Barmy nights.....

Leading on from last weeks entry, Attack the Block had it's wrap party at a small Georgian house in Soho on Sunday. I'm sure sore heads were enjoyed by all and I'm guessing they showed the little Cannes promo reel in a loop somewhere about the premises.

Now that the production status is about to change, the IMDB is laden with credits and Big Talk have tarted up their site but not added any more ATB info. Oow, how I'd love to get my sticky little fingers on some errant coding over there.

The new BFI July booklet plonked onto the doormat revealing the dates & times for BUG20: Thur 15th July 20:45 and Fri 23rd July 20:45 (Director's Cut) BFI Members booking starts from 1st June but mere mortals have to wait until 8th June. Heck, it only seems like last week that we went to BUG 19.

Last week, we went to BUG 19. It was the usual fun night despite the fact that Adam had been too busy to view all the content they showed. Happily, he had not been too busy to create a brand new entrance song, several YouTube comment routines and present a completely awesome edit of The Footie Song. I'm trying to think whether I've even seen that on the big screen before. If I have, then it would have only been the C4 version. This was magnificent. We have to hope that Adam will put it on YouTube when his hectic life calms down a little. If you're prepared to take a chance, grab a last minute ticket for next week's show. They always have returns & it's incredible to see these films projected so beautifully.

That's the thing about BUG. The wonderful team are in a position to get right back to the source and use the optimum quality footage to throw up on the screen. It makes wish your laptop was like Stretch Armstrong & you could bother it into enormo-vision proportions. His guests were the once quartet, now trio that goes by the name of Shynola and who work under the umbrella of none other than Ridley Scott's empire. Adam has hung around these guys for a long time, exchanging awesomenessities. It all started when they began to dabble in ventriloquism and they welcomed the opportunity to relive those halcyon days with Adam at BUG.

This week's Big Mixtape was further enhanced by the warmly welcomed return of Garth Jennings. I sense that Garth idolises Adam as much as Adam idolises Joe. Garth opens the door, sits down and just giggles at everything Adam does. He must be the most rewarding type of friend a person can have. He also sounds sensible and silly at the same time. I want a go on one of those, please.

Each time I think THIS is the best Mixtape show so far, Adam manages to surpass it with the next one. I'm not the biggest fan of Adam's shouty routines but the one he did this week made me leak with laughter. I reckon this catalogue of shows will be one of those things that people talk about in thirty years time and boast about 'being there' when they first aired. I should say some of this shit to Adam on the blog really but he'd probably think I was insane. I'm really looking forward to Sharon Horgan. I have a feeling they'll be bouncing off each other like a couple of schoolgirls' playthings.

Collins and Herring will continue to take care of the Saturday morning show until August at the very least. George Lamb is leaving the 6Music family in July so conjectures will be dribbling around the mouths of the various net-based social soap-boxes.

The BBC Strategies Consultation website went into meltdown today, causing them to extend the deadline for submissions. It will most likely be months before all the entries can be read and assessed.
The second Save BBC 6Music protest day was blessed with warm weather and a good PA system. You can see pictures and videos if you poke around here.

Adam said he would try to make an appearance but I didn't see him around. What with rehearsals and recordings, Mixtapes and voice-overs, BUGs and what-nots, I quite thought he'd go home to the family before heading back to record the Horgan show and then off for the Amsterdam BUG tonight. I have only heard one person say they saw him so maybe he did just that.

Richard Herring brushed past me on the way to the stage with his side-kick. He stopped to take off his jacket right in my vicinity. He mentions Adam's Birthday Time song in their latest Collings & Herrin podcast. I think he described it as 'brilliant'. What an idiot - I think my dictionary might need an upgrade. I may have misunderstood but it would seem that Richard also played a Song Wars song before his Lyric show started on Sunday.


This couple made me smile. They'd secured their banner to a couple of feather dusters. I was fascinated as I watched them diligently roll it up again before going home. How wonderfully practical.

I snagged a quick shot of Shaun and Matt but when I looked at it back on my computer, I saw I'd also caught the iconic, Ben Mercer.
Finally, with thanks to the Love6Music.com site, I had to link this wonderful Adam and Joe t-shirt.

The dearest and most glamorous Adam and Joe fan in the twittersphere deposited her own mixtape on Adam at Bug. He was clearly so touched and chuffed. He included wonderful picture of it on the blog.

Adam did a voice over for an Oxfam ad. Click the link for a piccie.

Chesney Hawkes tweeted a picture of himself that looked so much like the kind of silly pose Joe might have struck in bygone days, I had to pop it in here. In truth, Joe would probably have done something more provocative with his eyebrows and poked his ludicrous tongue out but in this cornish desert, I take my thrills where I can find them.





