STACK #133 Nov 2016

DVD & BD

Q&A

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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...

Much like a caravan without courage, you can’t have Hamish without Andy.The hilarious duo caught up with STACK ’s Alesha Kolbe to chat about box sets, bodybuilding trophies, and bobbleheads. GET YOUR TRAXEDO ON

AL: I’d say it’s three quarters... HB: No, Ando – you’ve seen the

Hamish & Andy's Traxedo Edition is out on Nov 4, exclusive to JB Hi-Fi

trophy, it's solid bronze... looking. It’s quite ironic, really. You’re giving the trophy to a very strong guy, but you’ve made 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.

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

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