A Scottish tourist had the trip of her life after getting closer than most ever will to a wild bear… But she paid the price.
08.04.2024 - 15:53 / nme.com
Skins star was speaking to NME during an interview about his new film Monkey Man, which he wrote, directed and starred in.“I’ve been listening to a lot of Aldous Harding,” he said, referring to the critically acclaimed singer-songwriter from New Zealand who has released four albums of indie folk music since 2014. “She’s like this kind of odd poet, super profound.”“The lyrics catch you off guard.
You know, ‘What if birds aren’t singing they’re screaming?’,” he said, quoting the title and first line of a track from Harding’s 2017 album ‘Party’. “I’m just, like, ‘Wow, that’s crazy.’ You can ponder on that for a very long time…”Patel then revealed the second artist he has been loving recently: “This is folky but I’m an all-time diehard Ben Howard fan.” He added: “I listen to Ben Howard a lot.
A lot.”When asked if he’d ever met the ‘Only Love’ and ‘Old Pine’ singer, Patel responded: “No, I’d probably malfunction if I saw Ben Howard in person… [For] every film, I’ve got a Ben Howard song that encapsulates that whole experience… He’s just so nourishing.”Patel has also recently developed an interest in vinyl, moving from being a “Spotify dude” to a physical record collection. “My friends and my partner have got me a little [record player] so I’ve been starting to collect vinyls.”Later in the interview, Patel reflected on the “crazy” parties he went to as part of the cast of E4 teen drama Skins from 2007-2008.“They did these commercials where they’d rent out these mansions or whatever and then just a bunch of kids, our age and older, would come and half of them were drugged off their faces, and [the crew] are like, ‘just… have fun’,” he said/ “It was insane.
A Scottish tourist had the trip of her life after getting closer than most ever will to a wild bear… But she paid the price.
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