On Friday 21st February 2025, lead singer of The Zoots Jamie Goddard was asked to be featured on the Sue Davies show on BBC Radio Wiltshire.
Sue Davies
Also, of course, in this part of the programme, it’s about Wiltshire Views, where we meet our guests. We’re going to speak to Jamie Goddard from the band The Zoots, from Chiseldon, Linda Dubber from Goat Acre, who’s part of Chipping Hospital Ravio, and they’re going to give us their say about the stories of the week, the things that caught our eye. For example, uh, trending, The Future of James Bond. Yeah, for the first time, the Broccoli family As in Barbara Broccoli, and it was Cubby Broccoli, her dad wasn’t it before then. Um, they will not have a hand in the new James Bond movie. They’ve had, been involved with every James Bond movie up till now. But not now, because Amazon, MGM Studios have kind of taken over creative control of James Bond. So who’s your favourite Bond? I quite like, I know no one likes it, but the George Lasenby one, I like the movie. It was a cracking movie. Do you have a favourite? James Bond. We’ll be talking that. We’ll also find out what’s happening on the roads. Bluebells and Young at Heart. It’s a quarter past eleven.
You’re listening to BBC Radio Wiltshire with me, Sue Davies. It’s time for our Wiltshire Views. Um, Linda is, is running a bit late, but we’ll catch up with her very shortly. But Jamie Gardner is here from The Zoots, the band The Zoots, uh, from Chiltern. Jamie, thanks for coming in. Hello! Uh, for those that don’t know, tell us a bit about The Zoots.
Jamie
Uh, The Zoots. are a band, uh, who are based in Chisheldon and we play in theatres and festivals, including the 7th of June at Ramsbury Festival. See you there.
Sue Davies
Look at you, getting that, get in there. We haven’t even started, I haven’t taken a breath yet. Jamie, you’re straight in there with the gig. So, um, how long’s the band been going then?
Jamie
Uh, since 2009, and um, I just recently found out that my Dad was telling me, he used to be our manager, and he said the name came about because he said to somebody, well they’ll be wearing suits. He said, what did you say? He said, suits. He said, well that’s a really good name. And he said, alright then, and then that’s how it
Sue Davies
So Suits became Zoots?
Jamie
Yeah, it was a mishear, that’s what I mean.
Sue Davies
Do you know what, I think some of the best band names come from something like that, rather than sitting down trying to work it out because it’s never going to work that way. And what you love about being in a band then?
Jamie
I love the energy that it creates in a theatre and the feeling that it gives people, because we’re a retro group we predominantly play 60s, that’s what we’re most well known for, but the way that it invigorates people um, who come to see us, because we play to a lot of people who are 60 plus And, it’s just an amazing feeling it creates because it brings back a lot of memories and reminds them of when they were young and it’s just an amazing feeling to be part of that.
Sue Davies
A great decade for music, as well, to use, isn’t it really?
Jamie
Definitely, and I hear 60s, I just listened to an advert on the radio earlier on, and you hear so many 60s records still being used.
Sue Davies
And they would never have thought that we would still be listening to those when they made them properly, but just that quality kind of is still there.Tough of course for any band, uh, over the last few years, um, not being able to gig when we were all in lockdown and stuff, I think. Is it, is it recovered yet? Are you back to where you were? It
Jamie
It seems like for me that 2026 will be the first year since 2020 that it’s kind of getting back to normal. Just to give you an example, and not really a plug necessarily, but we’re playing at the Cornerstone Theatre in Didcot in May. It took 5 years to rebook that date. It wasn’t just a case of, we had 100 shows completely cancelled. But the problem was, it’s not all of them rebooked. And then, uh, yeah, it’s hard to keep everyone together when you’re not working, so But anyway, we’re back.
