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Sunday, 1 January 2017

2016 in a blogshell - July to December

I used to do a blogpage each month but my life is too rich and full to spend that kind of time on nonsense so I am celebrating the start of the year by trawling through twelve months of tweets and faves. There's not a lot of waffle from me but a trip down tweetory lane does provide a decent potted history without too much strain on this brain.

It got quite lumpy so I have split the year in half. The first half is here.


July

This has skills and they are brills.

July started with one of the silliest events of the year.






By all accounts, Adam's interview with Louis Theroux at Latitude was the hottest ticket of the day, and when I say hottest.....




    

This month's pods were two with Richard Ayoade and one with Sally Wainwright. If you'd like to watch Sally's Bronte drama, it'll be on the iPlayer for a bit, as will the two part Last Tango in Halifax shown over Christmas.





Adam did his Bowie show in Dublin this month and we got the first whiff of a potential live reunion.


August gave us our first joyful nugget from Sketchy Magpie!











This month's pods were with Bill Hader and that's all you need in one month.

One of my personal favourite sound nuggets realised in drawn animation by Sketchy Magpie.




September

This month kicked off with a glorious podcast with Michael Palin, then another one with Louis Theroux and finally Michaela Coel.

....and this mysterious piece.





Scroobious Pip's book features quotes from his pod with Adam.




October

The Times selects its podcast of choice.


This month, the possibility of an Adam and Joe live show became more of a reality, and not without its problems. The event was finally announced by the BFI on 25th October - with a performance date of 15th December and Adam was letting everyone get involved.



Adam's Travel Man episode aired in October



He interviewed Louis live on stage again, this time at the Royal Festival Hall as part of a special My Scientology Movie screening. YOu can watch the interview here.






The podcasts this month were from Rory O'Neill and Tash Demetriou.

November



Adam only released one podcast this month (with Matt Berry), but what a pod! He also recorded a pod about grief.



WINNER!


December
Now might be a good time to remind everyone that there is an archive of the videos show at each BUG show here. Here's a blog about BUG53 and Lazarus.




The year is almost over and for those of us who didn't keel over, the 15th was Adam and Joe Day.


I hope Luke doesn't mind me linking this image. You can buy the poster here. More merch is here.


Adam has gathered together many of the fan-made videos from the live shows for you to enjoy here.




There are loads of Getty pictures taken by Eamonn M. McCormack and here's a little blog about the night.



I feel as though I want to write a lot more about the Adam and Joe Live evening but the memory is safe in my branium for the time being.

You can catch a flavour of the evening (or relive it, if you were able to attend) in Adam's last podcast of the year, with Cornballs.

Santa made several people very happy:













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2016 in a blogshell - Jan to June

I hope 2016 has been good for you.

We're told it has been rubbs for most of the world, in the sense that a lot of famous people who shaped our lives have wandered off before, or roundabout their time, and that the western world has opted to take a step back and undo all the good things that have taken so long to put in place.

Sod all that. Adam and Joe REUNITED last month, for heckin's sake!

I'm getting ahead of myself.  Plenty of other stuff went down this year, and not quite all of it was bad.

January

The year kicked off with London Live showing the Adam and Joe Show on their funny little tellovision channel.  What an absurd joy that was.  They seeem to be randomly working their way through the odd series, here and there.

Lynne B found this lovely missive from Punk Rich on the notbbc forum.














February


Adam did a gig at The Bush and the first night of the BUG 50 this month but you can see too many tweets, can't you?

March

You can read more about the Bowie BUG here.  In March, Adam kickstarted his podcasts again with a double wuzza whammy.







April




April brought us podcasts from Kathy Burke,  Garth Jennings,  Richard Herring  and Sara Pascoe but I'm a little saddened to note that the way Acast works, means that the SquareSpace jingle is no longer playing. It has been surplanted by they equally joyful Leesa mattress ad. Don't forget, if you fancy a New Year Mattress enter Buxton80 at the check-out for a whole £80 off init.

In Adam's last pod of 2016 he implied we'd not hear from him again until around March 17, which means that if he's done a pod with Garth to promote SING, it will be for the sell-through release rather than the theatrical. SO, I do urge everyone to see this joy of a film that I'm privildged to have caught twice already because I am a raving ponce machine.

I'm hoping that Kerry rekindles her comedy relationship with Adam as an upcoming podguest in the 2017s.



