Interview for Chicken Shop Date

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As part of the promotional campaign for his forthcoming album “The Boys Of Dungeon Lane“, Paul McCartney appeared on “Chicken Shop Date“, an interview show hosted by Amelia Dimoldenberg in which guests are questioned in a casual, deadpan style. Interviews for the show are typically filmed in a chicken shop; Paul’s episode was recorded at Temple of Seitan, a vegetarian burger restaurant in London.

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From Wikipedia:

Chicken Shop Date is a British YouTube interview show created and hosted by Amelia Dimoldenberg, and produced by her production company Dimz Inc. The show features celebrity interviews that are framed as dates in a local chicken shop.

The series’ first YouTube video was posted in March 2014, and as of March 13, 2026, 113 episodes have been released. The show has been nominated for several awards, winning Indie Series at the Streamy Awards in 2022 after garnering popularity for its “gleeful subversion of the classic late-night talk show format.”

Format

The format of Chicken Shop Date involves Amelia Dimoldenberg meeting a celebrity guest at a local chicken shop for a date. A humorous element is the setting of the chicken shop, a brightly lit fast food shop that is generally not considered a romantic setting.

Dimoldenberg has revealed that each episode takes around forty minutes to film, but finished episodes last no longer than eight minutes. “Only the funniest, flirtiest moments survive, spliced together with strategically deployed B-roll of food prep and the chicken shop’s staff at work.” Questions asked are often chaotic, awkward, and playful, as well as questions such as “snog, marry, avoid?”. Dimoldenberg flirts with her guests, often alternating between flattery and teasing insults. […]

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Amelia: Ketchup? You like ketchup? Would you do you like it all away, or just on the side?

Paul: Yeah. Very disciplined.

Amelia: Oh, you’re going to do it like that.

Paul: Okay. Right in there. Do you want a bit of ketchup in there?

Amelia: Just don’t do too much. Well, that’s not enough.

Paul: It’s not enough.

Amelia: No. Okay, that’s fine. Thank you.

Paul: She’s fussy.

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Paul: Let’s have a chip.

Amelia: I was going to say, that is a good chip. I mean, money can’t buy you love, but it can buy you a good chip. And some vegan chicken nuggets as well. Guess who I’m wearing today?

Paul: Could it be Stella?

Amelia: Exactly. It’s Stella McCartney.

Paul: It looks very good.

Amelia: Thank you very much. It’s Stella because… [showing her dress with stars pattern]

Paul: A star. The star of this show.

Amelia: Star of the show.

Paul: Yeah. Until I walked in.

Amelia: Well…

Paul: Amelia, think about it. You know what? You are a star.

Amelia: You’re the star.

Paul: Well, you know, that’s what I’m suggesting.

Amelia: I saw you perform at Glastonbury. I cried.

Paul: We were that bad ?

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Amelia: How many guitars would you say that you own?

Paul: Too many.

Amelia: Too many? Thousands?

Paul: Certainly hundreds.

Amelia: Okay. Hundreds.

Paul: And you know when you’re a kid all you want — all I wanted and my mates — was a guitar. The first one you get is so precious. You know, that fell apart though. It was so cheap.

Amelia: Literally fell apart.

Paul: Literally. Okay. But it looked kind of good.

Amelia: Happens a lot in life. Style over substance.

Paul: Yeah. Falls apart.

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Amelia: Is it true that you once set fire to a condom?

Paul: Yes, that is true. Yeah, we were in Hamburg and it was me and our old drummer Pete Best and we were rooming together. It was really dingy. It’s like cement walls and everything, it was terrible. We used to cover ourselves with this Union Jack.

Amelia: Oh, wow. So patriotic.

Paul: I thought you said erotic.

Amelia: Oh no, sorry. I didn’t say erotic

Paul: Maybe better.

Amelia: Okay, sorry. Yeah. Very erotic. You under the Union Jack.

Paul: It was at the back of a cinema and you used to get patrons coming in to where our toilet was — the cinema toilet. So we’d be like shaving and stuff. Good morning. They’d all be coming in. Anyway, so what were we talking about?

Amelia: Back to the condom.

Paul: Yeah. So as we were leaving, there was really bare walls, but there was a nail on this wall. So, as an act of defiance at the terrible lodgings, Pete had a condom on him and so we took it out and we lit it and they go up quite well.

