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| Goodies interview on BBC Radio London 12 November / Bristol newspaper article |
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 * All three Goodies are scheduled to do an interview with BBC Radio London on 12th November around 12pm, just before the HMV Oxford Street DVD signing.
* A reminder that The Goodies are going to be at HMV Oxford Street (London) to meet fans and sign copies of the new DVDs on Fri 12th Nov. Here's the Facebook link for the event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118525424875715
* On Tuesday the Bristol Evening Post ran an article about the Goodies event Sunday night. The article can be found online at http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/entertainmentnews/Reunion-good-guys-comedy-gain-award/article-2852240-detail/article.html ; a cut & paste of the text is below. (On a personal note, the quotes attributed to Lisa in this article actually came from someone else due to a mix-up by the reporter).
Comedy trio The Goodies were reunited on stage in Bristol
By John Houseman
COMEDY trio The Goodies were reunited on stage in Bristol to launch a festival and receive a lifetime achievement award.
Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie were in the city exactly 40 years to the day since making their screen debut in 1970.
They were helping to launch the Slapstick Comedy Festival, where they will be performing live in January.
The Goodies, whose show of the same name was watched by millions on BBC and later ITV in the 1970s and 80s, have also re-released their 1975 novelty hit The Funky Gibbon to raise money for the International Primate Protection League.
At the launch event they were handed the Aardman Slapstick Award for Visual Comedy Excellence by festival organiser Chris Daniels.
The award was a custom-made figure of Aardman's animated slapstick character Morph, made by the company's model-makers.
Mr Daniels said: "For more than a decade these three people produced pioneering satirical, intelligent and downright silly comedy in a golden age of British comedy.
"It is an honour to present these iconic figures of British comedy with the award, which is fully deserved on the 40th anniversary of their television debut."
Mr Garden said: "It's fun getting back together. We never really lost touch. Tim and I worked together on radio but to be back together promoting The Goodies thing again is quite interesting."
Mr Oddie said: "It's one of the great mysteries of all time, along with the pyramids of Egypt – why didn't The Goodies ever get repeated by the BBC?
"We genuinely don't know. Many people have asked but it's great to be back together."
In their 12 years together, The Goodies rediscovered the Lost Island of Munga, represented the UK in the Winter Olympics, started Britain's space programme and blew up the BBC.
First appearing on our screens in November 1970, the trio were prime-time mainstays for the next decade and were the fifth biggest-grossing pop act of 1975.
Their shows, in which the trio played an agency of three bicycling blokes for hire to do "anything, anywhere, anytime", were freewheeling streams-of-nonsense in which TV conventions were upended and every silent-movie gag in history lovingly re-created.
Mr Garden and Mr Brooke-Taylor appear as regular panellists on BBC Radio 4 game show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, while Mr Oddie has carved a career as a wildlife presenter.
To celebrate the 40th anniversary, a Goodies DVD – At Last, Back For More, Again, which features eight of the best episodes – is being released.
Fans travelled from around the world to see the reunion on Sunday night.
Self-proclaimed "superfan" Lisa Manekofsky travelled all the way from Rhode Island in the US to see the performance.
She said: "I absolutely love them and it was so good to see them perform together.
"I was starting to think I never would so when I heard tickets were going on sale I knew I had to come down as it may be the last chance."
Linda Southern, 35, from Dublin, Ireland said: "As soon as I heard they were performing I was on the phone with my credit card at 9am. I'm 35 years old and I feel like a teenager at a Boyzone concert – I'm so excited.
"I saw Tim and Graeme as part of the I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue radio show but to see Bill Oddie on stage with them as part of the trio is just fantastic."
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Posted by lisa at 12/11/2010 05:41 GMT |
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| A thank you from Graeme |
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Graeme sent this note to be passed along via the fan club to everyone who contributed to the events this past weekend (including those who sent in messages for the anniversary cards):
This is just a short note but it's a genuine thank you to you and all our GROK chums who helped to make the weekend so much fun and so memorable. Special thanks to Helen and Clair for organising the party and to all who travelled to Manchester and Bristol from far and wide. It was great to see many familiar faces, and to receive a copy of Andrew's amazing book, and mention has to be made of all the hard work Jenny put in to the splendid Anniversary Cards for us. The many messages from around the world are something to treasure.
Your support does mean a lot to us, and here's hoping we all meet again for the 50th!
Goody wishes to one and all
Graeme
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Posted by lisa at 11/11/2010 06:06 GMT |
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| Reminder about BBC 2 "Return of The Goodies" repeat (13 November) |
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A reminder that "Return of The Goodies" is being repeated on BBC Two this Saturday, 13 November, at 8:00pm.
UK viewers might like to contact the BBC to request politely that they replace the "Dad's Army" repeat scheduled to preceed the show at 7:30pm with an episode of "The Goodies".
