Friday, 31 July 2015

Too Much Information

I'm so horribly behind with this blog that I'm going to try three months at a time. It'll make it a bit lumbering but I can apply the toffee hammer at a later date, I suppose.

One of the first things Adam did this month was break Twitter with a hashtag.  Days of mirth ensued.



Ah. Good times.


I am over twelve and what is this?

Adam and Joe's Bobby De Niro song nicely shoe-horned in at Sabotage Times.


In the absence of any news from Lord LongShanks, I am going to post a Joe Cornish Photography tweet each month until the rotter shows his pale hand.
May 1st apparently heralded the last day of recording for Messy Goes to Okido.  This is a show made for CBeebies and has 52 x 11 minutes episodes, apparently.

Out of the blue, a little film popped up on the Channel 4 website featuring Adam Buxton and Romesh Ranganathan discussing some sort of gaming thing. It's explicite so I won't embed it.

Adam joined Ruth and Martin's Album Club for some waffle about Light Up Gold by Parquet Courts.

Bank Holiday Monday got off to a slow start so I posed a question, that was correctly answered.



In the middle of the month, Zoe Ball delighted us with a real sighting of the elusive Cornballs at the Man Up premiere.

Adam (and Joe) was confronted with two copies of Song Wars Volume 2 to sign at The Idler gig.



On 21st  May, Adam spoke to ex 10CC guy & music vid directing behemoth Kevin Godley about his book Spacecake at the Apple Store, Regent Street. I've either lost the link for the podcast, or it was never put on iTunes.








There are more Ilkley photos here and here.

June kicked off with BUG 47. The guest directors were Becky and Joe and this heralded the return of Adam in the hosting costume.


June is the month of Adam's birthing anniversary too.




He also took a Best Of BUG to DOCFest in Sheffield again this year.


Mid-month, Adam hosted the RTS Awards for SkyArts. There are some clips here.

On 24th June Adam was meant to be on telly for Would I Lie to You (Repeat) and Catsdown, but the latter was swapped for a different episode. Didn't bother Adam though - he was playing Bush Hall that night.

The month rounded off with another repeat of Adam and Joe's Famous Guy on Four extra.

July pretty much began with Manchester International Festival and Adam was on RadMac's 3rd July show to celebrate.  He also took part in a performance capture event for Ed Atkins.





I've probably put too many pictures in here but I'm giddy at the thought of Adam being so close to Tim Key.

Adam returned to London to present a New Director's Showcase for Saatchi at the BFI.

Anton Savage interviewed Adam ahead of his Dublin show and on the self-same day, the loon did the Comedian's Comedian Podcast in London's Soho Theatre, then raced down to Bristol on one of those taxi-bike things for a late show.


Looks like he managed to sort out accomodation for a layover in Bristol, though. Show reviewed here.



Tom Dunne interviewed Adam via the phone on his show, ahead of the Vodaphone Festival in Dublin and there was a review here.

I do enjoy a bit of random mid-month pleasure


There was a free screening of Attack the Block in Brooklyn


Franz Drameh on the screen and Liberty in the background.


Adam's new episode of Catsdown was aired on 25th July, finally.

I call this picture "Happy in Dublin"



The month ended on a sadder note and Adam was moved to tweet a tribute.





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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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Wednesday, 31 December 2014

Shed Month

In bygone days, I would have made a lovely recap of the entire year in Adam and Joe World but news is thin on the ground and you all know how to use blogs by now, don't you?  Just check the monthly updates if you think you might have missed something.



As a precursor to Sky Arts airing Adam Buxton's Shed of Christmas, they started to repeat BUG this month. 

 Adam did some live gigs this month too. A tiny one at The Dot, a bigger one at the Union and then he went to Uckfield, of all places, for a show of his own one night and then guesting for David Earl.













And then it was upon us.....Adam's Shed of Christmas!



Shaun W Keaveny talked to Adam down the phone line which you can listen to here and then we all snuggled around the telly, like it was a manger.

On the first air-night the skies were full of tweets, the general consensus of which was that everyone felt Christmassy now.

