 You've had a few hits out in your life. You get shot in the head at a UB40 concert, how was that feeling? I was feeling, I was in a time of peace to it and had been just released on parole, my first parole and my wife then got me these tickets to go and see UB40 because I loved UB40 and because of the conflict, barns like UB40 wouldn't come to Belfast, we didn't get the likes of that because it was a dangerous place to come, but now I'm peace to it. They were playing in Belfast, happy days, so get the tickets were going that night and because there was peace, I thought, well there's peace, that means there's no more war, but my man around me was saying, you can't go up there Johnny, I'm gonna be sure there's peace, we'll be alright, it's lovely summer's night, open our concert, me and the wife will go, oh no Johnny, you need the menders, don't need menders, so he goes up and it was a great night and the next thing, bang, I got shot point blank range in the back of the head, not only did I get a shot when the fort were me after it, but the grace of God I lived, I surfaced, obviously it must have been a damp round, I seen the round, it was crazy and it was a big lead slug, but obviously it must have been a damp round when there must have not been enough gunpowder on it because had it been a newish round it would have just blew my brains completely off, I wouldn't have, but I just went in them ahead and travelled and lodged there, and I was only out in parole and I phoned a jail, told them I couldn't go back, I couldn't believe that you'd be shot in the head, Johnny you're at your work now, come on now, I mean look, I've been shot in the head, they go to the hospital and we're gonna take the bullet out, but people couldn't believe how could you get shot in the head and walk away from it, what I did. So the person who shot you in the head, you were still fighting with them? No, they fought with me, see when they shot me in the head, I thought it was a grenade with a big flash, and then I just, what you see in the film, you know, like you're shot, you stagger about and all, I knew, you heard me, well I'm not dead, but everything was good through my head and I could just see my wife in slow motion, and the next thing, I remember fighting with them, right, and they tried to get me down and remember, the grace of God, I got away anyway, and ironically, when I got the car that got me to my safety, it turns out that there was a new through police taking steamers, all these taxis, but he was a Catholic, and when I got into the car, you know who I am, and I was panicking, I said, horse spilt, and then I realized, no, don't go to the horse spilt, because if they think you're alive, they realize you're alive, they could come back to the horse spilt and finish you off, so I told him to go to shangal, and he was panicking, but he took me to the shangal, and he must have been shitting me sick. And I never realized he was a Catholic until after the police, and Tony said, Johnny, you'll never believe this, but see that guy saved your life, the guy in the white car, he said he was a Catholic. Does that make you realize, though, Johnny, you know what, there's all kind of madness. But the story goes, you see that, this is what I hear, because I mean, you hear stories, and then when they returned me to prison, they put me in a segregated jail, little Catholics and Protestants, and that was the first time that I was in amongst Catholics. It was hard, because I was the devil to them, but some of them became good friends of mine, and they told me things, you know what I mean, which was important, and one of the stories that Tony told me was this guy had shat me. Now, he wasn't a Republican, he was an opportunist, right? And it turns out he was heavy on the coke, and they spotted me, there was Johnny there, and I almost shot him, so obviously they got the gun, and they done what they had to do. But this guy threw the paper down to me one day, the Andersons Town News, he was a Catholic guy in the jail. He says, there's your mate, and he looks at it, it was a death thing, the guy had been dead a year. I said, I didn't know who shot me, I had no clue who it was, I had no clue at that time, because they thought it was mainstream Republicans. Have a mask on? No, no, no, perfect. So the guy threw the thing down, but this guy had been dead a year, but it turns out it was the actual guy that shot me. But he was flat out in the coke, and he got paranoid, and he moved to Dublin. He thought that we were coming after him, and we were closing in on him. He hung himself, left a suicide note, Johnny Adorno's men's closing in on me, I can't live with this anymore, and he fucking hung himself. He was, and we were coming through, flat out in coke, hung himself. Did you think that was a... Sorry, just a wee hint on it. Did you think that was a... A hit, then, a professional hit, and you just kind of... At the time, yeah, everybody did. The police and all was... Because no mask. Even at the time, the people associated with the loyalists, who'd been loyal to me, they were actually going out and retaliating within hours and days after. The Catholics were getting killed just because... Just because they were shooting... Yes, because they thought that was Republicans, and I think messages were sent through our political parties that it was nothing to do with the IRA, or mainstream Republicans. That's nuts. Do you remember the UB40 song it was? It was a horrible song, too. It was a fucking song. One of the very few UB40 songs, I fucking... I hate it, and that was the first time I heard it. It was about a train. I don't like that song. I don't fucking like it anymore. And that song's fucking stuck with me. Your train was nearly there, Johnny. Yeah. I think you've had a lot of hits out in your life as well, but a lot of these people aren't breathing anymore either. I know. Well, that's the way it goes. Is that a retaliation? No, I don't know. Some of the people I knew that tried to kill me have been sent to prison. Some of the people in the process of trying to kill me actually killed themselves with bombs. And just... And others, I think... I don't know, people just took the law in their own hands, so to speak. I can't believe the guy who shot you. I thought it was a hit. No, no, no. It was just an opportunity. We're Catholics like. And here was Johnny Adair, stuck with no minders, just with his wife, and an opener of concert, more or less in their turf. And there was a big crowd of them. And ironically, the main instigator who was fighting that night, who was an amateur heavyweight boxer, he was one of the aggressors, right? But ironically, he was shot dead.