00:00I have horses everywhere. This town needs more horses.
00:04My name is Dr. Joshua Homme, and I'm speaking with the London Standard.
00:12I've met kid versions at the School of Rock,
00:17but I haven't seen, you know, every once in a while someone will send me a video from a dive bar in Chicago
00:26or, you know, a church event in Fresno.
00:33I've seen some. It's nice.
00:38I love to walk the Burroughs Market, actually.
00:43But the real reason I like to go through there, well, there's good food there.
00:49But I like to go to the Clink all the time.
00:52Do you know the Clink?
00:54No, what's that?
00:54It's an OG prison, one of the first, the first prison for regular folk.
01:04Okay.
01:05Yeah, and it's, you know, Thames is a tidal river now.
01:09And at the time the Clink was invented, because it's a basement,
01:14if it would overflow its banks, the Thames, the water would rush into the basement.
01:19And so people would, it's just, it's so fascinating and brutal and taboo.
01:26And it's just a very down and dirty, I don't know, I think I've been there 20 times.
01:31I went to this place called Cahoots a couple times.
01:37Yeah, but then I realized it was kind of a touristy place, so right around the corner from there.
01:48I mean, the truth is, I went there a couple times thinking it was something it wasn't.
01:52But then there's a place around the corner that's down, I can't even remember what it's called, but I know how to get there.
01:57All I have to go do is go to Cahoots, and then it's this little basement place, it's very 20s, like, and no one's ever in there.
02:07And so, and so now I've, now I've ruined that secret.
02:12I used to go to the Crowbar, I don't know if it exists anymore.
02:15Oh, really?
02:15Yeah.
02:16I used to love going there, all, everything was warm.
02:20The air, the booze, the ice, everything warm.
02:23I think one of the best things ever is to not, especially in this day and age when it's, like, the 12 most secret beaches, where you think, God damn, you just gave it away, man.
02:40I think it's, the element of surprise is one of the great things about going to see something.
02:46I think this is just going to be a big ask of us for the audience.
02:53But that's because, like, I could do something special, you know, and, uh, but I can guarantee silence, uncomfortableness, and spilling out all over the audience.
03:07Sounds like a dinner party at night.
03:09I went to see Cat Power with my buddy Nick Oliveri, and, uh, uh, we went in there, and you could hear a pin drop.
03:20And, uh, uh, and, uh, if anyone spoke or did anything, someone would shush them.
03:29And she was playing, she does a cover of this song called Werewolf, and it's so fragile, this song.
03:38And she was just barely touching her guitar and singing so quiet you had to lean in to feel it, you know.
03:47And then I hear, I hear ice clinking in a glass.
03:52And someone said, no, make it a double, make it a double.
03:54And everyone kind of looks over, and I look over, and it's Nick ordering a drink.
04:03It was poured so loudly and made so loudly.
04:06Uh, and he has this very infectious laugh.
04:10He kind of laughs like a witch, you know.
04:12And he cackled.
04:14And everyone looked at him, turned around and looked at me.
04:19And I sort of sat there and just went like this and pointed at him.
04:24It was just an amazing show, yeah.
04:27Yeah.
04:27And, uh, early Queens and, and also Caius, we used to play the Astoria too, the little Astoria at times.
04:36And, uh, had really proud moments of playing so loud that the power would go off.
04:42And, uh, that always makes you feel like you're really doing something, if you can shut the power off in a place.
04:50I think it's important to, uh, keep yourself moving.
04:55We play loud, we play soft.
04:58You know, we play like this, we play like that.
05:01Uh, there's no reason to, uh, there's no reason to grind the same thing into a pulp.
05:09Uh, it's just simply enjoying this wonderful job of playing music and moving forward and not moving backwards.
05:22I love to walk, I park, you know, I love to, uh, I love to walk and get lost, which is easy to do here.
05:35Um.
05:37Do people recognize you a lot when you're just walking around Hyde Park?
05:39Not with the crazy, not with the crazy nose and moustache that I have, I have a fake Ringo.
05:51James Smith and Sons.
05:53Yeah, man, that place is, this, is the bomb.
05:56Like, you, you walk in there and you never knew you needed a, uh, an umbrella with a bulldog's head on the bottom.
06:04And, then you find a cane which has, you know, like a tiger on the top.
06:10Yeah.
06:11With one, with one quick twist.
06:15It's a mode of self-protection.
06:17Really, adoration and hatred are two sides of the same coin.
06:30And, uh, that is not a coin that I carry in my pocket.
06:34So, it's such a mysterious answer again.
06:37It's quite sexy, frankly.
06:41Is this the wrong time to, uh, announce my campaign to run for mayor?
06:45The first thing I'd do is throw a big party, if I'm honest.
06:49I think, uh, there's a lot of difficult things going on in the world, as there always is.
06:56And, uh, it's the job of an army of people to make you afraid.
07:03And they do, frankly, a good job at it.
07:07And I, uh, I would, I would give them the week off and I would have a parade of joy.
07:16And it would go deep into the night because people do what they want to do in the dark.
07:21And, uh, through food and drink and dance, I would unite all sides.
07:29So they can make plans to do something much funner than be afraid of this life.
07:33And also, I'd have horses everywhere.
07:36And, uh, this town needs more horses.
07:42Well, I guess I quite like just local places like that.
07:46But that place, Bruto, is really cool.
07:47Bruto?
07:48Bruto, yeah.
07:49Oh, Bruto, yeah.
07:50Yeah, Bruto, yeah.
07:51Bruto, yeah.
07:52Yeah, it's cool.
07:53And it's kind of off to the side and, again, giving away secrets.
07:57And now it'll be impossible to go there.
07:59Bruto, yeah.
07:59Bruto, yeah.
08:01Bruto, yeah.
08:03Bruto, yeah.
08:05Bruto, yeah.
08:06I've never seen dreams by Roy Orbison.
08:10Shut up.
08:11I think I've got the, I've got quite low register.
08:13You know, karaoke is like bowling.
08:16don't have to be good at it to enjoy it and really
08:20I find karaoke to be I've had moments where I go to a karaoke place and
08:27say Ohio and sit there and just have a few drinks and watch people
08:33because I you know
08:37I I I know so many friends that have jobs they don't like
08:43they work hard and they save their money to go to concerts to get away from the
08:49world that's why the escapism is good so I don't like too much I like the world of
08:55the mob to sneak into shows but a miniature version of that is a just go
09:02have a drink at a karaoke place and watch people have their moment in the sun the
09:08song they do and even if they're goddamn butchers it don't matter it's
09:13that the joy of that you know you don't need to be good to get the maximum from
09:19it and so and I think it takes guts to to karaoke I respect those people the
09:27karaokeists you know more karaoke less yelling I mean I've had the pleasure of
09:39meeting Ozzy many times and played a guitar solo on his final album and I can
09:49listen to Ozzy talk ad nauseam if there is any upside post his passing it's that
09:59everyone's algorithm was chakas full of Ozzy and you know the passing of anyone
10:11like Ozzy is always a rough one but what a way to go what a beautiful poetic way to go
10:20you know reminds me of the way David Bowie when it was just pure art you know you make your last
10:26statement and then you just disappear you know and uh but clearly and obviously
10:35um what Ozzy left ain't going anywhere Ozzy could say things that uh that a mere mortal just could not say
10:47yeah he could make the c-word romantic oh yeah he did you know and most of these they can't do that
10:55thank you
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