Desert Island Dicks - QUINNY

Episode Date: November 1, 2024

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Hi I'm James Deacon and welcome to Desert Island Dicks, the show that sees you marooned on a desert island after a plane crash, with the worst people and worst things imaginable. Who they are and why they're a dick is up to our guest. And here to share their desert island dicks with us today is my friend Peter Quinn, a.k.a. Quinny, musician extraordinaire, the Prince of Paisley, joins us on the podcast. Hello, Peter Quinn.

Hello, how are you? Good to see you. It's good to see you too. This is incredibly exciting for me because I know that you are a long-term listener of the podcast. And when we were talking about your new album coming out um we discussed the potential for this but I wasn't recording any more episodes and so I feel like this may be the last episode I ever record that makes it like a special edition this could be like the Christmas episode or something oh it could be a Christmas special but I'd like it to go out when your album comes out I think you can re-watch it at Christmas

so you're a long-term you're a long-term listener right you you've listened to quite a few of these yeah yeah since the start since you yeah I can't even remember who the first one was now well it was Dan Benedictus who you probably have met at some point or another but um oh he's so yeah yeah of course yeah that's that's who it was yeah yeah, I met him on your stag do and all of that, and he did the... I know. And he hosted the podcast for ages, yeah. If people hadn't noticed already, you are from Scotland, but you're also currently living in Australia. So I think this is not only maybe the last episode,

and you've listened to all of the episodes, but you are also the furthest away of any of the episodes that we've ever recorded. You've gone worldwide. it's international now. I mean, thank you so much for wanting to come on, I really appreciate it. And you, so you're at a really important, well, an important time in your life, but something like you've kind of led up to this lifelong lifelong ambition of of releasing an album of your own music how's how's that feel it's great and you know it well it came about quite organically i

suppose i was going to do it as an ep back when i first came home after covid um i just booked some time just to hang out with people in a studio and then we did an ep and then but in the time that it took me to get all of that mixed and mastered and whatever, I'd written more songs and I was coming home again. So I was like, well, might as well just make this into an album. Let's double down. Wow. If you write music, that's the thing dreams are made of, right?

You dream of releasing an album, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. I should have brought down, I've got some cassettes. So like to have it as like a real thing feels quite amazing. Wow. Yeah. I want to do vinyl albums, but they're too expensive. I might treat myself for Christmas or something.

Well, if anyone's listening that can print those, I mean, I don't know, you could always do. Do, Quinny, a run of 500. Come on. Yeah, yeah, thanks. I don't know who's listening is this the sponsorship section of the podcast peter um in stark contrast to the exciting moment of your life where you're about to release your first album i've stuck you on a desert island with the worst people and things

imaginable how did you find putting together the list of people and things for your desert island? We were maybe going to do this like five years ago. So I've actually had quite a lot of time to think about this. I feel like I've been marooned by myself for quite some time on a literal desert island. And actually I was going to say, some of the people, it's strange how it's changed since I originally did it,

because originally one of them was Philip Schofield that I wanted to do. Interesting. Okay, yeah. But you know, he's on an island himself, isn't he? I know. He did a show where he's just on an island, which I haven't seen it,

but it seems bizarre to me. So your choices have come on. I was looking back at that old list and then, so how have they changed do you think i was going to do the queen who has since died and actually actually probably loads of people have done the queen as well so it's probably not even that funny uh and and then and actually one of them was going to be other peter quinn's oh that's good but i actually work with another peter quinn now and he's all alright I mean I've got an uncle called Peter Quinn

But I was going to throw him in as one of the shit ones You work with another Peter Quinn? Yeah So my email address is Pete Quinn and his is Peter Quinn I call him like the original The OG because he got in there first And got Peter Quinn

He's older than me and he's been there for ages When you type in an email address and they're like That one's already been used, you never think you're going to meet the person who is already using that email address. When I first started working at this place, they actually sent me originally a secondment contract because they thought it was for him. That's amazing. So even HR didn't know.

Okay, so let's dive in. Who is going to be your first choice for the Desire? Who's going to be your first person? My first one is going to be Yoda. Yoda? Okay. Because you'd think that Yoda would be useful. But I think that his powers and all of that,

they kind of blind him. I don't think he knows what he's talking about is basically what I'm getting at. And I think that he would think he was right when he's wrong. Because I did a big watch of Star Wars recently and I came out of it thinking, Yoda is fucking stupid. He's meant to be like the grandmaster, isn't he?

