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HAMISH & ANDY EXTENDED INTERVIEW
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Thanks heaps for chatting to us, guys!
ANDY LEE:
I promise to be as funny as
Julian Assange.
HAMISH BLAKE:
He was coming
straight for Andy’s bank account if Andy
messed around.
I imagine it was quite different to your
Jeff Probst interview?
HB:
There was less sucking up and
gushing from Assange’s perspective
from Andy; none of Andy going “Oh
my god I’ve been such a huge fan of
yours – ever since your first leak.
AL:
I’ve got a suggestion for
another leak!
HB:
Here’s a leak I’d love to see in
the future.
Have you guys ever read an issue
of
STACK
Magazine before?
AL:
I have not, no.
HB:
Neither have I. But don’t feel
bad about it because I haven’t read
an issue of any magazine.
What can you tell me about the
Traxedo Edition – the best-dressed
boxed set ever released?
HB:
I’m just going off the top of
my head here, but nine shows, 13
discs, almost 30 hours of Hamish
and Andy – and for the first time
ever, two bobbleheads! But, like I
said, I’ll have to fact check that.
AL:
It’s pretty much made for us.
HB:
Neither of us have a copy of our
own shows. We don’t have a copy of that
special we did a few years ago, Learn
India, or any of the “reminiscements”
where it was all our different bits and
pieces we showed on
Rove
. Now, finally,
we’ve got a copy for ourselves that we
can put away and drag out and try and
show our children in 30 years time – if we
can ever track down a DVD player.
Tell me – what is it like to be
immortalised in bobblehead form?
AL:
It’s pretty special – we actually
have on good authority that they’re
voodoo bubbleheads.
HB:
Please be nice – give us a
head massage if you get one.
AL:
Manipulate us any way you
want.
HB:
These are our original
bobbleheads from the first series
of Gap Year when were in America,
and we had them on the desk and
we took them around to a few
different places. I didn’t know the
day we were doing the bobbleheads
that it was gonna be a full body
thing; like you had to wear shoes,
so Andy’s in shoes and I’m in
socks. They like 3D-photograph
you, and I just assumed that they
would put sneakers on me but they
didn’t... They put you up as you’re
photographed, so I had socks for that
whole series on my bobblehead. And
then this was our chance to fix it, and we
forgot, so we just sent the bobbleheads
off to be redone and I’m in socks again.
I’m now the second generation of
bobblehead to remain shoeless.
I didn’t know the day we
were doing the bobbleheads
that it was gonna be a full
body thing... so Andy’s in shoes
and I’m in socks