Goldie Lookin Chain

It’s Dry January. Sort of. Eggsy’s on a “massive can”, Rhys is insisting he is sober, and Producer Paul is spiritually broken after poisoning himself on New Year’s Eve. Together, Rhys & Eggs kick off what may or may not be the first podcast of 2026 ever made, and immediately derail into cans, colours of alcohol, and why mixing drinks will absolutely ruin your life. What follows is a deep, dangerous dive into old press interviews from 2009, fan Q&As that should never have been answered, and proof that the internet used to just print anything you told it.

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Key GLC Science Facts
People were younger in 2009 than they are now
Mixing drink colours is a medical disaster
Charity shops peaked in the early 2000s
If you can smell your own balls, something has gone wrong
Press interviews were better when journalists didn’t fact-check

What Goes Down
🍺 Dry January chat (aka Can-uary, Dry-Jan-Except-Lager, and “I’ll start on the 13th”)
🎵 Talking the new GLC song Dry Jan — shot on a phone, in a cricket club, featuring Eggsy’s dad
📉 Proof that cheaper videos = better songs
📰 Revisiting a cursed 2009 Female First interview that somehow still exists online
🧥 How to dress like GLC (answer: charity shops, nosy women, skid-marked pants)
🍞 Gourmet recipes including Bread & Salt and eating your own snot
🎬 Who should play GLC in a film (spoiler: Ian Lavender from Dad’s Army)
🚌 Tour memories involving hangovers, northern train stations, frozen feet, and no food
🧠 Admitting that for the first five years of the band, everything said to the press was a lie
🎤 The best and worst things about touring (mostly smells, buses, and balls)
🗑️ Why charity shops are dead and Vinted ruined everything
🎭 David Bowie impressions nobody asked for
🛑 A firm reminder at the end: don’t kill dogs
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Strap in as the boys revisit:
🚌 Tour bus poo-bag etiquette (“feel the weight, boys!”)
😂 Bouncy castle death traps at Exeter Uni
🧼 Towel-obsessed tour managers
🇺🇸 Getting stoned before US visa interviews
✈️ New York madness at the Roger Smith Hotel
🔥 Los Angeles apartments, dressing gowns & room-service marathons
🎤 Robbie Williams asking to join GLC (denied)
🍖 Chicago meat feasts + Mike’s teeth falling out mid-steak
🤝 Meeting Cliff from the Flaming Lips
🎸 Ash turning up at gigs and loving the carnage
🥵 Discovering that human beings actually need water
🕺 A Riverdance lad trying (and failing) to impress in a dive bar
🤣 Adam’s poo-vomit ritual explained (sadly)
Plus: Willie Nelson / Willie Thorne confusion, American salad buffets from hell, and Misty believing for 18 straight months that a mysterious bearded man wanted to interview him.
If you’ve ever thought, “What was it REALLY like when GLC cracked America?” — this is the episode. Spoiler: America wasn’t ready.
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Eggsy and Adam (later Rhys) crack open a warm tour can and take us on a magical mystery ride through the 2025 GLC tour:
Manchester – Misty appears like the Welsh Elton John, crowd goes absolutely batshit, and some bloke called Dom drinks alone in the dressing room.
Kendall – Chef chops off half his finger and bleeds all over the fish and chips. Very rock ’n’ roll.
Margate – The boys drink in a pub that might be called “The Bag o’ Buckets” or something. Adam goes home early for Bullseye.
Bexhill – Eggsy has a pre-show dinner of ice cream followed by a Pot Noodle. Athlete.
Newcastle – Ladyboys of Bangkok next door; Billy does 10 poos; someone gets smashed in a beer hall; Rhys injures his leg after two songs and ends up being medically laughed at by NHS staff.
Hull – A pub so terrifying even GLC walk straight back out.
Nottingham – Longest graffiti penis ever documented.
Exmouth to Falmouth – Trego Mills nearly causes a religious experience. Pete Doherty’s dog exposes its luminous anus.
Frome – Adam once performed an entire gig four seconds behind reality.
Bridgend – The beer tastes like farts and everyone has to move dressing rooms mid-gig.
Ipswich – The lads stay up late watching a sci-fi porno on Talking Pictures TV that scarred them spiritually.
Oxford – Beef pie dream achieved; Adam pukes on his own poo and is reborn stronger.
Reading – Full English served in a bowl, ghost made of glittery smoke appears in the corridor.
Southampton – The boys all fall asleep on sofas and Adam makes a tiny mouse-squeak in his sleep that becomes the highlight of the tour.
Another place – Venue staff demand an extra 15 minutes of rapping; GLC politely refuse and drink heavily at a golf club instead.
The boys close with a reminder that next year’s tour is Stairway to Newport, featuring their ongoing search for the mythical perfect steak and ale pie — roaring fire, pub dog (but not one with worms), proper ale, shortcrust pastry, the lot.
This episode is 55 minutes of pure Newport chaos that you’ll never get back — but you’ll be glad you spent it.
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Episode Summary
The boys revisit the gigs, label meetings, disasters, breakthroughs, and bowel incidents that shaped their early career. From supporting The Darkness and Snow Patrol to cramming eight grown men into a seven-seater van, this is the unfiltered story of how GLC went from Newport practice rooms to major label showcases.

