So, how did your 'Welcome to Wherever I Am' tour go? Are there any particular highlights from the tour that you would like to share with us? Having never done anything live before it was incredibly stressful but, ultimately really good fun once I got the hang of it. The highlight for me was probably physically throwing out a drunk who was sitting in the front row constantly interrupting me. As the shows went on I enjoyed getting more experimental, so I used to sit on stage drinking and listening to music while the audience came in, which freaked them out a bit. I also had a big bit at the end where I would sell stones at half-time and then people could throw them at me.
This was your first ever time on a stage right? So how was this experience for you? Weirdly, I've always had a bit of a phobia of public speaking- I can attack people dressed as a squirrel or travel to war zones but, public speaking freaked me out, so I decided to face it…big style…70 nights on the trot…it's fair to say I've got better.
What were the subjects or plans for your live shows then? It was a kind of retrospective of my curious career so far. It all stemmed from someone asking my kid whether their dad was "Domjoly" and she came back and asked me- "dad, what is Domjoly?" It was a good question as I've done so much weirdness in the last fifteen years, so I tried to explain how it all made sense to me.
What part of creating this live show would you say was the hardest for you? The hardest part for me was choosing clips to show. There were so many that I wanted to use and had to cut loads as it was way too long.
You are currently working on your follow up to 'The Dark Tourist' entitled 'Scary Monsters and Super Creeps' which is about Yeti and Bigfoot right? Can you tell us how this is going and what else we can expect from the book? So far I have gone after "Ogopogo" which is Canada's Loch ness Monster and also Bigfoot in Northern California. It's just a great idea for a cool travel book- I'm going after the "big six" of Cryptozoology with an open mind and see what trouble I can get into. I've already been chased by lady redneck with crowbars and crashed my car miles from nowhere up a mountain and had to hike out through "weed' country.
Because of your work at The Sunday Times and various other papers, you've travelled to places all over the world, can you tell us out of all the places you have been, where would you say you had the worst experience as a tourist and why? Well…as a 'tourist" worst places are hideous things like Disneyland or a Sandals resort- this is my idea of hell. The most curious place I've been is definitely North Korea- like Disneyland on Acid- totally cut off from outside world, fits every wildest depiction of "big Brother" type government- insane…and brilliant at the same time.
Last year you were involved in 'I'm A Celebrity.. Get Me Out Of Here' with this in mind can you tell us what made you want to do such an interesting project, I mean what were your thoughts when they first asked you to do the show? They always ask me as I think they knew I was a fan of the show but last year I suddenly thought- fuck it, why not? Everyone I knew said "don't do it" but I'm very contrary and just thought, "when would I ever get the chance to do something like that?" I genuinely didn't do it for the money or the "celeb" status- I just like doing weird things, and this was very weird. I get asked on all these types of shows all the time and I wouldn't do another one- I loved every second of it