The Unmade Podcast - A Momentous Day

Episode Date: April 28, 2026

Tim turns 50 - but more importantly, we release our long-awaited “Rocking the Horse” film. See it at https://youtu.be/jtSw8P0KXyQ

Hey everyone. It is April the 28th and it is a very momentous day today because Tim, it's your birthday. Happy birthday. Thank you. Thank you. Milestone. I know. Just even you saying the 28th of April, it's a bit like hearing your name in a crowd. It just rings true like, oh, I know that day. And half a century. Yes. Yeah, that is amazing. 50 years old. Amazing. How does it feel? It feels, I think 49 felt kind of strange. 50 feels like, yeah. You're right with it?

Cool. Yeah. I just think there's no argument that can be made anymore that you're young. Like there's no, you can't twist, you know, I'm in my 40s or you can't, like the goalpost. You can't move the goalposts anymore. Like, that's it. I'm officially an adult. You're now closer to 100 than you are to your birth. Wow.

now that is that's quite something yes and special special bonus content people i got a message from your mum yesterday where she sent me some new photos of you as a baby a newborn baby that she's just uncovered first thing she did was send them to me and to celebrate your birthday well maybe we'll post them over on the patreon as a little little treat see a little baby tim oh my goodness me that's baby photos that's really what you want to at the age of 50, yes. Yes. That's a long time ago.

Half a century ago, those photos were. Closer to 100. Gosh. That is scary. Closer to 100. It does make me feel like an elder, you know, like a statesman. Do you think I'm moving into that sort of season of life?

I definitely think if you was elder. Yeah. Maybe not statesman. Not quite statesmen. No. It's sort of, yeah, post-young, pre-Statesman. So. Anyway, we aren't recording this just to tell everyone it's Tim's birthday.

though that is a very special day. But we've chosen this special day as the day to formally, finally, publicly release the video of the century, speaking of 100 years. We've talked about it, we've hyped it,

you thought it would never happen, but Tim playing his sofa shop a guitar solo on top of the big rocking horse in the style of slash from November rain is now real and everyone can watch it. We released it on the exact minute of Tim's birth as far as we know on the 50 year anniversary.

It's out there. Patrons got a preview. They saw it a bit earlier, but now everyone can watch it. It's linked below, but not only is there the music video, there was also a 25-minute documentary about the history of and making of the video.

It's fair to say, overkill. We went too hard, didn't we? Well, one of the things that I love about this, of course, is it was about nine months ago that this was conceived and it's been gestating all that time. Ah, yes, I see what you've done there. And then today it was finally born. It was born.

So do go and have a watch. Please watch the documentary. Tim and I are disproportionately proud of it. Is that fair to say? It is, it is. I mean, when you reach the age of 50, as I have right now, you take stock of your life, what you're proud of, what you're not so proud of, achievements, and generally you'd point to things like, you know, children, things like that.

Yeah. You know, as being things you're supposed to say are your greatest achievement. I wonder if this film is actually mine. I think it is. I think this is, it's pretty special. It's pretty special. If I was to live for a thousand years, I don't think I'd do anything quite as amazing as this film. You are obviously super involved in the making of the music video and the making of the documentary

because it involves a very extensive interview with you. But when you saw the finished product like in its completeness and you watched it, like what was that like as an experience? I know you did it with the family. Look, it's, it was like the memories in my mind and in my heart in sort of technicolor. Like it was amazing. It was like, yes, yes, yes. Oh my goodness.

I was proud of it. I was thrilled. It came out better. Can I just say you did a heck of a lot of work? In fact, I think you spent a lot more time editing this thing than we spent filming it. Yes, that's definitely. It is ironic that, I mean, the documentary in many ways is a Tim showcase, but I still feel like I spent more time on it than you. You certainly were the midwife to the entire process.

Yeah, no, I'm very grateful for what you've done there because you've done a fantastic job. And all jokes aside, I am super proud of it and super pleased with it, and I know you are too. I am. Please go and watch it people. I will link to it. It's on YouTube. It's in all the usual places. You can just watch the music video, which is great fun, great job done by Tim and the team. But the documentary, it goes deep. It tells the history. It goes into, you know, why is the sofa shop a big deal? Why is the rocking horse a big deal? How was the music made? How was the video made, it kind of is a, it really just closes the loops. We're referring to it as a documentary, but of course, strictly speaking, it should be technically

understood as a rockumentary. Or a rocking horseyumentary. Rocking horse. That's a very equestrian oriented rockumentary. That's true. Yeah. So having watched, that's part of the thrill, I think for me, is that having watched, I feel like I've spent most of my 50 years watching rockumentaries, frankly.

and to finally be part of one myself is indeed to be the subject of one. It's amazing. And people, when you see Tim's interview, which he does, like, is a little bit tongue in cheek at times. He does it in character. You can tell that Tim is a person who has watched a lot of documentaries because he really, he really plays the part in a pretty special way. He knows what he's doing.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I love it. I really love it. All I've ever wanted to do is to be interviewed. as part of a documentary about a band. And it's just, so somehow all that knowledge can come out. I never thought I'd do it about my own film clip.

I mean, this is really something, yeah. It's there. Okay, people, that's enough. Just a short episode to tell you about it. Happy birthday, Tim. Please, please watch our film. We're very proud of it. Share it with your friends.

We'd like to get a non-embarrassing number of views on it. Because so many people will have watched it on Patreon. They won't watch it on YouTube. So I feel like we've kind of scuppered our views. you count a little bit there. So if you've watched it on Patreon, go and watch it on YouTube as well, just for the count,

for the likes and the clicks and the things. Like do the thing with the thumb to say you like it and leave a comment and do all that stuff so it feels like more of a big deal. So when we try to flog it to Netflix, they'll think, oh yeah, no, these guys knew what they were doing.

I don't feel we can go without saying a big thank you to someone in particular, though, who I know will be, may have even stayed up to watch wherever he is, the premiere, and that's Slash. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, his performance was a great inspiration.

It's the shining light, I think, moment of the November rain film clip, which I think is the shining light of the whole Guns and Roses epic story, which of course is just a small part of the big sofa shop rocking horse story. The entire career of Guns and Roses, just a small piece in the puzzle of this sort of, of our story. But yeah, I mean, yeah, he's been something of a mentor to you, a guide for many years.

So to be able to, to be able to tip your top hat to him at this moment is something pretty special. That's right. I hope he's pleased with my performance. Indeed, inspired perhaps to, to a new part in his own career. Yeah, to get onto the big rocking horse himself.

Indeed, indeed. Well, that's right. Well, that's the other thing. People, yeah, I wonder what, sort of site this is going to be for people to come and visit, stand there. Oh, gosh, who knows. I think you have showcased it as a real venue, a music venue that people didn't really recognise. So I think it could become the new Wembley. Yeah, yeah. And it is a legendary site. I know you're here on holidays and you were there the other day taking young Edward

and your family there. So a big thank you to the rocking course as well. If you're in Adelaide, head down to the rocking horse. You can stand at the exact spot. They've not yet erected sort of like a bronze statue or anything, like in tribute to the guitar playing. So you can go and stand in the exact spot that I stood. Take your guitar, go and be a, go and, you know, pretend to be Tim. Imagine what it feels like to be Tim for just a few seconds. Oh dear. Okay. All right.

We're done.