He's meant to be like this font of all knowledge. But he, yeah, but he, I mean, it was him that got the, you know, the clone army. It was him that went and got them. They went to save Obi-Wan and Anakin. But, like, they didn't even interrogate where these guys came from. Like, if they'd thought about it for two minutes, they would have realised that, oh, they're all based on Jango Fett, who is working with, what's his name? Count Dooku. So maybe we shouldn't be maybe

we shouldn't have this whole army because that's what happens that's how the jedi get defeated because then they've got these inhibitor chips and they they do order 66 and the clones kill all the jedi and i mean it was yoda who went and got them. It's Yoda's fault. Yeah. There you go. I think it's good. And he was also the one that was, he was like, to Luke Skywalker, he's like, no, don't go and save your friends.

Stay here with me. Just stay on my wee island, my wee remote planet. Was it Dagobah? Dagobah? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then if Luke didn't go there, his sister would have died who they hadn't told him about. And also, that's when Darth Vader told him that he was his dad. Yes.

Okay, yeah. So if he hadn't gone, he wouldn't have known any of that stuff. And what was he doing? All I can remember, he was just running around with Yoda on his back, wasn't he? Basically,

Yoda was saying, you're not good enough yet. And he was like, well, I'm not just going to stay here when I know that Leia has been captured because she, she communicated with him. But,

yeah, so I think that you would, because I've taken these kind of literally. Yeah, no, it's good. It's good. So I'm thinking about who I would want or who I wouldn't want. And I think that he would probably try and muscle his way in and say,

no, no, no, this is how it's all meant to go. And then he'd completely fuck up. Yeah, I think you're right. I think you're right. I think actually long term what what a challenge what a challenge being with someone like that it's like you're trying to survive and it's like it's like oh we should all be doing this and you're like i'm really sure that if we went over there we could just go and collect all of that food and then it wouldn't like and then

he would just be like just stay here for a day or two and all the food disappears and you're like i actually think this was that was a bad idea and i don't know why i listened to you little green bastard um i um what do you think about baby yoda oh yeah grogu yeah i like i like i like him yeah yeah he's not um he's after that yeah the mandalorian's in between isn't it but oh i like him i'm i'm intrigued to know more they're doing a movie the mandalorian and grogu movie are they i'm up for that i like quite a lot of that stuff i think it's good yeah i watched the Mandalorian. I really enjoyed it. But with the Baby Yoda, I don't know if you need the Baby Yoda. I was thinking,

did they just invent the Baby Yoda so they could sell more cute Yoda teddies? Oh, the whole thing's about toys. That's what's funny about Star Wars and people getting really annoyed about it. A lot of people were annoyed about the acolyte and stuff, which I thought was quite good. But there was a mate,

a man, Jamie Gilmore in Glasgow, and we were talking about people getting annoyed about the acolyte and stuff which i thought was quite good but but i think there was a mate i mean jamie gilmore in glasgow and we were talking about people getting annoyed about star wars and he was like it's for wains like it's for children it's like it's like it's all right to enjoy it but just don't get so upset look here i'm calling yoda cunt so whatever okay i think a solid first choice with Yoda. I like that. And I'm looking forward to seeing who else you pull in. So who's going to be your second choice? So I'm thinking that if we're on this island,

we might eventually start a society. You know, because we might not be getting off it, so we might just have to start living. And so I thought that someone I really wouldn't want part of that would be barbie interesting okay not not because i hate barbie per se and not i mean i like to film you know the toys are great whatever but um because in the barbie film she undermines a democratic election by getting people by themselves and basically brainwashing them and doing what she wants she went away she left and then she comes back doesn't he like how things are

i'm not saying it was great i'm not saying it was a good good setup with the with the patriarchy in there but but then they're having an election because these second class citizens have rose up and they want to have an election for their rights. And then she's like, here, don't do that. And she gets them all by themselves so that they all convert to what she wants. And then she overthrows the government. And I'm thinking if we get some kind of society, we're trying to build democracy. I don't want someone there undermining it wow so she's kind of yes she's snaked off and she's just like yeah i'm i i it you'd be on there and you'd just be trying to get on and you're trying to like

build a bit of camaraderie with your group of people and she'd be taking the odor off to one side being like don't listen to him that's what it was like that's and she'd be taking Yoda off to one side being like, don't listen to him. That's what it was like. That's what it'd be like. And I'm not saying I need to be the leader either. I'm just saying if there was an election, I don't want her brainwashing people like the way that Russia does. I've seen her as Russia in that film.

