Confirmed: In conversation with Chris Morris - 6th March - Bootleggers required.

[Neil]

Update: mp3 now available thanks to Tommy Trumpet, cheers Tom!

Chris Morris - Live At Bournemouth University

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Thanks to Tim Maynard for this.

In Conversation with Chris Morris
Tuesday 6th of March

Wessex Media Group


In Conversation with Chris Morris

Satirist, Comic Writer and Actor


Journalist Paul Lashmar talks to Chris Morris about his work.

The Media School - Weymouth House - Bournemouth University

6-30pm - Tues March 6th

5-45 â€" Networking and Refreshments  

Chris Morris is perhaps most well known for his satires on the conventions of TV  broadcasting ( The Day to Day and Brass Eye) and the device of “tricking celebrities and politicians into throwing their support behind public awareness campaigns for made-up issues that were often absurd or surreal in the extreme (such as a designer drug called 'cake' and an elephant with its trunk stuck up its anus). …..  More recently  â€¦. Morris worked on a sitcom entitled Nathan Barley, based on the character created by Charlie Brooker  â€¦â€¦â€¦ and he was a cast member in The IT Crowd, a Channel 4 sitcom focusing on the office and home lives of two "geeks" who work in the information technology department of the fictional company Reynholm Industries. Morris played Denholm Reynholm, the eccentric managing director of the company. This marks the first time Morris has acted in a substantial role in a project which he hasn't developed himself and is far more mainstream than his earlier work.” Wikipedia

This event is ticket only and open to Wessex Media Group members only who should e mail the Cluster Manager Lena Samuels for an e ticket. lena@wessexmediagroup.co.uk

You can join Wessex Media Group (currently at no charge) by going to the WMG web site www.wessexmediagroup.co.uk , clicking on About WMG and following the instructions for joining.

[Dark Sky]

Well, the world has suddenly gotten a bit stranger.

[butnut]

Well, a bootleg of this would be very interesting!

[Neil]

Well, a bootleg of this would be very interesting!

Yeah, I've already asked the guy who mentioned it, and done a quick update, and now will get it out to the email lists.  Fingers crossed there'll be at least a few people capable of recording a boot.  Still kind of sceptical, but I'm checking round about Wessex Media Group, and they seem to be legit.

[Dark Sky]

Well, a bootleg of this would be very interesting!

...understatement of the year!

The occasional newspaper interview aside, has Morris ever talked about his work publically?

[Morgan]

Cor, I'd love to get down to this but I won't be able.  Please, somebody, get a bloody bootleg of this!

[Morgan]

Although I do have to say I immediately distrust any site that uses Comic Sans and quotes from Wikipedia.

[Neil]

I've found an email for Paul Lashmar, I'll give him a shout.

[Tommy Trumpet]

I'm pretty confident this is real, as everybody at the University (where I go) knows about it and they often host WMG events. If it's any kind of hoax the WMG and the Uni aren't in on it.

I must admit I knew about it a few days ago but I didn't post it on CaB in case all the CaBers got tickets before me.

Also, I just got off the phone to the guy at WMG, because my e-ticket hasn't come through, and he explained that they had a wave of new applications from students (after the e-mail went round the Uni system), to the extent that the webmaster thought they were being spammed.

So they decided to give tickets to old members first before authenticating new members... which they've now done, but then found that they had loads of e-mails from students who weren't members, or something.

But anyway, they have added more seating (well, upgraded it to a bigger lecture theatre, I assume), so they think they will probably be able to fit in everybody who's applied so far. So I should get a ticket through on Monday.

So I guess that means it's still worth applying although it might well sell out (I don't whether they'd be able to upgrade it further)... especially if there's a rush of CaBers applying - maybe I should have warned the guy about that possibility?

If nobody else does I'll attempt to bootleg it (assuming I do get a ticket) although I have no experience of such things. What should I do, just take an mp3 player with a record function?

[Garfield And Friends]

Get yer camcorders oot! Might want to hide a dictaphone by the stage too.

[Marvin]

An MP3 player with a record function should do it. God, I hope people do manage to get a bootleg of this!

