Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe - S6 EP54: Alex James

Episode Date: July 14, 2023

Joining us this episode to discuss the highs and lows of parenting (and life) is the brilliant musician (and bassist in Blur) and now turned farmer and award winning cheesemaker - Alex James. You can get tickets for 'The Big Feastival' which takes place 25th - 27th August 2023 HERE Parenting Hell is a Spotify Podcast, available everywhere every Tuesday and Friday. Please leave a rating and review you filthy street dogs... xx If you want to get in touch with the show here's how: EMAIL: [e-mail] INSTAGRAM: @parentinghell MAILING LIST: parentinghellpodcast.mailchimpsites.com  A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: [e-mail] (N) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, I'm Rob Beckett. Hello, I'm Josh Winnockham. Welcome to Parenting Hell, the show in which Josh and I discuss what it's really like to be a parent, which I would say can be a little tricky. So, to make ourselves and hopefully you feel better about the trials and tribulations of modern-day parenting, each week we're chatting to a famous parent about how they're coping. Or hopefully how they're not coping. And we'll also be hearing from you the listener with your tips, advice, and of course, tales of parenting woe. Because let's be honest, there are plenty of times when none of us know what we're doing.

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They've broken, haven't they? Yeah. Back to this again. Would you say you've exhausted all possibilities of what you could do? Allegra? Can you say Rob Beckett? Rob Beckett. And can you say Josh Whittigum? Josh Wittgen.

Good girl. There we go. Where are they from, Rob? She sounded like American. I don't know if she was actually trying to be quiet. Not bad. Really. Hong Kong.

But that is a bit like, there is an American twang to a Hong Kong accent, isn't there, isn't, isn't, isn't, isn't, isn't, isn't, isn't, isn't, isn't, isn't, isn't, isn't, isn't, isn't, isn't, isn't, isn't, isn't, bit like there is an American twang to Hong Kong accent isn't there? Also, I was gonna say Canada or something. Hong Kong's so far away from America. Couldn't be further before we start coming back again. Also, her surname's Bush, so that's an American surname as well. And Marie Bush. Hi, Robin Josh. Absolutely love the show. It's been a respite. I've just had a second baby and somehow forgot that after two and a half years with my first just how hard it is with a newborn. This has got me chuckling along with otherwise I'd be crying. My forementioned first my daughter called Allegra has tried a very best to say your names. Hope this

this smile to your face. It did. It did actually. Play the Stark and she's's only very like, SMR-E. Allegra? Can you say Rob Beckett? Rob Beckett. And can you say Josh Whittakum? Could be a bit of Australian in there as well. Maybe it's an international school. There we go. How are you? Yeah, good. Not too bad. Alex James today? Big one for you. Big one.

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Oh wow. Says it all doesn't it? Not like a suit suit. Yeah, I think he puts a suit on. Guess how many ties he's got? 30? More? 40? More. 100?

More. What? 100? 130 tell you my daughter's new nickname for me? I don't know if I told you in person or on here. Captain Travel? Mr. Travel? Mr. Travel? Mr. Travel. She started calling me because I travel. It's a bit degrading isn't. Rob. to their grail. Rob. to th. th. th. th. th. th. their. th. th. th. th. th. their. th. th. th. th. th. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their their their their their the the the the the the the the k. the k. the k. their their their their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. tod. tod. tod. today. today. today. today. today. today. today. today. today. today. today. their. their. their. their. do this. What have I got here? Boomer, boomer. We've done a lot of boomers. Parenting and fail, boomer. Let's do a parenting foul, shall we? Yeah. Hi, Rob, and Josh. My daughter was two and loved a little plastic dolls tea set. Early on morning, she brought my husband and I a little cup in a little cup. In order to play along and stay in bed for an extra 10 minutes, we drank it to to to to told. to to to to to to to to their, their, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi, Rob, the, the, th. th. th. th. thi, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, the parenting, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their their, their their their, thean, thean, thean, thean, thean, thean, thean, their parenting, their parenting, the parenting fa' parent, the parenting, the parenting fa' the parenting f delicious her tea was, and please can we have another cup.

