Do Go On - 97 - The 27 Club

Episode Date: August 30, 2017

Over the weekend both Jess and Dave turned 27, so what better way to celebrate than to talk about 'The Forever 27 Club.' On this episode Dave, Matt and Jess all report on someone who died at the age of 27, including Brian Jones from The Rolling Stones, Richey Edwards from The Manic Street Preachers and Amy Winehouse. Now let's hope neither Jess or Dave join the club...This super fun episode was recorded live at The Chippo Hotel in Sydney.Support the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: patreon.com/DoGoOnPod Twitter: @DoGoOnPod Instagram: @DoGoOnPod Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod Email us: [e-mail] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Melbourne and Canada, we got exciting news for you. And we should also say this is 2026. Jess, what year is it? 2026. Thank God you're here. Right now, I'm in Melbourne doing my show with Serengy Amarna 630 each night at the Cooper's Inn Hotel, having so much fun. We'd love to see you there. Canada, we are visiting you in September this year.

If you've somehow missed the news, we are heading up Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Toronto for shows. That's going to be so much fun. Tickets for all this stuff, I believe, are online. And I'm here too. This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network. Visit PlanetBcasting.com for more podcasts from our great mates. Yeah. Oh God, I'm nearly genuinely tripped.

Hello. Good afternoon, Sydney. Welcome down to Do Go On live at the Chippo Hotel. My name is Dave Ornicki, and I'm joined on stage by Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart, ladies and gentlemen. All right. Look at us go. We've never been in the state before. We got a clap for being Matt Stewart and Jess Perkins.

That's kind of cool. Everyone's like, good for you guys. I did not get a clap for being Dave Wonkies, so fuck all of you. You don't deserve one. Hmm? No. Yeah, thank you. That's what I wanted.

It's what I asked for. Pity clap. Pity clap for Dave. Yeah, pity clap. Enjoy your pity clap there, Dave. How good is it to podcast in the Sunshine of Sydney? Oh, it is so good. We're outdoors in a beer garden.

The sun is shining. I'm sunburned. We can see the Harbour Bridge over there. Oh, wow. What's the other big one? The opera house over there. The Sydney version of the MCGs over here. The smaller cricket ground.

Yes. The laneways and the coffee, right? Now, four people at home, we are not actually in a beer garden. We are probably in the most... I don't tell. I just want to describe... This room is like the most... rock and roll fire trap I've ever been inside up.

It is incredible. Do we have an emergency exit? No. That is a solid wall behind us. Though, we will ask, in the event of emergency, I have been told to tell you that if there's a fire... Let the talent get out first. That's right.

You stay seated whilst we leave. I promise we may call a fire brigade. Dave, Dave, Dave, may I make a brief suggestion? Ooh. We, like, crowd surf out. Oh, that would be a safety crowd surf out. Yeah. That would be...

Good stuff. Guys, we are so excited that you actually came out to this because it's a bit of a gamble going into state and here you all are. So give us a round of applause if you have actually heard do go on the podcast before. Good. Okay, okay, that's great.

Thank you so much. But my favourite part is now when I ask the people who have never heard it to give me a brave round of applause. Woo! Brave. Thank you. How is that brave?

Because they're like, they're going to pick on me, which we're not at all. This fucking idiot? You don't think we're... So you guys are just being dragged along by friends? Dragged along by friends? Yep. Oh, you're just good friends, aren't you?

Good for you guys. Thank you so much for... That's what this podcast is all about. It's all our friendship. And not at all about bullying. So you're in the right place. I've also started drinking, so we're fucked. Yeah.

I'm going to get mean. No. night before Matt did a stand-up show last night, which I know all of you went to. Some of them did? Right? Oh. Who was that then? The room was very dark.

I thought there were people there. And Jess and I went out for some cocktails beforehand, and Jess, I must admit, you had one mehito and you went, I'm feeling buzzed, I am. I was in a good place. So day drinking again, I hope. Let's just keep those pints coming for Jess because that would be... What do you call them in Sydney?

Scunas. Go fuck yourself. I have a pint of suck on this, all right? And the way that bar people look at you up here when you ask for a pint, they go, mate, we do schooners here. And I don't know. They do pints as well, Dave.

You're thinking of pots, you're fucking idiot. And they call pots middies. Ugh. You call pots middies? What do you call a middy? I don't know, we don't have middies. Just thought I'd go with that? This is a fun geography chat.

Yeah, it really is. The slight differences between... Did they call them potato scallops up here too instead of potato cakes? Yeah. Sorry about that, yeah. Just scallops. Then what do you call a scallop from the ocean?

A potato cake, yes, correct. Very good, very good, very good. It's just the little differences. It's the little differences. How funny is day? It's pretty funny. but we are very excited to be here it is a special weekend

for us not just because we're doing our first interstate podcast but because a little certain someone named Jessica Perkins Persons she is a person Perkins I know her name celebrated her birthday yesterday ladies and gentlemen Thanks guys As you know and that we've talked about

a lot Dave and I are two days apart so it's day's birthday tomorrow If I'm wooing someone being born on a certain day. Who gives the fuck? Matt has also celebrated many hundreds of birthdays

in his life. See? Feels good. It does feel good. It feels real good. And yeah, we're both 27. We're both 27th and today is the 27th. So we're like,

oh, there's a 27th themed party. That is right. She's a very specific, fuck, this chair's the best. Look at this. I feel much more comfortable this. Well, they're all used to hearing me and not seeing me.

I think my face is a bit much. They're like, She's very expressive. Well, speaking of your face a bit much, we actually, this is another very exciting development, ladies and gentlemen, we have, for the first time ever, T-shirts of the podcast. We've got T-shirts.

Very exciting. They are over there at the bar, and they are little, their drawings of our faces as pictured in the Do Go On logo that we have for the show. And we've got our good friend and very funny man, Nick Kappa, who, Matt Stewart did his show with last night. And he was also...

As you would all know. Remember, the funny one from last night? The funny one. He was great. He was great. Too real, Dave. Too real. I saw Matt show. It had been 12 months nearly exactly since I first saw you do the show when you were warming up at Melbourne at the French festival. And it was fantastic, I've got to say.

It really was. You are so cool. But, so Nick Cabra is also a graphic artist. We asked him to draw us, like a cartoony version of us, to put on the t-shirt. And he was like, he's never had to draw three more fucked faces. He said lopsided g-s. He said, I love you guys individually, but to draw you are lopsided. Hey, while we are talking about t-shirts, what was your name, sir?

Can you stand up and show Jess what you're wearing? Oh, my goodness. It's two. It's two. It's two. They're wearing pray for balls. bop t-shirts. This is, I did not know this before,

that is amazing. Thank you so much. Thank you so much, but also that is counterfeit merchandise. I would like you to remove it immediately. I don't know. I hope you printed like 40 of them and are going to sell them because you'll probably outsell ours. That's so awesome.

If I could just check in with the people who haven't heard of this podcast before, how tedious has it been so far? This is the general thing. Yeah. That's about it. After about 80 episodes, you get used to it. So, um, strap in.

Strap in for episode 97. Here we go, ladies and gentlemen. All right. So we better get into the topic. Now, because it is a special weekend for us all, we've decided... That's all. All of us are very excited about Dave and I turning 27.

That's right. So because it is sort of a special edition of the show, we have decided to write not one, not two, but three mini reports. So you're going to get a little bit. A little bit of Dave, a little bit of Matt action. And when you say write the reports, I feel Matt and I have taken that word

a little more liberally. How did you draw them? Yeah. I'm going to do my report on interpretive dance. Strap in. I've got to get my leotard on, hang on. I wrote mine at the cafe across the road. They got me a free brownie if I plugged them.

I cannot remember their name. But across the road from the chippo, hotel very very good do yourselves a favor so we we uh if you haven't heard the show before which a few of you have not um we talk a lot like this and then we try and report on a topic but because it is the special one we're going to do a little topic each except Dave you admitted that yours is almost full topic all right so we could be here for at least three hours I could carry it away I couldn't write a many reports so we're going to see how this goes now this topic

I was going to get the question was going to be how old did Jess turn yesterday and God willing I turned tomorrow but imagine how ominous that would be if you did die tonight Jess and I are getting on a plane later this afternoon

oh my God no we'll be right anyway it's a great question so but do you guys remember how old we turning or turned 27 now 27 very good boys and girls

Now 27 is a very magical number in the world of celebrities For a very specific reason Would anyone know a certain 27 club? That's what I was going to say Does anyone know a certain club around the number 27? That was going to be even too obvious for me Do you think they're children? Oh!

Now so what we're going to do is Each do a report on a member of the 27 club and mine's going to be a full report and then if we have time, God willing, Jess and Matt will do a report as well. We don't know who each other are doing. No, we do not know

Jess is spinning. Jess, I feel like this could be how you join the 27 club. Yep, good point, yep. Oh, that means I have to be careful for a year. Yeah, totally. Now, so we don't know who we're going to report and what we do. We've got a third part and we all

messaged the party and we message them a name. and they wrote back saying whether or not that name had been taken yet and just and I messaged the person saying hey which Matt was supposed to organize and someone told you about this or are we just messaging you celebrity's names which reminds me of what I used to do trivia nights and one of the games was people to win a jug of beer would have to text in the name of celebrity that was slowly appearing on the screen and I did this every night for a year and then at this pub in Fitzroy and one day one of the punters told me they're like I was

I was wondering why you never pick mine, because they texted me the answer. I always get the answer right and you never pick the answer. They worked out that they had the wrong number. And they only found out because one day they got a text message on a Monday night, every Monday at about 9.30. They got a message back saying, stop texting my 10-year-old son celebrity's names. I will call the police. And that's how we're going out.