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If you bump into Edgar Wright (and he's all over the place like a rash, so don't dismiss the idea) the correct way to address him henceforth shall be "Could you estimate how wide this road is?".

Nick Frost has been all over the retail outlet promoting his Amis drama "Money". I couldn't resist a little snap of him with lovely Lauren last week but I couldn't be bothered to get out of bed to snap him with sexy Shaun today. Nick has been very careful not to divulge anything spoilery about Attack The Block. Catch up with episode one of Money here and you'll be nicely prepped for the conclusion on Wednesday at 9pm.

On a sad note, the UK arm of Funny Or Die closed on Friday. I think the material will still be available on the server until the domain name sub runs out but there's a giggle shaped hole in my daily routine now.

Golden Nuggets

I suppose the biggest news since my last post is the Sony Radio Academy Gold win for
BBC 6Music's Adam and Joe Show.

Joe was too busy shooting and cutting but Adam and James Stirling were there. You can watch a webcast of the entire event here. I gave the presentation and Adam's speech to YouTube for safe-keeping.



You'll see that he thanked Video Wars genius Chris Salt and the original Stephen! Chris Evans and the rest of the room seemed to give such a warm response to the award. It's a shame Joe wasn't there to soak up the glory but he's probably relieved that he didn't have to make a speech. Adam did a wonderful job.

The entire presentation evening kicked off with an award for Best Newcomer which was given to 6Music's own Jarvis Cocker. You can listen to his speech. Sony have various interviews here including one with Jarvis but nothing with Adam though Metro has some lovely pictures.

The other news is that Adam's been prepping a pilot for a sit-com that's been bubbling around for a few months.

SAME TIME NEXT WEEK
Welcome to Toxborough Village Hall…home to a brand new comedy chat show for the BBC.
Hosted by the irrepressible housewife Celia Jesson (played by Joanna Neary) together with her ridiculously sensible husband Fred (Al Kerr) and dashing local actor Gerard Jeremy (played by Adam Buxton), these delightfully eccentric characters will be taking a hilarious look at life in and around their fictional village with video diaries, reviews, letters and songs and will also be joined by two mystery celebrity guests. It promises to be an event not to be missed!

Feel free to dress up in your finest provincial clothing for a night out at your local village hall!

The show will be recorded on Wednesday 19th May 2010 in London. If you'd like to join us at BBC TV Centre, then apply now.

Adam updated his own blog with a polite, sincere and amusing request to Mr Bowie.

The Big Mixtape show has been getting some really lovely vibes around the place. I thought I'd randomly link this one today. There was a fantastic response to Adam's request for questions to levy at Jon Ronson. I really loved this episode but don't make me choose!

In common with several 6Music DJs, they have started a Twitter account which I urge you to follow. Adam and James sent out a tweet to Victoria Coren, inviting her to guest on his show.

Adam has had three gigs - 100 Club, Are You Taking the Peace and the BUG Unkle launch special. While I remember, BUG have got a little shop with some t-shirts that might take your fancy. They have them in all the colours and sizes.

Adam will take BUG back to Amsterdam on 25th May. He's going to forget what the wife looks like at this rate, unless he takes her on a romantic trip.

BUG is also going to Norfolk for a special gig on 16th June.

Video festival open from 28 June to 10 July 2010, 10am to 5pm, Monday to Saturday. Free entry.
Adam Buxton's BUG on 16 June 2010. Tickets are £14 from Theatre Royal on 01603 630000 and the UEA on 01603 508050.

Attack the Block had a load of set visits from bloggers and journos after the Bank Holiday. These were meant to have happened a couple of weeks earlier but a catASHtrophy put the right people in the wrong places. I'll have my work cut out syphoning up the media bobbles when we get closer to the release date. If they're still shooting, I would think there can be no more than two weeks worth of principal photography left now. Nick Frost wrapped on Wednesday and this lovely lady was working that day too.

Studio Canal/Optimum will have been hard at work in Cannes and I'm trying not to think about whether they've taken a short promo package with them. HA - and even as I blogdraft, Film4 tweet this:-

Everyone here loves the Attack the Block promo reel - Joe Cornish's film still cutting but the 3 mins we saw were utterly awesome #cannes

It's quite unusual for Film London to post much about a film while it is still in production on the streets but they have this piece now.

Jodie Whittaker is going to be doing various press pieces for Royal Wedding and if this is anything to go by, Attack the Block will get a few name-checks.

