Posted by Runjens:
Thursday, 11th March 2010 at 4:52pm |
News This news must be worth an entry here although it broke earlier today from Adam himself on the BBC 6Music Blog, if you were paying attention.
I’m hoping to do a show on my own and this week I’ll be recording a pilot for a weekly 2 hour show with our regular producer James Stirling in London. At the moment it’s called ‘Adam Buxton’s Big Mix Tape’ (can’t help doing the puns, sorry) and it’s supposed to be kind of like a compilation tape that I’ve made for the listeners with a different theme or mood each week. The pilot Mix Tape is called Øddens and features some of my favourite weird but accessible music by both well known and less well known artists. The show is 2 hours so it’s divided into two sides with a guest joining me for an hour to add their own tracks and just talk generally about any other rubbish that comes up.
The Guardian’s John Plunkett quickly put this together but there’s a long interview also covering the pilot at Shortlist.com.
With Adam’s mixtape talents and generally superior musical knowledge we are expecting this to be a wonderful show and wish him every success in turning this into a regular feature.
It would also seem that Adam is going to be doing Latitude again this year. More information about that when the dust of excitement has settled on the Big Mix Tape news.
Posted by Runjens:
Monday, 22nd February 2010 at 3:28pm |
News This post contains spoilers.
Attack the Block is one of the films that Joe Cornish has been writing. It was finally snapped up last year in a basket of impressive new work taken on by Film4. It will also be one of the first features to come out of the collaboration between Optimum and Big Talk Productions. Joe is now directing it which is the main reason for their extended leave from 6 Music.
Twitch Film have posted the sales artwork (see above) from the European Film Market and a much more detailed synopsis
Attack The Block is a fast, funny, frightening action adventure movie that pits a teen gang against an invasion of savage alien monsters. It turns a housing estate into a SCI-FI PLAYGROUND. A tower block into a fortress under siege. And weapon wielding teenage thugs into heroes. Think ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 only with monsters and a tower block. Or LA HAINE crossed with ALIENS. It’s inner city versus outer space.
Trainee nurse Sam is walking home to her flat in a scary South London tower block when she’s robbed by a gang of masked, hooded youths. She’s saved when the gang are distracted by a bright meteorite, which falls from the sky and hits a nearby parked car. Sam flees, just before the gang are attacked by a small alien creature that leaps from the wreckage. The gang chase the creature and kill it, dragging its ghoulish carcass to the top of the block, with they treat as their territory.
While Sam and the police hunt for the gang, a second wave of meteors fall. Confident of victory against such feeble invaders, the gang grab weapons, mount bikes and mopeds, and set out to defend their turf. But this time the creatures are bigger. Much bigger. Savage, shadowy and bestial, they are hunting their fallen comrade and nothing will stand in their way. THE ESTATE IS ABOUT TO BECOME A BATTLEGROUND. And the bunch of no-hope kids who just attacked Sam are about to become her, and the block’s, only hope.
Slash Film have put together another informative post with all the latest additions from the IMDB. Happily for us, Slash’s Brendon Connelly is keen to grab as much information as he can about this production so he should be able to keep us well informed.
Update: Adam Leese tweeted some more news yesterday: "Reading Attack the Block script for 1st read through tomorrow. Looking forward to working with Nick Frost."
Posted by Runjens:
Monday, 8th February 2010 at 10:56pm |
News Public Booking for the March sessions of BUG go on sale tomorrow at 11:30am.
This time, they are on the consecutive nights of 11th and 12th of March 2010.
Find out more here or go straight to the BUG 18 bookings page.
Even if the site shows ‘Fully Booked’, there are usually several tickets available on the door from 30 minutes before the start. The line for these begins anything up to an hour before the start.
If you’ve never been to a BUG, you’re denying yourself one of life’s great joys.
Posted by Runjens:
Wednesday, 27th January 2010 at 8:38pm |
News The Adam and Joe Podcast won their category at the Loaded Lafta Awards held at The Cuckoo Club earlier today.
The competition was worthy but their success was inevitable.
Congratulations, Pod Doctors!
They were also nominated in the Best Double Act category but that win went to Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer.
Posted by hobbsy:
Monday, 18th January 2010 at 6:42am |
News Adam Buxton is currently starring in The Persuasionists, a BBC2 sitcom set in the world of advertising. The first episode ‘Cockney Cheese’ aired at 10pm on Wednesday 13th January 2010, but if you missed it you can watch it via the BBC iPlayer
If you cast your mind back seven months to the last time I updated this fansite (sorry about that btw!), you might recall my blog post offering free audience tickets for this sitcom. The show was previously known as ‘The Scum Also Rises’ and was filmed at London Teddington Studios over a six week period in June and July. Here’s some more info on the show lifted from the BBC minisite for The Persuasionists:
COCKNEY CHEESE
Episode Synopsis:
Sitcom. Marketing an unusual dairy product is the challenge for HHH&H’s best creative minds, but the client is terrifying and Greg is too scared to even stay in a meeting with him. Can Emma help or will creative Billy have to break a golden rule of advertising and actually meet the client?
Cast:
Jarred Christmas (Clive)
Simon Farnaby (Keaton)
Daisy Haggard (Emma)
Iain Lee (Billy)
Lee Ross (Cockney Jim)
Gemma Whelan (Josephine)
Roxanne McKee (Christine)
Natalie Gumede (Susie)
Shola Adewusi (Cleaning Lady)
Adam Buxton (Greg)
Tristram Shapeero (Director)
Jon Rolph (Producer)
Jonathan Thake (Scriptwriter)
» Click here to watch The Persuasionists episode 1 – Cockney Cheese on the BBC iPlayer
You can read more about the episode on the BBC Comedy Blog
The second episode The Handsomeness airs on BBC2 at 10pm, Wed 20th Jan.
Feel free to discuss this week’s show with other A+J fans on our forum or leave a message below
Update: here’s a clip from the BBC’s YouTube channel:
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