He's not sending your 10-year-old son's celebrities dicks. No. Relax. He would just get Lynnaud Caprio. Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson. It's happening again, Mum. It's happening again. So that's kind of what happened with our third party.

But none of us picked the same celebrities. We have all gone different celebrities. And we've also been told the era they died. So we're going to go in chronological order. And I'm going to kick us off. Now, if you don't know, the 27 club is a theoretical club. It's difficult to get an actual membership. They all have jackets.

You do not get a jacket. Well, you get plastic underpants and they pack your ass. That's the only club you get to do it. It's a theoretical club that connects famous people who have all tragically died at the age of 27. It is sometimes called the Forever 27 Club, as you are, forever 27 years young. It mostly connects to musicians who die at the young age,

but over time is expanded to include other celebrities. People had presumably been dying at 27 for millennia. It wasn't just a recent occurrence. I think though when you Google the phrase people from history who died at 27 nothing comes up it was actually invented in the 1880s

yeah dying at 27 yeah well death no no 27 people have done it before at 26 25 sure but not until 1882 yeah Donald Donald Regrett face

I don't regret face I don't regret That was a sweet riff. It died too young that riff. About 27 seconds in, I think. Johnald. Fuck. What was Johnnell's last name?

Javitson. Yes. You know the story. So people have been dying at 27 for a long time, I imagine. But it took a while for people to notice and start connecting the dots. So our story starts in the 1960s. What a time to be alive and what a time to die at 27. Here we go.

Our first stop on the tour of death. We did not think this through either, do we? Like, come on down to a dungeon. We get to spend a couple hours talking about people dying. Quite young, like you all look. And all these people have probably achieved more than everyone here combined. Oh, this guy's made a t-shirt. Yeah, yeah, sorry.

And trust me, that is not easy. Now, so our first stop on the tour of death is a young man. They're all young people. Oh. Brian Jones. Not a cool name, is it? It's a very boring name. Now, when I say the Rolling Stones,

now you probably think of Keith Richards or Mick Jagger. But let me tell you, by the way, they are two men who absolutely refuse to die and presumably are trying to set up their own 127 club. That is, that's what I think they're doing. But back in the day when the band was formed in 1962, the main man and band leader of then blues-orientated act was Brian Jones.

He was the main man. And they were blues, were they? Yeah, and they mainly did covers at the time. He even named the band. He named it after a Muddy Waters LP. He was on the phone and they were like, what do you want to call your band? He looked at it in one of the tracks was called Roland Stone.

Cool. And they called the band The Rolling Stone. I would like to imagine that he's just stand. at his kitchen, like, at the sink, doing some dishes. And he looks out the window. Go with me on this. Oh, no. There's a big hill. Johnald there?

Johnald there. Yeah, Donald was over. That's why they had so many dishes. You know, Donald. He's a messy eater. Big eater. Just use the pizza box, Donald. What are you doing, Donald?

Why are you creating dishes? You've already got a plate. You've already got a plate. Why are you getting another one? Johnled. Anyway. So Brian's looking out the window, and he lived in a very hilly area. Beautiful. And just, this is so not worth it.

You know what I'm going to say there's a stone rolling down, you know? It's not that funny anyway. Oh, yes, very, very... That is good. You are far too kind. I don't deserve you, yes. That's how you comedy.

That was amazing. That was like a pullback and reveal. When you said a hill, I was like, where is you going with you? Rolling stone. I just can't connect these dots, but you did it. You did it. When you get to my age, mate,

it'll... God, will... God, will... God willing. Comedy will make a lot more sense then. There'll be a lot of that today too by the way. Yeah. When I listen back to edit tomorrow I'll be like, oh, that is funny.

All right. No, that he just admitted to editing it. Yes, we don't have to do it. Oh. Fuck. Born in 1942 during World War II to Welsh parents. What year, sorry? 1942.

A good year. Yeah. Great. Yeah. Great work. Jones suffered from asthma as a child and throughout his life. Sorry, Dave. I just heard in a little silent moment there,

someone in the audience said, that's a recurring joke. I heard that too. That was fucking adorable. That's a joke, they make. Joke is such a strong word. It does not deserve to be called a joke. Certainly recurring.

Will she let it die? Never. His mother and father, both played music and by the time he was in high school Brian had learned to play the piano, clarinet and saxophone. Saxophone. Saxophone.

He received a guitar from his 17th birthday. The piano. The clarinet. The saxophone. He received a guitar. For his 17th birthday and that became his main instrument then. But it wasn't all rock and roll for the young Jones. No, no, no. He enjoyed

badminton and diving at school and played the first clarinet in the school orchestra. No! But he quit school and left home shortly after a scandal in which he fathered an illegitimate baby boy who was subsequently given up for adoption because apparently being into badminton did not slow down your sex life in the 1960s.

How? The ladies could not get enough of his shuttlecock. Let me just say that. Yes, that's a pre-repaired joke, but I still... Still good. So good. My head, my, the cogs were ticky in my head. I was like, shuttlecock,

shuttlecock, do something with shuttlecock, and you did it. That's great. That's great. Thank you. He lived, uh, with a, with a big hill in his backyard. Shuttlecock.

Shuttlecock didn't uproll down the top of one. Jan, did someone say Janiel? That's good. That's an Arny Donner reference. What was my one? Have I ripped off Aunty Donna? No.

Yours was... Oh, fuck him. Johnald. Totally different. Totally. That's the other thing you need to know is that our attention span is very short and we get distracted and forget our own jokes. So yeah. Alright so he's got one kid. Okay.

And he's had to leave school because of it. And I really, really mean the Shadowcock thing because you will see in November 1959, age 17, Jones went to the Woodenbridge Hotel in Guildford to see a band perform. He met a young married woman named Angelene there and the two had a one-night stand that resulted in her pregnancy. He is fertile little fucker, isn't he? So that's number two. Angeline and her husband decided to raise the baby, Belinda, born in August 1960. Jones never knew about the birth of his second child.

Then, on 23rd of October 1961, Jones, now age 19, his girlfriend, Pat Andrews, gave birth to his third child, Julianne Mark Andrews. She's getting so much done. Jones... I'm 27, I haven't had any kids. But if you want...

If you have a partner, you want Jones, because he sold his record collection to buy flowers for Pat. Flowers to help raise his new child. Fucking idiots. Yeah. Babe. Babe, I sold the LPs.

I got some lavender. Did you get nappies? Oh, fuck. The house smells half of her, half of lavender. Oh, yuck. He lived with them for a while, but then moved on. Then in 1964, another woman, Linda Lawrence, who was later married to the singer Donovan,

she gave birth to Jones's fourth child, Julianne Bryan. So he's got four kids now. In 1961, just before this, Jones had applied for a scholarship to Cheltenham Art College. He was initially accepted into the program, but two days later, the offer was withdrawn after an unidentified acquaintance wrote to the college, calling him an irresponsible drifter. I think because he'd spend all this money on flowers. I like the idea of a responsible drifter. That's all.

I'm here for just a couple of really sweet quips. And then he tunes out again. Yeah, yeah, you tune in and out so much. The last thing I heard was Shuttlecock. Do I miss anything? No, no. Yeah, drifter. Drifter, that's right.

And now he's got four kids. He's got four kids. He's got four kids so far. Bloody hell, four kids. And the question is, do they know what was causing it? Do they know? Actually, five is my minimum for that joke. I've gone a little early there.

But don't worry, we'll get there. We'll get there. So he's been accepted into art college. Two days later, told he can't come into art college. Because he's a drifter. He's a drifter. So he drifted. You can't come into art college

because you're a bit too artsy. Fair, makes sense. He drifted to London to play blues guitar in local bars and then in 1962 he formed the Rolling Stones with pianist Ian Stewart, singer Mick Jagger, Jagger's childhood friend and guitarist Keith Richards. I'm sorry about the name of the Rolling Stones. I don't know, I'm not doing it again.

A little fun fact about the Rolling Stones. Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts soon joined the band. So then they are. As well as the guitarist, he acted somewhat as the band's business manager and he was instrumental both on the guitar and in their early 16. Which one's our business? Instrumental on the guitar. I also thought, God, I'm good when I wrote that.

You think God you're good for most things. God, I'm good. No, good on ya. Do go on. So he's in the band. According to Biography.com, he was, quote, the most photogenic member of the band. Reportedly his antics and fashion sense were quickly adopted by the swingers of the 1960s London scene. He's an influential cool guy. He's a cool dude.

He's so cool. He legit is actually cool. legit is actually cool. Matt? Yeah, no, he sounds pretty cool. No, he's legit cool. Oh, I didn't get the backhand element of that. It's because you'd zoned out. He's managing the band. He's playing guitarist. He's hip. He's happening. He is the Rolling Stones. But then the band got a real manager called Andrew Lug-Lug-O-G-L-O-G.

And Jones... Loung. L-O-G. Everyone have a go. Loung. Silly. That's a silly name. How do you spell that? L-O-G. He'd literally just say that. Jones felt himself being pushed away by the Lug.