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Note that one down Michael for the, um, how does it happen? I push my foot back when I'm concentrating and then it catches the little lever and it's nearly breaking my ankle every time and it's actually a disaster. This will be the last record of this chair, I'll have you know. Anyway, his mom usually picked him up or he caught the school in the the tap, the tap, tap, the the tap, the tap, the the tap, the the tap, the tip, th, th. th. the th. I, thus, th. I, th. I, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, their, their, the the the the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. How, th. How, th. How, th. How, th. How, th. How, th. How, th, th, th. He, th, th. He, th, th. He, th. He, th. He, th. He, th. He, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, the is, theeeeeeeeeean, thean, thean, thean, thean, thean, thean, theeeeee. How, thi, up or he caught the school bus in the morning so I'd never been to his home. On this occasion his mom had car trouble so asked me to drop her son home, a round trip of an hour and a half. Now as I pulled up to the house I saw a building site next door which should have been the first clue. As I peaked around the corner, I saw the corner the building site I the to the the to the to to the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the toldn. I was was the toldn. I was was toldn. I was the the the toldn. I was was was was was tooke. I was was was was was was was the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the truntermaunder truntermaunder treenaterater will will will will will will will will will will will will will will will will will willaughn.a treen.a treen.a trun.oomorrow treen.oomorrow treen.a treen lies. As I dropped him off, the front door opened, he ran in and on the wall was photo after photo of the most famous people I've ever seen

from actors to sports stars. Everything he'd said was true. No. Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction, love Susie. Wow, that is good, isn't it? That is excited, isn't it? There was a kid at my school, and I think her mom was a fantasist. And she used to claim to mix with Hollywood royalty, and she'd call them stuff like Harry Ford, instead of Harrison Ford. Really? But it was the mum. So actually it's probably quite bleak. Oh by the way, there's one into Indiana Jones. I'm friends with Harry Foul. Oh, I'm friends with Harry Ford. Don't you know. that's what friends call him. Yeah. Harrison Ford was in radio too being interviewed when I was in there and I try to get to him. there. I'm try to get to him. there. And I'm. th. th. th. th. th. th. I th. I th. I to th. I to that. I that. I that. I that. I that. I to that. I to that. I to that. I that. I that. I to to that. I to to to to to to to that. I that. I that. I that. I that. I that. I that. I that. I that. I to. I to. I to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the the the the the the the to to to to. I. I. I. I. I to th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I'm. I'm. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I th. I? Yeah, that's what friends call him. Yeah. Harrison Ford was in radio too being interviewed when I was in there and I tried to get to him,

but there was too many people. Oh, it would have been nice, wasn't it? What do you look like? Do you look old? No, I'd the angle of it. I could even see him, Zoe Ball? She's a big dog, isn't she? He's not doing 5 p.m. on a Sunday, is he? No. Even callers go, now I meet me at dinner then. Do you want to come on and tell us about that story? Nah, they're probably not at 6 o'clock on the song pop on the bangles mate enjoy yourself it's a four tops enjoy yourself talking music oh lovely stuff also having you done a little radio to blur

thing oh I did my blur I should say this now shouldn't I yeah those BBC Sounds sorry people sounds I got asked to pick my favorite blur tracks for their blur collectors they've done loads of blur programs because blur are back. Yeah. As we establish in this interview with Alex James is the basis for blur. Now you should be on a cut the amount of promo you've done on this show. I know. Anyway if you want to listen to me talk about my favorite blur tracks go to BBC Sounds. It's called Blur and me by Josh Riddickham. I tell the their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I. I's. I's. Yeah. I's. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah............................................................................................................. Oh, that's exciting. And do they play the songs as well on it? Yeah. Yeah, what one's your favourite? There's only one way to find out, Rob? Oh, can we not have a little tease? There's only one way to find out Rob. their to the show? Yeah, listen to Rob's radio show. Get them both downloaded. Yeah, both down your fucking neck. Guzzle them down or at least put them on and don't listen to them, it still counts. Yeah, if you could just put them on repeal all

