Let’s see what’s coming up a little later Shipmates gather around you all know me well I can’t stand being double not much Boy George hasn’t done in his career now be making his pantomime deut as Captain Hook that’s got a different feel to it hasn’t it still got the hat
Isn’t it just yeah production of Peter Pan he’ll be here with some of his uh classmates time first though to get the news traveling weather where you are December the 1st is the date today you’ve been saying the date today I haven’t realized so we can officially
Say I think it is panto season and for the first time a very cultured style will be treading the boards see what they did there Boy George good morning Mr that’s a question for there you go the point Boy George is starring in a super sized Arena tour of Peter Pan as Captain
Hook he’s here with us obviously as is Jordan Conway playing Peter Pan would you have guessed that thisan or not never and Ebony Fair uh uh playing Tinker Bell by any chance good morning to you all morning morning you’ve never said yes to panto before have you no
Because I didn’t fully understand it and I’ve never been and all my friends for years were saying you should go you’d love it it’s so you and I don’t know why and then I went last year to see Julian Clary in uh Aladdin I mean obviously it’s a different show Julian’s hilarious
And quite naughty yeah but I was like oh people love this but doing Peter Pan obviously get kids and kids are amazing like three-year-olds throwing screaming at you you know and it’s just so exciting and I never knew how being booed would be so invigorating uh do you
Play do do you play for the booze are you obviously like really that’s your best boo you know and the kids are so beautiful and there’s a scene where they throw cannonballs at us and the kids get so excited about getting me they want to get me and they it’s just brilliant and
By the way these two I mean he really is the star of the show he does everything he holds it all together he’s on stage all the time I just walk on and have my moments hello it’s me well John you were just saying a moment ago you so you’re a
Kind of a gymnastic acrobat by training and in this show you you tell what are you doing uh so I’m the first Peter Pan to fly without wires so I went to well apart from the real Pizza Pan who didn’t have any wires obviously um so I went to
The Hungarian State circus school and they taught me an aerial strap act and yeah so I I fly about doing acrobatics so just with it just with something your wrist it straps around my wrist and then it takes me about 15 m in the air and
Then I just do I fly which is fun yeah you had a go have you had it Go George no way I mean I look at every day I’m like oh my God because it is you know the kids love it cuz of they want to see Peter Pan fly and they’re
Like you’re wrapping the yeah and we we’ve got a this is just your everyday yes I am so is up in the air and I’m rolling rolling around on my roller skates were you an accomplished roller skater roller Booter before yeah I mean I started roller skating during lockdown
It’s something I did you know my hobby skating in the garden and whatnot and then i’ just been skating ever since and when I got the role and I knew that I had to skate I was like what what wow yes so yeah I’m living the dream can I
You kind of pretend that George isn’t there right he was a big star probably before you guys were even born what’s what’s what’s he like to work with no don’t look at him what’s it like CU George is a big star of course but I think that kind of
Helps as well he obviously affiliated with him but he’s he’s not he’s our mate so he it’s very much like that he’s he’s very grounded very humble always likes to ask a question or advice can take a note as well which is like what does
That mean for us who are not in the theater um if you have a better idea of how something’s done he’s not afraid to go with it and roll with it and own it and that’s that’s really impressive particularly for someone of his star value and no he’s the joy to work with
Do you I mean are you like that with your music were you know like so open with that or is it because this is so different perhaps what go on I’m laughing because I think music the music thing is there probably the place where I’m the most unreasonable cuz I’ve been
Doing it a long time if I was a footballer people would listen to football advice but in the music business the older you get the more you’re dismissed and actually I’ve got better of what I do I love it more I’m very much I would make music every day
And you know doing something like Peter Pan obviously by the way Ebon is an incredible actress as well you know I mean she do just skate she’s she great I work with her and it’s beautiful you know because you know some go say you think I can’t remember what I got to say
And then she talks and you go I remember you know with the music I think it’s the most difficult space to share because you know it’s such a personal thing making music and you always think you know better than everyone else and everybody tries to advise you what to do
