February 26, 2009
OUT OF FOCUS GROUP C NEWS!
BOOK NOW FOR FRIDAY, MARCH 13th @ BFI SOUTHBANK!
In between trying to write the ultimate 80’s song for next week’s Song Wars I’m preparing frantically for the third Out Of Focus Group at the BFI Southbank. If you haven’t been to one of these before it’s basically an excuse for me to show some old and new video morcels I’ve made in between live performances from myself and other more talented actors, comedians and musicians. Finalising the running order is always a fairly last minute thing because foolishly I ‘organise’ these shows myself and never really get to grips with the logistics so I can’t say exactly who’ll be appearing, but it’s always a good night, one way or another.
The show starts at 6.50pm on Friday 13th, March and should be over by 8.30pm. Let’s have a drink at the Benugo bar at the BFI after the show! Lovely. I wonder if any of you reading this are the kinds of people who refuse to go out if it’s a Friday 13th because you’re so superstitious. If you are, I wonder if you’re also an atheist. If that’s the case you’re my kind of totally irrational fuckwit and all I can say is it’s a great shame you won’t be able to make it to the show because I think you’d like it.
You can book you tickets for Out Of Focus Group C here
Here’s the kind of thing I’ll be showing at the BFI. It’s another Signing For The Deaf thing from my BBC3 pilot, MeeBOX, but this is a longer edit than the piece that was actually broadcast. The twatty annotations feature on You Tube is actually quite brills for these as it means that you can enjoy them (or not) if you are actually deaf. I had a few complaints from deaf people that the last one of these I put up didn’t have subs and they felt that to be playing about with deaf signing while not even letting deaf people in on the joke was a bit much, so I’m glad to be able to fix that here. By the way, don’t forget you can always turn the subs off. I’ve been thinking about doing some more signing bits but I may not get it together for the 13th, especially with Song Wars. Wish Phil Oakey or someone from New Musik or Landscape would get in touch with a backing track, then I’d be sorted. It’s possible they have better things to do, but you never know! Hope to see you on the 13th March!
I notice that when playing the vid in HD it’s got all lines and shit innit. Field dominance issues. These are exactly the kind of issues that I hoped Obama would address when he came to power but so far, nothing. It’s all very well saying you want to help the Odds (lower?) AND the Evens (higher?!) but sometimes they just have to remain de-interlaced. Either that or you drop a field, but who wants the responsibility of making that kind of decision? Not I.
February 17, 2009
BUG 12 NEWS!
BOOK NOW FOR BUG 12 THE DIRECTORS CUT, WEDNESDAY 25th MARCH 2009!
BUG 12 on March 19th is already sold out but BUG 12 the Directors Cut (the same show minus interview but with additional music vids and joy added) still has a few seats available as I write this. As usual the show takes place at London’s wonderful BFI Southbank, starts at 8.45 and features a selection of interesting, unusual and brilliant music videos along with the occasional very short film and some random bullshite from the mad, mad world wide web. In between I drink beer and make asinine comments.
Our inaugural BUG at the Norwich Playhouse a couple of weeks back was a lot of fun with a really good, varied and enthusiastic crowd turning up for the show and staying for a drink in the very cosy Playhouse bar afterwards. I hope we’re going to do be doing more in a few months time and will of course keep you posted in my semi efficient way. Hope to see you in London though.
In the meantime you can book tickets for BUG 12 The Directors Cut here
February 9, 2009
6 MUSIC COMPILATION NEWS!
ADAM & JOE’S NEW YEARS DAY RADIO 2 SPECIAL TO KEEP!
No doubt I’m breaking all kinds of Big British Castle rules by doing this, but as the show went out weeks ago and is apparently floating about on other parts of the web and no money is changing hands, I’m hoping no one will mind if I enable you to download the New Year compilation I put together for Radio 2 along with artwork should you wish to burn a CD and print out a sleeve like in olden times.
Just click on the links below, which will take you to Sendspace where you can download the 4 WAV files that make up the 2 hour show. If you want to print out artwork for your 2, 1 hour CDs just click on the ‘COMPILATION CD INLAY’ links then right click on the artwork to save them to your desktop and when you print them out they should fit into an old school jewel case. Of course now, evil geniuses have introduced a new design of jewel case, which will force everyone to invest in new printing software for the inlays, but I’m encouraging you to recycle the old ones. Simply locate a CD by some unbelievably over hyped band from a few years ago, pop open the jewel case and substitute this exclusive artwork instead! Everyone wins! Even the overhyped band because they already have your money although they’re probably wishing they could have just matured slowly rather than being thrust into the limelight so quickly and having all kinds of unwanted pressure put on them as a result.
The Best Of Adam & Joe Part 1A
The Best Of Adam & Joe Part 1B
The Best Of Adam & Joe Part 2A
The Best Of Adam & Joe Part 2B
ADAM & JOE 6 MUSIC COMPILATION CD INLAY FRONT
ADAM & JOE 6 MUSIC COMPILATION CD INLAY BACK
Photograph by the brilliant Perou