1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:27,500 --> 00:00:28,875 I took the... 4 00:00:30,167 --> 00:00:31,334 government's... 5 00:00:33,125 --> 00:00:34,709 advice to... 6 00:00:40,709 --> 00:00:42,250 Fuck, what do you call it? 7 00:00:43,667 --> 00:00:45,459 - Retrain? - Retrain. 8 00:00:45,952 --> 00:00:49,619 I've retrained as a ceramicist because... 9 00:00:50,995 --> 00:00:55,620 it's no longer viable to be a musician. 10 00:00:55,917 --> 00:00:58,667 - Touring artist. Yeah. - A touring artist. 11 00:00:58,792 --> 00:01:02,375 So, much to my manager's horror, 12 00:01:02,500 --> 00:01:06,250 I've now retrained as a ceramicist. 13 00:01:06,834 --> 00:01:09,792 These are Staffordshire sculptures. 14 00:01:11,917 --> 00:01:14,459 Original ones. 15 00:01:16,355 --> 00:01:17,542 Beautiful. 16 00:01:18,042 --> 00:01:19,375 With a flat back. 17 00:01:22,042 --> 00:01:24,292 - Yeah. Assembly line. - They're just trinkets. 18 00:01:24,417 --> 00:01:26,746 They're basically... And they are made by children. 19 00:01:26,747 --> 00:01:27,708 - Really? - Yeah. 20 00:01:27,709 --> 00:01:31,000 Basically, children on assembly lines in the Victorian era. 21 00:01:32,042 --> 00:01:34,042 Small hands, and... 22 00:01:34,834 --> 00:01:36,625 - That's beautiful. - That one there, 23 00:01:36,750 --> 00:01:39,500 that one up there, was the first one 24 00:01:40,500 --> 00:01:43,875 which was a saint boiling in oil. 25 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:44,750 - Yeah. - Right. 26 00:01:44,875 --> 00:01:46,459 But the glaze was all wrong 27 00:01:46,584 --> 00:01:49,500 and we didn't know what colours it was going to be. 28 00:01:50,917 --> 00:01:52,459 That wasn't very successful. 29 00:01:52,584 --> 00:01:58,459 That I felt a little bit like, "This is not as easy as it looks." 30 00:01:58,584 --> 00:01:59,584 Yeah. 31 00:02:01,084 --> 00:02:03,209 That's the original drawing... 32 00:02:03,334 --> 00:02:04,708 Yeah, that was the original drawing. 33 00:02:04,709 --> 00:02:06,083 - Is that Nick's drawing? - Yeah. 34 00:02:06,084 --> 00:02:07,834 That's what I wanted to make. 35 00:02:09,084 --> 00:02:12,209 Like, it was just a saint boiling in oil, right? 36 00:02:13,250 --> 00:02:15,292 Anyway, should we just start doing them? 37 00:02:15,417 --> 00:02:19,500 Yeah. Take us on a tour of the life of the Devil from birth. 38 00:02:20,084 --> 00:02:23,167 Hang on. Well, I can... 39 00:02:23,292 --> 00:02:25,250 Okay, so... 40 00:02:28,334 --> 00:02:34,042 Basically, it's telling a story, in 18 figurines, 41 00:02:34,459 --> 00:02:37,417 of the story of the Devil. 42 00:02:38,875 --> 00:02:42,875 This one is just a resin one. 43 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,459 None of these have been glazed. 44 00:02:46,584 --> 00:02:48,667 That is the Devil... 45 00:02:53,334 --> 00:02:54,417 as a baby. 46 00:02:54,542 --> 00:02:56,750 It's called "The Devil Awakens". 47 00:02:59,042 --> 00:03:01,792 Nestled in this foal here. 48 00:03:06,292 --> 00:03:09,875 This is "The Devil Inherits The World". 49 00:03:10,709 --> 00:03:11,917 And he is now a boy. 50 00:03:14,459 --> 00:03:18,167 This is the Devil now as a child. 51 00:03:18,292 --> 00:03:20,750 And he's with a little monkey there. 52 00:03:21,250 --> 00:03:22,959 A little brown monkey. 53 00:03:25,042 --> 00:03:28,500 This one is the Devil with a sailor. 54 00:03:30,625 --> 00:03:35,500 So this one is the Devil's first love. 55 00:03:37,542 --> 00:03:42,500 So he's growing up and doing bold, dangerous things. 56 00:03:44,500 --> 00:03:46,625 The Devil now goes to war. 57 00:03:46,750 --> 00:03:49,334 This is called "The Devil Rides to War". 58 00:03:53,292 --> 00:03:56,000 And these little rabbits, you see here these rabbits, 59 00:03:56,125 --> 00:03:59,750 will all be gold, gilded rabbits. 60 00:04:00,875 --> 00:04:02,292 He's a young man. 61 00:04:06,292 --> 00:04:08,125 He's a young man off to war, yeah? 62 00:04:11,542 --> 00:04:12,709 Yeah. 63 00:04:14,917 --> 00:04:17,584 So this is "The Devil Returns From The War". 64 00:04:20,917 --> 00:04:24,292 He is now a different person. 65 00:04:24,417 --> 00:04:27,209 His horns are bigger. 66 00:04:27,334 --> 00:04:31,334 And he's coming back from war covered in medals. 67 00:04:33,250 --> 00:04:37,625 Emboldened and made powerful by the experience of war, 68 00:04:37,750 --> 00:04:41,000 walking through a field of skulls. 69 00:04:46,250 --> 00:04:48,625 Here is "The Devil Takes a Wife". 70 00:04:49,042 --> 00:04:50,750 She's holding the little rabbit. 