Getting Loaded with James Brown: Founder of Loaded Magazine
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Nobody has moulded the UK magazine culture quite as much as James Brown.
His CV makes for some impressive reading - at 22 he was the Features Editor of the NME, he founded the iconic Loaded Magazine at just 27 and would go onto work at GQ where he started their now infamous 'Man of the Year Awards' and gave an unknown chef by the name of Jamie Oliver his first food column.
More impressively, he negotiated all of this whilst dealing with the unthinkable trauma of the suicide of his mother and an addiction to drugs and alcohol.
His book Animal House reads like the British version of Wolf of Wall Street. Give enough free drugs and booze to an excitable group of succesful 20 somethings in London in the 90s and just see what happens!
In amongst the wild stories is a inspiring story about overcoming both trauma and addiction.
The James that Hamish got to meet was retrospective, wise, kind and a formidable storyteller.
Like us, he is not here to tell anyone how to live their lives. His life story is one to be shared. What you choose to do with the lessons that he has learnt is totally up to you!
Sit back and enjoy the wonderful James Brown!
Notes
James Brown's Book: https://www.amazon.com.au/Animal-House-James-Brown/dp/1787477908
James' Instagram: @jamesjamesbrown
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| 0:00.0 | I'm James Brown and this is sober awkward. |
| 0:03.6 | The kettle's boiled, Vic. |
| 0:05.5 | Great, perfect timing. Just a dash of milk for me, please, mate. |
| 0:11.3 | Here you go. Should we get started then? |
| 0:19.1 | Have you ever woken up on a Sunday morning and said, I'm never drinking again, and then found |
| 0:23.8 | yourself waving 50 bucks at a barman by happy hour? |
| 0:26.9 | Are you wondering why everyone else can stop at one while you head to a dodgy after party with a weird |
| 0:31.7 | bloke called Disco Dave? If so, it might be time to take a deeper look at your relationship |
| 0:36.8 | with your reliable social crutch, alcohol. |
| 0:39.3 | On each episode, we'll investigate our own dysfunctional dealings with booze |
| 0:44.3 | and find out if it's possible to stop this deeply ingrained habit before things get too messy. |
| 0:49.3 | Yep, we're going to open up a shame shed of humiliating drinking stories |
| 0:53.3 | to help you understand |
| 0:54.4 | why waking up from a booze coma each weekend with a kebab sticking out of your top pocket |
| 0:58.7 | might actually be negatively impacting your health. |
| 1:01.8 | Hamish and I are here to delve into what it's like being sober. |
| 1:05.7 | An unwanted warts and all look into why giving up those cheeky pints or putting down those |
| 1:10.2 | mummy wines will make you feel |
| 1:12.0 | happier, help your anxiety in mental health and turn you into the most sparkly authentic |
| 1:17.1 | version of you. |
| 1:18.3 | Won't that mean I become boring though, Vic? |
| 1:20.2 | Well, Hamish, we'll just have to wait and see. |
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