The Luke and Pete Show - Bitter Sweet Batteries

Episode Date: August 22, 2022

The people have spoken! Today we're finally discussing the result of our poll, where we asked you lot who's more likely to die first: Luke or Pete. Shockingly, it isn’t all bad for Donaldson!Followi...ng that, Luke loses his head at Thames Water, which leads to him making quite a blasphemous claim about batteries and we read an email which uncovers quite an unusual subculture: Richard Ashcroft super fans...Want to contact the show? Email: hello@lukeandpeteshow.com or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 All right, all right, all right. It is Monday the 22nd of August. I'm Pete Donaldson. Hello, it's the Luke and Pete show. How are you doing? You all right? Have you got a new dress on? Beautiful.
Starting point is 00:00:18 I have, actually. Thank you for noticing. Go fuck yourself, Donaldson. What's going on? How's the new week? How do you feel about that? I don't think there's any need for that, to be quite frank. Ah.
Starting point is 00:00:28 Ah. Sometimes you set up shows with, like, big swears. Big swears? Well, look, big swears are bad, baby. I think it's cool. I've been watching that. It's that Woodstock documentary we watched last week. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:00:40 Fuck you. Yeah, yeah. At one point, we forgot to mention fred durst does attempt to crowd surf on a big piece of wood that someone's broken off the fence yeah i'm sorry like i'm sorry if there's a big bit of wood and and i i want to see that i want to see the lead singer um crowd surf like on it and sing that one shot just a shot of the organizer who's recently told limp biscuits manager to calm everything down and he's singing that's not gone well is it if anything he's done the opposite there.
Starting point is 00:01:06 But, like, I mean, to be fair, they asked every headline act to calm them down and none of them wanted to do it. Only Gavin Rosdale, only the Brit wanted that decorum. Anthony Kiedis went, ah, they're not going to listen to me. And then proceeded to sing a song about fire, the Jimi Hendrix song Fire, and there was just loads of fires around.
Starting point is 00:01:28 It was just all unhelpful. I've had a bit of feedback around my characteristically strident take on the music of Limp Bizkit. People say, you know, come on, they're all right. I'm just going to present a couple of exhibits. Double and double. So a couple of lyrics from the mind
Starting point is 00:01:46 didn't the exhibit actually do a song with Fred Durst probably that's almost certainly happened almost certainly there might have been
Starting point is 00:01:52 a guy Wu-Tang Clan Red Dragon I don't know a couple of a couple of sample lyrics from the
Starting point is 00:02:00 fine mind of Fred Durst I did it all for the nookie come on the nookie come on so you can take that cookie and stick it up your year and then yeah my favorite hey kid take my advice you don't want to step in a big pile of shit captain's drunk your world is titanic floating on the funk so get your groove on. What was that second one from? I don't know. I'm unfamiliar with that lyric in that song.
Starting point is 00:02:27 That second one, I'll tell you, is from, can you feel for a bit while I just double check? Yeah, okay. I did it all for the nookie. The nookie. That wasn't very long. You could take a cookie. Are we like we're saying? Songs, protected songs, great songs, great times.
Starting point is 00:02:41 From my generation. Oh, is it? Right, okay. I don't remember those lyrics at all. My generation. Oh, is it? Right, okay. I don't remember those lyrics at all. My generation. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know if I want to spend that much more time. You know, there's a really brilliant bit in Mid-Morning Matters,
Starting point is 00:02:53 the great Alan Partridge vehicle, which people would say is up there with the very best stuff that Coogan's done with Partridge, and I agree. And he's just in the middle of a phone-in, and he's speaking to these different people. And he goes, okay, next up on the line is Fabian. And actually, I don't want to speak to someone called Fabian. It just kills him.
Starting point is 00:03:12 And I feel like that about Limp Bizkit. I don't want to talk about him anymore. Fuck it. I don't want to spend any more of my broadcasting career, and it is a career, talking about Fred Durst. I'd rather talk about Pete, the fact that I don't know why this happened i imagine it's related to something we talked about a while back but producer rory or one of the team without even checking with us posted up on twitter a poll on
Starting point is 00:03:39 the luke and pete show twitter page uh saying who's going to die first luke or pete yeah i mean i was first alerted to this um via my partner i have access to who showed me a screenshot of it and just sort of frowned like someone who's done this disappointing yeah i think she thought that was you right it wasn't me i know i know i promise you that promise you that. Producer Rory, wasn't it? Not a lad. I'm the type of person whose reputation among people who don't only know me through others is very poor.
