Any of you lot fancy going to this?
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Here are the details if anyone is interested:
Richard Ayoade and Matthew Holness, the Perrier Award winning team behind Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (C4) will be trying out new material for their forthcoming C4 series, Deano's After Dark at Riverside Studios in
Hammersmith in July.
Don't miss this unique opportunity to be part of the pre production process
and have your input into the creative development of their brand new show.
The dates of the try outs are as follows:
Monday 4th July
Monday 11th July
Monday 18th July
Monday 25th July
Monday 1st August.
All shows start at 8pm.
Tickets £4
Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, Hammersmith, London W6 9RL
Box Office: 020 8237 1111
http://www.riversidestudios.co.uk/
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From the website, piss funny...
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Perhaps it's the lapsed catholic in me, but my books have a habit of getting banned, especially in secondary schools. Maybe it's because I will never shirk from provoking. Oscar Wilde once said a very cutting thing about censorship, basically along the lines of it being pretty bad. This week his clever Oscarism rung true. And right in my face, to boot.
Yours truly was slated to do a book reading-come-press launch at the Ipswich Waterstone's, where my new collection of short stories A Little Bite of What You Fancy had been their best selling horror hardback for two weeks earlier that spring. I didn't want to go because I'd had a bit of trouble with some goths last time I rode in, but my publicity manager, Dean Learner, said it would be 'ungracious' to just not turn up as it had 'been in my diary for ages'. Additionally, he reminded me that if I wanted to continue to get good reviews (e.g. 'This is one of the best books about crabs I've read'- Hard Gore Magazine) I had to 'play the game'.
However, when I arrived, the assistant-manager of Waterstone's (who, by his complexion, I judged to be in his late teens) said that the story I'd chosen to read, 'Gobble Gobble', was unsuitable for a 7pm audience, which would 'inevitably include kids'.
This pin head, calm as you like, proceeded to open the book and point to a scene where the lead character, Bogpo, sucks on his fellow mutant's penis, and declared it 'obscene' and 'distasteful'. I was livid. He'd totally missed the point. In the fictional culture I was describing, such a gesture was a sign of respect. I was highlighting the arbitrariness of any social behaviour. For a start they totally overlooked the fact that Bogpo himself had no fewer than four penises. Their attitudes to the penis, from this fact alone, was bound to be different. Explaining that I had no intention of 'calming myself', I did a swift 180 and left him to deal with the fifteen-plus people already queuing outside.
That evening I was looking forward to the opportunity to sound off about all this on Radio Suffolk (one of the few stations still prepared to give Jethro Tull the time of day. And good on 'em). But just as I was hitting my stride in their popular drive-time slot, the sound guy cut me off because I apparently said 'piss'.
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Perhaps it's the lapsed catholic in me, but my books have a habit of getting banned, especially in secondary schools. Maybe it's because I will never shirk from provoking. Oscar Wilde once said a very cutting thing about censorship, basically along the lines of it being pretty bad. This week his clever Oscarism rung true. And right in my face, to boot.
Yours truly was slated to do a book reading-come-press launch at the Ipswich Waterstone's, where my new collection of short stories A Little Bite of What You Fancy had been their best selling horror hardback for two weeks earlier that spring. I didn't want to go because I'd had a bit of trouble with some goths last time I rode in, but my publicity manager, Dean Learner, said it would be 'ungracious' to just not turn up as it had 'been in my diary for ages'. Additionally, he reminded me that if I wanted to continue to get good reviews (e.g. 'This is one of the best books about crabs I've read'- Hard Gore Magazine) I had to 'play the game'.
However, when I arrived, the assistant-manager of Waterstone's (who, by his complexion, I judged to be in his late teens) said that the story I'd chosen to read, 'Gobble Gobble', was unsuitable for a 7pm audience, which would 'inevitably include kids'.
This pin head, calm as you like, proceeded to open the book and point to a scene where the lead character, Bogpo, sucks on his fellow mutant's penis, and declared it 'obscene' and 'distasteful'. I was livid. He'd totally missed the point. In the fictional culture I was describing, such a gesture was a sign of respect. I was highlighting the arbitrariness of any social behaviour. For a start they totally overlooked the fact that Bogpo himself had no fewer than four penises. Their attitudes to the penis, from this fact alone, was bound to be different. Explaining that I had no intention of 'calming myself', I did a swift 180 and left him to deal with the fifteen-plus people already queuing outside.
That evening I was looking forward to the opportunity to sound off about all this on Radio Suffolk (one of the few stations still prepared to give Jethro Tull the time of day. And good on 'em). But just as I was hitting my stride in their popular drive-time slot, the sound guy cut me off because I apparently said 'piss'.
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Once the 'spoof crap programme' idea got old (about the second episode) Darkplace became kinda 'meh'. I really tried to like it - I watched the whole series - but I resented the time I'd wasted casting my eyes at it.
Perhaps this new thing will be better.
It certainly can't be any worse than that 'Director's Cut' show that was on during the same period.
Perhaps this new thing will be better.
It certainly can't be any worse than that 'Director's Cut' show that was on during the same period.
Pete:"Sort your funking life out!"
Ed:"Prink."