You know the way that they influenced the Trump election and all that? Yeah. Has that been a take of any journalist that you've seen about the Barbie film? No, I've said it once or twice and people haven't enjoyed it. So now I'm saying it on this.

I'm hoping I can find some of my right wing comrades. Message in, please message in and I'll forward on the messages to Peter. I love that take when uh i read that you were going to choose barbie it's fine to say that i had a little look at your choices and um i just had no idea where you were going to go with it but i i wouldn't i wouldn't for any money in the world have guessed that that was going to be the route i don't think yeah i mean fair play here she she went after what she wanted but i don't want that there's no place for that on my on my new lord of the flies island yeah

are you in your mind are you king of the island would you say no well in this scenario i suppose i am because i'm choosing who gets to come and who yeah yeah yeah but i'm just saying if if you were to ask me i don't think she'd be a good choice okay okay anything else about barbie before we put her on the island no it's fine we'll go on all right she's a good laugh she'd be all right i reckon yeah i don't know it's a it's a hard one to say is that i think um i think if you you can this could be as uh specific as you like so it's barbie in that moment in that film on the island stuck with you for the rest of your life hell yeah yeah yeah i'm just trying to be a guy we've got a certain way of doing things and she she's telling everyone it's shite yeah so we've got yoda barbie who's gonna be your third choice i need to watch what i'm saying

because he's right here george harrison what a combo by the way what what are three people so this one interested me the most because i know that you're a big fan of the Beatles. Yeah. So do you feel his eyes burning into the back of your head right now as you start saying this? I do a little bit, to be honest. And I only noticed it as I went to see it there. I was like, oh, he's actually right there.

He's literally there. He's just a massive naysayer. I think of all four of them, he was lucky to be there. I know people say Ringo, but I think the Beatles wouldn't have been the Beatles without Ringo. I think that Paul McCartney and George Harris, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, could have filled in for George Harrison's guitar parts.

In fact, they do. The only thing I think that was really good about, I mean, obviously he's got great songs and stuff like that, but there's loads of people who have great songs. The only thing is that he made it that McCartneyney was on bass and so we got mccartney we got some of the best bass lines ever because george harrison was on guitar is that what happened is that how it played out yeah they were it was stewart suckcliffe when they were in hamburg it was stewart suckcliffe that was on bass i think i wasn't there oh, wow. And they had three guitars.

Yeah, and then Stuart left the band, stayed in Hamburg, and Paul went on bass. That's mad. No band needs three guitars. People send me examples. I don't care. Do you know what I mean?

You don't. You just don't need three guitars. Yeah, it never really... I mean, live i can see how some people do it just because they want it to be really beefy but you know yeah you know because foo fighters have got pat smear and they have and and the original guitarist but you're just kind of i know you've got pat smear because he's like been your mate and all that, but. That's exactly what it is. But look,

I don't want to smear Pat Smear on this podcast, but. No, of course not. I wouldn't. But you don't want to, but you don't want to, you don't need it. You don't need it.

With the technology that we've got now, like the amount of pedals and amps and stuff and sound desk that you can go through, you can beef it up. You can beef it up. You can beef it up in other ways, I'm sure. So George Harrison. Maybe back to George Harrison. Yeah, George Harrison is a choice.

He, yes, okay. So. I mean, have you watched the Get Back documentary? I haven't, but I need to. I mean, it's nine hours. It's nine hours, so it's a lot. But, you know, it's yes i mean it's nine hours it's nine hours so it's a lot but you know it's like if you just everything that they say he's like oh i don't know i don't think we should

do that and everything i read about them he's always like well i don't want to do that and i don't know it's the same he's a massive tory as well i mean i love this song but tax man is like is such a right-wing song. You know what I mean? It's about him not wanting to pay taxes. Wow, that's great. Really? Is that what, yeah.

