"I'd gone through a couple of court cases when I was 14, 15 years old, and I'd been compensated for one of them. "I moved to America with money I got from the government of Australia for being sexually abused," she says. The truth, says Dalle, was that she paid her own way. The story pushed by Armstrong's camp five years later, following the divorce, was that Dalle had used Armstrong. Dalle was 18 years old to Armstrong's 32, and leaving behind a turbulent, dysfunctional childhood in Melbourne for a new life in LA. The pair had met when the veteran Cali punks played Australia's Somersault Festival, sharing the bill with Dalle's all-girl teen punk band, Sourpuss. The same year Coral Fang dropped, Dalle was liberating herself from a turbulent marriage to her first husband, Rancid frontman Tim Armstrong. But ultimately, Dalle says, she saved herself.ĭalle is a survivor in more ways than one. "I quit everything: booze, coffee, cigarettes." Raising Camille grounded her after years of feeling "unanchored, out of my body". She'd quit meth two months earlier, and the pregnancy galvanised her resolve. How has she managed to stay clean? "I got pregnant," she says pragmatically, "with my daughter, Camille." The Distillers had broken up, Dalle's husband, Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, was away on tour and Dalle was staying at her mother-in-law's when she discovered the news. Yet here is Dalle with a new album to talk about, 10 years on – a clear-eyed, fair-skinned picture of health, all platinum hair and chunky silver rings – stretched across a sofa at the Ace Hotel in east London. I wanted to blow my fucking head off." Mortality rates for meth addicts are woeful. They were also on the eve of implosion, and unknown to her fans, Dalle was battling a crystal meth addiction. "Spirit of 82 is the perfect celebration of him, the history and the whole spirit of Northern Ireland.The last time the Guardian sat down with Brody Dalle, in 2004, her band, LA punks the Distillers, had released their third – and what would be last – album, Coral Fang. He’s a Northern Ireland legend and a man I’m proud to call a friend. Lavery, who consulted on the entire project to craft the Spirit of 82 expression, said: "I was honoured to work alongside Gerry on this project. "Having the right people around you to help and advise is very important and I'm delighted that Spirit of 82 has a fantastic team behind the scenes looking after it all.” "All in all it was a fantastic process, it's not easy to bring a whiskey to market but I have loved every step of the journey. "We went through the tasting procedures and eliminated the whiskey we didn’t think was good enough until we came up with the Spirit of 82. "After speaking with my good friend Peter Lavery I thought I must make a whiskey of my own choice and he helped me to select the type of whiskey I like" he said. The Spirit of 82 was launched at Titanic Distillery, owned by Belfast businessman Peter Lavery, who assisted Armstrong with his own bottling, as the former footballer explained: The number nine of Northern Ireland on that special night said he worked with the right people to develop Spirit of 82, and make sure that he had a whiskey he was proud to bear his name. "My father is an expert in whiskey drinking and said it was very smooth and easy to drink and reminded him of one of his favourite well known Irish brands." "The whisky process takes years but when people started drinking it their reactions were fantastic and very complimentary," the Belfast man explained. Northern Ireland footballing hero of the 1982 World Cup Gerry Armstrong has launched a limited edition whiskey, appropriately called ‘Spirit of 82 ‘that celebrates that iconic moment when the team defied all the odds.Īrmstong struck the winning goal against the hosts, Spain, on June 25 and now he has produced a whiskey as a tribute to the dedication and passion displayed by the team during that extraordinary match. Gerry Armstrong admires a bottle of his Spirit of 82 whiskey.
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