Yesterday the site celebrated its fifth birthday, so we thought we'd mark the occasion with something a bit special we've been saving. A couple of months ago a pal of mine, Lewis Gillingham, got in touch with a nice chap called Mart Simpson after hearing he may have some rather rare Morris material that we've been trying to get hold of for years. Mart had a collection of snippets, scattered across various tapes, which he spent a good while compiling into one 44-minute compilation. We've did a little bit of fiddling with it to restore the audio and now, we're delighted to say, you can download a 45 minute compilation of
No Known Cure shows from the site! This has been something of a Holy Grail for us, so it's just fantastic to get hold of it at last and find out that it's as fascinating and hilarious as we'd hoped. This compilation seems to date from around 1989, and contains some all-new jingles, early Wayne Carr segments, some clearly VLS-influenced bits and pieces, great callers, and a surprise appearance 34 minutes in from...well, download it and see. It really is a pleasure to be able to share this early slice of Morris radio goodness, if you think you may have more on tape then please search through those drawers, and
get in touch if you find anything of interest, ta.
While you're waiting for that to download, you may want to read the following threads which have some new information about the Morris/Brooker series "Box of Slice":
Box of Slice Character Breakdown -
Box of Slice Lead Actors. Oh, and if you haven't seen "My Wrongs #8245-8249 &117" yet then, well you're not missing much, but you might want to pick up the new collection of European Short Films DVD from
Cinema16 which contains My Wrongs. Shame Morris didn't take the oppurtunity to stick a proper commentary on there, but the one that was on the original release is included in the package, along with a load of other short films. It's an excellent compilation.
After you've finished with that you can help yourself to two new Music Shows, episode numbers #22 and #23, and the second series of Blue Jam, with thanks once again to Mark Williams and Jon Lawrence for hosting. Series three will be up over the next couple of weeks.
Hope you enjoy No Known Cure as much as we have, with luck we may see more early Morris material being surfaced over the next few years. Anyway, thanks to everyone who has supported the site in any way at all over the last five years, it simply wouldn't have survived until now were it not for the generosity of you lot. The web hosting by Nick Mailer has allowed us to keep bringing you news and files, without having to plaster the site with banner ads and popups, so we owe him a special thanks. We can't single out everyone who has helped us over the last five years, but these are some of the names that spring to mind most readily: Richard Courtney, Rod Dupuis, SOTCAA, Almost Yearly, mook, Steve bass2rez, Joe McNally, Gavin, ApexJazz, Darrell, Frinky, and many many more. We're also extremely grateful to everyone who has ever sent in old tapes or videos to be encoded and shared with everyone else. Big thanks from us to you all, you've made working on the site a pleasure. Mwah.