If you could go anywhere in the world right this second, where would you go?
I’d go to my uncle's little cabin in Sweden. It’s just really cool in the winter, you can ski and stuff. Right now I’d like to go see him and for him to give me a whisky.
Right ... If you were king for a day,
King?
The King of England, what would be the first thing you would do?
Umm I would... I’d make sure I had a wife, and I would wanna get a festival going everyday. Like every band that I loved would just come chill with me..... or no, they would come and serenade me.
Who would you have?
Brian Jones Town Massacre.
Yeah know them well.
Or the Pixies, you know the pixies!
Of course! In a fight between a shark and a rhino, who do you think would win?
Depends if the rhino plunged his nose into the sharks mouth like a cork and then they would just become one. SharkRhino.
Like the horn in the sharks mouth?
No just in.... Just plug it like a cork in a wine bottle. Bosh. Then they would be one so wouldn’t have to fight.
Haha great. If you were limited to only taking advice from one person you know for the rest of your life, who would it be?
My cousin Nick cause it would be more exciting. It would always be the bad ones. ‘Do this! Do that’ and I would just have to do it. I would get in so much trouble.
What accomplishment are you the most proud of?
Making my first film, which was an animation, really short. It was about a fish on a mission. It was a stop motion about this fish that escapes a shopping bag in the kitchen and he makes it back to the sea.
That’s really sweet. Did you use a real fish?
Well it was dead, but yeah. We had to buy like ten mackreal from Waitrose. Quite expensive film really. Because you have to keep doing it. Move a tiny bit then shoot again. We got an underwater camera as well - just a shitty one and we played it to the great escape music as well. It’s amazing.
Thats hialrious ,is it on youtube?
I think it is actually. Do you wanna see it? It’s really badly made. I don’t know how old I was - 16 or something... (Joey proceeds to taking my laptop and finding the video on youtube).
Is it here?
58 views .. haha .. I don’t even know why it’s on here. How sick is that! (we sit, we watch, we laugh - it’s longer than expected) Many a fish died in the process. Yeah it’s not meant to be a dead fish obviously it’s supposed to look alive. Zombie fish. ‘I’m coming back!’. See we didn’t have a tripod so we were trying to balance the camera without shaking our hands so that's why it’s filmed so bad. The fish jumps on top of the car and then somehow drives to the beach haha! I dunno how he does that... that wasn’t in the script!
Was this for a project?
No no, me and my mates were just like ‘what shall we do today?’ and I said lets go make a film.
So this is the biggest achievement so far in your life then? Not Burberry or...
Haha no it’s not the biggest achievement obviously, but it started something in me that I wanted to do for ages. My achievement was finding what I wanted to do basically.
That was great. Do you know how to fly a kite? Because that’s what you're doing today.
Oh yeah we saw that. Looks cool. Maybe, if it’s already made.
Ok how would your dad describe you?
My dad, probably just like... awesome..
Wow.
Yeah! Haha no, I was joking. He thinks I’m really musical, he’s a song writer so he loves it. He probably just thinks that I’m like a drop of the old, what is it... the apple from the tree.
Apple doesn’t fall to far from the tree?
Yeah yeah, but that's the saying but what's the ... Oh you know the ... Chip off the old block! (he claps with enthusiasm)
Thanks for that Joey, very insightful. Maybe you could make a film about us escaping to the sea sometime.