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Man. Just, did a massive show and then got up early, came home and had to, Philip was faced with a massive pile of washing up. Ah, that's the reality of it. Because what state, you're in the middle of like a massive tour with Blur? So this is Pete. And you've got your big feast of all event, the end of August. And are you sat in a monastery because it's the best place for the Wi-Fi or it's the only place you can cope because of your schedule? Well, the farm where I live, there is something quite monastic about old farm buildings actually. A lot of musicians seem to end up living on farms. I think there's a reason,

you know, years of living out of a suitcase, you kind of need to put down roots and you know monks sing in the morning and make cheese in the afternoon. So I came to the right place. You've got five kids. Oh my god five teenagers now as of this month. Five teenagers. Yeah. And they've got I would say the greatest five names in the history of naming. Well Geronimo, the eldest yeah he grew up. Great start. Strong., he's 19 now. So he's out the door actually, but back for the summer and working in the office, which is fantastic. And then when you start with the Geronimo, you've kind of got to go on the same trajectory. So the twins who are 17, Artemis and Galilio who tend to go by Artie and Galley.

They just turned 17, and I got home yesterday and the garden is full of road traffic cones. So they clearly had a good night on there. So there's some roadworks up the road. I was going to tell them off. There were some roadworks up the road. Now there's just a hole. So, yeah, they they they they they they they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're going they're going they're going they're going they're going they're going they're going they're going they're going to go to go to have to go to have to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to tell them off. There were some roadworks up the road. Now there's just a hole. So yeah, they're going to have to go put those back later. And then Sable is, Sable's just 14, turning 15 this summer, right in the middle of Feastville, actually, at Olds Falls on her birthday.

And Beatrix, the youngest is just about to change. Oh, my the the their their their thue, thue, thue, thue, thue, thue, I thi thi thi! thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I's, I'm thi, I'm than, I'm than, than, thu, thi, than, than, tho, tho, tho, th. We's, is th. We's, is going th. And, is going, is going, is th. And, is th. And, is going, is going, is going, is th. And, is going, is th. And, is going, is th. And, is th. And, is th. And, is th. And, is th. And, is th. And, is thi. And, is thi. And, is than, is than, is than, is than, than, than, than, than, than. that, that, that, that, is going that, is going that, is going that, is. So, um, yes, everything's about to change. There's no one for me to cuddle anymore. Nobody wants to go to, nobody, I'm the only one who wants to go to Legoland this summer. It's really sad. Oh, no. Oh, man. And the first thing that I think is, how do you tell them,

do them, I mean do you tell them not to do as you did? Have they, any of them read your book and gone? Yes, well, yes, that did, you know, in terms of promoting, promoting my books, saying that I'd spent a million pounds on drugs and booze was a kind of good marketing hook. I kind of made it up, but everyone believed it. But that is coming back to haunt me now. Are they trying to beat your record? Is that a little bit of competitiveness? I think 16th birthdays are the worst of all. Like all the years of rock and roll, nothing can hold a candle to those parties when you're like 16, rock and roll had nothing on that actually.

But I think no secrets is the most important thing actually. I I mean, being in a band does enable you to do what everybody, every young person wants to do. You can just kind of do it more and for longer, I suppose. But, yeah, at 16, it's still like, you're in this speedboat. You want to know how fast it goes. And by the time you get 18, it kind of works out where the limits are a little bit. I I I I I I I I I I I I I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, th, th, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, th, th, th, th.................. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the. th. the. th mean, I always try and get them to have their birthday part, they're 16th birthdays and up, try and get them to have them at Feastibule,

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And a punch-suk broke out. We got like this, this, a van. This, we bought it when Beatrix was born. It's like an eight-seater van. It's my favorite car I've ever ever had. I feel like my dad when I'm driving a van. But a fight broke out in the back, and I don't know which two it was, but there was two of them rolling around on the floor in the back,

and there's like really busy, also Rukdu Soleil in August. You're like a tour manager for your own kids? No, exactly. There's more people in my family there than there is in the blur band. It's crazy. There's five of us on stage and there's seven people in my family. So yes, so we've had to, like long haul drives. We have to split those up now, the girls fly and the boys, the boys go road trip. Right. And when you had five, to to to to to to to to to to to to to so a point within a newborn up to six five under six I was thinking before I was due to speak to you I saw I was

