Rob Da Bank started as a music journalist, reviewing the biggest bands, superclubs and DJs all over the UK. He’s had his own show on BBC Radio 1 and is the co-founder of Bestival & Camp Bestival. He’s a massive fan of travel – whether touring Europe in a yellow camper van called Stella, taking his four kids on sabbatical to Bali or DJing at some of the best parties all over the world. With his own very successful podcast too - The A to Z of Festivals – it’s Rob Da Bank.
On this episode we cover:
The 1970s dream in a Bedford campervan to the South of France
Visiting the Berlin Wall as it was being knocked down
His dad still having the same campervan (pre 1976!)
Avoiding the campsite warden for a free night
Camping with a bell tent
His 1970s yellow hippy van called Stella
Josie da Bank festivalling a week after a CSection with child number 4
Lisa working for Brighton’s Essential Festival and Harvey Goldsmith
The 1999 Eclipse festivals and a cloudy sky
Moving to London’s New Cross in the early 90s
New Cross being trendy (kinda)
Being an 18 year old middle class white kid dropped into gritty South London
Being mugged numerous times by the friendly local drug dealer who wanted to go to Wimpy
Loving Brixton, Old Street, Shoreditch, Camberwell
Josie opening a bar in Shoreditch
Being mad for Madchester, Ian Brown, Shaun Ryder and big jeans
The trance scene, drum ‘n’ bass and chill out scenes of the time
Spiral Tribe raves, Gumbo raves in Oxfordshire, Glastonbury and driving around in a Citroën 2CV
Glastonbury’s Emily Eavis on Rob’s festival podcast
Vaulting over a fence at Glastonbury to escape security on horses
Apologising to Emily and Michael Eavis about the above
Sunday Best with Fatboy Slim and Basement Jaxx
Teaming up with BBC Radio 1
Travelling across the UK as Clubs Editor at Music Magazine
Gatecrasher, Cream, God’s Kitchen and insane superclubs
Paul Oakenfold, Sasha, Seb Fontaine and the superstar DJs
The North being a bit of a mystery to the South and vice versa
Saturday night in Newcastle with everyone dressed to the nines
Being sent to interview Basment Jaxx in New York or Todd Terry in Miami or Armand Van Helman in Ibiza
The summer in Ibiza that sent him off the rails
Paradise turning into hell
Matt Haig’s Reasons to Stay Alive and how Matt got f*cked up by Ibiza
Learning how being far away from home can get out of hand
Mental health issues with DJs in the dance industry – Avicii
Not letting the hedonism carrying on too long
Doing six years work experience unpaid on the magazine
Starting Bestival and being able to call up some well known names
Lisa popping round to Norman Cook’s house to interview him
Travelling with Josie and their four boys
A three month sabbatical round Bali and Indonesia
Not dragging six month old babies to Cambodia
Camping on the Isle of Wight
Combining a DJ gig with holidays – the Maldives, India, Rajasthan, Goa and Josie planning a trip from the Himalayas to Kerala by train
India’s comparative lack of health and safety – rickshaws, cows, bikes
Soho House now in Mumbai!
Zoe Ball heavily pregnant backstage in the dance area at Glastonbury
Invented Camp Bestival for their family lifestyle
How parents love Camp Bestival
Lisa’s love of On Blackheath festival
The most amazing Daft Punk pool parties in Miami
Accidentally breaking someone’s leg by pushing them in the pool
Drinking unidentified green liquid in Santiago de Cuba
Fearing for his safety in Sao Paolo, Brazil
Getting married on a beach in Scotland
An incredible wildwest spaghetti western hotel in Puglia in Italy Borgo Egnazia
The Rayavadee Resort in Railay Beach, Krabi, Thailand
The ‘fertility cave’ full of with massive penises
(see Lisa’s video of this amazing place include the penis cave…)
Lisa being attacked by monkeys
The incredible feeling of getting married on the beach in Scotland, driving there in a campervan and listening to… well, what will Rob choose for the music question…?
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