‘Lager and fags were our main vices’: Vic Reeves on booze, guns and his rock’n’roll years

As he prepares to host The Big Flower Fight, the comedian born Jim Moir discusses his wild fame in the 90s – and why he now prefers a pork pie to a pint

Were his twin 13-year-old daughters not studiously home-schooling themselves, or his twentysomething son not living at home, Vic Reeves might not have noticed the lockdown. Life, he says, has not really changed. Every day, as he always does, he gets up at 6am, has breakfast, then goes into his studio to paint, emerging around 4pm. “We don’t really go out much,” he says on the phone from his home in a Kent village.

He is planning his next painting, a “still life” featuring a Renault 4, the German electronic band Kraftwerk, a goldfinch and a pineapple. “I love pineapple,” he says in his soothing north-east accent. “You know, pineapple’s great on ham, and just on its own, and in a drink.” The slightest, perfect pause. “It’s a very versatile fruit.”

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