This show went down really well in Manchester. If you're wondering how many Bowie BUG Special's Adam did, you can check this gig list archive.




I was thrilled to see this outside such a prestigious venue but the gig didn't happen in the end, sadly.


Adam's pod really started to gather steam in April.




May

Adam gave his Bowie BUG to the good people of Brighton in May before heading up to Glasgow. Tom Sayer liked it.


Adam and Iain Lee did a bit of reciprocal podcasting here and here followed by some Doc Brown.


....and a little more waffle from Louis here.



Adam's pod is still riding high, this time featuring in The Week, the NME and Huffington Post doing this piece.
From Mark Woodward: "Facebook tells me 5 years ago Black Squadron was issued the foam face command!"



A video posted by Radiohead (@radiohead) on

The Yorkshire Post reviewed a Bowie BUG Special here.
As a long-time BlackSquadroneer, it made me very happy to see Adam had kindly done this for lovely Sophie.


June

BUG 51 was wonderful with Lee Hardcastle guesting on stage and Lord Edgar Wright swishing his folicles in the audience.


This month we had podcasts with Marc Riley, John Robins and a double bubble from Jonny Greenwood!




More from the DocFest here.

Just including this because I like the silhouette.
July to December is here but for now -
Finally, the viral sensation of the year:


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Friday, 1 January 2016

Happy Old Year

The month began with someone digging out an old Glasto photo, to herald start of nearly three weeks of twitter enquiries for the whenabouts of the Joe-based pod release.


BUG 49 had three shows this month, starting with a Roisin Murphy interview on the 4th, then the Director's Cut the following week (wherein previous A &  J Show producer Claire Slevin let out a whalloping great "Stephen!") The playlist is here. At this point, the general public were unaware of how recently poor Adam's father had passed away.


The Invisible Dot announced the incredible line-up for their Birthday Bash in January:
"With Adam Buxton, Harry Hill, Josie Long, Sara Pascoe, Simon Amstell, Tim Key, The Horne Section MC - and more to be announced.

The Invisible Dot Ltd brings some industrio-corporate-glitz to the Event at the Apollo in Hammersmith with an extraordinary show in celebration of its 7th birthday. Featuring tech lemming Adam Buxton, bespectacled maverick Harry Hill, cult optimist Josie Long, bookish intellect Sara Pascoe, an unexpected appearance from Simon Amstell, award winning poet/savant Tim Key, and the mighty jazz-juggernaught The Horne Section MC - more incredible acts to be announced soon!

Featuring Birthday Balloons, Birthday Songs, A gigantic Birthday Cake. It's a Birthday Bash!! "

The BUG team also announced that the first BUG show of 2016 celebrates 10 years of the Because label group and a great video back catalogue.

Miranda Sawyer included Adam in her roundup of 2015 radio good things, even though he didn't.....

Lucy shared this golden oldie.



Middle of the month gave us a request from Adam for some interaction to include in his Christmas Day waffle with Joe.

Denver showed Attack the Block in 35mm as their monthly AV Club Sci Fi night.

Just a reminder that the Telegraph printed Nigel Buxton's Obituary on the 18th and Adam divulged that he watched this film with Joe, some other friends and family on the following Friday evening.


The Hollywood Reporter carried this piece about Section 6 and Joe Cornish.

Jarvis Cocker played Joe's Jools on Christmas Day waffle during his 21st Dec show and this happened on the 22nd.



Christmas Eve brought the podcast interview with Joe and we were not disappointed. The bliss of hearing them enjoying each other's company so warmly, was the perfect start to festivities.

Someone also tweeted this.


Then Christmas day came and we had a present-opening pod, just like the old days but more modern. You can find both pods linked here.
You'll enjoy this if you've had a chance to listen already.

 It seems London Live tv channel are showing series one of The Adam and Joe Show from Monday at 9pm.

Finally, I want to share a little theory, yet to be dispelled. I reckon the three bloody fingers on Fin's helmet in The Force Awakens, are a little nod to Moses' scratches in Attack the Block.


I do hope everyone has a splendid and frutiful 2016, with many more pods from Adam and a bit of a film from Joe.
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Friday, 1 May 2015

April 2015

Adam started the month by joining a bunch of other wonderful comedians on the stage at the estimable 100 Club.
He did a brilliant set without his laptop! He's a fully functioning, independent giggle machine.

