Back to Basics star's clean-living 20:20 Vision
Author: Jonty Skrufff
Thursday, April 13, 2006
Back to Basic’s original DJ Ralph Lawson chatted to Skrufff this week as he prepared to set off for an Australian tour with his acclaimed electro-funk four piece 2020Soundsystem and admitted that he’d delayed taking the band seriously earlier to pursue his first love of hardcore partying.
“I lived in a farmhouse in the middle of fields with no neighbours so you could make as much noise as you wanted. So after every Back To Basics, that was the after-party,” he recalled.
“We had a sound system in there and a studio and loads of people would always come back, you’d find yourself kicking people out of your f*cking bed on Monday morning to crawl into it yourself. That was every single weekend or most of the 90s actually. I hardly got fuck-all done,” he confessed.
The Leeds based former Londoner stressed he’s not given up hard living entirely though said that the birth of his first son in 2000 completely altered both his perspective and productivity.
“People don’t realise how much it takes out of you, when you’re partying, time is a different thing, hours pass like minutes and before you know it, it’s f*cking Tuesday, then it takes you two days to recover, then it’s the f*cking weekend again. It just goes on forever,” said Ralph. He also admitted feeling ambivalent about either of his (now two) sons following in his footsteps into the music business declaring “it’s not the first thing you’d advise your kids to do, is it-”
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