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And it's sort of, yeah, me and Geronimo, we were kind of, we were kind of very marginalized by the arrival of the twins. And then they just kept coming by the time we got to four, like we didn't get invited invited, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, the, to, to, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, they.. And, tween, twea.s.s, twea.s.s, twea.s, twea. And, twea. And, twea. And, twea. And, twea get invited to anyone's house. And by the time we had five, like nobody wanted to come around to our house. We have to kind of book Cigminton and to get anyone to come. Is that why you put on the big feast of all? Is that how it started then? No, exactly, yeah, but pretty much. The big feastal is, and I'm very excited about this, has booked, has, has, has, umble. First thing we do every year, Mr. Tumble, Cuban Brothers. You know you've got a party then.

What's he like? What's he like? He's absolutely turns up, and then he puts on his check jacket and his red nose, and he walks out onto the stage. He sings one man went to Moe and brings the house down every year without fail. What's he like off stage? Have you have you spent much time with Tumble? Yeah, no, we were comparing set lists actually because I did I did I did something with the Royal Ballet and an orchestra a couple years back

and I had my set list which like started with the 1812 overture, the can-can second movement by I was seven and he was like one man went to Moe, um, ten green bottles. And it was like one man went to Moe, ten green bottles. And it was interesting comparing comparing set lists. But no, no, he's great. And I mean, the great thing about feast, this is, we're into our 12 year now. This is year number 12. And a lot of the chefs bring their families and a lot of the artists that are forming

come with their families. A lot of the chefs come back every year because there's nothing kids love more than camping. I think you know they'd rather stay in the tent and clarages. Yeah. Their mother and I is different. But you know kids just, kids absolutely love camping. We set a tent up in the, we've all set a tent up in the, we've all set a tent up in the garden right since they were really little because, you know, it's completely another, you're getting into another world, you know,

it's dairv and quiet and spiders, and the spires and theyreys. And so is it very kid friendly then? It's on the, it's on the, it's, it's, it's on, it's on, it's on, it's on, it's on, it's, it's on, it's, it's, it's, it's on, it's on, it's, it's on, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's on, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's....... It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's...... It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's......... It's, it's, it's, it's, the. It's, the. It's, the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. th. th. the. the. the. the. the. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, the like the last bank holiday, the last weekend and summer holidays, but basically, so it's something to look forward to. And yeah, I mean, obviously I've made five children, six cheeses, eight albums. So I'm just filling the farm up with everything that I care about. And it's your actual farm, isn't it? It's my actual farm.

Yeah, it was all Jamie Oliver contacted me. Yeah, must have been 12 years ago. We'd met playing in a comic relief band together. He's a good drummer. He's got loads of kids as well. And he was like, you love food, I love music, you've got the venue. Let's see if we can do something. And it was, we were really lucky.

to great weather for the first few years. You kind of need that've got, I have endless enthusiasm for filling the farm up with everything I love the most. I mean, the kid stuff is really, really satisfying. I mean, you know, it's a very family-friendly festival. We're very well set up. For a good first festival with kids, which is that? As a first festival, my question is, mine are five and two.

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We always find like half a dozen iPhones and a few hundred quid and lose change over. So you'd say five and two it's a feasible. Oh, a hundred percent. Do you have to bring your own tent? There are various options from glamping to pre-pitch down to kind of bring your own. But I mean there's just so much stuff for kids to do, like from all ages up. We've got like parents pit stops so there's like nappie changing and baby feeding areas. But actually you know even the toddlers they're thinking, you know they're like camping. There's nothing that kids like more the today. And this is going camping with all the bells. the kids. the kids. the kids. the kids. the kids. The kids. the kids. The kids. the kids like more than camping. And this is like camping with all the bells and whistles, like we've totally got you covered.