Sue
We’re back. The Zoots are back as if they ever went away. Uh, lots that we’re going to talk about and lots of different things. Uh, what to talk about, because something we talked about in the trending at the moment, is the feature of this. Yeah, James Bond. The James Bond films. The long serving producers, Barbara Broccoli, because before that her dad was Cubby Broccoli, and Michael G Wilson. And they’re giving full control to James Bond to Amazon MGM Studios. So, from Doctor No to No Time to Die, the Broccoli family have always had a hand in every Bond movie you’ve ever watched. So, feature productions will, for the first time, not have a family member involved in it. Um, of course, it was Cubby Broccoli back in 62 that launched it. Now, James Bond superfan Mark O’Connell says the success of the franchise has been largely down to the Broccoli dynasty. So what does the future look like for Britain’s most famous secret agent?Will he be American? Um, you are, I understand, Jamie, a big Bond fan, is that right?
Jamie
Yeah, I’ve read all the books, even the later ones. And if I lived in Sevenhampton, I would be actually worried about the foundations of my house because Ian Fleming will be turning in his grave.
Sue
Because of course he’s (Ian Fleming) famously buried in the church of Sevenhampton. So you’re not looking forward to Amazon taking over? I don’t know, I
Jamie
I only just found out, and I was just, I don’t know, I was a bit shocked really, but I guess things change, things move on, when you read the books now, they’re written in the late 50s, early 60s, and it’s really interesting to read them, and when you imagine what James Bond was like when those books Uh, were written it, it is become something else. Anyway, so, and it is just known all around the world. It’s an an amazing thing, but I guess things move on.
Sue
I don’t think many people would’ve read all the books like you have. Are the, the films reflective of the book, are they sort of, you know, quite honest about the book or is it quite a different kind of thing?Is it just the title that sometimes they take,
Jamie
I do think at some point they will remake the films and make them more like the original.
Sue
So some of them aren’t like the original book then?
Jamie
Because they’re so far away from the books really.
Sue
In what way?
Jamie
Well, it’s hard when you read a book because there’s so much more depth to it.And they’ve got to make a film in two hours with a beginning, middle and end with all these sort of action shots and things like that. Hard to explain, but, but I think there is a real market for just going back to the basics of those books. If they’ve got the rights to them, I think that’s one thing they could possibly do. James Bond’s from Scottish heritage, so maybe a bit more back to basics, but who knows?
Sue
It’s been a while, isn’t it? Is it four years, I think, since Daniel Craig last played the roles? It’s been a long time, so we’re looking for that new one. Is there anyone you would think, obviously, yeah, they would make a cracking James Bond?
Jamie
I would personally like to see somebody more like Sean Connery.
Sue
Is he your favourite?
Jamie
He’s my favourite cat. I mean, that’s because my cat is called Sean Connery, just by the way. Your cat is called Sean Connery? And he’s got more followers than I have.
Sue
Does he know? He probably does, doesn’t he? He probably doesn’t know, but I don’t know.
Jamie
Don’t tell him. He seems quite self entitled to a meal for me to feed him. Three times a day.
Sue Um, sorry for the, uh, Sean Connery, I love the fact that you’re shouting out the door. Sean Connery! You do the full name.
Jamie
Yeah, yeah. It’s never just Sean, it’s Sean Connery.
Sue
I’m loving that. So Sean, why was he the best Bond, do you reckon?
Jamie
I just think that he was the most like the character that was written by Ian Fleming and Ian Fleming is a big part of this, of, of where we are, the Swindon community, we’ve got roads named after him and, um, although Swindon was probably a very different place in those days, he did spend a lot of time in this area, which is a very special, um, and one of my favourite things about moving to the area that I was that he was from here. Um, but it’d be interesting to see what happens next, but I would just like them to go more back to the original novels.
Sue
Kind of back to basics.
Jamie
Yeah.
Sue
So would you fancy it yourself? Because you’re wearing one of those sort of, you know, roll neck sweater. You’re kind of looking, you’re looking a bit Bond like, if I can say so. Yeah, Jamie, can you, can you give us your, your, your audition? Hold on, you’ve started. Can you finish it?
Jamie
Yes, yes, I would like to.