Amelia: Wow. Okay. I’ve never done it myself. You’ve never burned a condom?

Paul: No, I haven’t.

Amelia: Oh, you haven’t lived.

Paul: I haven’t lived.

Amelia: I know.

Paul: Till you’ve burned a condom.

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Amelia: Do you have any tattoos?

Paul: No.

Amelia: Are you interested in getting a tattoo?

Paul: No, not really.

Amelia: Okay. Not at all. You’ve never thought about what it could be?

Paul: Oh, yeah. You know, it would be very boring. It’d be a little heart or something, you know.

Amelia: It’s cute. Yeah. Wings ?

Paul: Well, I mean, you know, then you wouldn’t stop there.

Amelia: No, cuz you could do so many things. Heart, wings, yellow submarine, just everything. Massive walrus. Massive… Yeah. I’m sure loads of people have tattoos that are related to you and your life and your —

Paul: Well, they do. It’s very cute, actually. Yeah. We used to do a thing — we kind of stopped it now. When we were doing stadiums, some of the kids would hold up a sign: “Sign my arm and I’ll get it tattooed.”

Amelia: What about on their butt?

Paul: Well, the butt was like — I was kind of always hoping for a butt. Yeah. In fact, somebody did have a sign: “Sign my butt.” I said, “Come on, let’s have a look at it.” You know, I haven’t signed a butt.

Amelia: Okay. Well, there’s still time.

Paul: Yeah.

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Amelia: Do you always remember your dreams? I feel like dreams are quite important to you.

Paul: I’m really good at remembering dreams. Yeah.

Amelia: And a lot of songs come to you in dreams.

Paul: Probably my most sort of spectacular dream was my song “Yesterday,” which I heard as a tune in my head when I was dreaming. I was just going, “Oh, this is nice.” I woke up and I go, “What was that?” And I kind of remembered it. So that was like pretty amazing.

Amelia: I’m trying to write my dreams down as well.

Paul: Oh, yeah.

Amelia: But unfortunately I don’t really get any melodies in my dreams or any lyrics. I just sort of get giant foxes running after me and trying to get into my house.

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Amelia: You know your song “Baby You Can Drive My Car”?

Paul: Yeah.

Amelia: I always find that quite triggering because as someone who doesn’t have a license and who can’t drive a car, if my baby asked me to drive their car, I wouldn’t be able to.

Paul: You can learn.

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Amelia: What are some of the perks you have for being knighted?

Paul: Not a lot. I mean, if you get Freeman of the City, that kind of starts things. And then you’re allowed to take a flock of sheep through the city centre.

Amelia: Are you a Freeman of the City?

Paul: Yeah. Liverpool.

Amelia: Do you have sheep on the farm?

Paul: I have sheep on the farm.

Amelia: So you could realistically actually go to Liverpool with your sheep and take a few through the city.

Paul: Yeah.

Amelia: I think you 100% have to do that. Like, why not? Do you think the sheep like the city?

Paul: Why not? Because I think I can’t be bothered.

Amelia: Ah, Okay.

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Amelia: Is your favourite animal still a horse?

Paul: Yeah. Probably. And a dog.

Amelia: What about an otter?

Paul: A pet otter ?

Amelia: Yeah, a pet otter. You’d have to have numerous, cuz I feel like they like hanging out together.

Paul: I don’t think I’m going to go with that, Amelia.

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Amelia: Okay. I’ve never been to Dungeon Lane. Do you think it’s worth me paying a visit?

Paul: No. Well, I mean, I should say yes. The only thing is it’s right on the edge of the housing estate where I used to live and where George Harrison used to live. So that was the escape route down Dungeon Lane, you know, from all the streets and houses. Go down there and you could go down to the shore, the Mersey shore. So I did. I used to go down there as a young lad.

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Amelia: Are you a good dancer?

Paul: Yeah. I’m all right. I can be moved.

Amelia: Oh my god, I love that.

Paul: That’s just one of the moves.

Amelia: I mean, you don’t need any more than that.

Paul: You don’t need much more than just the shake.

Amelia: Just a shake. I actually do — that is actually my move. I call it the wiggle.

Amelia: What about…

Amelia: What’s this?

Paul: That’s like “back off, mate.” In clubs. Like the guy, back off.

Amelia: But you’ve made it into a move.

