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044 NOVEMBER 2015
Much like a caravan without courage, you can’t hav
Hamish without Andy.The hilarious duo caught up
with STACK’s Alesha Kolbe to chat about box sets,
bodybuilding trophies, and bobbleheads.
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01/ What can you tell us about TheTraxedo
Edition – the best-dressed box set ever
released?
Hamish BLAKE: 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.
Andy LEE: 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.
02/ What is it like to be immortalised as a
bobblehead?
AL: It’s pretty special. We actually have it on
good authority that they’re voodoo bobbleheads.
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.
03/ Hamish, what made you decide to give
away your Mr. NewYork State Bodybuilding
Championship trophy to the winner of the JB
Hi-Fi pre-order contest?
HB: Once you hit the top...
AL: He’s come on hard times...
HB: ...you realise that it’s not about the
trophy. Yeah, it was great to win, and I was top
of my game and undisputed champ back in 2011
‘cause I had the trophy, but I had to step aside
and make way for other amateur
bodybuilders who were also
keen to exploit the loophole by
being fatter than everyone else
in the contest.
04/ What can you tell us
about the inspirational note
that’s accompanying the
trophy? Can you give any hints
as to what might be on it?
HB: I can’t quite yet. I mean
it’s really half the prize...
d say it’s three quarters...
: No, Ando – you’ve seen the
y, it's solid bronze... looking. It’s
ironic, really. You’re giving the
y to a very strong guy, but you’ve
it light so they can lift it easier. But
yeah, the inspirational note will be heartfelt,
and it will help all junior amateur body athletes.
AL: On the same theme of bodybuilding,
the trophy is painted bronze, and all the people
that we met when we were out the back there
at the bodybuilding contest in New York, they
were out there layering on fake tan, painting
themselves bronze. So the whitest guys in the
world came out looking very, very tanned.
HB: The note will be bronze as well. I can give
that away. I can reveal, for the first time ever,
and this is an exclusive – the inspirational note
that accompanies the trophy will be bronze.
05/ Finally, where did the idea for GapYear
and Caravan of Courage come from? Did
you two just need a holiday and figured you
could probably get paid whilst you were
having fun?
AL: That’s pretty much it.
HB: I think you’ve got it, Leash.
AL: It all stemmed from the caravan trips; that
all started from wanting to see Australia, our
backyard, first. Too many people we knew out of
uni were going overseas for a holiday, and we’re
like, “no one’s seen enough of Australia”, so
that was where it started. In the most remote
places are the best kinds of people, because
they have to make their own fun.
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