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FIRST&LAST BAM MARGERA The daredevil, skateboarder and star of CKY and Jackass discusses cooking Roadkill Vomelet and watching Titanic on his own
First record you ever bought? I didn’t buy it, Phil [Bam’s father] did. It was Metallica Master of Puppets for $8 at Kmart. I had to cry til I got it.
Last extravagant purchase you made? Giving away millions of dollars / meeting nine assholes who ripped me off for well over seven figures.
First three words friends would First three wo use to describe you? use to describ Peter Pan with credit card. Nothing Peter Pan with can become ev can become everything – and repeat! Last lie you told? Last lie you to About the purchases I made – it was About the purc actually 12 peo actually 12 people for eight figures, plus tax, in Del plus tax, in Delaware.
First movie you ever went on a First movie yo date to? date to? Titanic – by myself – in Paris. My Titanic – by m wallet got stole wallet got stolen, so I snuck in and watched it twic watched it twice. I was 16, and it was in French. in French. Last great meal you cooked? Last great m Roadkill Vomelet that [CKY Roadkill V Crew mem Crew member Brandon] Novak had to e had to eat.
When some Australian UFC fighter knocked me out for spitting on him. First time you realised you were famous? When I was 15, Brian Chamberlain told me I was the best of my cul-de- sac at skateboarding.
Last time someone criticised your work? On the interweb – some big, fat little pussy named Brian from Duluth Minnesota. He said, ‘Bam sucks on the internet’.
First concert? Poison and David Lee Roth in Philadelphia – I thought it was neat. I was eight, and we were in the nosebleed section, so I couldn’t see shit, but it sounded good.
Last funny thing you saw online? Scott Weiland falling off stage, but he was still singing perfectly fine. First song at your (potential) wedding? Shiny Toy Guns, ‘Frozen Oceans’ in Iceland.
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COMMONWEALTH GAMES It’s a bumper six-week edition next issue, with ample space devoted to the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, plus the attendant Culture 2014 and Festival 2014 programmes. The annual Edinburgh Festival Guide comes free too, meaning you’ll be clued up on the best both cities have to offer throughout July and August.
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First great piece of Fir advice you were ad given? gi Stay the fuck out of my St w way. Last time you were La star struck? st
Last song at your funeral? ‘Earth Rocker’ by Clutch. First thing you think of when you wake up in the morning? Detox, water, cigarette, think, fuck Nikki [Boyd, his wife], think about how I might go skating, then I will go edit.
Last thing you think of before you go to sleep? ‘Why the fuck can’t I go to fucking sleep?’ Then I will get up to go edit more. Bam’s touring show, Fuckface Unstoppable, stops at the O2 ABC, Glasgow, Mon 7 Jul.
Misadventures IN WONDERLAND
ZOMBIE PUN This issue, our intrepid columnist Alice White takes part in live zombie game 2.8 Hours Later
2.8 Hours Later has been played in dodgy looking next to the Peugeot garage, or trying to get
locations all around the UK. The Edinburgh night through the strip-lit crate maze of U-Store, it
used the entirety of Sighthill Industrial Estate – a spirals quickly into repeating ‘they’re just actors,
perfect spot because it’s actually the i rst place they’re just actors’ to yourself in the same way
you’re likely to be found dead. In teams of eight as if you were on day i ve of being kept hostage,
you get debriefed in ‘Asylum’, where you’re muttering your own name to strengthen the fact
given a map and a clue to your i rst location. Our you’re a living person and not a commodity.
mission was to retrieve uninfected water from a What happens if you get caught?
guarded tank and make it back alive. They don’t actually bite you (nanny state, am I
And why? right?) but instead draw something invisible on
What is 2.8 Hours Later?
There are several theories that suggest your hand. Once you get back to ‘Asylum’, you’re
When you see the numbers 2 and 8 together
everything in this world is motivated by sex. If screened for the virus. If they discover you’ve
in that order, you’re programmed by millions
that’s true, I think this must be the exception. been ‘infected’, you go through the zombifying
of pounds worth of marketing to know that it’s Is it scary?
process (meaning you get slathered in bloody
something to do with zombies. Hence 2.8 Hours
When you encounter your i rst guy rolling around make-up) to let everyone else know you’re
Later, it’s like a roleplay game, but instead of
on the ground, and you hear your teammates diseased and, in turn, not the fastest runner.
playing a dorkier version of yourself, you play scream, ‘he has no legs!’, or ‘do you think he has
someone who has miraculously survived the no legs for real?’, you think, ‘wow, that actor who
outbreak and is trying to stay alive. maybe doesn’t have any legs made me jump’. By
What do you have to do? the time you’re sprinting through the underpass
Then everyone celebrates with a beer. ■ 2.8 Hours Later takes place somewhere in Glasgow on Fri 15, Sat 16, Fri 22 & Sat 23 Aug. See 2.8hourslater.com for details.
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