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Four Lions DVD/Blu-Ray Review | 12 Aug 10 |
16:32:36 by NeilViews: 6159 | Comments: 20
Let me start with a brief precis for surprise-loving control freaks like myself: The commentary (or commentaries, I reckon) weren't included on the check disk - for some reason the audio set-up has been disabled for reviewers. However, this is still a bloody great presentation of a really wonderful film. The disk is absolutely packed with funny, fascinating, thoughtful extras, and the presentation is excellent, and occasionaly inspired. You're going to buy it regardless of what I say, anyway, but if you preorder using this link for the DVD or this link for the blu-ray, you'll supply a tiny but much-needed trickle of cash which will allow me to continue to pay for the forums hosting bills. This whole thing is sadly too big to get by on donated space, these days, although I'm relishing the chance to finally be able to expand it. 11 last Sunday, incidentally.  Right. The first thing that struck me about the DVD is how well chosen all of the extra material is. Pretty much all of it goes towards enhancing your appreciation of the main feature, particularly the Background Information section, which provoked a fair bit of thought and emotions here. Morris seemed to resent DVD extras when he started releasing his back catalogue, and it must be somewhat galling to see fans like myself moaning about the paucity of extras on the Brass Eye release. After all, this was a show we all figured would never, ever get a commercial release, and once it comes out, it's met with 'yeah, nice one, but ffs, considering all the stuff you could have put on there....' Morris must have quickly realised the potentional there was in fully engaging with the format, and subsequent releases featured a much stronger array of supporting content. His DVD releases are quite innovative in places, and feature the remarkable amount of care and attention to detail that always trademarks his work. The My Wrongs packaging and menus are brilliant and, if you let them, they'll draw you onto the same wave-length as the protagonist. That's the aim - My Wrongs is a vivid emulation of psychological states, and Morris uses the packaging/menus as an extension of the main feature - in other words, he uses them to evoke a mood, much as any director will with the camera work and sound-track of the piece. This all feeds back into the short, serving to enhance your appreciation of it. Four Lions feels like a more traditional presentation, but with all the flourishes we've come to expect. Most of the menus are minimalistic, so that your focus remains on the footage that plays in the background. I seem to recall the Nathan Barley DVD being the same - you get some really great, previously unseen footage providing a backdrop for most of the menus. Barry's exit from the van is a particular highlight, and myself and my friend Trench quickly worked out where this scene must have been cut from. This is one of the things that's brilliant about the Deleted Scenes section itself, you see... you only get a couple of "unused versions" of scenes (Fessal's Video and Bomb Factory, both available on the official site), but the other five clips are segments that just seem to have been snipped out of the movie because they drive the point home too much, or perhaps for reasons of time etc. The focus on character comedy means I laughed more at these scenes, than I did the first time I saw Four Lions in the cinema. The film itself gets better on repeat viewings as well. Bain and Armstrong - at their best - are capable of an almost Larry David-esque skill with character comedy, and CM's inspired way of twisting things until they become slightly surreal (while still maintaining a consistent internal logic) is what makes Four Lions such a successful application of Morris' humour to a narrative-driven format. Surely this must be the single-greatest cast of any Morris project, too? Kayvan Novak continues to exceed all expectations in the Deleted Scene called "The Martyr Feels No Pain" - this features Waj and Omar in Pakistan, a location some of us were desperate to see more footage of. Remember the short clips of "Barry's Training Camp" on the official site? There's an extended version of that little beauty of a scene as well, and it contains a line that blows "fuck Mini Baby-Bels" right out of the water. All of the deleted scenes are just gold, though, thanks to the strength of the writing, and how well-rounded and performed the characters are.  