Adam Buxton

MEEBOX NEWS

You may have noticed that I have removed the Spoon video I made from You Tube. This is not because the band were unhappy with it but because looking at it again I thought it might actually fit quite well into my BBC pilot so now that most of you, my dot comrades have had a look, I’m going to keep it in my trousers for the next few months. As far as the rest of the pilot goes, it’s just such a great feeling to actually be working on something like this again. I have no idea what it’s chances of being commissioned are, but I’m digging it while it lasts!

6 MUSIC NEWS

Tomorrow is our last day covering for Sean Keavney at BBC 6 Music. We’ve had a blast there and although I never want to get up that early for that many consecutive mornings ever again in my life, I really hope it won’t be the last time we do a radio show for the Big British Castle. Sure, they can be a little rigid with certain rules and regulations, making some of the spontaneity we use to enjoy at Xfm a little harder to indulge, but that’s more than made up for by the smoothness with which everything runs (thanks to our great production team for that!) and the variety and quality of the music which you get to play. Plus I’ve got a plastic pass with my photo on it that makes all kinds of doors click and swish open gratifyingly. Aaah, the feeling of belonging, if only for a couple of weeks! Thanks if you listened and texted or e-mailed. We were very heartened by the messages we got. It makes a big difference!

GIG NEWS: KNOCK2BAG @ BAR FM, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19th 2007

I’ll be performing at the Knock2bag Comedy night, on September 19th at Bar FM, but you probably worked that out from the headline, right? I thought I’d make it perfectly clear. You can see details of how to find Bar FM here and reserve tickets for the night here. Make sure you specify which night you’re reserving for, otherwise there might be a slip up of some kind and the world could end. Apparently someone made a mistake reserving tickets for one of these nights a while back and the next thing you know; Global Warming. So do be careful. I’ll be doing about 15 minutes of something or other. Probably Famous Guy, I don’t knowâ€¦

BOOK NOW FOR THE NEXT ‘BUG’: FRIDAY 14th SEPTEMBER 2007 @ BFI

There’s been a bit of confusion about the exact date for this, the 3rd BUG (a selection of the most mind blowing and innovative new music videos hosted by the dreadful Adam Buxton) but I have been assured by the organisers that it will be on Friday 14th of September and not Thursday 13th and has been indicated in some BFI publications. So do book now; it was fairly rammed last time. Now, if I was reading that about someone else’s event I would think ‘well if it’s rammed I’ll skip it’ because I don’t enjoy the discomfort of the rammed, but at the BFI Southbank (formerly the NFT!) your comfort is always guaranteed as the cinema seats are spacious and comfy and best of all, you can take booze (or soft drinks if you’re one of those non boozers!) into the auditorium with you. It’s a fun night so book here.

KEN’S SADDAM STATUE COMMENTARY

To make up for taking down the Spoon video, here’s one from the vaults, part of which turned up in Time Trumpet last year. I was sat home one afternoon in April 2003 when I turned on the TV to find several of the big terrestrial and digital channels had decided to provide live coverage of a small group of western troops and Iraqi civilians laboriously yanking down a statue of Saddam Hussein. It took fucking ages to get this thing down, but the TV stations had all decided that this was ‘an historic occasion’ and the fear that if they cut away to something else they would miss the actual tumble was so intense that they just kept broadcasting this utterly rubbish footage. The unfortunate reporter charged with turning the torpor into telly gold for the BBC was Iraq Invasion journo star Rageh Omaar. He did is best it but wasn’t enough to paper over some desperately crap questions from the studio as well the overwhelming sense that we were watching something that may well have been stage managed to give the invasion some kind of uplifting conclusion. Anyway, I didn’t have a lot going on at the time so I taped the coverage, removed the Rageh (can’t help saying that name in a Scooby Doo voice) and replaced him with Ken Korda. It was one of the first kinds of these things that I did and it was fun although not brilliantly funny. This is a much bigger chunk than the one that appeared in Time Trumpet. That may be a good thing or a bad thing depending on your affection for Ken. Ta ta!