Yeah, because I went camping with the kids and they loved it and I hated it, but we were just in a field. Whereas if we're here and we've got stuff to do all day and there's facilities like good food, good drink, good drink, it chaned it completely. It is a source of endless satisfaction to me, just because it was a bit of a gamble buying this place. We brought it on our honeymoon at kind of the exact point

when kind of Blurr had had enough of each other and we all needed to go off and do other things. Had you got kids at that point, Alex? No, no, no, no. We bought it on our honeymoon, and it was like completely derelict and I didn't I didn't I met met and married Claire very very quickly and marriage is always a kind of leap of faith isn't it you don't you know you know what you're getting into do you so I could we moved to this you know I moved out of London to this place in the countryside where I didn't know anybody with a woman

woman I didn't know really had a job and didn't know, really, didn't really have a job. And it was absolutely for years, you know, I had to work my nuts off actually to just just to kind of keep the thing afloat because you know, I wasn't really, wasn't really earning any money. My job just kind of stopped. Yeah, and if you buy a property when your job's flying, and when that stops for, you know, whatever reason, it's sort of getting scary when you've got these massive buildings. I bought, you know, it wasn't just a home, it's a business as well a farm, a crap business,

as you'll know if you've watched Jeremy's farming show. Are the kids, are any of the kids looking to take over the farm? Because obviously that's one of the things with the farmer is a kind of, you've got a succession style situation on your hands where you're trying to not offload the farm but you're thinking who's going to take it on when you know. Well, I've learned very early on that the festival the kids all need their the thinks the their their their their their their their their their their their to all the stalls going, my dad's Alex James can I have a free one. It's actually my house this is my garden. So no, they've all kind of, it's because it involves, you know, it involves music and food and and kids. I remember there was one year, there was a there was a shipping container full of Lego were a sponsor and there was a shipping container full of Lego response and there was a shipping container

painted like a Lego brick with a Lego brand on the side, but like being craned into the front field like just over there. And all the kids were just like, yeah, yeah, and all the kids were just like, yeah, just going absolutely mental. They came to see blur in High Park and they were kind of like, yeah yeah but when the Lego when the shipping tuner full of Lego was grained into the front garden they that was like the happiest I've ever seen them you know there's definitely something to peak all of their interests whatever they are so they are they fans of blur oh my god so five teenagers I mean I know this is a family show but all I can usually expect is fuck off fatty that's that's that's that's that's th. th I th I th I th I th I th I th I th I th th th th th th th th th th the the they they the they they they the they they they they they they they they they they they they the the they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they their their their their their their their their their their their their their th thi ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty they their they're their their they they they they they they fatty that's that's what that's basically yeah yeah yeah I was it can you just not say that in front of granny could just not just just well four of them came it was it was a polite

decline from sabre for he spawn I was I know come on it would be really good but four four of them came and Beatrix who's just turning 13, she, says 2015, she, so it's 2015, eight years ago last time, so she was like four, five last time. And I said, you've seen Blair before though, she said, no, I was asleep by the time you came on. Because you know, we're on quite past bedtime. So, you know, it was an exciting day going to a gig and stuff. So she, you know, she literally never seen this before. And I knew where she was standing in the audience. I thought she's either going to love it or hate it. And the lights on the audience came up a little bit and I looked over and I saw her and she was just like this. Oh. Oh. And afterwards they were all like, dad you're so cool. And that was th. the the the the the the. the. the. the. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. the. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. the. the. the. the. the. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I.......................................................................................................................... was so brilliant. Oh amazing. Was that more nerve-wracking than anything having them there? Actually no, no, no.

I mean, they're kind of used to seeing me. And something strange has happened since the last time out. The audience used to be like a blur. And oh yeah, my dad really likes blur. But now it's like my kids love blur. Do you guys ever talk about that? Because there's three of you are dads. Do you ever sit backstage or you're having lunch during the recording and you're like fucking out. How teenagers are. Yes, yeah, every day. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because we're all checking it's. I know it's actually really nice because the kids have all been coming out to this. It's lovely actually all. All of the Blur kids seem to seem to really to really to really to really to really to really to really to really to really to to to to to to to to to to to the to to the the their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their. their. their. their. their. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. I their. I their. I their. I their. I'll. I'll their. I'll their. I'll. I'll. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm their. the older kids have all been coming out to this. It's lovely actually. All of the Blur kids seem to seem to really love blur and it's great and they've all been hated so

they were all out at Primavera in Barcelona and they loved it and then they went for Scrilex the next day and I think Scrilex slightly had the edge. How do you how do you how do you start your time between all five because Because obviously you're busy with a farm, you're busy with a festival. It's like it's an Excel spreadsheet. It's actually a wonderful anchor. It's been said famously many times that you know, you stop evolving at the point you become, that you become well-known.