71 00:04:50,875 --> 00:04:54,167 The rabbits feature every now and then. 72 00:04:55,125 --> 00:04:56,167 Naked. 73 00:04:58,584 --> 00:04:59,750 Okay, then... 74 00:05:10,125 --> 00:05:11,250 Then the Devil... 75 00:05:11,875 --> 00:05:14,792 This is "The Devil Who Kills His First Child". 76 00:05:23,042 --> 00:05:27,042 And there's "The Devil Sacrificing A Child". 77 00:05:48,667 --> 00:05:50,209 So the Devil is now... 78 00:05:51,542 --> 00:05:54,750 Has separated himself from the world through... 79 00:05:58,209 --> 00:05:59,625 through his transgressions. 80 00:05:59,750 --> 00:06:01,667 And here is... 81 00:06:02,834 --> 00:06:05,459 the world operating as normal. 82 00:06:05,875 --> 00:06:07,000 Rabbits. 83 00:06:08,084 --> 00:06:09,209 Children. 84 00:06:10,875 --> 00:06:12,334 Life goes on, 85 00:06:12,459 --> 00:06:15,459 and he is contemplating the world. 86 00:06:17,250 --> 00:06:21,375 This is "The Devil In Remorse". 87 00:06:23,917 --> 00:06:24,917 For his... 88 00:06:29,750 --> 00:06:32,334 He is alone and separated from the world. 89 00:06:32,459 --> 00:06:36,375 And kneeling in a pile of skulls. 90 00:06:46,209 --> 00:06:48,084 "The Devil Has Grown Old". 91 00:06:49,042 --> 00:06:53,542 And this is "The Devil's Last Dance". 92 00:07:04,375 --> 00:07:08,000 This is called "The Devil Bleeds To Death". 93 00:07:09,209 --> 00:07:10,375 And he's dying. 94 00:07:10,500 --> 00:07:14,625 And he's dying in the arms of two sailors 95 00:07:16,209 --> 00:07:18,875 who are holding him as he bleeds out. 96 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:22,959 Down, the blood will all run down here, into a big lake. 97 00:07:23,084 --> 00:07:26,000 Into a lake at the front of his blood, 98 00:07:26,125 --> 00:07:28,042 where these two white swans... 99 00:07:29,834 --> 00:07:31,542 Whatever swans do. 100 00:07:31,959 --> 00:07:36,000 Two, sort of, goat-like things, and two women holding torches. 101 00:07:41,584 --> 00:07:43,209 And this is the final... 102 00:07:46,625 --> 00:07:47,709 This is the final one. 103 00:07:47,834 --> 00:07:50,792 So, it's only a resin mould, so it's not... 104 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,000 It's going to be very beautiful, this one. 105 00:07:54,584 --> 00:07:58,584 This is the Devil, essentially, dumped somewhere. 106 00:07:58,709 --> 00:08:01,750 His body left to die and rot. 107 00:08:03,250 --> 00:08:07,250 And a child is kneeling down 108 00:08:08,584 --> 00:08:12,667 and presenting its hand as a gesture of forgiveness to the Devil. 109 00:08:16,959 --> 00:08:18,625 It's going to be very, very beautiful. 110 00:08:18,750 --> 00:08:19,542 What's it called, Nick? 111 00:08:19,667 --> 00:08:22,667 That one, that's called "The Devil Forgiven". 112 00:23:56,125 --> 00:23:57,125 Here we go. 113 00:29:52,625 --> 00:29:54,083 Marianne, would you like to be in the chair? 114 00:29:54,084 --> 00:29:55,124 Or would you want to stay in that? 115 00:29:55,125 --> 00:29:57,125 - No, chair. Yes. - Chair, okay. 116 00:29:58,167 --> 00:29:59,792 - Should we put you in? - Yes. 117 00:29:59,917 --> 00:30:00,917 Okay. 118 00:30:03,792 --> 00:30:06,000 I can't really have this... 119 00:30:11,500 --> 00:30:12,500 - You ready? - Yes. 120 00:30:13,792 --> 00:30:14,875 Let's go around. 121 00:30:18,625 --> 00:30:19,625 Okay. 122 00:30:26,250 --> 00:30:28,250 I hope they're not filming this. 123 00:30:28,917 --> 00:30:30,334 I bet they are. 124 00:30:30,459 --> 00:30:31,834 We always are, Marianne. 125 00:30:31,959 --> 00:30:33,041 Oh, dear. 126 00:30:33,042 --> 00:30:34,624 But I'll make a deal with you. If you don't like it... 127 00:30:34,625 --> 00:30:37,500 No, really, you've got to remember 128 00:30:37,625 --> 00:30:39,542 how ill I've been, 129 00:30:39,667 --> 00:30:41,917 and how it still is. 130 00:30:42,750 --> 00:30:45,917 Now, let's get rid of that. Okay. 131 00:30:46,667 --> 00:30:48,459 So, where's my lyrics? 132 00:30:48,584 --> 00:30:49,625 - Yeah. - Yeah. 133 00:30:49,750 --> 00:30:53,042 And it has to be really disciplined 134 00:30:53,167 --> 00:30:55,542 because I can't breathe properly. 135 00:30:55,667 --> 00:30:58,084 And you have to say, "Now, do it." 136 00:30:58,209 --> 00:30:59,375 - And I'll do it. - Okay. 137 00:30:59,500 --> 00:31:01,542 And then I have to take my oxygen off. 138 00:31:01,667 --> 00:31:02,417 Okay. 139 00:31:02,542 --> 00:31:03,750 - Do you understand? - I do. 140 00:31:03,875 --> 00:31:04,667 Good. 141 00:31:04,792 --> 00:31:07,334 Now, Waz, have you got your computer? Are you set up? 142 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:09,084 - Warren? - Yes. 143 00:31:09,209 --> 00:31:10,834 Did he call you "Waz"? 