Miranda Sawyer

One of the other factors about knocking around with someone like James Dean Bradfield.

James Dean Bradfield, when he lived in London, was out a lot.

I think more than people perhaps realise because he's, I think, still naturally quite shy.

But he was out a lot and he was very convivial.

He drank a lot and he was in all the right places, wasn't he, really?

Yeah, exactly as you'll do.

So, like, I suppose what I wanted to talk to you about is a bit about that.

If you're in A&R or the music industry at that time, you're just out all the time, aren't you?

And the Sunday Social, Robin from Heavenly, Robin Turner from Heavenly, basically set up because he saw the Chemical Brothers and he wanted somewhere for them to play in London.

Yeah, still the Dust Brothers.

And so he wanted somewhere for them to play in London and he found this little venue.

And obviously it's still Sunday drinking hours, which are very different in the 90s.

There was basically a bit in the middle of the Sunday when you could drink between like 11 and 2, then no pubs opened and then they opened again at 7 till 11 and that was it.

And that was the time when the social was on.

Do you not know that real classic story about tricky DJing at the social where he turns up to DJ and the bouncers won't let him in because they're scared of him and they're like, no, no, no, he's DJing.

And then they get him in and he puts on a record at the wrong speed, looks at it, plays it all the way through, takes it off, dead air.

Puts another one on.

And just, that was his DJing because he is tricky.

Yeah.

That's how he did it.