And you’re like I’ve been being me all this time I don’t need your advice you know if you want to get involved and experience something new I’m always pushing myself so I do collaborate with a lot of people Unknown People I’m going to work with Becky Hill in a couple of
Weeks we’re going to write soon so I’m always opening to collaborating and showing that space so it’s very different though when it’s panto and you’ve got well established brilliant actors in your words you know yeah it’s not like a band because you’re part of an ensemble and you can’t really be too
Particular you got to wait till there’s a space to say something what about the I always imagine panto to be quite I know it has structure I know there’s a script and everything and then presumably stuff happens right oh he’s so cheeky he comes out with some
Crackers and he be on your toes cuz there’s a few spaces where he can say things to me line I throw him under the bus every night yeah you know there’s a bit in it where we have like an insult battle so there’s a good five minutes where we can
Just say what we want and it’s brilliant though oh Green’s back the audience love it because they know it’s off the cuff they know that they’re seeing it for the first time as are we yeah George you mentioned a moment ago uh how paniz play at two different audiences simultaneously don’t
They that’s always been the thing the the the moms and dads or the people bringing the kids along there’s a narrative that goes along with it a bit of a a nod and a wink to other stuff do you do you play that no it’s not that
Kind of show it’s very sweet there is some inuenza but it’s so subtle but also for me personally I’ve never played to three and five year olds they don’t come to my gigs weirdly I don’t know why so that is a whole another energy and you know there are some kids that
Love Captain Hook because he’s so naughty you know if you’re a naughty kid but then there’s Al little girls that won’t look at me and they’re transfixed by you know these characters and it’s just such a beautiful story it’s such a great classic but then on top of that as
Well there’s between 3 to 8,000 people per show so you’ve got all these kid cuz it’s it’s the world’s biggest panto cuz we’re doing Aras mainly and all these kids are flocking down to the front to throw Cannon and I get eaten by a crocodile at the end which is if I give
The game away spoil the ending got his panto can no this is twice has been um said throwing cannonballs can you just if anyone’s concerned the beach balls in I mean I’ve pelted it with head and it’s fine so the kids can get hit there’s no and you
Can’t imagine how excited these little kids get to hit you with a George some point some kid in the audience is going to have something else to hand know they’re going to have an ice cream or they’re going to have something’s going to come your way isn’t
It as long as someone films it and we go viral I don’t care anything goes anything goes you’re opening tomorrow so how you feeling tomorrow well we’re opening the Arenas tomorrow we’ve already done black poera house liverpools tomorrow yeah um yeah and then we finished in Hammersmith and
DQ kemsley from Real Housewives Beverly Hills she’s going to be my M mermaid yeah you have so bought into this haven’t youly loving it I think that you know sometimes you go into things you don’t really know what you’re doing and then for me it took a couple of shows to
Realize how brilliant it is but also how much you can push yourself and there’s lots of spaces for humor you know and and kids ain’t stupid they’re the most honest audience I’ll give you the opportunity on camera well camera one maybe to do a classic panto line for us can you give
Us a line just to see us out of the interview it’s me I’m in a rotten stinking vile hideous mood tell me you book J McDonald for tonight ship karaoke bring the house down I tell you if you turn up I’m going to do you so be
Warmed either of you if you turn can you do go go on do read the um what we call a what’s your second name charlieate you don’t have to do this you know read the promo and then in Charlie in Charlie fashion Peter Pan happens this weekend at the Emin arena in
Liverpool and then travels across the UK SME tell me you booked Charlie state for tonight’s party psychic reading got Weir Weir Boy George thank you so much uh Jordan thank you so much Jordan come careful out there be careful with those boots as well tin thank you and enjoy it it
Sounds like great fun thank you uh we’re still talking about Christmas stuff now is it too we doing a lot of Christmas stuff today aren’t we just get it out the way last month yeah uh we take Christmas trees up or down yet not up up
Mine’s up mine yours is up mine’s been up a week yeah mine yeah compare and contrast my sister puts up my tree not yeah here’s here’s that’s a lifestyle isn’t it this is one Peter dressed as Peters should be dressed but we got another Peter is’s out for us with the
Trees uh there is that debate up or down whether it’s up both both Jordan and very trees are up already uhhuh people do it
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