Starting point is 00:04:11 Yeah, I think people just think I'm a complete bear. And I kind of made my peace with that. So I totally understand why your lovely partner that you've got access to
Starting point is 00:04:20 thought it was me. Yeah. I promise you it wasn't. It was producer Rory. And while we've done it, I suppose technically it is content so yeah uh while the best reply for me uh was it'll be luke but it'll be because of pete yeah and that was david and connor tim said that he believed that you will live forever peter almost like a keith richards type thing um but the overall result was fairly conclusive uh two-thirds almost exactly two-thirds 65.9 percent of people said they thought you would
Starting point is 00:04:50 die first even though you are younger than me so i guess so yeah but i i i'm kind of in i'm hoping i'm going to be in the camp that you know people will think i'll die first because i'll get electrocuted or something but in reality i just don't want to reality, I just don't want to be, right? I just don't want to be flat on my back going, ah, fuck. Ah, it's my fault, isn't it? But I just know
Starting point is 00:05:11 I've got more chance of being in that situation than you. You're not a prodder. You're not prodding. Because you've made a mistake or you've put yourself in danger or you're talking about
Starting point is 00:05:19 a helmet. I've just taken a claw hammer to a cavity wall and I've not checked the stud work. I've not checked where the wires are and I've put my hammer through work. I've not checked where the wires are. And I've put my hammer through it.
Starting point is 00:05:28 Do you know the thing that worries me about it? Is that if that does happen, or you do die before me, there's a reasonable chance some people are going to come to me for comment. I have no idea what I'll say. The police? Yeah, but I'm happy that I'll play with a straight bat when it comes to the police. You know, if you're found, you know, in an embarrassing situation. Ammo.
Starting point is 00:05:50 An orange soaked in ammo in the mouth. Yeah. I'll tidy it up for the good of your family. Well, yeah. And play with a straight bat and all that kind of good stuff. But if it's something you've done and people want a glowing tribute. Apparently a bat does get straighter when you die. Say again?
Starting point is 00:06:04 Apparently a bat does get straighter when you die you can play with it all you want mate yeah yeah that's true no but what i'm saying i don't mean this in a horrible way because i can think of loads of positive things to say about you but i'm one of those people when i try and be earnest i think a lot of people think i'm being sarcastic you have like a tell it's like uh when people touch the face when they're lying you just you you just can't help but laugh. When I'm being sincere. You try to say nice things about people.
Starting point is 00:06:29 So that's what I fear. I fear being come to for some kind of comment. And most of the memories people are going to have of you, Pete, are going to be, and this is a positive thing, are going to probably be unserious memories, right? Okay, yeah, no, that's fair. So I think you're going to have to be one of those people who says, come to my funeral, Justin, whatever you want,
Starting point is 00:06:48 I'm going to have a big party. Yeah. And then halfway through the party, your coffin will just be removed to another party. He wanted to go somewhere else. Yeah. He heard some Franz Ferdinand in a passing bar, so he wheeled into that, to be honest.
Starting point is 00:07:03 A passing bar? What kind of bar would that be? I don't know, just a passing... A barge, a bar bar so you've got to be wheeled into that to be honest a passing bar what kind of bar would that be I don't know just a passing a barge a bar barge yeah so we're not going
Starting point is 00:07:09 to live forever are we no you and I not in this heat I don't think I can handle another summer like this to be honest
Starting point is 00:07:15 I was thinking that the wife I have access to told me to pull myself together and grow up which I think is fair enough in reflection but I said I don't
Starting point is 00:07:23 know if I can do another one of these you know I think I might need to be somewhere else but to be fair she is from the land of air conditioning as well so like if she can handle it you should be able to handle it yeah of mediterranean extraction though yeah yeah i guess so yeah you know sometimes you see isn't everyone who's like good looking got that like like my partner thought like he's got a bit there it It's just all good-looking people generally have that,
Starting point is 00:07:48 and we're from Scotland and north of Scotland, me and you. My extraction is Scottish, Irish, and Scandinavian. But Scandinavian people are generally handsome, aren't they? They're handsome, yeah. So if I'm two-thirds less handsome than the average person, the third I am handsome is from the Scandinavian bit. That's fair, yeah. Okay, I'll take that.
