840. - Saint Etienne

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Saint Etienne is a band from England formed in 1990. Their newest and final record, International, comes out today. We spoke with Peter from his home in Hove about the passing of Giorgio Armani, the Kith padel tennis smoothie complex, Atlanta hip hop drama, calfskin innuendo, hanging out with Orbital at the beach, Oasis opened for them twice, his wife's shoulder exploded playing tennis, DJing at Glastonbury, their critically acclaimed vapourwave quarantine record, his kid listens to Suede, working with Alasdair McLellan, and being swarmed by schoolgirls in Japan. instagram.com/saintetienneofficial twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans howlonggone.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	How long gone?
0:18.3	Beautiful Thursday here in New York City.
0:23.3	Them jeans. What's really going on?
0:25.1	You know, just a birthday day in the Glendale area and just did a little dog walk, having my second coffee, having a little magna.
0:36.4	You know, and I'm realizing it's a little too hot right now
0:39.9	i'm wearing a long sleeve tea and i don't know so you're this would be a good time to do a
0:45.4	shirtless pod for my birthday but i don't know if our guest is going to like that so to be clear
0:49.5	it's jason's birthday today so so please wish him well. It's Demjeans, Beyonce, who else is on that list,
0:59.2	Ione Sky, Mark Ronson, you know, nothing but elite media and content creators. Second best DJ
1:08.9	born on September 4th is something that I could
1:11.4	know kind of going down there's Mark is second best I don't know if he's that good
1:15.4	oh you're talking he's he's been working on it for a long time I think he's getting
1:21.6	pretty good at the at turntableism no happy birthday them jeans RIP to the goat, Giorgio Armani. If you are on Instagram,
1:31.6	I'm sure you've seen a million pictures already of him. Yeah, it's the timing of the
1:36.9	Georgio Armani spa wing at the Kith paddle tennis Hamam Arawon activation.
1:46.1	He took one look at that and said, all right, I'm done.
1:49.0	The private members paddle club, everybody's focused on the Arawan and the paddle.
1:53.6	I would like to focus on a New York institution, Cafe Mogadour in the East Village.
1:57.7	One of my, you know, longtime haunts celebrated. The acquisition of Mogadour into the Kith portfolio feels targeted and personal to you.
2:06.5	I don't want it to go acquisition. I don't want to take it that far. I think this is probably a
2:11.4	license and something that's not. I mean, obviously they didn't buy Cafe Mogadour. There was enough
2:16.2	money offered. There's enough money offered they couldn't say no, but... Similar to the chicken and beer deal that ludicrous Chris Bridges struck with the LAX airport. Same exact thing, but I'm concerned. That concern, Airwan is going to air one. Like, they're going to do they make, you know, they make smoothies with c w actresses it's like they don't give a
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