For the people without the Sky Arts 1 channel, some clips popped up over the next couple of days. The director of Christmas in the Countryside, for instance, put this on his Vimeo nubb.

'Christmas in the Countryside' - Adam Buxton (Director's Cut) from Thomas Ormonde on Vimeo.

Some kindly reprobate uploaded this to his YT channel



and Adam Buxton, Lord of the Manger put this magical piece in the web bucket and it went completely and incurably viral. LOOK at those viewing figures!



Attack the Block screened during the BFI's Science Fiction season and Joe was going to do a Q & A  earlier in the month but he had to cancel due to pressure of work. As if to prove that he actually could be bothered get out of his pyjamas, Edgar tweeted this little Christmas gift.


....and the BFI posted this to show there were no hard feelings.

Someone mused that Lance Armstrong's son looked a little like Longshanks.

While I'm in a Joe mood, I'm going to finish with this because it tickled me.

Finally, I tweeted this and for some reason, it got more faves and RT than I've had in many a long month.



There you go. Fingers crossed that 2015 will be rammed with lovely bits.
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Monday, 1 December 2014

Novemberish

There really does seem to be less and less news these days.

There was a rumble that Adam would do a Christmas show on Sky Arts but we didn't really have any solid news until 11th November when he hosted the UKMV Awards.


(photo thanks to Brendan Gleaves but not neccessarily with his permission.)



He also took the XL Recordings BUG Special to the Phoenix in Leicester this month.

At the start of the month we learned that Joe would do a Q & A for Attack the Block in December but by the end of the month he had to cancel due to work committments. That's OK......so long as some of us get to SEE that work :frownyface:



And there it was.....a very short news month.

......unless you want to be silly and look at this and this.


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Saturday, 1 November 2014

Festering October

Right at the start of the month, Adam gave two performances of his XL Recordings BUG Special in Norwich and a few more Work in Progress shows at the Invisible Dot.

Rae Lovejoy grabbed this snap of Adam at the UK New Front London event, whatever that was....



There are more snaps from this here and here and here and here......oh, and here. There are loads of them.....check my Twitter feed for October 12th & 13th 2014. This person even made doodles.

Helen, Olly and Martin the Soundman celebrated their 300th Answer Me This podcast this month. Adam was among the many and varied guests and he answered Alastair's question.

Adam went to Barcelona this month too!  I know he is Spanish savvy but I wonder if his Catalan is up to scratch.



Sam Gilbey shared his poster for Feeling Nuts.


and Will shared his selfie.



Finally, friend of both Adam and Joe gave us a butchers and the cover of his book.
I should also mention that there have been several Attack the Block screenings dotted around London and Bristol over the last couple of months.



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Wednesday, 1 October 2014

Septic

Blue Zoo launched their animation containing the honey-potioned tones of Sir Adam of Buxtonwich (sounds like a tasty, bread-based repast, doesn't it?) and thereby heralded the start of a densely packed month.



Adam also made his appearance on Gadget Man during this first evening of September.

While Adam was in Leeds last month, Vulture Hound sent one of their munchkins to interview him.

There was that episode of Would I Lie to You that he recorded when he was up in Manchester for the 6Music Festival and he did another stint Dictionary Corner. In fact, 19th September saw Adam on telly three times, as Hot Fuzz also aired that night.



Meanwhile, down in London he did a series of Work in Progress gigs at The Invisible Dot.

I was rib tickled into submission at Adam's Kings Place show on 14th September but I didn't get as lucky as this lady.



It was tweeted that Adam would join the Do the Right Thing Podcast that night too but I can't find a link to an episode with him however, we should be able to hear the Flatshare Slamdown Podcast ep he did, sometime early next year (see here).




He recorded his interviewER episode of Chain Reaction this month with Reece Sheersmith in the hotseat but no idea when it will be aired. It'll be episode one of series ten so keep 'em peeled. Meera took a sneaky snap.




Don't ask me to remember what I put in my search field but I groped this old image from some time ago via Rachel Emm's Photobucket. What a lovely clutch of fellas.


