I don't think a lot of people should
take acid but those that have should start bands
Hi I'm Peter, I'm Ollie Gabriel I'm Nick
and collectively we're known as PNAU
featuring Ollie Gabriel
Oh! LSD in Brisbane. well we were doing a
show in Brisbane it was on the river it
was a long time ago when LSD was legal
in Brisbane. It was a while
ago.
 
Someone...we were with friends, I don't know who it was at that stage
Probably best not to say their names I would say
One of our friends from the past we hadn't seen him
in a while and they had LSD and we were
like this is curious and so we for some
reason decided to take it before the
show like enough time before the show
for it to start working and then the
show was actually really good, so we thought
well I probably only had about
half as much as you did that no I think
actually you had more than I did. Ok it's
possible, but I remember because we used
to do a drum solo
every show at that time and I remember
Nick who seemed quite out of it at
the time was like is this gig going on
okay you know we didn't really know
knows like gee yeah it's great and then
we just sort of went back on into
finished it but it was good I remember a
lot of giggling in the bus on the way
back and certain other members of the
band not really knowing what the hell
was wrong with us it was good it was one
of the first or only
times we went to the after party oh yeah we
went to the after party at the client
family yeah yeah it was nice it was nice
it was a nice evening
I don't think the acid really worked to be
frank I don't think it really did
I remember something
well I think you took more.
I don't think a lot of people should take acid, 
but those who have should start bands
Here's the story of ours
it was a profoundly strong trip we
didn't realize they were actually they
weren't tickets actually they were
asterixis now that I recall correctly
and not flying keys no not flying keys
these were much much stronger what we
worked out later was that there were actually
four trips yeah. Anyway I started talking in tongues
I lost it a little bit and I started to just go
*Makes bizarre noise*
And my parents are in the next room they didn't come in
they were used to these kind of
outbursts yeah anyway so that felt really
profound and that's sort of where we got
the name from I don't know how it went
from YNAU to PNAU but 
we do know
Just whacked a P on the front
and there it was
I was coming back from Terrigal on the
Central Coast and Nick calls me and says
guess what we're gonna go meet Elton John
and I was like yeah sure all right
that sounds funny and they said no
really we're gonna go meet Elton John
have you got a nice shirt I was like I
think I have one somewhere and we went
to meet him at his hotel at the Park
Hyatt or whatever it is the one under
the bridge and you know he had a nice room with a piano and he made us tea
We had a chat he told us how much he loved
the record and then you know from that
point on which we sort of moved to the
UK and we made a record with him the
rest is history I guess you could say.
Elton John was such a huge inspiration
to me I remember growing up as a kid I
was probably the only black kid in a
neighborhood with an Elton John hits CD  I
mean so I would I would actually clean
up the house back in Louisiana you know
singing Tiny Dancer and you know the
Bitch is Back and like all these 
did you play them on the piano?
yeah yeah like I mean he was he was like
kind of one of my first rock star heroes
yeah wow
it all started one nights when I got a
text message from my incessant cousin
Amber she wouldn't stop telling me
asking me to come out come
out to the bar at the end of the street
I need you there I need you drunk I need
you to meet my best friend I thought it
was just gonna be Amber but it turns out
it was actually a lot of people most of
which were pretty pretty uninteresting
but Ollie and his lady were wonderful
and I was sat right in front of them and we
got to talking and I said hi Ollie and
I said hi, and we just kept talking we
started ordering drinks as Ollie you're
gonna have some food, I'm famished
I said what's famished? Ollie are you
hungry you going to eat? I had a burger
I remember that it was a burger.
he didn't eat that night and he was jovial you
know and it was exciting and it was a
thrilling I would say and I was planning
on staying for 20 minutes you know well
I think we were there well into the
early hours
filming in the desert all of us music
video was an amazing experience felt
like I was shooting a movie 
it was really cold, probably about
40 degrees Fahrenheit which I don't know
what that is
that's minus 10, no 37 is zero
just go with it
I was freezing my balls off for sure
I actually had heat packs
uh yeah yeah, they had to keep
stuffing in my my trousers my spandex
trousers, then it lit up
and uh it was really awesome
really good experience and I did a lot
of running thanks Nick, well the initial
concept for the video
was to go into the desert and have a
hundred drones and it was so it sort of
an idea taken off Spielberg where he had
the whole night sky come down and each
star comes down and it follows Ollie
and they have a kind of exchange of dance
between the two of them and you actually
you can see the video it's up online now
go and check it out and tell us what you
think, go check it out. PNAU all of us
Thanks for having us, we appreciate your time
thank you thank you everybody
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