144 00:31:10,959 --> 00:31:12,166 - He did, Marianne. Yeah. - Waz. 145 00:31:12,167 --> 00:31:13,500 Is that your nickname? 146 00:31:13,625 --> 00:31:14,709 Well, yeah... 147 00:31:14,834 --> 00:31:16,167 That's terrible. 148 00:31:17,167 --> 00:31:18,375 It's easy. 149 00:31:18,500 --> 00:31:20,459 - Waz? - Waz is his nickname. 150 00:31:20,584 --> 00:31:21,624 Waz... It was. 151 00:31:21,625 --> 00:31:23,125 I'm shocked. 152 00:31:23,250 --> 00:31:24,125 Why? 153 00:31:24,250 --> 00:31:26,459 - I don't know, I just am. - You know Australians. 154 00:31:27,625 --> 00:31:29,125 They kind of do that. 155 00:31:30,042 --> 00:31:30,750 What? 156 00:31:30,875 --> 00:31:32,541 You know how Australians do that kind of thing? 157 00:31:32,542 --> 00:31:34,459 I suppose that they do, don't they? 158 00:31:35,042 --> 00:31:37,667 Warren is Waz, Barry is Baz. 159 00:31:37,792 --> 00:31:38,875 Yeah. 160 00:31:39,459 --> 00:31:40,834 What's yours? 161 00:31:42,459 --> 00:31:43,959 - Andrew. - Right. 162 00:31:45,875 --> 00:31:47,542 Well, there you are, you see. 163 00:31:48,500 --> 00:31:50,750 Nobody can shorten Marianne, either. 164 00:31:50,875 --> 00:31:52,209 - Really? - No. 165 00:31:52,334 --> 00:31:53,459 You've never had a nickname? 166 00:31:53,584 --> 00:31:54,749 - Never. - It's not Faithfull? 167 00:31:54,750 --> 00:31:56,459 - Faithfull. - Faithless. 168 00:31:57,542 --> 00:31:58,625 Are we ready? 169 00:31:59,542 --> 00:32:00,917 - How's about it, Chris? - Yeah. 170 00:32:01,834 --> 00:32:03,292 - Amy? - Yes, I'm here. 171 00:32:03,417 --> 00:32:04,834 Let me know what's happening. 172 00:32:04,959 --> 00:32:07,250 Are the strobes ready? 173 00:32:07,375 --> 00:32:09,292 When he says, "Are we ready?" 174 00:32:09,417 --> 00:32:11,209 You're meant to say, "Yes." 175 00:32:11,334 --> 00:32:12,624 I want a yes or a no if the strobes are fixed. 176 00:32:12,625 --> 00:32:14,500 - They are. - Yes, they are. 177 00:32:14,625 --> 00:32:15,917 - Okay, so... - Okay. 178 00:32:17,542 --> 00:32:18,125 Right. 179 00:32:18,250 --> 00:32:19,792 - So, Marianne, we're ready. - Right. 180 00:32:19,917 --> 00:32:21,417 We can take your oxygen off. 181 00:32:22,292 --> 00:32:23,625 Can you take it off? 182 00:32:24,750 --> 00:32:25,750 Okay. 183 00:32:28,209 --> 00:32:30,792 And put a bit more on my cheek, quickly. 184 00:32:31,459 --> 00:32:33,209 - Right. Okay. - Yeah. 185 00:32:35,542 --> 00:32:36,542 Yeah. 186 00:32:40,750 --> 00:32:41,750 Yeah. 187 00:32:43,917 --> 00:32:45,875 - All right. Everyone ready? - Yeah. 188 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:47,834 Let's fade out the light. 189 00:32:50,542 --> 00:32:52,000 - Yeah. - Action. 190 00:32:59,250 --> 00:33:00,584 That's your cue, Chris. 191 00:33:10,667 --> 00:33:12,292 "Prayer before work. 192 00:33:14,750 --> 00:33:16,875 "Great One, austere, 193 00:33:17,500 --> 00:33:19,042 "by whose intent 194 00:33:19,542 --> 00:33:23,167 "the distant star holds its course clear. 195 00:33:24,084 --> 00:33:27,084 "Now, make this spirit soar. 196 00:33:27,875 --> 00:33:33,084 "Give it that ease out of the absolute abstracted grief. 197 00:33:34,125 --> 00:33:38,250 "Comfortless, mute, sound the clear note, 198 00:33:38,834 --> 00:33:43,834 "pure, piercing as the flute, give it precision. 199 00:33:45,375 --> 00:33:47,084 "Austere, Great One, 200 00:33:48,250 --> 00:33:49,750 "by whose grace, 201 00:33:50,417 --> 00:33:52,542 "the unalterable song, 202 00:33:52,834 --> 00:33:55,500 "may still be rested from 203 00:33:55,625 --> 00:33:58,042 "the corrupt lung. 204 00:33:58,167 --> 00:34:00,625 "Give it strict form." 205 00:38:47,625 --> 00:38:48,625 Oh, dude. 206 00:38:49,334 --> 00:38:50,334 That's sweet. 207 00:38:55,209 --> 00:38:56,209 Done that. 208 00:38:56,792 --> 00:38:58,292 Back in ice sculpture business. 209 00:38:58,417 --> 00:38:59,500 Done that. 210 00:38:59,625 --> 00:39:01,334 Waiting For You, done that. 211 00:39:01,459 --> 00:39:03,125 Bright Horses, done that. 212 00:39:04,625 --> 00:39:06,417 So, Hollywood... 213 00:39:07,209 --> 00:39:08,834 Yeah. 214 00:39:09,417 --> 00:39:10,417 Crank it out. 215 00:53:39,417 --> 00:53:40,417 Come in. 216 00:53:43,417 --> 00:53:47,667 I left about a week ago and came back in, and it was just like... 217 00:53:47,792 --> 00:53:49,917 The TV was, literally, lying face down. 218 00:53:50,042 --> 00:53:52,584 It's got this big smashed up thing on it. 219 00:53:52,709 --> 00:53:54,667 It's just shit everywhere. 220 00:53:56,209 --> 00:53:58,084 Like the TV'd had a party. 