As we’ve mentioned before we get some very pointless press releases. For no reason at all, Mathew Horne (Gavin from Gavin and Stacey) has been approached by XFM to run his own club night at 333. He doesn’t even have to book the bands, he just gets to hang out and listen to a Franz Ferdinand DJ set. Is there anything on Earth you’d prefer to receive a press release about? Obviously not. This guy clearly plays an integral part in modern music. I mean, he’s friends with The Maccabees! Anyway, since it was just down the road, we thought we’d try and behave like real journalists, you know, like Luke Blackall, and go where the press release called. Only we bummed it up because the club night was on Thursday so we’re not promoting it like the PR wanted. How do real journalists jump hoops for PR’s so quickly?
VICE: Hello Mathew Horne, do you really think you’re qualified to run a club-night?
Mathew Horne: Almost certainly not. But I would argue that I know as much as anybody else really if that gives me enough justification to do it.
Right.
Because… I-I’m the audience. I AM the audience. And like, music is put out for an audience, so if I’m part of the audience, it’s up to me to decide what’s good and what’s bad. So I’m probably just as good as anybody. As qualified as anybody. To do something like that. To curate something like that.
Is there going to be a comedy element? I found the line-up quite funny.
My Dj-ing will be the only humorous side of things. If you’ve got a sense of humour that is, which it looks you don’t.
What are you gonna play?
I would really like to do an hour long set of click house.
Start a musical outfit like Mighty Boosh.
No, I’m starting a tribute band.
Tribute to who?
Interpol. Only, we would be called InterLOL.
Have you ever taken drugs?
No.
Really? Never even tried a lil bit of something?
No. I’ve drunk booze.
There will probably be a lot of people on drugs at your club night.
Why, are you going to be?
It will probably make it more bearable. That makes it sound like I’m not really excited; I am.
I can see. It’s your mouth not your eyes though. Your eyes look sort of dead.
So do yours.
That’s your influence.
Or the drugs. I’m guessing that in your line of work now that you’re a big time music promoter, cocaine may be your drug of choice? Theoretically speaking.
That’s the white stuff, isn’t it? I’ve seen that about, people put it up their nose, don’t they? I’ve seen people sniffing poppers.
That’s not illegal.
Isn’t it? Maybe I’ll try it. We should do it together.
It relaxes the muscles in your anus. Have you ever had anything in your anus?
No.
Not even a finger?
No, I don’t really want that. What’s with your death stare.
What death stare? I’m just holding a straight expression.
Your mouth is a lot happier than your eyes.
That’s just because I have loads of gaps in my teeth.
Me too.
You know what fucks up your teeth? Cocaine.
I know more about methylenedioxy-N-methylamphetamine. I think the kids call it MDMA. Have you ever had that? What’s it like?
MDMazing. So now that we’re friends now, Matt, could you hook me up with some gear at your night? I mean, refer me to someone else even. Say I come to your club night and I’m really upset, my boyfriend’s just dumped me, I just need to get up, what would you say?
I’d say have a sniff on these poppers and then finger my arse hole.
If I’m the one sniffing the poppers, you should finger my arse hole.
Well, we can work that out on the night.
Mutual fingering. That sounds like a good name for a club night. Better than Club XFM.
That sounds like GASH! That’s such a horrible word.
I think they should rename that night Axe-Wound.
Mutual Fingering.
What about, ‘My sphincter is bleeding’?
Too wordy.
‘Matthew Horne Pushing Musical Boundaries’. Hey are you alright?
Yeah, why?
Nothing, you just look a bit fucked.
I’m just tired. I’m an actor.
No drugs my ass.
No. Drugs, then your ass.
You’ve made a film about Lesbian Vampires right?
Yeah. It’s been quite exciting to be involved. I play the best friend of a guy who’s just lost his job and I’ve just lost my girlfriend. We decide to go away on holiday and get caught up in a cursed village overrun with Lesbian Vampires.
Sounds great. What’s your address?
Can I come to your birthday party?
No. I’m having a party on a boat this year and I don’t want anyone to OD and fall into the canal.
Maybe we’ll start going out.
Do you wanna come to a strip club?
When?
Now.
I can’t. Wait. What time, like, actually now?
Yeah. We have to take some photos first. Both of us in a cubicle doing a line off a toilet-seat.
No, lets do the fingering.
Ok, thank you very much. Goodbye.
Somehow we managed to blag some press time with my mum, so we’re gonna have a phoner with her up on here next week. Don’t forget to check back for that.
BILLIE JD












Reader Comments
February 9th, 2009
2:59 pm
What, you’re just being a cunt.
February 9th, 2009
3:39 pm
…
February 9th, 2009
3:54 pm
Jesus, it’s a sad day when some shit-ass cunt from TV is funnier than a Vice journalist. Pathetic.
February 9th, 2009
4:41 pm
i would definitely go to a club night named “axe wound”. “hatchet wound” would work as well.
