04x19 - Clubs, Pubs and Dubs

[bunniefuu]

Previously on "The Real World.."

[Lars] Coming over here for a couple of months

and just throwing some good parties

is just not that easy.

[Neil] I quite like being on the stage.

I think that shows.

[Sharon] As a singer, my profession has been

put on the line by this operation.

Sharon, it's all finished, okay?

[Kat] This is the true story..

[Neil] Of seven strangers..

Seven strangers.

[Jacinda] Picked to live in a house..

[Jay] And have their lives taped..

[Lars] To find out what happens..

[Mike] When people stop being polite..

[Sharon] And start getting real.

"The Real World, London."

[saxophone music]

[Mike] 'Well, is that what you wanna do?'

'Is the dream of DJ's to, I mean'

the dream of race car drivers is to win Monte Carlo

'and to win Indy.'

Well, see, I-I'm like, like I said

I don't really consider myself to be a DJ

that's like, not my main profession.

What is it?

'I'm like, more, like I said'

like, organizing events and doing parties.

And I find that quite exciting.

Like, writing a concept, getting the sponsors

sending out press releases.

That dance club business

I mean, it's like, in and out like that, you know.

It seems like very, very difficult and very risky.

It is.

[Mike] 'Why is everyone else in the world famous'

except me, Kat, for being a musician?

Fundamental injustice going there.

Have you ever had any offers?

'Nothing serious.'

Sonywere interested right at the beginning

then they-they heard us and decided against it.

People think we're a good idea

but they think we're a bit too noisy.

[instrumental music]

[Sharon vocalizing]

Can you go any lower?

Start as high as you can.

[vocalizing in high pitch]

I have seen my band, basically about twice

since the beginning of the year

and I'm used to seeing them at least twice weekly

so it wasn't a good situation.

But obviously, 'cause of this operation

I couldn't work

and so there was no point in me going to rehearsals.

Obviously, you're not singing now.

Have you got anything lined up?

I personally would like

to start training at least.

It's important to me.

I-I need to be involved with music.

[industrial rock music]

Unwittingly, he became part of a passive

morphous resonance program

using the words only

---Double One----.

---Double One----.

I'm not sure how much further Unileverwill go

without getting some support.

---Double One----.

The British press, they're very, very hard on new bands.

---Double One----.

Unless we're doing the kinda thing

they want that's fashionable at the moment

then you haven't got much of a chance.

[instrumental music]

Going from the point of being a musician

to the point of being on a record

is a very long and arduous process

involving huge amounts of luck and some bribery.

[Neil] 'We're looking for the head of A&R.'

If you give it to him, he'll pass it on.

There's a backlog of tapes.

They'll get back to you.

Is there anyone we should ask for or..

If you wanna call in about a month.

- A month? - Yeah.

This is a strange process where you give your tape to someone

who gives it to someone else, who gives it to someone else

who then puts it in a bin.

- 'Hello?' - Hello.

We've come to drop off a demo tape, can we come in?

[male #] 'Oh, sure.'

Ah-ha!

I'm very bad at selling myself, so

I'm not very comfortable going in and saying

"Hey, we're Unilever, we're great, give us a deal."

♪ You can do what you want ♪

♪ And two wrongs don't make a right ♪

♪ You lost the things you needed ♪

♪ And you're searching for the light ♪

[Sharon] This past weekend, my band and I

had a full rehearsal.

♪ Stop flying way too high ♪

♪ Put your feet back on the ground ♪♪

You see, you're supposed to go from that right into the chorus.

Yeah.

I mean, it literally overlaps.

This is basically the first opportunity

that I've had since I had my operation

to properly try and sing.

I was a bit nervous at first, actually.

Oh, then look, there's the chorus.

♪ Make the best of what you got.. ♪

And it took me ages to warm up.

But then when I did, I really loved it.

I really had such a good time and enjoyed it.

♪ Make the best of what you got ♪

♪ Love the one you're with ♪

♪ Make the best of what is there the power to give ♪♪

Hey, are you coming with us to the club?

Are you dressing Jay up?

Jay, are you getting dressed up?

Oh!

- What's wrong with them? - They're big ol' boots.

What do you mean old boots? That's all I wear, boots.

I've been checking all these clubs the past, what

seven weeks now or something.

[Lars] I wanna spend a bit more time to get to know the market

to get to know more promoters here.

And then I do have in mind

to set up one or two one-off events here.

[instrumental music]

Right now I'm looking for the venue

because I first need the venue

to then come up with a creative idea

to do something special out of that venue.

Is that-is that techno or is that jungle?

Techno, much more techno oriented.

They are so many venues in this town.

It's-it's really wild, it's hard to believe.

And this is go-go's or regular dance floor?