Sue
Is that a no then, Jamie? I
Jamie
I would be up for it, yeah. But I guess I’d probably be more like Roger Moore because I do like to have a laugh as well. But yeah, I just hope that the next person who does it reads the actual books. Y
Sue
Back to basics. Uh, Jamie Goddard, he’s our guest on, uh, Wiltshire Views, from the Zoots, from Chiseldon. Loves his James Bond. Have you got a favourite James Bond? Uh, what about a favourite movie? What’s your favourite movie of all of them?
Jamie
Oh, I just love all of them. All of them. I love all of them, especially the early ones. I maybe like the second or third one when they started to get a bit more budget for you know The little gadgets and stuff like that like Thunderball and and the Tom Jones theme tune and the like Shirley Bassey and Lulu and and and it was such a big deal you know, at that time, and I’m a big fan of, obviously, 60s music as well, so it kind of all ties in.
Sue
All ties in, doesn’t it, really? Uh, yeah, I have got a, um, I think it’s a DB5. I’ve got a little car, James Bond car, with a bulletproof little window for the rear window. Oh, really? Um, yeah, and an ejector seat, although I think I lost the little passenger many years ago. Yeah. Can I say, I did get it as a child, not as an adult.
Sue
Just, I think it’s important I say that. But I’d love to know, um, if you love James Bond, what’s your, who’s your favourite James Bond? 08000 283366. Give us a call. It’s Friday, but it is our end of the week edition, of course, of Wiltshire Views. Joining us today, Jamie Goddard from Chisledon, The Zoots. So what if you’re flying?
Obviously with half term for lots of people, people going off far afield, but how do planes operate safely? YouTube channels such as Big Jet TV, they’ve really taken off, excuse the pun, in recent years. Thousands of people apparently tune in to watch planes land. Jamie, I’m taking you haven’t watched any of these.
Jamie
No. But I have taken a lot of flights.
Sue
Right. And your experience, have you come across some turbulence in your time? Well,
Jamie
We’ve travelled to 35 countries with the Zoot, so we’ve done lots of flights. Uh, probably the scariest thing that happened, although I was totally fine about it, when we were flying to Cuba to stop in Paris, and we were just about to land, and there was a plane right underneath us, and we had to sort of shoot up in the air. I wasn’t scared myself, I was sort of scared on behalf of everybody else because I was really excited about going to Cuba and I was just like, I just, nothing’s going to stop me getting there.
Sue
I’m going to make a note, I want to sit next to you the next time I want to play because I think you’ll calm me down.
Jamie
Yeah, definitely. Yeah, where should we go? Yeah, where should we go?
Sue
Not Cuba, not if I have to come across a plane in Paris. Um, but as a band then. Um, is that tricky when it comes to all the gear or the instruments that you, if you’re on tour, how does that work?
Jamie
Yeah, yeah, we all used to check in separately in the end because they, they didn’t like the idea of four guys and a girl coming on and we’d have four guitars with us. So we’d have to all check in separately. We had a system and we used to fly a lot. The only thing is that I think there’s just the waiting around that is just the, it’s just keeping yourself amused. But sometimes we just used to get our guitars out and play.
Sue
What, in the waiting? Yeah,
And how did that go down with everyone? I don’t know. I just
Sue
I don’t ….know. Didn’t care. No, exactly. But is it right that you, in the end, you didn’t want to put your particular guitars in the hold?
Jamie
Yeah, you didn’t want to put your guitars in the hold because on average, we would lose our luggage probably one in three flights.So if you’d lost your guitar And then you wouldn’t be able to do the show, whereas at least if your costume didn’t get there, you could maybe, um, pick up a new costume from a shop or something like that when you get to wherever, Portugal or, or, but actually that was a bit of an issue in Cuba because they don’t have normal shops because it’s, um, a communist state, so that was, uh, A lot more tricky, um, to find costumes in Cuba.
Sue
So you had to find some costumes in Cuba then? Yeah, yeah. Because you have to say, you play, you play 60s music, don’t you? So you’re kind of dressed in that kind of 60s kind of look, aren’t you? So
Jamie
I think we had to rob a waiter or something like that.
Sue
Poor waiter. The newest member of the Zoot. Yes, he’s a lovely waiter.