Paul: Wiggle. And he does not know where to turn.

Amelia: I’m definitely going to have to use that one.

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Amelia: How often do you think I should go to the dentist?

Paul: Regularly. Regularly for checks. Once a year.

Amelia: Okay. I’ve not been in about 5 years.

Paul: Haven’t you? And have you got cavities?

Amelia: No, I don’t think so.

Paul: You’ve got very good teeth.

Amelia: Thank you so much. I’ve got good teeth.

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Amelia: Is there anything that you’re a nerd about?

Paul: I have like routines that can be pretty nerdy.

Amelia: In what way?

Paul: So for instance, if you take vitamins — I’ve just got like a really boring routine. On Mondays I do those ones.

Amelia: We don’t need to know about that. It is a bit boring for you to tell me.

Paul: See, you walked right into it asking me about nerdy stuff.

Amelia: Well, I didn’t know you were going to talk about your vitamins every other week.

Paul: That’s pretty nerdy. And I’ve got quite a few others I could tell you.

Amelia: I don’t know if I want to know anymore. I thought you were going to say something like about musical instruments.

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Do you have any gardening tips for me? I know that you like your garden.

Paul: Don’t plant any marijuana seeds.

Amelia: Okay.

Paul: That’s probably a good hint.

Amelia: I was planning on it, but thank you for telling me not to.

Paul: You can get arrested.

Amelia: I mean, you have got arrested.

Paul: I have.

Amelia: Not for growing it, but for having it.

Paul: Those were the days, my friend. I was young. I was restless. I was foolish.

Amelia: Do you think I should start taking drugs?

Paul: Depends. We’ll talk.

Amelia: Okay. Mushrooms?

Paul: Depends. We’ll talk.

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Amelia: Do you find that you can only write love songs when you’re in love?

Paul: No. It’s good, it helps. But no. For me, sometimes love songs aren’t about a particular person. It’s just the notion of love. You can sort of make a song out of the dream of love. I’ve done that a few times.

Amelia: Can you still do a headstand?

Paul: Yeah.

Amelia: Really? When was the last time you did one?

Paul: Um, last week.

Amelia: Oh, wow.

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Paul: I’ve got a song “When I’m Sixty-Four,” an old Beatle song. And I had this old lady come up to me once. She said, “You know, I do one of your songs.” She said, “I work at an old people’s home.” I said, “Oh yeah, which one?” She said, “When I’m 64.” She said, “But I had to change the words, cuz that’s too young for my people.” So I had to change it to “When I’m 84.”

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Amelia: Oh, you’ve got your own type of rose. The McCartney rose. That’s really romantic.

Paul: It’s so cool. It was like when I was 50.

Amelia: I love roses. They’re one of my favourite flowers.

Paul: It’s a beautiful flower, actually.

Amelia: And I like lilies as well.

Paul: So do I.

Amelia: My grandma’s name was Lily. God, we’re so similar. You like lilies. I like lilies.

Paul: Well, Lily was — my first wife was Linda, who died unfortunately of breast cancer. So, but before that, I’d seen Aristotle Onassis gave his wives a bracelet. And one of them was Jackie Onassis. And so it’s J-I-L-Y — Jackie, I love you. And so I suddenly thought, perfect — get Linda one and it’ll be L-I-L-Y. Linda, I love you. Lily — it’s the perfect name to do that with.

Amelia: I love that. Yeah. And it was on a bracelet. Oh, that’s gorgeous. Wow, that’s very thoughtful of you.

Paul: She’s a lovely girl.

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Amelia: Who’s your favourite Beatle?

Paul: Favourite Beatle? Well, there’s only one left now. Currently, it’s Ringo. During the Beatles, I think we all used to look up to John because he’s like the — what is he? He was like the leader, even though there wasn’t officially a leader of the group. And he was very witty and he was great to have in the group. I think all of us might have said John was our favourite Beatle.

Amelia: You’re mine.

Paul: Am I?

Amelia: Yeah.

Paul: [to the camera] Hope you got that.

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Amelia: Do you think you’ll ever stop making songs?

Paul: It’s such a fun thing to do.

Amelia: It is. Especially if you’re good at it. And you’re quite good at it.

Paul: Not bad.

Amelia: Not bad. Yeah. You’ve done a couple of good ones.

Paul: Yeah.

Amelia: 100%.

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