“Yeah, I wrote it with, yeah, me and Tom Basden wrote it. We were living together in, doesn't matter where, does it? But anyway. Kentish Town. And uh- And yeah, we wrote a short film and then he met a director because he did a Barclays advert. And then the director said, got anything else that's like, you know, a bit more substantial. And he said, yeah, we've got a short film. And then we shot it. And um, yeah, it was just like a really nice experience. And we were both quite new and hadn't done much on camera. And Griff, who directed it, um, I think it was like, it just sort of was very special for all of us. And then we edited it and when it was finished, I think we all just loved it so much that it just stuck with us, I think. And I think we're all kind of, Yeah, I definitely can speak for Tom in this.
He loves to just move on to the next thing. And I think I do as well. But there was just this weird thing where it kept on coming back into our minds-that maybe there is something more with it. Even though the short was quite a small story, the feature is also quite a small story. But we worked out, I think it was Tom worked it out, how we could turn it into a feature-which is to bring in another character from his life who he was with before. And then amazingly, that sort of 17-year period between writing them just worked in our favour and kind of became what the film was about, about people being stuck in-a certain part of their life. And so I feel like whatever we would have written 17 years ago would have been nothing like this film. And all of our kind of life poured into it.”
“I've never made a film before. And I don't know whether we'll ever make one like this again, because I feel like there's I don't know, there's so much of our lives that have gone into it. Because me and Tom are best friends. And yeah, so I kind of, throughout the whole process of it, of people starting to watch it and like word of mouth and it staying in cinemas for, I mean, just it being in a cinema was crazy to us, but then people started to watch it and people have been very nice about it. And I don't know how that's happened. And I feel it's partly because we worked really hard and tried to do it really well. But I think there's something else that happens, which is like luck or alchemy that you can't really expect for your next film. That you hope will happen again. But I kind of just really appreciate that on this one, all of the planets seem to, you know-seemed to match up and it sort of was something that we were just incredibly proud of.”
TIM ON HIS TOUR
“Well, we don't have to [talk about it]. It's sold out. We don't need to do anything. We can just have a fun chat about other stuff.”
“Small venues-three nights. It's not really a tour. It's called Loganberry.”
“Loganberry, I don't know really. I find it difficult to talk about my life thing. I think it works best if you just come along. Yeah, but it's like a mixture of kind of poetry and, you know-I yell, I say stuff. Talk to people. Throw my poems down, drink Kronenbourg, Soviet lounge music, and then it ends and we're done. Soviet lounge music. It's the classic. It's the basic.”
“Do you know what? We're adding dates. We're doing all sorts of things. Uh. Well, yeah [due to popular demand], why not?”
TIM ON HIS FIRST LIVE SHOW
“The first time I did it. The first time I did like a solo, um behind a mic, I mean, um, I can't even bear to think about it. This is very triggering. But I did it probably in about 2002-but I couldn't really work out how to do it.”
“I did it because I sort of gradually found myself accidentally in that world, but in a sketch show and just doing comedy. And then I think I just, without like, uh, overthinking it, I think I wanted to do, I think it feels like it's the most pure form of comedy. It might not be. I don't necessarily think it is, but there's definitely something about it which is quite gladiatorial. Which feels like it's just something that you should try, um, because it's different from being with your little sketch group, which-which I really loved. It's kind of how probably me and Tom learned how to write and perform and stuff like that. But there is something about just, that's both horrible and exhilarating about-walking out on your own in front of an audience who have come to see you.
But it's a very difficult place to get to because you have to like, um, die several times on the way and you have to be on the N15 night bus and lose your trousers. It's not like plain sailing. It's not like a lot of jobs, you know. There's moments where you're like, really soul searching-and wondering why you're doing it but I don't know it's probably the same when you in your job-where you start and you're like I can't I literally don't know how to do this-and there's people doubting you and you've got…Your own self-doubt and you're serving up a lot of crap, yeah. But I mean, like, that's the thing. That's what you're sort of dealing with. I'm trying to learn how to do it. And I even know that what I'm serving up to these people, I'm not enjoying that.”
“And then you need to get to a point where you are loving what you're doing. And then your people, your audience, or in your case, your customers, are enjoying what you're serving. It just takes time and it's-kind of very rewarding.”