Yeah, I was basically acting like a child until I had one. You know, children do make adults, adults make children, but children make adults. And, you know, it was many years of nappies and, well, let's go so glad to have done my last nappies. So many years of nappies. But what they really need now, it is, it's harder to connect with them as they get older and they kind of need a different kind of support. I mean, what they all need now is kind of cooks drivers, cooking with the kids is that's something that has been like brilliant, like right right from the very beginning. Food does have a universal appeal, you know.

Yeah, I mean, I wonder if the kids are like there or not, but I know they're all going to like chocolate. Everybody likes chocolate. One of my kids doesn't like cheese the kids, I the kids, I the kids, I the kids, I the kids, I the kids, I the kids, I the kids, the kids, the kids, the kids, thi thinks, thinks, thinks, thinks, thinks, thinks, thinks, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, the kids, the kids, their, their, and their, and their, and their, and their, and their, and their, and their, and their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their thiiiiiiii. And, thi. And, thi, thi. And, thi. And, thi. And, thi. And, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. So going to like chocolate you know they they they like everybody likes chocolate and one of my kids doesn't like cheese actually interestingly do you think that's a a rebellious decision or do you know they actually don't know it likes me they all like pizza so they're so so like really every weekend we're like since we moved here we've been making pieces and talks oh my kids have pizza and I want to make pizza with them, but there's a million different pizza ovens and Gosney's, Uneys and all these different names.

You've done it now for 19 years of pizza weekends. We've done it before. Like we did everything from like making the mozzarella, growing the tomatoes, even growing the wheat and and like tried every kind of pizza oven. There's some little electric ones that you can buy. Like Nisbitt's got really good ones. They're like two or three hundred quids. I'm saying, you know, it's your money back in.

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So my record, so fast and hot, so pizza ovens go like 100 degrees hotter than a standard oven. That's why you need one, and the stone base is really the the the the the the the the the the the th is 17, 17 seconds to cook a pizza. That was in a wood-fired ray burn with anthracite. It was like the whole thing was glowing red, like just slid it in there. It explodes and get this wonderful bubbly up base. But, you know, food is a really good way to kind of engage and teach and weekends are normally spent the whole time cooking.

Do they all like the countryside life or there are some that are going, I can't wait to move to London. Yeah, so Geronimo is in Brighton now and I think he was ready for great. I mean, I think if you grow up in the countryside, then it's fine. I'd had absolutely enough abhorne us by the time I got to Toronto Maze Agent. But actually the fact that there's five of them, I mean we are quite isolated, you know, so it's a mile walk to the village, but there is a footpath going straight to the pub that was established a hundred years ago, hundreds of years ago.

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You've always wanted to ask, that aren't necessarily on topic, but will give you a reprieve. You can go as nerdy as you want. It's all going to be quite boring, isn't it? Well, I'd quite like to hear what would be there songs that you don't like that are in the sex they're big songs but you can't stand them? Conversely are there songs that you feel have gone hugely been ignored I'd say he thought of

cars is for me. Really really interesting yeah I'll. I'll find we've been rehearsing that. No, yes we have. Here we go. Here we go. I mean, Damon is what is one for blowing hot and cold, you know, he's at the moment he's refusing to do Charmless Man, which was a huge, which is a huge yeah. Yeah, it's bad. I mean I'm a lot more kind of light-hearted. Like, here's our 20 most popular songs, let's just play them in reverse order. That's the set list. It was like, why don't we just get the crew to put the words to Charmless Man on the big screens?

