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George Ezra & Friends

005. Ben Thatcher, Royal Blood

George Ezra & Friends

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Music

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

'HAVE FUN & SEE WHAT HAPPENS'... Drummer of Royal Blood and all round nice guy, Ben Thatcher and I first met when we were both fresh faced babies on the scene, I can only have been round 18 and ever since Ben is always a face that I look forward to seeing. We met up at the hotel that Ben was staying in whilst the band played three sold out shows at London's Alexandra Palace. We spoke about the normal things, you know? Setting fire to gongs on stage and swimming pools in recording studios… It was an absolute please to sit down with Ben for this chat and I know you’re going to love it! As always thank you for meeting me here each week. I hope you’re well! This podcast was edited by Warren Borg. The animations and visuals are thanks to Oisin Griffin. A big thank you to Josh Sanger and the Closer Artists team for their help. Thanks to Ben Thatcher for meeting with me. And of course, thank YOU for downloading and supporting this podcast. See you next week!

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0:00.0

Um, who would you say?

0:03.0

I don't know, it can't be that interesting.

0:20.0

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to episode 5 of George Ezra and Friends, the podcast.

0:26.0

My name is George Ezra, I'm a musician, I'm a singer, I'm a songwriter, I released my first music around four years ago and I've been busy with it ever since.

0:36.0

And this week I'm joined by the lovely Ben Fatcher, drummer of Royal Blood.

0:43.0

And yeah, all round good guy, I think it's fair to say, Ben very kindly invited me into his hotel room in London here when the guys were headlining

0:55.0

Alexandra Palace and it was amazing.

0:59.0

I should say, Ben is one of the first people I met in music.

1:03.0

In fact, my earliest memory of him was at Maida Vale, I was invited to do a session for the BBC, I must have been about 18 or 19.

1:11.0

And the guy said, okay, you're going to be sharing a dressing room with Royal Blood.

1:17.0

And I said, okay, brilliant, cool. I walked into said room and Ben was sat with his top off at a desk staring stone cold stare at the door waiting for me to walk in.

1:28.0

And I didn't know what to say, I was quite frankly Ben, if you're listening, I was intimidated.

1:37.0

And yes, me and Ben, we bump into each other all over the place, festivals and shows is a lovely guy and it was a really interesting conversation.

1:47.0

I absolutely loved it.

1:49.0

As always, actually, before we get going, there might be one or two naughty words in this podcast, maybe a bit of rude language, if you have kids around just a heads up.

1:59.0

Anyway, here we go, Ben Fatcher.

2:07.0

Here we go, we're rolling.

2:10.0

So here we are, is this your go-to hotel?

2:14.0

Yeah, when I stand London.

2:16.0

Should I not say what it is?

2:18.0

You can say whatever you want.

2:20.0

It's a hotel.

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