Listen to this section - Christian explains how he built the DJ BBQ brand.

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• Barbecue prep
• Alabama White Sauce
• The meaning of barbecue
• Coals v gas
• ‘Barbecue helped us evolve’
• How a childhood kidnapping led to Christian’s early love of cooking
• Early cooking lessons from Dad and Grandpa
• The Drumbecue
• Texas-style pit barbecue
• The ethos behind Christian’s cooking
• Christian’s early years skating
• First efforts as a filmmaker – and early set-up
• Studying TV and Film at college
• Early days riding in Pennsylvania
• Hitting up Jackson Hole on the Burton 150
• The move to Vail – and an early job in the media reporting on the Gulf War
• The best way to clean your dirty grill.
• Making blue screen music videos and ski videos for tourists…
• … and using the same kit to film Vail’s best pipe riders.
• The first film – Blindside – and the importance of music to Christian’s films
• Heading to the UK to find distribution, and a lifelong love affair with the UK begins.
• Christian’s early love of music.
• DJing with cassettes
• A fateful meeting with Swervedriver
• Late night munchies.
• Summer in Portugal
• Making Odd Man Out
• Early years in London working for Black Diamond and The Snowboard Asylum
• Christian’s local butcher Caroline, and the film they made together.
• Distribution road trip around the UK
• Getting signed to Sony…
• … and directing Jamiroquai’s Light Years video.
• Jay Kay drops a twenty foot cornice.
• The meaning of Light Years
• How the soundtrack to Odd Man Out came about.
• Becoming in-house video director for Sony
• Memories of filming Odd Man Out
• Leaving Sony and heading to A&M to film Day Tripper
• Jack Bibbo blows himself up and fronts it right out.
• Jim Wedlake’s latter career as one of the most in-demand filmers in the game
• Road tripping with the Brits and other riders
• Telling stories through film
• John Cardiel’s brief snowboarding career
• Taking the role as Van snow and skate team manager
• Meeting Kings of Leon
• Dirty onions part 1
• Grooming tips and ageing
• The importance of seizing opportunity and how it leads to more opportunity
• Jake Burton’s favourite snowboards
• How being the voice of High Five got Christian into TV presenting
• The evolution of RAD
• Life advice from Tony Hawk.
• Juggling his many different roles
• Projects for B&Q and Hellmans
• The genesis of DJ BBQ
• Delivering his third child at home.
• Moving away from TV into radio as a DJ with Kerrang!
• Air guitar with The Darkness
• Moving to Birmingham – and winning two Sony Awards
• The next step – DJ BBQ
• The ‘catertainment’ concept
• Food columnist for FHM
• ‘Grills grills grills’
• Signing for Jamie Oliver’s FoodTube, working with Google….
• …and signing a book deal with Penguin.
• Partying with Jared Leto, Boris Becker etc
• Hitting a two week book deadline
• No. 1 Amazon-selling author
• ‘Phil Schofield loves his barbecue by the way’
• The power of Christian’s social media network.
• His relationship with Jamie Oliver.
• ‘Dexter Fletcher is one of the greatest roller skaters I’ve ever seen’
• Life as a single Dad raising three boys
• Making it work with his various projects
• Curating and hosting Meatopia
• The camaraderie of the live-fire community
• Using culinary travel influences in his cooking.
• Squaring his role promoting meat eating with environmental issues.
• Christian’s current favourite chefs
• Christian’s final meal
• ‘The sound of jealousy’
• The final meal – dirty onions part 2

