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‘I woke up face down on a Hollywood lawn’: Bran Van 3000 on Drinking in LA


‘After a night of drinking, I came to in the hot sun with the words and melody in my head. The irony of the song later being used for a beer ad was hilarious’

I’d wandered into this area with big houses – like the TV show 90210 – and was probably passed out for four or five hours in the hot sun with nobody bothering me. It was that 90s period of DJs making music, so I bought some gear and in my little flat started swirling up Bran Van 3000. Once the vocalists Sara Johnston, Jayne Hill and others came on board we were a collective, like Massive Attack or Wu-Tang Clan, telling hip-hop stories.

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