Dave Chambers AKA Blind Boy Boat Club of the Rubberbandits has been tearing up the Irish podcast charts with his new weekly show 'The Blindboy Podcast'. In the last episode Blindboy addressed why he and Mr Chrome choose to wear plastic bags on their heads:
To be honest it's for privacy... I don't want to be noticed in public because I'm a z-list Irish celebrity and that's a very cringy existence to be carrying around with you in your daily life but I don't have to. I can go to Aldi, I can go into Tesco and buy a load of toilet roll, no one knows who the fuck I am. No one cares who I am, and I quite enjoy that existence.
Blind Boy Boat Club also explained how his anonymity has been valuable to him especially after a bad hangover:
Did a gig in Vicar Street a couple of weeks ago. We went on the lash afterwards we had some very merry and cheerful drinks and we drank excessively. So the next morning I had a hangover right and we got out of the hotel and I was walking down Dame Street, a very very busy in the middle of Dublin.
So I was walking down Dame Street with a roaring hangover and all of a sudden I needed to puke my ring up so there was bumper to bumper traffic and I was standing on the side of the road puking my ring up, violently puking, screaming puke out of my mouth, such was my hangover. Everyone in the car[s] was looking at this dude puking and I didn't have a bag on my head obviously and it didn't matter, I was just some lunatic puking onto the side of the ground and that's fine. If that was fuckin' Des Bishop that'd be all over the papers. That's why I wear a fucking bag.
Check out the excerpt from the show here:
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