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| Volunteers Needed for Next Goodies Art Exhibition |
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 Jenny's asked me to pass along the following request:
***VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR NEXT GOODIES ART EXHIBITION!***
Dates : 26th Jan- 2nd Feb 2012 (closed on Sunday 29th Jan 2012) at CentreSpace Gallery, Bristol
Duties:
Help put paintings up on 26th Jan and take down on the 2nd Feb.
Opening up and putting out A-boards (poster display boards) on surrounding streets etc.
And attending the building during opening hours.
the times will be 10am to 5pm(except Sunday) Times to be arranged for the 26th, 27 Jan and 2nd Feb.
I need a least 5 willing people. (would help being fans of The Goodies!)
**Due to gallery rules I can't do it alone!**
If your interested please contact me via Facebook and my e-mail address is jenny.doyle0@googlemail.com.
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Posted by lisa at 11/11/2011 15:50 GMT |
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| Goodies Gingerbread House Contest 2011 |
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Goodies Gingerbread House Contest 2011 – celebrating classic comedy TV series The Goodies with the use of gingerbread. Choose anything Goodies related, re-create it in gingerbread and enter the contest – and you stand a chance of being a winner! For information on the Goodies-related prizes you can win, keep an eye on http://goodiescontest.wordpress.com
There are two classes to enter:
House class: Bake the parts yourself or use pre-made gingerbread snaps, and assemble them into a 3D house/creation. Don’t forget the decorations – icing is usually the main thing, but other edibles can also be
used.
Decoration class: Use icing and other edibles to decorate one or more gingerbread snaps.
(one entrant per class per person, so you can enter both classes with two different contributions – and remember all parts must be edible)
Take photos of your contributions (House class 2-4 photos, Decoration class 1-2 photos) and email them to goodiescontest@gmail.com
Your contributions should be sent in before
MIDNIGHT (your local time) December 12th
The online voting will take place in December, and winners will be announced as soon as possible after that. All information will be available on the contest website: http://goodiescontest.wordpress.com
You can also follow on twitter @goodiescontest for any news & updates!
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Posted by lisa at 01/11/2011 03:04 GMT |
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| Clunk, click ... R.I.P. Jimmy |
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Jimmy Savile, the eccentric radio broadcaster who the Goodies had fun sending up on various occasions (most notably Graeme in "Chubby Chumps"), has died at the age of 84.
From: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/flamboyant-british-tv-and-radio-star-jimmy-savile-dies/story-e6frfku0-1226180603638
Flamboyant British TV and radio star Jimmy Savile dies
By David Stringer
From: AP
October 30, 2011 7:32AM
VETERAN British broadcaster Jimmy Savile, a famously eccentric culture figure, has died at his home in northern England aged 84.
Savile, known for his garish tracksuits, chunky gold jewellery and boundless enthusiasm for pop music and charity work, was the host of two long-running British television programs and claimed to have been a long-time confidant to Prince Charles and ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Rarely seen without his trademark large cigar, Savile had initially worked in a coal mine as a teenager before embracing music and building a national profile as a disc jockey - first in Britain's dance halls and later on radio, including the renowned Radio Luxembourg.
West Yorkshire Police confirmed that officers had been called on Saturday to Savile's home in the city of Leeds, northern England, and said that there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding his death. The cause is not yet known.
Savile claimed to have been the first DJ in the world to use two turntables - enabling continuous music to be played - and to have pioneered the use of records, rather than live bands, at nightclubs.
"History has it that I was the very, very first in the whole world" to organise a disco event, he told the BBC in May.
Bestowed with a knighthood for his charity fundraising, Savile was best known as the host of the BBC's Top Of The Pops weekly television pop music show, launching the program in 1964 and returning to present its final edition in 2006.
For almost 20 years from 1975, Savile also hosted the hugely popular series Jim'll Fix It, in which the broadcaster responded to children's letters by arranging for their wishes to be realised.
Savile championed a host of good causes - frequently running marathons to raise money - and led work to collect £20 million ($30.22 million) for the creation of a national spinal injuries centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in southern England.