221 00:54:02,167 --> 00:54:03,542 Thrown itself out the... 222 00:54:03,667 --> 00:54:05,292 Threw itself out the window. 223 00:54:07,750 --> 00:54:10,000 The TV is just like, "Fuck it all," you know. 224 00:54:10,125 --> 00:54:11,292 It was so funny. 225 00:54:11,917 --> 00:54:13,125 Have you seen this? 226 00:54:13,750 --> 00:54:14,917 It's really beautiful. 227 00:54:15,042 --> 00:54:17,334 This herbarium... It's a reproduction. 228 00:54:18,334 --> 00:54:19,667 It's really incredible. 229 00:54:28,667 --> 00:54:31,125 Emily Dickinson, the poet, yeah. 230 00:54:31,250 --> 00:54:32,959 So, what, is that her herbarium? 231 00:54:33,084 --> 00:54:36,709 It was when she was 14 and she made it, and then... 232 00:54:38,042 --> 00:54:40,375 It's now in, like... 233 00:54:42,792 --> 00:54:45,750 I think it's the most fragile book that exists. 234 00:54:45,875 --> 00:54:49,000 They photographed it, and made this facsimile of it. 235 00:54:49,625 --> 00:54:50,834 It's so beautiful. 236 00:54:57,542 --> 00:55:01,084 It was funny going through 237 00:55:01,584 --> 00:55:04,042 - the sessions last night, looking... - Yeah. 238 00:55:04,167 --> 00:55:06,875 I remembered that, like... 239 00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:08,459 Have a look at this. 240 00:55:08,584 --> 00:55:12,167 Holy, fucking shit! Look at his desktop, Robbie. 241 00:55:13,375 --> 00:55:14,709 Fucking, what a nightmare! 242 00:55:15,625 --> 00:55:17,084 How do you find anything, mate? 243 00:55:17,209 --> 00:55:18,667 Perfection, isn't it? 244 00:55:18,792 --> 00:55:20,375 Why, isn't everyone's like that? 245 00:55:21,250 --> 00:55:24,709 I don't really have a sense of form and order. 246 00:55:24,834 --> 00:55:28,542 So we could, sort of, can cut that into it later, 247 00:55:28,667 --> 00:55:34,542 but it's really about just being in the moment, 248 00:55:35,417 --> 00:55:38,042 and, I guess, seeing what happens. 249 00:55:38,167 --> 00:55:43,500 We're just throwing things down, like sit down and start playing. 250 00:55:43,625 --> 00:55:47,459 And you are looking for those moments 251 00:55:47,584 --> 00:55:50,459 in amongst the hours, and hours, and hours of stuff. 252 00:55:50,584 --> 00:55:52,167 No, I actually had songs... 253 00:55:52,292 --> 00:55:55,959 I actually had song lyrics, but I know from experience, 254 00:55:56,084 --> 00:55:58,459 that those songs... 255 00:56:01,375 --> 00:56:04,167 probably won't amount to anything. 256 00:56:05,500 --> 00:56:09,375 The thing that's great working with Nick 257 00:56:09,500 --> 00:56:12,542 is that he's up for trying anything. 258 00:56:12,667 --> 00:56:15,667 And more so, and more, and more. 259 00:56:16,459 --> 00:56:20,042 Warren is almost always on transmit, 260 00:56:20,167 --> 00:56:22,750 and not so much on receive, I would say. 261 00:56:24,250 --> 00:56:28,959 Although, he might see that as unfair and wrong. 262 00:56:29,709 --> 00:56:34,875 I remember with Ghosteen, towards the last day of the first session, 263 00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:38,042 Nick got up and just walked out, and he just goes, 264 00:56:38,167 --> 00:56:40,667 "I can't deal with any more soft pad." 265 00:56:41,167 --> 00:56:43,042 That was that sound that kept playing. 266 00:56:43,167 --> 00:56:47,292 And I was just playing it for 30 minutes at a time. 267 00:56:47,417 --> 00:56:50,584 It's almost pointless, me sitting down and writing a song 268 00:56:50,709 --> 00:56:52,959 and taking it into the studio because... 269 00:56:55,334 --> 00:56:59,000 Unless I, kind of like, hold Warren's face and say, 270 00:56:59,125 --> 00:57:02,542 "Warren, I'm going to do a song now. 271 00:57:02,667 --> 00:57:04,500 "It's a song I've written. 272 00:57:04,625 --> 00:57:06,375 "These are the chords." 273 00:57:06,500 --> 00:57:08,250 I don't know what it is with me, 274 00:57:08,375 --> 00:57:12,375 but I will get on something and then I just can't move away from it. 275 00:57:13,667 --> 00:57:15,042 And I think it's different. 276 00:57:16,834 --> 00:57:18,875 A whole lot of shit happens. 277 00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:22,084 I mean, a whole lot of terrible shit happens 278 00:57:22,209 --> 00:57:24,042 when me and Warren get into a room. 279 00:57:24,167 --> 00:57:27,084 But there are these moments when it just... 280 00:57:36,667 --> 00:57:40,375 It gets into this strange meditative state. 281 00:57:40,500 --> 00:57:44,292 You just have no idea what is going on. 282 00:57:44,625 --> 00:57:46,667 And that's when stuff happens. 283 00:57:57,459 --> 00:58:01,792 It just clicks into something transcendent, as far as I'm concerned. 