In fact, the characters personalities even shine through in the deleted scenes menu itself, which is based round the Party Puffin website featured in the film. This screen also gives you access to an easter egg, which takes you into the Puffin Press Center. This is a funny, cutesy parody of some of the most tediously generic and uninspired questions Morris has been asked by journalists over the last 6 months or so. I'll write more about that in the replies to this post, so you can avoid the details if you wish. I'll also be going into the Background Information section in more detail there, and I'll also compile a list of all the disc's contents. Let's summarise, then: This lovingly-compiled release will thrill fans of Four Lions. The unseen footage is as strong as anything in the main feature, if not occasionaly stronger, and you'll relish the oppurtunity to see gaps in the time-line being filled in. It's a joy to spend more time with these characters. The Background Information section is, as I've mentioned, powerfully thought-provoking, and throws new context on the cultural issues this film is based around. The picture quality seems stunning, although there were some audio problems on the check disc, which I'm sure will be resolved for the final release - presumably some kind of anti-piracy device. There are no generic, plodding, just-for-the-sake-of-filling-space extras here, as you would find on most releases... everything on this disk serves to enhance your appreciation of Four Lions, and I can't wait for the commentaries (despite the fact that I barely bother with the things, as I want to work everything out for myself.) Roll on the 30th, and roll on the next Chris Morris project. I hope you enjoy the Four Lions DVD release as much as I have so far. The main discussion thread for the DVD/Blu-Ray release is in Comedy Chat. If you don't want to register, though, bear in mind that I keep posting open for guests with these updates. The film gets a general release in Australia this time next week, and Twitter reactions to the preview screenings have been very strong. If you're an Aussie Morris fan, or a newcomer to his work, I'd love to hear what you think of the film. Comedy Chat even has an Aussie comedy thread full of Australian posters, so you'll feel right at home. It was a damn shame not to hear from the Americans etc who caught the festival screenings of Four Lions, but sadly, social networking means people don't seem to go looking for fan sites as often these days. If you'd like to read the pre-existing discussions about Four Lions, here's a full list. Back very soon, with the winners of that poster compo, and...well, who knows. There are a million and one things I'm working on for this place at the minute. The Image Archive has been substantially upgraded, and I'll continue to add new bits and pieces now that's been done. The Blue Jam episode guides have also been given a considerable overhaul, and are now much more comprehensive and useful - this is thanks to the tireless work of Lee Ashcroft. Major thanks to him. I'll leave you with a couple of clips of a GLR show that was kindly supplied by Neil Mossey, and which has been given serious audio reconstruction work by No Sleep Nigel. I need to replace some of the static-y segments of songs before I consider it worth releasing, but this should keep you going in the mean time. DVD Contents, and Background Information analysis |
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Chris Morris and Charlie Brooker - Four Lions Satellite Q&A | 29 Jul 10 |
18:51:00 by NeilViews: 1957 | Comments: 1
I've found out as much as possible about what's on the Four Lions DVD/blu-ray, and I've also found out as much as possible about what isn't on it. So, I'm now happy to start sharing the Four Lions Q&A boots that have been very kindly supplied, and if anyone involved at Warp Film etc has a problem with that, please do let me know at waynecarr@gmail.com or @cookdandbombd. Looking forward to not hearing from you! Here's the first Q&A, very kindly supplied by @bengubbins - this is the one that was broadcast by satellite across over 20 Picturehouse cinemas. Charlie Brooker hosted the event, and the Q&A panel consisted of Kayvan Novak, Adeel Akhtar, Jessie Armstrong, and of course Morris himself. Four Lions Satellite Q&A - Picturehouse Cinemas - 22nd May 2010Chris Morris - IntroChris Morris & Charlie Brooker - Main Q&AHope that sounds ok, the source was pretty good, but I've been spending a lot of time trying to learn audio restoration - the levels in these bootlegs can be understandably awful, and this kind of sonic fiddling is particularly necessary with some of the old radio shows, where you have to deal with tape stretch, as well as things like static etc. If there are any more tapes out there, please do give me a shout, as they're not going to last forever - the No Known Cure shows I'm working on have managed to gain an extra 20 or 30 minutes over the years, and the resultant drop in pitch makes Morris sound like he's been on the Mogadon. The main things I'm after are the extraordinarily elusive 1990 Radio 1 show, and