Jamie
I couldn’t borrow your suit in two days time, could we? You laugh, but that’s what happened. Is that what happened?
Sue
But didn’t you have like, in the end you had to take, you put your guitars in with you?
Jamie
Yeah, yeah, you sort of try and sneak them underneath a long jacket or something. What? How do you manage that with a guitar?
Jamie
In the end I bought a guitar that folds in half. Uh, There’s
Sue
No such thing as a folded guitar, is there?
Janie
Yeah, there is. I, I used to have one. Then there wouldn’t be a problem at all.
Sue
sorry, as long as you’re playing it, it starts folding in half. Oh, yeah. That’s what you need to be worried. Uh, excellent. Uh, Linda Dunbar and Jamie Goddard there are our Wiltshire Views guests then. Um, how was flying with you? Have you had any particular bad turbulence? Let us know. Now we’ve got our Wiltshire Views guests, always delighted to welcome them, we’ve got Linda Dubber from Goat Acre, she’s part of Chippenham Hospital Radio, we’ve got Jamie Goddard from the band The Zoots, playing their cracking music from the 60s, and having both of them their say on our topic of the day, now we’ve been talking about PJs, pyjamas, gym jams, whatever you want to call it, uh, today, apparently 36 percent of us say if we could, we’d wear our pyjamas all day, every day. So um, Jamie, are you a fan of, of pyjamas, gym jams?
Jamie
Does pyjamas mean, does that mean any sort of clothes you’ve selected?
Sue
I think it probably does, doesn’t it? Just basically, if you go to a shop and it’s in the pyjama section. Oh, okay. So, because it’s quite similar to sort of leisure kind of wear as well, couldn’t it be?But, would you want to go out? Have you ever been outside in your pyjamas?
Jamie
I don’t know. My mum said when I was five years old, I had Spider Man pyjamas and I didn’t take them off for about four weeks. So, I guess I probably wore them outside, but that was quite a long time ago.
Sue
I don’t think we can legally bring that up now, to be honest.I think you’re clear. You’re clear of that with Spider Mans. Would you be okay if you saw people in the supermarket with gym jerseys on? I noticed the
Jamie
The last few times I’ve been to the airport, actually, there’s quite a lot of people wearing pyjamas. Um, I’m guessing that they’ve got long haul flights. Uh, each to their own, really, but, um, I can’t, I’ve never worn pyjamas, well, since I was five.
Sue
Well, you can’t top Spider Man, Spider Man, to be honest with you, it’s not going to get any better after that. Uh, we’ve had some, we’ve had some great calls, um, about it, about people being quite happy about it. Other people, um, like you, Linda, say, no, that’s enough. We draw the line there, doing your supermarket shop. Shepardor Puppy and Tidworth got in touch because talking about James Bond earlier with Jamie because Jamie’s a big fan of James Bond. Doesn’t like Daniel Craig’s interpretation of James Bond. What do you think?
Jamie
That’s his interpretation of it but all I would say is that whoever takes on the role I just hope that they read the original books.
Sue
That’s what going back to the original Diamonds of Forever is his current favorite Bond movie. Thinks the next James Bond should be Martin Kemp. We’ve got Linda Duffy, we’ve got Jamie Goddard, they’re our guests on Wiltshire Views. EastEnders, let’s talk about this. You’re not a big Hold on, hold on. I’m doing a minute, hold on. I’ve got the proper thing at my fingertips, Jamie! But nice go! You’re not the drummer in the band, are you?
Jamie
Well, I used to play
Sue
Oh, there you go! We had a big debate with Simon May from Devices who wrote the theme. and he’s not absolutely sure how many duff duffs there are but he reckons he thinks there are nine as opposed to eight i’m thinking well he did write it so you’d think you’d kind of know wouldn’t you really but not a big fan of eastenders
Jamie
well i was a big fan i watched it when it first came out in the 80s and i just haven’t watched it since dirty den left i think yeah
Sue Davies
Just, I think it’s important I say that. But I’d love to know, um, if you love James Bond, what’s your, who’s your favourite James Bond? 08000 283366. Give us a call. It’s Friday, but it is our end of the week edition, of course, of Wiltshire Views. Joining us today, Jamie Goddard from Chisleton, Zoot. So what if you’re flying? Obviously with half term for lots of people, people going off far afield, but how do planes operate safely? YouTube channels such as Big Jet TV, they’ve really taken off, excuse the pun, in recent years. Thousands of people apparently tune in to watch planes land. Jamie, I’m taking you haven’t watched any of these.