284 00:58:01,917 --> 00:58:04,084 I'm literally taken away by it. 285 00:58:04,209 --> 00:58:06,792 I'm amazed by... 286 00:58:06,917 --> 00:58:08,625 Not at the time, 287 00:58:09,417 --> 00:58:11,875 although I get lost in it at the time, 288 00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:16,792 but you just suddenly hear these things and go, "Oh, my God!" 289 00:58:16,917 --> 00:58:19,792 But they are just snippets in an ocean of bullshit... 290 00:58:19,917 --> 00:58:20,917 - Yeah. - You know. 291 00:58:30,125 --> 00:58:31,584 We're just messing around. 292 00:58:33,959 --> 00:58:35,709 - There we go. - Yeah, here it goes. 293 00:59:02,084 --> 00:59:05,292 It's difficult to perform even, because I'm just 294 00:59:05,417 --> 00:59:07,458 - waiting for the fucking chord. - Waiting for the chord. 295 00:59:07,459 --> 00:59:09,542 'Cause it feels unnaturally slow. 296 00:59:10,542 --> 00:59:11,875 Why don't we try it without it? 297 00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:16,334 Yeah, it's just getting your sound and stuff like that. 298 00:59:16,459 --> 00:59:18,334 - We got all that going? - Yeah. 299 00:59:20,792 --> 00:59:22,209 Yeah. 300 00:59:22,917 --> 00:59:24,625 Yeah, I don't need much of that. 301 00:59:26,875 --> 00:59:31,500 How did he fit into the Bad Seeds when it was Mick and Blixa, and all that? 302 00:59:31,625 --> 00:59:34,417 He took a subordinate role, right, 303 00:59:34,542 --> 00:59:38,209 of just embellishing what was already going on there. 304 00:59:38,334 --> 00:59:42,959 And slowly, one by one, taking out each member of the Bad Seeds. 305 00:59:45,250 --> 00:59:47,250 I think you better watch out, mate. 306 00:59:47,750 --> 00:59:49,459 It might just be me and Waz left. 307 00:59:49,584 --> 00:59:50,375 Yeah, I know. 308 00:59:50,500 --> 00:59:52,125 I know I'm the next to go. 309 00:59:53,667 --> 00:59:55,709 He's singing a lot more, I've noticed. 310 00:59:56,959 --> 00:59:57,959 Yeah. 311 00:59:58,584 --> 00:59:59,375 - Ready? - Yeah. 312 00:59:59,500 --> 01:00:01,260 - All right, stand by! - Good luck, everyone! 313 01:07:52,584 --> 01:07:54,834 There are thousands of questions here. 314 01:07:54,959 --> 01:07:55,750 Thousands, and thousands. 315 01:07:55,875 --> 01:08:01,834 There are 38,065 questions. 316 01:08:01,959 --> 01:08:03,875 Now, I won't read them all to you. 317 01:08:04,000 --> 01:08:04,667 Obviously. 318 01:08:04,792 --> 01:08:08,792 But I can just flick through and grab some, right, 319 01:08:08,917 --> 01:08:09,917 as they come. 320 01:08:12,750 --> 01:08:15,000 "My brother, David, died two years ago. 321 01:08:15,125 --> 01:08:17,875 "He was just 24 and I was 19. 322 01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:21,000 "It feels like everyone is moving on and forgetting him. 323 01:08:21,125 --> 01:08:23,709 "And I'm afraid of letting go of my anger. 324 01:08:23,834 --> 01:08:26,042 "What if I don't know who I am without it? 325 01:08:26,917 --> 01:08:31,167 "For so long has my grief been an inextricable part of me. 326 01:08:31,709 --> 01:08:32,750 "Allison." 327 01:08:35,042 --> 01:08:37,959 The thing I really love about The Red Hand Files, 328 01:08:38,084 --> 01:08:42,375 and why I almost consider this to be like a spiritual practice, 329 01:08:43,209 --> 01:08:46,917 is that I'm forced to think about these questions 330 01:08:48,959 --> 01:08:50,875 and not respond immediately. 331 01:08:51,042 --> 01:08:54,084 When I do respond immediately, 332 01:08:54,209 --> 01:08:59,459 in my mind, I don't respond with the better part of my nature, I would say. 333 01:08:59,584 --> 01:09:00,792 - Does that make sense? - Yeah. 334 01:09:01,792 --> 01:09:06,167 It requires some days to think about what the person is saying, 335 01:09:06,292 --> 01:09:08,709 and to arrive at a compassionate... 336 01:09:10,500 --> 01:09:12,084 relationship to the question 337 01:09:12,209 --> 01:09:15,625 and to the person who is writing it. 338 01:09:15,750 --> 01:09:18,209 That actually doesn't come naturally to me. 339 01:09:18,709 --> 01:09:23,500 And so, The Red Hand Files, literally, keep me at the better end of my nature. 340 01:09:25,375 --> 01:09:26,709 Billy from Scotland. 341 01:09:28,667 --> 01:09:30,375 "My wife has thrown me out. 342 01:09:30,500 --> 01:09:32,917 "I've lost my job, all within a week. 343 01:09:33,042 --> 01:09:35,209 "Suicidal thoughts in abundance. 344 01:09:35,917 --> 01:09:40,459 "How does one handle having seemingly no control over one's life?" 345 01:09:41,209 --> 01:09:44,167 This is a really beautiful question, too. 346 01:09:45,917 --> 01:09:47,542 And incredibly sad. 347 01:09:47,667 --> 01:09:51,000 They are incredibly moving, these questions, because... 