Bob’s Your Uncle with Nigel Cabourn

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Arts, Fashion & Beauty

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🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Yeah, baby! Smashing, baby! This week, the boys are back on road, continuing their UK tour in Newcastle where they are joined by the legendary designer Nigel Cabourn. Big Nige was kind enough to play host in his amazing office/archive/library to banter about the ideal pant width, white whale grails, his thoughts on the state of vintage, the most he’s ever spent on a garment, his popularity in Japan, randomly meeting Lorenzo Osti on the train, Italian sportswear’s place in UK culture, 50 years worth of dizzying highs and terrifying lows in the fashion biz, his favorite collaborators, more Northern slang, living and partying during the Swinging Sixties, how to pull a proper bird and much more on this groovy and far-out episode of The Only Podcast That Matters™.

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0:00.0	This is Jonaheel and you're listening to the only podcast that matters.
0:19.5	Brogang, we are joined by his highness of the hunt, the Titan of Textiles.
0:23.6	Jesus Christ, that's Nigel K. Born, the vintage Viking, the military meister.
0:27.4	Please don't touch his wrath. That's where all air force to yanks. The Sultan has served
0:30.9	plus the king of camo. Nigel is the army, better get the navy, Lord of the wide leg, the Don
0:35.7	Dodd of Dungarees, the Wizard of work, where the medicine ball baron, he get it. Perko,
0:40.1	Layton like Mary J. Nigel, designer of the eponymous brand, Nigel K. Born, Nigel, how are you, buddy?
0:45.6	Fucking hell. I don't think this fucking room for me to say anything after you said.
0:50.4	I think we should just fucking close shut it down. It's all fucking done.
0:53.9	The three-hour train ride we got. That's the beauty of doing face to face so that we can
0:59.1	scream that directly at you. Yeah, really, really. That wasn't expecting that.
1:04.5	As I say, I think this is the first actual live pod that I've done. Well, it's the only pod that
1:10.1	matters. Yeah, we call ourselves. So you're bad. You're bad. A thousand. Yeah. Oh, thank you.
1:14.5	We're like a clash of podcasts. Yeah, right. Nigel, thank you so much for hosting us here
1:20.5	in your studio in Newcastle. This place is like this is insane. Thank you. We're not photographing
1:27.1	it because we're not professionals. Right. Yeah, we're hard. But doing it a disservice to you.
1:31.0	You're gonna have to take our role for it. It is, I mean, one of the li- you call us the library.
1:34.9	Yeah. Yeah. Well, this is my library here. So I've got about 5,000 books and a death.
1:40.4	Jesus Christ. But what's unusual about this is that the books are really to do with what I'm
1:47.6	interested in. So the Aloha shirt. Yeah. Tiger patterns. Yeah. I mean, they're just denim legends.
1:54.4	The very military orientated and very much about mountains, about Antarctic, about pop music,
2:00.7	which I love. And it's always about things I'm interested in. Motoracing even. And it's all about
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