He's blaming the Labour government. That's what he's talking about. Wilson and that. What's his name? Is it Harold Wilson? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I wonder then how many things we missed out on because George Harrison said,

no, we shouldn't do that as a band. Like, was there another album? Were there songs that didn't happen because he was such a naysayer? Potentially. I mean, to be fair to him, we got the Rooftop concert because he didn't think it was a good idea to go to wherever it was they wanted to go to.

They wanted to go to Greece or something like that to do it. So, you know, good things come out of shit things. But I just think he's, yeah, between him being a massive Tory, hating paying taxes, and also just Naysay-ing absolutely everything, I just think I don't need that on the island. And for that reason, he's on the island. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's great. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think, no, you don't need that Naysayer energy. Just on that rooftop concert, I know it looks great on film. I've got a memory like a sieve, but I've been stood on that road where in front of the building and um and someone someone said to me oh you know that's where the beat and like from down there i don't think anyone at the road saw anything or heard anything probably no no they wouldn't have oh they did they could hear it but that's why the police

you should watch if you watch get back i'll watch. I've seen an hour-long cut of it. There was a Let It Be documentary, but it doesn't show you all of it. But I went to the cinema to see an hour-long or hour-and-a-half-long version of it. It's basically just a rooftop concert. And the police coming is really funny. McCartney loves it.

Oh, really? He thinks it's so funny. Oh, does he? Yeah. The way that they... Their chat and just their whole demeanour around that time was amazing when they're chatting to interviewers and I imagine great with the

police as well okay so George Harrison but I imagine outside of his naysaying you love the Beatles I know you love the Beatles oh yeah I mean see all of these people I would be honoured that I've mentioned I'd be honoured that I've mentioned,

I'd be honoured to even meet them. Yes, you're right. To meet Barbie and to meet Yoda. Do you know what I mean? I'd be lucky. So, you know, it's all said with that caveat. Do you know what? I think you've encapsulated the podcast perfectly

in a way that, you know, not everyone has that's been on this because someone once said to, um, called this, um, said about this podcast. It is, um, it's character assassination, right?

It's like looking at someone's character and saying, that's why, like there's this element within them is the reason why. And you have done that perfectly. Thank you very much. Oh, sorry. I love to get right into why I don't like people.

Well, you've obviously had a long time to think about this, so I appreciate the effort that you've put in. I've been sitting just thinking it over. Can you imagine all through COVID thinking about who I hate? Peter, thank you very much. Now, mercifully, among the wreckage of the plane, there was some food and drink left over.

Unfortunately for you, it's your least favourite food and drink in the world. What are they and why are they so bad? There's a bit of a theme with this and it's heat. I don't really like things too hot. And so the food would be tomato soup. Okay. Yeah. You may have had this before,

but it's just, it's like, it's just like warm sauce. And I'm trying to take out the microwave, you know, it's just all that stuff. stuff i mean i guess all soups like that but tomato soup to me just doesn't feel worth it it's just no hot sauce but not hot sauce yeah yeah yeah i know what you mean it's like the bowl well there's so much there's so much to unpack here it's like it's just a it's a bowl of liquid it's essentially just a like a really thick drink and

then you heat it up to the point that you can't even hold it or touch it or spoon it to your mouth and then there's this real finite amount of time from when it's just like just about um edible edible or yeah you just about eat it and then um and then and then within like a couple minutes then it's too cold and it's kind of just just like cold sauce that you're spooning into your face it's um yeah i agree it's not worth it not not all soups though like the thicker soups i'm more into if it's got a bit of potato and all that and it's just it's really just tomato soup or maybe minestrone probably as well okay yeah yeah yeah but but they're kind of both tomatoey there's something about the and i like tomatoes but not

in soup form my wife she likes the soup but i think it's also it's a convenience thing if you've ever met her uh as you as i know you have many times she um she's just like she doesn't have to think she just opens a tin dumps it and shoves it in the like she doesn't have to think she just opens a tin dumps it and shoves it in the microwave she doesn't have to prepare anything or whatever so there's that convenience element but also if i'm being pedantic you're on a desert island and it's incredibly hot and you've just got essentially sauce that you can't warm up yeah at least if it was beans they kind of go all right like cold something it'd be all right like tepid soup on a hot island it's grim it's absolutely the tins are like hot to touch because

of the sun yeah it's gross it is gross um i know what you mean there's there's a real lack of substance to a tomato soup isn't there i love her like a like a give me a leek and potato i mean get give me give me something with chicken in it was leek and potato i was thinking of when i was saying other soups and i was like a bit of potato it was leek and potato i was on my mind yeah it's nice i don't mind that i don't mind that one with like chunky veg and chicken come on yeah that's a meal but tomato soup can get right on that island i mean if you jazz it up with a bit of cheese on toast on the side well that yeah but i just felt like i was maybe taking it you know too far like i've only you can only get one thing you hate on this and i i've bread

and butter the thing is if it was bread and butter, I would just fuck the soup off and just eat the bread and butter. Yeah. So. You would. You just would. That's great. Okay, yeah.