And then I'll walk out for the encore and start playing it. They'll all start singing, and then Damon's got to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get the the the to get the their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their. their. their their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. I. I. I. I. I. I's. I's. I's. I's. I's. their. their. their. their. the. the. thea. thea. Wea. Wea'ea'ea'ea'ea'ea'ea'ea'ea'ea'ea'ea'eroe. I's. I involved. So you don't dislike any of the big songs? There's plenty of stuff I've done outside of blur that I'm like, maybe that was a mistake but I think but being a stuff that depends, I mean, anything that kind of tends to see the light of day with blur, I mean, I sincerely believe that there's merit in all of it. There's literally nothing that I change of th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th them of them of them of thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi their their their their their their their their their their their their th. th. th. th. th. There's th. thi thi thi thi. There's thi. thi. There's thi. There's thi. thi. thi. thi's thi's thia's thia's thia's thia's thia's thia's thia's thia's thi. There's the in all of it. There's, there's literally nothing that I changed really. I mean, some of them, some of them, it's like, oh my, you know, you thought, oh God, he wants to do that one. It's so, and they said, how does it even go? And, you know, I'm playing, Have you got it written down somewhere? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I.. the, no, I. the, no, no, I. the. the. the. the, I, no, I, no, I'm. the. the, th. th. th. th. the. th. th. th. th. th. th. the, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it, it, it, it, the. the. the. the, the, the, the, the. the, the, the. the, the. the, the. the. the, the. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. find it. There's some of you got it on YouTube.

And just start playing like, how does that go? And it's amazing, like two or three times round. And it's just like, oh my God, I'm doing it. And it's just all those years of motor memory. I mean, I think we booked police for festival a few years back. And it's brunt become a chef as well and I was really big in her up in the promo Like yeah, we got police coming it's good great. She didn't do milkshake then we have our money back. Um, and I think we're a gig about food.

It's a fucking link there, man. It's a song about about food and it's a song. I mean, you've got one song basically come quite quickly and quite a young. I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, the the the the the the the the the the th. th. th. th. We th. We th. We've, th. We've th. We've th. We've th. We've th. We've th. We've got, we've got, we've got the the th. We've got to go, we've got their their their th. We've got their, we've got their, we've got their their their, we've got their their, we've got their their, we've got their their their their their their, we've got their, we've got their their, we've got their, we've got the the the the the the. We've got the c. We've got thea, we've got to get to to to to to the the today's c. We've got c. We've got the the the tho. We've got the the the the the the thea, you've got one song, basically, come on. Come on, do your song. If success is gonna come in music, it tends to come quite quickly and quite a young age, and it can give you a second act problem. How old were Led Zeppelin when they did Stairway to Heaven in early 20? So, you know, how old are they now? You know, if you had them on the podcast, you wouldn't, you want to be talking about, Stay Way to Heaven more than kind of what the new album. Yeah. I mean, I will, you know, that's, um, and I guess that, you know, it can, it can give you, uh, give you the hibbys. Can't, you know, if you still did 70 years that's what I mean, that. that. that. that. that. that. that. th. th. th. th. th. th. I th. I th. th. I th. th. th. I'm, they. th. th. th. their. th. th. th. th. th. th. I'm, I'm, I'm, you. Yeah, I'll. Yeah, I'll. Yeah, I'm. Yeah, I'm. Yeah, I'm. Yeah, I'm. Yeah, I'm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. Yeah. I. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah well, let's talk just what I do. I do, geez, and I'm a dad.

But yeah, I think the fact that all of us have managed to cope, I didn't choose for Blur to stop happening when it did, but I was what, 33, 34? I was like just about young enough to have enough energy to kind of work something. And if I didn't, if I, if I, if I then, if I to, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, th, th, th, th, to to, you, to, you, to, you, to, you, you, to, you, to, to, you, to, you, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, you, you, to, you, to, to, you, to, to, I to, I to, I to, I to, I to, I to, I to, I to, I to, I to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to see, to, to see, to see, to see, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to see, to, to have enough energy to kind of to kind of work something and and if I didn't if I didn't have feast you know feastable to sort of occupy me and engage me and and the family to kind of consume me it might be more difficult to just go just in a country house when we're fucking obviously yeah you know I've got a problem with any of it, you know. What's not to like? Oh, amazing. Oh, it's been a pleasure talking to you. We always end with the same question, Alex,

which is about parenting, which is, but you could, do you know what, you could do it about the other members of Blur if you want, which is, if there's one thing that your wife does as a parent that makes you go, fucking hell, that's unbelievable. I couldn't do that. She's incredible. And there's one thing that she does that really annoys you that you keep to yourself, but worse she to listen to this is your way of communicating it to her. Yeah, well, I, I, yes, I've squared this off with my wife is completely O completely OCD with labelling and and meticulous.