I was going to call him Old Man, as his name is, but let's call him Lug. Lug, recognized the financial advantages of band members writing their own songs, as exemplified by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and that playing covers would not sustain a band in the limelight for long. Brian didn't like this. He thought blues and covers were the way to go, so he was not a very good manager. We should do covers of other podcasts. That'd be great.

That'd be sick. Just the good ones though. Any requests? Serial? Who did it? Mason, okay, it'll be Mason. Yeah, yeah, okay, cool. Lut crate. Absolutely smashed that.

In early 1964, an occasional girlfriend of Brian's, Dawn Molly announced to Brian and the band's management that she was pregnant by Brian. Oh, for fuck's sake. Does she know what was, what was, what was, was happening. Well, what did happen was she received a check for 700 pounds, equivalent to 12,000 pounds in today's money,

from the manager, Luke. In return, she signed an agreement that the matter was now closed, and she would make no statement about Brian Jones or the child to the public or the press. They bought her off, so in March 1965, Dawn gave birth to Brian's fifth child, Paul Molly, who was also adopted out. So now he has five kids by the age of 22. Not a bad effort, and keeping in mind, people were grossed out by that. Oh, kids.

Hey, you were all once kids. Yeah, fuck you. Well, keeping in mind, he is fathering none of these children. One time he sold his records to buy flowers, and that is the extent of his fathering. That's it. The kids ate on flowers for days. Eight on flowers for days.

Check out, Maddie. Check out. Have a break. Have a kick. Anyone got one? Jones saw his influence over the Stone's direction slide as their repertoire comprised fewer of the blues covers that he preferred. According to Manager Luke in his book,

Stoned, about the Rolling Stones. I get it. Love a pun title. Love a pun title. I'm trying to read ahead. My favourite is Arnold Schwarzenegger. Total Recall. Nice. Oh, I get it. That took way too long.

I was like, Ah. See, it's a movie he was in. The working title was Terminator I'll be book, but did not go very well. According to Luke

in the book stone, Jones was an outsider from the beginning. One of the first tours were arranged in 1963 for the band. He travelled separately from the other members, stayed at different hotels and demanded extra pay. He's like the yellow wiggle. Oh yeah, the smelly wickle. Stinky Greg.

Stinky Greg. They're like, you, no, it's all right, Brian. You go in that car. This one's full, mate. I never knew anything about him. I always assumed he was some sort of a legend, but he's actually, they were better off without him. Is that fair?

You did the Wiggles Report, mate. I was talking about Brian Jones, you fucking idiot. Oh, right, sorry, I checked out of my own thing. All right, so in summary, the Rolling Stones were better off without Smelly Greg from the Wiggles. You're like you know how Dave and I have come up separately to you and you're staying in one place and we're staying another. Oh shit. And you're demanding extra pay?

You're the smelly Greg. As long as I get that sweet scrella, which is a word for money. Somewhere in time. When you've lived through that many decades, you can't remember them all. You can't. You can't. Well, Matt, does this sound like you? The toll from days on the road, the money and the fame,

the feelings of being alienated from the group, having dozens of children, and the miles spent traveling from his hotel to the other Stone's hotel and then back again, resulted in Jones' overindulgence in alcohol and other drugs. That does sound like Matt. Yeah, I relate, I relate. Jones was arrested for drug possession in May 1967.

Authorities found marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamine in his flat. He confessed to marijuana use but claimed he did not use hard drugs. I don't know how they got it? Yeah. They were there when I moved in. Hostility grew between Jones, Jagger and Richards especially, alienating Jones further from the group because what happened was Mick Jagger and Keith Richards started writing all the songs,

the originals and Jones felt like, hey, this used to be in my band, what's going on? What would you do if you moved into a house and there was just a whole lot of meth? What would you do? There's only one thing you can do. Oh, the police, interesting. Genuinely didn't think of that. I was like, what would I believe it? I was going to say, yeah, there's two options.

The first one is not taking it. No, I wasn't going to take it. But I was like... The second option... Sell it, thank you. Sell it. Never take meth, kids. Always sell it.

Always sell it. There you go. Never try your own supply. I've been told. Yeah. You were told that by me. By my meth dealer. You got that meth look about you.

It's called heroin. chic okay there's a name for it Kate Moss in the 1990s all right I would have killed if I was a woman in the 1990s so you're saying that meth users their look is heroin chic that's confusing but I like it that's fashion I don't get fashion I don't get fashion we know we can see you oh no it's okay bully I'm sick of this bullying now love it makes me realize my place the bloody gutter. Too much real sympathy there.

By most accounts, Jones's attitude changed frequently. He was one minute caring and generous, the next making an effort, an effort to anger everyone. Going out of his way, he pissed people off. Sure. He was being the Dave.

When have I ever tried to piss you off? Oh, you're not trying? I told you're going to get mean. I've finished the drink. staying at an Airbnb up here and I had the, we have two separate bedrooms because we are pretty rich. I was upstairs and Jess was down, but I had the towels in my room and she texted me, oh, I need one of the towels. And I was like, too late, I've already thrown it on the road.

So I am a bad boy. Also, I was texting him for within the house because we do not speak in person. I was like, leave a towel out and be quiet. Nah, good to be here. From 1965 to 1967, Brian Jones dated an Italian model named Anita Pellenberg. That's not an Italian name. Anita Pallenberg. That's a word that is spelt the same forwards and backwards.

No, you're thinking of a parallelogram. I can't see his face. Is he doing a regret face? Yeah, yes, yeah, yes. Maddie, I know you were doing regret face. No, no, I was enjoying it too much. You hated yourself just then. I was high-fiving myself.

Been fucking nailing it. Anita Palenberg was a woman whose modeling agency built her as, quote, too beautiful to get out of bed. What is that mean? But she did have many high-profile relationships with that. I'm still thinking about it.

She had many, many, many high-profile relationships. You can't get out of bed because you're too beautiful. That doesn't make sense. Oh, okay, there's a mirror above the bed. Mirror above the bed, yeah. So she's like, oh, God damn, I'm so beautiful. And then it depresses her so she can't get out of bed.

Still, nah, not my best. No, no, that was your best. That was your best. Fuck you. So, she met the Stones, this is Anita Pellenberg, backstage at a gig,

and offered them drugs. Oh, she got out of bed. Yeah. No, they moved her bed to the backstage area. Like one of those poorer people that needs to be moved around. She was like that.

They moved her to the backstage area. She was like, oh, it's beautiful to get up. That's my accent for her, too, by the way. I'm too beautiful. She doesn't have an Italian name or an Italian voice. It's very strange, they're just. I'm too beautiful.

Ciao, Bella. Ciao, Bella. She met the Stones backstage at a gig from her bed. I'm not tropa Bella. I'm too beautiful in Italian. I'll go back here. That was your new best. Fuck off.

New PB, new PB. I'm putting myself in a timeout. If you listen to last week's episode, you know that her self-imposed timeouts mean nothing. So she met the Stones backstage at a geek from her bed, offered them drugs. And they said no. Ciao, Rolling Stones. Would you like some of the meth? Offensive?

Not if it's like spot on. It was spot on. That was spot on. Awkward meth. And it was both. They said no to the drugs. But eventually, Brian, he caved. and he smoked a bit of her hashish

and sniffed some of her amyl nitrate. Oh, Amel, okay. He was loose. She later recalled, quote, we ended up back at his hotel room and I spent all night holding him while he cried. That's hot. Yes, sexy.

That's why I do drugs. That's rock star. That's how I party too. That's a rock star lifestyle. Hold me while I cried. Well, it went well because within a week the guitarist had evicted his girlfriend and their baby from his flat and Anita moved in instead.

This guy sucks. Evicting a baby. He gave the kid two weeks notice. You're out in two weeks. Yeah, because it took that long for it to crawl out the door. I've heard you can evict him from your womb. I know that's... I mean, that got a weird reaction.

I would have given it nothing, but you gave it... You gave it something. That made me feel okay. Anita, presumably from her bed, introduced Jones to her world of sadomasochistic sex. They moved to a... And then they cried, heaps. There's a lot of crying and saddust. It was more sadomasochistic.

Oh, Cindy likes puns. You want puns? Right, okay. Cindy likes pun. This changes everything. You just don't figure out what they're like and then just give them what they want. All right, okay, we're here, we're here.

After she introduced him to the world of sadomasochism, they moved to a pad in Chelsea, which was especially soundproofed. For all their fucking. Though apparently, according to some sources, not enough to muffle the crack of her whip. There's a lot going on in that sentence. So she could get out of bed to get her whip.

And then, oh, too beautiful. Chow Whipper. Did you factor in time for us to do our reports as well? Yep. He knows the length of our reports. I'm like, now this person existed. Anyway, see ya. You've got to remember, like,

these people all have a finite lifespan, which is 27 years, so don't worry. There's not much to go. Spoiler. Jones, Pallenberg, Anita Pallenberg, the model, and Keith Richards, the three of them, went on a holiday to Marrakesh in Morocco, just to get away from the craziness of their lives.

On the way back to England, they were travelling up through Spain. Jones had to stop off at a hospital. Anita Pellemberg and Richards continued without him, making love in the back seat as Richard's chauffeur drove on. So rock and roll, eh. When Jones caught up with him, he alternated between screaming abuse and suggesting that Anita and him

have a forcum with too heavily tattooed sex workers that he had picked up along the way. When she refused, he assaulted her, which is not okay. Thank you for clarifying. Richards, recognising this is not okay, packed her into his Bentley and drove her straight... Packed her?

