Episode Summary

The boys revisit the gigs, label meetings, disasters, breakthroughs, and bowel incidents that shaped their early career. From supporting The Darkness and Snow Patrol to cramming eight grown men into a seven-seater van, this is the unfiltered story of how GLC went from Newport practice rooms to major label showcases.

What You’ll Hear in This Episode

🔥 Band Origins & Early Gigs

• How the band formed and started gigging
• The first showcases and nearly getting management
• Playing with The Streets, Snow Patrol, Jurassic Five, and more

🤘 Bottles, Booing & Accidental Fans

• The infamous gig supporting The Darkness
• Audience abuse, flying bottles, and a man who later emailed to apologise
• Why a gig where everyone hates you is the best training possible

🚐 The Van Era

• Touring in a 7-seater with 8 people
• The legendary briefcase (yes, that one)
• Skinning up while driving
• Someone always lying on the floor by the sliding door
• The moment they upgraded to a “proper” sleeper bus

🚽 Tour Bus Rules You Didn’t Ask For

• Why you can’t poo on a tour bus
• The bin-bag method (don’t ask… but we explain it anyway)
• Throwing things out the back window on the motorway
• How to wake up desperate for a toilet in a strange city

💿 Record Deals, Label Fights & Bald Spot Commentary

• Meetings with Sony, Atlantic, EMI, and Super Furry Animals’ label
• The good exec (Corder Marshall) vs. the other one (allegedly an arsehole)
• The moment they learned: if we quit right now, we can keep the money
• A marketing guy discussing someone’s bald spot at Soho House
• Why the band nearly disbanded for the cash

🎶 First Single & Album

• Releasing “Half Man, Half Machine”
• Charting at #32
• The C-3PO knitted outfit
• Naming the debut album “Greatest Hits” because of course they did

😂 Side Stories & Tangents

• Human poo at The Oracle in Reading
• A Nando’s sauce-mixing masterclass
• Newport’s obsession with Ocean Pacific jumpers
• A record cover idea involving rolling joints on a gatefold sleeve
• Jumping into bins outside Soho House
• Someone almost having a heart attack in Sony’s toilet

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