I think I agree. And also, it's like endlessly never filling you up. Yeah. So it's like a meal, but then it's just... It's like eating ice, it just never does anything for you. Yeah, yeah, it just wouldn't do anything. Yeah, yeah.

So, okay, I agree with this. This is good. And what is going to be your drink choice? Well, originally it was going to be hot drinks because I'm too impatient for them. But since then, as I've got more into not drinking alcohol, I drink peppermint tea pretty regularly. So I thought I'd be a hypocrite if I said, because then I'd be putting something on the island

that I actually would drink. So I've just kind of narrowed it down just to coffee. Oh, okay. Which is funny because in Melbourne, they love coffee. Good coffee here. But I think that the flavor ruins everything. It touches. And it's too hot.

I don't want to wait for it to cool down. It's the same thing with the soup. I'm not interested. We were in Vietnam, I don't know, about a month ago or something. And you could get these Vietnamese salted coffees or you could get Vietnamese egg coffees, and it's like this condensed milk mixture thing on top. Oh, yeah.

What I was doing is I was buying them, and I was just drinking the condensed milk bit and then giving the rest of it to Maddy. She could have the rest. You could get it iced, actually, but even still, when it was iced, the coffee taste, I was like, you're ruining the condensed milk it was so sweet it was amazing oh yeah yeah i've been i've been there i've been there they do them in thailand as well yeah yeah

they're like do them on like a back of a flatbed truck don't they and then they'll get the condensed milk and just make this yeah oh they're there they were incredible they're um the amount of sugar in there must be absolutely bonkers but uh they're so good i was not impressed with the scales when i came back i'm oh no no i'm off sugar now i'm totally off sugar really but after that after that after all that i was like i need it it's worth it i'm starting the kilos are coming off but god i was like oh well done i've been very good to myself so now i need to be not so good to myself i think that i maybe have become not addicted to coffee but it's like a compulsion so like when i leave the house right if i'm in town or i'm heading off to get the train into

london sometimes for work or whatever or i get to a place and i see that they've got a coffee machine they're like oh would you like a drink i'm just like yeah i'll get a coffee but when i'm at home i never really make it for myself so i don't know whether it's it's like a an association with like being in the outside world but i think coffee is almost a cult now it's like a coffee cult yeah well i mean a lot of people i mean it's i guess it's in the same way with cigarettes like a lot of people wouldn't smoke at home but they would smoke on their break at work or whatever so you know it becomes just part it is the ritualistic thing which i don't actually see anything wrong with but when it costs so much fucking money that was oh my god yeah yeah yeah that was another thing drinking booze it saved so much money especially living in london

yeah oh amen yeah you go out and like it's like three it it doesn't seem like as much because i'm like i'm like oh yeah all right 350 all right sure i'll buy coffee and then but if you do that every day that soon starts to add up yeah yeah yeah big time um do you just do not like the taste of it i don't i don't like the taste of it i'm able able to go, I have peppermint tea now. I never used to drink Entenhot, but now I have a bit of peppermint tea. It makes me feel good in my tummy. Yeah. And then that's about it. But even that, like, you know, if I'm out and meet someone for a, you know,

you meet someone during the day on like a Saturday or Sunday, can I get you anything? I kind of resent getting a peppermint tea in a coffee shop because it's like it's just a teabag in hot water. It's like, why are you charging me $4 or whatever it is? I know. Yeah, I'll bet. Yeah, yeah.