The BBC can be contact by phone at 0370 010 0123
or by mail at PO Box 1922, Darlington, DL3 0UR
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Posted by lisa at 09/11/2010 09:38 GMT |
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| articles in the Telegraph & The Daily Mail / photo of Goodies award/YouTube clip |
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A few news items:
* In honor of the release of the new Goodies DVDs today (details at http://www.networkdvd.net/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=goodies&x=0&y=0), Network have added another clip to YouTube - this one has two of the Goodies' mock ads. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9i8mri1c-w
* Thanks to the Bristol Slapstick Festival for a pointer to this photo - http://yfrog.com/5togbj - of the Slapstick Festival and Aardman Animations Awards for Excellence in Visual Comedy Award The Goodies received last evening.
* An article appears in The Daily Telegraph (and on their website) today mentioning last evening's event in Bristol and the release of the new DVDs. Strangely, it claims this is the Goodies first public performance in 25 years - guess they weren't among the 3.3 million people who watched the "Return of The Goodies" special in 2005 (which is being repeated on BBC Two this Saturday night)...
Here's a cut & paste from
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/8116070/The-Goodies-give-their-first-public-performance-for-25-years.html
The Goodies give their first public performance for 25 years
The Seventies comedy trio The Goodies reunited for their first public performance for 25 years yesterday.
By Laura Roberts
Published: 7:30AM GMT 08 Nov 2010
Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke Taylor appeared at The Watershed in Bristol to mark the anniversary of their debut series which first aired 40 years ago on November 7.
The three comedians will also perform at the Slapstick silent comedy gala in January.
They rose to prominence with BBC2's The Goodies in the 70's and have also re-released their 1975 classic hit The Funky Gibbon to raise money for the International Primate Protection League.
To celebrate the 40th anniversary, they are releasing a DVD, At Last, Back For More, Again, which features eight of the best episodes. The Goodies' classic ode to the ape The Funky Gibbon is to be relaunched to raise cash to help protect the primate.
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* Yesterday's edition of The Daily Mail has an article about "The Funky Gibbon" being relaunched in aid of charity to help gibbons, which are endangered primates
Here's a cut & paste from the article, at
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1327468/The-Goodies-relaunch-Funky-Gibbon-song-save-endangered-ape.html
Do the Funky Gibbon... again: The Goodies release classic song to protect primates
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 5:09 PM on 7th November 2010
The Goodies' classic ode to the ape The Funky Gibbon is to be relaunched to raise cash to help protect the primate.
Comedians Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden originally scored a top ten hit with the novelty song in 1975.
Now 25 years on, the track has been given a revamp and will by re-released to boost the coffers of the International Primate Protection League's Save the Gibbon campaign.
Gibbons rank among the most endangered primates in the world.
Since the 1950s, numbers of the Hainan gibbon have plummeted from more than 2,000 to fewer than 25. All 16 species of gibbon are threatened with extinction.
But the IPPL hope that with the help of The Goodies, the profile of the forgotten ape will receive a boost.
Helen Thirlway, director of IPPL, said: 'Gibbons are often overlooked because, due to their small size, they are classified as lesser rather than great apes.
'This means they don't receive the same funding and protection and yet they are equally at risk from poaching, illegal trafficking and habitat destruction.'
The Funky Gibbon will be available for download from tomorrow at www.savethegibbon.org.
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Posted by lisa at 08/11/2010 16:43 GMT |
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| Listen Again links for Graeme & Bill's radio interviews today (5 November) |
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The batch of radio shows Graeme & Bill did earlier today are available via the BBC iPlayer, which should be available to most of the world.
1. BBC Radio Bristol: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00bw0x8
A Goodies song is played around 11:45 minutes into the broadcast, followed by the interview which begins at about 14:45 minutes
2. BBC Radio Norfolk: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00bw0k6
The interview begins around 1 hour 45 minutes into the show.
3. BBC Radio Derby: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00bw147
The interview begins around 2 hours 11 minutes into the show.
4. BBC Radio Manchester: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00bw274
Talk about The Goodies begins at 1 hour 30 minutes into the show, when the owner of Manchester's Lass O'Gowrie pub talks about the Goodies Birthday Party Event to be held there tomorrow (Saturday, 6 Nov), at which Tim Brooke-Taylor will be the special guest. Bill & Graeme's interview begins about ten minutes later (at 1 hour 40 minutes into the show).
5. Graeme & Bill were scheduled to appear on the BBC Scotland's The Comedy Café but the show's website says, "Due to industrial action by the National Union of Journalists there was no Comedy Cafe today."
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Posted by lisa at 05/11/2010 18:35 GMT |
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| Goodies radio interviews Friday, 4 November and other news |
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With The Goodies 40th Anniversary, and the release of the new DVDs, less than a week away there's a lot of news to report! I've tried to summarize all the major news stories below. Many thanks to everyone who has contributed info - keep it coming! Corrections & updates are welcome!
