[Quasi-impeccable drumming]
Talent. But,
obviously not professional.
I've just got other things to do.
🎤 Let it out and let it in 🎤
🎤 Hey Jude begin🎤
Do you think Ringo was thinking of other things when he was like doing ...
'cos just then I was thinking about how I quite fancy some more quiche.
You can kind of get away with just...
I need someone to help me take this to the next level.
Let's get Ring on the phone
or failing that just, you know...
I don't know.
Who ... who's avail?
Who's that, who's the guy who was in Oasis?
What's his name?
Bozo or something.
Or who haven't we seen for a while?
What hap-, what happened to, uh, Cooper Temple Clause?
They're probably free.
They're probably working at the Pret.
So I needed a professional, and that's what I've got Matt Helders
from the Kaiser Chiefs.
Arctic Monkeys
'Cos one of the the major things is twirly drumsticks.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I can only do it backwards.
I can't do it forwards.
Some people like to go...
Tommy Lee
Yeah.
he likes to go forwards.
I go like this,
It's just between the fingers.
Looks more difficult than it is.
Some people do it like that.
What, they go like that?
Some people do.
How much time do you spend on average a day ... doing this?
Uh...
Or is there, like, a place you went to in Manchester where, like, you
Sheffield
where you just kind of learn how to do this?
Is that-? Or is this-?
I, uh, I like to learn on the job.
On the job.
As it were, so.
Okay.
You'll pro-
You maybe, you can see it get better throughout my career because between
songs, I have time to myself.
I saw you drop a stick on stage once, and I was panicked.
I thought, someone needs to get him a stick and then I, then I saw you had
like a, another one there, and then I was like, oh, they've already thought of that.
Uh, I was like, I genuinely was thinking, has anyone else noticed this?
I've got some here, I've got another one there.
Has anyone else seen this happen?
Do you know other drummers
Are you like friends? Do you have drummers and you can, like
Do you get together, like drummers?
Like a Batphone? For drummers?
Yeah. "Get someone in"
I could, 'cause I could, I could, I could be in.
Yeah, no, no, yeah.
Yeah, it's not, it's not that you couldn't be.
The one, the one song I think I could probably do is that beginning, that,
you know, the,
[exceptional impression that you will know immediately]
What's that one?
[the same exceptional impression that you should have got first time round]
[total giveaway]
uh..."Do I Want to Know?" That one?
Yeah. How do, how do you play-
That one might be...
Well, technically, again-
Is it-?
there would be some electronic pad here, making...
using a sample for sound.
That is just claps.
Really?
But for the sake of this
But hang on.
So do you just press play on that and then you just fake it?
No, I hit it. It's like a rubber drum.
Oh shit.
As well as the-?
Yeah, but just for that song; it's not important.
So if that breaks which it occasionally does I just
You could do it
I just use this.
I'm not saying. Yeah alright...
Because it's the sound...
the real sound is us clapping.
Really?
And stamping feet.
So you don't just press...I mean-
No.
Some, sometimes when you're tired, do you...
you're like, I'll just press play.
It can hit it a bit more gently, yeah.
It's still like a physical ...
Glasto: they haven't put you on a pyramid stage.
"Fuck it. I'll just press play."
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, all right.
Show mehow to do that one then.
Let's pretend that it was-
It's probably-
I'll clap.
the easiest thing you can play.
Well, that's what I'm saying, yeah.
It's just this
[magnificent Melodihorn playing that basically sounds exactly like the track itself]
And, yeah, you basically do that until the chorus happens
I was into that, man.
Let's do it again
I was into that.
I genuinely think that sounded a little better than the, you know, the track.
Hold on
Just start again. Sorry.
I, I think it was you was messed up there.
Hmmm
Just like,
Yeah a version of it. It's nice
like if you're gonna, like remaster it at some point,
that might be a, a direction you'd want to go in.
Yeah.
Is this, is this your layout?
Eh...
I'll come round.
'cos this is the drum kit I have.
Yeah.
I used to have these same cymbals actually.
Did yer?
But do you have...
is this your kind of...
or do you have more drums 'cause you're, like, more-
I have less drums actually.
I just have one tom here instead of two toms.
The man doesn't need two toms.
Wh-, why?
Wh-, why'd you get rid of it?
Was it just, it was hard on the road?
No, I did...
I just didn't have it in the first place.
Or the rest couldn't be bothered to, like-
I think it was probably-
That's like Albarn
He cuts off three of his strings 'cos he can't be f****d
You've got to make things harder for yourself sometimes to, uh-
Yeah.
... find out what you're made of.
Yeah, that's true.
So there was something you told me once.
You told me that there's a point in one song where you don't know what the f**k's happening.
It's like you look to the bassist and you're like, "is this the part where we do this thing?"
Yeah, uh-
What, what song is that?
And, and what happens?
I...
to be honest, it's happens a few times.
There a few songs where, uh,
yeah, I'm like looking for a cue from somebody else
to make sure I'm in the right place.
What does...
I mean, what does that mean?
You're in, you're in the middle of a song, like, and how does-
Well, sometimes live, we'll extend things or we'll do-
Okay, let's-
Sometimes that happens.
What's the cue look like and how can I give it to you?
It's like a jam we do in the middle two songs.
To join two songs together.
Okay.
Timing can get a bit weird.
And, what's the cue?
Well, that's what I'm usually looking for but usually it's more
of an uncertain, like...
I don't know.
Maybe, you know, like-
What?
Are we doing it now?
Sure.
But as long as we both do it-
And you have to go ahh
Yeah.
Okay, cool.
So we can just decide
It's like that, yeah.
yeah. Okay, cool.
You just need a bit of communication
That's all you need, a little bit of communication, guys.
This is basically like Sesame Street but better.