Tony Visconti caught up with the animation of Adam's imagined convo between Bowie, Eno & Mr V.


It should also be mentioned that during a couple of his Kernel Panic warm-ups this month, he said he had real plans to do a podcast on his own and with friends. Apparently, he has already recorded something with Joe and Louis.

Speaking of whomwhich, Bazzy B got a tiny nugget from Jack O'Connell about Section 6 but Boggins only knows if Joe will ever be allowed to direct this.

Joe hosted a workshop at the BFI on Sept 17th with lovely Iyare, formerly of 6Music. Remember him? It was for The Moving Image Awards.




Joe also gave Time Out a little nugget about The Ritzy this month.


Garth has come back to Twitter and has got Soundcloud!


Finally, I thought I'd include a little bit of yin and yang.  You can't please everyone, least of all the dull ponces that feel the need to include a yin yang symbol in their Twitter nic.


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Sunday, 31 August 2014

Augustus Blatherstone

Kicking the month off with some ball cupping. Now, pay attention....




In the heat of the summer, Cath has been dilligently hydrating.



Adam has toured the XL Recordings BUG Special so I hope you've had a chance to catch it.  Peter and Joe blogged their appreciation of it.

After a patient wait, we were finally rewarded with the Nerdist podcast Adam did during his last trip to L.A.  Next trip must be for Marc Maron, surely?


Meanwhile, Adam played the Leeds Festival.


and BBC Stoke played Adam's song.

That's about the lot for August, the month of summer laziness, except to mention that Adam was thanked on the sleeve notes for Spoon's latest album.
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Friday, 1 August 2014

July Duly Noted

I know, I know......just when you thought you'd never have to put up with my rambling nonsense ever again, I shoot one past the defence and into the back of the internet.

One of the reasons I've been reluctant to return is the lumbering ads with which Google misguidedly obscure all interesting content. As soon as I see one plastsered over a page that refuses to move, I go somewhere else.  However, I shall not waiver from my resolve to never spend any money on blogging about Adam and Joe or any time that could be spent gainfully elsewhere.

We reccommend you run Windows Erros Scan because unlike so very, many online marketing tools, we don't have the algorythm that would have told us you're using a Mac

The joy of this steamy, summer month is that we've had clear, almost physical evidence that both the Adam and the Joe are 99 per cent intact and mingling with their preferred species.



Speaking of Denny Different....Denny of Geek.


Before I forget, this news slipped in towards the end of the month. Attack the Block will be screened outdoors in the shell of Battersea Power Station.

Adam recorded another episode of Eight out of Ten Cats Does Countdown but I don't know when it will air.

On July 5th, Channel4 aired Attack the Block again and became entangled in a trend that proves 5 per cent of tweeting viewers don't watch sportball.




On the same evening, lovely Sarah Clarke spotted a film map which included the film too. Then iTunes featured the film as Rental of the Week, which was nice. Was that odd or very clever timing?

At the last minute (so far as my heady diary is concerned), Adam hosted the last in the current season of Invisible Dot New Wave nights up in the gorgeous little King's Cross venue. These wonderful people also annouced a December date for Adam's new live show in the beautiful Union Chapel. Norwich booked Adam to bring the XL Recordings BUG Special to the Playhouse in October. Check Hobbsy's gig page for more details.

The BFI have a short clip from their version of the show featuring Felix Buxton but the blighters don't allow embedding.



Adam also played his Kernel Panic show in both Oxford and Cambridge like some boater-topped punter.
I think I'm right in saying this happened at one of those venues too.



I went to a screening of Boyhood which was followed by a Q and A with Richard Linklater, his daughter and the Boy of said Hood. My heart was in my mouth until he came on stage in long trousers as I'd been nervous that Dick would have the balls to be showing off in those shorts that Joe delighted in describing from a DVD extra.

If ever I get around to retro-blogging back to January, you'll be eager to learn that a couple of months ago Edgar and Joe climbed down from the Ant-Man hill due to differential differences.  The Guardian's Ben Child gave some considered waffle here.  Kevin Feige was put under the Empire Terror Lamp of Hewitt And 0'Hara which is check-outable here by visual and audible means, depending upon which is more reliable, your eyeskills or your earskills. Whatever anyone says, Feige looks like someone birthed him on a Wacom tablet and that is either a good thing or a bad thing.