"He was a very energetic character," friend and fellow radio presenter David Hamilton told Britain's Sky News television. "But most of all, I remember him as just a totally flamboyant, over the top, larger than life character and as he was on the air, he was just the same off."
Savile never married and lived alone in his native Leeds, in northern England, reserving part of his home as a shrine to his late mother.
His guarded, and sometime curious, private life was the subject of a television documentary in 2000 by film maker Louis Theroux, son of author Paul Theroux.
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Posted by bretta at 30/10/2011 20:03 GMT |
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| Oddie songs on Resonance FM |
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Thanks to fan club member ponyharvest for posting the following in the forums:
I was invited to be a guest on Jonny Trunk's 'OST' (=Original Sound Track) show on Resonance FM on Saturday, in amongst library records, Italian spaghetti western themes, Sheffield-based musicals and BBC sound effects I played a couple of Oddie musical numbers, 'Boomerang Love' from The Clown Virus and 'Sing Us A Song' from ISIRTA and talked a bit about the incidental music from the Goodies shows and Andrew Pixley's book (which was only fair as most of my information about this had come from there!)
It's repeated this Wednesday 26th 3 - 5pm (UK time) on 104.4FM in the Central London area, and via their website http://resonancefm.com/ to the rest of the world.
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Posted by lisa at 25/10/2011 18:14 GMT |
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| Bill's shoes sold for charity |
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Bill was one of the celebrities to donate shoes for a charity auction, according to an article at
http://www.looktothestars.org/news/7146-celebrity-shoes-go-under-the-hammer-at-charity-event which has a fun photo of Bill and the shoes (which were sold for £350.00). Here are more details from that page:
Celebrity Shoes Go Under The Hammer At Charity Event
Over 350 people – including many of the celebrity shoe donors themselves – showed their support for the fundraising Celebrity Shoe Auction at The Royal Society of Medicine, at One Wimpole St, London on October 12.
Celebrities who attended the event included legendary designer Zandra Rhodes, actor Peter Egan, actor Roger Lloyd-Pack (recently in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), actor Vicki Michelle, writer Michele Hanson, presenter Bill Oddie and actor James Purefoy.
Celebrity auctioneer Henry Kelly charmed the audience so much so that James Purefoy not only bid and won Bond girl Eva Green’s brogues, but he then donated them back to the charity for the online auction which started yesterday. Alongside Eva Green, shoes donated by Colin Firth, Sarah Jessica Parker, Russell Brand, Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell, Bill Murray and Sienna Miller are amongst 60 other famous pairs going under the hammer online for 7 days!
Small Steps Project is a humanitarian charity that delivers shoes, aid and medical care to children on rubbish dumps all over the world.
Break down of celebrity shoe results:
£260.00 LOT 1 Liam Gallagher
£300.00 LOT 1 Joanna Lumley
£250.00 LOT 6 Sarah Jessica Parker
£350.00 LOT 9 Bill Oddie
£850.00 LOT 12 Kate Moss
The evening in total raised almost £12,000.
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Posted by lisa at 17/10/2011 20:18 GMT |
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| Goodies Clarion & Globe contributions |
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The next edition of the Goodies Clarion & Globe newsletter (#190) will be published on 12th November.
All members of the GROK fan club are most welcome to make a contribution to the C&G, so if you've got something factual (a news item about The Goodies or one of Tim, Bill & Graeme's solo projects that you've spotted), an opinion piece (such as a review or comments on your favourite Goodies episode / song / DVD etc) or something creative (like a Goodies puzzle, poem or short piece of fanfic) then by all means send it in to clarion@goodiesruleok.com . We'd be very happy to receive it!
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Posted by bretta at 15/10/2011 04:54 GMT |
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Bill Oddie takes part in the BBC Wildlife Magazine's October Podcast, which can be heard or downloaded from 
* BBC Radio 4 repeated "A Family Business: The Chaplin Legacy", which is narrated by Tim Brooke-Taylor, on Saturday. The show is currently available on the BBC iPlayer at 