Well, they went back to Britain. In the boot? In the car. He just took her in the boot. It's like, I'll save you, get in the boot. They left Jones to find his own way back home. Then Anita Pallenberg and Keith Richards became a serious couple and according to his memoir were banned from several airline toilets for occupying them for too long

no no no no hang on they're not banned from the airline they're just banned from the toilet it's like a 19 hour flight no no no no you're holding it yeah sorry mr riches where do you think you're going no you are not we don't have a problem with you flying with us we do have a problem with you pooping with us you shit in the cockpit okay you do not go to the john all right Pellenberg and Richards would go on to have three children together so they became quite a serious couple over the years but there was now a clear rift between Jones and Richards because Brian saw Richards as stealing his girlfriend

interesting that he would see that yes look different people's perspectives am I right you had to interpret it that way yeah I don't know where he came he got to that but um did wait so I wasn't listening did he steal his girlfriend because that would make sense let me rephrase there was a clear riff between Brian Jones and Keith Richards as Keith Richards had stolen Brian Jones's

girlfriend. Okay, yeah, okay, great. You get it. As tensions in the band and Brian Jones's substance... I'm going to go solo here. Welcome to Dave's Hour of Power. He's gone straight to his head.

That's right. It's an hour starting now, so... Oh no. So tensions in the band are at an all-time high. The Stones' substance abuse increased. His musical contributions to the group became less and less. So he's doing more and more drugs, but now playing guitar less and less on the recordings. Cool. He was arrested for a second time in 1968 for possession of cannabis.

The Stones had enough of Brian. They wanted to tour the US, but because of his two arrests, it means he couldn't get a visa. Two arrests. I heard two arrests. And I was like, sometimes you're going to take two arrests, you know? Two arrests. Enunciate David. Justing too much on tour for us to play the shows.

That's how it worked. His attendance at rehearsals and recording sessions became erratic. And when he did appear... Erotic. Erotic. And when he did appear, he tried to have sex with the other members' instrument. No, when he did... If you could fuck an instrument, which one would you choose?

Yeah. That's where I was going. Me too. I've thought about that before, yeah. You need a big old hole, if you know what I mean? And I think the tuba, the tuba would be adequate. That's one of the worst things you've ever said. He did in a big old hole.

My question was fucked enough. Jesus. Matt, you don't need a tuba, you need a piccolo, mate. Oh, hang on, hang on. What's a piccolo? Brian's output became so bad that when he did try and play guitar on the recording, they would secretly switch his amplifier off. Brutal.

Sometimes I feel like you guys turn my mic off. Yeah. We wish we could at this video. Alex, can we do that? No, please don't do that. He went to, he's like, yep. Shut up. According to author Gary Herman,

Jones was literally incapable of making music anymore. When he tried to play harmonica, his mouth started bleeding. Bleeding Gums Murphy. It's gross, isn't it? It's gross how long this report's going. Don't worry, he's about to fucking cock it. Spoilers.

Let's make us really quick. I will, yeah. In March 1969, Jones borrowed the group's Jaguar. They had a group JAG. They had a group JAG. We need a group JAG. We need one. Yes. Although I think we could afford a group 1993 Corolla.

Do you think we could afford that? No. If a friend of ours was giving it away slash selling it real cheap maybe. For free. You know how much a yearly retro costs? Oh yeah, you're right. Fuck. Do you go on.

He borrowed the grips jag. He went shopping in Pimlico Road in London. After the parked car was towed away by police, because he parked in a no parking zone. Jones then hired a chauffeur-driven car to get home. And he charged the band for it. So they were pissed off about that. He lost the jag, then got a chauffeur.

Then a couple of months later, he crashed his motorcycle into a shop window, left it there, and secretly took himself to hospital under an assumed name. Fuck, that's so rock and wrong. So shit's not going well for him. He crashes a motorbike into a shop and then just leaves it there. Like, ooh.

Sorry. So when he got out of hospital the next month in June, he was visited by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts, and he was told that the group he had formed would continue without him. Publicly, he came out and said that he was quitting the band due to musical differences, but really they kicked him out. Good to know. Brian moved to Coochford Farm in East Sussex,

a property he had bought in late 1968. Coochford Farm had been owned by Winnie the Pooh creator A.A. Milne And was where he lived when he wrote all the books. It was inspired by the local landscape, which was very hilly and full of round stones. And what's funny is on the hills, you get a stone to the top of them. Sometimes gravity will do the work, you know?

And they'll just bloody roll. At around midnight, Matt, you want to listen to this bit? Matt, he said, Matt, you want to listen? We've had an audience member leave. Yeah, someone had to go, like, get on with their lives. Yeah, all right. I think that she sensed that death was coming. Matt, you want to listen to this bit?

Because around midnight on the second-third of July, as the clock ticked over. From one day to the next, less than a month after he was kicked out of the Rolling Stones, Brian Jones was discovered motionless at the bottom of his swimming pool in Coochford Farm. That doesn't sound good. Yeah, that's not promising.

Don't worry. He's going to be fine. He's at the bottom of the pool. Yeah. That's fine, you're at the bottom of the pool. Exactly. I don't know what my theory was there. That's the safest part of the pool.

Yeah. How long. Oxygen sinks to the bottom. He's fun. He's Swedish girlfriend Anna Walen. and was convinced Jones was alive when he was taken out of the pool insisting that he still had a pulse.

However, by the time doctors arrived, it was too late and he was pronounced dead at his home. The coroner's report stated that it was death by misadventure. That's the best! So good. I don't care how I die.

Make sure they put that on my death certificate. Please. Misadventure. No. Just put like a pageant thing on me that says misadventure. That is fantastic. And then pack my ass way.

With the sash? Yeah. That's cool. How rock and roll is that? Fuck I'm cool. The girlfriend Wollin was convinced that Brian Jones wasn't a suicide and probably wasn't an accident either.

She went to point the finger at a handyman named Frank Thuragood. Thuragood. Thuragood. Yes. He'd been hired to finish up some odd jobs around the musicians' home and she said,

Quote, I don't know if Frank meant to kill Brian. Maybe it was horseplay in the pool that went wrong. She actually found his list of jobs to do around the house because he's a handyman. So he's like, fix leaky tap, replace tiles in kitchen, push Brian into pool, hold him underwater. She's like, hmm, I put him two and two together here. I think having horses in the pool was probably dangerous too.

They're so big. They don't know what to do with their hooves. Exactly. This bloke Thurrogood, he was reportedly the last person to see Brian Jones alive. Just before he pushed him into the pool. But it took 40 years for the Sussex Police to take this seriously and they finally looked into the case for the first time in four decades. They found no evidence to contradict the original ruling of death by misadventure. Misadventure.

It's the latest in the miscongeniality franchise. Yeah. That needs a reboot for sure. I watched it recently. It holds up. It's so good. Jones's old bandmates were in the recording studio when they got the news,

and Keith Richards wrote that there exists a one minute, 30 second recording of Stevie Wonder Song. I don't know why, which is then interrupted by a phone call saying that Brian was dead. Dave, Dave, can I stop you there? You've just turned 27. Congratulations. It's midnight on the 28th.

I'm saying this is taking too long. I was going to do a report on Jimmy Hendrix. And I was like, I'll mention Brian Jones because he was the first one to die. And then I never got around to Jimmy Hendrix. I'll mention... This is you mentioning Brian. Fucking hell day!

We're about to do Jimmy Hendrix is my choice. All right, I'll wrap it up. Don't worry. Two days after Jones died, the Stones paid tribute to him at a free concert in Hyde, which they'd already organized. 250,000 people watched them play.

Is that all? A somber... I know, as we look out. No big deal. A somber Mick Jagger quoted a piece of poetry and member of Brian. Was it one of my poems? Yeah, it was.

Yeah. He got my book. The group released three and a half thousand... Just said off, Mike, that she hates herself. They heard me. Just out of the people at home know. They heard me. They felt it.

I'm in a little bit. ball, man. My sad little ball. Shut up, little bowl. The reason my report's gone so long is because you've been a ball for two hours. She's doing her best to make it fun, Dave. Hey, I know a good report.

This is a fucking sick one. I'm doing a lot of the fun heavy lifting here, mate. And you know what, I'm having a good time. That would be the perfect time to fall off my chair, you know? Like, hey. I just wanted to say the group released three. three and a half thousand butterflies to the to uh to uh to why were they keeping three and a thousand butterflies prisoner that sentence took way too long but if i had shortened that down it

would have been quite funny i reckon where did they get all those butterflies i don't know sure okay yeah butterfly store butterflies. all right the final thing hi welcome to butterflies.com oh no we've got all your butterfly needs we got blue blue ones, red ones. We've got the fluttery ones. I go, are you talking, do you mean a moth? Oh, I hate them.

I hate them, because you don't know which way they're going to go and they come at you and you like, ha! I hate it. They're just a dusty butterfly. Don't worry about that. Final thing, final note. Final notes on Brian Jones. Jimmy Hendricks dedicated a song to him

on US television. And Jim Morrison, the Doors published a poem called Ode to L.A. while thinking of Brian Jones, deceased. Which is crazy because Hendricks and Morrison both died within the following two years, both at the age of 27. So within 27, those three, Brian Jones, Jim Hendricks and Jim Morrison, plus Janice Joplin, all died between 1969 and 1971 at the age of 27. But at the time, no one connected the ages of the dead rockers.