Starting point is 00:08:10 But I think it's all about context as well, right? So if I'm like, I don't know, in Greece or something, and I've already got to do anything, I will still moan about the heat a little bit, but it's kind of much easier to manage. Like this morning when I was coming into the office, I just got on the tube and I was like, and I'm not even someone who sweats that much.
Starting point is 00:08:31 And I'm like, fucking, what's the point? I just wanted to beat the shit out of the tube. I just wanted to do a Street Fighter 2 bonus level on the tube. What, just one of the carriages? Just constantly boning? What part of a tube carriage do you reckon you could damage irreparably? I don't think there's a single thing. They're built to last.
Starting point is 00:08:49 Just the doors. Yeah, probably the doors. Could you, though? They're really hefty. Even people with massive doors and stuff. And do you know what? One of the most fascinating things about getting on the tube is that when the tube train comes in,
Starting point is 00:09:03 you see the cab that the driver sits in. It's all very pleasingly 70s and mechanical and stuff, which reminds you of how old the tube is that when the tube train comes in you see the cab that the driver sits in it's all very like pleasingly 70s and mechanical and stuff which reminds you of how old the tube is i suppose if those doors haven't been kicked in by someone tougher than me then it ain't gonna be me doing it after all that time exactly i think at best you could probably scratch your name into the rubber seal on the door that's about it really because the only thing people can do in tube carriages, generally, is scratch with your keys your name in a very unpleasing way into the tube map. That's the only thing you can do, really.
Starting point is 00:09:32 And people try it. Yeah, I remember once a friend of mine taking all the cardboard adverts out. Yeah, okay, that's fair. So you could do that. What did they do with them? I don't know, because I would never be seen dead doing that, because I respect the advertising industry a great deal.
Starting point is 00:09:48 Did you do it? It sounds like you did it. No. Okay, right. It wasn't me, but I saw it being done. Because what you can do is, you can turn them inside out,
Starting point is 00:09:56 and they're blank on the back, and you can write messages on them. Write wherever you want, yeah. What did they write? I don't know if they took advantage of that. I think they took them, and people were ripping them up, and taking them with them and stuff. Naughty boys.
Starting point is 00:10:09 I don't think damage to public transport is the answer. Yeah, but you were Tox09, weren't you? You were the guy who used to write Tox99 on the buses with a compass. No, I think the reason I would never do it is because the second in command of the RMT union is Eddie Thingy. I forget his surname now. He's got a nickname in some circles as the Talking Boulder.
Starting point is 00:10:35 He does look like a ruffian. Which is one of my favourite kind of nicknames around. Why is the RMT... Eddie Dempsey, that's his nameames around why is why is the RMT Eddie Dempsey that's his name why is always like the RMT they just always have
Starting point is 00:10:49 these beautiful thick estuary accents I think it's a fucking disgrace yeah yeah I do they're having a they're having
Starting point is 00:10:56 the people at the top of the economy they're having a disco we talked about this a few weeks ago but it's funny isn't it because I think
Starting point is 00:11:04 and I'm certainly not one of these people for obvious reasons, and you're not either, but I think that it actually hampers the effort now because they speak with such regional accents and they're called things like Mick and Eddie and stuff. I think it gives an excuse for the ruling classes and the fucking smug dickheads at newspapers to not take them seriously and caricature them more easily, which is shame it shouldn't be like that at all it's wrong my mom
Starting point is 00:11:30 casually threw in a uh well we'll come down to see you if uh mad mick hasn't cancelled all the trains it's like it's just a daily mail talking point she's picked up it's just like and she pretends that the daily mail hasn't affected her fucking brain and it has like a fucking limp it sucking yeah this happens a lot and it's this happens a lot this kind of brain and it has like a fucking limp it sucking yeah this happens a lot and it's this happens a lot this kind of thing and it's the saddest thing about it is that it happens with football fans in a massive way as well like what you're actually looking for is solidarity among people of the same class of people because the class system is a massive issue in the uk still now and what you'd want is presumably someone like your mother to show a bit of solidarity with people who are at the bottom
Starting point is 00:12:08 of the economy and who have who have been essentially punished for no reason yet it doesn't happen people were much more happy to be at the devil's side and in their path right so it happens with football fans right you see like you'll see like new i mean sorry to bring it into your club but like you'll see newcastle fans or whatever i don't know why i called them newcastle then but they they they lured it up over what's happening at sunderland they love it they love that suddenly we've gone to the wall well actually what they should be doing is showing a bit of solidarity we're all in the same boat together because if it wasn't for some fucking decision of some oligarch down down the road you'd be in the same position So, there's no solidarity because it's much easier
Starting point is 00:12:46 to divide and conquer, right? And I like Big Eddie Dempsey, I'm also a bit frightened of him, so I would never damage a train carriage in anger.
