Wotcha, long time no update, sorry about that. This is mostly because it's such a dreadfully tedious and convulted process to encode and sort out audio on this machine...hate to do this, but if anyone out there has got a spare decent-sized hard drive knocking about that they could donate to the site, then you'd be doing me a great favour. I've got tons of stuff that I really want to rattle through here, but it's a nightmare to work on a machine with such restricted space. Gis a shout at waynecarr@gmail.com if you can help please.
Rumours keep floating about that Morris is currently working on a project 'about suicide bombers', although there's been mixed reports over whether it'll be a movie or a TV show. One thing's for certain though, it's bound to harness the power of satire to show how these people are
almost as damaging to society as young people who talk loudly on buses and have silly ring-tones. Morris was
recently spotted at a debate on the ethics of Al Qaeda, many thanks to IanW for the following:
Went to a debate on the ethics of Al Qaeda last night where the argument was made that the franchise is more of a western phenomenon than anything else, and that the London bombers weren't yelling in rage at the injustices of the Iraq war and the Palestine/Israel situation but acting more like pissed off, pompous, narcissistic adolescents, blowing themselves up in something like a more extreme version of self-harming.
Anyway, the point is Chris Morris was there which maybe is a hope raising thing - he might be on the right tracks with this new project.
Anyway, onto the old stuff...some great bits and pieces have surfaced recently! An absolutely top man going by the name "pish" firstly supplied us with
this clip of Morris advertising The Times on Kiss FM, which is a remarkable find really. Pish also supplied this hilarious
new Wayne Carr clip, and this picture, which I've been trying to get for years. If anyone has Wayne's appearance in the NME, please get in touch...
Anyway, shortly after these new finds were surfaced, geeef happened to find the following:
Chris Morris - Hutchinson Mobile Phones AdPeter Cook - Duracell Toy Car AdExciting finds, fo' sho'...I'd always figured (and hoped, if I'm honest) that Morris would be vehemently opposed to comedians doing adverts. This was partly due to
this old article (found by clinty from
The Establishment as I recall) where Morris complained bitterly about ad agencies nicking his ideas. Mind you, Morris
is doing his Victor Lewis-Smith impression in that Times advert. This does make me wonder now about those who claimed - many years ago - to have seen Morris in a TV advert for Zanussi, which was supposedly directed by Armando Iannucci. Anyone got this - or any other Morris adverts - on tape?
Our thanks once more to Mat Savage, the fellow who
very kindly supplied us with the rare-as-rocking-horse-shit 1993 GLR shows, and here's another one that I've just finished repatching:
Chris Morris GLR Show - 24th April 1993 - 142 MegsAnother great show...particularly like Morris show-casing his DJ skills with the Prince/The Smiths segue, very tasty. Also a few more ideas that are done as throwaway items, but which then return in an extended form in the following years R1 music shows. This show was up here before in an incomplete state, and in worse quality, so it's definitely worth grabbing again.
Have to quickly say a
massive thanks to top man Timmay for going to a lot of trouble to sort us out with our own Bit Torrent tracker, which has meant that we've finally been able to get the R1 shows, Blue Jam and On The Hour shared again...check the respective pages for torrent links, and
please remember to share when your downloads finish. Try to upload the same amount as you've downloaded
at the very least.
Finally, Armando Iannucci is currently titting about with a load of unfunny viral ballacks on his new BBC2 show
Time Trumpet, which you can miss by avoiding BBC2 on Thursdays at 10. Bloody awful show so far, every bit as bad as 2004: The Stupid Version, and yet I was under the impression that it was going to be more along the lines of the (much better) Clinton: His Struggle With Dirt. E4 seem to be repeating The IT Crowd at the mo, too, so you might want to check that out, if you can bear to hear Patrick bloody Allen murdering irony during every single ad-break. Not a bad little show, though...started off very promising, with episode 2 being
out-standing - better than any single episode of Bland Books - but then it tailed off during the rest of the run. Hopefully a second series will be a lot more consistent. Anyway, enough aimless waffling for now, more downloads coming very soon.