I sometimes think that. I do. Because no effort has gone into it whatsoever. At least with a coffee, someone has done something. Yeah. Yeah, there's something that i mean i don't know how to do those machines i mean i'm sure i could learn but i haven't i've never had a goal but yeah yeah but anyway um i would have peppermint tea though and i wouldn't have coffee

no no okay yeah amen and i think on that which means i would have coffee on the island because i don't want yeah yeah yeah so on the island you've got you've got soup and coffee i mean i wouldn't want to be around you after a couple of days, man, because you're not going to be well. You are not going to be a well man. That is going to be grim. I didn't think of that combination either. That's so good.

All we've got is tomato soup and coffee. Woofty. That is not looking good for you. Okay. Coffee is going to be your drink choice, PQ. Now, fortunately, you won't be without entertainment on the island. The Plains Entertainment System continues to work, but just your luck, it only has two working settings.

One is your least favorite film of all time, and the other is your least favorite song. What are they and why? And I'm particularly interested in this because you are a musician and you're a musician, a songwriter, and you've got an album out now. And for me, I'm desperate to know what the song is, but in whatever order you like,

what's your film or song choice? This isn't as inspired as maybe you'd think, but I think it would be a shame to do this without giving an honorable mention to my arch nemesis uh ed sheeran that i'd need a the worst possible one would be the a team oh because that's where it all started and i feel like i would be able to trace back me being stuck on the island that's where my life started to go wrong and this is leading me to this point of me getting stuck on the island how how do you mean how do you mean that's when it all started people in london it was bad people shouting uh ed sheeran like across

the street at me yes he and i actually have like a wee bit of like history i never met him but we did a thing of a band i was in when i was like 19 played a thing for island records right um and he played it as well and he got signed and we didn't and then he got dropped from island but then he did get signed and lives in nashville or whatever so um yeah but i particularly hate that song The A-Team probably because I just feel like it's like you know he's talking about a prostitute

whatever but it doesn't sound like he's ever met one not that I've met very many but it's just like

it just feels very uninformed and I think a lot of his songs sound like that to me I know people love them and whatever but call it jealousy but

and if people all the money i wouldn't take it if people leave not if i had to write shit like that if people um if people are listening in audio only format they can't they can't see you haven't seen you on social that like um why what like explain describe why people would were shouting their cheering to you? Because I'm specky and I'm ginger. It's anti-Celtic rhetoric. Yeah, it is. It's people just being thick. But it happens everywhere.

I mean, you're a long way from home, right? You're in Australia. And so I don't know what the Australian view on the UK is, but England and Scotland, Wales and Ireland, I don't know what the Australian view on the UK is, but like, you know, England and Scotland, Wales and Ireland, to them, does it all kind of roll into one or do they not? A little bit. A little bit.

People often think I'm Irish. They can't tell if I'm Irish or Scottish. Right. Okay. But I mean, they still quite, I mean, they've got the Union Jack in their flag. Yeah. Yeah.

I know. So, you know, they, they, they, they're still relatively fond of it, but, but he's massive.

He played a huge, he played a huge show here at the, what's called the MCG, the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Oh, right. Okay. Which is where they do the AFL as well.

It was like one of the biggest concerts ever in like the Southern Hemisphere. They say that a lot here, the Southern Hemisphere, but there's not a lot of competition. Okay, yeah. It just sounds really grand, yeah. Yeah, yeah, but it's like, yeah. I mean, you do have like Brazil and stuff in that,

but there's not many Western countries in the Southern Hemisphere. Yeah. But just full disclosure, you don't actually look like Ed Sheeran. You've just got ginger hair and glasses. Yeah. Yeah. No, but like, okay, it's like your face isn't the same. You don't actually look like Ed Sheeran.

The amount of people that have said to me you know you could make good money if you were doing ed sheeran covers and i'm like music is the thing that i love the most why would i do the thing that i like least with the thing i love the most it's just like it's so true it's so true oh i love it it's like i've got i've got a job i don't need the money it's fine oh it's so good well like can i i mean just because we can i'll just say fuck you to anyone that's ever said ed sheeran to peter quinn fuck yourself. It'll be half of London. Okay, so song choice for that reason is going to be the A-Team, just because you don't want to hear that for the rest of your life, reminding you of all of those wankers, right?

Okay. Yeah. Okay. I'll be honest, I'd kind of forgotten about the film bit, but it's all right, because I love to hate. Go on.