Mainly why I wanna do an event over here

to show that I can do it

to get that respect so people know my name.

♪ Sit down on the corner ♪

♪ Just a little crime ♪

♪ When I make my money ♪

♪ Got to get my dime ♪♪

[Kat] 'How much do they pay for, like, the whole thing?'

We made ten pounds that last gig.

[Kat] 'How much did they pay you, like, at the last one you did?'

Ten pounds.

[Neil] I think I've got about

three weeks before I'm completely "skinned," so

it's getting a bit scary.

If you changed your music style for that.

I don't fancy : to : very much

but I'm so skinned I have to do it.

- You could be the next.. - 'Take that.'

"Kylie-Neil-Minogue."

I suppose I could become a prost*tute.

Music doesn't really pay the rent

so some sort of job has to occur.

What sort of type of work would you like to do?

I was thinking, I've got quite a lot of computer experience.

- Yeah? Typing? - I do type.

In terms of being available, so you're available from?

- 'Now.' - 'Now.'

[telephone ringing]

- Hello. - 'Hello.'

- 'I've got a job.' - Right.

It's data entry, . an hour.'

'You get a subsidized lunch as well.'

[laughing]

Ooh, perks, already.

♪ Now how do you afford your rock-and-roll lifestyle? ♪

♪ How do you afford your rock-and-roll lifestyle? ♪

Poverty has forced me into doing

what I swore I always wouldn't do

and that's wear a suit and get out of bed in the mornings.

♪ Oh yeah ♪

♪ Alright ♪

[instrumental music]

Sharon, you know, we said to meet up

between : and :, didn't we?

Okay, well, it's nearly : now.

'You're-You're on your way, so where are you now?'

Ampleham.

[drum roll]

Ah, she's lost, basically.

[Nick] Sharon, apparently, Mark and Jim are at London Bridge

waiting for you to get you here.

We're at the Warehouse Studio.

[instrumental music]

[Sharon] It was so frustrating, I mean, I know I generally have..

No, I do, I-I have a punctuality problem.

And I'm looking like, I was like an hour-and-a-half late.

It was just really unfortunate

and it looked very, very bad.

[instrumental music]

[Nick] 'Don't let it happen again or I'm gonna walk out.'

I know, I heard.

- Okay? - Yeah.

Nick had said to me, "I feel like walking out."

so I look upon that as pretty drastic.

♪ Hold on to what you're dreamin' ♪

♪ Be what you have to be ♪

♪ Stay where your heart is happy ♪

♪ Make sure your devil is dead ♪

♪ Hold on to what you're dreamin' ♪

♪ Be what you have to be ♪♪

I don't care about his management.

I already asked him about that.

He said we can't do it. He said we can't do it.

But, listen, he was-he was thinking

open the club at O'clock

and then, like, play music all the way.

This-this place is nice.

[Lars] Well, I'm interested in The Site.

I would like to have that venue for my event.

Oh, look at that, look at the tables.

That's the tables that they usually have in the VIP Room.

The Site holds about people

so that's pretty much the right size.

And the stage is big, the stage is good.

It's a very professional venue.

It has like, everything you need.

Sound, light, all the rooms you need.

I need pounds on the dot

to-to pay the staff for that night, alright?

And if you say /, it's fine.

But if you've only sold of your tickets

I've got % of nothing, really.

The place needs to be staffed by at least people

including security.

So that just goes to cover that

and then we expect to make a little bit more on the bar

to cover electricity.

Well, If you say it, like, you need

then we'd, like, rather go for than the /.

Basically, I wasn't really, You know

that-that interested in it until Lars came up

and talked about the American DJs.

♪ It all comes down to money ♪

♪ It all comes down to money ♪♪

I've been working on getting this DJ or getting that DJ

nothing is confirmed yet.

So, we either like, have the whole thing

sewed together and put together by, like

yeah, by the end of this week, by Friday.

By tomorrow night

I have to have the concept for this event ready.

I'll have, um, a big American DJ coming in.

Ana from Straight To Rhythm, UK

wants to see a concept

before she gives her big DJ

George Varelle, to me.

♪ It all comes down to money ♪

♪ Whether it's rainy or snowy or sunny ♪

♪ Funny but it all comes down to the money.. ♪♪

[Neil] My current official title is data entry clerk.

It's an easy job for a lobotomized hamster

and I find it very frustrating.

So, yeah, so you worked three hours

and you make about ten pounds.

And I work one, playing in the sun.

Yeah, something's wrong, isn't there?

Isn't that the way it works?

You have money and I don't, already.

I mean, something's very wrong.

I should be the one who should be getting money.

They offered me another three week's work

of doing the same sort of thing and I just said, "No way."

I'd rather be poor than do any more of that.

You can't be an idealistic musician

for the rest of your life, you just get poor and starve.

