Ayahuasca is a psychoactive brew that is illegal in the UK and many experts say it is dangerous, while others have argued for it being researched as a potential treatment for mental health issues.
I felt the thing to do probably was to return to the place that made me better last time, and I did and it worked again. Acting on the the advice of a moody gorilla he spoke with during one hallucination in the Amazon, Amstell is now trying to "prioritise joy" in his life. The former agent provocateur of the celebrity circuit - he wasn't asked back for Sky's reboot of Buzzcocks - sees his work these days as being part of a "journey towards healing" - one that begins with him "telling the truth on-stage in a funny way".
By saying the thing that I'm most embarrassed about on stage, I end up witnessing the fact that it isn't a problem. People don't usually walk out, when I say the thing that I'm deeply ashamed of There is this self and group acceptance that seems to happen.
But does he ever regret being too honest in his shows? For example, the ecstatic poos he described in great poetic detail on his last tour. I just feel like I've shed a load of skin by the end of it, like I've evolved as a person and just become more and more like the toddler that I presume I used to be - wandering around all curious and silly.
He was "obsessed" with Eddie Izzard - though his own work is very different, he acknowledges - and his first stand-up performance came around the same time at a weekend stage school variety show. After leaving school, he was sacked from his early presenting duties on the children's channel Nickelodeon for making pop stars feel uncomfortable.
Which is ironic, given that that's how he would pay the bills several years later, influencing a raft of more mischievous TV hosts along the way. The fame he found on Popworld and later Buzzcocks afforded him the chance to write and star as an exaggerated version of himself in his own BBC sitcom, Grandma's House, at the beginning of the s. The TV funnyman then turned his hand to directing with the hilarious-yet-moving mockumentary Carnage , set in the future when the UK is totally vegan, on a plant-based diet, and dealing with the guilt of its blood-stained meat-eating past.
He's found some of the responses to the film, which also tackled the effects of the meat and dairy industries on climate change, to be encouraging but baffling.
But If you want to do one thing to stop human beings from ceasing to exist, then have a chickpea! As long as he continues to exist, Amstell intends to write and perform his cathartic comedy every few years, while also working more behind the camera; as he did on the recent feature film Benjamin, about a young filmmaker who is terrified of intimacy.
Surrounded by sticky notes full of ideas, the entertainer and director says it would take him until the end of time to perfect either comedy or filmmaking but he'll give it a go.
What, we wonder, would the tricky young Simon have made of all this? Could psychedelic drug ayahuasca have health benefits? Bands took over quiet pubs from Brighton to Glasgow and turned them into indie discos.
NME was responsible for championing plenty of them. Yet for every long-term success story, there were scores of bands whose moment came and went before the decade was out. What happened to them and what are their key members doing now? NME tracked some of them down. I work for a company in Brighton and one of my colleagues used to be in Utah Saints. It was devastating. Being in that band was my life. I enjoy being an artist, even though I do miss recording. In the future, I think more musicians are going to need second jobs to survive.
My team is the main point of contact for the artist community, acting as their voice within Spotify and representing their interests to the wider company. The late Alan Wills was an inspiration. The drive I have for it is the same as when I was solely playing music. There are no plans to reform The Dead 60s, but never say never. Donny Tourette Singer, Towers Of London Mad-fer-it rockers whose antics regularly toppled over into self-parody, Towers Of London are probably more famous for their TV documentary series than the two albums they released in the mid-Noughties.
In , frontman Donny spent 48 hours in the Celebrity Big Brother house before climbing the wall to freedom. It was a great job — I got to listen to music all day. Then, after we bankrupted our second record label, I decided to do some soul-searching and travelled around India for two years. Watch out for the album next year. During our last few tours I started volunteering at a community organisation in Hull called the Goodwin Development Trust.
I was teaching young people guitar, and it just went from there.
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