Pain Men – Balls of Steel

when i was told about the pain men i thought it was right up our
street considering what we did in sanchez. i thought it was only gonna
be some little show but it turned out to be a right hit with audiences
world wide as myself and panch found out whilst on tour in Australia
watching tv in our rooms. he was watching the same tv channel as me
and we both phoned one another to say are you watching………
hahaha. the first series of balls of steel was hilarious filming for
it. it was the first time we were having experience of how much work
went behind filming for a show like this. we had to be inn from 9am
and practice all day till we had what we were doing DOWN ready for the
live audience. it was nerve racking to tell you the truth but exiting
at the same time. at about 5pm me and panch would rush to the pub
opposite the London studios for a few cheeky pints of dutch courage
then we’d sit in the green room sipping the free beer before it was
our turn on the show. we’d sit on the balls of steel couch with mark
dolan and then headed of to the area of pain. our cahchfrase was
“there’s only one way to find out mark” and we’d go on to batter
ourselves for the studio audience. i’ll never forget one day panch had
a little too many beers and found it hard to speak properly, cut a
long story short he was PISSED. when it came to the interview with
mark he was slurring so much it was hilarious and the audience were
laughing before he’d even started hurting himself. from that moment on
things changed in the pain men camp and they did their very best to
stop us from going to the pub even taking the free beer out of the
green room haha we were being treated like school kids.
myself and panch did 3 series of balls of steel and each time it was
getting harder to have a pint before going to perform, but being
professionals we were always one step ahead of them. pain men still to
this day is being shown on various tv stations. myself and panch even
made the newspapers because someone had complained to new Scotland
yard (yep thats right you heard correctly) about what we did on the
show.
After our first series of sanchez and going into the second, third,
the movie and balls of steel we were on the road touring dirty sanchez
as a live act.