July 1, 2008
FAMOUS GUY AT 93 FT EAST!
BOOKSLAM BBQ, JULY 8th, 8PM
This Friday’s Out Of Focus Group is now sold out but if you’re up for catching me as Famous Guy as well as Alabama 3, Irvine Welsh and others next Tuesday evening, come along to the Bookslam in East London. If the weather’s good it should be like an amazing barbecue with interesting people and a twat dressed in a flightsuit pretending to be American. If it rains it’ll be more or less the same but inside. Details and tickets here.
June 25, 2008
COME TO ‘OUT OF FOCUS GROUP’
4th JULY AT THE BFI!
A reminder that I’m doing a show at the BFI Southbank on Friday 4th July. It’s early (about 6.10pm) so you can come along and still have your Friday night ahead of you. I’ll be doing a few bits of live stuff including Famous Guy and showing a few video bits some of which may be familiar, some not. It’s the first time I’ve done this kind of show in a larger venue so I’m excited to see if it’ll work!
you can book on line for Out Of Focus Group at the BFI website here or call 0207 928 3232.
Contrary to what I’ve said before there seems to be no seat allocation this time round, so you can sit where you like on the night.
As well as my contributions I’m expecting to be joined on the night by:
I really hope you can come along. Now I’m off to pack my bags for our 6 Music stint Glastonbury. Unfortunately Joe still isn’t well enough to make the journey too so Garth will be helping me out again. Maybe see you out in the mud for Vampire Weekend on Friday afternoon!
June 22, 2008
MeeBOX WEEK!
WATCH IT NOW ON iPLAYER OR ON BBC3 WEDNESDAY 25th JUNE AT 1.30am!
OK, so there’s no way you’re actually going to watch it as it goes out on telly unless your life has gone wrong or you’re some kind of young party person, but why not record the show so you can watch it over and over and over?! Your other option is catch it on the BBC’s iplayer. In a way that’s preferable because then the geniuses at the Castle can see how many people actually watched it rather than doing their insane pseudo scientific TV ratings guesstimates. I’ll post a few more clips (and possibly some out-takes) and say more about what’s happening with the show in the next few days. I know the BBC are keen to see if people respond to it, so please do respond and if you like it perhaps you could encourage your friends to watch before it vanishes from the radar! Here’s a quintet of recently uploaded clips to get you going
Fanques!
Love Adam
BAAADDAD’S CLICHED MEMORIES OF PUNK
FUNKY SONGS OF PRAISE
TODAY ON XANTIAR
KEN KORDA: TALKING INDEPENDENT FILM
FAMOUS GUY INTERVIEW 1
June 18, 2008
BUG NEWS!
LAST CALL FOR BUG MASSIVE ATTACK SPECIAL @ BFI, THURSDAY 19TH JUNE 2008, 8.45PM
There are still a few seats available for BUG’s Massive Attack video special this Thursday night at the BFI Southbank. We’ll be screening videos for the band by amongst others, Walter Stern, Michel Gondry and Jonathan Glazer and my guest will be director Baillie Walsh who directed the videos for Unfinished Sympathy and Daydreaming as well as Massive Attack’s cover of 70’s soul classic Be Thankful For What You’ve Got. I’ll be talking to Baillie about working with M.A. and may sneak in a few questions about his new film Flashbacks Of A Fool as well. Hope to see you there!
You can book tickets here
June 17, 2008
SONG WARS ALBUM & COMPETITION NEWS!
SONG WARS VOLUME 1 OUT MONDAY 23rd JUNE 2008 ON I-TUNES!
Yes, the first 22 of our Song Wars compositions from our radio show on BBC 6 Music will be available to buy from i-tunes from Monday 23rd June! In case you haven’t yet listened to our radio show, Song Wars is a semi regular feature wherein Joe and I each record an original song on a given theme then get our listeners to vote for which one they like best. Artwork, pics, tracks and track listing on the official MySpace page here. This is an earlier version the cover.
I’ll post an exclusive track by track guide to the album here on Monday (so that’s something to keep living for eh?) as well as a video I’ve been working on for my song about The Hours which is included on the album. I think I may also be appearing on Richard & Judy that day to promote it but that’s yet to be confirmed!
TAKE PART IN THE ADAM & JOE VIDEO WARS COMPETITION!
Speaking of Song Wars our hard working friends at 6 Music have organised a video making competition. Details here. Basically we want you to make a video in whatever style you like for one of two songs that have been put on the 6 Music website. They’re both short so it needn’t kill you, but the one we like best will win its creator an unforgettable few hours hanging out with Joe and me while we do our show and we’ll make you a goody bag of cool stuff too! Here’s us explaining further, kind of.
There’s already been a couple of impressive entries which you can take a look at here and here. Go, on up the ante ridiculously!