Media appearances
All quiet on the western front.... just a few bits and bobs on TV:
- Tues 29th
- Dermots Sporting Buddies: BBC Choice @ 22:30
- 2nd May
- Profile Fun Lovin' Criminals: ITV1 @ 01:55 (Thursday night/Friday early hours).
- ?? March
- Huey was on a program called "Booze" broadcast on BBC1 talking about Tequila.
- ??
- Footage from December's gig(s) at London's Brixton Academy were shown on MTV's Live, earlier this year.
Did anyone record MTV Live and/or the Booze appearance?
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Old TV appearances:
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Jools's Annual Hootenanny: BBC2 @ 23:55
Jools Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra see in the new year with a party at BBC Television Centre. Featuring David Gray, Edwin Starr, Huey from Fun Lovin'
Criminals, Beverley Knight, John Cale, Ash, Ronnie Wood and Slash, Paul Heaton from the Beautiful South, and Marc Almond. Repeated 1st January @ 13:30.
21st October - Fanatic: Channel 4 @ 13:50. FLC & Limp Bizkit. A specially selected "fan" gets to interview their
favourite band.
29th August - The Carling Weekend Reading Festival (Part 1 of 2): Channel 4 @ 1:10 am. Included FLC's 'Bump'.
27th August - Best of the Carling Reading Festival: E4 @ 7pm. An hour on highlights recorded during the weekend.
25th August - Best of the Carling Reading Festival: E4 @ 10.30 pm. Highlights recorded during the weekend plus some live coverage.
15th August - PopWorld: E4 @ 5pm.
13th August - MTV Select: MTV UK @ 4pm. Interview.
12th August - Top of the Pops plus: BBC2 @ Midday. Interview with Huey (Read transcript).
August - Paper magazine (US). A brief interview with Huey mainly about FLC being 'unknown' in the US yet being chased down the street by women in the UK!
August - Hotpress magazine. The Irish music magazine has a two page spread with Huey on the cover.
28th July - 3rd August - Heat magazine. There's a 3 page article that includes photos and an interview with Huey.
Saturday 21st July - Lynx Zero Gravity: Channel 4 @ 00:05 (i.e. Sunday AM). Showed just two Fun Lovin' Criminals live tracks: Bump and Scooby Snacks. A snippet of the interview with Huey also revealed man's
slight obsession for trying sex in zero gravity...
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Sunday 24th June - Planet Rock Profiles (repeat): VH1 @ 11pm.
Tuesday 20th March - The Priory: Channel 4 @ 6pm.
Monday 26th February - The Brit Awards 2001. Broadcast on ITV on the 27th @ 8pm to 10 pm. Huey and Kylie came on stage and announced that he and Kylie had got
married earlier that day and got Kylie to show her ring off. Looking remarkably sober for FLC at a free piss-up! they then went on to present Best International Band to U2.
Oh... and in case you were wondering... he also went on to say 'and if you believe that, then I also own a bridge in Brooklyn' refering to the said marriage - not U2 winning an award!
Friday 16th February - Top Of The Pops: BBC1 @ 7pm.
Saturday 10th February - CD:UK: ITV @ 11:30am performing Loco (#4 in the CD:UK charts). They also recorded Run Daddy Run, but not aired.
Thursday 8th February - The Richard Blackwood Show: Channel 4 @ 22:55. Huey chatted with Richard and told a little tale about when someone tried to climb over the
wall in his yard (funny) and they then played Loco.
Sunday 4th February - Planet Rock Profiles: ITV @ 01:30 (i.e. Monday morning!)
Wednesday 31st January - Huey on the Big Breakfast: Channel 4 @ 9 am'ish. Huey joined Donna Air on the bed for some serious flirting...
Tuesday 30th January (and all that week) - Evening Sessions with Steve Lamacq: Radio1 @ 8pm
Friday 8th December 2000 - Huey co-hosted with Donna Air on Channel 4's TFI Friday. FLC played 3 tracks: Loco, The Biz (complete with bikini clad girles and a
sheep!! - no connection!) and Where the Bums Go. Donna interviewed Eddie Irvine and Huey interupted alot, and Huey interviewed Kylie Minogue and got more and more
flustered whilst doing so. The girls flirted and Huey flirted back making sure Kylie knew he'd got a house in Maui ("with a pool"). But the show reached a climax for Huey
when the girls started discussing whether they preferred Gold or Silver Tequila! Huey couldn't take it anymore and came over all dewey eyed, bless him!
If you've wondered what Huey's been doing to get those bruises all the time, then wonder no longer - as mostly confirmed by Huey at recent gigs, the Mirror (26Mar01) reported the following...