In the same 80's strand as Royal Wedding, Nick Frost's Martin Amis drama, Money airs part one on 23rd May. I saw this ages ago and I'm really looking forward to seeing part two finally which I believe is aired the following week....or a couple of days later. I saw Royal Wedding a while back too and I hadn't realised it was only just coming on air. I've wittered about my unintentional Whittaker Watching before, haven't I? When she was cast in Attack The Block, I just thought "of course".

The Rajar figures had everyone at 6Music in a cock-a-hoop state this week.

If you haven't grabbed them before, the LiveJournal has links to freshly edited versions of the Coke Podcasts.

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Since he was Adam's guest this week, I'm including a link to an interview with Hot Chip and Peter Serafinowicz.

The Love BBC 6 Music site has an amusing new video and don't forget to click for demonstration details.

Lauren Laverne did a wonderful show from Glastobury last week and announced the 6Music schedule. Sadly, Adam and Joe don't figure in it but I'll not give up hope until July. There's a lovely bit in The Times about Lauren Laverne.

Mr John Landis directed the most influential pop video of all time and that is now an indisputable fact.

Richard Herring is prepping for series two of As It Occurs To Me.

If you feel like singing a song of joy about the Sony Gold win, you could do a lot worse than this.


Finally - and added after the fact, I was not paying enough attention last week. I completely missed this priceless nonsense from Robin Cooper.

Why so quiet?

Truth be told, there hasn't been much to say of any great revelation over here but rather than leave it to grow weeds I'll bother a few keytops and see where I end up.

It seems I omitted something from my last post which should be rectified. I'm sure I tweeted it and plonked it on a message board but I feel the need to include Adam's (he's wearing a hat, you know) little video heralding his visit to Jersey.


There's a clip here that won't embed but dear Louis Theroux give a fond mention of his schoolboy buddies in this five minute film.

Remember when Adam had an incident with a fitted sheet and a shopping mall? Knock2Bag have included some audio from his March gig in their Podcast #9 which Adam also introduces.

I'm going to get this out of the way and then forget about it. Such is the desperate nature of the media, several sources are happy to report that Nick Clegg went to the same school as Adam and Joe, albeit a couple of years in advance of them. This has spawned a dribble of inane tweets that I feel like baking in a pie with some blackbirds but that's my fault for having too many columns in my Tweetdeck.

When Louis was on The One Show he gave some detail of a trip he and his brother took to the States with Nick and to all intents and purposes, it sounded as though he fagged for Nick, during his first term. Beyond that, any other nonsense is pure conjecture.

Adam's Sunday show is going from strength to strength. It's heavily trailed and the podcast remains at a healthy position in the charts. Just in case you didn't notice the addition to my last post, here's a Spotify link to Adam's "What I'm Listening To" tracks he did for the Observer the other weekend and another thank you to Kevin E G Perry because I saw from the hard copy that he had supplied me with something far more extensive than the tiny bit that got into print.

Nick Frost tweeted to the effect that he was having a good time working with Joe but another tweet implied that the silicon filled death bomb hovering over the country put paid to some on-set media visits.

The crowning glory of this post must surely go to the wonderful Chris Salt's film for Adam's version of "Changes". We are all familiar with his awesome talent but there is so much incredible detail in this, it really needs multiple viewings. Chris was also name-checked in Adam's show with Garth last Sunday.



Please play it and pass it on. Heck, it's so awesome, it's the front feature of Love6Music's satellite site.
You have done all that business to save 6Music, haven't you?

You can scuttle along to the next protest which happens just before the 'consultation' closes. The demo is on 22nd May and more details will come through this portal.

Lovely Lauren Laverne invited requests for her MirthMix section which resulted in Doctor Sexy steaming out of many a DAB on Wednesday lunchtime. You can catch the clip here.

Can't decide on your next cross-stitch project?
Look no further than this handy link.

Hot Sauce have gone live with their website and they've included a clip from


"Adam And Joe Go Tokyo" wherein Joe sports that t-shirt with the most bemusingly delicious slogan in the history of daft t-shirts.

Leon Trigg - the originator of the Schwarzenegger fanzine featured in Adam and Joe's Juvenilia section, had a film showing in the London Independent Film Festival earlier this week. Look out for other screenings.

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If you're in London & you like your cinema-going to be truly experiential, nip along to UltraCulture's screening of The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans on 5th May 2010. If you're not familiar with central London, please understand that Charlie's map for the ICA is ......loose.

Absurd though it may seem, Jarvis Cocker is nominated for a 'Rising Star Award' at the Sony's. There is still time to vote for him.

Funny Or Die UK have launched their YouTube Channel wherein young James looks far too sweet and beardy to be such a naughty man.

Speaking of beards and Funny Or Die, they hosted another incredible session with BeardyMan himself, beatboxing requests on a live stream the other night. I lost an entire hour of my silly life to it.