Starting point is 00:12:56 I tell the people I do, the people I've got a real bee in my bonnet about at the moment, Thames Water. They're the ones I hate. Right, okay, why? Do they keep on
Starting point is 00:13:03 charging you lots or turning your water off? Oh, they're fucking sending letters through the door saying, okay, why? Do they keep on charging you lots or turning your water off? Oh, they're fucking sending letters through the door saying, oh, don't turn your tap on, it's fucking hot. And they're losing a billion litres a day because they're not investing in the network
Starting point is 00:13:13 because they're giving all the money to the shareholders, right? So the whole thing was privatised with no competition, which removes the whole point of privatisation, right? I'm happy to say that I'm someone who believes in a certain form of capitalism.
Starting point is 00:13:27 I think it's the right thing. But this rapacious crony capitalism where things get privatised by their rich mates and there's no imperative to do well because there's no competition. No one in London can choose who provides their water. It has to be Thames Water. All the money from our water bills
Starting point is 00:13:44 and from government subsidies goes to shareholders. And they're losing a billion litres a day in leaks because they're not reinvesting in the network and they're telling me to turn my tap off. That's what annoys me. I've lost water five times I've been living in my house.
Starting point is 00:13:58 I had a power cut a couple of days ago and I was like, no, if we're paying for it, you fucking deliver it, mate. You better fucking make sure with four grand on the fucking horizon, you've got fucking men in every fucking power plant and every fucking substation
Starting point is 00:14:16 making sure that that electricity never goes down, you absolute idiots. I don't want to give people a lecture that are listening i know they're listening listening to to an eavesdropping a lovely chat between two people that tolerate each other yeah batteries yeah yeah but come on batteries cannot be the answer to everything a man cannot drink battery acid i can't put battery acid on the plants in my garden no i can't apparently i'm not allowed to fill a watering can up. I imagine they're definitely doing that in the fucking 10 Downing Street Rose Garden, aren't they?
Starting point is 00:14:47 Get fucked. Get fucked. Get to fuck. Oi, oi, oi. I believe in the revolution now. I can't use... They've made me like this. I can't use my horse because it snapped.
Starting point is 00:14:58 And I can't be seen buying a horse in a week like this, can I? No. There was a horse left over from the last tenants on my property. And I was like, oh, brilliant, cool. So I've just been using that. And then that snaps. So I'm like, oh, I can't buy a new one this week when I've said horse paint ban. They're going to, what are you going to do with this?
Starting point is 00:15:18 I'm going to come, nothing, mate. Nothing, squire. Yeah. Don't worry about me wasting the water. There fucking isn't any. There isn't any anywhere. You stopped it coming to my house. So I'm not going to overuse it. Don't worry about me wasting the water there fucking isn't any so you stopped it coming to my house so i'm not going to overuse it don't worry about that and the thing is about it is with you it's fine because you've always been a bit of a student politics working class hero
Starting point is 00:15:34 kind of warrior right okay i'm someone who's definitely open to making loads of money but they've said they've they've i've been radicalized by ten's water by being shit yeah let's take a break so i can calm down and when we come back we're going to do an email about richard ashcroft and i promise you um we'll definitely remember sounds good baby it's the mother flipping luke and peach sure uh we nearly didn't have a show there because i nearly just clicked the button that says leave call. Why would you do that? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:16:08 You know, I think it's the radio DJ in me. When there's a break, I'm thinking I need to press a button to start the break. You haven't been a radio DJ for ages though. All right, mate. All right, don't rub it in. No one will have you.
