Dan Rankin (aka Trials)

So your feet are barefoot.

Your feet are probably getting a bit sweaty.

You're performing.

So you've got kind of like bluggy.

I've got like plaid paste all over my feet from someone's half-eaten breakfast.

Larry Emder's looking at me like, what's happening?

And I'm not too sure at this point either.

All I know is we've got about another contractually obliged 25 minutes to finish this set.

And then we'll be out of here for someone else to clean up the awful, awful mess that we've left behind.

Did he have a good time?

He had the best time.

Of course he did.

Yeah.

You mentioned before you had a bit of a drinking issue at some point and this is when your drinking started to take off.

Was alcohol, I don't know, was heavy drinking something that was normalised in that, was that part of the scene at the time?

Yeah, it was a part of my life already at the time.

As long as I can remember it's been in the fridge,

You know, like I've had this aversion to white cask wine my whole life because it's just been there all the time.

You know, everything was paired with alcohol all the time.

I fell head first into it because it hit every marker that I was looking for as a far of disassociating myself from thinking about what had led me to where I am or tomorrow, just the idea of having to deal with another day.