anything from GLR, Radio Bristol, Radio Cambridgeshire. Or anything else - even if I have it, different sources can be used to patch up tape flips and the like. Actually, I'm after another copy of the "Blue Jam Exclusives" CD at the minute so I can upgrade the existing captures - is Mark Reed or any of the other Blue Jam CD competition winners still out there? I'll finally get round to getting badges and other bits and pieces made up as thanks for these kinds of submissions. Oh, on that note, drop me an email if you've ever submitted anything to the site in the past, and let me know what it was, so I can get a full and up-to-date credits list (re)compiled. I'm aiming at rebuilding the entire site again - a lot of it needs rewritten and redesigned. I'm sort of rediscovering Morris as well, of late, and going back through all the old material again, seeing how I feel about it now, and working out what I missed first time round. My analysis of My Wrongs, for instance, was laughably shallow and point-missing, plus I was still caught up in that idiotic mode of thinking where you judge a comedy solely by the amount of laughter it generates. These days, it's the amount of thinking provoked that I prioritise, or the richness of the ideas, or the subjects being commented upon. Someone like Lee Evans might be a fun, engaging night out, but there's nothing to be learnt there, nothing to be gleaned about the human condition, no real insight beyond the thinness of carrier bags... these days. When you go to the works of really interesting, original thinkers like Lenny Bruce and Chris Morris, that's where comedy gets really worthwhile, and to judge them solely by how much you happened to laugh at the moment you experienced them is beyond pointless. There's also a weird thing that happens to fans, actually, where you get what I call Jaded Fan Syndrome which can colour your perception of the material. You've heard or seen everything they've done, and then you kind of start comparing things back, rather than being willing to take them on their own merits, and see them as individual pieces of work. It's strongly related to this desire people have to list things, I think. It pisses me off to have succumbed to such a superficial weariness, when I always strive for analysis that's unswayed by any kind of external factors. That kind of dogmatic silliness just sneaks right in if you're not challenging your thinking enough, though. You build up these certain expectations of what comedy ' should' be, which is sort of fine, as long as you're then entirely willing to chuck them all away. I mean, I remember I once asked Charlie Brooker if Nathan Barley was going to have 'a proper title sequence', and if Morris had 'stopped titting about with Adobe Premiere filters', as if such details actually really matter in the grand scheme of things. Don't get me wrong, I love details, but they can obscure the full picture. Does this mean I now like Nathan Barley? No, it's dogshit. Conceptually fascinating dogshit, though! Perhaps I'll enjoy it more this time round, but it just seems so stiff, unsubtle and spoon-feedy. Chris Morris is still travelling hither and thither to promote Four Lions, and @LaurenceBoyce mentioned on the forums that Four Lions recently won the Independent Camera award at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Czech Republic. It's a joy to see such an intelligent, challenging piece of work picking up plaudits on its own merits, with the judges presumably not being even remotely swayed by the reputation Morris has. Four Lions seems to have been a great success financially, too. People are still weirdly continuing to insist that it caused outrage, though, when the reality is that it neatly side-stepped everything bar a minor kerfuffle, by having the British general release strategically placed right behind the Election [1]. So please update your dull, cut and pasted 'Chris Morris never does interviews' narrative. Morris has really managed to break through to a far more diverse audience in 2010, while still refusing to compromise the quality of his work. It's so gratifying to see the likes of Morris and Stewart Lee still showing utter respect for comedy, and art in general, while once-great talents like Vic and Bob continue to slide deeper into doddering complacency. A new generation of Morris fans are discovering Morris, not as the man fronting The Day Today, but as the man behind Four Lions. It's their Brass Eye, and it's just as excitingly subversive and challenging as the 90's output was to us at the time. The focus on developing and applying character-based narrative to the humour of Chris Morris has produced some of his most thoughtful and fascinating work. I mentioned My Wrongs above...I recently looked back again at Morris' first foray into film-making, after slowly beginning to unravel