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| Network DVD Christmas Sale |
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 Network DVD's shop (http://www.networkdvd.net/
) is having a Christmas sale from 3-16 December. Prices of many DVDs are 50% off - this includes DVDs from The Goodies, Hello Cheeky (with Tim), and Astronauts (written by Bill & Graeme).
For those who have been waiting to purchase the "Hello Cheeky" DVD (with Tim), please note that this title will only be available until January 13, 2013.
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Posted by lisa at 06/12/2012 22:15 GMT |
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| Goodies Gingerbread Contest 2012 |
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 The submission deadline is approaching for the Goodies Gingerbread Contest 2012. This contest "[celebrates] The Goodies with the use of gingerbread." Entrants "choose anything Goodies related, re-create it in gingerbread and enter the contest – and you stand a chance of being a winner!" Full details are available at http://goodiescontest.wordpress.com/
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Posted by lisa at 28/11/2012 23:00 GMT |
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| Slapstick 2013 (Bristol, England) Goodies & ISIHAC related events |
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There are lots of great events scheduled for Slapstick 2013 (to be held in Bristol, England in late January); the full schedule can be found on their website http://www.slapstick.org.uk/ . Following are details about several events of particular interest to Goodies/ISIHAC fans. NOTE THAT THE ISIHAC event (#3 below) is almost sold out!
1. Lost Goodies
With Tim Brooke-Taylor. Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie
SAT 26 Jan 1430hrs Arnolfini £8.00/£6.50 Box office +44 (0)117 9172300 / 01 or book online
http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/films/details/1518
From 1970 to 1982, British television audiences roared regularly with delighted laughter at the zany and visually-inventive comedy shows and specials created by the madcap trio known as The Goodies. Slapstick is reuniting all three Goodies for a look-back at rarely-seen gems from their multiple award- winning output. Chris Serle is in the chair giving you a chance to put questions.
2. Bill Oddie’s Laurel & Hardy Classics
SUN 27 Jan 1000hrs Watershed £8.00/£6.50
Box office 0117 927 5100 or book online at
http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?agency=watershed&organ_val=27849&schedule=list
Bill Oddie, national treasure, Goodie and wildlife guru returns to Bristol’s Slapstick festival to introduce audiences old and young to another of his passions: Laurel & Hardy. Bill chooses his favourite talkies in this early morning programme set to get you buzzing with nostalgia and delight. What better way to start your Sunday? Approx running time 70mins.
3. I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue – The Best of 40 Years
SUN 27 Jan 1130hrs Bristol Old Vic Box office 0117 9877877 or book online at http://www.bristololdvic.org.uk/slapsticksunday.html
Just what are the rules of Mornington Crescent? And who is the lovely Samantha? Join Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Colin Sell at the piano - the team from the self-styled antidote to panel games - as they mark the publication of their new book celebrating 40 years of being given silly things to do, and delighting their legions of fans across the world. Co-presented with Bristol’s Festival of Ideas.
4. Slapstick Festival presents Silent Comedy Gala hosted by Dara O Briain
Featuring Harold Lloyd in his classic comedy KID BROTHER (1927)
FRI 25 Jan 1930hrs Colston Hall £20.00/£17.00/£8.50 Under 12s Box Office 0117 922 3686 or book online
http://www.colstonhall.org/whatson/Event3318
This year's Silent Comedy Gala (Friday, 25 January) will include "music and entertainment from comedy legend Barry Cryer and his partner in comedy crime Ronnie Golden", along with classic comedy film masterpieces from Harold Lloyd (Kid Brother), Buster Keaton (The Goat) and Georges Melies (A Trip to
the Moon).
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Posted by lisa at 28/11/2012 22:52 GMT |
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| "Lost Goodies with Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie" event at Sl |
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Slapstick 2013, the festival to be held in Bristol, England at the end of January, will feature all three Goodies in an event called "Lost Goodies with Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie" on Saturday, 26 January at the Arnolfini Theatre. Following are details from the venue's website at http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/films/details/1518 - tickets can be booked from this page or by calling the Arnolfini box office at +44 (0)117 9172300 / 01
FROM THE VENUE WEBSITE:
Lost Goodies with Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie
Sat 26 Jan, 2.30pm
£8/£6.50 concs
From 1970 to 1982, British television audiences roared regularly with delighted laughter at the zany and visually-inventive comedy shows and specials created by the madcap trio known as The Goodies. Slapstick is reuniting all three Goodies for a look-back at rarely-seen gems from their multiple award-winning output. Chris Serle is in the chair giving you a chance to put questions.