One final note of apology. I don't seem to get email alerts on the rare occasions when comments are made on this blog. I feel that I've checked all the right boxes but I still don't get them. Sorry, I did not mean to ignore anyone.

It's ludicrous how much I can waffle when there's nothing to say, isn't it?

Adam makes some more listsand Joe beams in the dark

Adam must be about as happy as the day he got married.

He has been sitting firmly at the very top of the iTunes podcast charts for most of the week, having crept into the top five several days before the first show even aired.

Now, he has an almost grotesquely oversized banner on the BBC Home Page, for goodness sake.

While today's show was airing he trended at 8th most popular topic in the UK on Twitter and tomorrow, Prince Charles is going to lecture an entire arboretum about the virtues of listening to him and 6Music to promote healthy leaf growth and fulsome root balls.

It was a fabulous show today. If you need to catch up, the full broadcast is a must. For a convenient recap and a couple of extra bits, download the podcast and check out the tracklist, a photo and more on the blog.

The Adam And Joe Easter Egg Podcasts continue next week. I've made a list of the broadcasts here where you can also find details of the Memory Tape he did as this week's guest on Lauren's feature. After each Easter Egg broadcast ends you can download the podcast from which the aired version was taken.

The Guardian blogged about all the riches we have enjoyed without even needing to mention that Adam was helping to cover for Jonathan Ross as well.

The BBC 6Music Adam And Joe Show has been nominated for a Sony Award again!

These are like the Baftas of the radio world, in fact I always chuckle at the thought that the Baftas may go the same way and end up being called the Oranges. It will seem rather lame to hear Joe say "I've been given an orange for Best Director". Anyhoo, the Radio Academy Awards are more commonly known by their sponsor's name of The Sonys and this year we'll accept nothing less than pure gold for our idiotholes and their production team.

With great thanks to Kevin E G Perry, I have a transcript of the answers Adam gave him in the 'What I'm listening to' section of the Observer New Review today.

"The Mystery Zone"
Spoon
I've been into the band for ages. I think they're a good, tight pop band in an art-school tradition, but very accessible. It's a good one, nice and uptempo. It's a song about escaping and reinventing yourself, doing something crazy. It just went down well. It passed the kitchen-dancing test and got everyone dancing.

"Bad Guys"
Bugsy Malone Soundtrack
I was in a production of Bugsy Malone at school with Joe and Louis Theroux and people, aged 15 or 16. It was a very formative moment in my life. I played Fat Sam, or Slightly Overweight Sam, and it was great fun. That soundtrack is amazing. A guy called Paul Williams, who has had an extraordinary career in music, wrote the Rainbow Connection in the Muppets Movie and a couple of Carpenters hits. He wrote the Bugsy Malone soundtrack, which is one of the best soundtracks ever. "Bad Guys" is a very good and a very funny song.

"Mobile Phone"
Kevin Eldon
It's a ridiculous song about mobile phones. It's like they're doing a kind of Europop, high-energy song a bit like Aqua or something. It comes out really weird and Kevin sings in a weird German accent. That's one that I heartily recommend and goes down well with the children.

"Out of Space"
The Prodigy
An early Prodigy effort from when they were still dressing as harlequin-type clowns. They didn't have too much eyeliner on. It's amazing and it stands up really well.

"Seems To Be On My Mind"
Suburban Kids with Biblical Names
They're young, they were barely in their twenties when they did this, but it sounds brilliant. It's really uptempo, tuneful, slightly wonky pop. They sound like an indie band from the early 80s, jangly with good harmonies. I think basically what it is is that they're massive music nerds from Sweden, who have listened to all that music and are making it now themselves.

"Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants"
Wild Beasts
I played this to a muso friend of mine the other day and he was impressed by all the unusual chords, so I felt impressed with myself that I was attracted to songs with unusual chords. They've really got something special and different going on. Funny lyrics as well. I would heartily recommend them.

"Ocean Man"
Ween
This is the song that closes the SpongeBob SquarePants movie. This song is amazing. I really like Ween anyway. They're kind of a guilty pleasure, not the kind of thing I would recommend to everyone but that song is fantastic.

"The Enemy"
Guided By Voices
My sons are into war at the moment so I'm trying to bring them down about it. I don't want them to go to war so I'm trying to show them the miserable side of war. I don't know if this song is even specifically about war but it makes me think of being in the trenches feeling depressed about having to go over the top and kill people, but it's also really exciting. It's a really brilliantly epic, well-structured song and it has a very over-the-top, crunching guitar coda.