it around 2005. An adaption of a Blue Jam monlogue, My Wrongs was released as a short film, and received a BAFTA nomination before it was even released. Here's a threadwhere I started a reappraisal of it, I'd love to hear your own thoughts. (Or perhaps you'd like to chat about the old radio work?) I'm editing together a podcast about the short, which goes into an appropriately mind-boggling amount of detail. Time to wrap up this update, so I can start work on the next one - here's a bunch of stuff to keep you busy in the interim: The Four Lions posters finally arrived, so I'm going to go through all the competition submissions now, and get those posted off. The forums are now iPhone compatible, and should be a lot easier to use on mobile phones in general. Stewart Lee's new book is out, and looks excellent. Chortle ran a slightly sensationalist article about 'Chris Morris helping to train spies', which seems aimed at trying to get them mentioned in The Sun or some such scum-rag. The Q&A was at Latitude, and @McKuw was there, with mic in pocket. You can download that now, but I'm going to EQ it again, so you might want to wait for a better-sounding version. This is how it sounds at the minute. Finally, if you want to know the truth about the helium story, start reading here, and benthalo will put the whole matter to rest for you. Don't click it! |
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Anti-intellectualism just makes you look stupid (CM in Oz) | 17 Jun 10 |
19:53:15 by NeilViews: 6438 | Comments: 0
 A fair bit to catch up on...I hope the next Morris project surfaces in the winter. You might want to take a flick through the @cookdandbombd Twitter as I keep it up-to-date, and there's info and bits and pieces on there that has yet to make it onto the main site. Firstly, and most interestingly, Four Lions has hit Australia, and Chris Morris and Kayvan Novak appeared on Triple J, promoting the film. I have snipped this out and upped it seperately. It's a joy to hear Morris in a real radio studio, again. There's one particularly irritating moment towards the end, though, where Novak does a 'haha nerds' joke that is desperately uninspired (although quite nicely performed), and fails simply because the question the imaginary nerd asks, seems actually perfectly reasonable. 'Haha, look at this well-informed idiot who is interested in stuff!' In fact, this imaginary nerd is better informed, and less vapid, than the Aussie radio host who was interviewing him at that very moment! I'm a bit sick of lazy digs at people who like stuff, and value knowledge. Note the keyword there is "lazy" - nerdy comedy fans are as much of a viable target as anyone else, in no way should we be utterly exempt from piss-taking. More than that, it is incumbent on any decent artist to routinely challenge their fanbase. This is how you show respect for your fans... that may seem paradoxical, but true contempt for an audience occurs when artists knock out under-achieving crap that never forces their audience to think. Novak possibly doesn't appreciate, though, that it's a two-way thing, and with Stephen Fry currently making very good points about the pointlessness of much current telly output, it occurs to me that, actually, the audience need to be demanding better content, too. We should be celebrating the good stuff, and calling out all the useless, sausage-machine nonsense that doesn't challenge or entertain us in any kind of meaningful way. And, incidentally, panel show's aren't comedy, they are just a cheap, easy substitute. Their proliferation is currently strangling the British comedy scene, and stopping people developing or communicating truly original or interesting material. This seems an appropriate time to work in the plug. You know Bellamy's People? That show I have been banging on about on here since it went out months ago? Well, it can't get a second series, despite there being enough material already shot for one. To be exact, not all the material would be usable, but one estimate suggested that there was easily enough material for about half a series, just sitting there. The BBC would rather let it rot, though, because the show didn't get good ratings, and they're not willing to stand by it, and support a second series. A remarkable myopic decision, considering the track record of Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson - I mean, noughties comedies like Little Britain, Catherine Tate and many other shows all followed in the wake of The Fast Show, for goodness sake. So I've made another in my recent series of hypocritical u-turns. I despise internet campaigns, but I've helped put one together. Please support intelligent British comedy by signing the petition and spreading it around. There is a Facebook group to be joined, too. We need numbers, so please spread these links far and wide. I even started up www.bringbackbellamyspeople.com, which I will continue to expand - I need some help there, though, as just keeping up with CaB is very time-consuming at present, and I'm starting another site as well as all this. Get in touch if you can help with the BP blog.  