Ooh. Over to Matt. hear it for Matt's report. Now the show begins. All right guys. What we did here, we started with the headline, and now we're going to go to Matt's shitty report. All right, here we go.

That means mine is being set up to be the shittiest. And I'm okay with you. Yeah, it is. Mine's a lot quicker. I don't know that it is. Tears, did you feel the energy drop as that went? Oh my goodness, that was brutal, Dave doesn't read a room. Does not know how to read a room.

Did you guys not enjoy that? Fuck, in my head, I was like, I'm fucking killing this. You literally got an eh. Fuck you all, all right? Do you think the, I have a theory already. Do you think the thing is that these people have all achieved a lot by 27? Therefore, having not achieved much, if I continue to not achieve much for the next year, I shall live.

That's how I've lived through the centuries. All right, all right, great. All right, Maddie, go for it. My question is, who is the most famous 90s inductee into the 27 club? 90s. Nineies. Come on, don't make them fuck. Cobain, yeah.

Kerr-Kabain, well on. Have you guys known, has anyone gone to the toilets here? On the mail door. They're not allowed. Oh, sorry, I forgot the rules. VIPs only. On the male toilets. VIPs.

Someone's going to make a toast. That was so good somebody who was like laughed with their whole body and kicked their glass. But one of the toilets, you know what's a man toilet because of the Kirk Cobain poster and on the women's it's Janice Joplin. Oh. Isn't that freakish? No,

alright. Kirkobain born in 1967 was the Seattle musician most famous as being the front man for Grunge Band of Arna which formed in 1987. By 1994 they were the biggest band in the world. Moving through. That's because he's not being fucking interrupted.

What would you call what just happened? Fair enough, fair enough. But Cobain was struggling with depression and heroin addiction, which contributed to his suicide by shotgun on April 5th, 1994. My report doesn't think of it. Wow, he said he didn't put much effort in and he did not. I have written a whole other report, but fuck. I had no idea that you were genuinely going to take an hour.

Should I do it? We have done... Are you... Would you... Genuinely, if you guys have anywhere to be, like watching the Saints game... Yes! Oh, sorry, that was too enthusiastic.

Yeah, we both weren't too hard. I've got to sit through this too. I could go get us drinks. I'm next. Yeah, great. Make Dave go. Guys, if I go, there'll be no comedians left on the stage. It's really hard.

No, it wasn't both of us. Oh, okay. Don't touch me. By the way, I don't know if you know, Matt, but we've done several two-hour episodes before. Yeah. People love those. Not in a hot room.

Yeah, not in a hot dungeon. Anyway. So that's not, Kurt Cobain was great, but I'm doing another 1990s 27 club guy. I've chosen another musician, also born in 67. This guy on the 22nd of December. It's Richie Edwards. Anyone heard of Richie Edwards?

Very good. This is good. This is good. Okay, Ricky James. Anyone heard of it? Rick Chie James. Rick James? It's not Rick James, bitch.

Oh, no. He is hiding the mother of all regret faces. Where's your wallet? Where's your wallet? Now you're buying beers, but I'm good. No, that's fair. That is a catchphrase from the Chappelle show. That's all.

Did anyone know that? Oh, bloody hell. So everyone else, I'm very sorry. You didn't know that? No, I did. That's so good. It's still extra funny that you called me a bitch. Because you're the biggest feminist in this group.

That's why it's funny. Hey, I'll be the feminist here. Anyway, so has anyone heard of the Manick Street Preachers? Yeah, he was, so that's who he's from. All right? Rock's old start. He was a guitarist and lyricist, right? He was born in a town named Blackwood.

in South Wales, I have not written any jokes. I wrote this this afternoon, no joke, so you guys have to make it fun. Okay, here we go. All right, let's hear it, everybody. Yeah. We're having a good time. That was fun, okay. All right, shut up, bitch. Bitch is a funny word.

It is good fun, it is good fun. Rick James, bitch. You piece of shit. So he did pretty well in school. You know how much time he spent on his pre-band stuff? This is how much time I'm spending it. He did pretty well in school. The Manick Street Preachers

Fall in 1986. You didn't mention whether or not he had asthma as a child like I did. Or a beer, please, thank you. See you before, Nirvana. So Jess has gone to get some drinks. So, I'll just stop you there, Matt.

We will wait. I reckon I could get through this while she's gone. So the Manick Street preachers, which I've said. for the third time, formed in 1986 with James Dean Bradfield, Nikki Wier, Sean Moore and Miles Flicker Woodward. Yeah, all unnecessary detail. I would have cut that. I would have cut that. I just thought they deserved their moment. They're great names, I must admit.

Edwards wasn't initially a part of the lineup. He started out as their roadie. But after Miles Flicka Woodward left in 1988, the band remained a three piece until 1989 when Edwards joined the lineup on rhythm guitar. In his time with the band they released their first three albums, each charting in the top 20 on the UK charts. Wow, that's pretty good. Yeah. He wasn't much of a musician apparently, and I read that he would often just mime the guitar at live performances. Fucking kidding. He wasn't even holding a guitar.

While he wasn't much of a musician, he became very influential in the band's stylistic direction, and also became one of the key lyricists, contributing 80% of the lyrics to their 1994 album, The Holy Bible, which I don't know if you've heard of it. That's the one with Jesus. I didn't write any jokes, but I'll bloody riff a couple. Jess is back with drinks. That was really quick.

Cannot cannot help but notice that she's holding two drinks. And what's that? You've hardly had a sip of yours. All right, great. So anyway, the Holy Bible. That reached number six on the British. chart. The Holy Bible did. Laity da. Go Bible. I'm sorry.

It was a really long track. I just remember I have to do my report still. It had a sweet groove. Edward suffered for his art too in 1991. In an infamous interview with NME journalist Steve Lamak responding to the journalist questioning the band's authenticity, he carved the phrase, for real into his forearm with a razor blade. But during the interview? During the interview. Number four or F-O-R?

Number four. Fuck yeah! That's rock and roll. It was hashtag and before hashtags. It's real rock and roll to use numbers, you know, like skater boy by... All right. By blanks. Nickelback's ex-wife.

Good enough for me. Avrilavine. Thank you. Worth it. And apparently, yeah, there's a photo of it. So I saw the photo of him, for real, bleeding out of his arm. He was taking a hospital requiring 17 stitches. 17.

Oh, no. Not enough. Two less or go to 20. If you got operated on, they put 17 in, you'd be like, just put three somewhere else. Or kill me. Turn off life support. I'm done. They're like, you don't need life support.

You've scratched yourself. Turn it off. I've had a good run. I'm out. Edwards suffered from depression, and he was very open about it once saying it gets to the point where you can't really operate anymore as a human being.

You can't get out of bed. So beautiful. You can't... Oh, I'm so beautiful. You can't make yourself a cup of coffee without something going badly wrong or your body's too weak to walk. So it was in a pretty tough state.

Let's keep it light, mate. I'll skip this next paragraph. After the release of the Holy Bible in 1994, Edwards checked into the Priory, a psychiatric hospital, meaning that he missed some of the promotional work for the album. So he did get out of the Priory just before the band was about to tour Europe. The last tour he was a part of. Edwards played his final live show with the band at the London Astoria on 21st of December 1994. The gig

ended with him starting to smash up his guitar then the whole band joined in. They wrecked the whole stage including lights at the venue and stuff like that. Similar to what we're going to bloody do later. Yeah, but was he, did he actually have a guitar or was he just doing his mime act? His mime guitar got fucked up. He's fucking elbowing the guitar.

Dave, Dave, mime smashing a ukulele. Okay, no, you do it on me, are you? First time I'm a bitch. And now it's I'll be the feminist here. Not on, Dave. Thank you. A little over a month after the show on the 1st of February 1995, a day when he was meant to fly to the United States for a promo tour, Edwards disappeared forever, age 27. What? It's a mystery app. It is a mystery app. He disappeared. He disappeared. Forever? Forever. Forever. Forever? Forever. Forever. I don't know what to do with that.

For the two weeks prior to his disappearance, Edwards withdrew 200 pounds a day from his bank account, totaling 2,800 pounds. It's done enough to live on forever. I just did this. Forever, wherever. Forever. They're not really required, but anyway.

Math is fun. You know I'm not good at it, though. That is true. I would have been curious to hear what you had to say about that. Even knowing the answer. 200 a day? For two weeks. Two weeks. All right.

Come back to me later. Edwards checked. out of the hotel who was staying in at 7 o'clock in the morning. He took only his wallet, car keys, passport, and some Prozac.

Dave, you know what Prozac is? Prozac is an anti-present. It's like a popular. That's how Dave gets through this show. I've had nine. I've heard of it, I mean. That must annoy you, Jess. Yeah.

One more! All right. So he left with only his wallet, car keys, passports, some Prozac, and left behind his toilet, and a fully packed suitcase. You can't go without the toiletries.

I need my moisturiser. First thing I thought of. From there, he... To toothbrush. Okay, fun game. There we go. From your toiletry bag, right? Oh my God, this is so fun.

Everybody can play. Toilitary bag, only take one thing. What do you take? Prozac. Great call. Matt. You brushed your teeth in front of us today, and your toothbrush...

