Endurance tests come in all shapes and sizes. One person’s scaling Ben Nevis is another’s having to listen to the new album by The Feeling. For me, it’s getting all the way through car-crash interviews. It’s a similar journey each time – the realisation at the beginning that something is off, the quickening of the heartbeat as one or two of the subjects pick up on this latent awkwardness and batten down the hatches whilst someone else embraces it like an open goal, then there’s the dread as you look at the time on the YouTube video and realise there’s still five minutes left.
Even writing this is giving me palpitations – or perhaps it’s because I’ve just watched this video again. It’s from 1995 and takes place on The Word, the riotous but long-defunct Friday night music and culture show. This clip sees motormouth Mancunian Terry Christian interviewing both Faith No More at the height of their success and MTV presenter of the moment Lisa Kennedy, and you can see it in full below. Good luck!