Back to CM in Aus... I had noticed that the character of Waj is child-like rather than stupid a while back - the supposed idiocy of the characters is very over-stated by media commentators who are also mostly still just talking about how controversial Four Lions is, rather than engaging with it as a piece of art. Novak and Morris explain this whole set-up in the interview, and give some fascinating insight. As forum poster JPA spotted, it sounds as if Morris is involved with the DVD commentary this time, as well. I know, via @SquidyUK, that Bain and Armstrong are also definitely involved. The Four Lions DVD is confirmed as being released on the 30th of August, and you can already preorder it on DVD, or blu-ray if you're a rich bastard. There's also some fascinating footage and pictures of Morris in Sydney, courtesy of @WoollenBullet and @blusterpolitik. @WoollenBullet says "They are good photos of the Chaser boys attaching themselves, sucker fish style, to Morris", and Bean Is A Carrot pointed me to this 'delightfully snarky blog' which says likewise. Finally, here's the video footage - if you read the thread, and listen to the podcast interview, you'll see that Morris binged on The Chaser before going out there, which is rather polite. Now, the bit in the video where he jokingly mocks The Chaser for caving over their controversial sketch, and hurriedly issuing an apology had me beaming for ages. I don't think there's ever ANY acceptable time for a comedian to apologise for a joke, ever, ever, ever. Contextualising it is...ok, but saying sorry, for humour? If you do that, you shouldn't even be allowed to consider yourself a comedian, you're just on the same level as someone like Russell Brand, and probably only play at being controversial in order to boost your public profile. You're a disgrace to your art, preternaturally undisicplined and careerist, and you should hang your head in shame. Well done to Morris for having the balls to point that out. Here's another thing that really thrilled me, yesterday. Remember those film cells Warp promised us, when there was some kerfuffle over funding Four Lions? They have all started arriving, and what seems immediately obvious to me, is that they are all unique! So, if you sent in your address when it was requested, you should be receiving this charming little bit of cardboard, with 5 cells in it, and on the back is CM's sig, and then an individual message. Even when some of the cells are of the same scene, and the message is of a similar sentiment, it is still uniquely phrased...how impressive is that?! I mean, what does that say about the creativity of the man, and his absolute, 100% determination to never say 'ahh, this'll do.' That, my friends, is real class. I hope this bloke is prepared to eat his words. I think I need a few mouthful's of my own, as I recall making cynical comments on past updates about how Warp were probably harvesting email addies so we'd then be spammed into oblivion. Munch munch, yum yum. Mine contains five distant stills of the van going up the motorway to London, and says "not at all angry", which I like a lot, considering I'm such a ranty ballacks. What does yours say?Those posters still haven't shown up, so I've not done the draw yet, but I'll be back soon, with treats galore. |
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Four Lions Opening Weekend | 10 May 10 |
21:53:35 by NeilViews: 7863 | Comments: 20
Four Lions has had an excellent opening weekend, which seems to have resulted in it opening in twice as many cinemas this coming weekend: Thanks so much for the support on #FourLions - we're doubling number of cinemas this weekend so tell ur mates to go see it! Overwhelmed. x
...or perhaps they were already scheduled, as the Belfast screenings aren't starting until the 14th. Regardless, Four Lions seems to be selling tickets hand over fist. As I write this, Duke Of Yorks cinema has just twittered that 'every single evening show of Four Lions has sold out' and they are 'turning away Chris Morris fans en masse.' Here's the amount of cash the film has made over the weekend, courtesy of Splendor Cinema: Monday, 10 May 2010
Uk Box Office 7-9 May
This week IRON MAN 2 continues to reign, albeit with a 70% drop. NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET won't find much legs with such a weak opening, given that horror fans tend to come out on the first weekend. The nice surprise in the pack is Chris Morris' FOUR LIONS, which took a £5,146 screen average, not bad for a homegrown comedy from a TV writer/director.
