Shock Mansion: What’s up Joel, how are you?

Joel Madden: Good man, how are you?

Shock Mansion: Yeah I’m really well thanks dude. To kick this off, can you give us an idea of what a normal day in the life of the Madden Brothers is like when your on tour?

Joel Madden: Usually we are on some kind of tour bus, you get up whenever you get up and depending on what kind of night you had depends on what you need to do that morning. Shower, find a bathroom, finding coffee on tour can be a little bit of a challenge sometimes. Me and my brother train a lot, we have been doing that for the last 2 years so we’d get up every day and train. We’d run, hit the pads, boxing and that kind of stuff. Usually after all of that it’s the evening and we start to get ready for our show, have a drink or something, eat and hang out and get ourselves into show mode. After the show, party all night.

Shock Mansion: What did you do to put food on the table before your music career took off?

Joel Madden: I worked pretty much any job I could, I lost a lot of jobs because I was always having to take off with the band for shows. I’ve painted houses, landscaping, I worked in shipping and receiving unloading trucks for big bookstores like Borders. That was pretty much the worst job I’ve ever had. I remember when I was working that job I would show up to work at around 7am, work til 4pm and then go straight to another job, waiting tables, that was the shittiest time of my life. For some reason the bosses I had were really hard on me, but hey, whatever. Back at that time me and Benji were living in an apartment together, we were trying to not only pay rent, but help our mom a bit, pay for the band and record demos, shit like that.

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Shock Mansion: G’day mate, thanks for your time! First off we want to congratulate you on your awesome results at X-Games; we were on the edge of our seats watching you race the Rally circuit. We wanted to start off by talking about a passion that we both share, fast cars! You currently have your foot on all sorts of pedals can you fill us in on some of the racing you currently do?

Brian Deegan: Thanks! Aside from the Speed & Style competition at the X Games, I’ve been mostly focusing on racing-cars and trucks. I recently signed on to race late model stock cars in the NASCAR circuit and race trucks in the off-road Lucas Oil Series.

Shock Mansion: We noticed the other day that you’ve got a new tattoo on your chest; can you tell us a bit about it?

Brian Deegan: Sure, I got a portrait of Jesus on my chest…I really always try to have some meaning in the tattoos I get. I have a really close family, and a big part of our lives is our faith and going to church. The tattoo was in honor of that.

Shock Mansion: We wanted to start off by talking about a passion that we both share…fast cars! You have your foot on all sorts of pedals these days can you fill us in on some of the driving you currently do?

Tanner Foust: I’m competing in the US Formula DRIFT series in a NASCAR-V8 powered Scion TC that puts out about 650 hp. I’m also competing in the European Rallycross series, at X Games and the US Rallycross series driving a 600 hp Ford Fiesta that’s one of the most high-strung cars I’ve ever been in.

For the TV show Battle of the Supercars, I’m behind the wheel of something new every week. Among other things this year, I’ve been in a 500 hp Porsche GT3 RS, a 1000 hp Shelby GT 500 Mustang. I’m not allowed to talk much about Top Gear USA, which we’re filming right now, but as you can imagine on that show I’ll be in everything from a Ferrari to a tricycle.

And then there’s the stunt work which is play time in random everything… it’s not a bad gig!

Shock Mansion: Have you ever been to Australia? If you haven’t, is there a possibility you might come and check out the scene here?

Tanner Foust: I have yet to venture down there but have wanted to visit since I saw my first V-8 Super cars race on TV. Between that, jet boat racing and rally I know it would be hard to leave!

Watch Tanner win gold at X-Games 16 below:

Meet Professor Green. Not by colour, nor by nature. It’s just his alias.

His real name is Stephen Paul Manderson. He was raised in Hackney by his Grandmother and Great Grandmother.

Despite being very academically capable he didn’t see much of school after year 8. As smart as he was, he was too wild to stay in school. What followed was an attempt at a 9 to 5, a bad career choice and a police raid which nearly put him away, but fortunately didn’t.

Since narrowly avoiding prison he has signed a deal with Mike Skinner’s record label ‘The Beats’ (which sadly went bye bye in December 2007), he had his own radio 1 show, and did very well on the battle scene, intoxicating himself all the way along.

After a messy year wrestling with Warner to get his masters back, his dad passing and getting shanked in the neck with a broken bottle, he had a Facebook convo with Lily Allen which spawned a remake of 90′s classic ‘Just Be Good To Me’ for his album, featuring Lily Allen.

A European, UK and Australian tour with Lily (performing the song) later, he has signed to Virgin, gotten his teeth fixed and is just finishing his debut album ‘Alive Till I’m Dead’.

So without further ado, we would like to introduce Professor Green.

Shock Mansion: Green, how you going dude?

Professor Green: I’m doing good thanks.

Shock Mansion: First up mate, we appreciate the time you’ve given us. We know you’re busy as hell so cheers for having us.

Professor Green: Thank you for taking the time to talk to me.

Shock Mansion: First up Ruby, we appreciate the time you’ve given us. We know you’re busy as hell so cheers for chatting with us.

Ruby Rose: No worries. My pleasure.

Shock Mansion: We heard that you’re collaborating with skate brand Gallaz, can you fill us in on what products you’re working on and when it’s available?

Ruby Rose: Ive designed two kinds of shoes and a Board…Pretty sick! They are available in July.