Mayte!

I've been looking forward to getting the May missive sorted because it's packed with Buxty picture joy.

Adam's Zavid Bowie Special deservedly won a Radio Academy Award! Blonde radio presenting bookends Annie Nightingale and Edith Bowman tweeted congratulations.

Wuz Wuz to @AdamBuxton for his amazing @radioacademy award winning @DavidBowieReal show on @BBC6Music pic.twitter.com/y3EYt2p4kf
— James Stirling (@JameStirling) May 12, 2014

However, he kicked off the month with this delightful picture from the pantry of the Buxton Billet.

Mate, YOU KNOW I SCRAPED IT!!! And I saved the moldy part for the children’s tea. #greatestdad pic.twitter.com/hp9rua00Su
— Adam Buxton (@AdamBuxton) May 1, 2014

Then he went on to upload all the old, beloved XFM Podcasts. The 'Best Of' version has Zac's artwork.

He did a gig for Friends of the Earth....(and another picture here)

The brilliant @AdamBuxton on the internet + getting all he needs to know from YouTube comments... #TheBigLaugh pic.twitter.com/pbdYzmxlSN
— Friends of the Earth (@wwwfoecouk) May 8, 2014

He also hosted the Design Week Awards (more pix here, here and here).

Adam Buxton at the #DesignWeekAwards ... Bringing the laughs pic.twitter.com/rxCbnnig9x
— Gingermonkeys (@GingerMonkeysUK) May 15, 2014

Best dressed award at the #designweekawards. Presented by me to @AdamBuxton, of course #mustardjobs pic.twitter.com/LZjp0qjtiD
— Rosanna Falconer (@Rosanna) May 15, 2014

The following week, he took Kernel Panic for another twirl around the country. Tickets sold out so quickly in Nottingham that he had to add another show.

He lent his voice to George's Foot in the Door video.

My #FootInTheDoor at @kkoutlet: https://t.co/NRXlOIl27x Music by @AdamBuxton More work at: http://t.co/vPkStV3X6f
— George McCallum (@GeorgeMcCallum1) May 19, 2014

Adam posted this picture in May and I'm hoping it heralds his inclusion in an episode of Gadget Man. It might have just been a light lunch with Graham Linehan, though.

Very pleased with my life size @RichardAyoade doll. Comes with its own BAFTA and everything. pic.twitter.com/JfOKNawToY
— Adam Buxton (@AdamBuxton) May 19, 2014

Julian Oxley wrote a review of the Leeds show.

I told you there would be a lot of lovely pictures this month.

@AdamBuxton I met this rakish gent this evening #sutin #cyclesafe pic.twitter.com/zePZhSf7fr
— Jack Fitzgerald (@JackDFitzgerald) May 23, 2014

Adam was briefly on The Horne Section which I really ought to put on my nuggets blog since it's gone from the iPlayer now. Can I also recommend Alex Horne Breaks The News from Dave? Thank you.

The month finished up with the first outing of XL Recordings BUG Special at the BFI.

@BUGmusicvideos @BFI @XLRECORDINGS @AdamBuxton @basementjaxx @PhilGLee do it nice. pic.twitter.com/ibChfbcSOK
— Phil Tidy (@philtidy) May 29, 2014

This beautiful evening included a superb on-stage interview with Nick Heyward Felix Buxton.

@TheBasementJaxx @AdamBuxton @XLRECORDINGS @BUGmusicvideos @Rob_Munday @gerazmus @BFI pic.twitter.com/lhFneYb4n7
— Ben Meadows (@BenCMeadows) May 30, 2014

More pictures from Ben Meadows here and here plus WoznotWoz took this Instagram. Creative Hub reviewed the night.

It doesn't give me any pleasure at all to relate this is the month when Edgar Wright (and therefore Joe Cornish) ceased to work on Ant-Man. I cannot begin to imagine how this has felt for them both. They had worked for so long to bring this to the screen and had been encouraged all the way along the line, until now. If you look back over the various interviews throughout the years, any reference made was always tentative. We may never know if that was because they were always wary that their concept might not eventually be accepted by the Marvelverse but they, especially Edgar, had their feet firmly wedged in the starting blocks and this must have felt like they'd twisted their ankles seconds before the gun went off.

It was a busy month for fan activity too.

A dear Twitter friend was inspired by some frozen weesticks.


and this fantatic compilation was honed by Dan Gale that will do things to your eyes that'll have you reaching for the Revitalift.

Last day of the Mogwai N.American tour has been cheerified further by listening to the @AdamBuxton and Joe BBC podcasts on the tour bus.
— MOGWAI (@mogwaiband) May 25, 2014

@AdamBuxton 9 yr old son named 2 characters in his Literacy homework 'astronomer Buckles' and 'astrophysicist Cornballs', Black Squadron jr
— Becky Harris Cowley (@BexByDesign) May 20, 2014

Finally, why not pass a few moments looking at Adam's Vines?


