Because you’re never going to win everyone over in that crowd because they’re not ‘music people’ and those are the hardest type of gigs to play. The feedback was that people really loved it, so much so that I’ve been asked to do a few more, but will I? I’m not sure.
#Eddie haskell personality type full#
The people there are this really eclectic mix full of Middle Englanders, who probably didn’t even know I DJ! Older people, too, so what sort of music are you supposed to play to these people?! I ended up going in with some classic vocal house, things like Stardust, and Modjo, and the reaction was amazing.
“Yeah that was so cool! It was packed with 80,000 people, and when I got asked to do it… To be honest, I almost said no, because it seemed like a bit of a hiding to nothing. YOU RECENTLY PLAYED A DJ SET AT TWICKENHAM STADIUM, WHICH MUST HAVE BEEN A REALLY COOL CROSSOVER OF THE TWO BIGGEST PASSIONS IN YOUR LIFE? HOW DID THAT GO? I really left Rugby with no vocational skills, other than being able to drive a digger, so now here I am, telling these jokes and making people laugh.”
But for me, the priority now is my DJing stuff because I enjoy it so much and by doing that work, you get to travel, too. But despite that, I always really enjoyed giving things a go, even from school and being encouraged by my Dad. “Bizarrely actually, I was always kind of nervous. HOW DID THIS LINE OF WORK OCCUR FOR YOU? WAS IT ALWAYS A CONSCIOUS DECISION TO DO THIS ONCE RUGBY ENDED? It’s good enough for James f**king Haskell!“ Of course that nervousness is there… Will they laugh? Won’t they laugh? But I’ve always done a lot of after dinner speaking in places, so it made sense, why wouldn’t I just do my own tour? My plan is to share these stories, and new stories, every couple of years!” I enjoy all of it and it doesn’t feel like work at all. (*Laughs*) “Well for me, all the stuff that I do in my post-rugby life involves performance and showing off, really. SO JAMES, WHAT WAS THE THINKING BEHIND THIS TOUR? AND YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO SAY ‘MONEY’… We caught up with the man himself, fresh from a sing-song on stage, in his Oxford dressing room amid a surprisingly modest rider of Ready Salted Pringles and singular bottles of Corona… Launching into several raucous tales, including 7 prostitutes servicing a French dinner party under the table as ‘dessert’, and a fierce vodka drinking competition with Prince William, ‘ Sex, Tries, and Videotape’ isn’t for the faint-hearted. Don’t be fooled by this meek and mild new beginning though for one of the most outspoken figures in the public eye. Bringing the show to various venues around the British isles, Haskell quips that his days of wild tour buses are over, and he’s instead caught between the purgatory of various hotel stays in a David-Brent-Life-On-The-Road-esque manner, and commuting back home for the ‘night feeds’. “If I’m going down, you’re all coming with me!” he bellows into the mic during a superbly impressive two-hour stint on stage in the Oxford leg of his ‘Sex, Tries & Videotape’ tour. It’s a typically explosive monologue from the one-man barrage against ‘Cancel Culture’.
As one-half of a celebrity power couple alongside his wife Chloe (daughter of U.K television’s iconic presenting powerhouse pairing, ‘ Richard & Judy’), Haskell jokes about his father-in-law’s oversized genitalia during a comedy routine involving a silk dressing gown. So what has this 193cm man-mountain learned from representing his nation at several World Cup tournaments, and how is he now adapting to life on the decks in front of 80,000 fans in a packed Twickenham Stadium, or to Fatherhood via the 2022 birth of his daughter ‘Bodhi’, whom he then named his track on Mark Knight’s legendary Toolroom Records after.
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