Jamie
No. But I have taken a lot of flights.
Sue
Right. And your experience, have you come across some turbulence in your time?
Jamie
Well, we’ve travelled to 35 countries with the Zoot, so we’ve done lots of flights. Uh, probably the scariest thing that happened, although I was totally fine about it, when we were flying to Cuba to stop in Paris, and we were just about to land, and there was a plane right underneath us, and we had to sort of shoot up in the air. I wasn’t scared myself, I was sort of scared on behalf of everybody else because I was really excited about going to Cuba and I was just like, I just, nothing’s going to stop me getting there.
Sue
I’m going to make a note, I want to sit next to you the next time I want to play because I think you’ll calm me down.
Jamie
Yeah, definitely. Yeah, where should we go? Yeah, where should we go?
Sue
Not Cuba, not if I have to come across a plane in Paris. Um, but as a band then. Um, is that tricky when it comes to all the gear or the instruments that you, if you’re on tour, how does that work?
Jamie
Yeah, yeah, we all used to check in separately in the end because they, they didn’t like the idea of four guys and a girl coming on and we’d have four guitars with us. So we’d have to all check in separately. We had a system and we used to fly a lot. The only thing is that I think there’s just the waiting around that is just the, it’s just keeping yourself amused. But sometimes we just used to get our guitars out and play.
Sue
What, in the waiting list? Yeah, because you just practice. And how did that go down with everyone?
Jamie
I don’t know. I just
Sue
Didn’t care. No, exactly. But is it right that you, in the end, you didn’t want to put your particular guitars in the hold?
Jamie
Yeah, you didn’t want to put your guitars in the hold because on average, we would lose our luggage probably one in three flights.So if you’d lost your guitar And then you wouldn’t be able to do the show, whereas at least if your costume didn’t get there, you could maybe, um, pick up a new costume from a shop or something like that when you get to wherever, Portugal or, or, but actually that was a bit of an issue in Cuba because they don’t have normal shops because it’s, um, a communist state, so that was, uh, A lot more tricky, um, to find costumes in Cuba.
Sue
So you had to find some costumes in Cuba then? Yeah, yeah. Because you have to say, you play, you play 60s music, don’t you? So you’re kind of dressed in that kind of 60s kind of look, aren’t you?
Jamie So I think we had to rob a waiter or something like that.
Sue
Poor waiter. The newest member of the Zoot. Yes, he’s a lovely waiter.
Jamie
“I couldn’t borrow your suit in two days time, could we?” You laugh, but that’s what happened. Is that what happened?
Sue
But didn’t you have like, in the end you had to take, you put your guitars in with you?
Jamie
Yeah, yeah, you sort of try and sneak them underneath a long jacket or something.
Sue
How do you manage that with a guitar?
Jamie
In the end I bought a guitar that folds in half. Uh, There’s no such thing as a folded guitar, is there?
Jamie
Yeah, there is. I, I used to have one. Then there wouldn’t be a problem at all.
Sue
I think you’re clear. You’re clear of that with Spider Mans. Would you be okay if you saw people in the supermarket with gym jerseys on?
Jamie
I noticed the last few times I’ve been to the airport, actually, there’s quite a lot of people wearing pyjamas. Um, I’m guessing that they’ve got long haul flights. Uh, each to their own, really, but, um, I can’t, I’ve never worn pyjamas, well, since I was five.
Sue
Well, you can’t top Spider Man, Spider Man, to be honest with you, it’s not going to get any better after that. Uh, we’ve had some, we’ve had some great calls, um, about it, about people being quite happy about it. Other people, um, like you, Linda, say, no, that’s enough. We draw the line there, doing your supermarket shop.