Ran out of power. It was so sound br-brun. And David and I both look at our phones and we just hear, and you look over and match just and they're like, very funny. Not for me, man. I take plaque very seriously. So yeah, it's tricky.

Do you take your toothbrush or your toothpaste? Fuck. Great point. Don't ever put me in that position again. You bitch. I'm still working on that math problem from before. All right, 200 a day, two weeks, okay. Wait, weekends?

Yeah, all days. All days. No, you know, weeks. Anyway, fuck. I would have said business weeks. Is that what they say, business weeks? They don't say that. We don't have real jobs. Oh, yeah.

I was about to stand up for myself. From there, he went to his apartment in Cardiff, Wales. In the two weeks that followed, Edwards was claimed to be spotted a few times by fans, including one time at the Newport bus station. this time by a fan who didn't realize that he was missing they chatted and discussed a mutual friend before Edwards departed so only later on this guy really is like oh fuck he's

he's gone he doesn't exist what happened on the seventh of Feb Edwards reportedly took a taxi ride from the King's Hotel in Newport driving around the valleys near where he grew up I guess maybe yeah I don't know why I'm just checking it out alright the driver reported that the passenger who he didn't necessarily know who was at the time. The passenger requested

if you could lie down on the back seat. He also said that the passenger spoke in a thick cockney... Hang on. So the passenger just requested the driver lies down in the back seat. That may be a poorly formed sentence. I'm asking. Hey mate, just take me to the Meadows if you can. And if you can just lie down on the back seat, that'd be great.

I'll pay extra. It's weird. But he also reported that the passenger spoke in a thick cockney accent but sporadically slipped into a Welsh one. What would that sound like? Oh, well, are you all right? Cobber, uh Welsh. Here's the Welsh.

I'm Welsh as well. So when he said I'm Welsh as well, that was the little giveaway that he gave. The little giveaway. By the way, I'm putting up, I don't know what I'm doing now. I'm doing Liverpool. I'll stop. Eventually the passenger got out at the Severn View service station near South Gloucestershire and paid the fare in cash.

A week... Gloucestershire, you are correct. I just heard a little whisper over there like, he's a fucking idiot. People come here for me to pronounce things right, and I'm so sorry to let you down there. Have I said any words right? Oh, thank you. All I hear when you speak is, ma, ma, mom, go, go.

How do you say? Dave can edit all this out, and we'll put in the right. What do you say? Yeah, great, all right, I'm going to do that again. Eventually, the passenger got out of the Severn View service station near South Gloucestershire and paid the fare in cash. Go, go, go. Thank you. Great, and it won't sound weird to the people at home

that you suddenly applaud me. At all. That won't be weird at all. A week later on the 14th of Feb, Edwards Car. Valentine's Day. Okay, fun game. No, I'm not doing a game.

I don't have one. I'm so sad. I'll turn it back around. I didn't realize that. That makes sense. That's why the story gets really romantic here. A week later, on the 14th of Feb, Edward's car received a parking ticket.

That's beautiful. At the Severn View service station. On the 17th, three days later, the car was reported as abandoned. The battery was found to be dead, and there was evidence that the car had been lived in. The car's proximity to the Severn Bridge, a known suicide location, meant that it is widely believed he took his own life by jumping from the bridge, but a body has never been found. This is disputed by many, though, who knew him.

Disputed by many who have found the body, they reportedly pointed to it, and no one will take them seriously. He's right there. Sorry, they were disputing the suicide part. Sorry, that was obviously a misunderstanding there. Almost led to a funny moment. Didn't quite, but...

Fair enough. They're so mean. He hasn't had his afternoon nap. Correct, that is true. The key is nine Prozaks. I normally have... have a lunchtime of virgin blood meal. I was trying to suggest I'm a vampire or something.

I really went the long way around. They live a long time. Or they unlive a long time. Or whatever. Yes, that's why we're not in the beer garden. Deserved more, sir. Now you're making the audience do your jokes. And I appreciate that.

That's how a comedy thing works. People bounce off each other. Learn a little. You bitch. How dare you? Do not use that word to me. I'm a feminist. Genuinely am.

And also should you be. All right. Also should you be? And also should you be. And also you as a woman, I will tell you what you should be. Now you're getting it. So this is disputing. by many the suicide part, by people who knew him well.

They vehemently deny that he was the kind of person to commit suicide. In 1994, he was also quoted as saying himself, now this is the quote, in terms of the... I would never suicide. And if I've ever reported to have done so, don't believe it. And it's weird that he said that. You're paraphrasing a little. The actual quote was, in terms of the S word,

I think he might have meant shit. Sex. mind. Stephen. And it never has done. Swallowed. In terms of an attempt. Swamp.

Because I'm stronger than that. I might be a weak person but I can take that pain, the pain of never shitting. I will never attempt a shit. Never, never even ends my mind. Basically finishing up here, Dave, take a note here. Since his disappearance. Since. A S word?

Oh, we're saying S words. Fun. He tunes me out completely. Since his disappearance, there have been many more sightings, including faraway places around the world, like India and on the islands off the coast of Africa. None of these sightings have been confirmed, though. Oh. Manic Street Preachers have continued on as a three-piece after Edward's disappearance,

releasing the album Everything Must Go in May 1996. That was just their flyer sale. Yeah. Everything must go! We've got mats. Oh, we've got, like, not you, Matt, I meant like door mats. No, yeah, I really must go. This has taken too long.

I got a flight to catch on Tuesday, so I probably do need to get going. So that, Everything Must Go featured five tracks with lyrics written by Edwards, including the UK top ten single Kevin Carter. And they've also, they've continued releasing albums since. That's basically the end of the report. So they've done well with that. They've done really well. I only heard of it.

beyond his death. But interestingly, he was looking to take the band in a different direction before he died and the direction sounds fucking sick. Apparently, he wanted to do... The next album, be a concept album described as Pantera meets 9-inch nails meets Screamadelica.

However... You're literally wearing a Pantera T-shirt. I am, yeah, that's true. Why do I know what he's wearing? You saw him get dressed. Because I'm great at fashion. Yes, that's right. Fashion.

Fashion, Matt. Matthew. Maddie. You watch me brush my teeth. It's not that weird, you know, I'm wearing a T-shirt. Fashion. Do it. Do it.

I will not say Asian fashion. I won't. And you can't make me. Fashion. Anyway, I think... That's how you do a fucking report, Dave. Anyway. Fizzle out.

Yeah. Yeah, fizzle out. That was great. So I will say he's an unconfirmed member of the 27 club. I like that about it though. I like the mystery element but he went missing when he was only

27 and three months. So if he died anywhere in the next nine months he's in. Good enough for me. No, JP, it's your report. You're doing the most recent of the 27 club out of the three of us. Am I supposed to have written a question? Yes. Come up with him quickly.

Okay. Okay, writing a question. Okay. Okay. Okay, all right. Okay. Amy Winehouse. Yep.

Is there any other recent ones? I don't know of any other race of ones. Me, hopefully. Okay, I'll... Jeez. It's okay. We're all mentally healthy. And support each other.

Amy Winehouse. I was going to make some sort of joke about like a drink and a place that you live. And that's why I was enjoying it. No, no, no, Jess. Yeah, that's why I didn't. Okay, thanks for getting on that. Too soon, Jess. Okay, born the 14th of September, 1983.

Her father, a good year. Her father, Mitchell, or Mitch. Oh, this is going to be a long report. Father or dad. Or Papa. Father Mitch was a window panel installer and then a taxi driver and her mother Janice was a pharmacist. Yes.

I love that Matt was like, I've got a cough. I know what I'll do. I bring the mic up to my face. Look, I've done a little radio, so I know how it works. Cough into the mic. I get people just laugh at them with their whole bodies. Many of Winehouse's maternal uncles were professional jazz musicians. Amy's paternal grandmother, Cynthia,

was a singer and dated the English jazz saxophone player because I don't want to say, is it saxophonist? Saxophonist. Ronnie Scott. She and Amy's parents influenced Amy's interest in jazz. Her father, Mitch, or Mitchell, or daddy, or papa, Paul. Is that your dad's name?

It's my dad's name. It's coincidence, though, I think. Is that coincidence? Okay. Cecil has your dad in a basement. We're all in a basement. Good call, Phil. Okay, her father Mitch often sang Frank Sinatra songs to her.

A good year. Did I get that right? I thought maybe you'd sing. Oh. Start spreading the new. I'm leaving today. Why would you have wanted me to do that? I was actually impressed by that.

That was the best sonatra I've heard in a long time. Since he died. Since he died. Anyway, in 1992, Amy's grandmother, Cynthia suggested that Amy attend the Susie Earnshaer Theatre School, where she went on Saturdays to further her vocal education and to learn to tap dance. Matt's a very good tap dancer, by the way. Quite good square dancing too, aren't you, buddy? Yes, but fuck, get on with a report.

We don't have time to stop every time we've got a talent. Oh boy. It's funny because we all do a podcast because we don't have a talent. So that's good. She attended the theatre school for four years and founded a short-lived rap group called Sweet and sour.

Oh, that is great. You better believe that's just an N. Sweet and N. Sweet and sour. Sweet and sour. You've got to do a little shoulder for like sweet and sour. Have a go.