Annoyingly, I can't see how to embed with an audio toggle. It's either on (tiny bit irritating after a while) or off (eerily quiet). Soz.

The Ideas of March

Adam kicked off the month by joining Marc Riley at the 6Music Festival in Manchester.

I made a nugget page for it with some soundbytes and gathered photos.

Adam Buxton at the festival fringe #bbc6musicfestival pic.twitter.com/fDlLKyTl1o
— SundaeCommunications (@todayissundae) March 1, 2014

Chris Judge's books are being narrated by Adam for ME (no, not me).

Steven Price, who composed the music for Joe's film Attack the Block, won an OSCAR this month for the Gravity soundtrack.

Graham Linehan continues to mention his drama with Adam.

Adam's Bowie documentary was nominated for a Radio Academy Award!



Reports began that Joe Cornish had signed up for directing Section 6 but this project courts a lot of controvasy and litigation.

Adam made his way over the big sea to New York, Austin and L.A. and there was so much interaction that I put it in a little nugpost.

With the man himself. @AdamBuxton #sxsw pic.twitter.com/fN7UUHxUqA
— Marcus Iles (@MarcusIles) March 11, 2014

Adam and the BUG team are inspirational!

WIcked RT @MrGraeme06: Having been inspired by BUG I made my first music video and shot it on the edge of space. http://t.co/AJkofwsPr1
— Raving Ponce Machine (@AuntieNubbins) March 7, 2014

January, sick and tired, you've been hanging on me.

The joy of blogging tools means this post looks like it was published much, much earlier than July, doesn't it?

I never really even finished the December post so it's going to be OK to put this here, isn't it?





Eggheads had an Adam and Joe question on their New Year's Eve show too.

Adam put this wonderful Lego animation from Chris Salt on his YT channel. He commissioned it for his live Bowie shows along with one from the Layzell Brothers. The latter has yet to be noticed on the internet, I fear.



Edgar posted a picture of Joe on Walt's bench.

Attack the Block's composer, Steven Price was nominated for a Bafta, Golden Globe and Oscar this month for his work on Gravity.

Joe's name was included in a rumour about He-Man.

Edgar posted another picture of Joe. He looks like cheeky schoolboy on the first day of term.



Less so in this one.

Kristen made this cushion inspired by the wonderful Baaddad.

Fav Adam&Joe podcast phrase immortalised in cushion form! @AdamBuxton craft skills of @dilleyrocksout #whoisbillie??! pic.twitter.com/yQq6XZv3i6
— KMcK (@KirstenMcRyan) January 13, 2014

Surprised to see these new penalty fare regulations at the train station today. Bit much innit? pic.twitter.com/lljtLClrnj
— Adam Buxton (@AdamBuxton) January 17, 2014

Adam was on Eight out of Ten Cats Does Countdown and he made this song.

My 'Countdown Breakdown' song to download and cherish: https://t.co/NjjYubjhbz
— Adam Buxton (@AdamBuxton) January 24, 2014

and he trended....

Actual proof that Adam Buxton was trending last night practically Everywhere (thanks to @Hobbsy) pic.twitter.com/SrJ8RY6mQI
— Raving Ponce Machine (@AuntieNubbins) January 25, 2014

Adam joined Graham Linehan for Chain Reaction and it seems to be on the iPlayer still.

Jim Field's book has been enhanced by Adam's voice.


OI FROG! Book Trailer from Jim Field on Vimeo.

This Podbean episode includes Adam too.

This turned up for no apparent reason but what the hey.

Aprilish Update

As I'm writing this in August (you'll have to read here to find out why) the Bowie Is exhibition has been and gone from these shores but Adam's 6Music Bowie Special aired in April and was a wonderful treat, soon followed by a BUG Special during the Bowie Weekend held at the V and A.  Those lucky few who marched up to demand free entrance were treated to over an hour of delicious waffle from Adam on his most beloved topic including two beautifully rendered video versions of the imagined conversations first aired on 6Music.

Intimate 6Music friend, Chris Assault with a Deadly Weapon Saltyman Salt made a Lego version of Bowie's re-inventing discussion with Angie and The Layzell Brothers visually realised the exchange between Bowie, Visconti and Eno. These videos will not be available online until the current format of Kernel Panic has ended as they're best viewed up big.

Sally Grosart has also made a Bowie Paper Person.

Adam's performances at the regular BUG shows are so thoroughly enjoyed but by their nature, require a structure based primarily upon showing the recent output of talented music director types from far and wide.  By building material for his own show, Adam can lark around like a ridiculous ponce, showing the things he really enjoys and inserting more of his own work, in the tireless manner that he brings to anything to which he contributes.  The result of this is Kernel Panic.

