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Waking up with Andrew G

It�s Sunday morning. B�s Amanda Goff gatecrashed Channel V presenter Andrew G�s beachside pad to share a bit of (vegan) brunch with his and his mates to talk girls, Prince, and um, Scrabble�

The boys: Andrew G, 29, Channel V presenter, Jakub (Jake) Jacko, 27, TV director, Luke Heggie, 28, odd job man, Alex C, 21, drummer, Aya Larkin, 33, singer/songwriter, Josh Cilento, 29, musician, Grant Fitzpatrick, 30, in production/musician.

B: So guys, it�s Sunday morning. What do you normally do on the weekend?
Alex: See a gig, play a gig, go out... BB�s is nice (in Bondi Beach).
Jake: The Beach Road Hotel In Bondi is the business.
Andrew: Thursday nights are great - free night, free bands. The person who books those bands knows his shit.
Luke: Play a gig, go out.
Andrew: Oh yeah, and talking to cute girls and convincing them to come home with you...
B: That can be too hard!
Josh: Not for the G-ster!
Andrew: Hey, I�ve been living in this place for 10 days and I am yet to christen it!
Jake: I like to run up his shoulder...
B: I see. So you hang out with Andrew to pick up chicks...
Luke: I�ll always be the Tubs to your Crocket mate, the Starsky to your Hutch!
B: So, some of you have lived with Andrew. What�s he like as a flatmate?
Luke: He was never there, but when he was there, he was very good.
Grant: He�s a bit heavy on the mate front! But it�s nice getting a phone call at 2am. "You alright?" and I�d be like, "Yeah are you alright?" "Ok just checking, see you tomorrow..."
B:So what�s a typical Sunday morning for you guys?
Andrew: Answering the question, "Did you learn something new last night?" That�s the motto of the last few months really - you learn something new everyday...
B: And what have you learnt recently?
Andrew: That IKEA furniture is hard to put together the more beers you drink, which happened last night, but those two chairs managed to look alright!
B: Where do you normally go out?
Jake: I�m still a Sydney virgin - I still get that tingling feeling in the back of my head about being here. I�m from Brisbane.
Andrew: Yeah Josh, Jake and Luke are all from Brisbane.
Alex: I�m from Adelaide.
B: What kind of music do you like?
Andrew: Um, I would give you my iPod, which has 3,500 songs on it, but I have given it to my ex-girlfriend (television presenter Cymone Rose). Just go and have a look at the thousand CD�s or so I have over there...
B: Wow!
Andrew: Hey, I got my Prince tickets the other day! Dude, I�ve got enough for you if you wanna come.
Alex: I know you do, but I�m going to be gigging with Barnsey in Adelaide.
Andrew: I had the opportunity to get 10 - they�re like $170 bucks each.
Alex: Did you know the best tickets are a grand? You get to have dinner with him, go to the soundcheck, the after party...
Grant: I don�t know man. It would ruin it for me knowing what he is really like.
B: Don�t you get free tickets Andrew?
Andrew: The free tickets come, yeah, but it�s fallacy that people in the industry get them. I mean, Alex, Grant, Jake, they all work in the industry and its fallacy that they�ll be backstage. If you get a ticket, it�s one and you�re up the back. You can�t take a friend with you - if you like the artist you�ll buy the tickets.
B: Ok, enough about Prince! I want to know what your household was like when some of you were living together.
Luke: It was wall-to-wall pubes!
Josh: And the cat hair...
Andrew: I have two cats, and they�re flatting with my ex-girlfriend while I get settled. But if you�re my real estate agent, or owner of my flat, they don�t exist!
B:Does it ever get too much living with the boys?
Andrew: Not at all. It was beer, pinball and Scrabble. We�ve got a trophy - we play for it every night. We had a game the other night...
Luke: I lost my board in the back of a cab the other night, but it�s only a matter of time as me and the geniuses of lost property are working together to get it back. They�ve got their best man on the job.
Andrew: For my birthday (March 28), the boys bought me the Deluxe Scrabble Edition, which is just a Lazy Susan and there�s Plain Jane - we take her to the RSL for away games.
Luke: We go to a club in Bondi to play Scrabble.
Andrew: Wednesday nights are the best. Edith is great. She�s this little 70-something Hungarian lady. She�s amazing, she juggles the tiles in her hands throws it on the board and a 96 word turns up� English is her third language.
Luke: It�s about 9:30pm and she�s like, "This is my last game I�ve been here since 9am this morning..."
B: I thought it was going to be sex, drugs and rock�n�roll...
Aya: It�s Scrabble and pinball.
Andrew: What�s more rock�n�roll then being against the mainstream? F**k �em all. Everyone else gets drunk and takes drugs. When we were in - and I hate to say this - but when we were over in Tahiti covering the Billabong Surf Pro, do you know how many of the guys on the world surfing tour play Scrabble?
Jake: In between shagging supermodels and going to the bar...
Josh: I�m not playing with you guys again. There I was thinking I was doing really well coming out with words like �titty� and �bum� and you come in and annihilate me with Greek words that I�ve never heard of!
B: Shouldn�t you be out meeting girls?
Andrew: You�d be surprised how impressed girls are when you pull out a these big words that score 200 points
B: When you hang out with Andrew in bar, surely pull more chicks?
Aya: What are you suggesting by that?
B: Come on. Andrew�s in the public eye - girls would be attracted to that
Alex: I don�t know about that man.
Jake: You don�t seem to get that much in Bondi do you?
Luke: Andrew�s really good - he�s always like "Here are my friends Luke and Alex," and they�re like "Anyway!"