Edgar is now engaged in a Fox project, apparently. Paul Rudd had this to say at Comic Con, wherein he mentions that Joe Cornish is a genius. Obviously, that's ridiculous so I guess Mr Magico must have been at work again with his mind tricks.

Legendary have approached Joe about directing Skull Island, the King Kong prequel, according to TheWorldAndHisWife.

Now here's a super delight. David Doughty has made a Spotify list that will have your head nodding like it's on the parcel shelf of a 1970's Austin Allegro.



Several people thought these Dragons Den-ers were Adam and Joe (or Adam and Smerch). What the?


Ally Farrell found this. I wish it said 'Made in Spain'.


Finally, to my great joy, Adam decided to introduce everyone to this via Twitter.




If you're interested in catching up on earlier Adam and Joe nonsense, check the dated links down on the right hand side. It's fairly up-to-date for the time being.
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Tuesday, 1 July 2014

Junebug

This month, Adam set off for another tour of L.A. comedy clubs and there was rumour of a Nerdist podcast which has come to nought as far as I can tell. He did these though and BLOGGED about another podcast:
Mon 2nd Jun - Crash Test at the UCBT in L.A.
Wed 4th Jun – Nerd Meltdown at Meltdown Comics in L.A.
Sat 7th Jun - The Prompter at the Meltdown in L.A. (and the Buxty Birthday, fyi)
Sun 8th Jun - at the Mack Sennett Studio in L.A.





Adam returned to Sheffield Docfest and the lucky sods got his Bowie Special, Cobbler Bob an' all.

Such a wonderful venue. I wish I could have been there.





followed gratifyingly by this



There are some more pictures of the Bowie Special here, here, here and here but don't forget Chris Saltyman's video. This is a review here.




The XL Recordings BUG Special worked so well in London that he took it to both Glasgow and Manchester.  Read more here including Milland Suman's bespoke intro film.

It looks like Edwyn Collins and Marc Riley went along to the Manchester show and Frank Black turned up on screen via Skype/FaceTime at the Glasgow gig. Adam phoned in an interview with RadMac which is preserved forever here.



Adam found the time to add his voice to more Ladybird. Check out the full range including three Chris Judge books.

This month, we discovered that the Adam and Joe Song Wars Vol. 2 is no longer on iTunes. It makes me feel sick to my very core. I fear Dreamboat records went the way of the ferry man.

There were a lot of tweets linking this, though.



Ben Baker made a comedy compilation.



Now here's a really absurd thing. Very rarely, I see someone taunt me with a tweeted picture of their signed copy of the Adam and Joe Book. Don't ask me if all the planets in the idiotholeverse were strangely aligned but out of nowhere, TWO people decided to tweet similar things On The Same Day (I think you know the voice you're supposed to read that in).





On 25th June, Adam tirelessly bended his knees and pulled funny faces for a slew of award-happy winners at the Broadcast Digital Awards. One Two Three ....there are more somewhere.

I got cross about this:



The Metro included Lee Hardcastle's claymation trailer as voiced by Adam.



The only mention of Joe this month was continued chatter relating to Edgar leaving his Ant-Man director's chair cold. Although I was enchanted by this.



Alan Davies rolled out a new show for Dave which included stand-up John Robbins recounting his friend Paul's Bringer of the Spiders story. There were bits of Twitter snorting when this happened but John confirmed it was his mate's story. Actually, Dave are repeating the series and I do recommend you entertain yourself with it. Episode one includes the actual Jon RonSon. I'd quite like to see Adam guesting on series two. No, actually, I'd quite like to see Adam hosting series two. I think he would be very comfortable there and Mr Davies doesn't need to do any more telly.....really.....only a bit?



I'm including this because we need to encourage the young people to watch telly.



and for later on in life, this discovery was made.



I have no idea what this is all about but that looks like one tasty sandwich.



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