This new strand to his repertoire is being managed and marketed by the delicious people at The Invisible Dot and as an aside, I cannot recommend their venue(s) more highly. The tiny room in King's Cross is particularly good fun in the hot weather - if your idea of fun is being deprived of oxygen and melting into a pool of sweat.  It's all worth it though. This Spring and early Summer we have been spoiled by the chance to see warm-up performances from some of the UK's most celebrated comedians, including Adam's Work In Progress. 

Adam has also joined Peter Serafinowicz to add his voice to Lego City Undercover, if you have a game machine. Did I mention that last month at all?

Adam popped up in a couple of episodes of It's Kevin. Look at the clip, why don't you?

Michael Towers made this 1" homage to the Fist In Chips waffle.



This rather lovely tweet popped up in April too.

@CedricLeMoyne Found this I took from same LA era! @franhealy @AdamBuxton & @nigelgod ! Good times! pic.twitter.com/fGpgXjvalj
— Orla Hannon (@redOrly) April 7, 2013

It's always fun when someone takes a snap of Adam's desktop folder.


It's not quite all about Adam this month.

Luke Treadaway, who played Brewis in Attack the Block, deservedly won this year's Best Actor Olivier Award for his portrayal of Christopher in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.

Elizabeth Donnelly reminisces about the last time Wright, Pegg and Frost hit the roads of Americas (with Joe too).

Edgar Wright held and introduced his Screen Epiphany at the BFI, a clip of which is here. His buddy and sometime writing partner, J M Cornish folded his long shanks into a chair at the NFT1 to watch too.


Speaking of Ant-Man (as I was, obliquely), you can read a Marvel-based update here.

Tyler Stout has made some wonderful limited edition posters for Attack the Block.

Easter Bowie Egg Hunt

Posts on this blog are almost as rare as news of Joe Cornish but here's a stab at a couple of things that might tickle your attention sensors.

David Bowie's new album has caused such jiggidy in the love loins that any/every establishment wants to flaunt their joy and BBC 6Music is joining the fun, albeit deferring the saturation until Easter Week.  There are countless nuggets to enjoy from everyone in the best radio family ever saved by it's listeners.

Adam's show will air for two hours from 4pm on Easter Sunday and will include his favourite interviews. You can read more here.

Radio4 have made their full, uncut 2002 Front Row interview available here.

Now, see here.....if something popped up that meant Zavid would allow Adam and Joe to pop over the pond to interview him, I would happily release Adam from any of his other commitments. If it meant I didn't see Adam talk to Edgar Wright in his Best of BUG Special at the enormous Odeon Leicester Square, I wouldn't mind.  Nothing should be allowed to stand in the way of them realising a dream like that.

Adam really does have a good schedule for the coming months. He's bouncing around the country like Psy on an ego trip.  Check the Adam and Joe fansite for the latest dates and you can even try Adam's own calendar um... feature.  None of these resources are exhaustive and if you have any gig info, I know the fansite forum would be grateful to know.....or you could sent me a little Tweet.

I used to keep a little blog with nuggets of sound and other short missives. That blog was run on Posterous which was bought out by Twitter and they will be pulling the plug on it at the end of April. This means that the hundreds of silly sound nuggets I've posted there will evaporate. Ruddy miserable doesn't quite cover it. 

I've moved all the wordy bits of the posts here but it will take some time for me to put all the sound back. I've re-upped a large chunk of them but I have to go to each individual post to insert the new link for them all.

In other news:
Adam is looking even sexier and deceptively bookish in his new spectacles.
Joe is still breathing and poncing around with film types.

A Good Year #AdamAndJoe

There's no pretending that the goodness of Adam's year has had a higher profile than Joe's but they're both achieving great heights doing the things they love.

This time last year, BBC Radio2 celebrated the last day with a 'Best of 6Music' episode and the resulting podcast remains available for download. Good times.


January

While Joe's film featured in the nominations for the London Critics Circle Film Awards, Adam drilled a big tunnel through the centre of the earth to bring BUG to the Sydney Comedy Festival.

February

Adam took a more conventional route home, enabling him to slip into LA to present a BUG and also his wonderful Radiohead Restrospective BUG.

In the middle of the month he returned to the Leicester Comedy Festival.

Joe and his Attack the Block had nominations in the Evening Standard Awards, the Black Film Awards, The Orange BAFTA Film Awards, Guild of Music Supervisors Awards and the NAACP Image Awards. He also defended a South London tower block against....the press.

On 21st February Joe helped launch LOVE Film's new streaming rental service by doing a live commentary with Nick and Alex and a brief appearance from Edgar Wright.

The month was rounded off with Adam hosting the Music and Sound Awards.