348 01:09:56,959 --> 01:09:57,959 You know, you don't... 349 01:09:59,334 --> 01:10:01,042 If something happens to you, 350 01:10:01,167 --> 01:10:04,417 the first thing that comes to mind is not to write to... 351 01:10:06,334 --> 01:10:08,625 These are desperate questions 352 01:10:08,750 --> 01:10:12,084 from people who don't have anyone to ask. 353 01:10:12,792 --> 01:10:17,875 They are just sending these questions out into the, whatever... 354 01:10:18,000 --> 01:10:20,500 - The void. Yeah. - To the void, yeah. 355 01:15:39,542 --> 01:15:40,709 Dear Billy, 356 01:15:42,917 --> 01:15:45,625 the majority of letters that come into The Red Hand Files, 357 01:15:45,750 --> 01:15:47,792 in all their various forms, 358 01:15:47,917 --> 01:15:50,459 are essentially asking the same question. 359 01:15:50,584 --> 01:15:51,959 Your question. 360 01:15:52,084 --> 01:15:53,124 How are you, Corin? 361 01:15:53,125 --> 01:15:54,375 Yeah, good. Yeah, really good. 362 01:15:54,500 --> 01:15:56,459 Haven't seen you since yesterday. 363 01:15:57,125 --> 01:16:00,542 How do I handle seemingly having no control over my life? 364 01:16:01,792 --> 01:16:03,292 This question is often accompanied 365 01:16:03,417 --> 01:16:06,500 by feelings of betrayal, and rage, and resentfulness, 366 01:16:06,625 --> 01:16:08,334 of hopelessness. 367 01:16:11,625 --> 01:16:14,959 The truth is we all live our lives dangerously 368 01:16:15,084 --> 01:16:18,292 in a state of jeopardy, at the edge of calamity. 369 01:16:19,084 --> 01:16:21,625 You have discovered that the veil that separates 370 01:16:21,750 --> 01:16:23,875 your ordered life from disarray 371 01:16:24,000 --> 01:16:25,334 is wafer thin. 372 01:16:26,375 --> 01:16:29,084 This is the ordinary truth of existence 373 01:16:29,209 --> 01:16:31,917 from which none of us are exempt. 374 01:16:32,042 --> 01:16:35,417 In time, we all find out we are not in control. 375 01:16:35,542 --> 01:16:36,709 We never were. 376 01:16:36,834 --> 01:16:38,500 We never will be. 377 01:16:40,500 --> 01:16:42,625 But we are not without power. 378 01:16:44,167 --> 01:16:45,750 We always have the freedom to choose 379 01:16:45,875 --> 01:16:49,209 how we will respond to whatever it is that life offers us. 380 01:16:51,084 --> 01:16:53,375 You can collapse and be dragged under. 381 01:16:55,084 --> 01:16:58,459 You can harden around your misfortune and become embittered. 382 01:16:59,584 --> 01:17:03,250 Or you can move toward the opportunity that is offered to you. 383 01:17:03,375 --> 01:17:05,417 That of change and renewal. 384 01:17:07,584 --> 01:17:11,459 The next best action is always presented to you, Billy. 385 01:17:11,584 --> 01:17:14,209 Look for it and move toward it. 386 01:17:15,084 --> 01:17:20,084 This is the great act of insubordination toward the vagaries of life 387 01:17:20,209 --> 01:17:21,750 afforded to us all. 388 01:17:22,875 --> 01:17:24,167 Love, Nick. 389 01:17:24,292 --> 01:17:25,667 Say something... 390 01:17:25,792 --> 01:17:28,000 Are these better for me than in-ear? 391 01:17:28,125 --> 01:17:29,500 Let's put it down, Nick. 392 01:17:29,625 --> 01:17:32,334 Yeah, put it down as low as you can. 393 01:17:32,459 --> 01:17:34,417 - Better? I don't know. - You tell me. 394 01:17:34,542 --> 01:17:36,625 I can do what you tell me if you want me to hold it. 395 01:17:36,750 --> 01:17:38,875 No, no, no, a bit of balance is good. 396 01:17:39,000 --> 01:17:40,667 Okay, we need to shut the curtain. 397 01:17:40,792 --> 01:17:42,500 - We need to shut the curtain! - Mark it. 398 01:17:43,000 --> 01:17:44,000 Thanks. 399 01:17:45,084 --> 01:17:47,292 Okay, everybody just take a minute. 400 01:17:47,417 --> 01:17:48,584 Let's settle. 401 01:24:09,875 --> 01:24:11,084 - Yes. - Yeah. 402 01:24:11,709 --> 01:24:12,709 Oh, yeah. 403 01:24:31,750 --> 01:24:34,959 Yeah, I'm much happier now than I used to be. 404 01:24:35,667 --> 01:24:38,375 That's not to say that I don't struggle. 405 01:24:38,500 --> 01:24:42,292 But it's not happiness that's the most important thing for me. 406 01:24:43,417 --> 01:24:45,834 It's like having a sense of meaning about things. 407 01:24:45,959 --> 01:24:48,834 I really feel much more connected to that. 408 01:24:48,959 --> 01:24:50,584 And that respect makes me happier. 409 01:24:50,709 --> 01:24:54,000 That I do feel a real sense of meaning... 