"Canceled Check"
Beck
The producer Nigel Godrich told me that they were trying to recreate Hunky Dory when they went in to do this. The warmth of that album. I really think they nailed it. It's nice and mellow, a bit of country and his voice sounds great.

"Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day"
Sir Douglas Quintet
This is late Sixties, and they were country-rock dope-smoking types from Texas. I got into them through Frank Black. He had them on in his car while we were driving through Los Angeles. He took me to all his favourite scenic spots and we had sushi and he was playing this tape in his car of Tom Waits, Captain Beefheart and Sir Douglas Quintet.

"The Man Who Invented Himself"
Robyn Hitchcock
This is the first track on his first solo album after he left The Soft Boys. This is a really good one. Again, it reminds me of Hunky Dory. This is a nice, piano-driven track. I think it's about Syd Barrett. He sounds really great. It's one of the all-time great first tracks on an album.

Of course, there are a couple of tracks there from today's Big Mixtape but Adam's life seems to be a mad maze of music lists at the moment - CMU, Lauren, Observer and his own show. What an ordered little mind he has. Edited To Add: Just seen the hard copy of this and it's a flimsy representation of what the lovely Kevin EG Perry sent to me so a double thank you, there. It does however, include a Spotify link to his list.

Nothing would give me more pleasure than to balance this happy post with a picture of what I hope and presume is the equally buoyant Commander Cornballs. The good news is we have been treated to such a picture but I'm not going to risk upsetting anyone's copyright by showing it here. Just slide along to Edgar Wright's blog and bask in the sunshine of their smiles. [The original image is a full 7.5MB from Flickr]

I can't remember if I linked the on-set photographer, Matt Nettheim's blog before but he posted about the film a couple of weeks ago. It's good to note that he is a friend of Dan Mudford whose name you'll remember from Joe's Little Britain documentary etc. He clearly has his feet firmly under Big Talk's table and we can only hope he's been covering lots of lovely DVD extras for Joe's film too. I'm particularly looking forward to the Special Edition that will contain the director's waterproof pants from the night shoots.

Nothing has changed on the Big Talk production page for Attack the Block but the sluggish old IMDB uprated the status to 'in production' finally. Jodie and Nick's names have been added, as well as what I presume is a supporting artiste.

The telly is on & I was just distracted by Sean Pertwee voicing an ad for "High Definition Tunas". I'm going to resist firing up the ol' Photoshop. Of course, I've seen 1080p dolphins before but never tunas.

I've lost my train of though but I don't think I've missed anything really important since my last post. I might be back on the little Posterous blog with a Podcast Intro tomorrow but I'll leave the rest of the week to BBC 6Music.

There's no better time to visit your back-street ear syringer

With so many opportunities to hear Adam and Joe on the BBC at the moment, you'd better make sure there are no waxy build-ups or foreign bodies in your lug holes.

Adam joined Liza Tarbuck to cover for Jonathan Ross on Saturday and will do the same next week. We have yet to discover if there will be podcasts for these shows. They were like a couple of delightful, giggling children but I hope Adam is able to have a little more influence over the playlist next week.

At the same time, 6Music had the Adam and Joe Show Easter Highlights which will be here for 7 days and the podcast is ready to download but keep thumping that button over the next couple of weeks because there will be more retro podcasts to grab.

Earlier today we heard the first of Adam Buxton's Big Mix Tapes. Adam has tried to imply that this first one might be a bit wobbly compared to future shows. That's just his sweet way. Nothing wrong with episode one at all! The podcast is also good to go and James has put a lovely picture, track-list and the front page of the running order sheets on the 6Music Blog. Adam also recorded a show with Louis Theroux. You really should check out the photo here. I must be getting old because if Adam has the date right (and why wouldn't he?) none of them look like they've passed the hormone explosion period of their lives.

Last week, Adam phoned into Shaun Keaveny to talk about the show. You can listen to the clip here.

From a couple of days before his show, the podcast subscriptions were steadily carrying him up the charts and he was resting at position 2 in the main chart tonight, with The Adam and Joe Show sliding into 15th place in the comedy charts as you can see from the screen grab up there.

In the fullness of time, I'd imagine some lovely people will make all the recent shows available in various forms here.

If you have a Spotify Premium account, you can access a playlist that Adam made for CMU.

Chris Gower spotted this Adam and Joe reference in the XBox360 magazine.

BUG19 will be at the end of May as follows:-
20th May @ 20:45 and Directors Cut 27th May @ 20:45.
PLUS BUG UNKLE special 7th May @ 20:45.

Ticket sale dates are: "Champions' Priority" 5th April, "Members Priority" 6th April & "Public" 13th April.