March

March began with BBC Radio2 doing a couple more 'Best Of Adam and Joe' shows to help celebrate the 6Music 10th Birthday!  Adam and Joe popped in to Western House to record an interview for inclusion in Steve Lamacq's special birthday broadcast and they also recorded a health & safety announcement played to the live audience before the Maida Vale sessions.

On 14th March, the BFI invited Joe to present his Screen Epiphany to members. He chose Over the Edge.

Then he flitted off to the exciting film continent, stopping off to do a little interview with Strombo.

Meanwhile, Adam presented the British Arrows to those odd, advertising types and he did a BUG on his home turf of Norwich. He also presented at the BAFTA Games Awards.

At the end of the month, Joe pitched up in Japan with Nick Frost to attend the Okinawa Film Festival and present Attack the Block at it's Tokyo premiere.

April

After several patient months putting it all together, Adam finally began recording his tv version of BUG for Sky Atlantic, the pilot being on Good Friday which I was fortunate enough to attend without disgracing myself.

Adam made a wonderful jingle jongle for the Thinkbox ad and it's been on air again in December.

Adam's film of himself, Joe & Louis Theroux mentile-ing made it onto The One Show.

May

Adam and Joe's 6Music show won a Silver Sony Radio Academy Award again this year!

Attack the Block was among the nominations for the Sky South Bank Arts Awards  and Nebula Awards this month.

Adam continued to present his regular bi-monthly BUG show at the BFI while recording the tv version and also squeezed in a couple of shows in the Brighton Comedy Festival.

Joe rounded off May by giving a masterclass in Rome.

June

Adam did a couple of baby BUG shows mixed into his usual schedule in London and Norwich this month.

Attack the Block enjoyed it's first terrestrial screening on Channel4 but the big Joe Cornish news of the month is that none other than Kennedy Marshall have entrusted him with writing and directing the um....unfilmable Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson.

July

BBC Radio4Extra dusted off the young(er) Adam and Joe radio play 'Famous Guy' for another outing this month.

Adam finally saw his BUG TV show air on SKY. I say 'finally' but it was originally scheduled for September and Sky loved it so much they brought it forward. Adam featured in a couple of newspaper mags. It's actually repeating on Sky Atlantic right now!

He also took his Best Of show to Latitude and The Cambridge Comedy Festival.

Attack the Block popped up at the Saturn Awards. You can check all the Attack the Block gongs here.

August

In something none of us could have really predicted, Adam was a guest on Sunday Brunch but they didn't seem too interested in his plat du jour - Brilliantly Boiled Broccoli. He also called into Shaun W Keaveny's and Matt Edmonson's shows.

Adam took BUG to the Green Man Festival. I seem to remember that used to be a favourite haunt of Master Cornballs.

We also had the wonderful news that Joe has become attached to another project. He will direct Royden Lepp's "Rust"!

September

Adam and Joe featured as an answer in the new Comedy World Cup show.

Adam joined Jonathan Ross's team on The Big Fat Quiz of the 80's and gave his latest Bowie workings their first airing at a BUG Special in King's Place. He finished the month with BUGs in Birmingham and Manchester.

There's a recap of BUG tv here.

October

Adam brought his Radiohead Restrospective BUG to Norwich and also took a special Fat Boy Slim show to the London Film Festival in addition to his regular BUG shows.

November

Adam presented the Music Video Awards again this year and also joined Richard Herring on stage at the Leicester Square Theatre for one of his wonderful podcast interviews.

Film4 aired Attack the Block to start their British Connections series and preceded it with interviews and a short introduction from Joe. ATB was also offered as an iTunes download for a mere 30p!

In the middle of the month, Adam began a new radio partnership with Edith Bowman. This got off to a tentative start but finished last Saturday with listeners throwing tantrums at the thought of it all ending so soon. They both visited Lauren to launch the show. Check the BBC 6Music website for wonderful links to clips, pix and downloads.

Adam also took his Radiohead Restrospective BUG to Brighton.

Joe chatted to some young students at the BFI this month too.

December

On 3rd December, the BFI invited Adam to present his Screen Epiphany to members. He chose The Man Who Fell To Earth and broke the Epiphany mold by introducing it in an hilarious BUG style. Eventually, the BFI will put a little clip of the intro here.

On Christmas Eve Film4 aired Attack the Block plus the interviews again.

Adam featured impressively on Celebrity Mastermind with his specialist subject being David Bowie.

2013

There are already BUGs scheduled at the BFI, Leicester and Norwich.

Joe will be buying some new leads for his propelling pencil.

AOB

BUG launched an iPhone app to commemorate it's 5th Birthday.

There's a proper Adam and Joe fansite here and the forum has a thread with links to download many of their radio shows including Adam's new ones with Edith.

I attempt to keep a sort of calendar here but I'll be honest, it's not easy!

I may not do much decent blogging these days but I do put the odd sound byte here.

Have a ruddy good 2013 if you possibly can