Sweetens, sir No, you got a shoulder on the In. Sweetens. There it is. That was sexy. I am genuinely that uncoordinated did deserve a clap, so they.

So they formed their own little rap group with her childhood friend Juliet before seeking full-time training at the Sylvia Young Theatre School. She was allegedly expelled at 14 for not applying herself and also for piercing her nose.

I really like that she got kicked out for getting a nose piercing. It's fun, isn't it? My mum was very mad when I pierced my ears. So, I'm in a way, I'm Winehouse. Do you know what I mean? No.

We've both been oppressed. Later, she attended the Brit school in Croydon, which was the school quite famous for producing some pretty high-calibre talent, including Imogen Heap, Jesse J, Rizzle Kicks, the Cooke's, Leone Lewis. What is the fuck is Rizzle Kicks? You know, no, Rizzle-Tales.

Rizzle kicks? I've heard of one of those things. Do you all know Rizzle kicks? That was a list of gibberish, wasn't it, Jess? Rizzle kicks. Jess was like, there's not enough talented people on this list, don't worry. I'll make up one. Dave won't call me on it.

So sorry. I have heard of the cooks, though. Please do go on. And Adele. Have you heard of Adele? I missed that one, yeah. Is that Rizzle kicks? I know that song.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's Rizzle kicks, you're fucking idiot Rizzle kicks are great. After to, I'm just going to power through because you took way too long. I'm so sorry, I'm thorough. After toying around with her brother Alex's guitar, Winehouse bought her own when she was 14 and began writing music

a year later. Soon after, she began working for a living, including at one time as an entertainment journalist for the World Entertainment News Network. What? In addition to singing with local groups, with local group, the Bolshe band. In July 2000, she became the featured female vocalist with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra

and she signed to Simon Fuller's 19 management in 2002 and was paid 250 pounds a week. 250 pounds a week. She is killer, man. That's pretty good. Is Simon Fuller the judge from the show? No? Simon Cowell.

Yeah, firstly Cal. Secondly, the show? Which show, Matthew? Sorry, I was thinking of Red Simons. You just like, you enjoyed your own joke there. I didn't even realise that it was connected by his name. I was trying to say something really random, but I said a thing with Simon in it.

Fucked up. Or accidentally did something brilliant. Neither, neither. No, fucked up. All right. I've been looking at this empty seat. Would you mind if I... Go sit?

He always joins the audience. Don't start a revolution again. Oh, no. There's actually too many of them this time. I couldn't hold you back. In Melbourne it was alright. They could kill us all. How do you think this is going?

Pretty alright. High praise. I reckon they'll have us back. Let's put that on future posters. What's your name if we're quoting you? Shane. Shane. Well, if you're not going to trust Shane's opinion.

Who can you trust? Rizzle kicks. Thanks for saving that sweet reef. anonymous voice. Sweet wreath. 420 Blazes. Oh no. Save the reefs. I'm a passionate...

Shut the fuck up. Bitch. It's nice up here just us, isn't it? This is the podcast that never happened. All right, so... But we don't look at each other. Let's get cozy. So, she was being developed by the management company

and she was kept as a recording industry secret. Ooh, that's kind of fun. A guy called Darkest Bees. That is... Jess, can you stop making our names for this? Darkest. Rezzle kicks. Beesle kicks are good.

Being kept as a recording industry secret is just being a shit, like, unknown artist, isn't it? That's a secret. We're not selling any records because we haven't told anyone. Yeah. We're going to keep you a podcast industry secret. I appreciate that. I like that even though you're in the audience and it's dark,

I can still see the regret on your face. If anything, I feel like I can feel it. I can sense your regret now. It's not just the face now. It's full body regret. Full body regret. Okay, Darkest Bees. He was heard of her by accident

when the manager of the Lewinson brothers showed him some production of his clients, which featured Winehouse as a key vocalist. When he asked who the singer, The thing it was the manager told him, I'm not allowed to say. It's a secret. Oh. So then he like, he snips around and he gets...

He calls his mate Rizzler, gets him on the blower. You don't know Rizzle kicks. Rizzle. Do that song, you might hear me, make it like, like Wilson, cause I love someone or Rachel Bilsen, yes. That was great, yes, but... Do I look like I'm into hip-hop? You look like you're into bark. The stuff off trees.

Yeah, I love it. Cannot get enough. I rub it on my skin. I tell you where you rub it, all right. Yeah, on my skin. Oh, you said that, sorry. Yeah, okay. He loves the way dogs woof.

Yeah, man. I'm all about... Did you... Did you... He's really enjoying it. He's turning away. Did you see men? slowly get it?

Yes. I was like, it's good stuff. I mean, aside from... No, it definitely isn't. Don't. Aside from podcasters, we're semi-professional comedians also, and you should...

I actually in Brisbane at a gig last week. Matt, I do not have... On the call sheet, on the call sheet in brackets after my name, it said, semi-professional comedian from Melbourne, close bracket. Cool. Looks like Wimble.

Is that Rizzle Kicks? Yes, because it's not bark. Fucking weirdo. Dave fucks trees. No regrets. Finally the tree fucker nickname makes sense. Hey, what do they call you a tree fucker? It's a secret.

We're losing it. I'm so sorry. Okay. Bees. He finds it. He's like, who's that voice? And eventually someone's like, it's Amy Winehouse. Fine, stop fucking asking. All right, it's Amy Winehouse. So he introduces Winehouse to his boss, Nick Gatfield,

and the island head, God, Jess. What have you written here? Island Records, head? Yes, and he was enthusiastic about this young artist. Who is she? They said. Amy Winehouse. I fucking told you.

Fuck me. So where am I up to? Okay, so she signs with island records and she starts to, you know, make some music. I've had a bit to drink and can't read. It's suddenly, it's no longer a secret I'm imagining, is that? She's public now with her music. She's public. I don't know, probably, who cares?

Great. Just skip to the bit where she does. I've also started drinking, so. Okay, Darkest Bees, he told Hit Quarters, and he felt the reason behind the exact... Who did he tell, hip quarters? Hit, hit quarters. Makes sense up, rule. Because they, it's a quarterly paper when they talk about the hits.

Okay. So, she's at Hit Quarters, she's killing it. Oh, fine good, forget Hit Quarters. There's a man called Bees. Oh, okay. She releases an album, it's called Frank. Frank. Because of Frank Sinatra, her hero.

Okay? you guys I assume would release an album called Perkins. Laughed too hard there guys. Just call it jazz. Frank was released in October of 2003. The album entered the upper levels of the UK album chart, which is what that means, in 2004, when it was nominated for the Brit Award

in the categories of British female solo artist and British Urban Act. It went on to achieve platinum sales. So first album, she hit the ground running, she's killing it. She's about to be killed. In contrast to her jazz-influenced former album, Winehouse's focus shifted to the girl groups of the 1950s and the 60s. She hired New York singer Sharon Jones's long-time band,

the Dap Kings, to back her up in her studio and on tour. Mitch Winehouse, I love this. So her dad, Mitch. Or Mitchell. Or Paul. Or Paul. Or dad. Or phagia.

Sometimes I call my dad John and he hates it. He's like... Because his name's Gary. How dare you? You know his name is John. You've met him. You took some of his chips. Didn't you?

Oh, great chips. Great chips. Dad was like, have a chip. Anyway, fuck. Nah. Nah, I love Gary. Good on him. Mitch wrote a book later and it's called Amy, my daughter.

Not the best. No, pun title. Yeah, she'd call it Total Recall. It meant amazing. He recalled how fascinating it was watching her process, her perfectionism in the studio and how she would put what she'd sung on a CD and she would take it out of the studio

and she would play it in his taxi so that she could hear how the normal people would hear it. Fuck her. I hope she dies. David, we do not wish death upon people. No. Okay?

But she is going to die. We're all going to die, Bob. Simpsons reference. Camp Krusty, all right. They say bop in there too? Because that's weird. Yeah, whatever. We're all checked out.

Skip to the bit where she does. Yeah, you're right. Okay, I might skip ahead a little bit. Basically, she's fucking killing it. I want an off-script summary. This is amazing. You're killing it. Okay, great. So she's doing super well.

She breaks the Guinness Book of World Records for the amount of awards that she's been nominated for at the Grammys. Rehab and Valerie are like enormous songs. Probably still her most famous. Valerie is like... Don't sing. I fucking love that song though.

It's really a Mark Ronson song featuring Amy Winehouse. It's a cover, but... I'm aware of these things. I'm just saying that song... did well. That's hard to argue that. Well done. Fuck you.

This is fun. At his request, Hollywood star Bruce Willis, ever heard of him, introduced Winehouse before her performance of rehab at the 2007 MTV Movie Awards in Universal City, California. She'd made the awards organisers nervous when she went on a Vegas jaunt in the hours before the show. She's like, I'm just going to duck off to Vegas real quick. Then I'll come back, do my little song. And then we just fucking part.

party, right? And they're like, no. But I like that Bruce Willis is like, excuse me, can I please introduce Amy Winehouse? Do you think that's cool? Thank you. That's all I need is one person's approval. Okay, I'm skipping ahead. She's doing super well, but then, like professionally, but then not good personally. What's wrong with her?

A number of things, to be honest. actually got kind of sad doing the report so my report kind of finishes with her just doing super well career-wise what happened to it no one knows no one knows it's a mystery she released that album sold five million copies worldwide and she retired yeah she lives in an island of Cuba she breeds corgis she's very happy she's the queen now you may know her as lizzie in May of 2009 she returned to performing at a jazz festival in St. Lucia, amid torrential downpours and technical difficulties.