[Neil]

Yeah, and a FLAC soundboard boot on dimeadozen toot sweet, please :-)

The interviewer just confirmed it too!

While I'm here, could I ask please if anyone could do me an mp3 of the 'No-one died' bit from TDT?  I've promised some fellow I'd do it for his club night tomorrow, and a) I can't get Wavelab to install yet, no matter how many versions I try, and b) the discs keep crashing Windows Media Player, so I can't even use Windows Sound Recorder, or whatever it's called.

[weirdbeard]

While I'm here, could I ask please if anyone could do me an mp3 of the 'No-one died' bit from TDT?  I've promised some fellow I'd do it for his club night tomorrow, and a) I can't get Wavelab to install yet, no matter how many versions I try, and b) the discs keep crashing Windows Media Player, so I can't even use Windows Sound Recorder, or whatever it's called.

Just the "In 1977, no-one died.  In 1978, no-died" bit or the entire sketch?

[Neil]

I guess it's just the Coogan bits he wants.

Thanks in advance, weirdbeard, you're constantly helping out with stuff like this, and it's appreciated.

[Pinball]

This is great news - fascinating change of style from CM! This will be one of the must-have MP3s of the year, I reckon..

Ideally, we need the mic feed to be recorded. I'm sure someone knows one of the audio techs there!

[Tommy Trumpet]

This is great news - fascinating change of style from CM! This will be one of the must-have MP3s of the year, I reckon..

Ideally, we need the mic feed to be recorded. I'm sure someone knows one of the audio techs there!

I will try to find out if there's any chance of someone recording it 'properly'. I know the university normally record guest lecturers and stick it on their website but since this is WMG and not Uni organized I expect they won't... I'm not sure if the WMG people do anything similar.

[Morgan]

Ooh, the interviewer lad has confirmed?

Wow.  If I don't get to hear this I'll be fuming... I'm looking forward to this far more than any of his actual projects coming up.

[weirdbeard]

I guess it's just the Coogan bits he wants.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/8kmbmh

Thanks in advance, weirdbeard, you're constantly helping out with stuff like this, and it's appreciated.

It's an absolute pleasure.

[Neil]

Ah yer a star, thanks again, the fellow passes on his thanks too.  Top man.

[Lt Plonker]

So they decided to give tickets to old members first before authenticating new members... which they've now done, but then found that they had loads of e-mails from students who weren't members, or something.

But, what about the homeless?????


It's not fair!  *cries and pouts*

[amputeeporn]

This is really exciting! It's so rare to hear him speaking as himself at all, let alone about his work, high hopes here!

[derekandclive]

Wonder will he discuss any this new project he is working on? It nearly makes me feel uncomfortable to think of Morris out of character. WE NEED A BOOTLEG

[A Passing Turk Slipper]

Jesus, this is very amazing news. I hope (assuming it goes ahead etc) he talks a bit about his early radio stuff or at least his R1 shows.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

The use of Comic Sans is ridiculously widespread anyway. It wouldn't even surprise me to see .gov.uk sites using it. In fact I think some local government ones do.

Words are so much easier to read in comic sans...it's like informal typography!!!

[Emergency Lalla Ward Ten]

Do we know anything about the interviewer then? Can we trust him to ask decent questions?

[Tommy Trumpet]

Dunno, a quick Google turns up this: http://www.kingston.ac.uk/cusp/Contributors/Lashmar.htm

He seems to be a pretty well respected investigative reporter... though not with any record of comedy/TV reporting that I can see...

[Seymour Clufley]

Fucking hell, this is exciting. I'll add my voice to the chorus of bootleg-requesters.

[actwithoutwords]

The use of Comic Sans is ridiculously widespread anyway. It wouldn't even surprise me to see .gov.uk sites using it. In fact I think some local government ones do.

Words are so much easier to read in comic sans...it's like informal typography!!!

Didn't someone say that CaB had some Comic Sans back in the day? Or was Neil viciously libelled?

[Neil]

No, it's absolutely true.  I was clueless in, oh, so many ways.  Hate it now though.

[Dusty Gozongas]

He seems to be a pretty well respected investigative reporter

I don't care if it's Kevin Turvey. Get this bootlegged, somebody! :-)