Shepardor Puppy and Tidworth got in touch because talking about James Bond earlier with Jamie because Jamie’s a big fan of James Bond. Doesn’t like Daniel Craig’s interpretation of James Bond. What do you think?
Jamie
That’s his interpretation of it but all I would say is that whoever takes on the role I just hope that they read the original books.
Sue
That’s what going back to the original Diamonds of Forever is his current favorite Bond movie. Thinks the next James Bond should be Martin Kemp. We’ve got Linda Duffy, we’ve got Jamie Goddard, they’re our guests on Wiltshire Views. EastEnders, let’s talk about this. You’re not a big Hold on, hold on. I’m doing a minute, hold on. I’ve got the proper thing at my fingertips, Jamie! But nice go! You’re not the drummer in the band, are you?
Jamie
Well, I used to play Oh, there you go!
Sue
We had a big debate with Simon May from Devizes who wrote the theme. and he’s not absolutely sure how many duff duffs there are but he reckons he thinks there are nine as opposed to eight i’m thinking well he did write it so you’d think you’d kind of know wouldn’t you really but not a big fan of Eastenders
Jamie
Well i was a big fan i watched it when it first came out in the 80s and i just haven’t watched it since dirty den left i think yeah
Sue
and Angie she isn’t there either at the minute so just let you get your update Linda can tell you And I mean it’s, you know, it’s not really that true to life because you wouldn’t have that many murders in a very small, sort of, street.You’d be very unlucky and I think I’d move, to be honest. Yeah. But, uh, no, I mean they do have bits of humour and everything. I just love it. I don’t know what it is about it, I just love it. The magic, the magic of TV, isn’t it really? Brilliant stuff. Uh, our guests are Jamie Goddard, Linda Dubber. We’re going to talk about co workers.
I’m Sue Davies, and we’ve got Linda Dubber from Goatacre, who’s the presenter on Chippenham Hospital Radio. We’ve got Jamie Goddard from Chiseldon. You’re best known for playing in the band The Zoots, a cracking 60s band. Now, we’re talking about working with people. A new survey was revealed this week, 72 percent of us say we’re more motivated at work when we’ve got good relationships with our co workers.
Would you agree with that, Linda?
Linda
Yes, definitely. I used to end up getting lumped with making the tea all the time. I used to get very annoyed. Right. Right. Okay. Um, quite milky. Um, no sugars.
Sue
Sorry, Linda. Uh, what? Jamie, what about you? In bands, that kind of relationship must be quite tricky because it’s your, you’re the leader of the band, it’s your band isn’t it?So that must be tricky with those, the rest members of the band, getting that right, that relationship right.
Jamie
I don’t actually mind making the tea. Usually, I’ve got a lot more jobs to do than the other guys in the group, but I almost don’t want them to worry about. What I’ve got to worry about so they can concentrate on what on the performance aspect of it But yeah, it is but it is sometimes hard to get on with people socially when things aren’t necessarily going to plan I think it’s quite easy if something good is happening if you’re like for example when we used to go travel all over the world It was quite easy to socialise because everything was going great and everyone’s pleased about everything. Everyone’s sort of happy, but there’s always things You know it is hard being in a band because essentially you’re spending a lot and especially on a tour you’re potentially spending more than 12 hours.
Sue
It’s not just like working in an office. It’s more than you would probably see your partner for, really. So it’s a very different existence, isn’t it? Well look, you’ve been a delight, both of you. so much for coming in. Um, Linda, before you go, uh, what are you up to at Children’s Hospital Radio? Linda
Um, still fundraising to, uh, keep us going and, uh, buy some new equipment because our computers are on the blink at the moment.Um, still enjoying it.
Sue
Brilliant. Lovely. Go online and just check out Chippenham Hospital Radio already, which is where I started, so give them a bit of support. And Jamie, what about the band? Got some dates?
Jamie
Yeah, we’ve got loads of, uh, dates coming up. Um, some of them are sold out, so Well, a lot of them have been sold out recently, but so, come to one of the ones where we need to sell the tickets for.