1. RADIO INTERVIEWS (5 November): Bill and Graeme are scheduled to do a number of live radio interviews tomorrow to promote the new DVDs from Network (details at http://www.networkdvd.net/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=goodies&x=0&y=0). Here is the list of the ones we know about so far:
1300: BBC Radio Scotland
1415: BBC Radio Bristol
1445 BBC Radio Norfolk
1515: BBC Radio Derby
1530: BBC Radio Manchester
Two interviewers have asked fans to submit questions for The Goodies. Here are the details:
* From BBC THREE COUNTIES RADIO - Posted on The Goodies Facebook Page (www.facebook.com/thegoodies) by Schools Out: "Hi Guys - I'm interviewing the boys for my Saturday Breakfast show on BBC Three Counties Radio this week. Are there any questions you would like to ask. I will try and squeeze a couple in. All the best. Justin" You can comment after Justin's post on The Goodies Page. (His show's Facebook page is http://www.facebook.com/thegoodies#!/SCHOOLSOUTWITHJUSTINDEALEY)
* FROM BBC LONDON: "I run social media for BBC London, and we'd like fans to post any question they'd like to Tim, Graeme, & Bill, for an extra Twitter audio interview that we'll do after they've been interviewed by Robert Elms on the 12th November! All they have to do is tweet @RobertElms or email robert.elms@bbc.co.uk "
2. YOUTUBE: Network plans to add another YouTube clip tomorrow from the forthcoming new Goodies DVD ("The Goodies...At Last - Back For More, Again). They've already uploaded clips from "Goodies Rule - OK?" and "It Might As Well Be String". Which episode do you think will be represented next? The choices are "Cecily", "The Music Lovers", "The New Office", "Camelot", "2001 And A Bit", and "Royal Command".
3. RADIO 4 SHOW SATURDAY: A reminder that the radio show "Anything, Anywhere, Anytime" will air on BBC Radio 4 this Saturday, 6 November at 10:30am - it can be heard online at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 (and should be available from Listen Again afterwards). Here's a listing: "On the 40th anniversary of the Goodies' television debut, Ross Noble revisits a world of giant cats, Lancastrian martial artists, rampaging Dougals and funky gibbons."
4. NEW NATURE SHOW WITH BILL: Bill appears in the new documentary series "Birds Britannia" on BBC 4. The first episode, "Garden Birds", will be repeated several times through Sunday with the second episode, "Waterbirds", airing next week. See your local listings or http://uk-tv-guide.com/show-times/770629/Birds+Britannia/Nature/ for details.
5. INTERNATIONAL ORDERS FOR NEW GOODIES BOOK: Andrew Pixley's new book, "The Goodies: Super Chaps Three" is now available for non-UK orders from the Lulu print-on-demand service at http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-goodies-super-chaps-three/13507547
UK orders can be placed through Network (http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-goodies-super-chaps-three/13507547) or Kaleidoscope Publishing (http://www.kaleidoscopepublishing.co.uk/books.html)
6. NEW VERION OF "THE FUNKY GIBBON": Bill authorized and participated in the recording of a new version of "The Funky Gibbon" to aid the IPPL's (International Primate Protection League) efforts to protect and conserve gibbons. The song is now available on iTunes for 79p; all profits go to gibbon conservation. IPPL say, "Please download the track and encourage all of your friends to download. If enough people download the track, it will get into the charts!" Here is the Funky Gibbon for Christmas No. 1’ Facebook Page: http://on.fb.me/funkygibbon
7. RETURN OF "RETURN OF THE GOODIES": The 2005 special "Return of The Goodies" will be repeated on BBC Two, Saturday, 13 Nov at 8pm. Here's a listing: "Using the classic Goodies format, this special programme brings Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden back together to relive some of their finest moments and illustrates the history of their origins in the Cambridge Footlights, right through to the peak of their success. Including the hit single Funky Gibbon and all the classic episodes such as Kitten Kong and Kung Fu Kapers. Contributors include John Cleese, Martin Freeman, Stanley Baxter, Ronni Ancona, Hugh Edwards and Jon Culshaw."
8. THIS WEEKEND'S EVENTS: A reminder that the Goodies event in Bristol on Sunday is sold out, but that some tickets are still available for the fan organized event in Manchester (at which Tim Brooke-Taylor will be a special guest); details and information about purchasing tickets for Manchester can be found at http://goodiesparty.wordpress.com/
9. THE ONE SHOW: The Goodies appearance on "The One Show" from a few hours ago will soon be available to viewers in the UK from the BBC iPlayer at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00vr611/The_One_Show_04_11_2010/
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Posted by lisa at 04/11/2010 21:24 GMT |
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Just a little note to say it is The Goodies Rule - OK! 15th anniversary! 
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