1- IRON MAN 2 (£3,203,051)
2- NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (£1,340,704)
3- HOT TUB TIME MACHINE (£889,660)
4- FURRY VENGEANCE (£795,122)
5- BACK UP PLAN (£707,131)
6- FOUR LIONS (£591,838)
7- HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (£516,327)
8- THE LAST SONG (£364,575)
9- DATE NIGHT (£333,164)
10- THE CLASH OF THE TITANS (£290,342) If you've seen the film, join in with the discussion. If you are not registered, then guest posting is turned on in Site Updates, so reply to this or one of the other update threads instead. Four Lions has also been trending almost constantly on the UK twitter trend...things, and the general reaction on there has been extremely positive. The general buzz suggests that Morris has managed to cross-over to a larger, mainstream audience, without sacrificing any of the integrity of his work. Four Lions is a brilliant first feature film, which tickles you with contradictions at every turn, and it's no surprise to see it doing so well. More than that, it's (so far) managed to almost completely avoid any of the press fuss, by being scheduled to open the day after the general election. A boycott was urged by relatives of 7/7 victims, although Radio 1 Newsbeat managed to find a relative who responded favourably to the film. Which must have been a great disappointment to them. One thing I've found quite bizarre, is the complaints from Morris fans who've been disappointed with Four Lions because it's 'not offensive enough.' Do you actually enjoy comedy, or do you just like watching The Daily Mail get into a froth? Poster compo is still open, till this Friday. Just email me telling me why I should give you a Four Lions poster - there are 4 unsigned posters, and 1 signed by Chris Morris up for grabs - waynecarr@gmail.com you can also enter using audio. Just get creative. If you want to keep up with the latest press articles about Four Lions, then keep an eye on this thread - it is already a pretty comprehensive bunch of links to interviews with Chris Morris, and the Four Lions cast. If you're posting your own articles in there, or sending them to me for inclusion, can you please link back to http://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk - in fact, can you just do that anyway, thanks. Also use @cookdandbombd for far more frequent updates from me. Be sure to watch the production footage on http://www.four-lions.co.uk too, some wonderful material in there, and Morris actually letting people observe the creative process, and his approach to directing. |
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Chris Morris... RESTAURANT CRITIC? Win some Four Lions posters, as well. | 30 Apr 10 |
02:59:46 by NeilViews: 2335 | Comments: 48
 The second part of my interview with Charlie Higson is online - final edit of the concluding part in the next week or two. Still no word on Bellamy's People being recommissioned - how can this be? The Four Lions press juggernaut is gearing up for the official launch next week. May 7th at a cinema near you...hopefully. Have a look at the list of venues courtesy of the latest Warp mail-out. No Belfast screenings till late April, and it needs to be seen more than twice - for me at least - so I hope you have better luck getting to see it during the launch weekend. Travel if you have to, it's worth it, and there is much to unpack - I'm still cursing myself for not bringing a notepad to the second 'Premiere' screening. Sparkly new updated poster too, eh? The nice PR people offered me a signed one to give away to you lot. They've also agreed to give me one for myself, and another five unsigned ones. I'm giving one of the unsigned ones away to the twitters today, but as for how to get your mitts on the rest...oh, I dunno. Let me think about it for a few paragraphs. I've just about finished reading Disgusting Bliss now, and have found it particularly engaging - this, the excellence of Four Lions, and my attempt at moving this site up a few gears, have all got me really re-engaged with the work of one Christopher Morris. He's really bloody good, actually, isn't he? The story that weaves through Disgusting Bliss helps reinforce the sheer passion and raw, unfettered energy that goes into Morris' creative output. Of particular interest to me, were the bits where we find him working his balls off to master new techniques or technology. The material that deals with him learning to DO radio, culminating in Robert Katz seeing him with dried blood on his fingers, after a night spent editing with a razor blade old-skool style, was like the nerdy equivalent of a