410 01:24:55,375 --> 01:24:59,584 in my life that's not dependent on my work. 411 01:24:59,709 --> 01:25:02,542 It's not dependent on my creative life. 412 01:25:04,084 --> 01:25:06,625 That feels like I'm moving towards something, 413 01:25:06,750 --> 01:25:09,709 that feels like the world is a meaningful place. 414 01:25:11,167 --> 01:25:14,792 The very nature of the world is meaningful. 415 01:25:17,084 --> 01:25:21,167 And people are meaningful beings. 416 01:29:07,084 --> 01:29:08,084 Come on. 417 01:29:09,209 --> 01:29:10,292 Come down. 418 01:29:12,792 --> 01:29:14,084 Come towards us. 419 01:29:17,917 --> 01:29:19,084 Thank you, all, 420 01:29:20,125 --> 01:29:23,750 for looking after us and everything you've done. 421 01:29:25,709 --> 01:29:27,042 It's been very beautiful. 422 01:29:27,417 --> 01:29:28,459 Thank you, all. 423 01:29:35,875 --> 01:29:37,250 The singers. 424 01:29:37,375 --> 01:29:39,042 The strings. 425 01:29:41,542 --> 01:29:43,459 Now that kind of feels like an ending. 426 01:29:43,584 --> 01:29:45,042 - The Covid lady. - But it's not. 427 01:29:46,959 --> 01:29:48,917 Okay, it's not. Not at all. 428 01:29:49,417 --> 01:29:50,625 Back to one. 429 01:29:54,084 --> 01:29:55,084 All right. 430 01:29:57,500 --> 01:29:58,625 That might be the ending. 431 01:29:58,750 --> 01:29:59,750 Okay. 432 01:30:16,834 --> 01:30:19,084 "Thank you for the words, the music, 433 01:30:19,209 --> 01:30:21,875 "the grounding sanity that your music brings to me 434 01:30:22,000 --> 01:30:23,792 "in my times of strife. 435 01:30:26,334 --> 01:30:29,167 "I'm curious, behind it all, the music, the words, 436 01:30:29,292 --> 01:30:32,375 "the suits, the grief, the tenderness, 437 01:30:32,500 --> 01:30:34,875 "and shame, and guilt, and joy, 438 01:30:35,000 --> 01:30:36,042 "who are you? 439 01:30:36,792 --> 01:30:38,334 "Kev, from Ireland." 440 01:30:42,917 --> 01:30:44,292 How do you answer that one? 441 01:30:51,125 --> 01:30:51,834 I don't know. 442 01:30:51,959 --> 01:30:57,375 I think I would define myself differently now than I would have... 443 01:30:59,375 --> 01:31:00,250 some years ago. 444 01:31:00,375 --> 01:31:03,167 I would have defined myself as a musician, 445 01:31:03,792 --> 01:31:05,000 or a writer. 446 01:31:05,875 --> 01:31:11,709 And I'm trying to wean myself off those definitions of myself 447 01:31:11,834 --> 01:31:14,167 that are about my occupation. 448 01:31:14,292 --> 01:31:16,417 And see myself as a person. 449 01:31:18,209 --> 01:31:20,667 As a husband, as a father. 450 01:31:24,834 --> 01:31:28,167 As a husband, and father, 451 01:31:28,292 --> 01:31:29,875 and friend, 452 01:31:30,000 --> 01:31:33,917 and citizen that makes music and writes stuff. 453 01:31:34,667 --> 01:31:36,292 Rather than the other way around. 454 01:35:47,959 --> 01:35:50,959 But despite getting annoyed, and stuff like that, 455 01:35:51,084 --> 01:35:52,834 I really loved doing this film. 456 01:35:53,667 --> 01:35:54,792 I mean, I don't like... 457 01:35:56,125 --> 01:35:56,792 being... 458 01:35:56,917 --> 01:35:59,084 I don't like the process of making films. 459 01:35:59,209 --> 01:36:00,500 Mate, no one does. 460 01:36:00,625 --> 01:36:01,625 - No, no. - Yeah. 461 01:36:01,750 --> 01:36:03,667 I was talking to Earl... 462 01:36:03,792 --> 01:36:05,500 I'm talking to Earl on the phone. 463 01:36:05,625 --> 01:36:07,542 Let's say hi to Earl. 464 01:36:10,209 --> 01:36:11,209 But... 465 01:36:11,334 --> 01:36:13,750 You're being filmed now, so you better hide. 466 01:36:13,875 --> 01:36:15,334 No, don't hide, Earl-ie. 467 01:36:15,834 --> 01:36:17,542 I'm not hiding, I'm right here. 468 01:36:18,500 --> 01:36:22,500 I was lying on the floor of my band room in the fetal position, 469 01:36:22,875 --> 01:36:24,375 in between... 470 01:36:24,500 --> 01:36:29,750 Before I had to go on and redo Balcony Man. 471 01:36:30,500 --> 01:36:33,750 Redoing it. I don't know what you guys did the fucking first time around. 472 01:36:33,875 --> 01:36:36,833 Yeah, when you see it, you're going to go, "Wow, that's fucking awesome." 473 01:36:36,834 --> 01:36:38,709 And Earl was like... 474 01:36:38,834 --> 01:36:42,042 I'm like, "Fuck! He wants me to go and redo it." 475 01:36:42,167 --> 01:36:45,500 And he goes... 'Cause he's in Belfast making a movie. 476 01:36:45,625 --> 01:36:49,542 He's going, "Dad, I know it's real hard. 477 01:36:49,667 --> 01:36:51,959 "I know it's really difficult to make a movie. 478 01:36:52,084 --> 01:36:53,124 "It really gets under your skin. 479 01:36:53,125 --> 01:36:56,084 "But what you need to do is stop being such a fucking pussy." 