Adam and his colleagues gave some wonderful, hearfelt speeches at the Save BBC 6Music protest. You can watch them here. Do have a look around the rest of the site and perhaps you'll want to join in their campaign to get Joy Division Oven Gloves in the charts.

This report claims 'thousands' attended which seems like an exageration but it's good publicity and the BBC could not be seen to be covering it. The Guardian reported here.

The videos for Adam's "Changes" have started to appear. The first real contender was a stunning and hilarious group project by all the Facebook teamsters.


I was particularly thrilled by the inclusion in that video of an image from this person. I unsuccessfully tried to get his permission via Twitter but I think it's so clever that I'm going to post it here anyway and remove it if he gets in touch.
You can check the artwork on which this is based here.

Here's another "Changes" vid.....


....and this is mine.


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Here's a lovely fan-video that popped up this week.


I'm not happy with this post. It seems like a bald list of information and I can't seem to inject any fun into it today. I'm wondering if this blog is wearing itself out a bit.

Buxom Blogging and a fiddle zone

This is bound to be a bit Buxton-heavy again. Is it my fault that he's as ubiquitous as John Barrowman and Joe is being so bloomin' precious about his little video drama?

The 6Music concern is still keeping a high profile and Steve Lamacq added his voice to the cause last week. The BBC Trust page is here and to make it even easier, this is a really helpful page.

If you want to join in a friendly meeting of supportive minds, there will be a gathering at the end of the month. Details are here but I'm quoting in case you don't use the Facebooking.

Date: Saturday, March 27, 2010
Time: 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London
Description: On Saturday 27th March at 12pm, we will gather together outside Broadcasting House to protest against the closure of BBC 6Music.

We have lined up some well-known speakers and live buskers to create an air of festivity. This is a celebration of our beloved station; a demonstration of support for the staff, musicians, and a collective show to the Consultation team that we do not want to lose our station.

What the BBC proposes is unacceptable. 6Music is the only place that caters for our diverse tastes; the only station where you will hear Howling Bells played back to back with Seasick Steve; The Isley Brothers leading into dEUS, Delphic, Yeasayer and all topped off with dash of Half Man Half Biscuit.

The DJs play the music they love for people who love music. It is valuable showcase for new bands and artists, and regardless of what the BBC thinks, we will not find this on Radio 2.

So please join us on the 27th. Come along to show your solidarity and support; bring a flask of tea and have a sing-along all in the name of saving 6Music. Invite everyone you know who might not have been invited through the Facebook group and let’s make this a protest to remember!


**Please note that this is intended to be a friendly, peaceful and safe protest. **
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Further details

Broadcasting House is Located on Portland Place, W1A 1AA.
The nearest station is Oxford Circus although it can also be easily reached from Great Portland Street.

See here for a map of the area:

Adam has enlisted 6Music's own Tom Robinson to help make a version of Bowie's Changes as part of the 6Music support campaign.
It would be too much to hope he'd perform it during the above meet-up but more excitingly, people will be invited to make videos to go with the song, just like the old days of video wars. I'll bet the Emmett family can hardly contain their creative juices right now.

Keeping with the 6Music news, Adam has made a pilot show based on one of his long standing passions, the mix-tape.
Read more about it in a post at the BBC 6Music blog. That post has had a record number of responses and everyone seemed excited to know that Julian Barrett joined Adam. Won't it be satisfying if this gets commissioned?
There's more about the show and some priceless remarks in a wonderful three page interview with Adam at Shortlist. John Plunkett swiftly brought the pilot news to the mass media.

Earlier today, the same lovely John Plunkett organised a webchat with Adam! How enjoyable was that? It was flagged up on Monday and the webchat is here but you can cut to the chase and just read the responses here.

I've got quite a bit more Count Buckules stuff to post but I'm going to take a brief moment for Dr Sexy.

Recent updates on the Attack the Block IMDB page add a frail piece of substance to my musing about some of the prosthetic and puppeteering work being done Stateside but it's all good stuff. Still no news about who the cinematographer is.

For some reason, the lovely people at Playlist decided to post something about the casting tweet we saw last month. I don't know if it's genuinely to do with them only just stumbling across it or if they have some privileged information that prompted today's post. Nick Frost's tweets imply that he is not shooting it at the moment but for that matter, neither is the loose-lipped tweeter.

If the apparent two moons bleaching the streets of South London were anything to go by, night shooting continued last week. Joe must be looking pale and weedy.

I really can't manufacture any more Cornballs news so it's back to Buckles. 4OD have put Ladies and Gentlemen on their YouTube Channel. It has an age advice warning so I'm linking rather than embedding.