Starting point is 00:16:18 I could do a job. There's a radio station called Actual Radio that's somewhere in Essex and they play some dross they play some DJ Otzi then they'll follow it up with some Sam Fender it's just confusing and what's the bad stuff they play?
Starting point is 00:16:37 Peter you'd be brilliant I'll tell you what I don't mean this in a snobby way but you've got hours under your belt you've got experience, you're a good broadcaster. If you went to, because the one I always think of is Adventist Radio, which is next to Absolute Radio on my digital thing in my car,
Starting point is 00:16:53 so I sometimes pick on it by accident. And it's like a Christian station or whatever. It's not really my cup of tea, but, you know, everyone, if you want to listen to Christian music, good luck to you. But if you went into like a really low kind of un-listened-to station, like perhaps that one you're talking about there, and you went in there, they would be like, what are you doing here? They'd be delighted to have you as a show.
Starting point is 00:17:12 And you could have a drive-time show, for example, where you could just do whatever you wanted. Yeah. I mean, I'd run it into the ground, like I did in my last one. Now, you're not being paid in this situation, so you would... Yeah. You might lose their licence, maybe. It's like when Kelly Kapoor says, if I was a millionaire, I'd probably have loads of money,
Starting point is 00:17:30 but I'd probably still work one day, and I'd take one pound for a salary. And I wouldn't work very hard, because I wouldn't get paid a pound. Like, what do you expect? Yeah, exactly. But I can't remember what we were going to say then. I'm only getting paid a pound like what do you expect yeah yeah exactly but um I can't remember what we were going to say then what were we going to say
Starting point is 00:17:50 we were going to talk about we were going to do an email about Richard Ashcroft oh we're definitely doing that but there was something else that happened before that it doesn't matter you know what
Starting point is 00:17:56 it doesn't fucking matter throw the running order out the window who gives a flying fuck it doesn't matter it's digital so I can't digital Neil's been in touch
Starting point is 00:18:04 he's emailed hello at lukeandpetecher.com. Okay. Hello to you, Neil. Nice to hear from you. I don't think it's Pilot Neil. He normally signs his emails off Pilot Neil, so I think we can rule that out.
Starting point is 00:18:13 I think it's a different Neil. And he says, Hello, lads. After the story of Richard Ashcroft on the show a while back, I thought I would share a strange occurrence from when we saw Richard Ashcroft support the Rolling Stones at Murrayfield a few years ago. Now, this is the fact that I could hear saw Richard Ashcroft support the Rolling Stones at Murrayfield a few years ago. Now, this is the fact that I could hear
Starting point is 00:18:28 a Richard Ashcroft show from my living room window a while back. So that's what this is referring to. Neil picks up the story by saying, the couple next to us were going crazy for both of Ashcroft's big hits. Oh, no, sorry, for both Ashcroft's big hits and his deep cuts.
Starting point is 00:18:44 I thought that was a dig because he only had two songs then they then lost their shit when he finished his set with Bittersweet Symphony as soon as the final tune ended though
Starting point is 00:18:53 they grabbed their jackets and left their seats and never returned to sum up this couple paid £90 each to sit at the back of the stand
Starting point is 00:19:00 at Murrayfield watch Richard Ashcroft and leave before one of the biggest bands on the planet even played a note. This was four years ago, and I've not stopped thinking about it. Loved the show, Neil.
Starting point is 00:19:10 That's interesting to me because I'll tell you why. I went to see Coldplay at Earl's Court about, must be getting on for 15 years ago now. And the reason I went is because my girlfriend at the time was a fan, to be getting on for 15 years ago now and the reason i went is because my girlfriend at times fan and um she she was a fan of richard ashcroft who um who supported coldplay on that gig and my girlfriend at the time was working for emi who i think coldplay were on the label of they may still be and so we got a couple of tickets and with like no word of a lie a couple of things happened one was i was absolutely blown to bits by how good rish lash cross voice was live
Starting point is 00:19:46 yeah it was so so good he filled the whole verse court on his own with an acoustic guitar which i thought was amazing and secondly a good handful of people did exactly that left before coldplay came on and i thought to myself at the time maybe they're you know but we talked about this before with other big artists like Jackson and Elvis and Madonna. The people who are into them are just really into them. And they don't care about anything else.
