina was like on my butt in the basket of my bike wow it's like how many things have you got wow so what instrument do you play also like queen of awkwardness so i was like how many siblings do you have that's it no that's in a basket look we have to ask dumb questions that's our job so that's not even crazy at all to us that's fine yeah but we weren't facing each other like he was trying not to crash i could have also so this is like a love is blind kind of thing you couldn't see each other's faces you just had to get to know back of your head yeah pretty much so what kind of food do you like to eat Are you gluten intolerant?

1:03:51What's your diet? What kind of food do you like to eat?

1:03:55Jason Stewart:Do you like food? You like food? Do you watch the telly sometimes? I do too But Sam introduced me to Jasmine And then nothing happened for a while Me and Sam met an open mic night Yeah you actually met through music Kind of straight away What the fuck were you doing? What were you doing an open mic night chief? Give me a breakdown I was looking for an excuse to get away from my ex. Sure. You're saying your relationship was so bad that you had to go cover Michelle and Deggio Ocello by yourself at a bar? He was singing Red Hot Chili Peppers. It was in Hackney Wick, yeah. That's why it's so good at her own.

1:04:32Jason Stewart:Do you remember what songs you were covering? I was playing my own songs. Yeah, honestly, Sam said that he saw kinship musically, and then they started talking, right? And then I went to watch Sam play the next time. and then we started seeing each other parties all the time were you in band but you've been in bands before or no yeah me and sam had both separately been in bands before okay i've never bar italia was my first band uh i don't think that's true neither what the zoom band oh but that wasn't a bad zoom band look like a band to me nina i feel like yeah i feel like you could have some weird history where you were like on on like who's got talent italy you know what i mean You know, it's like, oh, she low-key.

1:05:12No, I wish. She went pretty far in Eurovision when she was 12. I could see you being like, well, I had one album. It was a one-album deal with a major, but it was in Italy.

1:05:22Jason Stewart:I wish. I honestly wish. It makes sense for you to never have been in another band before. It just feels right for your overall spirit and aura. Do you think this is your calling? Like, do you think music has, have you found yourself? Or is it like a surprise? I mean, I've wanted this life my whole life and gave up on it and it happened and i'm incredibly blessed oh that's nice that's a good story i like that yeah i was having a conversation once with jasmine and we just had released choral and uh where jasmine was like really sad talking about uh wanting to be a musician and i remember me being quite optimistic about it and be like it's never never say never it will happen you just need to keep going it was like and then it happened yeah then i quit my job and then things fell into place and yeah sometimes you got to go whole you got to jump off the ledge you know do you think it's your calling nina i honestly she's i'll give it another year and then i think i'm done with you guys i don't know i don't know what my calling i don't think i have um i now i didn't know i didn't know how much i would like it and then and then i did it and then i think writing and singing and i love right i've always written poems like all my life i've written so that was definitely something and then i am never happier than when i make music so i think in that sense well then yeah it is that's a yeah you answered yeah but it wasn't like it's not like jasmine i was like dreaming to be a musician it kind of happened to me i like which kind of fits with how my life works like i often feel like like that even in like in relationships sometimes where it's like i'm just not that aligned with what sometimes happens to me like i'm just looking at something and then something else happens and that but you can go with it you can go with it which is a skill in itself yeah i i think in that sense yeah i'm quite brave and you are an incredibly optimistic person so like you do things a lot because of your outlook yeah that's true not by accident yeah that's true yeah and also like i think i work hard like i so even if i didn't know how to sing i kind of i'm learning but you you had said you had sang before or not not even at all like on the shower i sang no i started singing i i released my first song uh with um dean blunt in 2014 okay okay and that was the first time i sung okay like a proper as in like my own song and like yeah yeah yeah not just in shower i honestly came to it quite late yeah no it's cool i it gives me hope as a person who the only thing i think is cool is being a musician but i have no skills so it's a little tough it's tough for me um but you know maybe one day there's always management i always played the piano when i was little so i had ways in i could i could i'm too big to ride in a basket on a bike so that kind of fucks up my whole that whole thing is kind of out the window as we need a new meet cute okay last question we always ask this is to cool people in bands you don't have to answer if you don't want to top five prescription drugs of all time oh god um ibuprofen paracetamol okay they slap anti-medicine yeah nina's nina's anti-prescription i think anything on the but anything on the bayern catalog yeah can i can i say like uh so oregano oil yeah this is a good yeah let's get a holistic version top five food is medicine uh okay ginger propolis um magnesium i'm i'm i'm really i'm pro zinc right now oh yeah yeah i'm just it's because of your cum yeah exactly i'm just i'm i'm feeling like more of a man than have you noticed a difference in your cum actually yeah actually yes okay oh god do you know how many milligrams of z are you taking and you're shooting better ropes as well nina that's what i hear yeah congratulations yeah it's pretty we need to start doing ads for fucking zinc on this podcast we can move a million i'm just saying he's tasty i'm just saying it's really tasty this is the best this is the best and worst episode of how long gone ever recorded i can't believe how much fun i've had in the last hour yeah because people talk a lot about how the zinc makes you have more cum they don't talk about how it becomes much more tasty and you would never think that zinc would have things because zinc on its own doesn't taste great no in my experience yeah that's true okay the oregano oil also adds to a little bit of the rustic flavor as well why do you take oil of oregano i find it no i don't take it i don't take it every day but uh every time i'm a bit sick i just take it and then it just zaps it did i tell you oh my god i could hear you i could hear you across the wall i was laughing it was so much me and nina were in hotel rooms next to each other in spain the other day and i was feeling a bit sick so she gave me some like and was like smiling in like a really fucking evil way like like when you've like put too much weed in a bong for someone like and i just immediately threw it up all over yeah it was coughing it was i was i put three drops and I was supposed to be just one.

1:10:43And it was like coughing so much. It was quite funny. That's how you know it works.

1:10:47Jason Stewart:It's like smelling salted. Yeah. It destroys you. It works. All right. Thank you, guys. We really appreciate it. All right. I'm glad you like the album. I'm sorry we didn't talk that much. That's okay. We don't want to hear about it. We'd rather listen to it. Bar, tell you. Yes. Yes. Yeah, it's really good. Congratulations on a job well done. Thank you. It's called Some Like It Hot and it comes out October 17th. Yes. Okay. Yeah. I think so. Y 'all don't know shit about shit. All right, great. Thank you guys for joining us. We'll see you soon. Thank you. Bye-bye. Ciao, ciao.

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