High spirits landed Huey on the floor of a bar after he fell over some tables while staggering
to the door. The American singer (Puerto Rican/Irish) took the tumble at the Toxic8 nightclub in Cambridge. The band called into the club for a late session the night before they're sell
out gig at the Cambridge Corn Exchange.
"It was about 11pm and the FLC were at the bar sinking shots of Aftershock" says Toxic8 manager Shane O'Brien. "I said to give me a shout if they had any problems. We had a little drink with them and
they challenged us to a drinking competition." By the time they came downstairs at 1.50am Huey
was weaving across the floor. Shane adds "he launched himself over four tables on the way out. He fell over one and got up, fell over another and got up again."
Never to be accussed of being a bit on the quiet side... Huey and Fast have always seemed to be relaxed doing interviews, taking the piss and generally f**king with the interviewer's
head... Here's some of my more favorite moments...
"It's good for, I guess, computer geeks and people who love any sci-fi movie... The movies shit but we like the song" Fast about Titan AE
"We joke around, but we take the band seriously. And we know how important the people around us are to what we do. We're comfortable with the people we've got around us. And being in Fun Lovin'
Criminals isn't just about getting onstage and doing shows. It's about everything else that goes with the band. We know who we trust. It doesn't have to be complicated." Huey, Melody Maker 3rd Oct 98
A short Guide To Stockholm by Fast Melody Maker 3rd Oct 98
1. Don't Go To Hip Hop Clubs In Stockholm. "We went to this place last night and when we walked down
the stairs and they saw us coming they started to play Vanilla Ice. There's not a real big hip hop culture here. We just walked right back up the stairs."
2. Foreign Languages Aren't Just For Show. "'Cheese' is 'kok'. And 'shoe' is 'glans'. I saw this machine in the hotel corridor and it said, 'Shine your glans here in 30 seconds'"
3. Miss Your Girlfriend. "I wish Saffron was here. The way our schedule is I'm actually going to be in
London over the next few weeks, and we're playing V98 with Republica, so I'll get to see her quite a lot." Not tempted by Swedish girls? "Not for a moment. They're weird."
"We're in the middle of doing these four shows at The Forum (Kentish Town) which is pretty bugged out. We played up in Blackpool or some place which was way too big, but it's kind of funny that a lot of
people want to see us. They wanted us to play at Wembley so they could try and sell 10,000 tickets or something like that. We just didn't think that many people would want to come and see us, so we decided
that if we could get two nights at The Forum or something like that, that would be pretty cool. Before we knew it two nights had turned into three, then three nights into four. It's far better to have four nights
that are rammed than two that are half-empty. Now I think we've sold as many tickets as Wembley holds, so it's kind of funny and the agent's pissed at us". Huey, Level June/July 99 "I got some BMX time coming in about two and a half weeks. I ride an old Mongoose, because I'm not
really that good at it and I'd feel embarrassed riding a nice new bike around NYC. I ride all over the city, so it's definitely New York street freestyle, dislocating collar bones and all that sort of thing."
Huey, Level June/July 99
"I wrote a script for this film that we're probably going to be shooting here in London. It's a pretty good idea. It's got a dead rock star, his widow, a mad scientist and a time machine that looks like a New York
cab. It's kind of like Ghost meets Back to the Future meets Bad Lieutenant." "Joel (Pront) and I did a video for a song called Big Night Out. It was kind of like Raging Bull and a social critique at the same
time. We always try and include hidden meanings in our music, like it you play it backwards and all that. The production company thought we'd made a good job on the video and approached us with a pretty
nice sum of money to make a feature film, and that bag of money snowballed into a whole big bag of money - we're gonna take the big bag of money and split it in half. That's half to make the movie, and the
other half to have a good time for the next six months. It sounds crazy, but they give you the money up front." Huey, Level June/July 99
"Luckily we do a lot of homework when it comes to that [scoring]. We can do anything as long as we've got some 'erb. We're not like super big drinkers, because when we drink we start getting into fights and
shit like that. I take care of my own drug dealings. I think that's when you know you've crossed the plain into thinking like a rock star. Paying people to buy your sneakers for you? The Beastie Boys have got a
lot of other problems, the piousness and so on. Don't get me wrong, when I was growing up, I was listening to the Beastie Boys, it's cool stuff. I think if you involve humour with your music you get locked
in with bands like the Beastie Boys and I think they're all right, they're not a bad group. They've been acting kind of bugged out lately, but what do you expect? They're adults now, but they were talking