Starting point is 00:20:10 They're not really music fans. They're just, I don't know, Madonna fans or like people who aren't really football fans. They're just Liverpool fans or whatever. And it normally is Liverpool. Maybe Richard Ashcroft falls into that bracket
Starting point is 00:20:22 and we just don't know it. What do you mean? As in like, there's just people who are just obsessed into Richard Ashcroft. It that bracket and we just don't know it what do you mean as in like there's just people who are just obsessed into Richard Ashcroft it's just a weird
Starting point is 00:20:29 player for me it's just a weird you've met the man I have met the man didn't enjoy his company and yeah what are the top three things
Starting point is 00:20:37 you didn't enjoy about his company I didn't enjoy he was he was a bit miserable anyway I brought I he didn't enjoy... He was... He was a bit miserable anyway. I brought... I...
Starting point is 00:20:48 He didn't seem interested in taking someone's viewpoint, someone else's viewpoint over. And he didn't seem even interested in checking his own privilege. It's like a Luke and Pete show. Yeah, he just... How did that manifest itself, though? What do you mean? What was he...
Starting point is 00:21:07 He was just doing Uncle Albert, was he, the whole time? I think it was... Lily Allen, I think, had made a comment about, you know, the breaks that young black artists don't get compared to
Starting point is 00:21:22 older people. And I think Richard Ashcroft took umbrage with that. And I brought that up. And I shouldn't have brought it up. But, you know, I was in the twilight of my radio career. I was getting dangerous, Luke. I wasn't pulling any punches. Sure, you were burping and all sorts.
Starting point is 00:21:38 Yeah, and he was very, and he just was having none of it, really. He was just like you know she's a stupid you know whatever and that and it's just like right i mean she's right though isn't she richard we talked about this on thursday when we're talking about how the fact like certain i don't think they should be like i say as i also said last week i don't think they should be you know fucking sexist or racist or homophobic or whatever so i'm not excusing that if that's what happened but he is a rock and roll star right what do people want from their kind of singing band singers
Starting point is 00:22:11 they want to be nice today and fucking make him a cup of tea and talk about how normal they are because that just comes across as really inauthentic doesn't it i guess so yeah um but he was and and i you you kind of become a little bit ageist if you always insist on having sunglasses on indoors. That's a big thing, isn't it? Why do they all do that? I do kind of understand it, but it just means that like, it might look cool,
Starting point is 00:22:34 but every time you take them off, you're going to go, fucking hell. I remember like, it was a good couple of weeks where I didn't have access to my spectacles because I'd drunkenly left them in a cab a little while ago.
Starting point is 00:22:42 Yeah, I remember that, yeah. And for most of the time, I was wearing my prescription sunglasses. And fuck me, the world is quite bright when you take them off. Or if you look out on the outskirts of your glasses, you're like, fucking hell, it's very bright, isn't it? I've noticed you before, years and years ago,
Starting point is 00:22:56 we'd go do shows or whatever, and you wouldn't have your prescription glasses with you. You'd only have your prescription sunglasses, so you'd be wearing them all the time. And I think people were like, fucking hell, Pete thinks he's hot shit and I know that you didn't
Starting point is 00:23:08 think that but I wouldn't be able to say anything not my place to get involved never interrupt your enemy
Starting point is 00:23:11 when he's making a mistake that's what I say but you know what anyway on that Richard Ashcroft thing and I'm not surprised
Starting point is 00:23:16 to hear any of that I think you might have told me that before in polite company but what happened when he supported
Starting point is 00:23:23 Coldplay was that he honestly was so good and I'm not even an apologist or a big fan I like a couple of Verve records I've never owned a single It means more when you say it Yeah well
Starting point is 00:23:33 I've never owned a single Richard Ashcroft solo product or anything like that and I would never go and choose to go and see him as a main event if you like but he was honestly so good and everyone knew it and I thought to myself that event, if you'd like. But he was honestly so good and everyone knew it.