Slapstick Festival 2013
Bristol's celebrated silent and visual comedy festival returns for a ninth year bringing hilarity to Bristol with an incredible line up of events with live music at Arnolfini. From Buster Keaton to The Goodies, to rarities from pioneering silent film comediennes Colleen Moore and Anna Sten, there really is something for everyone in this diverse and exciting programme.
www.slapstick.org.uk
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Posted by lisa at 26/11/2012 21:31 GMT |
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| Bill Oddie interview from The Telegraph (22 November 2012) |
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An interview with Bill, with some nice photos, appeared in The Telegraph on November 22nd. The online version can be found at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/9695949/Bill-Oddie-My-garden-shed-is-one-of-the-few-places-I-feel-secure.html
Here's a cut & paste of the text:
Bill Oddie: 'My garden shed is one of the few places I feel secure'
Bill Oddie gives Stephanie Clark a tour of his beloved shed, a sanctuary away from the stresses of life, and a base to watch the wildlife that flocks to his garden.
By Stephanie Clark
1:10PM GMT 22 Nov 2012
Bill Oddie looks about his leafy, charmingly untamed garden in a quiet corner of a north London suburb and counts. “There’s blue tit, grey tit, coal tit, robin, song thrush, five, blackbird, six, wood pigeon, seven, and so it goes on. Wren. I would think – jay, magpie – that there are about 15 species there now.” That’s just how many birds the Goodie/comedy actor/writer turned wildlife conservationist can see as we wend our way to his favourite space.
On the way, we pass his idiosyncratic planting schemes. There is the extensive garden gnome border, which adds, in gardening parlance, “billows of colour”, and further along, the Buddha bed: the different styles and sizes providing plenty of architectural interest. So far, so Goodie. Then finally, our destination: Bill’s beloved green shed, which has experienced a renaissance, after 25 years of falling apart.
“The shed was here when we moved in,” he recalls, “and, let’s face it, it was on the brink of collapse several times. I managed to go through the roof several times over the years, when I tried to mend it. But I wanted to use it, I wanted it dry; at one point I might have had the only water butt that was inside.”
Three or four months ago, help arrived. A friend with a firm supplying corporate planting, whom Bill, 71, had met through his wildlife interests, offered to create a green shed roof. When Bill pointed out that the shed was in a terrible state, the friend fixed that too.
Water-tight and snug, with a lick of paint and a flourishing roof of wild flowers, it is the perfect place to sit. Does he come out most nights when there’s decent weather?
“I do, because if it’s reasonable, and warm enough, I switch on the moth trap lamp. I come out here, just as it’s getting dark, and turn that on, and often just sit out here for 10 minutes and take in the dusk.”
The shed houses Bill’s bird seed supplies; for the record, he uses Haith’s.
“I would be very happy to have some of their mixed seed with some milk on it, because it does look delicious,” he laughs.
A slightly rusty saxophone is a reminder of what Bill says is a lifelong, unsuccessful quest to learn the instrument; there are some timbales, cast-offs from his drum kit inside the house, decoy birds and a work bench.
An old cupboard in vivid purple and green has a sweet back story: the small green handprints came from Rosie, 27, his daughter from his second marriage to children’s television writer and author Laura Beaumont, and resulted from an alarmingly close encounter between a very young Rosie and a tin of gloss paint.
It’s outside where the real fun starts. The façade is adorned with memorabilia; the space in front, with its little outdoor table and two fold-up chairs, is festooned with hurricane lanterns, fairy lights and light-sensitive lanterns planted in the Buddhist corner.
“It does look very nice, the lights are always on,” says Bill, who sits out with the special bulb of his moth trap on, admiring the different species he sees. Later he will identify and carefully re-release them. “You can see it from the house and it looks lovely.”
It’s also a place to heal from bouts of bipolar depression.
“I had a really, really bad year, around three years ago now, I was in hospital a couple of times, and I was home a lot. I wouldn’t get up at all a lot of the time, but when I did manage to get up, one of the few places I could feel reasonably secure in was the garden, there’s no doubt about that.”
Recovered, his thirst for explaining the importance of wildlife preservation is undiminished. A return to comedy writing is firmly ruled out, but he still judges success or failure in comedy terms.
“I was giving this Save the Whales presentation a little while ago, and I came away thinking, 'Well that didn’t go very well, I didn’t get a laugh’.”
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Posted by lisa at 26/11/2012 21:28 GMT |
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