BITESIZE | Gaizka Mendieta: A Walk on the Wild Side
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
4.5 • 863 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Today’s story comes from Gaizka Mendieta, who speaks about his passion for DJing and how he once met his hero Lou Reed, the Johan Cruyff of music.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the big interview bite size. I'm Graham Hunter and in each episode |
| 0:18.8 | you'll hear an elite footballer tell a story that's guaranteed to brighten your day. |
| 0:24.0 | All of them will come from my podcast, The Big Interview with Graham Hunter, |
| 0:28.0 | which you can find by searching on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:33.0 | Listen up for Gai's tale of Meeting Lou Reed, |
| 0:38.0 | one of the moments in the entire series that made me most jealous. He didn't go fantastically at the end in Borough, but you said you were happy to be there you helped |
| 0:53.6 | them get to a European final although you couldn't play in at the end was part of |
| 0:57.2 | the reason of coming to Britain that you already liked our culture but you liked |
| 1:00.6 | our music I mean I'm not saying you signed for music that would be stupid. |
| 1:04.0 | But when you think about what I got the Premier League, will I go to Middlesbrough, how's the money, can I get out of Rome, please? |
| 1:11.0 | Was it in the back of your mind that you could start to live a life that had more of the music you loved in it or was that did that only come after 2008? |
| 1:20.0 | No, well it's the reasons coming that this is my sounds to be for some people. |
| 1:25.0 | When I obviously was in Spain, I used to come to London whenever I got a chance by records. |
| 1:31.0 | I went on holiday in Scotland, the Highlands, I did all up try for round and blah |
| 1:36.0 | blah of course of course. Of course. So it's a country that I always liked that I always loved |
| 1:42.0 | and and and the music obviously is the big thing for me |
| 1:46.3 | But also a character of the people in those days you could only watch one game of the Premier League in Spain Saturday 3 o'clock and for as much |
| 1:55.2 | I love my sister I used to watch them. |
| 1:57.4 | So I love a lot of things loved about the country and I knew well that I went eventually I wanted to play in the Premier League |
| 2:05.8 | how that would be how that happened when I didn't know so when the opportunity come along to |
| 2:11.3 | meet us for I completely reset and change my approach to the game and everything. |
| 2:17.6 | So in a way, yeah, it was coming to a place where I always loved with the music, yeah, it was important which I knew I could watch so many concerts |
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