During her set, it was reported that she was unsteady on her feet and had trouble remembering lyrics. She apologized to the crowd for being bored and ended the set in the middle of a song. Which is pretty funny because I walked off before to get a beer. And also Matt is in the crowd. We're professionals. Thanks for paying to come, guys.

No, good on you. Hey, we'll give you a fucking two hours. wasn't this shit. No, we haven't. I'm nearly done. Okay. On February 11th, this is another time in 2011. She cut short a performance in Dubai following booing from the audience. She was reported to be...

Boo! It's weird that that one audience member has a mic. Alex, can we please cut that audience member's mic? No, don't. He's nodding. He's very literal. She was reported to be tired, distracted, and tipsy during the performance. So most of you would obviously know she battled with substance abuse

and that was a subject of much media attention. In 2005 she went through a period of drinking, heavy drug use and weight loss. Her family believes that the mid-2006 death of her grandmother, who was quite a big influence on her, set her off into addiction. In 2007 she cancelled a number of shows in the UK and Europe, citing exhaustion and ill health. She was hospitalised during this period for what was reported to be an overdose of heroin, ecstasy, cocaine, ketamine and alcohol.

That's a lot. That's a lot. It's like the Long Island ice tea of drugs. It's amazing. Amazing. I've had a drink and a half and I'm like ready for a nap. She's, I mean, that's rock and roll, you know? That's rock and roll.

Apparently in her, like, in her teens, she was very anti-drugs and she was like quite clean cut and like quite nice. And then she met a boy. Boys ruin everything. And he introduced her to drugs, lots of drugs. Lots of drugs, lots of violence. You just tapped a boy when I said boys ruin everything. That is the best.

This guy is introduced me. He introduced me to so many drugs. Introduced her to a lot of drugs. And then she was fine. She was absolutely fine. Nothing bad happened. She did not have an incident of alcohol poisoning and die. That did not happen.

She's fine. guys. She's fine. Yeah. Let's hear of the Amy Whitehouse. What a career. She's fine. Not super relevant to the topic. Still, just didn't want

to do a sad story. I just wanted to sing Valerie. A two, three, four. Anyway, I don't want to talk about, yeah, she died. She did. Heaps of issues. Eating disorders, mental issues, substance abuse.

If you need help, call what's the what's the lifeline? Life line. 131.1. Well, 3.1.6? That's Pizza Hut. And that will help. No, no. 1330, 32.

Lubmobile every time. Sorry, 1330, 32. 30. Anyway. Are you calling me back? Yeah. I was summoning you. So ladies and gentlemen,

that is the end of the 27 club. Oh, I've actually got some fun facts to wrap up. Do we have? time. Just I just wanted to say the um I just want to wrap it up by saying so a lot of people have died at 27 the first people that they've gone back they've gone back and looked through history is a guy called I was like there's something my pub sitting on my iPad in 1892 the first ever member of the 27 club is a Brazilian composer alexandra

levy and the most recent member is Anton Yelchen the Star Trek actor who died last year when his car crushed him against a wall. Whoops. His car did it. Yeah. Yeah, it was really, really bad. You missed that one? That was big news.

No, but like, how did the car do it? It had a faulty parking brake thing. Handbrake, yeah. But you may wonder, is... The car did it with a... with a... A knife. What's...

What's quick? Think of a funny weapon. I think I nailed it. But do more people die 27 than any other age or musicians? So a University of Sydney Professor Diane Kenny did an analysis of 13,000 US musicians who died between 1950 and 2014. She compared their ages and their deaths. And she found... What a sick person. Has anyone listened to all the episodes we've done?

Does anyone remember me quoting this study already? Oh, get fucked! I can't remember what episode, but someone died. at 27 and I talked about this already. So I think we can go. In summary, she found that when it comes to 27, more the same amount of people die at 26 and 28, and slightly more likely to die at 32.

Actually, Matt has already lived through that age. So it's all good. We're all good. We're all good. All right, ladies gentlemen, that is the... And I'm not a musician. Clear on both camps. So technically, all I have to do is live for a slightly less than... eight more hours and then I will be 27 years old and then I can die.

Let me do that. Yeah, let's hear it for my death. Yes, six fucks. Could we get a round of applause for Alex on the tech? Thank you, Alex. On the tech. On the tech. And we'd like to thank also Seizier who helped organize the venue here at the Chippo Hotel, fantastic comedy venue, ladies and gentlemen.

I hope you come back and see lots of comedy shows here. Who recommended it to us? The Little Dum Dumm Club, was it? Steel Saunders from the I Love Green Ground, Larry's podcast. Said that this is the place to do a podcast. The king of podcasting, so that's nice. So thank you so much for that. Ladies and gentlemen, that is the end of the show.

We're going to be hanging out. Encore, okay. I wrote another little thing. No, but thank you so much. Let's have a big round of applause for Matt Schult and Jess Poked, ladies and gentlemen. I guess I assure you. Jimmy wants us too, but I'm not going to do it.

Thanks everyone. Give it up for Dave Waterkey, everybody. Thank you, thank you. I won't give it to it. And thank you all for coming out. It's fucking blown our minds that so many people have come out to see us in Sydney. We love you guys. Thank you. That's what he was asking for, yeah.

I'm so needy. Someone just said if you didn't. here on the mic, I think we should just stay friends. And Jess continues to be lonely. All right. We are going to be, so we'll be over there, and we've got some t-shirts. And we've also got these wristbands that we're all wearing that say, do go on on one side and hashtag pray for bop on the other.

So if you like one of those, you can come over as well. And t-shirts are there. And then if you don't want any of that shit, fair enough. But we'll be going upstairs for a drink. Hang around if you want to. And let's watch the Saints fucking crush the Tigers. Tigers Man. No, it's gone bad.

Oh. It is gone bad. That is not the way to find out. That means Matt will be drinking even harder. So this is great. All right, thanks guys. We'll see you next time. Goodbye.

Hey guys, Dave here. Just popping in at the end of the episode to let you know that I did in fact make it. I made it to the 27th Club. No, hang on, I didn't make it to the 27th Club. I'm not talking to your room beyond the grave. I just made it to 27 years old. Jess and I flew back, and the plane did not crash. We'd like to say a big thank you to everyone that came out and saw the show in Sydney.

It was so awesome to have a packed room and to hang out with everyone afterwards. And anyone who bought a t-shirt or wristband, thank you so much. We will be selling the rest of those t-shirts at our 100th episode in Melbourne. But if there's any left after that and people are keen, please let us know if you'd like one. and maybe we'll set up some sort of online store. But that's demand permitting. I also forgot in our excitement of our massive, massive live episode that went for a long, long time, but thank you, everyone, for your patience.

I forgot to thank the two people that suggested the 27 Club in the hat. So I'd like to say a big thank you to Elizabeth King, who suggested the 27 Club via email, and also to Pontus Ruska on Twitter, to Pontus Horuska. Thank you so much for your suggestions. If you want to suggest anything, of course, at any time you can hit us up on social media, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter at Do Go On Pod.

It's all in the description of this episode, or do go on pod at gmail.com. And speaking of social media, thank you to everyone who wished Jess or I a happy birthday. That was so, so nice. So thank you very much for that. And the final people to thank are, of course, the people that support the show via Patreon. You really do keep the show rocking and rolling. and make it possible for us to do cool stuff like travel into state and meet people at live show. So thank you so much to anyone who supports the show at patreon.com slash do go on pod in exchange for your pledges.

You get bonus episodes once a month, or a bonus episode once a month, I should say. But we are closing in on the next target is if we hit that, we'll get two bonus episodes every month, so a fortnightly bonus. But you also get shoutouts on a show. so I'm going to quickly shout out to three people now at the end of the episode, just to say thank you for all your support. I would like to thank all the way from Houston, Texas, Eli Shop Pfizer, Eli Shop Pfizer,

and I don't have Jess here to double check that I'm saying that correctly or incorrectly, so I do apologize, Eli, but thank you so much for your support. Everyone this week who I'm thinking, I've looked up a little fact about where you're from all the way in Houston, Texas. Did you know, Eli, that Houston, I didn't even know you were called that. Houstonians eat out more than residents of any other city. This is on the Houston government website.

It says, why, you can indulge in more than 11,000 restaurants. So that's too many restaurants. Eli, I challenge you to eat in every single one of those restaurants. God, how long will that take you doing maths here? Ten years. Nearly 40 years of dining out every single night, so you can enjoy that, Eli. I'd also like to thank Benjamin Cheshire. Benjamin Cheshire, who is from Oklahoma City,

did you know, Benjamin, that owning a stink bomb in Oklahoma City is against the law. Owning one. If you own it, you are breaking the law. So don't do that. Thank you, and Benjamin. I'd also like to thank, finally, from Ashburn, Virginia, so three Americans this week, Ashburn, Virginia, John Shearer.

Thank you so much for your support, John. John, did you know that your state, Virginia, was named after England's Virgin Queen, Elizabeth I. And I assume that everyone there honors her by keeping their virginity sacred. John, good on you, fighting the good fight there. The good fight, I don't know what I'm talking about. With the others here, I just ramble on and on and on. So thank you so much, guys, to everyone who came out again.

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