I mean, I think you have, you kind of have to be with five, it is like a military operation, but everyone's got kind of got a colour, everyone's colour coded. Oh really, like their bags and coats and shoes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and two of them are colour-blind so it's had to be co-assessed over the years. But yeah, just the kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind the kind the kind the kind kind the kind the kind kind the kind the kind the kind the kind the kind kind the kind kind the kind the kind kind the kind the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the kind of the to be reassessed over the years. But yeah just just the kind of OCD level of kind of labelling but there's no there's no way around it I mean but but she seems to have a real flair for that kind of precious Virgo kind of triplicates on a paperwork. What's your color have you got a colour no? No it was supposed to be that I was the only one without a color. So where does it stretch to, beds or just like shoes and coats? Pillowcases, you know, all, yeah, pillows. Everyone's got their own favorite

pillows and yeah. And the kid, the kids, the kids, the boys are all my height or taller. Now, so they can't steal my shoes anymore. But I can't the the the the the the the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. to. th. th. th. th. toe. th. th. th. the the the the the the the the thi. thi. the. the the the the th. the the the the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the the the the the th. the the the the the the th. So, th. So, th. So, th. So, th. So, th. So, th. So, th. So, th. So, th. th. th. th. th. th. the. the. the. the. the. the. toe. toe. the the. the the the the the the the. the steal my shoes anymore but I can never find socks. Sox is a problem. Yeah we had to have a sock amnesty my ass. And so what do they wear they have the same colored socks every day? No there's a little dot that goes or a name or a name tag that goes. I mean I quite actually quite like the name tag. Have you got it on your socks now? I got more on my socks today. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. the the the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the th. th. the th. th. th. th. the the th. their. their their their their th. Ssoa. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. the. I. I. I. I. I. I t. I. I. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. t. I'm. t. t. t. So, t. So, t. So. So, t name tag. Have you got it on your socks now? I've got my socks today. No, this actually must be my socks. But I noticed I looked down at my feet on stage and I saw there was a, my foot was up on the monitor in Barcelona and there was a little word Galileo Nick Jane's name tag in my socks. But there was a moment with Claire very early days when we were getting down to it in a condom split and she was like it's split and there was a sudden epiphany that oh my god that's not a disaster I want your babies and I've never felt that like with anyone and that that was

a kind of moment. What romantic story? Yeah. And when did you leave the car park and head out for dinner? It's just a feeling, isn't it, I think, when you're with someone that you really love and want to be with, you can't, it's hard to explain it, but you just know. Yeah, yeah, that, that definitely goes back to that moment. I mean, obviously we've been arguing ever since, but I'm blessed.

Oh, brilliant. Thanks so much, darling. Lovely ending. Thank you, Alex James. How was that for you, Josh. I love that, Blake. I love that, Blake. Alex's life sounds so busy. Fucking Nora, mate.

Five kids. The thought that, if I'd that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thanks, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks, that's that's that's that's that's thanks, Fucking Nora, mate. Absolutely. Five kids. The thought that if I'd been in a band till I was 33, living that life, and then I'd kind of on a whim bought a farm and had to make it work as a business, I'd have been like, what the fuck have I done? I wouldn't be laughing about it. I wouldn't be laughing about. But he's fucking made it work. He's made

it work. Anyway, right, I speak to you next time. See you soon. Bye. Bye. If you like Josh Winnickom, you're in look. That's because the co-host of Parents in Hell and the Last Leg Maistro is the guest on the first episode of the Always Be Comedy Podcast. Out now and with me first episode of the Always Be Comedy podcast. Out now and with me your host and MC Always Be Comedy, James Gill. Each week the Cream of Comedy Comedy Gigg, who'd open, who'd close, what gig nightmaid do they never want to relive. All this and much, much more. It's essentially comedy gossip and chat.

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