480 01:36:58,417 --> 01:37:00,875 And I'm like, "Okay." 481 01:37:01,000 --> 01:37:04,375 He goes, "Get up on your fucking feet and go and do the song." 482 01:37:04,500 --> 01:37:05,624 - I'll call you later then. - All right. 483 01:37:05,625 --> 01:37:06,250 See ya, Earl! 484 01:37:06,375 --> 01:37:08,042 Are you okay, you okay there? 485 01:37:08,167 --> 01:37:09,407 - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - All right. 486 01:37:09,875 --> 01:37:11,250 See ya. 487 01:37:11,375 --> 01:37:12,917 Bye, bye, bye. 488 01:41:42,417 --> 01:41:44,209 - Yeah! - Yeah. 489 01:41:44,334 --> 01:41:45,459 I mean... 490 01:41:45,584 --> 01:41:48,375 Yeah, and just join the Kumbaya. 491 01:41:53,042 --> 01:41:54,625 Do I have to do the um bay as? 492 01:41:55,334 --> 01:41:57,667 Mate, you're not getting out of the um bay as. 493 01:41:58,750 --> 01:41:59,834 Dude. 494 01:42:03,084 --> 01:42:05,709 How was that fucking flare, Robbie, 495 01:42:05,834 --> 01:42:07,334 right on the piano note? 496 01:42:07,667 --> 01:42:09,709 Unbelievable. 497 01:42:10,000 --> 01:42:10,625 Awesome. 498 01:42:10,750 --> 01:42:13,542 Okay, we can stop going around in circles now. 499 01:42:14,417 --> 01:42:16,177 - Yeah! - Thank God for that. Well done, Rob. 500 01:42:16,750 --> 01:42:17,750 Windows up. 501 01:42:40,875 --> 01:42:41,750 Yeah. 502 01:42:41,875 --> 01:42:44,084 So, in the original, it plays in the second half. 503 01:42:44,209 --> 01:42:46,709 We were playing the second half of the first verse. 504 01:42:46,834 --> 01:42:48,084 Is that what happens? 505 01:42:48,834 --> 01:42:49,959 Yeah, the second half. 506 01:42:50,084 --> 01:42:52,042 It's cutting out, Jake. 507 01:42:52,167 --> 01:42:53,374 I think you better unrotate it. 508 01:42:53,375 --> 01:42:56,500 But you were very... 509 01:42:56,625 --> 01:42:58,105 It's not good for it with the lights. 510 01:42:58,209 --> 01:43:00,208 - They seem not to be as strong, yeah. - Yeah, Susie's not gonna come tomorrow. 511 01:43:00,209 --> 01:43:02,000 It is cutting... It's still the same. 512 01:43:02,125 --> 01:43:03,250 Okay, so... 513 01:43:03,375 --> 01:43:05,792 You can, but I'm really... I'm disappointed and upset. 514 01:43:05,917 --> 01:43:08,000 We go back to... 515 01:43:08,125 --> 01:43:11,875 She's sick from the vaccine. 516 01:43:12,500 --> 01:43:14,959 - It's now day three. - Yeah. 517 01:43:15,084 --> 01:43:17,625 If she's still sick tomorrow... 518 01:43:18,084 --> 01:43:20,709 So I feel that she's just not going to do it. 519 01:43:22,084 --> 01:43:23,375 You can talk to her about it. 520 01:43:44,167 --> 01:43:46,084 - Long, long ago... - I don't know. 521 01:43:48,834 --> 01:43:50,334 Hello. 522 01:43:51,417 --> 01:43:52,625 No, literally... 523 01:43:53,750 --> 01:43:55,625 Andrew married my... 524 01:43:57,334 --> 01:43:58,375 girlfriend. 525 01:44:01,042 --> 01:44:02,375 Had a baby with her. 526 01:44:05,292 --> 01:44:07,792 - Okay! Do not cut... - I wrote a song about it. 527 01:44:07,917 --> 01:44:09,101 Let's go to the next quarter on the clock. 528 01:44:09,102 --> 01:44:09,667 It's called Deanna. 529 01:44:09,792 --> 01:44:11,084 You know that song? 530 01:44:11,209 --> 01:44:12,459 We need to roll again. 531 01:44:12,584 --> 01:44:15,334 Next quarter on the clock. Quickly, quickly. 532 01:44:15,459 --> 01:44:16,875 - We're rolling. - He married her. 533 01:44:17,209 --> 01:44:19,375 What are we doing? Come on! Reset! 534 01:44:19,500 --> 01:44:20,584 What do you mean? 535 01:44:22,959 --> 01:44:24,959 Always look at it in terms of distance. 536 01:44:26,542 --> 01:44:29,834 Have you got... Is there a part for you to play? 537 01:44:30,625 --> 01:44:31,834 Anyone got a pen? 538 01:44:34,667 --> 01:44:35,959 Yeah, can we get coffee? 539 01:44:36,375 --> 01:44:39,042 Get Rachel to get me an America no. 540 01:44:39,167 --> 01:44:42,084 No, just a cup of coffee with some cold milk in it. 541 01:44:45,209 --> 01:44:46,209 So clever. 542 01:44:48,209 --> 01:44:49,000 You ready? 543 01:44:49,125 --> 01:44:50,375 Let's just do that... 544 01:44:51,334 --> 01:44:53,209 - Camera rolling. - Camera rolling. 545 01:44:54,334 --> 01:44:56,292 Steadicam will catch up, hopefully. 546 01:44:57,167 --> 01:45:00,792 End board! 547 01:45:00,917 --> 01:45:02,042 Sorry, sorry. 548 01:45:02,167 --> 01:45:03,500 - Cut! - Sorry. 549 01:45:03,625 --> 01:45:06,209 - Cut! Cut! Cut! - Sorry. 550 01:45:06,417 --> 01:45:09,084 - Sorry... - Somebody better run... 551 01:45:09,209 --> 01:45:11,042 Let's start again, shall we? 552 01:45:11,209 --> 01:45:13,500 All I can hear is Andrew screaming. 553 01:45:18,750 --> 01:45:20,625 That's the title of the film.