He also did some Work in Progress this month at The Invisible Dot. I don't know whether he was flying without the aide of an Inter Net again but the Twitter reports were all shiny.Oh - I see someone mentions 'youtube bit' and wait, yes....there's a photo of him with a laptop. I am an idiothole.
If you are not familiar with the noise made by a camera person who it totally besotted with Joe Cornish, you can learn something here.

There was a friendly little interaction between Giles Coran and Adam.

John Boyega has not forgotten his big break.


Franz Drameh, one of John's co-stars from Attack the Block, has also been cast in a news-worthy film.

This isn't something I found on the net. It's a snap I took in my local supermarket.


Towards the end of the month, things became a little fraught with anticipation of A New Podcast when people started to get this message.

but James calmed the situation down nicely.

As I said earlier, Adam did some shows at The Invisible Dot and managed to fit in a guest performance in Simon Munnery's Fylm School on the same night as one of them.

I am twelve years old and what is this?

Go here if you missed this.

Knowing Joe's love of Coldplay, and because I have the brain of a small child, I found this amusing

These tweets from one of  The Invisible Dot Work in Progress shows:

The dates for BUG 47 were announced, and it's back to the old format of a show with a guest director one week and then two shows, the following week.

Have you heard of Twitter? It's cuddly.



There's a Hot Fuzz dissertation to fill your coffee break and that's it for another month.


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Wednesday, 1 April 2015

March 15



Adam returned to the BFI with BUG 46. His guest director was John Hardwick.

More here and here.  BUG 15 Norwich was announced and Adam's diary has been gradually filling up with a variety of shows.....and a family holiday to Florida.

Adam's episode of Drunk History arrived on UK iTunes.


Lovely bit of sharing



Then Richard Dawkins had a birthday, bless him.


Adam did a couple more Work in Progress gigs at The Invisible Dot. Have you been there yet? It's delicious.

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Sunday, 1 March 2015

February 15

To celebrate, and in anticipation of Adam returning for BUG, the team and BFI made a little online episode you can view for free here.

This made us all happy


Attack the Block's lovely John Boyega presented a BAFTA for Film Not in the English Language. He's so hot right now #StarWarsVII.  Joe was also involved in this year's awards, serving on the jury for the BAFTA Outstanding Debut award.

I  stumbled upon an old techy podcast that Adam and Joe contributed to in The Guardian.

We had a bit more details about Adam's project with Graham Linehan. It's probably going to be called The Cloud. It's a comedy. It's set in SPACE and they've filmed a pilot. Thank you Radio Times and The Guardian.....although the latter claims that Adam 'boasts' about being in The Persuassionists.  The only person with any right to boast about that is the person who has the balls to shoot the writer.
Barry Shitpeas wriggled himself onto the pilot set.


This happened, of all things....and on Valentine's Day.



Adam did a couple of gigs at The Invisible Dot.

I went to this charity event and Count Buckules was sitting there, feet away from me like a regular audience member.

I was here too.....
Chain Reaction returned with Adam interviewing Reece Shearsmith. You may remember the last series finished with Graham Linehan interviewing Adam.

My memory isn't up to much these days but have we seen this bit of art before?


This is surely worth a mention. Richard Herring was given a little brit called Phoebe to play with.











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Sunday, 1 February 2015

January 15

Kicked off the month with this

and at last a little more news about Joe's Section 6


As Black Squadron shifted themselves into New Year cinemas, they were delighted by the "Stephen!" "um coming" to be heard during The Theory of Everything.

The net went a bit sily when they learned this

Ultraculture's Charlie Lyne took his film, Beyond Clueless on the road and his Prince Charles Cinema Q & A was conducted by Adam.

The episode of Pappy's Flatshare Slamdown that Adam recorded last year, went up this month.


...and then suddenly, out of the blue, we heard that Adam was coming back to BUG!

...and BVE announced that Adam was going to interview Richard Ayoade as a keynote event at this year's show.

Joe was mentioned in this piece about Mark Kermode.

Adam was announced on a spoof festival line-up


The month finished with Adam appearing in the lineup at The Bloomsbury Theatre for Laugh Till it Hurts in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.


Friend of the Adam and Joe Show, Garth Jennings, talked to Lauren Laverne.

We were all thinking this, right?


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