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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.
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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 rows? 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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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, and she was great
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And boy George, he was quite involved in the wedding, wasn't he? Well, he was the best man
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He was one of my best men. And then I thought, well, 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
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You're too busy. 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
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And obviously the EP is out, Hard Camp. Yeah. This collaboration as well with KDA
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which is a throwback for you, isn't it? That's kind of... Tell me how that came back, when you decide to do that
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I just... It got to the point where I hadn't been in the studio for ages
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and for a very long time, and I just... Because I play music, and I've always played music, obviously
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you know, for me being locked in a studio, I always thought was going to be the most tedious, boring thing
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because the last time I did it, I hated it. And it just seemed the right thing to do at the right time
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So me and him got together and started working together. We come up with this EP
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Now, I want to talk about the book very quickly because I love reading this. I don't take requests
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I don't. The name's straight. Well, I know. Anyone that's a DJ doesn't like taking requests
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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 is, 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, I just think..
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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, do you know? 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. I like that. 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
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But the thing about at that point in time, it was pre-social media
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So to be seen, you had to go and do something and you had to actually be
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in the right place at the right time. And the King's Road was one of those places
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And then people would talk about you. And they would take photos of you and they, you know
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you would suddenly get this. It created a lot of platforms for a lot of people
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And then, of course, all the clubs that you played back then, and we'll come to Ibiza now
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in just a bit, but obviously the limelight and you'd look at these. I just got married in the limelight
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That's where I got married. Oh, was it in the light, was it? Mm-hmm. We chose that building because of the magic of that building at the time
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And obviously the Wag Club. And these are names of clubs that I knew as I was growing up
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and you'd hear about because they were the absolute hubs, weren't they? Well, they were. Is that where you first met George Michael, was it
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Yeah, I come around that time. You know, George used to come to the Wag every weekend
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I met George at the Beat Room, actually, originally. Right. But, yeah, see, the thing about the Wag Club was
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London clubbing was five streets. That was the West End. So everyone knew each other
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because you weren't in a club looking at everyone else in another club
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on your phone. Right. Yes, exactly. When you were there, you were there
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You were in the moment. That whole scene obviously Boy George who a really good friend of yours Was it just like a small group of you that kind of ran the clubs and the towns 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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It's 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 bar on Old Cobton Street
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And that's what changed, you know. So it was much more about no one really cared what sexuality you were
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as long as you were fun. We just did part live in Ibiza, so we're 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 on Sunday last week
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and said it was absolutely brilliant. You were brilliant. And you were on at 3 o'clock, right
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4am. 4am. 4 till 6. Is that the time slot you like? It changes
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The headline sort of last slot? or? You know, for me, I prefer a middle of the night slot. I liked it like a two till four
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Why is that? I'm happy with that because I can go home and sleep. I'm sober. But also
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when you get somewhere and you walk in, because I don't like to be there for hours before
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in a club. I like to get there and go on and do my job because that's what I'm there for
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I'm not there partying. I'm there working. And that's when you cross that line. You know
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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, I read the energy off the dance floor
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and I relay that energy back. That's quite exhausting at times. They're there for you, aren't they
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It's not like, oh, you've got to carry on that hype. You haven't, have you? Because people have stayed
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Or they've 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 who 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? 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 at 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 can 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
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No. But you probably go on a lot more planes than me, to be honest. Yeah, probably too. Yeah
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But that's interesting that you, you know, because, I mean, reading the book
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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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You've proved yourself. Yeah. You know, listen, I love what I do more than anything in the world
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People go, oh, do you not get bored of your job? And I'm, no. Why would I get bored
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My life changes every week. And people always ask that one question. What's the best party
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What's the favourite club you play at? I don't have one. It changes every time I play
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Well, I won't ask you that question, then. No, because I always tell people it's not happened yet
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Oh. You're still looking for the best set. Well, I'm not looking. It's just I'm really grateful of where I'm at
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So whatever job I'm doing, I will embrace that job and embrace that crowd
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You know, 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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I'm 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 catastrophise it
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And then when I get there, I had the best set ever and I had 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. Writing a new book
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what is it going to be an add-on to this one or to a different book
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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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we want an add-on book two is going to be a book about how you find who you really are
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well I'm so happy for you and you know it's so nice to talk to you about all that
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oh thank you I could carry on just talking forever to be honest with you Fatay thank you so much
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it's been so lovely to chat to you thank you this is hot
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