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Multi-Award Winning DJ, Fat Tony, chats to Toby Anstis about this new book 'I Don't Take Requests', what it was like partying with George Michael and the truth behind his f*** off scandal with Madonna. #fattony #madonna #madonnamusic #boygeorge #georgemichael #clubbing #dancemusic Subscribe for regular entertainment! http://bit.ly/1qyfc2T Watch videos in full + exclusives here: https://thisisheart.co/heartglobalplayer Honest Celebrity Interviews: https://thisisheart.co/honestinterviews Music Artists: https://thisisheart.co/3YVm8wN Film and TV Stars: https://thisisheart.co/filmandtv _ We're the UK's biggest commercial radio brand creating memorable moments with the most recognised names in entertainment!
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the Madonna party you played at
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And she came up and said something and you basically told her to F off
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Oh, yeah, I mean, listen. To Madonna's face. Quite a few times
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Fab Tony, welcome to Hard Done. I've been looking forward to chatting to you. Thank you, Toby
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First of all, congratulations on the wedding. Yeah. You and Stavros, you've been married, what, three weeks now
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Yeah, it's three weeks. Is it all good? Are you happy? No rouse? Well, I keep threatening divorce every day
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but it's not going to happen. No, you know what? It's a remarkable thing to say
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literally refer to him as my husband. I mean, because everyone was talking about the guest list
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Well, we invited our friends. And I just happened to have friends that do quite well
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big jobs, you know, or they're quite well known. It wasn't a matter of like, okay, he's relevant, he's not
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None of that. We just invited the people that were full of love and that we wanted to be at our wedding
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Who was the worst behaved at the wedding? I'd imagine Gemma Collins wouldn't behave for very long, would she
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No, she was amazing. Was she all right there? Yeah, she's a laugh, isn't she? She's come in here before
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The thing about Gemma is she's Gemma. Yeah. And there's something really, really magical about Gemma
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because she's not what you think she's going to be. And she's a very loyal and loving person
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And she was great. And boy, George, he was quite involved in the wedding, wasn't he
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Well, he was the best man. He was one of my best men. And then I thought, he's going to be there
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let's get him to be the vicar as such. So we had him do that, and that was pretty amazing
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Amazing. On the Tuesday after, he rang me, he was like, oh, my God, I've just got to tell you
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it was better than I ever thought it was going to be. And I was like, well, what did you think it was going to be
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And he was like, no, I knew it was going to be amazing, but I didn't realise how amazing it was going to be
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Because no one really did. I didn't tell anyone really what was going on
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What about the honeymoon? We're going to go away in January. Okay. Well, you got too busy, you're too busy
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and we'll come to that because you know you're playing a beat and all that so i want to talk a lot about that and obviously the ep is out hard camp yeah this collaboration as well with kda which
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is a throwback for you isn't it that's kind of tell tell me how that came about when you decide
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to do that i just it got to the point where i i hadn't been in the studio for ages and
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for a very long time and i just because i play music uh and i've always played music obviously
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you know for me being locked in the studio i always thought was going to be the most
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tedious boring thing because the last time i did it i hated it and it just seemed the right thing
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to do in the right time so me and him got it together and started working together we come
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up with this ep now i want to talk about the book very quickly because i love to read this i don't
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take requests i don't the name straight well i know um and anyone that's a dj doesn't like take
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a request but i mean there probably a lot behind that but when i read the book i thought is that a nod to the Madonna party you played at And she came up and said something
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and you basically told her to F off. Oh, yeah, I mean, listen. To Madonna's face
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Quite a few times, but... But it was in there. The thing, the reason it's called I Don't Take Requests
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is, yes, because of the DJing, obviously, but also I've never taken requests
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If you, like, told me to do something or you asked me to do something
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I'd just signal... You're not going to do it. I'd never done it. No. Do you know what I mean? It's like, it goes back to that
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you can't leave the table until you've eaten your broccoli. Try and make me eat the broccoli
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You've got to eat your greenstone. That's it, you know what I mean? You know, you've got to eat, but that particular part of your life
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I mean, you played at loads of celebrity parties, but the Madonna one I thought was quite something
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I mean, do you still talk after that? Well, I went on to have a relationship
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with her brother for a while after that. You know, I've seen her quite a few times
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obviously, over the years. I saw her quite recently and said hello and left it at that
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Yeah. Sometimes that's all you need to do. Yeah, I get you. And The King's Road, that was a big part of this book, isn't it
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Because that was a big part of your life. And what I love is the way you talk about
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because I spent a lot of time in The King's Road when I was back in the day, and you talk about it as like the social media of the time
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Well, it was. It was Facebook. It was literally, you know, it's obviously Instagram now
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because anyone who's on Facebook needs to stay on Facebook. these days um but the thing about at that point in time it was pre-social media and so to be seen
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you had to go and do something and you had to actually be in the right place at the right time
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and the king's road was one of those places and then people would talk about you and they would
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take photos of you and they you know you would suddenly get this but it it created a lot of
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platforms for a lot of people and then of course all the clubs that you played back then and we'll
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come to ibiza now in just a bit but obviously the limelight and you look at i just got married in
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the limelight that's where i got married i was in the light was it we we chose that building because
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of the of it of the magic of that building at the time and obviously the wag club and these are these
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are names of clubs that i knew as i was growing up and you'd hear about because they were the absolute hubs weren't they i mean then there was george there was is that where you first met george
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michael was it uh yeah around that time you know george used to come to the wag every weekend i met
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George at the Beat Route, actually, originally. Right. But, yeah, they all..