Alex: A lot of people I find are too scared to approach people in the public eye. Not many people actually do it. You�d think girls would flock, but they don�t because they probably think he gets it all the time. Often we just talk and he doesn�t get bothered.
Grant: Usually we get asked creepy questions about him. They�ll say, "Oh, I know Andrew from Channel V", and really they mean, "I know Andrew because I watch TV."
Andrew: Stalkers are nothing new. I have a policy of ignoring them.
B: Let�s talk hangovers and boys� nights out... What�s the funniest thing you�ve got up to?
Jake: That�s a hard one. Sometimes a night can go for a whole weekend. I do lots and lots and lots.
Andrew: You know, it�s been a long weekend and I�ve talked to people who went to Sleaze Ball (Sydney dance party) and it�s turned into Monday afternoon.
B: Where is the best place to go for live music in Sydney?
Andrew: I�d say Beach Road Hotel In Bondi - I�ve seen some great bands there - like Alex.
Jake: Alex is the most amazing drummer...
Alex: I don�t have band, I work for other um, artists.
Boys in unison: he�s Barnsey�s drummer!
Andrew: He does backing vocals as well!
Alex: I want to tell you something. I moved up to Sydney two and a half years ago from Adelaide. I moved in with Andrew, my girlfriend at the time, Caroline, knew his girlfriend at the time...
Andrew: You can say the word �ex� Alex. It�s Ok you know!
Alex: These guys were so great. They put me up for nothing, here in Bondi and were so supportive.
Andrew: Alex said he wanted to be a professional musician. So I called him the week before his 21st birthday and asked him what he was about to do. He said, "I�m about to tour South East Asia and New Zealand..." and I said, "Would that be you being a professional musician now Alex?"
Alex: Being on a fishing boat in Auckland on my 21st birthday.
B: How did you realise all your dreams?
Andrew: You just have to say it out loud.
Alex: you just have to wake up everyday and go to sleep everything night, wishing for it and just going for it.�
Josh: And don�t suck!
B: who helped you become what you are today Andrew?
Andrew: It was Cymone, the girl I was with for seven years - she has the other of one of these tattoos (flashes his bare foot, where there is a tattoo ring on his toe).
Aya: The wedding foot.
Andrew: Yeah, the wedding foot! I remember meeting her and asking her to see my band, I�d known her for ages � we moved from Brisbane to Adelaide together, the Adelaide to Sydney. We�ve been apart a year now.
B: Are you still friends?
Andrew: Yeah absolutely. I�m not going to waste seven years of my life with someone I don�t speak to. We had to part because it got to the point where I didn�t want to look at her again� (laughs)
Alex: She was incredible man. Those two were just incredible.
Andrew: She knows me better than anyone. She�ll text me when I�m doing live TV and say "You�ve said �nice one� seven times now" You�ve gotta be thankful for feedback like that!
B: So why did you break up?
Unison: Oooooooooh!
Andrew: Things weren�t right. We tried for a year to make things right, so then we "Ok, let�s just make things good."
B: So tell me about being good around the house.
Alex: I love to cook. Last night I cooked Thai green curry for my girlfriend and her parents at her place. I thought I made it mild, but her dad is really sensitive to curry. I can�t eat shit - it makes me have the runs...
B: You boys seem health conscious.
Alex: Yeah we are - especially with all the media coverage these days. Like all the magazines with �hot guys� and stuff in them. Guys think that�s what we have to look like.
Jake: I don�t give a shit really! For example, I�ve taken the toasted cheese sandwich to the next level - they call it �Toad in the Hole� - get some cheese, a couple of slices of bacon, tomato and basil. I�ve got to say, the important thing is cooking fat. Fat equals taste.
Luke: You should eat what you want. If you diet and don�t exercise, your body goes into shock. My diet consists of oooh, lots of lard. Ha ha! Only joking. I ride my bike for two hours a day and I swim in the ocean a fair bit too.
Andrew: I run on the beach as often as I can. I do it because it� the best anti-depressant ever. When I first broke up with my ex, I knew if I could get out of the house, I�d be able to get on with my day. I don�t eat meat, fish or dairy - and I haven�t got a cold sore for two and a half years.
Aya: Its awesome living around here in Bondi. One day, we all got up really really early and swam from the south end of the beach to the other.
Andrew: Hey, by the way, I saw Kill Bill yesterday - that new Tarantino film.
Josh:Uma Thurman...
Andrew: There�s this exact girl (points to Hawaiian figurine on his window shelf) on Uma�s dashboard. She�s got exactly this girl on her giant Ford...
B: Did you know Ethan Hawke cheated on Uma?
Aya: Not cool.
Andrew: Seriously who would f**king cheat on Uma Thurman! What about that guy - James Gooding? Apparently he cheated on Kylie. I mean, are you on f**king smack? Don�t you understand who your girlfriend is? You don�t understand! You don�t cheat on her!
B: Don�t all men cheat?
Unison: Nooooooo!
Josh: That�s bullshit.
Alex:It�s human nature to appreciate beauty, but it doesn�t mean we�re going to tap into that shit.
Andrew: That�s� such a generalization.
Jake: If I had the urge or desire or whatever, then I�d be good enough to express that, before acting on that. I�m not saying every man is like that, but surely you can�t generalize and say every man is a cheat.
B: So how important is honesty in a relationship?
Andrew: There is nothing more important that honesty in any relationship. I have a relationship with all these people here and there is nothing more important the honesty and full disclosure. Like for someone to go home with a girl and not tell them there was another girl in the bed the night before, that�s no f**kind manners is it?
Luke: Can I get another beer?

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