What You’ll Hear in This Episode
🔥 Band Origins & Early Gigs
How the band formed and started gigging
The first showcases and nearly getting management
Playing with The Streets, Snow Patrol, Jurassic Five, and more
🤘 Bottles, Booing & Accidental Fans
The infamous gig supporting The Darkness
Audience abuse, flying bottles, and a man who later emailed to apologise
Why a gig where everyone hates you is the best training possible
🚐 The Van Era
Touring in a 7-seater with 8 people
The legendary briefcase (yes, that one)
Skinning up while driving
Someone always lying on the floor by the sliding door
The moment they upgraded to a “proper” sleeper bus
🚽 Tour Bus Rules You Didn’t Ask For
Why you can’t poo on a tour bus
The bin-bag method (don’t ask… but we explain it anyway)
Throwing things out the back window on the motorway
How to wake up desperate for a toilet in a strange city
💿 Record Deals, Label Fights & Bald Spot Commentary
Meetings with Sony, Atlantic, EMI, and Super Furry Animals’ label
The good exec (Corder Marshall) vs. the other one (allegedly an arsehole)
The moment they learned: if we quit right now, we can keep the money
A marketing guy discussing someone’s bald spot at Soho House
Why the band nearly disbanded for the cash
🎶 First Single & Album
Releasing “Half Man, Half Machine”
Charting at #32
The C-3PO knitted outfit
Naming the debut album “Greatest Hits” because of course they did
😂 Side Stories & Tangents
Human poo at The Oracle in Reading
A Nando’s sauce-mixing masterclass
Newport’s obsession with Ocean Pacific jumpers
A record cover idea involving rolling joints on a gatefold sleeve
Jumping into bins outside Soho House
Someone almost having a heart attack in Sony’s toilet
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🎧 Goldie Lookin Chain Podcast – Episode 10
“The First Gigs, Terrible Contracts & Farts That Smell of Piss”

Episode Summary
In this gloriously shambolic deep dive, the GLC boys look back at their very early days: doomed record deals, weed-filled office meetings, their first ever gigs, and the chaotic rise from Newport cult heroes to nearly-signed superstars. From skipping CD players in TJ’s to flip-flop disasters in Manchester, it’s a full, unfiltered blast of nostalgia and bodily functions.
Key Topics
💿 The terrible record deal they were first offered (“less money than the dole”)
🥇 Meeting Gut Records, Hut Records, and the legendary “Gary from Hut”
🚬 Smoking weed in record label offices while legal teams panicked
📝 Signing their big Atlantic Records deal (and spilling Burger King everywhere)
🎤 The first ever GLC gig at the Welsh Club:
200-capacity room
100+ person guestlist
Tickets reselling for £45–£100
A room so packed it felt like a zombie movie
🩴 Misty’s legendary flip-flop disasters (multiple incidents!)
🎟 The rider: 50 scratch cards — and the gambling spiral that followed
🎶 Chaos at TJ’s: skipping CD players, makeshift repairs, and heroic stage dives
🤝 Early management, Atomic Kitten tribute acts, and meeting the future team
🎤 Joe Strummer appearances and bizarre backstage moments
💨 The infamous fart that “smelled of piss”
Funny Bits & Best Moments
The band training for gigs by standing in a circle passing Lambrini around
Misty falling over a chair, farting, and landing on a can of Strongbow at once
A mysterious child on stage skinning up mid-performance
The credit card that “appeared from nowhere” and was used for months
Crowds so dense the band couldn’t leave the dressing room to pee
Stage diving behind a wall because the venue layout made no sense

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