February 9th, 2009
4:41 pm
interLOL? maybe vice favs cheeseburger could has a side project called “i can has”
February 9th, 2009
4:42 pm
For a comedian, he has no idea how to take a joke.
February 9th, 2009
4:42 pm
christ, i hope america doesn’t ruin the boosh like so many other british shows. please, yanks, don’t do it!
February 9th, 2009
5:02 pm
how exactly would anyone be qualified to have a club night?
February 9th, 2009
5:19 pm
By qualified she means someone who has universally good music taste, because music taste is obviously objective…
February 9th, 2009
5:20 pm
Qualified for a club night? If my 16 year old mate can run a monthly club night filling it with 700+ people every time, i think anyone can run one.
February 9th, 2009
5:25 pm
Why are you bending over in that photo? Is that what serious journalists at The Independent would do? I bet your parents are reeeeaaaalll proud
February 9th, 2009
5:46 pm
She lost, he was throwing out deadpan zingers left right and center.
February 9th, 2009
5:55 pm
You fucked him after you ‘interviewed’ him, right?
February 9th, 2009
5:55 pm
i was expecting this guy to have nothing to him, but i thought he dealt with the banter quite well
February 9th, 2009
6:10 pm
Some 16 year old bitch thinking she’s supercool by making constant references to those oh so illegal drugs.
February 9th, 2009
7:04 pm
Mat “the prat” Horne… Discuss. 1. Pretending he’s never taken drugs? What a pussy. 2. He’s not the least bit funny. Or clever. 3. His club night is going to be the worst thing to ever hit 333 (and that’s saying something) 4. He’s a tool and people need to climb out of his arse. 5. I very much doubt you could interview a c-list sleb that well when you were 16
February 9th, 2009
7:56 pm
wow, hes more clever than you
February 9th, 2009
8:16 pm
He’s well not cool to people who read Vice. Good call on being rude to him. It was well impressive.
If only fairly successful people like him knew that it was the teenage hipster contingency who really knew it all.
February 9th, 2009
8:26 pm
so this is why vice is now so shit.. they have 16 year old interns doing everything!
February 10th, 2009
1:59 am
wow Billie bj you really have no idea do you.
another fantastic piece of ‘journalism’ from the vice brat.
February 10th, 2009
2:10 am
this is brilliant
February 10th, 2009
10:01 am
What a shit piece of journalism….who gives a shit what drugs the boys done or not done?..probably a darn sight fewer than the useless cunt interviewing him has by the sound of it. Darling, enjoy your 30 seconds of having your words in print cos you aint going nowhere with that level of ’skill’…pathetic.
February 10th, 2009
10:05 am
What an amazing piece of journalism! it’s a good job Mat Horne is paid to be funny and not the absolutely hilarious so called journalist that writes for Vice.
I’ve never read this magazine before and after that pile of crap - now I know why…
Good luck Mat don’t let wankers like this get you down!
February 10th, 2009
2:34 pm
how do you feel
February 10th, 2009
3:14 pm
OH MY GOD YOU ARE ALL SO COOL, go sell some more advertising to fund paying bus fares for journalists who will end up wanking of tramps for a fix of crack to get high and pose for vice the crackwhore edition, he made her look like a know nothing nob
February 10th, 2009
4:20 pm
Looks like Hornes got his friends and family on the case.
February 11th, 2009
9:23 am
Stefan - some people just go out and have a good time without being overly worried about whether or not they fit into the Vice genre whilst others are just too busy being empty, shallow victims waiting for puberty to hit (which is always delayed as they tend to have terrible eating habits).
Ive never met Mat Horne but Im sure hes a decent enough fellow, seems to like his music, get the impression he likes to throw a party for like minded people regardless of how many buttons theyve got done up on their American Apparel cardie…by the way I heard there were a few folk from Vice magazine there on the night they must have been the smug looking wankers staring at their blackberrys all night secretly wishing they were snuggled up in bed back at mummy and daddies with a bottle of vinegar and a crack whore.
February 11th, 2009
5:53 pm
I like how, on this girl’s articles, the comments are consistently funnier than the writing itself. When exactly did Vice move their offices to the bottom of the barrel?
February 11th, 2009
9:58 pm
oh fuck, these comments are shit, you just want to make criticisms because you think your better than it. she is a good writer thats obvious.
February 11th, 2009
9:59 pm
haha this is funny. the comments are such rubbish
February 11th, 2009
10:01 pm
he is very uninteresting. the girl, however, manages to make it semi interesting
February 16th, 2009
4:43 pm
its obvious quite cool to talk about fingering someone’s anus.
February 17th, 2009
3:18 pm
Lay off Billie, what the fuck has she done to you?
I enjoyed the article.
February 17th, 2009
9:09 pm
matt was fucked you fags, sarcasm can be a little over a few peoples know all heads
February 17th, 2009
9:10 pm
but the bitch did get owned
March 8th, 2009
10:58 pm
This sounds like bullshit.
March 20th, 2009
5:21 pm
why does vice have this girl doing these things? why? who is she? seriosly.
March 20th, 2009
5:44 pm
Gwan Billie.