So I've got one. Go on. And I've seen it recently. Go on. forgotten about the film but it's alright because because I love to hate so I can I've got one and I've seen it recently it ends with us don't know which was the Blake Lively film I went to see it with Maddie

okay she just heard about it and thought it would be good oh my god okay it was so bad what was it it's about

it was supposed to be about domestic abuse and it just it's so shallow and like rom-commy I don't know I just hated it

and I thought she was terrible acting it's one of those films that just like why would you not edit out all of this silence oh wow okay god it was bad it was really bad and I was like I was furious leaving the cinema. What, that you wasted your time? Time and money.

I was like, you know, I don't take a punt on a film that often. Yeah. And I just felt so annoyed. And I guess it was one of those films that there'd been a bit of like drama around, you know, and so it was getting press out of that. And the cinema was busy. Right. Okay. And I was like, all of these people have been duped into thinking this is a good film and it's fucking terrible.

Yeah, okay. It's so bad. Oh, man. Sorry, Blake Lively. Oh, she's all right. I'm sure she's fine. I mean... She did all right.

She probably did all right out of it. I mean, yeah yeah it's um it's not everyone can tackle those subjects well you know it's it's either gonna yeah yeah if it falls into the hands of the wrong person then yeah and because i'd heard that the book was really popular i don't know yeah but i'd heard that the book was really popular and i thought it was you know i think it was blake lively directing it and i was like all right so this is a film that, like an actor, a Hollywood person has been like very passionate about, wanted to direct it,

wanted to be in it. I was like, okay, this, I mean, it may not be my kind of film, but I'm sure there'll be something I can take out of it. There was nothing I could get out of it. Though it saved me because I'd kind of forgotten about the film bit and now it saved me. So actually, thank you, Blake Lively,

for giving me a film that I could mention on Desert Island Dicks that I could take and have with me forever. For the rest of your life, for the rest of your days. Okay, thank you very much, Peter. And finally, the island is overrun by the biggest dick of all the animals.

Which animal is it and why? Well, I'm actually already on an island with these, but see, just Australian birds okay now talk me through this because they don't sing they squawk and it's

see when you're waking up in the morning it's really really bad it's like an alarm but they cluster together in trees and it's like it's like an alarm but they but they're you know they cluster together in trees and you know it's nice you want to you want to you got some trees outside your house you think that's nice wrong because there'll be birds in it and they will wake you up then the worst way possible as soon as the sun's up and then to make things even worse than that mad, my girlfriend, her parents have a bird clock which goes

off every hour. So when we stay at theirs, even during the night there's no escaping these fucking birds. What? It just goes off in the night? Why would you have a clock like that? I don't know. I don't know.

Because sometimes someone's clock, you know, the ticking could be too loud or whatever. But every hour on the hour, it goes off. I think we've sort of taken to, like, hiding it when we're there and taking the batteries out. But, I mean, I say we've taken to it. I wouldn't do that. No, no.

And someone else's health, yeah. What do you call them? Yeah, parenting laws, whatever you call them. But Maddie does. She hides it when we're there i take the batteries out which obviously winds up that's great but why not yeah it's um it's i i feel like um i've seen or someone might have mentioned on here about an australian bird that it's like is it called like a bin a bin chicken bin, ibises, is that what they are?

They look horrific. You don't really get them in Melbourne, but I've seen them loads in Queensland up further north. Yeah, wow. Yeah, they're just kind of hanging about, like round bins and stuff. They're sort of in the way. Looking for crap.

And also, some of the Australian birds just look so scary and prehistoric yeah yeah that's what's kind of mad about here with just the wildlife in general like because it's it's really out on its own it hasn't been connected to anywhere for so long some of the animals are so mental i mean kangaroos look mad like are they rabbits you know yeah have you ever been threatened by a kangaroo no no but i've i've seen quite a like a lot the first time i seen them it was like at this sunset next to this beautiful lake and there was about 30 of them were just like hopping along not that far from me and maddie it was quite amazing yeah i bet that's amazing yeah they're cool

i bet they're shredded you ever seen yeah they look ripped that's what i don't you don't want to get in a scrap with one do you know i mean if one turns up it's like let's go i don't know how hard they can kick but they probably kick your head off you know yeah yeah i wouldn't want to know but like yeah um sorry we won't dive into all the wildlife in australia right now i'm sorry about that but it's mostly the squawking that's grim i mean i've got some trees outside my house i'm looking now and i'm i'm thinking i don't think any birds have ever woken me up so i don't know about well if they do it's nice because they sing it's one of the things really that i've really noticed about being here you can

