What Did I Do Last Night?

So whilst I have been busy filling my body with Arnica tablets, paracetamol, ibuprofen and rubbing arnicare cream deeply into my swollen face to attempt a resemblance less like the Elephant Man, the people over at Current TV have been busy putting together my new television show. 

This tuesday at 10pm on Current TV (Virgin 155 / Sky 183) 'What Did I Do Last Night?' launches and I assure you it's addictive viewing.

I meet some lovely young professional types who profess to not have a drink problem, merely a party attitude. We follow them on a usual weekend night out, capture there every drunken stumble, flirt, kiss, fight and invariably projectile vomiting and then I have the pleasure of replaying the footage to them the next morning and psychoanalysing their behaviour and drinking habits.

As a man who has suffered within the dangerous grip of alcoholism himself and is more self-aware than I often find comfortable, I found the series truly intriguing to film and be part of. We are not judging these young people and their need for release. We are not glorifying their drinking habits or the standard 'booze britain' attitude. However, the programme does raise some amusing and many more hard-hitting questions about a generation under great social and career related pressures and its resulting relationship to drink.

I would not feel that I could give the advice I do in the programme, nor ask the questions of the contributors that I do throughout the series, with a truly positive moral and ethically correct stance whilst still allowing myself to be controlled by something that has consumed half of my life. I have been a drinker since the age of thirteen years old and I have been an alcoholic (not your 'reach for the bottle in the morning' but still a man using alcohol in a disturbing and excessive manner) for a large part of my life. 

It is for that reason I am attempting sobriety. I am six days in and I feel more energetic, positive and full of cognitive capacity than I have in a long time.

I don't think anyone in the programme needs to stop drinking, however I do think that using drink to ignore our true feelings and sub-concious fears is an abuse that affects far too many of young British people is a solely negative path and one which I no longer wish to be guilty of following.

Since giving up drinking I have also been better in bed and much much funnier. So laughter and lascivious behaviour productivity appears to be on the rise!

Thanks for reading,

Cheers (or not, as the case may be)

Jeff xxx