Adam brought BUG18 to town last week and there was an added frissant in Twitterland due to the amazing work of @WickWox (see last week's post) and her incredible collection of well-wishes which she presented in scrapbook for the great man himself. @Monastico made this beautiful felt sleeve for it. You may have read in the webchat about the joy it brought to Adam.

The BUG evening itself had some technical problems and Adam had intended to play his version of Changes (see above) to us but he just sang a couple of lines instead. It was completely wickles. He also showed us this project and once you've got the hang of what that's about, click here to see Adam's contribution. I'm not going to embed that one because it's totally out of context if you don't visit 'In B Flat' first.

I also saw Adam in a beauooootiful little short film the other week, directed by Matthew Walker and Arthur Cox. The quality of all the films was very high but Little Face stands a very good a chance of walking away with a prize on the 8th April Awards Night.

Adam has appeared in the line-up for Latitude again, bringing a special tent-based version of BUG to the country folk. He sounded unsure about it earlier but he was probably just being modest. I'm sure Corin Hardy will cover for him if he can't make it. This festival gets bigger every year but I hope it doesn't loose it's charm.

So finally, Adam made a small but worthy contribution to BBC Radio 1's broadcast about making fan music videos. He mentions lots of his work so I'm going to put them in a little fiddle zone below.

It's a shame there is nothing more to say about Joe. If he's lucky, he'll be having a lot of fun and I'm sure there are plenty of lovely young assistants tending his needs. I'm secretly quite pleased there's not too much information about his film out there. All the better to enjoy when it's released. I do hope he's not too jealous of Adam's lovely scrapbook. Surely, he'd have had one too if there was a public appearance in the diary but that's not his scene at all. Any seemingly bitter comments made here about him can be instantly ignored. It's my coping mechanism because I miss his stupid voice and lanky bones. Thank goodness Adam has so much energy to share.

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Save BBC 6Music an' shit

The more and more likely demise of 6Music has left me poleaxed into an unbloggitudinous stupor which I must overcome herein.

If you don't care about 6, I doubt you'll be reading this. I'm just going to throw some clicks in here and you can do the thinking for yourselves in the unlikely event that you've missed just one of these items.

You can achieve most of your preservation objectives by poking around this organic compost of sweetly fermenting information. I believe these people were suspended from Twitter due to over zealous activity but happily there are enough other individuals continually punching their cause to ensure the fight is still bothering that feverishly demented aviary. Edited To Add: They're back on Twitter! Follow, follow.

Tom Watson is leading a tribe of MPs in defence of Mr Thompson's apparent decision. It's really in the hands of the BBC Trust Consultation Department now and we have until May to react. Do it now!

This blogger has put together some things worth reading and acting upon but if you want to cut to the chase, this is the most important part, I believe.

Here’s a template e-mail, based off the one posted by my good friend Seb Patrick. You should download the cover note from the BBC site, fill it in, and attach that to your e-mail, which should be sent to: srconsultation@bbc.co.uk.

The current petition du jour is here but if you make comments, please try to remain positive about 6Music and the Asian Network rather than resorting to name calling and generally dissing the BBC. That will achieve nothing. This should be a constructive campaign. This one is still gathering names too.

The list of celebrity support for this cause is so vast that I dare not detail it here for fear of glaring and embarrassing omissions. I'm sure you've all been heartened by a missive from your childhood idol this week.

To everyone's deep respect and joy, Adam had his chance to put his case publicly.


You can go here and download/subscribe to every available 6Music Podcast to boost figures. I have no idea if this works but I have also been leaving the iPlayer going even when I'm not at my computer and thereby entertained my goldfish beyond their wildest imaginings.

If you'd prefer to vote with your feet, there seems to be a gathering of like-minded people in the vicinity of the BBC's premises in Langham Place on Sunday at 2pm. There are more details on this Facebook page.

Enough with all the serious stuff. Upon completion of all your supportive duties you have my permission to quickly scan over the rest of the nonsense I seem to have gathered over this last couple of weeks.

Just when you thought Joe Cornish was up to his very lofty lugholes in celluloid and loud hailers, he's gone and tossed a few clips together, punched and stretched them against his Exit Music for The Shining and for the first time in months and months, plopped something into his YouTube Channel. If you want something doing, ask a busy person.


Digital Spy, are suggesting that the Ant Man project might be off or resting again. I've not noticed Edgar comment on this piece anywhere but I may have missed it.

Earlier in the week, somebody tossed a cod snippet onto YouTube showing an elevated view of an effects shot from Joe's Attack The Block. I am very happy to say it was removed. I'm not going to dignify it with any detail here. I'll just say that my feelings about things like this finding their way onto the net fill me with dread.