be walking down a street that could look like you know mayor street or i don't know um victoria road in the south side of Glasgow or anything like that. It just looks like a normal street. And then there's just like some tropical, and they look cool, some tropical, like,

like parrot looking bird, you know, that's, and it's just, it's a bit kind of off-putting because you're like, this isn't fit. But,

but they look cool. They just sound terrible. That's great. And an island overrun with them, you're just like, you're tired. You're like drained. You've basically got dysentery from coffee and soup. You're just like, look around,

there's Barbie, Yoda, and George Harrison. And then, and all you can hear is, awful. You know what? They probably wouldn't be the worst three to be on with, but I think they would lead the society that we're going to build to collapse.

That's what I'm thinking long term. Okay. Long term. I appreciate it. Peter, this has been lots of fun. Thank you so much for coming on and doing this, man. I am in awe. I am in awe. I'm in awe.

When I saw that you were doing the music, like I know because we played in a band together and... Spud, spud, spud. Spud, spud, spud. I got a spud tattoo. Did you ever see it? Did I show you that? Oh, I think you did it says spartan on there

i have seen this yeah but um yeah but um yeah we played it about together obviously just like covers bam but you have gone you've gone to australia and you've done it and and i i'm just so impressed i'm so in awe of it like it's it's a lifelong ambition realized right yeah yeah totally and what's good about it is that there's a couple of older songs on it but although it's like a lifelong ambition a lot of the songs are within the last you know like three or four years i've written them so it's not like it's all just old material i feel like it's some of my best best songs as well so i've not been holding on to things for too long so do you think that yeah do you think

there's something to do with moving to australia and like being away from home that has managed to bring it out of you i think there's maybe i mean obviously covid was i wrote like 60 or something songs during covid so that was part of it but But not that many of them actually made it onto the album, but just that process, I suppose, got me writing a lot. I think actually what was really part of it is being away means that I have to go home. So then when I go home, I'm trying to hang out with people. And the way that I know most of my friends,

not all of them, but quite a lot of them is through making music and doing these things together so that's what made me book the studio it was more about hanging out with folk than it was about making an album but then obviously you need something to do when you're there so I'm like what about this song, what about this song

before you know it you've got 10 or 11 songs and yeah so being away meant that I had to 11 songs and yeah it's amazing so it was more so so being being away meant that i had to go back and spend the quality time so and so i was trying to cram you know like two years worth of hanging out into like a few days so that yeah they made the intenseness of it made it made the album happen so it's i think that's what i owe to it it's so that's so cool and like um do you think that you'll tour it? Do you think you'll play a lot of it live?

What are you going to do? I've got a gig in Melbourne booked around Christmas because I've got a Christmas song coming out as well, as always. And so I've got that. And then I'll be back in the UK next year and I'd like to play it then with some of the musicians that actually played on the album.

I mean, some of them are in Melbourne as well. I did a couple of tracks in Melbourne. Yeah, I would like to do that then. I might not tour it, but I wouldn't mind doing a... A few shows. If I can do a London gig would be great and we could do Spud on the bill as well.

That'd be amazing. Yeah. And then do Glasgow, which Spud can also be on the bill for if they can be asked yeah yeah 100 so how many how many tracks on the album 11 so there's one of them is kind of on twice as a um as a we'll get an acoustic version of it on there as well because i wrote that song with a couple of my friends. We were in America, actually, and we wrote it together. And we wrote it, and it was more acoustic-y. But then I did it in the studio, and it sounded good,

but it was very far from how we'd wrote it. So I was like, let's just have both versions. That's so fun. It's truly an international album. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's got people from America, Scotland, England, and Australia. I'm trying to think if there's anywhere else. Yeah.

Probably somewhere. Oh, so cool, man. Look, I'm in awe, and everyone should go and have a listen to it now. So what's the best way? Search Quinny on Spotify? Yeah, yeah, Spotify or any of those things. Outer Monologue is the name of the album. Or, you know, I'm on Instagram and Facebook and all that Quinny's Music

is my handle there Oh go and have a listen please everyone go and have a listen to that immediately and thank you so much for coming on man I really appreciate it Thanks for having me I'm glad that we finally did it Love you Peter Quinn Thanks man Love you, Peter Quinn. Thanks, man.