This is a Global Player Original podcast.

This is the Restless Native's podcast with a listenership and atmosphere once compared to a witherspoons in Blackpool.

And please accept a warm welcome to proceedings from your two friendly barmen.

I'm Gordon Smart, a guy mopping up the vomit, cashing up the till, making sure everyone's being served cold, fresh pints a snake bite,

while dealing with management and calling up last orders.

And here is my comrade Fanny DeVito, who refused to lift the finger on this shift,

is unashamedly front of house in this operation.

The guy who brings the punters in and greets him of the Grenoquean wink and a cheeky smile,

charges all the drinks back and leaves the carry on and heads off for an after party every single night.

Hopefully you get the pint.

I mean the point of this.

Any road up.

Today is a very special day because the podcast has sometimes and fairly been dubbed relentless name droppers.

Now, in this episode, our tall stories are about to be put into perspective by one of the most respected, experienced and

influential men in the music industry in the last 40 or so years. He is a brilliant gentleman.

He's a brilliant character and his amazing memoir. I was there sums up his life perfectly,

as you would hope from a pioneer in music PR. Since his teenage years, he's been side of stage in the dressing room at the after party

and often in the homes of some of the most incredible artists to walk the planet.

David Bowie, the Who, the Rolling Stone, Sir Paul McCartney, Blondie, the Spice Girls, Amy Winehouse.

And importantly for this podcast, Big Country.

His book is rammed with incredible, incredible anecdotes of a life less ordinary.

Take the career out of it and as a teenager, he made his way from London to Afghanistan and back,

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