September 11 2007
Lounge Links
posted by Steven Shaw at 5:58 pm
French and Saunders — pictured here taking the mickey out of Amy Winehouse and Britney Spears — are celebrating 20 years of their TV sketch show … let’s put this in context — The Two Ronnies lasted around 16 years (1971-1987), and although they worked together for four decades, the Morecambe And Wise ran for only 15 years (1968-1983), and that’s including their all-too-familiar Christmas Special. Sad thing is that The Comic Strip, from which French and Saunders emerged alongside Rick Mayall and Adrian Edmondson, eschewed the old guard of British variety-comedy, despising the very thing they would become…
Tour News: Hollie Smith announces theatre tour with SJD in tow…
NZ music legend Max Merritt, who is surely a top contender for the inaugural NZ Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announcement, is in hospital…
The Iron Man teaser trailer, starring Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, is now up. Looks like a good amount of humour in this Marvel Comics adaptation by Jon Favreau…
While we’re at it, you can keep an eye on any Marvel Comics-related movie or TV stuff at Marvel.com’s Movies & TV section. Yes, even if you’re a devout follower of George Lucas’ Howard the Duck …
Guess what, here’s the plot: Spoilers for the Sex and the City movie…
Often rumoured, never confirmed: What’s going on with Led Zep? Latest are rumours of a Led Zeppelin tour featuring founding members Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones, with late drummer John Bonham’s son Jason on drums. It may be a bit of a standing joke, but a press conference is set for September 12 (tomorrow), and many expect that they won’t just be announcing their new best of (the 24-track Mothership), or the deluxe reissue of the soundtrack to The Song Remains the Same…
Phil Collins learns to play the drums again, back as frontman for Genesis, returning from a 15-year touring hiatus, though the band currently has no plans to return to the s-s-studio…
Title revealed for Indiana Jones IV: It’s Indian Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, according to various movie blogs…
Franz Ferdinand: The Telegraph asks “Will the world still want the kind of skinny-boy art-rock that was so captivating back in 2004?
Video: Trailer for the upcoming film Across The Universe, an original musical film set in the turbulent 1960s, with a Beatles-penned soundtrack… no surprises then, that the main character’s name is Jude. (December release in NZ)
September 11th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
There’s a rather good book called Didn’t You Kill My Mother-In-Law, which looks at the British alternative comedy scene.
It was written in 1989, and it notes that most TV series made by these comedians only ran for two or three series before the comedians chose to end them, going out on a high note.
Not any more, it seems.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:26 am
I saw Genesis in Toronto on Friday – for free, it turns out. I guess Ticketmaster giving away C$277 tickets on the day of the gig makes up a little for them scalping the best seats themselves.
Although some of the songs were pitched down a little for Phil’s aging voice, and there was a little bit of forced audience participation, it was a great show, and both old and new songs were performed with gusto.
It’s hard to appreciate two drummers at once, so it was good that some of the time that Collins was drumming, Chester Thompson stopped, so you could actually prove it was him! The dual-drumming solo (starting out with the two of them playing a stool) was excellent.
The sound quality was also very good for a stadium show.
The regular unfounded rumours put them in Aus/NZ next year; I’d definitely recommend seeing them, but expect it would be pricy. You can either buy first to avoid sell-outs, or bank on it not, and pay nothing on the last day. At least there’s Craigslist here; makes getting tickets to sold-out things somewhat more reasonable than Trade Me does.