Rocky montage. I've paused this book somewhere towards the very end, as I now need to revisit the Geefe columns, for the first time in years, before I read about them. There's another reason I want to reacquaint myself with Morris' written output... Every now and again, I get emails from people claiming to have stumbled across some lost Morris script fragment. It'll be so swathed in over-written Morrisisms, and so reliant on having Ted Maul firing out compound swear-words like 'arse-clackers', or such-like, that I quickly bin it, say thanks, and move on. Some of this stuff is clearly written by the people who send it, and they want to catch me and others out, and that's fine. Two weeks ago, though, I got told about such a piece, and I keep coming back to it. I must thank Evan for tipping me off to this piece...the first time I read it, I thought, 'ooh, big words! I like those... they sound nice, and I feel clever and self-satisfied when I vaguely recognise one of them.' Then, I was continually drawn back to it over the last two weeks, and well, yes, it could definitely be the work of Chris Morris. The more you read it, the more you realise what an excellent piece of writing it really is. I'm still trying to unpack it - it's quite a brilliant character piece. Come inside this update with me, and I'll post it up in full...we can all have a nice chat about it... Now, posters. Tell me why I should give you one. Be creative, use whichever means you wish. You can respond to this update, you can email me directly at waynecarr@gmail.com or you can even leave me voicemail at 028 9581 1976 (or leave it directly on my skype account, neilbombd, if you don't wish to phone.) I'll put the best stuff up here, and on CaB Radio (unless you object to either), and the best entrants will get a signed, or unsigned poster, for their troubles. So, that's 4 more unsigned Four Lions posters up for grabs, and 1 that has been signed by Chris Morris himself. Do something fun and creative, and they're yours - fire me mp3's, videos, voicemails, whatever you can think of. More fun than a dozy old quiz, innit? Get cracking. You have...at least a fortnight, let's say.  Still so much more to catch up on, I'll do another update in a day or two, and will keep up with all the Four Lions news as it occurs. The twitter is actually proving absolutely invaluable for this - @cookdandbombd for Morris news, @CaB_Radio for the CaB open access internet radio station, @VerbWhores to keep abreast of new forum threads (there's a facebook version of that too). I also squirt out archive nuggets on the cookdandbombd twitter every Friday, so have a browse even if you don't do twitters - you will find a ton of stuff there, and a nice collection of Four Lions news and info. Finally, for the last three Saturdays, I've been playing out the Chris Morris 1993 GLR shows, encoded from tapes very kindly supplied by Matt Savage a few years back. These are my favourite Morris, and there are still three left - you can hear them on CaB Radio on Saturday mornings, from 10am (although I start from 9am to get the stream going). They're being 'broadcast' as live, 17 years to the day - come and hear them with an audience, we discuss them in the chatroom too. Next up, we'll be replaying Blue Jam, and I hope to follow those up with some round table discussions on Skype. You're all more than welcome to get involved with CaB Radio, by the way - it's open access, and the most fun I've ever had on the internet. I always wanted to be a gobby talk radio jock. I know, you're right, it is hard to believe. 8pm on Sundays, is when I do my own comedy analysis talk show. This Saturday I will follow up the 1993 GLR show with a full Radio Bristol one! 1989, Chris Morris, No Known Cure...hear it with an audience on Saturday morning, and then download it after. Be there. (Tape very kindly supplied by Rob Baker - and there are more to come. If you have any rare Morris, particularly the 1990 Radio 1 show, or GLR tapes, or BSB gear, then drop me a line. I'm finally able to get badges and t-shirts pressed up, and will reward people who contribute to the archive. You can never have enough GLR.) Click on, for part two, and discover Chris Morris...RESTAURANT CRITIC?After all that, don't miss Chris Morris testing the star power of Axl Rose. See also this footage of the Four Lions premiere at Bradford. Finally, the official Four Lions site has launched, and has some excellent, barely-hidden production footage on it. Check it out, I think they might be changing it for new stuff soon. |
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