[peel] Re: Peel favourites on TV - Bonzos and Viv Stanshall

ROGER CARRUTHERS roger.carruthers@...
Wed Jun 7 14:39:32 CEST 2006


Most definitely interested!
cheers
R
--- Paul Bryant <pbryant98@...> wrote:

> Hi Roger
> 
> 
> There is a mighty 7/8 cd boot set of late 60s Peel
> sessions roaming around the universe. One disc is
> devoted to the Bonzos. I don't know if you know of
> this. I might be barking up the wrong tree. If you
> need further info I can post up the track lists when
> I
> get home...
> 
> 
> pb
> 
> 
> 
> --- roger3905 <roger.carruthers@...>
> wrote:
> 
> > I have these both on DVD if anyone is interested.
> > Following this, I've been trying to get a copy of
> > the film of Sir Henry, and have been gob-
> > smacked to find that it's not (yet) available on
> DVD
> > in the UK; it has been slated for release 
> > here 'sometime this year', and I did find
> somewhere
> > on the other side of the Atlantic with 
> > copies for sale, but so far not here (Amazon has
> > some joker asking �45 for a second hand 
> > VHS copy - yeah, right!).
> >  So, if anyone has a copy, and/or VHS version, I
> > would love to hear from them.
> >  Also, of course, anyone who has any of the Peel
> > sessions - I have all the ones that are at 
> > The Perfumed Garden, but I know there were others
> (
> > and I also know them to be rare as 
> > rocking-horse shite, but I thought I'd ask...)
> > cheers
> > Roger
> > 
> > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Webster"
> > <paul@...> wrote:
> > >
> > > 
> > > The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band... on BBC 4 (Digital
> > TV) on Friday 2nd June 2006
> > > at 22:00 to 23:00
> > > 40th Anniversary Celebration
> > > The original line-up reunite for the first time
> > since the early 1970s split
> > > for a concert at the Astoria Theatre in London.
> > Special guests Stephen Fry,
> > > Adrian Edmondson, Phill Jupitus and Paul Merton
> > take the part of the late
> > > Vivian Stanshall. All four were inspired by the
> > band's surreal combination
> > > of music, comedy, vaudeville and sheer lunacy.
> > > --------------------
> > > 
> > > No doubt this is a cut down version of the DVD
> > that was issued recently.
> > > I was at the show - and my balding pate was
> > visible a few times on the DVD!
> > > 
> > > Followed by a repeat of the Viv Stanshall piece
> > > --------------------
> > > Vivian Stanshall - The Canyons of His Mind on
> BBC
> > 4 (Digital TV) on Friday
> > > 2nd June 2006 at 23:00  to 00:00
> > > The life story of one of the founders and lead
> > singer of The Bonzo Dog
> > > Doo-Dah Band. Starting with Stanshall's Southend
> > upbringing, the programme
> > > also takes in his art school days, his spell
> with
> > the Bonzo Dog band, the
> > > Peel Show monologue, his comic opera Stinkfoot
> > through to his death in a
> > > fire. Lifetime fan Stephen Fry is among the
> > contributors, along with John
> > > Peel, Jack Bruce and Bonzo members Neil Innes,
> > Legs Larry Smith and Rodney
> > > Slater.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Paul Webster
> > > Check out http://www.dandelionradio.com
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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