My interest, nay obsession with certain pieces of upcoming media make it almost impossible for me to prevent the twitching click of deathly exposure but in my opinion, there are few things on this special, shiny planet as gratifying as viewing a film or work of art, free of the burdens of precognition with the glorious impact intended by the director and team of collaborators. Stills and on-set snips are imbued with such burdens of fan-hunger that are perpetuated around the net to be twisted and misconstrued. Yes, I clicked on that clip but wished I hadn't. Yes, I saved it before it was removed, such are my reflexes and yes, I hope I won't be tempted to fire it up until I've watched the completed film at least half a dozen times. It was a tiny, pony thing but if one person does it, others will follow.

Since my last blog entry, I think the only IMDB additions have been a couple in the art department. It would seem that this week's shooting has been fairly near to the area of London where Joe is proud to tell us he lives and indeed set his script. Since a cast member has removed a tweet about the shoot and no other cast has been officially updated, I can only presume it is the wish of the production team that this project receives as little uncontrollable exposure as possible. Forthwith, I shall be respecting that and consequently limit my updates to information gathered from the wider domain. If any of the crew see a goblin carrying dingle and wearing an "Auntie Nubbins Say Stephen!" t-shirt, it surely won't be me.

We have been delighted by no less than TWO updates at the BBC 6Music blog this week. James has given us a lovely, clean mp3 of Adam's Magical Forest song. When I posted this a month ago on my silly Posterous side-blog, it got one of the highest numbers of hits but my file was just a dirty version clawed out of the iPlayer.

Earlier today, Adam put my pathetic webcam grabbing video to shame with a proper glimpse into the exiting world of two middle aged men being paid to giggle like schoolboys in everyone's favourite clip of the Mr Wolf Pants exchange. As soon as this goes up on the BBC YouTube, I'll change the link for our overseas revellers.


There are still a few tickets left for BUG18 next week.

Supreme Tweeter, #TwitSquadron Leader and Electric Proms Runner Up, @Wickwox is going to present a giftly book of support to Adam at BUG and is inviting contributions from anyone who feels moved to submit. Just punch #giftsquadron into a Twitter search & you'll get the idea. Edited to Add: WickWox had blogged some more details. This is my entry - I put it through the shamboliser on purpose, you understand?



Last month, James reminded us of the street sign enhancement from last year and I was very pleased to notice that although the exclamation mark had been cleaned up, the sign is still suitably respectful. I might include this photo in my #giftsquadron contribution. I wish I'd had my little Adam and Joe on a stick with me to complete the image.


Off Topic Mentions of the weeeeeek.

Funny Or Die and Popcorn have a fun evening planned round the corner (my corner) at The Tabernacle and while we're in that area of fun, the imperial time waster himself got all confabulated last week. Remember the code: Remove all liquids from the immediate area before watching any Robin Cooper output.



I've been watching a few Oscar nominated DVDs this week. When it came to Up In The Air I wondered if I should have been cringing at the silliness of the original concept of this blog. It all started when Adam and Joe went away & I packed little cardboard versions of them to take with me and photograph. I can't even claim it was an homage to Mr Reitman since I'd stopped using them by the time the film came out.

I've lost the will to write so you surely must have given up reading a few inches ago. Have a good weekend and don't forget to listen to Collins and Herring who are getting better and better, week on week.

Remember, the main object of this entry is to double check you've done all you can to make the BBC Trust hear you. To help you, this popped up today.

Midweek warbling

1) This may not be news but I've only just noticed a domain name has been registered for http://www.attacktheblockmovie.com/.
Dear Big Talk, I am available for updates and candid blog-style vid-interviews in exchange for carte blanche access to craft services.

2) Iain Buckland, tenacious Rush Hour podder has posted this lovely piece with Adam from the Leicester Comedy Festival. The Ridiculous Icing on the Stupid Cake. Did anyone notice "terrible mistakes" on the first night? Nice outro boys!
Oh and Buckles, BUG is never too long and the Director's Cut is too short, if I may. I've never strayed out of the dirty London town but I think the evenings I've seen are perfectly balanced with just the right amount of audio visual lovelies and I can't get enough of Adam's YouTube comment presentations.

3) Tickets are now on sale for ADAM BUXTON with...Tim Key / Tom Basden / Jonny Sweet / Hosted by Fergus Craig at the 100 Club (28th April 2010).

4) Adam has joined a healthy line-up for this year's "Are You Taking The Peace" charity event on 6th May 2010 so grab a tickets soon. Thanks to Twitter for alerting me to this one. You know who you are.

5) Finally, after all the concern about the well-being of 6Music, I thought I'd post a couple of links from the Press Office which should allay a few fears.