[instrumental music]

It's frustrating that I have no money.

And to sort of rub salt into the wounds

it seems that no one else has to worry about that

except me, which is just a bit annoying.

[Sharon] 'Hi, is Ruth there, please?'

Oh, hi, Ruth, it's me. I'm fine, thanks.

You just paged me.

I'm at Baker Street now, I'm just gonna go to Bond Street.

It's one stop away, just to get the tape

and then I was gonna come drop it off to you.

This tape we made on Sunday was basically

made for Ruth, who's an A&R woman

for a record company called "Roadrunner"

because she's, she and her company

are quite interested in giving us a contract.

Basically, the stuff that you've been writing

the first things I heard

I mean, I can't say exactly what style music

I need you to go in and write some things.

Stylistically, she wasn't really into

signing, like, a jazz-funk outfit.

It seemed a waste because the music

you were producing before was such higher quality.

We used to be more rock-y

and they'd rather see us go back to that.

We've got, I mean, we've got, like loads and loads of material

but it's funk stuff.

Which isn't the way we're gonna go now

so this presents a problem.

If we want them to sign us as a band

we're gonna have to sort of change our entire style

is basically what it boils down to

which is a pretty huge change for a band.

But I think it's just that we've been working so long

on this other stuff

and we're actually getting

getting into a point where it's sounding good.

I think it was more hurtful to Mark and Jim.

Of course, you're bound to take it more personally

if you've written the material and then you go to a company

and they've sort of said, "No, not really happy with this.

Gotta change everything."

♪ You gotta be ♪

See, I feel this already, it's really good.

I could really write to this so easily, that's really good.

My next month is just gonna be "Chock-a-block"

with loads of rehearsals and writing and recording.

We've gone from like, first to fourth gear all of a sudden.

♪ That's why I have to say goodbye ♪

♪ 'Cause I just cannot take it anymore ♪

♪ There comes a time when you've had enough ♪♪

[Jacinda] I think Sharon has a beautiful voice.

She's definitely got talent, but often

in the field she's going in

talent isn't what it takes to make it to, you know

to get something really good.

[telephone ringing]

[man over telephone] 'Time's running out now.'

If we don't get a major, major DJ for this date

we just won't fill the place up because, we just..

Without someone as big as George we just can't compete..

[Lars] By now I've pretty much ran out of time.

So for that reason, I couldn't get George Varelle.

Well, I wish I could say I could help you, Lars

but I just can't, it's not my scene at all.

[Neil] Lars found out that the London club scene is a bit more

complicated and uncompromising than he expected.

If you wanna compete with this event atBagley's

and then you've gotta do something very, very special.

And if you don't have this very, very special DJ

or very, very special something else

'your club's not going to work.'

So now that I've been told I'm not getting this DJ

um, I can pretty much forget about the party.

♪ Fell on ♪

♪ Black days ♪

[answering machine beeps]

[automated message] 'Friday, end of messages.'

[percussive music]

[Sharon] My band and I were rehearsing at Terminal Studios.

Hang on, we need to write two lines at the moment.

- Two lines? - 'At least two lines.'

Basically right now, we're working up

a bunch of new material

so we were just doing like a test demo.

[humming]

Alright. Don, bass beat, Don.

- 'Sharon.' - 'Sharon, Sharon.'

[indistinct chatter]

- 'Yeah.' - 'We've got minutes.'

[Nick] 'Just go back to the first two lines.'

He hasn't written enough of the chorus.

It's not my fault.

So you guys should've [bleep] done it together.

It was handed to me half an hour ago.

- I've never seen this song. - 'It doesn't matter.'

- 'I'm not saying that..' - For the purposes of tonight..

We've only, sort of, been writing for three weeks.

It's difficult because we don't get to rehearse

as much as we need to.

One, two, three, four.

[instrumental music]

So, how's the event shaping up?

[Lars] 'It's not shaping up. No.'

I mean, we're here for five months

four months are over now

and I just, like, two weeks ago, decided

my promotion thing is not working out

so I'll focus on DJ'ing now.

And now that is working out.

[upbeat music]

Hi, this is Lars, I have a meeting with Ellen.

[Lars] I have a meeting today with Freshly Squeezed Records.

That's a record label.

They have the Ministry of Sound, hired.

I know the Ministry

and the Ministry, I mean, that-that's something.

The Ministry of Sound is a massive club

here in London.

So, exclusive, first English appearance

at Ministry of Sound by a German DJ.

And you'll be playing : till :

': to : and then..'

We believe that's pretty much prime time, too.

So you're on the spot, buddy.

[all laughing]

It's very, very prestigious if you can say

"Hey, I've played at the Ministry."

So I'm quite happy about that.