about sticking wiffle ball bats in girls twelve years ago or whatever, and now they get mad at bands for doing that same thing, but bands nowadays are just doing what they felt back in the day. They're just
losing touch I guess. As far as bands go, I don't really know if we play the same kind of music. They do that hardcore thing, and then they do that sort of serious hip hop thing. We don't really do either the
hardcore or the serious hip hop...and they're soft!" Huey, Level June/July 99 "If the Apocalypse comes and you're in New York, come to my house and I'm gonna go to the marina and
steal a boat and we're gonna head south, I've got all my shit in this closet in my house: shot-guns, shark repellent..." Huey, Sky Mag Sep 98
"Before, when ever anyone took my photo it was because I was in trouble. When people came up to me it was to threaten me. Now, they're just nice". Huey, Sky Mag Sep 98
"I'm living like the English and I'm loving it. I can totally get by with Sainsbury's Sicilian orange juice,
and I can totally get by with drinking in the pubs, although I can't last. But I can be the king of the pub because if anyone smokes one of my joints they'll be under the table".Fast, Sky Mag Sep 98 "Believe me, there are no supermodels on my dick. In our line of work, it's always how many models you've shagged, how many cars do you have, do you own a rhinoceros? For us that's bizarre because we
come from homes where we were brought up to feel happy that we had what we had." Huey, Sky Mag Sep 98
You divide your time between London and New York: which dresses best? "I'd give London an eight, and New York a six out of ten. London, by and large, does the right thing. They do great - not too many
accessories, which is good. New York's one of those towns where you get a lot of people that wear the suit jackets without the lapels and the shirts without the collars - they just have no idea. Lapels are
wonderful. You could take someone's eye out with a good lapel. You don't need a handgun, you could just pop them with a jacket." Huey, FHM Collections Autumn/Winter 99
What is a woman's most attractive feature? "I am Puerto Rican, so I guess legs and behind. I play guitar so the guitar-shaped woman appeals to me. And I play big guitars so I don't really like flaca - skinny
women. I love big women - you got to have something to hold on to, God bless." Huey, FHM Collections Autumn/Winter 99
What's the sexiest thing a woman can wear? "There are these new Gucci shoes out I really like - a stiletto
with a strap around the ankle - that are extremely sexy. You see a lot of them in London. New York has cornered the market on women's chi-chi wear. You go to Latin clubs and the women are all in short
skirts and very high heels; that's a good look." Huey, FHM Collections Autumn/Winter 99
'I know what you're talking about and y'know I don't get in the papers for being a wonderful
humanitarian, I get in the papers because I'm seen with some girl.' He smiles. 'And y'know, for 27 years, no one took notice of which girl I was taking to.I'll tell you the truth, man - I've made a little promise to
myself that I'm gonna be dating civilians for a long time to come. It brings more trouble than it's worth - for both people. It's nice that we're popular, but we should be popular for making music and not banging
broads.' Huey flashes his loveable rogue grin. 'But that is rock 'n' roll. I'm not gonna stop banging broads. And I don't mean that in a detrimental way, but I have an amorous love for women that I cannot
control sometimes." Huey, Time Out 24th Nov 99
'Dude, I want the president of the United States to get his thing off. He's the leader of the free world, right?' Er, yeah. 'So let him get his stick off, the poor bastard. Just 'cos he's got bad taste; he's from
Arkansas, of course he has no taste. You should be allowed to bone whoever you wanna bone. It's not like he did anything wrong to her, Maybe the cigar thing was a little weird, but she consented to the
whole shit. But you heard about that one lady who said he pulled his dick out? C'mon - if you're in his hotel room by yourself you're expecting a dick to come out.' Huey, Time Out 24th Nov 99 "If you want to get music you should fuck the record companies out of the money that they fuckin scam out of everybody, y'know" Huey on issue of Napster
"You should be able to get live stuff, singles and remixes, but albums you should have to pay for."
Fast on
issue of Napster "He was out in a bar being an idiot. I liked the guy up until last night (but) he was acting like a cocky
fuck, and I was like, 'Jesus Christ!' Some people like being rock stars and not taking it easy. He hugged me like I was his homeboy, and I don't hug this dude, I don't know him that well. Then I told him what I
was up to and he told me it wasn't cool. I said. 'What do you mean it's not cool?? And he goes 'It's wack'. And I said 'You mean wack like your new video Damon?' And then he got all 'mer mer mer' and I said
'Damon I'm fuckin' wit you'. (But then) he got really pissed off, and started acting like a jerk, and telling me 'You don't know what's cool 'cos you don't live here', and I was like, 'Fuck off!' Fuck him, he can go
suck a bolognaise!. I was so close to putting my foot in that kid's ass. So close. But I didn't. I was cool." Huey on a recent encounter with Damon Albarn from Blur
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