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See, the thing about the Wag Club was London clubbing was five streets
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That was the West End. So everyone knew each other because you weren't in a club
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looking at everyone else in another club on your phone. Right, yes, exactly
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When you were there, you were there. You were in the moment. That whole scene obviously boy George who a really good friend of yours was it just like a What was it like a small group of you that kind of ran the clubs and the towns Well you know what it was because it was like you know there was no straight and gay divide
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You had gay clubs, which was heaven and places like that, which the community needed
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And then you had much more underground little gay bars and stuff like that
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because you've got to remember at that point in time, it wasn't like it is today
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is kind of going back that way. But to be LGBT at that point in time
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was a much more underground thing. You know, it wasn't, like, as open as it is today
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So, you know, the clubs and stuff like that were much more mixed. Yeah. So there wasn't this, like
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oh, you've got to go to a gay club. Oh, we only go to gay bars. There was no gay bars in Soho
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There were no gay bars. The first gay bar that opened was The Village. Seems mad, doesn't it
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Yeah, and then, well, Cobton's was the first pub on Old Cobton Street
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and that's what changed, you know. So it was much more about
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no one really cared what sexuality you were, as long as you were fun
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We just did part live in Ibiza, so we were at Cafe Mambo
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Mambo's amazing, isn't it? Mambo, well, it's iconic. Some friends of mine went to see you at Glitterbox
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on Sunday last week. It was absolutely brilliant. You were brilliant. And you were on at three o'clock, right
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4am. 4am. 4am. Is that the time slot you like? It changes
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The headline sort of last slot? You know, for me, I prefer a middle of the night slot
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I like to, like, a two till four. Why is that? I'm happy with that because I can go home and sleep
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I'm sober. But also when you get somewhere and you walk in
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because I don't like to be there for hours before in a club. I like to get there and go on and do my job
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because that's what I'm there for. I'm not there partying. I'm there working. No. And that's when you cross that line
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You know, for me, I go. I don't need the anxiety of having to talk to 400 people
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before I go on and being pulled around. For me, I like to go in, go on, do my job
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to the best of my ability and then leave. So does it feel like work
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You have to go from one mode into the other. As soon as you get in the DJ box
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are you going to autopilot then? Well, you know, my job is to read that energy. As you know, as a DJ
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I read the energy of the dance floor and I relay that energy back
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That's quite exhausting at times. They're there for you, aren't they? It's not like, oh, you've got to carry on that hype
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You haven't, have you? Because people have stayed. or they'd have gone after the choir. I think the majority of people, they are there for you
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but I'm the only one in the room thinks that they're not. So that's my job to make them want to be there for me
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Yeah, but that's Stockholm Syndrome, isn't it? Oh, that is. But that's what keeps me on my toes
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Really? Do you still feel an element of that, that you don't deserve to be there
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Always. Well, talk to me about that. It just you know I think that if I flying anywhere and I not the front end of the plane instead of down the back by the bogs like I used to be I will sit on that plane and I think oh God they all going to hate me when I get there blah blah blah
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Not, you know, I could be at home and I'm already, like this weekend I'm in Parma
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I'm already, oh, God, I've got to go to Heathrow, planning that whole thing
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Not like, oh, my God, I can't wait to get to Parma. Oh, really? Well, that's all just a drama, is it, for you
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It's a bit of a nightmare. You'd rather not have that. Yeah, I don't, you know. Because I love getting on the plane and going, you know. No
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But you probably go on a lot more planes than me, to be honest. Yeah, probably too. Yeah. But that's interesting that you, you know
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because, I mean, reading the book, you've been through, God, a lot of booze, a lot of drugs, a lot of challenges in your childhood
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And then you've got to what feels like a happy place now
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where you've met the guy of your dreams, which is wonderful. You're playing all these big clubs
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You're back in the room, basically. Why wouldn't you feel like you deserve to be there
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um you've proved yourself yeah i just you know listen i love what i do more than anything in the
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world well do you not get bored of your job no why would i get bored i my life changes every week
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and people always ask that one question what's the best party what's the favorite club you play
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at right i don't have one it changes every time i won't ask you that question no because i always
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tell people it's not happened yet because you're still looking for the best set well i'm not looking
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it's just I'm really grateful of where I'm at. So whatever job I'm doing, I will embrace that job
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and embrace that crowd. I'm doing Glastonbury, Greenpeace stage. Amazing. To however many thousands of people
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And you'll just take that as that gig on that day and deliver whatever you feel they want
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But I'm already cancelling Glastonbury because I don't want to walk through the crowd
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I'm already, like, how long's that walk? I'm doing all of these things
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Like an anxiety. Well, you know what it is? I set myself up for it in the sense that
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there's that still little niggling butt in your voice in the back of my head like
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they're going to hate what you do. So I will catastrophize it
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And then when I get there, I have the best set ever and I have the best time
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I was going to ask you what you're going to do next, but that's probably a silly question for you, isn't it
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Because maybe you don't know. I'm doing music. Well, obviously all the gigs
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I'm writing a new book. what is it going to be an add-on to this one
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or to a different book I don't want to go down the book two there's no wedding pictures in this and we want those
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book two is going to be a book about how you find who you
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really are I'm so happy for you and it's so nice to talk to you
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about all that I could carry on just talking forever to be honest with you
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Fatay thank you so much so lovely to chat to you thank you
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