Starting point is 00:23:47 And I thought to myself, that's interesting because Chris Martin's not got a great reputation as being a really good singer, right? Which he isn't. And he came on
Starting point is 00:23:53 and he did something very clever. He said, in a really self-deprecating way, you know, I'm just really pleased that Richard Ashcroft agreed to support us today. He's the best singer in the world.
Starting point is 00:24:06 And I'm pleased that we all got a chance to kind of experience that and hear it. And how great was he and all this stuff. And made everyone give a big round of applause. I kind of cleared the air a bit. Just basically cleared the air. I just basically killed him with kindness. And just said, right, now we're doing our thing. And people were fine with it.
Starting point is 00:24:21 But it was one of those ones where you think, fucking hell, he's in danger of being blown to bits off the stage here because there's no way you're going to be able to follow that voice. So, look, he's probably got the best voice of anyone from Wigan, I would say. Okay, yeah, that's fair. And if you've got a candidate for that, to take that crown, I can't really think of that many Wigan bands, to be honest. There's probably a few kicking around.
Starting point is 00:24:43 Wigan are very big in the Northern Soul scene, right? Yeah, but they were very imported, weren't they? Yeah, very much people not from Wigan singing that. And also, I believe I'm right in saying that Wigan are also the epicentre of the legendary music genre Donk. What, put a Donk on it? Yeah. Is that Wigan? Oh, that's nice. I like that. I think that all centered around Wigan Pier as well.
Starting point is 00:25:04 I was a big fan of that. It burned very brightly didn't it it was like electro clash just was there for a second it was a bit like that it was it was a really working class salt of the earth music movement but it's funny isn't it because certain people in the music industry if it's not their type of thing they won't support it oh it's really organic and it's from the working classes and people really like it and it's really it's a fantastic movement that everyone's really got into and it's completely
Starting point is 00:25:27 self-sustained nah nah let's have canario could it fit on an ariana grande cd can we hear more
Starting point is 00:25:33 from the arctic monkeys please don't have a go at them they're alright no no I'm not having a go at them I think they're excellent
Starting point is 00:25:40 I also think donkey's fucking trash but I was trying to sound clever didn't really work anyway let's go let's get out of here and we've been
Starting point is 00:25:48 the little peach show Luke how much Nalgene have you consumed during this recording because it's still quite warm this is the third show I've done today
Starting point is 00:25:54 in this studio and I think I've almost done three litres of water it's lovely stuff too much for you that's a month for you that's a month for me
Starting point is 00:26:03 that said though I've been drinking a lot of me I've got my own water bottle but that's a month for me that said though I've been drinking a lot of me I've got my own water bottle but it's just basically a soda stream soda stream
Starting point is 00:26:08 I know we've talked about this you brought a water bottle to the meeting a while back and it was a soda stream bottle and I thought he's doing more harm than good there
Starting point is 00:26:15 anyway let's go and we'll be back on Thursday for more of this hello at lukeandpeach.com is the email address
Starting point is 00:26:19 at lukeandpeachshow for polls about whether each of us are going to die and other stuff like that thank you very much for listening. We love you all very dearly. Five stars on the podcast app of choice, if you don't mind,
Starting point is 00:26:32 and spread the word too. We really appreciate it. Oh, special shout out to the guy who grabbed me the day before yesterday when I was walking to the shop, just literally grabbed my arm. Yeah. I looked around. Bear in mind, I live in West Norwood. Like Antonio Conte.
Starting point is 00:26:45 Yeah. I was like, what's happening here? And he just showed his phone, Luke and Pete Show. Listen to Luke and Pete Yeah. I looked around. Bear in mind, I live in West Norwood. Like Antonio Conte. Yeah. I was like, what's happening here? And he just showed his phone. Luke and Pete show. Listen to Luke and Pete show. I like it. Didn't want to chat. Didn't want to know me.
Starting point is 00:26:51 I respect that. He just carried on walking. So shout out to him. You're out there. You know who you are. And we'll see you again next time. Next time you do it, you go to the fucking bin, mate. He's going to fucking do you.
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