April 9, 2007
TV AND BENDY NEWS!
HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU NEWS & JAZZ QUEENS
Regular readers of this navel gazing newsletter will know that towards the end of last year I got all excited because I was due to be appearing on the BBC’s venerated low reverence news quiz, Have I Got News For You (now just starting its 245th season or something). Anyway, my excitement turned to humiliation when I was ‘bumped’ in favour of Sue Perkins. Something about getting more women on the show (not to belittle Sue who did a fine job!) Amazingly and true to their word, the producers of HIGNFY have asked if I will appear on the new series! I’ve said yes of course, and I’m waiting to hear back about a date. I’ll let you know when they bump me for Joe.
For now here’s a very dusty cornflake from the Adam & Joe vaults. This was one of the first videos we made when we were doing the pilot for The Adam & Joe Show (then called Stüffe) although it ended up being shown on the second series of Takeover TV I recall. You can see a bit of it on The Adam & Joe DVD but here’s the full version with the music we originally used but were unable to clear: Duke Ellington’s Rockin’ In Rhythm, which you can find on the wonderful Singing Detective soundtrack. This was another song that our friend Zac Sandler came up with one day with Joe and during a stoned weekend away with friends in 1995 we all wrote some extra lyrics and recorded it on my old 4 track then made the video in various people’s gardens that summer . I think The Jazz Queens were supposed to be louche detectives from the 30’s but this was as far as we got with developing that notion and the video certainly doesn’t give many clues as to what the nature of their work might have been. I’m sure there’s a series in it somewhere though. OK, maybe not.