• Oxford
• London
• Maryland
• Iowa
• Virginia Beach
• Crime Doesn’t Pay
• Ski Liberty, Pennsylvania
• Jackson Hole
• Public Domain
• Endless Summer
• Vail
• Portugal
• Australia
• Summit Country
• Eagle County
• Alta
• Jindabyne
• Cherry Cherry Pow Pow
• The Hard, The Hungry and the Homeless
• Hokus Pokus
• Pocahontas
• Riders on the Storm
• Roadkill
• Critical Condition
• Blindside
• Glasgow
• Room & Board Productions
• Boardwise
• Black Diamond
• Manchester
• Ilford
• NME
• Melody Maker
• Lagos
• Oval
• Barcelona
• St Anton
• Berlin
• Afterbang
• Still Trippin’
• High Five
• San Diego
• Ocean City
• Porto Alegre
• River Falls
• Klamath
• Chalet Girl
• Cuckfield
• Reading Festival
• Coachella
• House of Vans
• Bestival
• Rock Ness
• Marakech
• Karakoram Highway
• Lebanon
• Ecuador

• Ron Stevenson
• Ross McGouran
• Kriss Vile
• Uncle Rip
• Mark Bryant
• Dennis Hick
• Christian Graff
• Adam Merriman
• Stevie Altars
• Barret Christy
• Josh Hemminger
• Travis Young
• Todd Richard
• Jay Nelson
• J2
• Jason Gerardi
• Jim Wedlake
• Jack Bibbo
• Mack Dawg
• Allan Green
• Andy Allan
• Adam Franklin
• Toby Millage
• Blue Stevenson
• Chris Moran
• Stu Brass
• Jeremy Sladen
• Martin Drayton
• Steve Bailey
• Caroline Billings
• Mark Richardson
• Rankin
• Jay Kay
• Axel Pauporte
• Phillip Lalemont
• Russ Brass
• Mark Kent
• Sara Lord
• Regis Rolland
• Valerie Blanc
• Danny Wheeler
• Neil McNab
• Frank Screm
• Travis Parker
• John Cardiel
• Jim Rippey
• Noah Salasnek
• Romain de Marchi
• Tim Warwood
• Adam Gendle
• Scott McMorris
• Danny Wainwright
• Olly Todd
• Franklin Stephens
• Pete Derricks
• Jake Burton
• Johan Olofsson
• Bob Callway
• Vernon Kay
• Tony Hawk
• Harry Bray
• Giles Coren
• Victoria Coren
• John Leach
• Ben Grove
• Sam Bruce
• Lucian Clark
• Ben Kilner
• Paddy Graham
• Murray Buchan
• James Carr
• Felicity Jones
• Naya Stevenson
• Frasier Stevenson
• Nick Street
• Tim Warwood
• Ed Leigh
• Kat McKenzie
• Emma Reynolds
• Jamie Oliver
• Zoe Collins
• Zoe Ball
• Kevin Systrem
• Boris Becker
• Cheryl Cole
• Jared Leto
• David Loftus
• Pippa Middleton
• James Nesbitt
• Mary Berry
• Phillip Schofield
• Dexter Fletcher
• Ben Hennen
• Bob Manchester
• Pixie Woo Sisters
• Jonathan Yeo
• Jason Flemyng
• Pewdie Pie
• Francis Mallmann
• Niklas Ekstedt
• Jacob Soderqvist
• Jakob Wilhelmson
• Gumby
• Yannick Amavet
• Babs Charlet
• Neil Rankin
• Niall Davidson
• Pat Whelan
• Nathan Mills
• Winston Churchill
• Aaron Franklin
• Jon Favreau

• Circle Jerks
• Suicidal Tendencies
• Hootie and Blowfish
• Pharcyde
• Swervedriver
• William Orbit
• Blur
• Siousxie and the Banshees
• The Smiths
• Stone Roses
• Young MC
• Neneh Cherry
• Reef
• Jamiroquai
• Seal
• Ride
• George Harrison
• Radiohead
• Deep Purple
• Oasis
• Leftfield
• Moloko
• Kings of Leon
• Conor Oberst
• Bright Eyes
• My Morning Jacket
• Boston
• Nirvana
• Kurt Cobain
• Bez
• MGMT
• Cage The Elephant
• The Horrors
• White Denim
• Black Keys
• Dan Auerbach
• Radiohead
• Black Angels
• Prince
• Ronnie Wood
• Boy George
• Tinie Tempah