[instrumental music]

Hello, it's Neil and Danny here, can we come in?

[intercom buzzes]

Yikes.

These friends of ours are in a band called "Flinch."

And they run a competition.

And the idea was that we covered

one of their songs called "Jamie D."

♪ You forgot ♪

And the people who did the best cover version

got to be on their next CD.

So, we thought we'd give it a try.

Since they're friends of ours they'd probably give us a break.

This is a genuine compact disk and it has me on it.

And as it turns out

the competition deadline came about a week after

I had my tongue bitten off.

So I ended up singing, anyway, virtually unintelligibly.

"Flinch, skin deep." Congratulations.

We submitted it and they loved it.

and now it's on the new CD.

♪ You forgot ♪

♪ To say goodbye ♪

It could be me farting, but it's on a CD.

♪ You forgot to say goodbye ♪

[Mike] 'Would it be like, an underground thing?'

- 'I have friends who've..' - 'Extremely underground, yes.'

I don't know if it's the start of anything.

It's quite funny that the first time

I ever get released on CD

is when I can't even speak.

[instrumental music]

The last time we had communication

when I was there, it was like

- "Get the material together., - Right.

We're still very interested."

But, you know, we need this change of direction.

"Once you have the material together

come back to us and we'll talk."

Yeah.

Well, what she actually said to me was not

"We may be interested"

"get the material together"

and it was just, "We're not interested."

It was fine the last time.

She never gave me any indication

that they'd lost interest, absolutely not.

'Absolutely not.'

Well, anyway, so having spoken to them

and heard this

I then went away and thought about it myself

and I'm not interested enough

in this band to carry on

unless there's record company interest.

'As far as I'm concerned, that's it for me.'

[Sharon] It just knocked me off my feet

I mean, I couldn't have been prepared for that at all.

It took a while to sink in and I didn't know how to feel.

Alright.

Bye. See you later.

It puts me back so many paces because, it's like..

Your band just broke up, like, five minutes ago?

- 'While I was in the shower?' - Hmm.

'Your future's gone?'

No, my future is not gone, actually, thankfully.

It just didn't hit me as hard as

something like that should hit me.

So this means that I obviously somewhere, deep down there

believe that I'm capable of continuing without them.

This is a good thing.

♪ Keep on moving don't stop no ♪

♪ Keep on moving ♪

Because even though I may seem..

...like a confident person in the fact that, you know

I'm vocal and chatty and I can talk to almost anyone

you know, I have my insecurities

and-and loads of self-doubt like everybody else, so..

[instrumental music]

- 'You nervous?' - Not yet.

[Mike] 'Do you get nervous? I mean, a gig this big.'

[Jay] 'It's the Ministry of Sound!'

This would be like me driving in the Formula One race, man.

This is the Ministry.

♪ These sounds fall into my mind ♪

♪ These sounds fall into my mind ♪

Oh, dude, I feel like Mick Jagger.

[Lars] 'Yeah!'

Sharon, take your time, we decided not to go!

[imitates trumpet]

That's it, guys. See you guys down there.

♪ Ow ♪

♪ I feel it ♪

[Lars] Tonight is going to be pretty much

the biggest DJ gig ever for me so far.

♪ Don't you feel it? I feel it I feel it ♪

Go, Lars! Get it spinning, baby.

♪ Feel it ♪♪ I feel it ♪

[Sharon] By the end of his set, he had the whole crowd

just up jumping, roaring.

We were just, like, in a good mood, so..

He did his job and he did it well.

♪ Too many fish to be wasting my time ♪

To Lars!

♪ Trying to get me keep trying to get me ♪

[Lars] That is very exciting.

Moving a crowd, getting people to dance

and make people happy with it and make people cheer.

That's very exciting, it's very satisfying.

♪ They'll try to.. ♪

♪ They'll try to.. ♪♪

[saxophone music]

[female narrator] On the next "Real World.."

I got so angry and he kept saying..

No problem, you don't have to take your shirt off or anything.

They call me like, "Ballbreaker," my agency.

It's a very intimidating track and you have to, uh, respect it

because it will definitely bite you in the a*s.

They're so close, neck-and-neck.

[indistinct yell]

What is this?

- Hair wax. - Hair wax?

What the hell is hair wax?

It's wax for your hair.

'It's good for you.'

I thought it was like, bikini wax, like

to wax your bikini line or something.

Why are you putting that in your hair?

Why not? It's not bad for you.

I mean, gel, for example, dries your hair out.

But this gives your hair even more grease.

[laughs] Even more..

[Mike] 'Why don't you get some, like'

'Valvoline motor oil, stick it in there?

[Jay] 'Lars, you could've been one of "The Outsiders".'

[Mike] 'Lars.'

'Don't light a candle next to your head.'